personally. but the two persons we have talked to are fully 100% read into that aspect of special counsel s investigation. allison asked the right question that. answer should have made people accepting the story as gospel nervous. but it didn t. then soon thereafter, his co-author appeared on msnbc. jason leo polled. he has his own credibility problems. erroneously reporting in 2006 carl rogue was about to be indicted and leo polled contradicted what cormier said. watch. you haven t seen the documents the techs the e-mails, etc., how confident are you that they exist that this is true? i don t think that we said we soon seen them. i will say i am confident your colleague said on cnn this morning you were briefed by those law enforcement sources that you referenced.
smerconish, i love your show and i love your take on politics, and then there it is. but i think you are wrong. there must be some form of evidence. special counsel didn t rule out the report completely, just the way it was reported. i m not saying there is no evidence, dean. what i m saying is if you write a story in buzzfeed and say donald trump told michael cohen to lie and there are internal company e-mails and text messages and a cache of other documents that evidence that fact, then you ve got to show me one. give me one text, one e-mail, something from that massive cache of weaponry. they didn t have any. the story wasn t right for publication. it may be today, it may be tomorrow. it may never be. and it helped the president. you know what it did?
will the gamesmanship ever end? pelosi blocks the state of the union. pelosi takes away her planes. i m betting if the unpaid tsa workers start to interfere with our plane travel, that s when the shutdown will immediately end. and the tragic deaths of four americans in a deadly syrian blast this week was a political rorschack test. some say it s prove we need to stay. others argue, it confirms we stayed too long. senator rand paul is here. plus, the wall street journal calls him the capitalist for the common man. he invented the index fund to protect small investors. we ll remember the late jack vogle. but first, don t kid yourself. yesterday was a bad day for journalism. too many threw their street smarts to the wind and cast their lot with this incredible story about the president. no amount of wishful thinking should ever trump evidentiary
say what you will about trump and cohen. but i got to believe they re more sophisticated when it comes to skull duggery. roy cohen taught president trump better than that. the president doesn t send e-mails or texts. would he tell him to commit that crime? here in philly, there is an ad annual among the pauls. you never write a letter or throw one away. when it comes to your misdeeds, you don t put anything in writing. if a political opponent does, you hold it. from the get-go, i said this was a story that needed to presumed false until shown otherwise. it quickly went from bad to worse. also on cnn s new day, after i raised concerns about the story, one of the bud feed co-authors appeared, anthony cormier was asked if he had seen the corroboration, himself. he said, no watch. have you seen any of that other corroborating evidence? no, i have not seen it per n
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?