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This is "cnn tonight," i'm don lemon. here is the breaking news. a rare and stunning move from the special counsel tonight. robert mueller's team disputing an explosive buzzfeed report alleging the president told michael cohen to lie to congress. the special counsel's office releasing a statement saying quote buzzfeed's description of specific statements to the special counsel's office and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by the office regarding michael cohen's congressional testimony are not accurate. buzzfeed is standing by their reporting and urging the special counsel t...

Tried to cover up his meetings with vladimir putin from his own aides, there was no denial of the fact that paul manafort shared polling data with somebody who was linked to russian intelligence. i mean all these stories that come out that are highly damning of the president suggesting that there was collusion and of course we have also seen obstruction of justice occur in plain sight. all that stuff is still out there. i mean this one story may be and probably is wrong, but there's a lot of damning evidence out there which remains very valid and very unrefuted and, you know, i think what this...

Counsel. >> buzzfeed is standing by its reporters and story tonight. what else are they saying? >> they are standing by their reporters and story, and anyone can sympathize how you would not want to be in this position as a reporter. ben smith, the editor in chief was on cnn earlier, he said he would like to get more information from the special counsel's office about what exactly they take issue with. here's how he described it. >> they are clearly referring to something and we hope they will tell us what they are referring to. i mean, i think at this point, we would hope that they would clar...

Spokesperson for the special counsel. so you think if the entire thing, and we don't know here, if the entire thing, we just say this story is wrong, do you think that or this story is just completely inaccurate. >> the denial is a little bit opaque. that's my interpretation based on what i'm able to piece together. >> i want to bring you in susan, buzzfeed standing by their reporting and their sources, give me your takeaway. >> well, look, it is very serious allegation to have made and now to have that called into question by the special counsel's office in this very unusual statement, you kn...

Accordance with donald trump's directives but he wasn't saying that donald trump personally told him to lie which was what the buzzfeed article was saying. my supposition is what mueller's office is disputing that they don't have evidence that donald trump personally told michael cohen to lie. it sounds like there was coordination of the lie between michael cohen and donald trump's team so that's not quite as damming as what buzzfeed was reporting. that is still fairly damning because it suggests that donald trump and his team were still complicit in this lie, and they could have corrected the...