better hope there are no tapes of conversations before he starts leaking to the press. i don t see that as a threats. everything is so overblown let s go back to the blackmail this whole blackmail ning is utter nonsense this they were afraid flynn was going to be blackmailed that s east 80 sally yates g guess to flynn and say by the way we know that you had this phone call with the russians no more blackmail. it s over. so why are they talking about blackmail why are they putting the responsibility on other people it s the easiest theng to indiana the blackmail you just tell him the russia beens have nothing over him. that tweet is a good example how we are normalizing behavior that would have been seen as completelily outrageous from by any other president. i don t know if you want to call it a threat. i think it s certainly a taunt. it is. it s inappropriate for a president to behave that way towards one who was until 48 hours ago a very senior government official. i don t kn
tonight if he does have a recording system. he talked about in previous sort of stations of his lives how he likes to record phone calls back when he was the at trump tower et cetera. this is of course an entirely different matter np this would be nixonian if he is recording phone calls. certainly alarmed democrats on capitol hill senate democrats house democrats sent a letter to the white house. the office here the chief counsel sheer and said look if there are recordings must turn them over this is part of something we would like to know about here. at the end of the day we ll find out going forward if this is something the president just short of throughout as a diversion or actually recording these conversations. but the director with the fbi director said look i have nothing to hide. he told our own pamela brown our pamela brown about he has nothing to hide. the reality will the white house release those tapes if if serves their interests? at this point they re not saying but i ca
back thement kersten power aimed carpenter be jeffrey toobin phil mudd backup the whole notion of tapes in the white house. obviously we have been done this road before. is that legal now? it s certainly legal and i think as a matter of course every president tapes phone calls with foreign leaders for example. i mean i would think err responsible not to. what did about every day conversations? this is something could be cleared up very easily it would be an interesting test of how serious these investigations are. have the mouse and senate committees write a letter send us a subpoena, have the fbi in their investigation send a subpoena for any tapes that exist that are relevant to the investigation. the supreme court in 19749 to nothing said the president would have to answer a subpoena like that. so in question can be answered this doesn t have to be a mystery. but the committees have to show
at that point richard nixon had the opportunity to destroy the tapts he decided not to. nixon was asked about that in a 1980 interview with absent aesz barbara walters. are you sorry you didn t burn the tapes. you know interestingly enough everybody in europe that i talked to said why didn t you burn the tapes? and the answer is i probably should have. as for the one-on-one dinner between trump and comey at the white house former staffers tell us they don t know of any built in systems in the dining rooms to tape conversations they stay the president could bring in a recording device or have an aide take notes on the conversation but it s unlikely he would. could comey have taped the phone conversations on his end? we got no comment from the fbi. former top broi feshls tell us that would only be allowed if the president himself was under investigation which trump says he is not. and if the fbi chief got a warrant to tape him. i cannot imagine that happening. the fbi director
might be listening did there might be a transcript come. that wasn t a nixon stunt in that regard. nixon did anything to squelch anybody knowing he had the tapes. what do you make of the last week we ve seen. it s just gets stranger and stranger all the time. one can t understand why there is so much obstruction going on in the trump white house, why they re so afraud to talk cleanly and openly about russia. this has to get put behind donald trump but he seems to feed the beast of the story regularly with odd tweets and firing of comey it s not going away he has no strategy in mind except to have war with the press over it. also interesting to hear his spokes people saying look you re holding us to unreasonable standard of being factual and accurate in what wra saying our boss is moving too fast doing too things he is too quick of a leader in order to be pinned down and get all the details out of. i mean that doesn t seem to hold