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Conversations with james comey, but i did not make and do not have any such recordings. earlier in the broadcast, i said bluff. i said the president was bluffing. i may have been perhaps too fair. it would seem as if the president may have been lying all along about the existence of these tapes. >> no, hes just wasting -- he wasted the countrys collective time speculating over whether these tapes existed or not. it ooh eggs a sad day when you cannot depend on the presidents word. my advice would...

Pretty revealing of the limits of donald trumps former life skills now thatss dealing with politics and government officials. whose bluff got called? the congressional investigators said put up or shut up. they sent a note to the white house saying, if there are tapes, send them our way. to the extent trump was using the threat of the potential of tapes as an intimidation tactic of comey, he wasnt thinking that all the way through, because the minute he even raised the possibility, it became a p...

Those 30 lawyers, thats just the legal team and there are 100 fbi agents digging into all sorts of avenues from, you know t business relationships of people around donald trump, to the collusion question, to this obstruction of justice matter so its intensifying. i want to say one i think this about the tapes issue. if it was a bluff and its clear it was a bluff by donald trump, i wonder what the implications are going to be for foreign leaders who are watching this president. what does his word...

Interests do not want that. >> the russian military, at least in the open media, prudent controlled media is allowing things to be said. that might be part of the bluff, but the problem is that things can spin out of control very quickly. one trigger pulled, and think single while. so the russian leader is playing a multilevel game. so they are much more upfront, and theres so much that can go wrong here. look beyond the russians, and iran. iran is at the forefront. >> bill: thank you, thanks fo...

And iraq through syria, and lebanon where we have been operating for decades now. so if you look at that and take it a bit further, you can see the influence that iran is trying to have. tell us about this and what we need to understand about that strategy and how we fit into that. >> you made it out exactly righ right. it is, the most important thing that we in the west have to recognize is that they have their strategy, and they have a master plan. we look at syria and worry about the russia, ...

Going on? >> this is one of donald trumps actual whips. to focus it on china. its chinas problem. 23 million north koreans. when that place collapses, theyre going north. theyre not going south. theyre going that way. its chinas problem to solve. >> youre right. it can be. what if they dont move? what if they continue to play check? >> we let them for eight years. our president called their bluff. they said youre going to suffer. the chinese like to make it everybody elses problem. >> i agree wi...

Through these tweets. if im rod rosenstein i cant be happy im being targeted in this way but i dont know whether its just, you know, sort of bluff and noise or whether it is reflective of the presidents real thinking about rosenstein. we know only that hes unhappy about this investigation. the question you asked earlier its interesting that when the story was reported in the paper yesterday the possibility that hes under investigation for obstruction his lawyer issued a statement that said this ...

President trump was considering firing bob mueller. and the white house spokesperson put out a statement yesterday, last night, indicating that mr. ruddy should not be talking publicly, questioned his sources, but didnt actually say that what mr. ruddy says was wrong. >> right. >> they didnt deny the report that president trump actually was considering firing bob mueller. so, look, you know, im not going to put it past the trump administration to do something wildly unpredictable. but what i do ...

To the country ahead of their allegiance to the party. and certainly one way they could do that would be to ensure that bob mueller has the independence that he needs to conduct a thorough investigation and actually get to the bottom of what happened in the context of the 2016 election. >> we will see if this bluff, as it were, is called. thanks for joining me. >> thank you, chris. coming up, while trying to get to the bottom of jeff sessions refusal to answer questions, senator kamala harris ...

Pulled in front of a hearing himself. what really matters is the hearings and the dates on them, the memos and dates on them and what they say and, of course, the question of the tapes, it sounds like it was a bluff. you know, the indications were getting from the white house and the secret service is that there is no taping system and, of course, the president has been known in talks with journalists to say hes taping something or threatened to have tapes leaked. its usually a bluff as far as i...