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So it was the first bit of the clip where we heard sarah huckabee sanders questioned for comment on this buzzfeed story we've been covering and the two words i heard were categorically false. so before we dive in, let me just remind everyone watching. cnn hasn't confirmed any of buzzfeed's reporting. you hear the white house saying categorically false. you hear rudy giuliani calling michael cohen a liar. there are similarities from this buzzfeed piece and the court records. go through all that for me. >> absolutely. what they do say in their story citing two law enforcement officials is that m...

Trump's involvement in negotiations and discussions to build a trump tower in moscow during the campaign and so what we can pull and look at from court filings from a filing by the special counsel's office, they actually say that the information provided by cohen about the moscow project in these proffer sessions is consistent with and corroborated by other information obtained in the course of the special counsel's investigation. so there's a pairing there of what buzzfeed's reporting where they're saying there was other information that was actually used to confront michael cohen. another ar...

Mueller's investigators aren't just taking cohen's word for it which is important to remember when you hear giuliani and trump say he's a liar. it's not just about what cohen's saying. it's the mueller team that can back this up and if that is the case, is that not -- mainstream obstruction? >> very much so. the way that buzzfeed talked about this in their piece is not that michael cohen came out and told them this, but that, in fact, michael cohen was backed into a corner where the special counsel, the federal prosecutes had documents, they've had testimony from other trump organization witne...

When we look at another court filing that was part of the charges against michael cohen, we see there that the special counsel's office is saying that cohen discussed the status and progress of the moscow project with individual one, that's donald trump, on more than the three occasions cohen claimed to the committee. so while we have not independently verified buzzfeed's reporting, when you line it up next to some of the court filings, you can see these similarities that don't make it seem entirely out of left field but nothing in the court filings actually corroborates that donald trump dire...

We draw our conclusions. >> national correspondent thema jones is live. athena, i understand she's just weighed in on all of this. why did the senator say? >> reporter: she arrived here just a few minutes ago and i asked her about the buzzfeed report and she essentially echoed much of what we heard from booker there. she said it's highly concerning and it shows he may have been complicit in obstruction of justice. take a listen to what she had to say to me just a few minutes ago. >> my biggest priority right now is to protect the mueller investigation. we have a bipartisan piece of legislation...