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If we have to serve a subpoena, how do we put the piece of paper in the president's hand? >> we did worry about that. we eventually worked out the subpoena went through his lawyers and they accepted delivery of the subpoena. but then we worried about if he didn't comply with the subpoena by turning over the documents, how would we get a marshal to enter the white house to seize the documents. that was a serious question. and we never really figured out an answer. but luckily public pressure after the saturday night massacre forced the president to give us the tapes. >> the watergate prosecutor...

So he has to look for a lie. it's true he's a pathological liar, but the only way he can get out of the charges is by lying. that's not a perjury trap. >> one of the challenges the president would have is what he said to lester holt on video about why he fired james comey. he's going to have to somehow find a different answer that -- although different somehow doesn't put him in conflict with what he said to lester holt. i don't know how you answer that question. >> trump has a problem here with the donald tells someone he lies he can't keep them straight and says whatever's in his head at the...

His allies on tv are afraid he will go in and lie. his lawyers -- >> they're not afraid, they know he will. he has promised america he will. >> so his allies on tv have a belief he will go in and lie. his lawyers are concerned he will go in and tell the truth about all this. >> what is that concern, that he'll tell the truth? that the truth will actually be criminal? >> the concern is people say -- well, in nixon there were tapes. that's different. as joy and you have alluded to, there were tapes here, too. lester holt made them. there were tapes in public of someone saying i fired him over ru...

David your reaction to this development tonight. >> this advances the story a lot from last summer when april reported on it and christopher ruddy, a publisher who's close with trump, said that trump was perhaps thinking of firing mueller. now you have a very clear story with four sources and two newspapers backing this up, that the president was proposing to do something which i think is clearly unlawful. you can do lawful things in an unlawful way and arguably advances a conspiracy involving this administration. and this issue of the independence of the justice department's prosecutors, this...

Le they never figured out how to do that with richard nixon if they had to. listen to what she says. >> did you have to consider this during the nixon investigation, if we have to serve a subpoena, how do we put the piece of paper in the president's hand? >> we did worry about that. we eventually worked out the subpoena went through his lawyers and they accepted delivery of the subpoena. but then we worried about if he didn't comply with the subpoena by turning over the documents, how would we get a marshal to enter the white house to seize the documents. that was a serious question. and we ne...