subpoena target, is there anything wrong with it? is there anything illegal? >> well, illegal, that's a question. but in terms of shattering precedence, you know, 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 taping and pull out the system. and later presidents have all said, i would never do such a thing because, a, it reminds people of nixon who behaved badly but, b, because it violates people's civil liberties to record conversations with the president that are supposed to be private without their knowledge. and the other thing is that presidents have felt that if people even have a suspicion that when they go into the oval office or when they talk to a president on the telephone that they're being taped, they're not going to give a president unvarnished advice, and that's going to wind up hurting the