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Here is the clip in question with janine pirro of fox news for an interview to air saturday. Are you moving so quickly that your Communications Department cannot keep up with you. Yes. Thats true. What do we do about that . We dont have press elliot necessary found it so hard the believe that he would have reassured the president that he is somehow not under investigation note once, and certainly not three times. Lets bring our Kickoff Panel on the, the veteran New York Times chief White House Correspondent peter baker is with us, who happens to be our newly minted msnbc political analyst. Viv...

Perhaps. michael, i know lbj wanted in part for leverage to remind people what they had said or promised to him over the phone he always had the transcript if he needed it. if this current president is recording private conversations in the white house other than making himself a huge subpoena target, is there anything wrong with it? is there anything illegal? >> illegal is a question. in terms of shattering precedence and shattering things that presidents have been doing before ever since that day that you just showed with alexander butterfield in july of 1973, nixon had to immediately stop t...

>> i was aware of listening devices, yes, sir. >> if i could move on to telephones. are you aware of the aware of t installation of any devices on any of the telephones, first of all in the oval office? >> yes, sir. >> unbelievable moment. fast forward to today and the president either hinting or bluffing or threatening to have recordings of private conversations in the white house. for more tonight we are joined by michael and among his many works and nine books on presidents two books on the recorded conversations of president lyndon johnson "taking charge "and "reaching for glory" and point...

Nixon felt that to record all of this conversations essentially wall to wall because it was not a system with a switch as johnson had. he could use this to protect himself. >> the early system used a dictaphone recording mechanism. it was pretty primitive. today the president says tapes in quotes meaning recordings perhaps. michael, i know lbj wanted in part for leverage to remind people what they had said or promised to him over the phone he always had the transcript if he needed it. if this current president is recording private conversations in the white house other than making himself a hu...

Michael beshlaus. >> there is a scene when nixon comes to the white house. he is going to move in. and johnson is showing him around the place and they both get down on their knees. what did johnson want to show richard nixon? >> there is nothing i can say that is going to match that build up. thanks for the kind word, by the way. what happened was that johnson was showing nixon around the private rooms of the upstairs of the white house and says come into my bedroom. johnson gets down on his knees and as the story is told sort of almost crawled under his bed and nixon wondered what is going o...