you interview chairman nadler of the house judiciary committee in terms of the impeachment proceedings, he believes this is one more additional investigation to look into. whether or not democrats as a whole believe that? we ll have to wait and see, but nothing surprises me any more. and nothing surprises you any more, either. i m standing right there with you, every day a new day. kevin vili, julia manchester, great to have you here. some call it worse than hurricane harvey, what s being done to help those stranded by floodwaters in southeast texas. , raise your steins to the king of speed. work so hard give it everything you got strength of a lioness tough as a knot rocking the stage and we never gonna stop all strength, no sweat. just in case you forgot all strength. no sweat secret. all strength. no sweat.
president, do you have this in romania, too? i don t know. leaving for his bed minister home. surrounded by his campaign crew. what we saw from him was visible, clear, relief and a sense that he could get himself back on offense by saying jim comey didn t take me down and a special counsel can t, either. that was nbc s hallie jackson reporting. joining me now, kevin vili from bloomberg politics reporting and jonathan allen, co-author of shattered about hillary clinton s 2016 loss, thank you both for joining me this morning. so kevin let s talk about the news conference yesterday. the president said 100% that he would speak to the special counselor under oath about what he told james comey. do you think that will actually happen and can he refuse if robert mueller asks him? well of course the president will have the right with his attorney to do what they feel is legally justified. the bottom line is that this white house, this administration, this republican-controlled congre
recordings, if they exist. and the former fbi director not saying he s going to release those memos, either. absent actual recordings, this ends up as a he said/he said. because he says comey lied about him trying to influence his investigation. how do you face that? there s a difference, dara, between what trump has said, is there might be tapes and seemy, hinting that there weren t yesterday. certainly not having released anything like that to the public. and comey not having released memos to the public in that comey has turned over those memos to robert mueller who is conducting the real investigation into, into all of these matters. so the special counsel. so those memos exist and have been preserved. and whether the public sees them or not, you know in the short-term, certainly the special counsel is reviewing those. but congress should review them, too. well look, kevin, you know i don t disagree with you on that. it s perfectly reasonable for
congress to get them as well. but the truth is, that congress is a much more political body than the special counsel is. and ultimately the special counsel s investigation is going to go to congress. the solution here is not some sort of prosecution of the president, but rather if something is found, that congress finds objectionable, a political solution, which would be the impeachment, removal route. we re a long way from any of that happening. this is to both of you in the end it s all about politics, right? with the gop holding both houses of congress, what are the chances that a republican president actually faces even the beginning of impeachment proceedings? quickly, jonathan? low. kevin? slim to none. but again, you got to wait to see the results of these investigations, it s why i totally agree with jonathan that we ve got to get more information out there. kevin developi, jonathan len, great thave you this morning. mixed messages from the president and the secreta
in deep jeopardy right now. and kevin, now to the talk of possible white house recordings. here s a bit of reaction on that. i ve seen the tweet about tapes, lordy, i hope there are tapes. can you say definitively where there is a taping system that allows the president to record his conversations here at the white house? i have no idea. i can t comment on that and actually the president himself has said he won t comment any further on that. when will you tell us about the recordings? over a very short period of time. are there tapes, sir? you re going to be very disappointed when you hear the answer, don t worry. kevin, is there any conventional wisdom on the existence of recordings and could the senate judiciary compel the white house to release them? top house as well as senate officials are requesting not only the tapes, should they exist, but also the memos, which we should note that the former fbi director is saying that he doesn t have any more, or he