speak about this. it is important to point out the statement did not say there s nothing to the story, but rather takes a very specific response in describing it. let s talk about the statement. buzz feed s description of specific statements to the special counsel s office and characterization of testimony obtained are not accurate. so, when you see the way mueller responded here, do you get a sense they are not entirely denying the greater story that s being alleged here? that s exactly right. it s cryptic, but much less than a whole denial, indeed. it seems like the core of the story, not only not denying, but holds up with the chronology and having had cohen plead to this in the first place. you then ask, why are they doing this cryptic and partial statement? it s so out of character for the
mueller gang and my best guess is there s some way which i don t think they are trying to show themselves, they follow the rules, everybody knows that. i think they are concerned that the great reaction that the buzzfeed story is off base and people are galloping ahead in an imprudent direction. daniel, your thoughts on that from a reporter s perspective. i think they wanted to fix certain details of the story without discussing them in specifics. so, buzzfeed is under pressure to try to adjust their reporting, if anything is incorrect. the special counsel was not very clear in saying whether the story was true or not. you have a lot of senators and congressmen who are reading this story saying that if this proves to be true, this is very serious
that simplify your experience. my name is mike, i m in product development at comcast. we re working to make things simple, easy and awesome. welcome back to viewers in the u.s. and around the world, this is cnn newsroom, i m natalie allen. i m george howell. special counsel robert mueller is disputing a story by buzzfeed news. it says michael cohen lied to congress at the direction of congress. he says the article is not accurate. documents the special counsel
mischaracterizes the facts. or maybe the type that never respond to any inquiry, ever, then 20 hours after you issue the story, they put out a statement. do you have anything in that respect? i don t think it would be appropriate for me to say whether they have a habit of waving people off and on. what they did here is extremely confusing. confusing in what way? to all of us. you know, the day after a story is published, they come out with a very detailed and opaque statement. are you concerned frankly, i m concerned, over the next few months, when ever there s a hot story, a big scoop that comes out, you are going to hear from the president and his supporters, oh, another buzzfeed story, another story like buzzfeed where, even robert
this. thanks. thanks. bottom line, at some point, mueller s team will be finished. they are tight lipped for sure. it is rare to see them speak out. the other big story they are tracking, this is day 29. i think you know what we are talking about. the president says he is going to make a major announcement on it in the coming hours. officials say he s considering concessions to get democrats to the table, but likely won t budge on the southern border wall. we expect that at 3:00. here is the thing, judging the public feud playing out between mr. trump and house speaker nancy pelosi, a deal may not come easily. we have more from abbiphilip on that story. reporter: shutdown negotiations, bickeringing between president trump and house speaker, nancy pelosi.