stake besides just this. we also know that there s a real issue here about don jr. and what he testified to about this and there were really interesting questions the spence counsel asked the president about this, when did you discuss during the campaign this russian trump tower and who did you discuss it with? all these are out there and he responded to them before he knew cohen was cooperating. there s so much with the special counsel and i want tago get to as bad as anyone but i want to make sure it s done right. the subject of the duration of this deal based on the pleading of michael cohen about lying to congress, right and what the times eareported about the questions. that key question of how long
it s big and different and about the president directly. you ve got arguments, well, the president s motives might be different. maybe he was doing it because a family reasons, he wasn t doing it for campaign reasons. i don t think it s a particularly good argument but it s something out there. it s arguably lying about sex, which is different. the story yesterday, none of those defenses are available. it s a very serious felony to order someone to lie to congress. it is exactly what article one, section three of the nixon impeachment was about. and michael cohen is going to jail for this very crime. so the anomaly of having the lackey go to prison but not the boss who orders it is pretty striking.
buzzfeed in response to the statement the special counsel s office. we are continuing to report and determine what the special counsel is disputing. they published the dossier to begin with and they were sued by none other than michael cohen. so just keep that in the background of this. what would the so let s say we now have congress. you have congress saying we re the victims of the crime here. we deserve a right to know that if that knowledge is currently being held by the special counsel s office and you re saying it s time to start a formal inquiry. what does that mean? it s done with deference to the ongoing law enforcement investigation by mueller and by the southern district of new york.
i would have got back into the business and why should i lose lots of opportunities? the special counsel s office learned about trump s director to lie to congress through interviews with multiple witnesses in the trump organization and internal company emails, text messages and a cash of other documents. the president s lawyer denied a buzzfeed story and now after declining the comment and not commenting on the story itself, the special counsel s office issued a statement. buzzfeed s description of specific statements to the special counsel s office and character zagsz of documents and testimony obtained by this office regarding michael cohen s congressional testimony are not accurate. we should note other reporting on this exact topic went uncorroborated for months until it showed up almost word for
time. he has the ball at least until some congressman decide to move impeachment. a point about michael cohen and why the buzz feed issue of corroboration s so important. without it, you re left with michael cohen testifying. of course. he s no john dean. just going to say it. no, he s a liar. invettorate liar. that s a huge problem. that s precisely why this is so important, right? like, what is reported and what is disputed and why it s so important in the broad scale of thing. ultimately, there will be a question of what the public evidence says about what happened, right? well and that goes to the core of the issue of what will be either adjudicated in courts of law, if it s people not having to do with the president, or ajust dated in essentially the united states congress and that s another issue. i wasn t super impressed with