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Recusing himself, he wouldn't have recommended the firing. he should come to the house judiciary committee and explain what is going on. >> a few of your democratic colleagues, not many but a few, said this could potentially lead to impeachment. do you think there are grounds potentially that could lead to impeachment? >> wolf, the word i think we should use right now is investigation. we have investigations in house, senate and fbi but hurdles keep getting put up for those investigations. we need to hear the hurdles and what russia did and what persons were involved and if so they are held ac...

Our white house correspondent sara mur me. sum it all up for our viewers. >> reporter: this has been a week of surprises and controversies from this white house and today was certainly no different as the president fired off a thinly veiled threat against his former fbi director and administration officials including the president himself refused to say whether he's taking secret recordings of people over in the white house. prufrm firing off an apparent threat to the ousted fbi director, trump tweeting james comey better hope that there are no tapes of our conversations before he starts leaki...

Comey. in an extraordinary tweet, trump makes a thinly veiled threat against the fb i director he just fired days ago. it is says there is no mincing words so what did he mean? the president suggests there may be tapes of his conversations with comey but later says he can't talk about it. now lawmakers are asking for copies of any recordings of mr. trump and comey. will the white house turn them over? demanding loyalty. cnn is learning details of a white house dinner in which president trump asked fbi director comey to pledge his loyalty while comey is overseeing the investigation into ties be...

The problem for him is that you have to adjust. he's not running the trump organization anymore. he's running country, and you can't threaten either a former fbi director or people you work with because these things are actually taken really seriously. >> if the president is having dinner one-on-one with james comey in the white house, can the president legally record, tape that are conversation? >> it's fact-dependant but the short answer is probably yes. federal law allows for an individual who is a party of a conversation to record it. if trump is the party to the conversation and he record...

About ongoing investigations, so for the president to say that -- on three occasions he asked the fbi chief, right, jim comb, who is runt fbi, can you just -- is it appropriate for you to give me a heads up as to whether or not i'm being investigated. it's completely inappropriate, and jim comey's response according to him and others that spoke to him immediately after was totally appropriate. it's not -- i can't comment on that. you don't want me to comment on that. there's a reason why the period for the head of the fbi is a fixed ten-year period and it was done at a time when they wanted to...