of our citizens and this is what we have decided to do. thank you so much, president trump. thank you. dave boyer, washington times, please? dave? thank you. come on, dave. thank you, mr. president. apologies. that s all right, dave. mr. president, this morning on twitter, you were referring to the testimony of james comey vindicating you but i wondered if you could tell us in person, sir, why you feel that his testimony vindicated you when it s really boiling down to his word against your word and if you could also tell us, sir, do tapes exist of your conversations with him? well, i ll tell you something about that maybe sometime in the very near future. in the meantime, no collusion, no obstruction. he s a leaker. but we want to get back to
i would be glad to tell you him that. and you seem to be hinting that there are not i m not hinting. i ll tell you it over a short period of time. okay. do you have a question here? when will you tell us about the tapes? over a short period of time. are there tapes, sir? you re going to be very disappointed when you hear the answer. don t worry. michael is sitting here and how do you see it? if the debate between david and norman is can the president of the united states be indicted, that is an open question legally. some people say he can be. others say he cannot be. the point is not whether or not he ll be indicted in by a grand jury. the president is whether obstructionist behavior, if proven, can be referred to the
x, y or z they ve wired the white house until nixon. do we have has there been in any one sense? boy, we don t think there s been any one since. perhaps the closest that we d have to something like that are the video conferences that took place in the obama and clinton and bush years and the question is whether they were archived and if they were, they d be subject to the same jurisdiction as the tapes and perhaps there could be a presidential video conference project that we conduct like the recordings program. but, no, we don t think anybody taped like those presidents did from franklin roosevelt through richard nixon. and quickly, your interpretation of the president saying on the tapes, that that will come out in some time, in the near future. well, it s hard to know what he means by that. in the past, all the presidents themselves were involved in the
well, first of all, we heard today, brooke, that there are no tapes because if trump is willing to swear to what happened, i believe jim comey. and, therefore, there must be no tapes. it s going to be a he said/he said situation. bare knuckle. that does create problems for the special counsel because you don t like to bring in an obstruction case based only on two witnesses. you want some corroboration. however, the comey memos are corroborated and, of course, there s an obstruction case here. in the united states, no man is above the law. the obstruction statute provides that if you act with corruptive intent, you can be prosecuted. that statute must be read to effect the president s decision
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