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he said, i can t speak to buzzfeed s sourcing, but for what it s worth, i declined to run with parts of the narrative they conveyed, based on a source central to the story, repeatedly disputing the idea that trump directly issued orders of that kind. note that the general thrust of cohen lying to congress in accordance with or to support an advance trump s agenda, per cohen s legal memo, is not in dispute. the source disputed the further, more specific idea that trump issued and memorialized repeated direct instructions. and joy reid, that part about memorialized would be i think a reference in the buzzfeed article to there is supporting documentation right. either from texts or e-mails to what buzzfeed was reporting that the president basically ordered michael cohen to commit perjury. right. as well as one line in the buzzfeed story where they
robert mueller s investigation. the article points out that s exactly how it worked in the case of president richard nixon, who was being investigated by a special prosecutor at the same time that the house judiciary committee was conducting its own impeachment investigation. which eventually led to the committee passing three articles of impeachment against richard nixon. the evidence to impeach richard nixon was developed as a result of the committee s investigation. the judiciary committee and the special prosecutor investigating president nixon both subpoenaed the white house tapes that ultimately led to president nixon s resignation when the supreme court ordered the president to turn over to the committee and the special prosecutor the tapes that turned out to include the so-called smoking gun of richard nixon s own voice participating in the watergate conspiracy in the oval office. the article in the atlantic makes the argument, the process
david corn, your reaction to the buzzfeed story tonight, and its parallels to that woodward and bernstein mixup, mistake, back in their big days of covering richard nixon. well, now we know that what they reported, carl and bob, you know, ended up being true. though, as they note, they got the attribution wrong, and it gave the nixon white house and their detractors ammunition to go after them. what we don t know yet is whether buzzfeed got it right, but somehow screwed you know, screwed up the attribution or there was some miscommunication here. but what do know, to get to elizabeth s point, that the big picture remains that donald trump himself lied to the american public. he said he had nothing to do with russia while he was campaigning. yet there he was, pursuing a deal that would have enriched him to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. and that s what michael cohen was trying to cover up. he says, you know he said publicly at his sentencing in sort of synchronizat
and ken delaney for nbc news and mimi roker, msnbc legal contributor. and ken delaney, i know you ve been doing some of your original reporting on this story on what might or might not be being disputed by robert mueller s office. what can we make of that at this stage? well, lawrence, it s more of an analysis. my take on the statement, which is very specific, is that they are disputing the part of the story that asserts that the special counsel gathered texts, e-mails and interviews with members of the trump organization that corroborated michael cohen s statement that trump told a lie. in fact, the sequence was, mueller got that first and then went to cohen and cohen acknowledged that, yes, trump told a lie. that appears to be what mueller is specifically disputing. he is not commenting, and certainly not disputing, the notion that michael cohen s story is that trump told a lie. and, in fact, there s a