it s hard to imagine a how the president is going to deal with. everything is so corrosive of his credibility and of the administration s credibility, that s your most valuable asset and they re losing it. one more point comes back to a point we made with earlier. ok. if you can get the memos from comey, that s important. but the ultimate arbiter would be tapes. the president put it in quotes. we know there are many who have attested to the fact that he has often recorded always recorded conversations when in the trump tower. will we ever know if there were tapes? absolutely. this is a fact in the world whether there are tapes. no one operates in isolation, especially in the white house. even the president of the united states. there are you would not say there would be a rush to get rid of that evidence? look, i recognize there are a lot of reasons to be suspicious of donald trump at this point. i don t see him destroying
what does that mean? it means that the republicans would be in a lot of trouble on retaining control of the white house in 2020. all of you please stay with me. when you talk about congress, obviously this is going to come down to whether it can be proved what jim comey says happened happened. if so, you re down the path of impeachment for obstruction of justice. there are growing calls for jim comey on capitol hill to come testify and tell his story. chuck schumer said this moments ago on the senate floor. the country is being tested in unprecedented ways. i say to all of my colleagues in the senate, history is watching. manu raj u is on chill tonight. what are republicans saying right now? well, erin, there are very few republican defenders of this president right now.
he had pushed back on it. living with this president is about standing up and pushing back. he thought he d pushed back and was working to regularize communications between the bureau and the white house. he thought he was starting to succeed. and he was very sensitive tom how difficult it was going to be to work with this president. me also thought he could do it. if i could offer one bit of analysis to someone who has covered comey now for several years, he has a rather lie opinion and i m not saying that in as pejorative way but he has a high opinion of his integri integrity. tony, what s your reaction to that if that s what he actually thought? i think regardless of the fact that everyone who knows him is speaking up for his sbegsity, it would seem that s not a decision for him to make.
andy mccabe. andy was in the inner circle. i don t know that for a fact but i believe this if this happened you think it s likely? i think it s highly likely i don t think andy mccabe looked at it that way, either. we ve all been in situations where someone doesn t directly ask you to do something but you feel that s what they re asking for and if you don t you re going forward at your own risk. let me go back to jake. this issue of why did jim comey not reach out to congress earlier? why now after he s fired and you re learning more as to the answer? that s right. the white house has been putting out this pushback asking if this really happened, why didn t he do something able to, let other people know immediately. so i asked the soshsz close to comey about that. i ll read it to you. because it wasn t a very successful effort on the part of the president and comey thought
because, of course, this is a president who never admits that he himself has made a mistake. but if you look at the past two days, you look at somebody from the intelligence community feeling strongly enough about what went on in the oval office with the russians to talk to reporters r about it and then you look at this story today. you have people in the law enforcement community feeling strong enough about comey to talk about this, and so you can see the president saying, oh, the intelligence community and the fbi is out to get me. but, in fact, i would argue that these are people who saw something alarming and wanted to tell the story. so let me ask you about this. this is important. the president denies it happened. ok. no shock to anybody. in part his statement reads ok. that s his words. jim comey is coming out with a