their house seats in these special elections. they re 4 or 4 this year, despite president trump s unpopularity and despite outcry over the republican plans to try to repeal obamacare. this administration thus far has passed and i don t mean it in a mean way but they have passed zero meaningful legislation. they ve passed no significant legislation at all. what they re going for their first big effort is a health care bill that is enormously unpopular right now and one that they may nevertheless pass through the senate within the next few days. what will happen then? joining us now nbc political historian. michael beschloss. big legislation is something that we think of as having political cost. big legislation particularly on the things that galvanize big opposition. is there any way from a historical perspective to weigh the political winners and
have him think that he was being tape-recorded. end quote. that was donald trump a decade ago in 2007, he was still just a new york real estate guy. and at the time of that deposition he was caught up in a lawsuit that was going bad. he was suing his biographer because he didn t like what ended up in the biography. and in the course of the lawsuit the biographer incidentally tim o brien who was a guest on our show saying that tim o brien told him during the course of the conversations, he said over and over again he was tape-recording their conversations. in the course of the lawsuit trump gets asked about that under oath on the record in an official deposition. mr. trump you told tim o brien over and over again that you were tape recording your conversations with him. did you actually tape-record those conversations? and despite all of the times that he priestly said it, when he had to answer that question at risk of
question. mr. trump, did you ever tell him you were tape recording conversations with him. trump, i m not equipped to tape record. i may have said it once or twice to him to just to on the delph because everything i said to him, he d write incorrectly. so just to try and keep it honest. i don t remember that, but i may have said to him i want to tape this conversation. question, i want to tape or you were taping? trump, i think i might have said i want to tape. i m not equipped to tape. i m not set up to tad-record conversations on telephones but i may have said to him i think i said i want to tape this conversation, as opposed to but i m not sure that i did say it to him. but i knew he was so sick, he was such a degenerate in the way he wrote. a very dishonest person. the only way i could have him know what i was saying is to
and a new majority in congress are trying to make their own sweeping changes. so far republicans this year, like democrats in obama s first year, they ve been holding on to their house seats in these special elections. they re 4 or 4 this year, despite president trump s unpopularity and despite outcry over the republican plans to try to repeal obamacare. this administration thus far has passed and i don t mean it in a mean way but they have passed zero meaningful legislation. they ve passed no significant legislation at all. what they re going for their first big effort is a health care bill that is enormously unpopular right now anone that they may nevertheless pass through the senate within the next few days. what will happen then. joining us now nbc political s historian. big legislation is something