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After a string of remarkable developments, buzzfeed publishes a story. saying that the president directed michael cohen to lie to congress. the white house finally begins pushing back. then in a rare move, the special counsel's office takes issue with it, buzzfeed responds. buzzfeed's editor and speech is -- buzzfeed's editor in chief is tweetin tweeting,. the president is also tweeting. go back to pam brown at the white house for that. >> reporter: as expected, the president is responding to the statement from the special counsel disputing the buzzfeed report by tweeting. but interestingly, h...

To understand this dispute in more detail. stay tuned is the message. >> they have updated their -- >> they have. 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. in the 7:00 p.m. hour. 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 is known as a foya guy. he foya's documents. he digs through documents. h...

That if they don't get everything right. >> just from a reporting standpoint, explain for people out there what happens now to -- for those buzzfeed reporters. are they -- they go back to the people they talked to, they try to -- >> speaking generally, people will go back to their sources and try to re-establish trails and look at what they have and what they don't have. ben smith, is a very smart, aggressive reporter. i'm sure he has his reporters doing that. one thing i think is really important that i didn't mention before, in the course of the reporting of this, the challenge that everyone...

Wordsmithed document, taking some issue with the characterizations, doesn't then mean you immediately you throw out everything the buzzfeed article said. the truth is probably somewhere in between. you can't have this pendulum swing from one extreme to the other about what the truth is. >> >> the reporters have had some excellent work on trump tower moscow. they have led the way on stories about this deal involving trump tower moscow. >> some of the stories were not able to be confirmed for a very long time. and then -- >> but then were. >> eventually were. right. >> i think for the audience a...