recovery and consumers may start to really feel that 1-2 punch of stagnant growth coupled with high inflation. what i can tell you is that wall street right now, bret, in the midst of earnings that s when company open their books on the last quarter and guide for the future what they say might be more important than ever, bret. bret: we will follow it lawrence, thanks. bret s bring in marc siegel professor of medicine at langone medical center at new york university has an exclusive interview with the director of the national institutes of health. dr. siegel? how are you? hi, bret. bret, last april you were one of the first to report on lab leak as a strong possibility for covid origins and the events that followed. as you know buzz field revealed that an email with an article about one of your segments was forwarded from the head of the nih, dr. francis collins to dr. fauci with a sung line, quote: conspiracy gains momentum. now, i spoke with dr. collins last week and now he is de
that describes what information the mueller office officially had in its possession, perhaps are incorrect, but buzz field may feel larger the larger point that there is some indication that trump supposedly asked cohen to lie may be is true. i mean, that s the only way i can reconcile the two of them. the only other alternative is to conclude that buzz feed got it wrong. neil: rudy guliani sent mixed messages on this issue, whether the president did do it, it wouldn t be a big deal. did he muddy the waters? i think he did muddy the waters. it s not the kind of thing that i would have expected the defense counsel for mr. trump to say. you know, the fact that trump did converse with cohen about the testimony in the time leading up to the testimony while not maybe by itself technically illegal is still highly suspicious. so to minimize that and to say
investigation, the central pieces are wholly wrong. go ahead. go ahead, john. sorry, mika. it s john heilemann here. i wanted to be sure about a couple things in your reporting which is illuminating of all the questions related here. this is something people talked about a lot when the special counsel first issued this extraordinary rebuke to buzzfeed. do you have any doubt in your mind on the basis of your reporting that this that their statement, the special counsel s office statement represents a thorough going reputation of the buzz field store? that leaves out the possibility that part of the story is true and port of the story is false but on the key issue of the story, the special counsel is
i want to dig in at this point, the sanctions pose a potential obstacle for the trump tower and moscow projects. but the sanctions prohibited them according to reporting for buzz field, what does that tell you about what mueller is following. what does that tell about the mueller probe. this is not from the ukrainian government. these are from russian elements. this is one of two pro russian ukrainianments that manage to make their way into the trump administration early on. it is about sanctions, and that is part of the original sin. and probably through flynn and