♪ >> sean: this is a fox news alert on this friday night big bombshell news. the buzzfeed so-called bombshell you have been hearing about all day it is a dud. it is a fraud. it is a lie it is all fake news. so the professional trump haters and the fake news media they have yet done it again. and earlier today buzzfeed news reported a salacious story about michael cohen and president trump alleging that cohen briefed trump about a building project in moscow numerous times and that the president directed michael cohen to lie about the existence of that project when it already had been well-known. the story allegedly sourced two anonymous federal law enforcement officials. as it turns out this report

was total fake news. everyone at buzzfeed should be ashamed of themselves. special counsel's office issued a statement they wrote 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. not accurate. but are we really surprised? oh, and it even gets better. the editor and chief of buzzfeed is actually standing by the reporting, which the fbi, the special counsel completely refutes. watch this. >> the special counsel issued this very big statement. we are here know what you are talking about. >> do you stand by the reporting that you guys published which is, you know, a scoop that no one else has or has not confirmed. >> yes. as we wrote, we have two federal law enforcement officials, no game playing

with those titles who have told that's president trump directed michael cohen to lie to congress about negotiations to build the trump tower in moscow. >> sean: a bold stance from one of the leaders in fake news and it gets even worse. remember, this is the same buzzfeed news, supposedly, that published the phony hillary clinton bought and paid for steele russian dossier and they never ever tried to robert any of the details. and guess what? the latest devastating report contained no direct corroboration. istic watching this all day. and one of the buzzfeed reporters that broke the story even admitted he never actually saw the evidence that were referenced by his anonymous sources. watch this. >> you have two law enforcement sources that tell you that they have seen evidence. have you seen any of that other corroborating evidence? >> no, not seen it personally but the folks that we have talked to. the two officials we spoke

to are fully 100 percent read in. >> sean: two reporters for buzzfeed. the other reporter, responsible for this story is a guy by the name of jason leopold. he actually contradicts his co-author. watch this. >> now, your colleague, who you wrote the story with says that neither of you, when you talk about those documents that you guys haven't actually seen them. you haven't seen the documents, the texts, et cetera. how confident are you that these actually exist that this is true. >> i don't think that we have said we haven't seen them and we have been -- i will just say that we have seen documents. we have been briefed on documents. we are very confident. >> sean: you think that the two authors could get their story straight before appearing on national tv? this was known earlier in the day. now getting stories right is not a strength of jason leopold. now, in 2006, this so-called reporter, well the columbia journalism review all but pretty much called him a liar. the review wrote that he

would get stories completely wrong. we knew that today. and, quote: even make up stuff with stories that had no sources at all. well, it looks like he has done it again. all in a blatant effort to destroy president trump. it's sad. but, what is even really worse, even fake news cnn and conspiracy tv, msnbc, they go with the story but they are constantly -- they put in the caveat over and over again. this is what we heard all day long. unverified. but if it's true, with a level of hysteria and excitement, and then, of course, how many times have they mentioned impeachment? look at exactly what i mean. >> >> a story which has not been confirmed by nbc news. >> we should note cnn has not independently confirmed buzzfeed's reporting nor, for that matter has anyone else. >> an explosive new report that, if true,. >> if it's true. >> if true. >> if you believe the reporting. >> if this is confirmed. >> if all of this is true.

>> if true. >> if true. >> we don't have sourcing that confirms this story but we're not getting steered off of it. >> we don't know for sure. you said you couldn't corroborate this. >> if true. >> if true. this is potentially very big development. >> if it's true. >> sean: , if if, if, if true. now, despite all these red flags, many others in the mainstream media breathlessly, hysterically pushing this fake, firestone fraud lengtphonyfraudulent and e predicting trump's imminent impeachment as they always do for two years. take a look. >> still no reaction this morning from president trump report ties him directly to the very same offense for which the house of representatives moved to impeach richard nixon. >> if true, he would be guilty of subboarding purge obstruction of justice seementsdz seems like impeachable offense. exactly kind of thing that drove richard nixon from office. this report is a huge deal. and, you know, this is --

these are very credible reporters. we are deep in the realm now of credibly impeachable offenses. >> there are an awful lot of similarities. a couple of articles of impeachment against nixon and the elements of this story. >> impeachment would actually allow him to at least do what he loves which is to be and pretend he is the victim and the democrats are this and that but at the end of the day, i think the impeachment process, if there are, you know, this these facts are corroborated in today's report, i actually just don't see how congress can do anything else. >> sean: all right. you would think by now the so-called journalists in the echo chamber, the extension of the democratic party would have learned their lesson. they have been burn sod many times before in the last two years. remember, the short life hysteria about npr fake don jr. story. remember the hype surrounding michael cohen secret prom trip it never

happened. the guardian's reporting about paul manafort or when cnn fake news staffers were forced to resign after reporting fake news about our friend anthony scaramucci. look at the list we have compiled. fake story after fake story. now, "the washington examiner" put this together. 47 printed pages for one year alone against donald trump of fake news that they breathlessly report. unbridled. remember what i said at the beginning of the year hatred of the president. so many forced corrections. but then they just keep doing it again and again. how many anonymous sources hear, rumors, do you think any of this is good for the country? are they looking out for your security? , the economy, the better job for your children? a better future for our grand kids? you know what? right now one more notch in the old fake news belt. it is beyond disgusting. you just saw it all, all

day, people screaming impeach, impeach, impeach. this is all the hate that we get as i have been saying every second, every minute, every hour of every day from the democrats. the hate trump press and, of course, the deep state. now, all of a sudden today the hate trump media was concerned about obstruction of justice. that's what they wanted you to believe today. but they are the same people who gave hillary clinton a pass. it's been almost two straight years of never ending, conspiracy theories. fake news hatred. not just for the president though, but also for the people that voted for this president. i have said it since 2007 and 2008. journalism in america is dead. and it is buried. and driven by an unprecedented pathological hatred for the president. the bias in this country has become more important than what is fact and what is reporting, rumor is more important than sources, as

reckless speculation rules the day. we told you at the beginning of the year on this program. we will always fight back. we want the country to be safer, more secure. we want every american family prosperous and we are going to look out for you, the american people, because you deserve better than what the rest of the media is offering. which is why we actually cover, for example, the crisis at our southern border. now, when the fake news industry is too busy with their fake stories and conspiracy theories about the president, well, today, nearly 400 migrants were apprehended by border patrol at once after all crossing illegally. the situation is urgent. it serious. yet, someone still needs to remind the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, that we're in the middle of a government shutdown. her detachment and heir indifference, her lack of self-awareness is beyond shocking. today speaker pelosi and other top democrats once again tried to skip out of town a week long international excursion which would have guaranteed the furloughed employees

some 800,000 of them don't get paid again. now, this time they were going to take a commercial plane just for show after the president foiled her first attempt to leave the country on your dime in a u.s. military aircraft. but now, after her new plan released sparking security concerns pelosi's overseas voyage has once again been postponed indefinitely. enough to, maybe she will accept what is the president's daily invitation to negotiate. safety, security, and our country. and the government shutdown. spokesperson for the speaker actually blamed the president. of course, fort leak. an allegation the white house has called a flat out lie. so, here we are today, 28 days into a government shutdown and the speaker of the u.s. house of representatives, the most powerful democrat in the country, is trying desperately, once again, to leave town. refusing to negotiate yet again. remember, she took her lengthy tropical vacation at the beginning of the shutdown. dozens of other democrats, oh, they had a luxurious

vacation paid for by lobbyists in a chartered aircraft to puerto rico. while pelosi and schumer sent aides to negotiate with the vice president of the united states? instead of helping the furloughed employees and creating more security that they did support four years ago? so, tonight we have got to ask some really important obvious questions. does speaker pelosi really want an answer solution. is she really working at all? is she now compromised by the radical left wing of her party and scared to death to even talk to the president? does she care about the 90% of heroin in this country coming across our southern border? or the gangs or the cartels or the human trafficking? she won't even talk to the angel moms and dads that went outside her office this week that have lost their children because of illegal immigration? now, the president, he didn't go on vacation. he has been here the whole time inviting democrats

every day. he is trying to fulfill not only a campaign promise but he is trying to keep the country safe. trying to prevent the drugs from coming into the country. remember, maybe the 1% or 2% of those people that enter the country illegally, they are criminals and murders have happened and worse. and, you know, how many sexual assaults? how many violent assaults? now, the president tweeted today, i will be making a major announcement concerning the humanitarian crisis on our southern border. and the shutdown tomorrow afternoon at 3:00 p.m. live from the white house. oh, he is working on saturday. in the meantime, president trump is ready, will, able to negotiate and has been since day one of the shutdown. democrats have offered nothing except a dollar. no negotiations, no compromise. no time with the president. they just sit back and do nothing. hundreds of thousands of government employees are not receiving their pay. the speaker is having a meltdown about not getting to take a government funded trip on your dime. and even worse, thousands of

lives have been lost, thousands more devastated by the flow of illegal drugs, human trafficking, the opioid crisis. the gang activity across the southern border and nancy pelosi complaining about having to postpone a government-funded trip. that's where her mind is tonight. fear not, let not your heart be troubled. speaker pelosi, while americans suffer, while we're not safer, well, your close friends in the mainstream media,they are cheering you every step of the way. you know, just like last week manufactured crisis. democrats say it the media says it they are like tied at the hip. take a look. >> president trump is coming face to face with the reality opposition party controlling the house. this morning house speaker nancy pelosi threw him a hard fast ball. >> speaker pelosi playing hard ball. >> you could say she is playing hard ball. >> house speaker pelosi flexing her constitutional muscle. >> speaker of the house nancy pelosi is flexing her muscles. >> a bold power play the speaker of the house tonight is sended a pointed message to president trump. >> it is a power play and

nancy pelosi is revealing that she has a ph.d. in needling president trump. >> she knows where to go exactly where to hurt him where it hurts. >> this is political genius. i give nancy pelosi credit for her political sense. >> it's kinds of bad ass from nancy pelosi. she was showing that she is in charge. >> nancy pelosi, i mean, what a bad ass. >> sean: you know what? maybe it's time for the speaker of the house to actually start listening tout american people. start solving problems. stop appealing to your radical base. in other words, really simply, you need to do your job. the president, his door is wide open. go negotiate a deal. maybe you will get some of the things you say you want. secure the borders, reopen the government. and for goodness sakes get out of your i've riff tower. if not the president he will do it without you. let's not lose sight of the fact that what we're fighting for don't be fooled by all the trump haters, the crisis at the southern border is not manufactured. in fact, as can you see a brand new migrant caravan marching toward our southern

border as we speak. earlier today thousands of migrants poured into southern mexico after thortsdz there just left the gates at the border wide open. mexican border guards didn't show up until sunrise actually after sunrise. so now while mexico may be embracing open borders, of the president is continuing to stand strong, stay on the job, waiting to negotiate, waiting to keep his promise to secure the border of this country. this is about life and death. he tweeted today, quote: another big caravan is heading our way. very hard to stop without a wall. and the fact is we have an actual crisis on our southern border. just look at this video from border patrol. and the huma sector in arizona where nearly 400 migrants 57 prehad ended at once today after crossing illegally. that is not manufactured. that is the reality. we need these physical barriers, which are effective, all aclose cross the world. remember yesterday, also in arizona a grow up of migrants were caught trying to tunnel under a wall. but, because there was a wall, they couldn't just walk across and flee law

enforcement. and once they tunneled through, they were promptly caught. oh, the wall works. now, don't expect to hear any of this from the hate trump media as you can see from tonight's buzzfeed huge massive embarrassment the fake news epidemic has never been worse. by the way, it all surrounds one thing. their hatred of all things donald trump. and by the way, trump supporters. and that's why they are all completely ignored what was major news that we had this week about the deep state, about fisa abuse. and meanwhile we have been one of the only programs reporting these latest developments, latest, needless to say, it was a bad week for some of those embedded inside of our government that don't like the president. we learned under james comey's watch is general counsel we learned this week james baker is now under a criminal investigation. and according to john solomon's reporting and don't forget andrew mccabe, his deputy, is also under a criminal investigation. and john solomon pointing out that james comey and

others were all briefed about the phony dossier back in august. they were told by bruce ohr, according to his sworn testimony that we only got this week then he told all of them in the fbi, all of them in the state department, oh, hillary paid for it. and christopher steele hates the president, oh, and, by the way, they put this thing together and i wouldn't trust it. but in spite of that warning he went ahead anyway. as the gramly graham memo pointed out, the bulk of information was used in the fisa warrant. that would be a conspiracy to commit a frauds against the court. we also know andrew wiseman and another mueller investigator, they were also briefed on these warnings think knew it was biased and unverified. hillary paid for lies to influence the 2016 election. still, mueller used it as a basis of his investigation but never investigated hillary who bought it. now, we have been warning you for months, this is the biggest abuse of power

corruption scandal in modern american history. and by the way the news media can be biased in other ways. like what they don't report. joining us now the author of the case against the democrats, democratic house impeaching donald trump harvard law professor alan dershowitz, fox news contributor sara carter. professor, you know, what i really like about you is even in your new book, even though you have been ostracized from the martha's vineyard crowd. i'm sorry about that. i know it's actually been hurtful to you. you just continue to point out criminalizing political differences, waiting for truth in fact. and you see this happen now. i got 47 printed pages for 2017 alone. fake news stories that the media has peddle you had hysterically to the american public. to me, it's a danger to the country. >> look, i agree. the american civil liberties union is dead in the water. civil libertarians don't

seem to be concerns about these issues. i have a responsibility as a 50-year civil libertarianian to speak out about these issues whether it involves north korea or president trump. look, on the buzzfeed thing, before the announcement was made by the special counsel's office. i posted a piece on the new york daily news raises all cineldz of skepticism. asking hard questions about the buzzfeed report. it did not seem credible to me. particularly the arguments that it's like richard nixon. it's not like richard nixon. richard nixon, on tape, told his sub board nants directly to lie about criminal activities. break-s in, et cetera. and here, of course, there is no credible allegation that there are emails or eyewitnesses. and i pointed that out in my article and now my view has been confirmed, look, i have to tell you my views on this investigation have been confirmed over and over and over again.

i have been right and many of the get trump any cost people have been wrong over time. so, i have think it's about time that we start substituting -- stop substituting wishful thinking. you know, it's witchful thinking get trump at any cost wish to find evidence to impeach him. they substitute wishful thinking for careful factual analysis and victims of the american public. we have a right to be informed of the facts. i think credit is due to mueller and his team for putting out a statement rebutting this and saying even though it might help his investigation people to believe it, it's not true so i give two and a half cheers now for robert mueller and his team. >> sean: he could have done it many other times but he has not. >> two and a half cheers. >> sean: his team has, you know, you don't hire hillary

clinton's attorney as part of your team or strzok and page and then erase their phones or andrew weissmann with his traffic record either. sarah, let me he go to you. the mantra all day not not verified but if true. this was coming mostly from the media and democratic party. the word impeachment mentioned all day. the american people fed a heavy dose of lies all day long. but, this keeps happening again and again. >> yeah, sean, this is nothing new. it's unfortunate. disinformation campaign. let's talk about these buzzfeed reporters. they can't even agree whether they saw the documents or not. one says they never saw documents. the other one comes out and says yeah, well, we didn't really say that we saw the documents. so, from the get-go, we know there was problem with this story. i agree with alan dershowitz, the same thing when i read this story. they never actually attributed anything to the documents. it seemed like their

sourcing was very filmsy. everything about that story seems false. but this disinformation does an extraordinary damage to our national security and to the administration. think about what's been going on. i mean, the trip,ing my calicoen supposedly took to prague that we found out was a lie. stories over and over again filled with disinformation. yet, the stories that john solomon and i and several other recorded on bruce ohr were based on fact. we had multiple. >> sean: blockbuster so far. this week's reporting. >> absolutely. >> sean: on top of everything you have done for a year and a half. >actual sources and multiple documents were verified before any of those subjects were published. it was not heard anyone else in the media at all. hardly at all. you didn't hear about it on any of the other networks. there is something very wrong here. this is detrimental to our democracy and to our country and the american people are

being ill served. something really needs to change. >> sean: it's what they don't report, you're right, all the stories that you have broken and, again, we have verified everything. if we get one thick wrong won't be obliterated by the opposition party. >> on thor thing. >> sean: yes. >> on the ohr thing as a civil libertarian, i'm so depress descres that i have had ohr would have told everybody who had to know this was a report that shouldn't be trust you had. is that it was a report done by a biased source. and then to smith for request for a warrant to the fisa court without disclosing that information, it's so unethical and so improper. you know, it's an exparty proceeding. that means you have a special obligation to be truthful. look, only 1/3 of 1% of fisa applications are turned down. and that's why it's so

important for the prosecution to be credible with the fisa court. and this information about ohr is devastating because it demonstrates that they did it deliberately. they knew the information and they purposefully withheld it and that requires a very careful investigation by bar association and by the general -- by counsel. >> sean: wouldn't this be with that knowledge ahead of time and the bulk of information and the fisa warrants everybody that's signed down for that, wouldn't that be a conspiracy to commit fraud on a court biomyth important information like it was paid for by hillary and then go in as this gospel truth having never verified and corroborated at all? >> i think it might constitute a contempt of the court. whether or not we can find a criminal statute requires looking at the statute. i don't want to criminalize political differences.

but i think it's a contempt of the court when you deliberately and willfully withhold information from the court and, therefore, mislead the court into granting a warrant. >> sean: even if i had you as my attorney i think i would be in jail. sara, let me give you the last word. >> i would get you out, sean. >> when you weaponize the courts to go after a political opponent, there is something drastically wrong and something that should not be allowed, is not acceptable in our system of justice. and it's the reason why so many people come to this country. and if we break away from our basic foundation, then we might as well give up what we stand for and our principles that this country was founded on, sean, that's unacceptable. >> sean: this is hurting the country. the news media will never ever, i think, possible, get away from the branding nau of fake news. i think this seals it.

professor, thank you. sara carter thank you. a host now of life, liberty a and levin. i call him the great one mark levin. mark, i will let you go, but the one thing i will stay to start is how fascinating today democrats and the media actually cared about, quote, obstruction of justice when they have ignored, let's see, the deleted subpoena emails acid waring hard drives and smashing up devices and removing sim cars. only if it's trump do they get worked up about something. >> never will impress them. i want to make a point here, sean, about mueller's office. they sat there all day long while this false reporting was going on, while the president was being smear you had. while the reporters so-called and friendly democrats with capitol hill saying this sim peachable offense. they won't be held to account. they won't apologize. they will continue on tomorrow until the next great fake story. i want to say this about

mr. mueller's office. they didn't do anybody any favor. i will tell you why they issued their statement around 7:30 p.m. eastern time tonight. because i was on the radio, among other things, demanding that the attorney general of the united states, mr. whitaker, the deputy attorney general of the united states mr. rosenstein, immediately launch a leak investigation because if these reporters, these two counsels were right. of course they weren't. if but they were. the only place these documents, texts and emails could have come from is mr. mueller's office. they issued their statement 7:30, give or take tonight, eastern time. not because the story was accurate. it was inaccurate. but because if you conduct a leak investigation the sit down mr. weissmann and make him undertake a lie detector test and ask him if he has ever talked to the press about anything, about any subject or any of those individuals in that office, including mr. mueller, i suspect a number of people

would be mad. and so the fact is, mr. mueller's office did not want a leak investigation u there was was every basis to have a leak investigation if, in fact, the justice department believed this story was ache rout. so they didn't release this rare statement just because they are good people. they released it to cover their asses because they don't want a leak investigation again. not related to this case in if i can which is absurd but think don't want to be asked about it. >> sean: let me ask you this. i think this is really important here. you know, under -- we learned this week that the general counsel under james comey, mr. intelling grill at this' fbi is now under a criminal investigation; we learned hills deputy director is under criminal investigation. >> for leaking. >> sean: we now know everybody in the justice department these figures which we call the deep state we have all learned as we learned with professor

dershowitz about hillary pairing for the dossier and steel hating the president and knot being verified or corroborated. if it became the basis of the fisa warrants all theist people that sign dollars on to it. including by the way mueller's office knew all of this. one thing, remember, bruce ohr, the messages we had, after christopher steele is fired for lying and leaking, he is trying to feed mueller information through bruce ohr. and i'm wondering. >> but you know. >> sean: go ahead. >> professor dershowitz is right, the way you handle this is through some kind of an evidentiary hearing, a contempt hearing. and so the question is, sean, where are these fisa judges? why aren't they holding hearings? why aren't they getting to the bottom of this. they all know this information is -- they all know that a contempt was commits you had against the court. which means the justice system. there is simply no question about this now. serious question about the

functioning of the federal judiciary in this respect and fisa court judges. i want to get back to today. the media have disgrace you had themselves. tomorrow they said if we said the steer is true you don't go with a story if you don't know if it's true and can be verified. this has been going on since before president trump was president. it's unique to him and disgrace. they were talking about impeaching him. indicting his kids. i think out american people believe in fair nufs and justice. the free press doesn't believe in a free press. over at cnn and ntsb and other outlets they need to clean house. until executives get off the high horses trying to take out the president of the united states, these anchors, these hosts, these reporters, they are a joke. they drag down out entire media and they drag down the country and they did it again today. shane shane ohio news >> sean: i put it on my website hannity.com. 47 printed pages of fake

news stories in one year of -- one year period of time in 2017. 47 printed pages. what they do is they don't even -- they just go from one hysterical report to the next. they are never held accountable. it's hurting the country, mark. >> it's hurting the country. and it's all intended to drive towards impeevment. it's even more. they are dragging down our radio public by dragging down our president. this is our president. you want to try to take him out, wait for the next elections. you don't trimpleg to do all of thieves nasty things all the lies and all the rest. you don't call our president hitler and stalin and a racist and a thousand other things. and you don't run with every phony story that comes across your desk. it's yellow journalism. it's as low as i have ever seen. it's going to continue to get lower unless time warner and comcast and all these other major corporations get

control of their newsrooms and clean them up. by the way can't you find a better photo of that one you are putting on tv? >> sean: is that what you want to talk about? life, liberty, and levin sunday night. unbelievable. we will sigh you soon. mark levin. the white house responds. when we come back, the president's attorney, jay sekulow reacts to all of the day's events and breaking news straight ahead _

>> sean: fox news alert. rudy giuliani i commend bob mueller's office for correcting the fake buzzfeed story that trump encouraged co-ton lie. i ask the press to take heed

that their hysterical desire to destroy this president has gone too far. they pursued this with without criminal analysis all day #fake news. we go now to the president's attorney jay sekulow, also the chief council for the center for law and justice. >> hi, sean. >> sean: this is how it went all day, jay. well, we haven't verified it ourselves but, if true, and this intot democrats and the media but, if true and then they go to impeachment. this has gone on two straight years false report after false report. conspiracy theory after conspiracy theory. i think one of the other networks i counted in the course of an hour 17 or 19 times they said if this was true, if this happened, if these facts could be verified, which we haven't been able to verify, this would be a crime that's like saying if someone robbed a bank it would be crime. if someone did rob a bank it would be a crime.

i think it's important for a moment to reflect on this was actually a good day for justice and a very, very good day for the president of the united states also important to say and focus on what the special counsel's office actually said. sean, my job as the president's lawyer legal time is to analyze these team and to respond to what was going on. this frenzy was that going on the last 24 hours. >> let me start with what he actually said. this is from bob mueller's office. by the way the first time they have spoken publicly about a false news story. this is what they said buzzfeed's description of specific statements to the special counsel's office that's one and characterize of documents, that's two. and, testimony obtained by this office, regarding michael cohen's congressional testimony are not accurate. so it's three things. it's the description of the specific statements to the special counsel's office. the characterization of the documents that were the basis upon which the media speculation started. and the testimony obtained

by the office regarding michael coyen cooperation with the special counsel's office. all of that is reported in the report today are not correct. this isn't coming from me. it's not coming from the american center for law and justice. it's not coming from my 4r5u678. it's coming from the special counsel's bob mueller's office. rudy giuliani is right in saying this is the right thing to do and i'm glad they did it where does that leave us? so, sean, here is what i think this is. this is a warning sign to everybody that the speculation, with no factual backup is dangerous for our republic. and, look, i have been dealing with this, as you know, for more than 24 hours. about 24 hours. actually, it started last night about 10:00. so about an hour from now. and, the end result of this was the right thing. it took us 24 hours to get the right thing. but, i think it's important for everyone that's watching to realize that the speculation and the media anxiousness to report out of the gate has got to stop.

but there is also another message in all of this. you said this in your monologue. people say is there any action being taken on the people that are doing wrong deeds, illegal contact? well, let's look at it. james baker the general counsel of the fbi is under investigation for, what, leaking to the media. andrew mccabe. >> sean: let me just say something. jay, we just learned that this week comey's fbi, you have his deputy andrew mccabe is under a criminal investigation. now the general counsel did. >> for leaking. >> this is important for leaking they are not supposed to be doing that, sean and they are leaking documents and testimoniable 5u9d least statements. that's why they are fired and under investigation. we have got to focus on that. >> sean: false reporting, which we have documented and i believe the president is forever branded rightly so

fake news as such and for them to ever get their credibility back, i don't think it's even possible. look we learned about baker. we know about andrew mccabe and strzok and page they were even are appointed to mueller's team along with jeanne wray who used to be attorney and pit bull andrew weissmann. here's my question, bruce ohr we learned under oath and released in testimony this week that he warned everybody about the phony dossier. he warned that clinton paid for it he warned that christopher steele had a hatred for the president. he warned it wasn't verified or corroborated. but it still became the bulk of information. >> yeah, i have always asked the question of what about to the evidence that was gathered during the course of the proceedings, the investigations that were outside legal parameters not appropriate, nowft legal. because it's all from the fruit of the poisonous tree.

bruce over did tell the higher up at the fbi my gosh he was number four. dossier was biased and paid for by political operatives. his wife worked for the political operative company that put the dossier together. there is also simultaneous with his mea culpa from bruce ohr is r. text messages that's been released between bruce ohr and christopher steele the so-called british spy. that is a plea for bruce ohr and chris steele for steele to come back to work to the fbi right after james comey is fired. now, ask yourself this question: why was christopher steele fired by the fbi in the first place? and do you know what the answer to that one is? a leak to the media. so this is -- look, i will legit macy of the inquiry from the outset is incredible. it's the consistency of getting information out here. again, i'm glad thought office -- the special counsel's office today

issued this very clear three-part statement and analyze it and some of these networks trying to pars it, it's long trying to. what's the consistent theme through this? >> he started leaking as well? james comey. he said he gave his notes a with a nfrgs he had with the president of the united states to a friend of his to leak the press so he begins the appointment of a special counsel which low and behold happens. that's what i wants everybody focusing on tonight. a consistent pattern of leaking u, it's not the f.b.i. fbi someone explain this to me there are emails or text messages miss from the time that they were at the special counsel's office. the resource officer, at the special counsel's office says well, we didn't really check the material. one phone was left and the other phone was recirculated

and no one checked the text messaging. so, look, again, i am glad that bob mueller's office issued a statement. it was called four. it was due. it was the appropriate thing to do. but, there are a lot of questions that are still not answered by the activities that have taken place here. now, again, it's a good day -- great day for the president and great day for the country. not such a great for the media. i call friends of mine in the media today to watch this be very careful here. be very careful. unverified. we told you that -- >> -- one yeah we saw the evidence the other side they didn't. of course they released the dossier without any corroboration. here's the dangerous part and the serious part of all of this. it's hurting the country. this is an obsession. >> yes. >> sean: congress. if verified, impeachment, impeachment, impeachment. this has been two years the media thinking on on struxz

of erin justice is a really serious issue while ignore the gleetion of subpoena emails u bleach bit. hammers, sim tarred moved. manufacturing crisis. the media says manufactured crisis again and again. it's almost as if they want this to happen so bad they cannot -- they cannot get over this obsession which really is hate and really hurts the country. >> well, look, this impacts the president, the office of the presidency and the entire country. let me say something. if you looked at the other networks, which i know you don't do. in my job i have got to look at all of it, right? >> sean: i'm sorry that you have to do that that's punishment. >> special counsel's office challenges buzzfeed statement regarding the president directing someone to lie. that's all i needed to say for the day. there you go. >> sean: jay sekulow president for the president center for law and justice. whewhen we come back joe and

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>> sean: moments ago the office of special counsel issued a statement refuting the claims made in buzzfeed's so-called bombshell report on the president, it has breaking news all day all over the media. they ran with it. if true, if true, this is going to happen. impeachment, impeachment. this is happening almost every other week now for two years. first time mueller's office has publicly pushed back on a phony fake news published article. but it's just the latest in a long series of botched,

fake stories published by the hate trump media. it's hurting the country. joining us with more national security strategist dr. sebastian gorka and on the phone former u.s. attorney joe degeneral. have a joe, i will start with you tonight with your legal background, you have been very forceful in pointing out there is evidence and another narrative about the deep state they have run with every force story your reaction to this latest example. >> i was very proud that the president borrowed my phrase dirty cop the other day and he honored me. what you saw happen today with bob mueller issuing his statement is very simple. it's called the barr effect. the bill barr effect. because bill barr will be the attorney general in a matter of days, mueller was forced to issue this

statement for this very simple reason. as soon as bill barr is sworn, in he have a meeting with mr. mueller. he will get a full briefing on the stalls of all the investigation and the first question bill barr was going to ask was that story true? that buzzfeed published? and mr. mueller would say no, it wasn't, mr. attorney general. and bill barr would have said why didn't you refute it? and mueller would have said well, mr. attorney general, we don't do that. and mr. barr would have said well, mr. mueller, you're fired. >> sean: you really believe? i know there are people that i know -- i don't know bill barr. i don't know william barr. i know what he wrote about the investigation earlier, but i also know that apparently his family and the mueller family are friendly together, which is fine. but there are people like yourself that are showing such confidence in him.

why? >> because i have known bill barr for 30 years. he actually asked that i be appointed the independent counsel in the clinton passport file search during the daddy bush administration and i was pointed an independent counsel. bill barr is a man of great legal and ethical stature. i can assure you that the scenario that i just painted for you is exactly what would have happened and it is exactly why mueller issued his statement tonight. he knows that bill barr would be furious. if he knew that mueller knew a false story was out there and it was left unrefuted. you are now seeing what it means when a real attorney general shows up in town. this is the new sheriff. >> sean: wow. what a powerful statement.

sebastian gorka? >> i can only back up joe digenova, bill barr is a quiet professional and i just spoke to somebody who worked with him at the doj. he is exactly the right man for the job. but with regards to this story today, sean, it's incredibly important that we look at what the media did with it. that's the -- no on buzzfeed ran this garbage story because we know it's the gutter press. the story is how the media lapped it up and used it for a day to call for the impeachment of the president. that's the story like pap leavian dogs they were given the bell and they reacted with a calls for impeachmen impeachment. today at 7:3, the president of the united states was

utterly vindicated. this is fake news. this is the state of the media. they are not independent. we don't have a free media, sean. we have private sector propaganda and today the president was vindicated. >> sean: i think there is going to be a lot more of that vindication, dr. gorka. fox news contributor, by the way. thank you for being with us. we always love having you joe digenova, thank you. when we come back we actually want to deposit pew advertise all of you in this audience and we want to get your thoughts on all of this. we are going to tell you how in our final thoughts come up straight ahead on tonight's big breaking news. ♪ ♪

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hate trump media. the most corrupt in the media outlet and tell us why. and your answers right here on this program.kikikikikikikikiki. ♪ >> tucker: this is a fox news alert. just moments ago the office of the special counsel, robert mueller, denied a report that ran last night in buzzfeed. that story said that president trump had ordered michael cohen to lie to congress. the story set off a full day of speculation in washington for members of congress and the media that impeachment and indictment might be imminent. now, to repeat, the special counsel is denying the substance of that story. welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." this is moving very fast. a remarkable day. trace gallagher has more on what is happening. trace? >> and this really is the bombshell, tucker. breaking right nows