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The press screwed up. they should apologize. the media isn't as great as it thinks it is. this is a bad day for the news media. let's not kid ourselves. that statement is at least a partial repudiation of an enormously important story. >> also, it's a very bad day for buzzfeed regardless of where this story goes. to the credit of other news organizations, everybody didn't jump on the bandwagon saying this is true. >> we ran with it saying if true. that was not that huge an asterisk. >> i think i would love to think that the press -- the public trusts us all the time. i think the opposite is tr...

Buzzfeed's description of specific statements to the special counsel's office and characterization of documents and testimony obtained into i this office regarding moib's congressional testimony are not accurate. remember, the story, it is sourced to federal law enforcement officials. but it also said that there were all of these documents, that there were interviews, that there were witnesses. that is what backed up this notion that the president had tried to get michael cohen to testify to something that just wasn't true in front of congress. now the special counsel is pretty unequivocally s...

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 tweeting. the president is 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. he is just retweeting at this point. there have been a few retweets. he retreated from a radio talk show host who tweeted, we called it, fake news, more buzzfeed bs. he retweeted another tweet from a reporte...

>> i'm sure he does other stuff. >> how many stories have you read which has a line, the special counsel's office declined to comment? >> i want to read what he said. it's rare to hear from the spokesperson. buzzfeed's description and characterization are not accurate. >> that statement was obviously very carefully written. i think we should read it very carefully as well. which leads to a certain amount of puzzlement on my part. because that is -- it's not a repudiation of every word in the buzzfeed story. it's a repudiation of some part of it. it may be a repudiation of the part we're focusi...

Issue not commonly but not infrequently. and that is when a report comes out in some newspaper or in some media outlet that has a lot of things correct but it has a few things incorrect, like who is the object of scrutiny or what documents we have or mischaracterizes things in a certain way, usually our plan was to keep our mouths shut. you can do more harm by talking than not talking. sometimes it was egregious enough you felt like you had to make some statement. kind of like what peter carr did here. the problem then is, you don't want to edit their piece and say, among these 15 facts -- you...