clear what he s disputing. short time ago, ben smith spoke to our colleague, chris hayes. we went to them 24 hours ago and, you know, they declined to comment on it. obviously the special counsel prefers to control the time line and for reasonable reasons wants to operate on his own time line and without revealing a lot of detail. smith also told rachel maddow that buzzfeed sources continue to stand by their information. rudy giuliani also weighed in tonight sending this message on twitter. quote, i commend bob mueller s office for correcting the buzzfeed false story that president trump encouraged cohen to lie. i ask the press to take heed that their hysterical desire to destroy this president has gone too far. they pursued this without critical analysis. all day he used the hashtag #fakenews. remember it was buzzfeed that released the totally discredited