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Directly issued orders of that kind. note that the general thrust of cohen lying to congress in accordance with or to support and advance trump's agenda per cohen's legal memo is not in dispute. the source disputed the further more specific idea that trump issued and memorialized repeated direct instructions. again, that being posted tonight by ronan farrow. saying basically he had access to, as he puts it, parts of the narrative that buzzfeed conveyed in their story and felt it was so strongly disputed by a single source central to the story that he did not run with it himself. well, as i sai...

The buzzfeed story. but i think in the main what you can glean from their december 7th sentencing memorandum is that the core of the buzzfeed story is accurate. >> in terms of that -- the way they are pushing back, i mean, we heard from ben smith, who is the editor at buzzfeed very early on in the show tonight plainly frustrated with trying to parse the special counsel's statement. >> uh-huh. >> trying to understand what exactly was in dispute. i mean, what the statement says is that what's not accurate is buzzfeed's description of specific statements to the special counsel's office and buzzfe...

If the news keeps going on at this rate and this jagged, of course, we're all going to need neck braces to keep up with it. as the special counsel's office tonight pushes back on buzzfeed's bombshell reporting that the president ordered his longtime personal lawyer to lie to congress. lying to congress is a felony to which his longtime personal lawyer has already pled guilty. as we are making our way through the impact of that statement and that reporting tonight, one of america's legendary investigative reporters is going to join us here in just a moment, michael isikoff. i want to tell you t...

Mueller then went through the trouble of bringing cohen back to court in federal court again and charging him for that false testimony while simultaneously telling the judge, hey, don't give him any extra time in jail for this. he really is helping us. he's being great. this is not worth one extra day in jail, okay, judge? when "buzzfeed" published this story late last night about cohen's false testimony to congress, this bombshell story that lit up the news cycle all day today, the narrative of "buzzfeed's" story finally made it seem like cohen being charged for lying to congress might make s...

>> so if -- just to drill down on the importance of that, they've got information from cohen that according to the special counsel's office is corroborated by other evidence. >> that's right. >> and that is what they stated in conjunction or in support of cohen's guilty plea to lying to congress about this matter. i will say one of the main questions, the most potent questions, i think, about this buzzfeed reporting today has been, well, if mueller has this evidence that cohen was directed to lie when he lied to congress, why wasn't that charged or otherwise indicated in court that day in nove...