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Accurate. buzzfeed not backing down. here's the statement from editor and chief, ben smith. in the response to the statement. we standby the reporting and the sources who informed it and urge the special counsel to make clear what he is disputing. all right, let's bring in people who report on these stories and work for the doj. it's good to have you both. let's deal with where we think thipgs stand. buzzfeed says one thing, mueller people change in terms of what they believe is true about what they know. does that end the buzzfeed reporting for you? >> well, for me i take it as now we're back...

Buzzfeed will follow up the reporting and stands by it. we'll see what happens. put that back up. you want to parse the actual language. description of specific statements to the special counsel office. the characterization of documents and testimony. are not accurate. it is a lawyerly explanation of the situation. or am i a lawyer who is looking at it that way? >> well, you're right. the special counsel office knows how to deny a story. this is not a denial. i think in some ways -- >> they say it's not accurate. they could have waived it away in single line. if they wanted to. >> one of the t...

So that's an enormous pressure to be there. also to the extent that anything of this nature is being collected by the special counsel's office, it is in everyone's interest to see it in black and white, the way we have seen his indictment and official filings which we know by virtue of them being layed out that they're backed up with evidence. >> it has to be part of the report. it has to be part of the report because mueller referred to it. if we put up mueller's response. i get that it's a bunch of lawyers and they're careful about everything but they didn't need to be this careful about thi...

Incht all right the story about buzzfeed and the reporting and the question about whether michael cohen helped anybody lie to congress, it matters. it matters a lot. we'll see how they reconcile it. we're going to find out one way or another because he's going to testify in a few weeks. this kind of grew out of, in terms of its legitimacy what mueller put in his own pleadings. they have been tracking this issue of who helped him lie to congress. also michael cohen, the fact that he paid for polls to be rigged for donald trump at donald trump's direction. that was their relationship. he did dir...

Simple. easy. awesome. click or visit a retail store today. >> they call it not accurate, the buzzfeed news report. they say it's mischaracterizing documents and statements made to them. however buzzfeed's editor in chief pushing back to their push back. standing by the reporting and their sources and asking for the special counsel to clarify what it is they dispute. so what do we take away from the back and forth? here's a side note. there's been a lot of stories about what's going on with the probe and what the president may have known. they have never come forward until now. i wonder if tha...