was an allegation directly from the office ofec the special council. yes. traoufplt what do you make where do you think the information came from? the word that stuck out to me, tucker, when i read this is the word an. they say at the beginning that the two sources are connected to an investigation of cohen. makingus that illusive if it is the investigation of cohen, the special council s investigation. you don t know are these a couple of guys who are in the loop enough to get briefed on law enforcement investigations but not in the core of mueller s team? it s hard to make a judgement about that. i can only tell you, i was fortunate enough as a prosecutor to work on a couple of high profile cases. if you asked the number of
tucker: a unbelievable night in theth news business. a report last night from buzzfeed news. news. accused the president of the states of encouraging his former personal lawyer, michael cohen, to lie under oath. this would be perjury. all day long people have prefaced the story with if true. now after spending 24 hours imagining the president being draggedragged and chain today hg cell, roberter mueller s office issued in effect a stkepb i ll of the buzzfeed story. buzzfeed has issued a statement daring the special council in
tucker. as you said robert mueller has knocked down this buzzfeed report. quoting buzzfeed s quoting of specific statements and characterization of documents andga testimony . that is critical. remember the buzzfeed report laid this at the door of the special council quoting again . one of the reporters who wrote the piece admitted he never saw the alleged damning documents. he stillll maintained his reporting was rock solid. listen to him. i am rock solid. my sourcing on this goes beyond the two on the record. it s one hundred percent
this story was rooted in fact. now the special council s office is knocking it down. what is your reaction to this? well, i think the most importantt thing, tucker s-rbgts money paragraph of the buzzfeed story is the one that trace gallagher honeded in on. the reason that s important is because what, what the trump response to this f there was a credibility to it would want to be is that you can t believe anything that cohen says. he s a pervasive serial liars. the way this was teed up is that mueller cooberated information, pieced it together himself and confronted cohen on it. it s not a thing where cohen is peddling the information. if i was the white house that would have been the part that
people who now would say to you they worked on those cases and were the case agent on the case, there is probably more people saying it then saw bobby thompson s home run. there are a lot of people that say they have information. tucker: like sa million people claim to be at woodstock. why would the special council s office weight in i on this tonit the way that it did? i m really pleased they did. i think that probably this is the sort of thing that could really compromise the president s ability to govern. i think a lot of us troubled by this investigation from the beginning think there is too much deference to investigation secrecy and not the acknowledgment of a i special council investigation it makes it f difficult for the president to govern the country which is