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Stay tuned. the new statement, stay tuned. i think the view inside buzzfeed is the statement is worded lawyerly. this was a carefully worded statement. also an incredibly rare statement. that's why they pulled out from your show knowing the statement was about to come out. i think we should acknowledge and be transparent about the background of one of the reporters here. jason leopold has been an amazing reporter. he digs through documents. he is able to get incredible information. in the past, he has acknowledged he had a checkered past. he had instances of plagiarism. this was a long time ag...

The cohen indictment. that was jason and anthony. we hope to release this honestly, this vague statement disputing the piece, and we urge the special counsel to make it clear what he is disputing. >> when you say it's a vague statement, i want to read what they said. they said buzzfeed's description are not accurate. we were pointing out earlier, it's wrong to characterize this as knocking down the story entirely. it's a very specifically worded statement from them. >> absolutely. they are some of the best lawyers in america. they are clearly referring to something. we hope they will tell us w...

I don't know -- i just think it reenforces every bad stereo type about the news media. >> it does. i agree. i am desperate as a reporter to always say to the audience judge folks individually. and judge brands. don't fall for what the politicians out there want you to do. they want you to think we're crooked. we're not. buzzfeed is -- >> bad day. >> he knows the identity of the sources. obviously the reporters. they'll be going back to the sources and hopefully to others to get to the bottom of it. it's a dispute. i don't know how it will be resolved. i'm not disagreeing. this will be used aga...

There is a reason why mueller has seemed like the arbitor of truth, because he has named who has been lying to investigators. i think that preet is right, when you have the president point to this as evidence of -- this is going to help him, the fact that mueller -- >> he is on a retweet spree celebrating this and attacking the media. he is, of course -- mostly retweeting people mocking buzzfeed for this. the editor and chief of buzzfeed, ben smith, who led the team doing this reporting, came out just now with a tweet that a slightly different statement. he is saying, we urge the special couns...

Don't mean buzzfeed. you mean the prosecutor. >> buzzfeed suggested that's how it went for prosecutors. >> right. >> that was a very, very clear and drawn out and detailed explanation of how things had gone inside the room in a way we rarely have had. it may still turn out that there are elements of that that are demonstratebly true. we will at some point know. right now, it's hard to discern based on the statement. >> i want to put -- do we have the buzzfeed statement that they have now put out? let's put that up on the screen. for people who are just joining, this is a statement that buzzfee...