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The special counsel spokesman is coming out and essentially saying that there is nothing to back up this buzzfeed report that the president directed michael cohen, his former attorney, to lie to congress and that there are trump organization documents to back it up. that is extremely rare for the special counsel to do. this story from buzzfeed certainly caught a lot of attention because of the implications for possible impeachment. suborning perjury, that's what this raised. you heard lawmakers saying they want to get to the bottom of this, they want to investigate. there was a strong pushback...

>> in what way? and to who. >> to all of us. a day after a story is published they come out with a very very detailed and very opaque statement disputing it. >> are you concerned -- i'm concerned, frankly, that when you -- over the next few months, whenever there's a hot story, a big scoop that comes out, you are going to hear from the president and his supporters, it's another buzzfeed story, it's another story like buzzfeed where even robert mueller said it was false. do you worry that's going to damage all of us? >> you know, we are, like most of our colleagues, very focused on doing the re...

The headline read, president trump directed his attorney, michael cohen, to lie to congress about the moscow tower project. earlier today, neither the president nor the white house categorically denied the substance of it. by this afternoon, that line had changed. giuliani calling the report categorically false. sarah sanders echoed that line. >> did the president direct michael cohen to lie to congress? >> that's absolutely ridiculous. i think that the president's outside counsel addressed this best and said in a statement earlier today that it's categorically false. >> now in a rare move, th...

Prosecutors was having for lunch. that's how little they want to comment. >> appreciate it. i want to go to pamela brown. you heard sarah sanders deny the report this afternoon, quoting rudy giuliani. has there been any reaction since the special counsel's office weighed in? >> it's safe to say the president will tweet about this soon. this is veindication from what officials have been saying since this morning that they have been saying that this is false. initially, you heard some of the white house officials come out and attack the credibility of buzzfeed, attack the idea of leaking from la...

Buzzfeed's statement of specific statements and characterization of documents are not accurate. >> right. this story, if true, would have changed what is happening in terms of the white house. you saw the pressure come from lawmakers who were concerned about it, not just democrats but republicans. you saw that pressure applied and grow on the special counsel throughout the day. it's very rare that they issue any statement at all, let alone something of this nature. it probably would have been more helpful had they done it earlier today. i don't think they felt they could. >> president trump, w...