it s not to donald trump. oh, no, he comes out ahead. as i tweeted last night, if buzzfeed blew it, the lasting harm will not be to donald trump but to the many newsrooms working so hard to get it right. but now, subject to renewed, bogus cries of fake news. the president just got a heavy dose of inoculation. it was no surprise that last night when i went to bed, sean hannity was again decrying the biggest case of government corruption in american history. you know who understands what i m saying? robert mueller. no wonder the special counsel s office issued a rare rebuke last night. they did that, no doubt, because soon they will want to be believed. all their effort will soon be scrutinized in a world where truth too often seems a moving target. they want their evidence to be evaluated based on critical
information. that i think is a safe read. the other questions i think remain to be seen. you are making reference i think to that mueller sentencing memo and the line in it regarding congressional inquiries you think made this story plausible to many when they read what buzzfeed reported? reporter: yeah, that the corroboration of courts. krob rakes comes in all breeds. there is dead on the you have an e-mail i don t think exists from trump to cohen saying i need you to lie or video. then there is corroboration that gives some of the fountdations of the story. i think mueller s statement was good foundational corroboration for the idea that this was, fact, a larger coordinated effort involving multiple people. does it necessarily follow from that, that donald trump sat down with michael said i need to you lie? not necessarily. it gets you part of the way there. what did you think to the reference of the law enforcement sources?
yesterday by coming out and as you say flthrowing a flag. one perverse result, there may be an inverse effect. which is this. if robert mueller is going to comment on this particular story and say if not so, how about all the other prior stories that came out damaging to trump. how about the stories is that will come out about trump? whats when mueller does not say anything about those. i don t think it logically follows that mueller signs offer on those stories. you will see, i think we will see people saying, well, mueller objected to the buzzfeed story, he doesn t object to this one, so he must be confirming it. it s such a great observation on your part. you wonder if too many will read too much into that. if mueller took that into consideration, really, you are underscoring what an extraordinary move it was last night. reporter: yeah, look, robert mueller runs a buttoned up shop. to see him come out and pretty squarely refute the buzzfeed
can you clarify for me where the status is of that? i will say we have seen documents, we briefed on documents, we are confident in our reporting. i will just say we ve seen documents? that s what everybody s bs alarm should have been blinking red. it didn t pass the smell test on the critical assertion of their story, one co-author said one thing on cnn. it s partner said another on msnbc. as the day progd, something else, by omission. no confirmation by cnn the washington post, or the new york times, that was telling. you know they were working overtime. then finally last night, a rare statement from the special counsel. quote. buzzfeed s description of specific statements to the special counsel s office and character characterization are not accurate. whoa. this is the real picture. it s the real damage.
fortune called him one of the investment industries for giants of the 20th century, of all the framed items on his wall, the books the magazines covers the accomplishment, one sticks with me. it was the time s of london, front page from two days after 9/11. good will prevail over evil from the time requests another of london. i was over in london when that happened. and we re still working on that one. we are. yes, we are. he was the genuine article. he already sorely missed. still to kurds. and we give you final results of the survey question regarding the lead story in my opening commentary. do you believe corroboration will emerge in texts and other documents regarding buzzfeed allegations of president trump directing michael cohen to lie to congress? world which is do t