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We've got two stories here. both of which involve something that happened in the oval office. and we have to verify what was actually said. the president made this little bit surprising mention of the tapes. if there are tapes, we need to have them. we need to understand what was said. this is a very serious matter, in indeed it isser verified wh president said in the middle of an investigation. >> you here jeff toobin say, if this is true, if the president asked the fbi to end the investigation into michael flynn as former national security adviser, you heard jeffrey toobin say it would be an...

That's our first duty. >> traditionally fbi agents contemporaneous notes are credible. they are held up in court as credible evidence. if in fact the fbi director james comey con testimowrote me about the president, you agree they could be seen as credible evidence as if comes down to court procedure. >> no doubt about it. but even more than that, you have to keep in mind unfortunately and sadly, our president has not always been honest with us. on the other hand, i think comey has been a pretty straight shooter. and so, if it is one person's word against motheanother's, i comey would come out...

Have. we can't recreate what fbi can do. nor should we try. we have to run our own investigations. but we do have to make sure that fbi does its work in a thorough way and in a partial way and without any impediment whatsoever. [ inaudible ] >> i think we ought to ask the director to come in to testify. i think that the first step we ought to ask, if there are are notes. notes that are taken around the time of the conversation would be i think very powerful evidence of what took place during those conversations. and then i think we follow up from there. clearly obviously if the president is be...

Controversies we've been covering in depth in recent weeks, i sawill say this, a powerful voice on the russian investigation, his first comment on this, was that the burden is on the new york times to produce these memos by james comey if they exist. but i've reached out to a staff and he said that they are not ruling out subpoenaing these documents. his partner on the committee, democratic member on the committee senator mark warner is a resounding yes to that question. and to subpoena these memos and tapes if they exist but from senator burr we have this comment that we will follow the facts...

Important to establish. we are in the beginning stage in this process. first we learned of this conversation. and fbi, white house says there was no attempt to shut down. if there was no attempt to shut it down, there was no crime, no impeachable offense, end up story. but you have to look at all the circumstances. obviously the first circumstances, are there notes and are there tapes? and that's what congress has got to determine very quickly. >> that's critically important right now. stand by. want to bring in elijah cummings of maryland. ranking member of the white house oversight committee...