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Received detailed and regular updates from cohen on the status of the project. buzzfeed also said that according to its sources, quote, the special counsel's office learned about trump's directive for cohen to lie to congress through interviews with multiple witnesses from the trump organization and internal company e-mails, text messages, and a cache of other documents. rudy giuliani pushed back on the buzzfeed story. tonight, the special counsel's office made a very rare move of issuing a public statement. it reads, quote, buzzfeed's description of specific statements to the special counsel'...

About the buzzfeed story and the response from the special counsel. a week ago tonight it was that story from "the new york times" about the fbi opening that investigation into donald trump and whether he might have been a witting or unwitting agent of russia. we played in the introduction the sound of the president talking about folks at the fbi as scoundrels. maybe to broaden out a little bit here but just people working in the fbi, fbi agents, just the climate within the fbi now and over the last two years as the president has engaged publicly like this about law enforcement, about the fbi,...

Welcome back. it is exceedingly rare for the special counsel's office to comment on anything related to the ongoing russia investigation. robert mueller is known for running a tight ship, one that typically does not leak. that's part of what makes this dispute over buzzfeed's reporting so remarkable. joining us now, cynthia oxny, a veteran of the justice department. jill wine-banks, attorney, former assistant watergate special counsel and msnbc legal analyst. thank you both for being here. cynthia, let me start with you and continue the conversation and ask you the question that i think everyb...

First broke. the question was will other news organizations be able to replicate the reporting, corroborate the reporting, advance the reporting in any way. there is some new reporting from "the washington post" and "the new york times" worth highlighting here. folks haven't seen this. this is from "the washington post." let me read a bit of it again. this just in the last hour or two. the story according to "the washington post" had claimed cohen acknowledged to mueller's prosecutors that the president directed him to deceive congress about key facts linking the president to the proposed trum...

Really ready for that. there's nothing else to do but wait a little bit. >> along those lines, we were going to put this up on the screen. we were showing you earlier "the washington post," "the new york times" there both out with some new reporting tonight related to this, the fallout from this. this from devlin barrett, one of the reporters, a national security reporters with "the washington post." we quoted from his story earlier. this is how he summarized his story. for those trying to parse the mueller statement, it is a straight up denial. maybe buzzfeed can prove they are right, maybe m...