«Breaking News» Buzzfeed backs bombshell report even after special counsel disputes it

Anthony Cormier, the Buzzfeed reporter behind the bombshell story alleging President Donald Trump ordered his then-personal attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress, is standing behind the report, claiming 'this is going to be borne out. This story is accurate.'

Cormier and Buzzfeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith were on CNN's 'Reliable Sources' Sunday morning and stood by their sources and their reporting even after Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office released a statement disputing the story. 

'I have further confirmation this is right and stand our ground. Our reporting is going to be borne out to be accurate. And we are 100 percent behind it,' Cormier said. 

'The same sources we used in the story are standing behind it and so are we,' he added.  

Buzzfeed reporter Anthony Cormier and editor-in-chief Ben Smith stand behind their bombshell story

The two told CNN's 'Reliable Sources' their story will be borne out as accurate

He declined to name the two sources that told him of Trump's instructions to Cohen to lie to Congress about when the negotiations for Trump Tower Moscow had ended. 

According to Buzzfeed, Mueller first discovered that Trump told Cohen to lie to Congress via evidence from internal company emails, text messages, and witnesses from the Trump Organization. Buzzfeeed also reported that Cohen later confirmed it during his own interviews with the special counsel. 

'I'm not going to talk about my sources,' Cormier said. 'Rudy Giuliani signaled there would be a leak investigation. This is a really significant matter and in order to protect our sources and not put them in any risk, we're not going to talk about the sourcing.'

'Our sources are solid,' he added. 

After the story was published, Mueller's office, which has been tight-lipped about its investigation of Russia's role in the 2016 election and whether Trump's campaign colluded with Moscow, issued an extraordinary statement denying the bombshell report.

'BuzzFeed's description of specific statements to the Special Counsel's Office, and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office, regarding Michael Cohen's Congressional testimony are not accurate,' Peter Carr, a spokesman for Mueller's office, said. 

Mueller's team rarely issues statements in response to news stories.  

Smith argued they don't exactly what part of the story Mueller's team is disputing. 

'We are eager to understand which characterizations Mueller is talking about there, and obviously we take that incredibly seriously,' Smith said.

CNN's Brian Stelter pressed Cormier on his certainty of his sources.

'What if the sources are just wrong?,' Stelter asked. 

'They're not,' Cormier replied.

'Not intentionally,' Stelter pressed. 'Not trying to hurt you but what if they're wrong?'

Cormier remained firm in his belief in them: 'They're not. They're not. I'm confident.'

Smith stepped in to defend the reporting. 

'This is obviously the highest stakes,' he said. 'There is no source like Robert Mueller. There aren't other government officials who say, when this is wrong and we're going to say how and why, this would produce the sort of reaction you're bringing here.' 

He added: 'It's a very high-stakes version of a sorry we're all familiar with. You say, how is it wrong? They won't tell you. All you can do is continue to report.' 

President Trump called the story a 'disgrace 

Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office made the extraordinary move of issuing a statement refuting Buzzfeed's story

Michael Cohen, President Trump's former personal attorney, pled guilty to lying to Congress last year about the timeline involving talks of a Trump Tower Moscow

Stelter also revealed the email Jason Leopold, the co-author of the story, sent to Peter Carr, the Justice Department staffer who is the spokesperson for Mueller's team, before they published, asking him to comment on the story. 

'This is first e-mail from Jason Leopold, co-author of the story, sent to the special counsel's office at 1:50 P.M. on Thursday. It says, 'Anthony and I have a story coming up stated Cohen was directed by Trump to lie. Assume no comment from you but just wanted to check. Best, Jason,'' Stelter read. 

He then turned to Smith: 'Ben, to me, this is a shocking casual way to ask for comment for such a serious story. To you think that was an appropriate and sufficient way to ask for comment?'

'Peter - the spokesman for the special counsel - told The Washington Post yesterday or people close to him on background - if we had asked differently, he would have given us more information,' he said. 'We were reaching out to get information. That's why you reach out. That's why you reach out hours and hours before the story published. I don't think if you got an e-mail from Jason Leopold saying, hey, we're working on a story whose substance is that you were involved in an incredibly high-stakes and incredibly shocking thing, that you would say, no, that's not a big deal. I think that we stated the heart of the story there.'

Stelter pressed him on the brevity of the email: 'Come on, one paragraph? There's a dereliction of duty to send three sentences.'

'I think that it has not been our experience that the special counsel is forthcoming with information,' Smith said.

'Carr has now said he would have responded in more detail if he had more detail,' he added. 'He could have said that two minutes later. He could have said, that's quite a statement. Tell me more.'

He noted: 'That is the correspondence we've had with him over the last two years as we have broken huge stories about his office.' 

Giuliani slammed Buzzfeed for its report President Trump ordered Cohen to lie: 'They should be sued. They should be under investigation,' he told CNN

Giuliani told NBC he was '100 percent certain' that Trump never asked Cohen to lie

Cormier also put the onus on the Justice Department. 

'Mr. Carr is a lovely spokesperson, we know him, we've dealt with him in the past on a number of occasions. It's never been my experience to get any signal, wave off, any go ahead from the special counsel's office through that spokesperson,' he said. 

'It's not the first time we've dealt with him. Certainly will probably not be the last,' he added. 

Trump and his team slammed the report, which was published late Thursday evening.

Rudy Giuliani, the president's personal attorney, said he was '100 percent' confident Trump did not order Cohen to lie.

'To answer your question, categorically, I can tell you his counsel to Michael Cohen throughout that entire period was, 'Tell the truth.' We thought he was telling the truth. I still believe he may have been telling the truth when he testified before Congress. But in any event, his lawyers thought that, our lawyers thought that and the president thought that at the time,' he said Sunday on NBC's 'Meet the Press.'  

Cohen, in November of last year, admitted he lied to Congress about how long conversations took place about building a Trump Tower Moscow. He previously said talks about the Moscow project ended in January 2016 but it was later revealed the conversations went up through at least June 2016, at which point Trump had locked up the GOP nomination. 

Giuliani praised Mueller's office for releasing a rare statement refuting the Buzzfeed story. 

'To their credit, the Justice Department and the Special Counsel's Office said that the story was inaccurate. And the inaccuracy is that there's no evidence that the president told him to lie,' Giuliani said on NBC.

The former New York City mayor also went on the attack against the news outlet and said Buzzfeed should be sued. He also cautioned the media to be careful in its reporting on the special counsel's probe.

'They should be sued. They should be under investigation,' he told CNN's 'State of the Union' on Sunday.

'You've got a hysteria in the media that interprets everything against Donald Trump,' he added. 'You all should be careful.'

'They bought a totally phony story,' he said of Buzzfeed.

Trump called the story a 'disgrace.'

'I think that the BuzzFeed piece was a disgrace to our country. It was a disgrace to journalism, and I think also that the coverage by the mainstream media was disgraceful, and I think it's going to take a long time for the mainstream media to recover its credibility,' the president said Saturday. 'It's lost tremendous credibility. And believe me, that hurts me when I see that.'  

Vice President Mike Pence said on 'Fox News Sunday' that the media is obsessed with attacking the president.  

'I think what it says more about is the obsession of many in the national media to attack this president for any reason, for any allegation, for any report in the media,' Pence said.    

 

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