hey you ve gotta see this. cno.n. alright, see you down there. mmm, fine. okay, what do we got? okay, watch this. do the thing we talked about. what do we say? it s going to be great. watch. remember what we were just saying? go irish! see that? yes! i m gonna just go back to doing what i was doing. find your awesome with the xfinity x1 voice remote. we re back with more on our politics lead and republican senator james langford of oklahoma who serves on the senate intelligence committee. senator, i want to turn to the russia investigation. and obviously this conflict between president trump and fbi director, fired fbi director comey, the president admitting that he neither made nor possesses any tapes of his conversations with comey. it took him 41 days to clarify
decide, i think, whether it amounts to obstruction of justice, that s why we re glad we have him there. let s talk about president trump s other tweets today in which he said that he does not possess and he did not make any recordings of his conversations with james comey, although that is not the same thing as saying there are not any tapes. i m still not he didn t personally make them. so gus might have made them. i assume you ll subpoena gus. yeah. the one thing i want to ask is, a source told bloomberg in trying to explain why he made that claim that apparently was based on nothing in terms of he better hope there are no tapes was not to intimidate and not to be blustery, but he did it, quote, in a strategic fashion to ensure that comey told the truth. that s what a source familiar with this told bloomberg news. he was trying to pressure comey to try to adhere as closely to the tapes as possible. that was the explanation from the source familiar with, to bloomberg news,
tapes. reporter: comey leaked the memos documenting his interactions with trump. i needed to get that out into the public square, i asked a friend of mine to share the content of the memo with the reporter. i thought, that might prompt the appointment of a special council. and so i asked a close friend of mine to do it. reporter: all of this creating are the situation trump hoped to avoid. a special council overseeing the russia investigation. trump s tape tweet set off a fire storm who demand the the tapes be turned over by tomorrow. today some members of trump s own party made clear they re not amused by the president s antics. i think he ll learn that his words matter. reporter: as for the russia investigation, trump is decrying it as a witch hunt. they have phony witch hunts going against me. they have everything going, and you know what, all we do is win, win, win. reporter: today, the president called into question once again whether russia was behind the effort to
presumably. yes, that s what it sounds like. i mean, i think that comey was telling the truth. he took contemporaneous notes, those are usually admitted in court. and if i had to bet between trump and comey who was telling the truth, i would kind of lean more toward comey. and why do you think president trump made that tweet? because i don t think he thought, i don t think he s always thinking like three moves ahead. and i think what he did was, it forced comey s hand, which is to release these contemporaneous notes to a friend that leaked them and, you know, i think that helped toward the signing of the special prosecutor which i think is that was comey s intention. yeah. so adam schiff, the top democrat on the house intelligence committee today said when it came to president trump claiming basically there are no tapes or at least none that he knows about, i don t
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