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And was his father involved in kennedy's assassination? trump has done this throughout his life. >> become good friends with ted cruz and are you saying he'll become good friends with jim comegy. >> i would like to take hick seriously when tweets. i'm not surprised there aren't tapes and he seems to have paid a price. maybe discourages of that in the future. on the point of telling a consistent story and combing assuring him he wasn't under investigation, he's told more about that, leakers and was correct. >> on that part, correct. what he focused on. important to get it into public record. wh...

Conversations. the reason that he's been putting it off when people ask him directly if there's tapes and saying i'll tell you lawyer, he knows he's backed into a corner. he put his press secretaries and his staff in a difficult position. obviously they can't say no, he made it up. they're struggling to say something that would make the president look credible here. >> jon: it all started with the tweet from the president in which he wrote that james comey better home there aren't tapes of their conversations. he didn't say he had them. >> that's right. if anything, it was a warning for comey ...

>> he's not waiting for anything. >> jon: earlier today, president trump did not respond to a reporter's question about whether there are tapes. let's bring in our panel. brad blakeman is a republican strategist and former adviser to president george w. bush. christy setzer is a democratic strategist and former iowa press secretary for al gore's presidential campaign. so first question to you, christy. do democrats expect there are tapes and would they buttress the democratic claims against the president? >> like james comey all say, lordy, i hope there are tapes. no, i don't think there are t...

>> we'll see. >> it will come out whether or not tapes exist. it's not at the will of the press. it's at the direction of the relevant committees or the special counsel. >> jon: the president -- brad, if you were advising him, would you tell him to come out with a statement one way or the other or let this question hang out there? >> i'm sure i would advise the president, now there's a special counsel, follow their direction and their request. don't get baited into anything extraordinary beyond that. this has to follow the protocols. the protocols have been established by the house and the sen...

Tweet which some people have now interpreted as a threat to james comey and have argued that it is an attempt to tamper with a witness would i sby saying he h hope there are not tapes. that is where this all goes back to. eventually we will know one way or the other whether the house republican-are led house which has shown very little inclination to confront the president is willing to push this to the fax if they resist, i agree, i think that may not be the sven are uhe in which we ultimately find out whether there are tapes. but more likely the president kind of signaled yesterday when he s...