enforcement sources that matter. they are his, but should that cause us corn and take a step back and take the report with a grain of salt? i don t think necessarily in this specific case. buzzfeed, as you said, has been one of the news outlets that has led the way on this story start to finish. you know, right from the start really with the steel dossier through reporting. jason and anthony have done some incredible work on some of the financial movements that the treasury department has been interested in that have been handed over to mueller as part of the russia probe. this is news coming from a team that has demonstrated on this particular story in ways that rank with the best reporting that we have seen. jason leopold got in trouble for his reporting in 2002, 2006.
police officer to die this year, shot and killed january 5 during the arrest of a wanted fugitive. he had been on the force three years and leaves behind a wife and young son. it s a hole who think will ever be filled. joe has left a legacy with each and every one of us. reporter: gunfire isn t the only danger. 46-year-old dale woods of ohio died january 7 working a crash scene. he was moving a traffic cone when he was struck by a pickup truck. even in death he saved lives as an organ donor. he has three children. officer clayton townsend died in arizona. he was struck and killed by another car as he approached the vehicle he had just pulled over. the driver who hit him admitted to texting and driving. he leaves behind a wife and 10-month-old son. he was truly a guardian of the people. he was known by all to be caring
saying the president instructed others to lie about the timeline and his part. one of the authors, anthony cormier, stood by his reporting. it is rock solid information. from the president had told him to lie to congress, that is clear obstruction to justice. he should re-sign. if he doesn t, he should be impeached. reporter: lanny davis says that michael cohen may be reconsidering his offer to appe appear before congress claiming that president trump is trying to intimidate cohen from
the land. our reporting begins now. shepard: first from the fox news deck this afternoon, if it s true, it could have huge implications for the trump presidency. buzz feed reports that president trump districted michael cohen to lie to congress about a trump tower project in moscow. that is perjury and it s a crime. neither fox news nor any other major news organization to our knowledge has confirmed this story. according to buzz feed, two federal law enforcement officials told reporters jason leipold an anthony cormier that the special counsel s office learned about the directive through interviews with multiple witnesses from the trump organization and through internal company e-mails, texts and a range of other documents. cohen acknowledged those instructions during his interviews with that office.
the project. we ll have more with our panel in just a moment. first i m joined by one of the two reporters on this story, anthony cormier, investigative reporter with buzzfeed news. anthony, very strong reporting here by you and your colleagues. tell me where you how you came about this information and what you ve learned tonight. so we spoke with two federal law enforcement officials who are wed into the inner workers of the trump tower moscow investigation and they relayed this story to us as it emerged in the last couple weeks that michael cohen was directed by the president of the united states to lie to congress. they re not basing this on, solely on michael cohen s statement to the office of special counsel, but they are basing it on reams of documenty