insinuating the possibility they existed when the scandal first broke in may. with me now, the senior politics writer of u.s. news and world report. so david, we were planning on talking about something entirely different, but let s go with tapes, shall we. let s throw the tweets up on the screen so everyone can see and we re all on the same page. this is the news that dropped from the president today. with all the recently reported electronic surveillance, intercepted, unmasking and illegal leaking of information, i have no idea whether there are tapes or recordings of my conversations with james comey, but i did not make and do not have any such recordings. apparently he doesn t regret that original tweet, the tweet today was very clear and that, you know, he waited 41 days but this wasn t a game. that s all according to sarah huckabee sanders. your read. and right in the middle of the dropping of the senate health care bill. yes. which, you know, could potentially be a may
original tweet that we re talking about there, about possible tapes, was a threat of some sort or an intimidation of some sort. not that i m aware of. i don t think so. that that seems to me that president trump is still going to need to answer that question, because sarah huckabee sanders made it just about her awareness, didn t definitively say no. that s a great point. so i think that we are going to need to hear from president trump at some point about if indeed this was intended as a threat. and the other note on this, brooke, this is this is the normal course on this topic, and this shows you how uncomfortable people in the white house were with this. every time sean or sarah or another official was asked about this, we asked tons of times about the tapes, they really wanted to leave this just up to the president. you re going to hear from him. he said he s going to make an announcement. they rolled it out on his twitter feed. they didn t make this announcement from the p
challenging all of us to ask about whether the tapes exist. i mean it s just inappropriate for whatever. it s foolish because it opens the door to. ises. look there are so many foolish things he has done if the president has called comey i hadded in said you know how how much i admire you you were in a terrible position either you way you did the clinton thing you would have disqualified yourself from further service i have to plieltly ask you to please submit resignation many comby would have been done it no story. as an attorney if you were advising the president would you advise him to stop giving interviews stop talking public will the fiv. absolutely take his tweet, tweet- dsh twirt account but you won t lnlz. clients to listen to lawyers. other chts would simply sar look there is an ongoing fbi director investigation we are cooperating fully. we want justice to run its course and that would be the end of it. no that won be the end. they would do that publicly and th
sfwla any oval office. you also hear drinks being stirred and people walking. it was that ewe big-ticketous in the nixon white house. he didn t do any taping in 69 none in 70 but by 71 he started thinking i better start making tapes. he want to do for history sfwlp winston chfl he was thinking i ll do the 10 volume history he thought it was a nest egg for himself and ammunition against people he didn t like somebody who said he said something. he d say i have the transcript a little bit by trump did he wanted as ammunition against people who met him. it s plausible that donald trump wugd his dinner knowing the stakes were high as head of the fbi. it seems to me like a bluff. he would have had to put a taping system in very, very quickly and ma made it a priority here. there would be nothing illegal i talked to the professor about this it s not
a two party consent state of florida if he was recording something in florida he would have to have the consent of the person recording. washington and new york you can record. that s right and all presidents tape some amounts of international calls fdr had tapes works kennedy you mentioned in the package of cuban missile crisis. it s a record. but the phone is different if you re calling donald trump you got to think somebody is listening in on the white house phone but a private dinner one one-on-one what an intrusion of comey s privacy if he had done that. brian was mention attention the letter asking for the tapes unless it s a subpoena the white house doesn t have to go along with it. and it was nixon s refusal to hand them over the subpoena that that is what led to downfall. the big difference nixon didn t want anybody to know not henry kissinger not anyone. it was secret donald trump is kind of bragging you know i