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Or seeing by other individuals so i think thats a very worrisome development. thats something we have to be concerned about of a misused abuse of a system designed to protect this countrys most precious secrets. >> and within the past hour, the new york times reported current and former officials say the white house used highly classified computer system assessable to only select few officials to store transcripts of calls from vladimir putin and the saudi royal family. house democrats are movin...

Seeing the testimony today, do you think this was a cover up? >> i think its obvious that there is a cover up. if you read the whistleblowers complaint, it lays it out. in fact, it lays it out so much that there appears to be and others have noted this something close to a smoking gun in that summary. but more important than that, there is a road map that the whistleblower has given. its not like john deans road map in watergate. its more like the revelations of alex butterfield that there was a...

>> i think its obvious that there is a cover up. if you read the whistleblowers complaint, it lays it out. in fact, it lays it out so much that there appears to be and others have noted this something close to a smoking gun in that summary. but more important than that, there is a road map that the whistleblower has given. its not like john deans road map in watergate. its more like the revelations of alex butterfield that there was a white house taping system that led to nixons doom. what we ha...

To bring him down. which is one of the interesting things about this controversy today. there was no recording from the united states end of the phone call and there were a bunch of people in the situation room taking notes. seems an old fashioned way to do things. >> yeah, i was more -- you know this better than i. but it takes a village to listen in on a presidential phone call. maybe thats the procedure today. i was also reminded about lyndon johnson. you talked about his taping system. that ...

Look at the nixon era and the secret taping system, when that came out in 1973, 1974, there was a wave of people being appalled at what they heard. the hate, the ethnic slurs, the anger. hugh scott not someone well remembered in history, but he was the senate republican leader. three months before nixon resigned because of this ugliness that was exposed, hugh scott, republican leader publicly said what the tapes show is deplorable, disgusting, shabby and immoral. i have always thought that one o...

Taping system that was disclosed during watergate, right? thats not happening. number two, theyre assuming that were playing in a partisan political climate that doesnt exist anymore. the republicans are never going to join hands with democrats and say, you know what, i think trump has actually gone too far. that happened with the clinton impeachment. there were 31 democrats who voted to start impeachment proceedings in 1998 against bill clinton. >> heres my point, were at war now. we have an en...

Revelation like the white house taping system that was disclosed during watergate, right? thats not happening. number two, theyre assuming that were playing in a partisan political climate that doesnt exist anymore. the republicans are never going to join hands with democrats and say, you know what, i think trump has actually gone too far. that happened with the clinton impeachment. there were 31 democrats who voted to start impeachment proceedings in 1998 against bill clinton. >> heres my point...

We also live in the environment now of the unexpected, the witness that appears. i know people, i know myself and working on all of these issues, im looking for new witnesses. and if you look at the history of watergate, it was only kind of an accident that they found the secret taping system that nixon had. we dont think trump had one. but lets keach digging. and you know, to a certain extent, its the probably the best digger around is mueller and its toot bad hes home or playing golf at this c...

Pecker. trump routinely threatened journalists with tape recordings. you dont mind if i tape this and when we litigated with him under a deposition, we said you dont have a taping system, do you? he said no. he would tell people in new york, he would tell business competitors that they should watch out what they were doing because he could go to david pecker or the "today" show or page six of "the new york post" and embarrass them. i think when trump is standing on the white house lawn saying th...

The president we dont hear much about. alex butterfield, deputy assistant, who handles much of the paperwork. >> my first meeting, i cant tell it without acting it. nixon came out from behind his desk and looked very tentative. he had no idea what to do. so he began to gesture. >> okay. >> no words came out. no discernible words. its just this deep guttural rrrrr. this is the president. i couldnt believe it. >> alexander butterfield would play a crucial role in the watergate investigation. he ha...