Trump white house. It comes after weeks of speculation about whether trump himself has recordings of conversations between him and fired fbi director james comey. The secret service responding to a freedom of information act request from the the wall street journal. The secret service says, it has no records of tapes or even recording system being installed in the white house since election dachlt this is more information than weve gotten from the white house or the president himself whose the one that started all of this. Press Secretary Sean Spicer was evasive when he was repeatedly asked if and when tapes would be released. The president made clear that he would have an announcement shortly. I think the president made it clear what his intention son friday. I understand that enhe would answer that question in due time. The president made it very clear on friday that he would get back as soon as possible on this and his position on that conversation. Hes not waiting for anything. When hes ready to further discuss it he will. The president s been clear about absolutely nothing except for the fact that he isnt going to be clear and spicer was echoing the chiropractic answer on friday. Do tapes exist of your conversations with him . Ill tell you about that maybe sometime in the very near future. Lets be clear, trump is the one who raised the issue of tapes. No one would ever even thought of it. He raised it one month ago today. That was three days after firing james comey when trump tweeted, cope, james comey better hope there are no tapes before our conversations before he starts leaking to the press. Just to be very clear on the breaking news tonight. Another Government Agency or trump himself could have those tapes. We just know the secret service doesnt. The thing is were not getting a simple yes or no from the white house which is unacceptable and unamerican and dis honest. If the president himself has no tapes he should say so and he should never have tweeted about them to begin with. Its simply wrong and it comes as attorney general Jeff Sessions the highest Ranking Member of the Trump Administration to testify so far is set to be sworn in before the Senate Intelligence committee less than 24 hours from now. Sarah murray is out front tonight and sarah at least from the secret Services Point of view, no tapes. Reporter thats right. The secret service responding to a request originally put in by the the wall street journal. They were asked about any recording devices were installed, any records or transcripts and the secret service responded to that saying, we dont have anything to provide in response to this information request. As you pointed out that doesnt mean there are no tapes that exist, it doesnt mean the president didnt make recordings of his own or there wasnt someone else who made those recordings but this is the first definitive, were the u. S. Secret service we dont have any tapes of this and as you pointed out no straight answer from this on the white house. You also i know have some new reporting about what the white house is expecting to see from the attorney generals testimony tomorrow, which they will be watching every second of. Reporter sure. There have been a lot of questions about whether sessions will invoke executive privilege and refuse to discuss his conversations with the president. I talked to a Senior Administration official earlier who said they expect this to play out similarly to happen like dan coats and mike rodgers were on the hill testifying. Remember they were asked by senators whether the president encouraged them to downplay the russia investigation and they refused to answer the question. They couldnt reply with any legal standing. They wouldnt say the white house forced them to invoke executive privilege they just declined to respond and we could see Something Like that from sessions. Thank you very much with that reporting. New questions tonight about Jeff Sessions contact with russian officials ahead of this crucial testimony. Brianna keeler is out front. Reporter the president seen today with the attorney general, trump has been seething that Jeff Sessions reduced himself from the Russian Investigation three months ago. Its an honor to serve u. Reporter its on the eve of what is expected to be a closed door congressional grilling of sessions but it will now take place in full view of the cameras. Senators have pressing questions about the president s meeting with him and the former fbi director. The president asked that the room be cleared, the attorney general apparently hung back. I thought the attorney general shouldve said something. This man works for me. I think i should be here too, mr. President. But the fbi director ended up alone and thats where this began. Reporter senators will also ask sessions about this testimony during his confirmation in january. I didnt not have communications with the russians and im unable to comment on it. Reporter it was later revealed that sessions, in fact, had two meetings one of them a privacy audience in his Congressional Office with kislyak and perhaps a third encounter as a washington hotel. The Justice Department has denied the Hotel Meeting but will sessions and the white house vague on weather it will exert executive privilege. It depends on the questions to get into a hypothetical would be premature. Reporter meanwhile. We were vindicated. Reporter the president s son backing his directed him to stop investigating now ousted National Security advisor michael flynn. Saying, i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting flynn go. He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go. When he tells you to do something, guess what . Theres no ambiguity in it. Theres no, hey, im hoping. You and i are friends. I hope this happens but you go got to do your job. For this guy as a politician to write a memo, he felt so threatened. He didnt do anything. Reporter the problem with this explanation, President Trump says thats not what he told comey. He did say under oath that you told him to let the flynn you said you hope the Flynn Investigation i didnt say that. So he lied about that . I didnt say that. I will tell you i didnt say that. Reporter and some new information just in to cnn, a u. S. District court judge has ordered the department of justice, the fbi and relevant agencies to produce documents by july 12th that are related to session escontacts with russian officials. That is information from my colleague aaron perez that he just got in and also communications between the white house chief of staff Reince Priebus and the fbi concerning the fbis russia probe. This is something that came about as a part of freedom information act lawsuit that was brought by a watch dog group. Thank you. And out front now, one senator who will question the attorney general tomorrow, democratic senator jack reed. Thanks for being with me and i want to start with the breaking news that you just heard. The secret service says they dont have any tapes of white house conversations to turn over. Do you think the president could have a recording that the secret service doesnt know about . Well, i think if he had a recording and it exonerated him, he wouldve made it public very, very quickly. So i think logically it does not appear that he has the tapes. Now he continues to maintain that and hes the only one apparently that can demonstrate it so i would ask him, please produce the tapes. If he does have a tape, obviously this would mean he could produce it or destroy it, nobody would necessarily ever know if he chose to get rid of it, right . No. Again, it just seems so illogical if he has an actual recording that exon rates himself and by implication discredits mr. Comey why would he just sit on it . I think he owes the American Public if he has the tape, immediately not just himself but for the American Public. One person who could shed light on some of this, the background here of the russia situation between comey and the president is the attorney general, the highest ranking Trump Administration official to testify in the russia probe. Youll be asking questions of him tomorrow. What will you ask, senator . I think its important to establish why he was involved in the dismissal of director comey since he had recused himself from apparently all matters related to the Russian Investigation, and the president himself has indicated that he indeed based his dismissal of comey on the Russian Investigation. The attorney generals involvement is highly questionable to be blunt and i think those questions will be raised. Now, theres also of course the issue that when it comes to the president , a core question is whether he obstructed justice by asking comey to end the investigation and as we now know according to comeys testimony the conversation happened in the oval office after the president asked sessions to leave the room. Do you think that sessions will answer questions about that moment and any conversations that he had with the president about firing comey . I think he will be asked all those questions, why he left the room even though it appears that director comey had made it clear that it was inappropriate to have these discussions one on one with the president. Then of course i think obviously the question is was he aware of the rational for the firing of comey, if that was the case why didnt he communicate that it had something to do with the Russian Investigation and why didnt he take himself out of the loop because hes recused himself. Do you think hell answer those questions but claim executive privilege and still try to get credit for testifying . I dont know, frankly. I would hope he answered the question because the point is to clarify all of this. My suspicion based upon observing others, other members of the administration including coats theyve been walked around the questions, they said they couldnt answer. They said it wasnt appropriate, et cetera. They never denied any of the suggestions that the president directed them to interfere with the investigation, but they refused to affirmatively say that. Let me ask you this because this will come up tomorrow. You were in the closed door briefing with james comey and in that meeting he said the fbi was investigating a possible third undisclosed meeting between sessions and a russian official which would be hugely because he had prior meetings that it he did not disclose. This would be a third and still undisclosed meeting. From what youve heard do you think there was a third meeting . I cant comment on anything that was said behind closed doors. That would be inappropriate. There have been press reports of a possible meeting. I think those press reports might trigger questions but i will not comment on what took place behind closed doors. Let me ask you about the broader picture here. Ivanka trump was on television today defending her father and heres some of what she said, senator. It is hard and theres a level of viciousness that i was not expecting. I was not expecting the intensity of this experience but this isnt supposed to be easy. I think some of the distractions and some of the veracity was i was a little blindsided by on a personal level. Virsness and veracity the words she used. What do you think . First of all, you have to be sympathic his daughter. Its her father who is the subject of all this criticism and comments, so i think she her statements seem very sincere, also appropriate for a daughter. The context of going back months and months and months is President Trump did not refrain from being harsh, critical even insulting to people and, in fact, one could argue that hes lowered significantly the level of discourse here in the United States and now to claim that hes just an innocent victim in all this is a little bit hard to sustain. All right. Thank you. Thank you. And next, the president s first full Cabinet Meeting today was frankly pretty bizarre. Nearly every person in the room heaped praise on the president on camera and the president is considering terminating Robert Mueller as special counsel. And more breaking news this hour, denis rodman heading to north korea about to land any moment and we are live in pyongyang. Will you be ready when the moment turns romantic . 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I cant thank you enough for the privileges that youve given me and the leadership that youve shown. I want to thank you for keeping your commitment to the american workers. Its an honor to be able to serve you on behalf of the entire senior staff, we thank you for the opportunity and the blessing that youve given us to serve your agenda and the American People. Manu, this go around is getting a lot of attention. Reporter indeed it is. Republicans actually feel okay about the president talking about their agenda, pointing to things they believe have been positive about what the Trump Administration has done. Democrats on the other hand are having some fun with this including Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer who released this video just moments ago. I want to thank everybody for coming. I just thought wed go around the room. Lucy, how did we dont sunday show yesterday . Your tone was perfect right on message. Michelle, howd my hair look like coming out of the jim. You have great hair. Before we go any further, i want to have say thank you for the opportunity and blessing to serve your agenda. Thats great. Now democrats also quickly pivoted off of that to focus on what is happening here in the senate which is the effort to pass the Health Care Bill to try to repeal and replace the obamacare legislation. We do know that republicans are trying to get that done this month and thats why the democrats putting the phoning on that even though theyre having fun with what President Trump did earlier today. There was fun made but its also very serious that they would choose to do so. What is the significance of that . John avalon, editor in chief of the the daily beast, and mark preston. John, youre with me. Obviously the Chuck Schumer bit whatever your politics are, one could get a chuckle at that. That moment this is their first meeting all together. The cameras are there and thats what they say to the president. Significant . Yeah. This is going to go down as the dear leader Cabinet Meeting and maybe they should all get matching uniforms. Referring to north korea. This is creepy. Whether they were coached to Say Something positive or merely felt outdo the other, thats not the way we do things in this country. It looked like a hostage video at times and so this was somet