in a rare move, special counsel robert mueller's office speaking out, disputing accuracy of a bach shell report that implicates the president of the united states in a federal crime. the president says he will make a major announcement saturday about the government shutdown and the southern border. a second summit confirmed between the u.s. president, donald trump, and the leader of north korea, kim jong-un. these stories are among the many we have this hour. welcome to viewers in the u.s. and around the world, i'm natalie allen. >> i'm george howell.

news room starts now. at 4:00 a.m. on the u.s. coast, we start with the report by buzz feed news. talks of possible impeachment and abinstruction of justice by robert mueller. >> that surprised many people when the office did that. cnn had not coroborated the report. president trump directed his attorney, michael cohen to lie to congress about a trump tower project in moscow. >> it is important to point out, the statement did not say the buzz feed story was entirely wrong. >> here is what it says. buzzfeed's deskripgs of the specific statements obtained by

the office regarding the congressional testimony are not accurate. >> buzzfeed said it's been puzzled by mueller's pushback given the story was published almost 24 hours and mueller's team didn't say specifically, which part was inaccurate. the editor-in-chief says we stand by our reporting and the sources who inform it and urge the special counsel to make clear what he was disputing. they spoke about it with cnn's anderson cooper. >> we spoke to federal law enforcement officials in the investigation. told us the president directed michael cohen to lie to congress. >> do you know who the sources are? >> do i know? >> yeah. >> of course i know. we have been reporting on the trump tower moscow at the heart of the investigation for months.

we broke stories about it before it was at the center. we hope they release this vague statement and urge the special counsel to make clear what he is disputing. >> again, buzzfeed saying it is challenging to make the correction when they don't know where the error is to start. >> we have more from brian. >> reporter: we have more questions than answers after the buzzfeed report and the statement from the special counsel's office. it is confusing. for people trying to figure out what is true and what happened between president trump and his aides and russia, well, the mystery continues. this statement from the special counsel's office certainly is

not clear. parts of the story were not accurate, but not saying what part, specifically. it's caused frustration at buzzfeed. they have been around for years. they have a big newsroom and broke big stories including some about trump and the russia investigation. that's why this thursday night story was taken so seriously and others tried to follow up on it. now that the story has been challenged and disputed, this is a test for buzzfeed's credibility and the national media. obviously, there are concerns about credibility here. we are seeing president trump and his allies use this issue, involving buzzfeed to tar and attack the media as a whole. no matter how many times they call news outlets fake, real reporters are trying to get to the bottom of it. this could be a severe blow to buzzfeed's credibility. as for the reporters who wrote

the story on thursday, leopold has a checkered past, his own words by his own admission. he's broken huge stories with buzzfeed. back about 15 years ago, he was involved in scandals, accused of plagiarism and ousted from a job. he admitted he has a checkered past. now the republican committee is saying he has a history of falsz reporting. the cries get louder and louder. americans and the world want to know what happened. for now, robert mueller is not saying. >> let's talk more about this with harry litman, a district deputy. daniel, a reporter for politico. thank you for taking time to

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

for trump, even republicans say that it could lead to some consequences, if proven accurate. these reporters have done very good work in the past on this issue of the trump tower in moscow. >> daniel, let's push forward on that a bit. you point out the reporter's history, their background. the reporter made it clear in the report, it was based on evidence including but beyond what cohen had to say. two officials involved in the matter. buzzfeed continuing to back the accuracy of reporting, but looking into what the special counsel is disputing, remaining confident in the accuracy of what they are putting out there. overall, other agencies try to track down the information. no one was able to confirm or corobrate what was in the report. >> not yet but his lawyers did not dispute the account.

it will be interesting when he testifies on capitol hill. he will be asked about this. you know, democrats want to know, from the horse's mouth if this is actually true, if president trump instructed him to lie about the timing of all of these dealings. you have a fact that or the allegation that trump and cohen had ten sit-down meetings in 2016 about updates on this project. you know, there is speculation that the sources were the fbi agents involved in the matter from the district of new york, from that area, instead of robert mueller's team. so, mueller could be saying, well, it's not coming from us. we are not doing leaks. you have to look further and the fbi agents have all the evidence

they have seized over the last year or two. >> to your point, when cohen testifies, it is important to point out there will be restrictions on what he is able to talk about. at the same time, it is interesting what he had to say. harry, this question to you touching on what daniel pointed out here. it is incredibly rare to hear mueller's team respond. they weighed in that the president directly told michael cohen to lie. why did they feel the need to speak out? >> you are right, it is incredibly rare. they have been the most tight lipped operation of their sort in history. that's why i think there's more here than simply trying to say they were the source. buzzfeed suggests they are not anywhere, not the exclusive ones and people are sort of pointing

toward fbi, fdny, people on the case before mueller came. i think, again, that they are -- that the public reaction lurched in a direction in terms of contemplating impeachment on the assumption that trump issued direct orders on paper or something like that and that is more than they actually have as proof. that's what the new yorker is now suggesting and it might be that the basics of the story are true, but something as mild as cohen wasn't getting direct instructionses from trump but tailoring it, something like thach that. i think they are trying to caution people from going to strong on the story. >> thank you for your time and giving us the context on all of

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.

pelosi accusing the white house without proof of leaking lawmakers plans to travel to afghanistan on a commercial flight after trump yanked authorization on the government plane. >> we weren't going to go because we had reports from afghanistan that the president had made the scene on the ground much more dangerous. it's a signal to the bad actors that were coming. >> reporter: a white house aide firing back calling the claims of a leak a flat-out lie. trump, whose sources say the president is frustrated calling pelosi's trip to a war zone, tweeting, why would nancy pelosi leave the country when 800,000 great people are not getting paid? one white house official called the move to cancel her trip retaliation against the speaker's decision to postpone

the state of the union, pelosi is leaving it open to interpretation. >> do you think it's retaliation? >> i hope not. i don't think the president would be that petty, do you? >> reporter: asking supporters to donate money to send bricks for the wall to pelosi and schumers office. resurrecting his claim that yet another caravan of migrants is heading to the u.s. southern border. >> what do we want? >> pay. >> reporter: as this struggle unfolds, the shutdown continues with negotiations pushed to the back burner. >> i think the mistake is that nobody is talking. >> thank you. the u.s. partial shutdown is affecting former presidents of the united states as well. one of them taking it upon himself to deliver pizza's to the people around him who have

been affected. >> george w. bush posted this of bringing secret ser visit detail. they are working without pay until it is resolved. he called for lawmakers to put politics aside and end the shutdown. the second summit between president trump and kim jong-un will be late next month. >> north korea's top negotiator met with the secretary of state friday in washington, then met with the president of the united states for more than 90 minutes in the oval office. the announcement is a day after president trump rolled out a pentagon report saying north korea is an extraordinary threat to the united states. let's bring in matt rivers. hello, matt. there was a first summit. was there any real progress on denuclearization from that, that we know of?

>> george and natalie, it depends on your definition of progress, but it's outlined by the white house and would revolve around the stated goal of north korea denuclearizing or taking the concrete, verifiable steps. so far, we have seen zero of verifiable steps toward north korea, at least publicly. the only thing to point to, if you were looking for something would be that the north koreans took reporters, a select number of reporters, including a cnn team to witness the explosion of a tunnel in northern north korea to test nuclear devices. they say there was zero way to verify the tunnel was destroyed and, of course, our journalists on the ground couldn't verify that, either. that's it. if that's not verified, there's a couple other good faith steps

taken by koreans, hostages released. they haven't tested missiles. neither point to denuclearization. i think, overall, if you are looking for concrete steps in the administration's own words, verifiable steps, since that summit, the answer is, there have not be any. >> announcing the second summit, did they announce goals or talk about the agenda? >> no. that's kind of the outstanding questions we have about this. of course, this is an ongoing process. we wouldn't expect to have the entire agenda for the summit released. we don't have the date or location. these are details being worked out by both sides. if we are looking for what could come out of the summit from the u.s. standpoint, they would want the steps, concrete steps. the north korean side, what critics talk about is perhaps they feel they can get more concessions out of the united

states by dealing directly with president trump as opposed to the appointed negotiators like the special envoy from the u.s. to north korea that they could get otherwise. what you are looking at is from the north korean side getting concessions from the united states without taking the steps toward denuclearization they want them to. overall, no one knew what was going to come out of the first summit. anyone who tells you this is how the second summit is going to go, really would not be telling the whole truth. i don't think anyone knows exactly how a second summit would work out. >> new territory. matt rivers for us in beijing, thank you, matt. >> complete, verifiable, reversible denuclearization. have we seen that? still ahead, people living along the irish border are looking for a backstop to take away the sting of brexit. what is a backstop?

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were killed, 71 injured when a pipeline exploded. >> this happening north of mexico city. the oil company says the blast was caused by illegal tapping of the line for petro last year. the fuel theft cost mexico $3 billion. several pipelines have been closed to crack down on it. in the united kingdom, british lawmakers debating the future of brexit. the sticking point remains the border between ireland and northern ireland. >> we have been throwing around the word backstop. what the heck? here is what it means and means to them. >> reporter: in a few months time, this could be the eu's order with the uk. it's giving rise to the most contentious issue in brexit.

the backstop. when i say backstop, what does that mean to you? >> basically an insurance policy theresa may and the european policy have taken out. >> reporter: it keeps the borders of ireland open. the eu and uk say they want that. the eu insists bank stop is part of the deal, in case the two sides can't reach an agreement. >> whatever is going to happen, it's going to impact this city more than any part of the uk or eu. we are the biggest population center. whatever is going to happen, be it good or bad is going to impact most here. >> reporter: we are in northern ireland's second largest city, known as dairy. a few miles from the border with ireland. from the 1960s to the '90s, gary was at the heart of northern

ireland's deadly sectarian violence. 20-something years ago, right here, catholic teenagers rushed up here to fight pitch battles with the mostly prodestant police. that's what it's about, to prevent that sort of violence. is it going to work? >> better, because i don't know what it will be like. >> reporter: the violence? >> yep. >> reporter: concerns are growing. the backstop is blowing brexit. what would happen if there's a no deal brexit to the border? >> does it mean i have to show my passport or something? i don't know. i was told you don't have to show your passport or have a visa to go over the border. >> i don't think they have any idea what is going to happen.

i work for a company that does a lot of cross border trade. they are, in terms of taxes go back and forth. >> reporter: what would you hope for? >> an open border. there's always been a strong relationship because we are a border area. we need free movement. >> it's very important. i don't know what the future is going to hold fi myself, my family and my children. >> reporter: the trouble is theresa may need support of people who oppose the backstop and makes them feel less british. so far, she hasn't found a way around it. kni nic robertson, cnn. >> got it. you got it? >> i think so. it was an explosive story, but the editor of buzzfeed defends reporters. why the staff is puzzled and the

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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

gathered regarding cohen. buzzfeed says they stand by the report. the white house says the second summit between u.s. president donald trump and north korean leader kim jong-un will be held late next month. no specific date or location was announced. the shutdown of the u.s. government lingers on. the president says he's going to make a major announcement on the shutdown in the coming hours. officials telling cnn, he will offer democrats concessions to get them to the negotiating table but likely won't budge on his border wall. back now to the buzzfeed story. we know special counsel, robert mueller had some issues with some of the reporting about michael cohen and president trump. we don't know exactly what part of the article he objected to. >> buzzfeed's editor-in-chief, ben smith says it's difficult to make a correction or know if a

correction is needed. he spoke with anderson cooper. >> obviously, we stand by the reporting in this story. as we described to federal law enforcement officials involved in the investigation, we are not playing a game. they told us the president directed cohen to lie to congress. >> do you know who the sources are? >> do i know? >> yeah. >> of course i know. >> okay. >> in the end, we have been reporting on the trump tower, moscow, at the heart of the investigation for months. we broke stories about it before it was at the center of its own. the special counsel released this, honestly, this vague statement disputing the piece. we really urge the special counsel to make clear what he is disputing. >> i want to read what they said. the specific statements to the

special counsel's office and characterization obtained by the office regarding michael cohen's testimony are not accurate. it's wrong to characterize this as knocking down the story, entirely, but there's certainly, it's specifically worded statement from them. >> yeah, absolutely. they are some of the best lawyers in america. they are clearly referring to something. we hope they will tell us. at this point, we hope they clarify that. >> you know it is highly unlikely they would clarify a statement that took them 20 or so hours to come out with. are you actually expecting them to make another statement to clarify? you know, people were saying that's highly unlikely. >> i think that would be the responsible thing for them to do, yes. >> do you have any belief --

>> me and everybody else are reporting on this. yes, they issued a statement that makes clear they are disputing something in the story, but didn't say what. do you have any doubt about the story, what you are reporting? you say you stand by it. are there specific areas you have doubts about or any doubts? >> we are really confident in these specific sources and in the story the reporters told. >> ben, i think brian has a question for you. >> earlier today, the republican national committee challenged one of the two reporters, jason leopold says he has a past history in reporting. are you concerned about the history of your reporter being questioned and their work being questioned? >> thanks for the question, brian. i mean, i think that, you know,

when we saw the republican national launch attacks on the reporter in the story, that struck us as that's something you do when you don't have a better response. we did not see the strong and detailed denials from them that you might have expected, instead, attacks on jason. he was a pulitzer finalist and leading practitioner of foia and revealing hillary clinton e-mails. it's ludicrous to dig up stories that are 15 years ago that are real and he wrote about. >> in this partisan, polarized age, anti-trump bias, reporters own opinions creep into it. you might hear something from a source and you want it to be true, did that happen, do you think in this case?

>> no, absolutely not. the last time jason was accused of this was with hillary clinton's e-mails. >> is it unnerving to you so many other reporters are chasing this story and no one has come up with anything like what you have come up with? >> you know, i'm not sure i know that to be true. certainly everybody is chasing this and chasing it carefully. i assume over the next couple days, where our reporting -- >> we all love to have scoops, but isn't it nervous making that you are out there by yourself on a story that lots and lots of very good reporters are covering? >> you know, the specifics for this story grew out of a story we have been on, the moscow project, which is a somewhat different line of inquiry and

jason and anthony have been through this process far out. you know, but obviously, the facts are true or false. we will all get to the bottom of this. i think the special counsel could immediately make clear what they are disputing to make it easier for everybody to stand it up. we are confident in our reporting. >> ben, it's broad. taking my shot at a question, too. do you have a complaint with respect to special counsel and following respect? maybe you can say, maybe you can't say. with these articles, you would have said to the special counsel's office in advance to the article, we plan to report the following, the president of the united states directed michael cohen to lie to congress, what do you think about that? some offices wave you off if it's outrageous and

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

mueller said it was false. do you worry that's going to damage all of us? >> i mean, you know, we are like most of our colleagues, doing reporting and getting it right. >> now, right now, you have reporters out there trying to go back to sources, follow up on this, i assume you have everybody trying to follow up on this? >> yes, absolutely. >> ben smith, i appreciate talking to you. thank you very much. >> ever since robert mueller was appointed special counsel, he's been on the receiving end of countless twitter attacks from president trump. that's not the case now. >> the president's attorney, rudy giuliani is praising mueller, i commend mueller's office for correcting buzzfeed's false story that president trump encouraged cohen to lie. u.s. lawmakers aimed to hold

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here at cnn, we have been following the sudden and, at times, unexplained disappearance of the muslim uighur minority in china. >> as many as 2 million have been detained in the u.s. american lawmakers reintroduced a bill to hold china accountable. cnn's ivan watson met with uighurs who lost relatives, including their children. >> reporter: there's a lot of love in this apartment in virginia, between a mother and her children. but, something, someone, actually, is missing here.

in 2015, ethnic uighur, then a citizen of china, gave birth to triplets in egypt, where she had been living and working. barely a month later, she flew home with them to a region of western china. at the airport, chinese police detained her and took away her babies. >> i ask, where's my baby? please give me my baby. >> reporter: she says police jailed and interrogated her for the next three months. the day of her release, she went to the children's hospital to see her infants. >> the doctor said, okay, my baby can go outside. yes, he died. i said what? he died? your son died yesterday morning, 6:00. i don't believe it.

i scream why you kill my son. they say if you scream, i call police. stop. be quiet. they give me my baby, so cold. i say why he died? what happened? he died. >> reporter: cnn reached out for comment from the children's hospital, but did not receive a response. the surviving siblings have scars on their neckses. a cnn expert says they received instra veenious tubes for nutrition, at a time they should have been breast-feeding. she says her son's death was the beginning of a three-year nightmare, during which she was jailed two more times and tortured. >> they ask questions. when i say i don't know, they beat me so hard. >> reporter: during the second imprisonment, she was put in a crowded cell with 50 other

women, all ethnic uighurs from her ohm town. >> someone is my doctor. someone is my middle schoolteacher. someone, our neighbor. 80%, i know. >> reporter: the u.s. government alleges this is part of a much larger, frightening pattern. >> since april, 2017, chinese authorities detained at least 800,000 and possibly more than 2 million uighurs and members of other muslim minorities. >> reporter: beijing has gone from denying the alleged mass detentions to saying prisoners are getting vocational training. authorities took diplomats and journalists on a tour of some of the facilities. ♪ >> reporter: some detainees told journalists the camps reeducate

them. >> translator: all of us found we have something wrong with ourselves. the communist party and government offer this school to us for free. >> reporter: the climate of fear can be felt halfway around the world. >> i lost contact with my family in 2017. >> reporter: that was the last time you heard your mother's voice? >> yes. >> reporter: and your father? >> yes. >> reporter: this 21-year-old came to the u.s. three years ago to get a university education. gradually, his parents stopped sending tuition money and stopped calling him. then, last september, he made this desperate appeal on youtube. >> i have confirmed my father is in nine year prison and my mom in concentration camps. >> reporter: if your parents are detained, who is taking care of your 10-year-old brother? if you could say something to your parents, what would you say? >> i hope they are alive. >> reporter: afraid to go home,

he's been granted asylum in the u.s. many uighur students are similarly stranded here. >> they are terrified. they don't know what to do. they don't necessarily want to declare asylum in the united states because that reflects badly on their family, but they have been getting messages from the region that they shouldn't come back because they will be put in one of these camps. >> reporter: during her incarceration, she claims she saw fellow prisoners die in detention. >> one woman die i see. so much people die, have tortured or become crazy. >> reporter: they denounce criticism of the human rights record saying these terrorism measures protect more people from being devoured by extreermists. she and her children are now in the u.s. going through the asylum process. it's not easy. this 3-year-old suffers chronic

asthma attacks and she can't afford a pediatrician. one day, she tells me, she will tell her surviving children the chinese government killed their brother. ivan watson, cnn, washington. >> cnn reached out to regional authorities several times looking for comment and has not received a response. a series of storms moving across the u.s. millions of people are under a winter weather alert. ice and snow. we have the forecast next. 're mo a new apartment. yeah, it's pretty stressful. this music is supposed to relax me, though. ♪ maybe you'd mellow out a bit if you got geico to help you with your renters insurance. oh, geico helps with renters insurance? good to know. yeah, and they could save you a lot of money. wow, suddenly i feel so relieved. you guys are fired.

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it's winter and large parts of the u.s. bracing for severe weather. millions are under some form of a winter storm alert with large amounts of snow and ice expected through the weekend. >> travel already affected. nearly 2,000 flights already canceled according to a flight tracking site, flightaware.com. >> let's get details from derek van dam. >> you know, pennsylvania and new jersey, the governors there already declaring a state of emergency in advance of the

storm arriving tonight and sunday. this is going to create travel headaches and messes across the east coast. let's get to the details. in pennsylvania, alone, there are going to be speed restrictions, a ban on commercial traffic in new jersey. over 2,500 plows and spreaders ready to respond to the storm as it rolls through late this weekend. now, here are the latest figures of 100 million americans with a winter weather advisory that's either a storm warning or a winter weather advisory. that includes chicago. this is the south side of lake michigan. beautiful imagery to show the snow flakes starting to fall in the windy city. the winds will pick up so strong behind the system, they'll get lake-effect snow on the backside, once it finally passes. back to the graphics, you will be able to see, this is the radar. you can see how quickly the

storm is evolving and picking up steam. hone into chicago. you saw the live camera a moment ago. there's the snow moving in. that is going to bring travel delays, 6-9 inches anticipated for chicago today. the exact track of the storm is going to determine who gets the heaviest rain and snow and somewhere in between, that being sleet and ice. that's right, you heard it right. the potential for a full fledged ice storm outside the coastal areas of new england. that i-95 corridor, further inland, they could pick up half inch to three quarter inch of ice. bottom line, this is going to create travel problems on the ground and in the sky. nearly 2,000 cancellations today and into tomorrow at many east coast airports. if this wasn't enough, we have the potential for severe weather from mississippi to alabama into georgia. the potential for tornados,

damaging winds and hail. we have potential of two feet of snow. new york, 3-6. boston, 6-9. the potential for ice exists. look at that. this is incredible. this will bring many large population densities to a standstill if this materializes, which we believe it will. a big storm. lots to talk about. >> all right. thank you. >> keep our fingers crossed. before we go, a rare sighting of one of the largest sharks off hawaii. the great white, known as deep blue is 20 feet or six meters long and believed to be more than 50 years old. divers in that area swam close to it. >> my mouth is gaping. deep blue has a twitter account named for her and last spotted in mexico in july. she is enjoying life. >> would you do that? >> i would not.

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