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Said, if you have tapes, preserve them and hand them over by june 23rd. so i would hope and expect we'll get an answer by thursday of next week. the president has signaled that he is going to give an answer, but those would be the very best evidence. none of us, i think, can make heads or tails out of that tweet, he said, that was essentially threatening comey, you better look out, i have tapes or may have tapes. whether that was an idle threat, meant to intimidate the director or there's more to it, but we need to find out. >> president trump tweeted, among many tweets today, he's been very p...

Pulled out from them. listen to what people are saying about the president. he watches cable news. phil mudd, one of our contributors at cnn, former cia official. he saw the tweet about the recording system and threatening comey. this was his take. >> you can't take this seriously. you feel like you got to give the president of the united states a pacifier and a rattle and put him in the crib. if you think you'll intimidate the former fbi director and dozens of people in the workforce who are conducting this investigation with the department of justice, you got another thing coming. >> it's pr...

Responded to trump's tweet. watch. >> tonight, president trump's warning to the fbi director who he just fired saying james comey, quote better hope that there are no tapes. is that a threat to the man who was heading the russia investigation? >> threatening comey? president trump says he better hope there are no tapes of their conversations. the white house refusing to deny that president trump has secret recording devices. >> a tweeted warning that to jas comey about recorded conversations but are there any. >> is the white house recording conversations? are there tapes? abby: you watch that...

The president doesn't know who he can trust, and you have his own communication department sending messages, there may not necessarily be in step with what donald trump is saying all within a matter of minutes, i mean, how does this white house kind of pull it all together if at all? is it too late do that? >> it's not too late. but that is the exact situation when presidents tend do dangerous thing. when there are many competing voices at the highest levels of power, when the president is too isolated and facing this kind of ongoing crisis, any president but certainly one with a temperament o...

He may have been reporting conversations including between him and director comey, although i did hear michael smerconish this morning say another theory is that he was sort of threatening comey with the possibility that comey might have been recording those conversations. that being said, i don't know any legal authority that would suggest that it would be legal for the president to ser repetitiore sur rep tissuely record folks at mar-a-lago before he was president and maybe not even after he was president. it's not clear if that is considered a secure government facility, but i'm not an expe...