FIRED JAMES COMEY WITH THE POSSIBILITY THAT HE MIGHT HAVE
RECORDED THEIR CONVERSATIONS.
AND SO IT HAS BEEN WEEKS NOW AND
WE HAVE WANTED TO KNOW.
IF ANYONE WOULD KNOW YOU WOULD
KNOW, ARE THERE RECORDINGS OR
NOT?
THEY HAVE DRAGGED IT ALONG, AND THEN TODAY HE TWEETED THIS.
IT TOOK YOU WEEKS TO SAY I DIDN'T PRESS RECORD ON A TAPE
RECORDER?
THIS IS FISHY.
EVERYONE IS RECORDING THIS AS TRUMP ADMITS
THAT HE MADE UP THE THING ABOUT
THE TAPES.
THAT IS TEMPTING BECAUSE TRUMP MAKES UP THINGS
ABOUT EVERYTHING.
FAIR ENOUGH.
IF HE IS TELLING THE TRUTH, AT A
MINIMUM YES, HE MADE THE THING UP
ABOUT THE TAPES.
NEWT GINGRICH SAID HE WAS BLUFFING IN ORDER TO MAKE SURE
JAMES COMEY WAS BEING HONEST IN PUBLIC.
I REMEMBER WHEN BILL CLINTON UNDER OATH BLUFFED.
THAT IS NOT A LEAK, WHEN YOU HAVE A SOURCE IN THE WHITE HOUSE
THAT DOES PRO WHITE HOUSE TALKING POINTS YOU'RE JUST
PUTTING OUT A STATEMENT.
THE REASON WHY I SAY BE CAREFUL IS
BECAUSE IT IS VERY LAWYERLY.
HE SAYS I HAVE NO IDEA WHETHER
THERE ARE TAPES OR RECORDINGS.
SO HE DIDN'T SAY THEY DON'T
EXIST, HE SAID I HAVE NO IDEA.
AND FURTHERMORE HE SAID I DID
NOT MAKE THEM AND I DO NOT HAVE
THEM.
THAT DOESN'T MEAN THEY DON'T EXIST.
IF YOU TAKE IT
LITERALLY ñ AND THE REASON WHY IT IS IMPORTANT IS THAT IF A
LAWYER HELPED HIM TO CRAFT IT
THEY WOULD SAY OKAY, DON'T SAY THEY
DON'T EXIST.
NOW DONALD DO
YOU KNOW OF TODAY THE PERSON HOLDING THE TAPES STILL HAS THE
TAPES?
I HAVE NO IDEA.
PERFECT.
IT STILL WOULD BE INTERESTING THAT HE APPARENTLY FOR THE
FIRST TIME EVER HAS BEEN THAT CAREFUL IN A TWEET.
AND THAT IS THE TELLTALE SIGN GUYS.
WHICH IS DONALD TRUMP IS
NOT THIS CAREFUL.
HE WILL COME
IN BLUNDERING.
TAPES, I SCISSORED THEM.
YOU MEAN CUT THEM WITH A SCISSOR?
SO THAT LEADS ME TO BELIEVE THAT TAPES EXIST.
IT IS POSSIBLE.
HOLD.
THE ONLY THING I DISAGREE WITH YOU ON IS ñ WE KNOW AN
INVESTIGATION IS GOING ON RIGHT
NOW, OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE.
PUTTING OUT A STATEMENT SAYING
TO SOMEONE WHO THEORETICALLY IT WILL BE CALLED IN A COURT CASE
AGAINST YOU THAT YOU BETTER NOT HOPE I WASN'T RECORDING YOU,
MAYBE YOU SHOULD OR SHOULDN'T
SAY THINGS.
YOU CANNOT DO THAT.
THAT IS WITNESS INTIMIDATION.
EVEN IF THERE ARE TAPES OR ARE TAPES, THE STATEMENTS HE ALREADY
MADE REGARDLESS OF HOW HE TRIES
TO FINESSE IT LATER ON COULD BE USED IN HIS COURT CASE OVER
OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE.
THE MORE YOU TALK THE MORE I AM CONVINCED THERE ARE TAPES.
THIS IS NOT JUST TRUMP TWEETING
IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT.
THIS IS A COORDINATED CAMPAIGN.
IN
THAT EFFORT THEY ARE DOING WHAT YOU EXPLAINED.
THEY ARE
BASICALLY ADMITTING TO WITNESS
INTIMIDATION.
IT IS NOT LIKE YOU DIDN'T TALK TO A LAWYER, YOU
OBVIOUSLY DID, DONALD TRUMP.
WHY ARE YOU ADMITTING THAT?
IT WOULD
ONLY BE TO COVER UP SOMETHING MUCH WORSE WHICH IS THAT THERE
ARE TAPES.
SO, I DON'T KNOW IF WE ARE THE ONLY ONES SAYING IT.
WE ARE AMONG THE FEW VOICES RIGHT NOW TELLING YOU DON'T BUY
INTO THE FACT THAT THERE ARE NO TAPES.
THEY ARE MORE LIKELY TO
HAVE TAPES, NOT LESS LIKELY.