BuzzFeed News stands by report despite Mueller pushback

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BuzzFeed News is standing by its report that President Trump directed his former lawyer Michael Cohen to lie to Congress, despite special counsel Robert Mueller issuing a rare statement to dispute it.

“We stand by our reporting and the sources who informed it, and we urge the Special Counsel to make clear what he’s disputing,” the website’s editor-in-chief, Ben Smith, said in a statement Friday.

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