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“We have seen documents. We have been briefed on documents. We are very confident in our reporting," BuzzFeed News reporter Jason Leopold, who co-wrote bombshell new report, says.
"Lying to reduce his jail time!" President Trump tweets after his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, said that Trump knew Cohen was trying to have polls rigged before campaign, and the BuzzFeed News report that Trump directed Cohen to lie to Congress about a Moscow tower project.
Trump lawyer Giuliani: "Any suggestion – from any source – that the President counseled Michael Cohen to lie is categorically false" and "today’s claims are just more made-up lies born of Michael Cohen’s malice and desperation, in an effort to reduce his sentence.” 
WATCH: @GeoffRBennett discusses President Trump's tweets about Michael Cohen's father-in-law. on.msnbc.com/2DjyR5X
Rep. Joaquin Castro: President Trump “should resign, but if he doesn’t resign, he should be impeached."
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JUST IN: In rare response, special's counsel office says, “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.”
JUST IN: BuzzFeed editor-in-chief responds to the special counsel's new statement: "We stand by our reporting and the sources who informed it, and we urge the Special Counsel to make clear what he's disputing."
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JUST IN: BuzzFeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith calls into @MSNBC to discuss the special counsel's new statement, and BuzzFeed News' response to that statement, with @chrislhayes.
President Trump has not responded directly to the special counsel's new statement on the BuzzFeed News report, but he is using his account tonight to retweet supporters and advisers who are tweeting criticism about the report and news coverage of the report.
