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>> also in the hot seat rex tillerson, the first in a series of four hearings expected to cover donald trumps did, for affairs and the alleged links between trump administration and russia. secretary to listen has not testified publicly since his confirmation hearing in january. that hearing dominated by the secretarys own potential links to russia when he was ceo of exxon mobil. >> kim jong-il and threatening to take out new york city. the intimidation tactic referring to a january tweet by our...

Is calling out for that. it show why there is a credibility gap. >> the tapes dont belong to the president of the united states. since watergate, the tapes are public property. i thought one of the most interesting moments of the hearing is when james comey saying lordy, i hope there are tapes. if there are tapes, they will come out eventually. they do not belong to the president. even if he was involved in installing and taping. whatever is on the tapes would become public. im skeptical than it...

Theres no, hey, im hoping. you and i are friends. hey, i hope this happens but you got to do your job. thats what he told comey and for this guy as a politician to write a memo i felt threatened. he felt threatened? he didnt do anything. >> hey, thats what he told comey. now the president says that is not what he told comey. hes saying that he didnt express any hope on this, congressman. >> well heres i think, he said 100% hes ready to testify under oath. comeys already testified under oath. the...

Way we could all get a word in. he said 100% im going to give you my income taxes, 100%. 100%. weve never seen them. lets call his bluff now, and lets remember, as my friend mr. rogers suggested to us, what happened to the investigation into the undue influence of a foreign country in our electoral process? but at the same time this has gone from an intelligence committee setting to judiciary committee setting. >> theyre doing that with -- >> if i could just finish, if i could just finish. why i...

Theres no ambiguity in it. theres no, hey, im hoping. you and i are friends. hey, i hope this happens but you got to do your job. thats what he told comey and for this guy as a politician to write a memo i felt threatened. he felt threatened? he didnt do anything. >> hey, thats what he told comey. now the president says that is not what he told comey. hes saying that he didnt express any hope on this, congressman. >> well heres i think, he said 100% hes ready to testify under oath. comeys alread...

Way we could all get a word in. he said 100% im going to give you my income taxes, 100%. 100%. weve never seen them. lets call his bluff now, and lets reremember, as my friend mr. rogers suggested to us, what happened to the investigation into the undue influence of a foreign country in our electoral process? but at the same time this has gone from an intelligence committee setting to judiciary committee setting. >> theyre doing that with -- >> if i could just finish, if i could just finish. why...

>> and with the nixonian prop. >> i think it was trying to get to the facts. we know from comeys testimony, this is a person overtly political, person who instead of raising his concerns that he allegedly had, he did not do that. what he decided to do was leak a memo to the press, to "new york times." so we have somebody who was universally, i would say in a bipartisan fashion, people had distinct issues with his credibility. >> real quick. >> the simple fact is the president was likely bluffing...

Hes making suggestions that there are tapes. comey better hope there -- all this kind of stop and then -- >> greg: that timing is in question but -- >> juan: it came from the deputy attorney general, oh, no, the fbi was just out of control and comey is a bad guy. oh, my gosh. and then he said its the russia thing. thats the reason i fired him. comey had a reason to say hey, lets get this on the record and if theres tapes, lets hope so. if theres work product, those tapes would be work product. o...

Thats either the biggest bluff ever or there arent tapes because if there are, number one, they dont belong to president trump, they belong to the government which post nixon and watergate is a change in terms of who the tapes belong to. eventually they get into the hands of the public. or, you know, or he has tapes. i dont think he does. >> i lean toward i dont think he does. we dont know. we would like to find out. it is only a month since that tweet. feels like a year, i will say that. the po...

Hes making suggestions that there are tapes. comey better hope there -- all this kind of stop and then -- >> greg: that timing is in question but -- >> juan: it came from the deputy attorney general, oh, no, the fbi was just out of control and comey is a bad guy. oh, my gosh. and then he said its the russia thing. thats the reason i fired him. comey had a reason to say hey, lets get this on the record and if theres tapes, lets hope so. if theres work product, those tapes would be work product. o...