on this investigation into formal national security adviser, michael flynn. one of the biggest news of dren comey that he thinks the president s team was a liar. insisting the president was not a liar. that s what we saw sarah hucklebee sanders do. he says the president is not a liar and it is insulting to bring that up. the prospect of whether there is a recording system in the white house whether there are tapes of his conversation with the president, she did not answer that. she said she has no idea if t s there is a taping system in the white house. you can bet that question is not going away. we can find out the answer. thank you very much on that. we are fortunate of three senators on the intelligence committee is joining us tonight. i want to play the key moment
back to the issue of tapes, john, if there were tapes wouldn t we already know about it? it s not possible that he could have it and be hiding it and it never showed up. we d already know, wouldn t we? the easy answer is go to the secret service. they sweep the white house on a often many times a day to make sure there s no certificate up tissuous taping going on. the telephone is the one that obama has. it has the capability of recording. all you have to do is hit a switch and the voicemail becomes a recording system. yes, go ahead, april. on the secret service issue, i did a secret service about stapg for security or for any purposes and some persons in the secret service says there s nothing in there they use to tape. they don t have any recording advices at all, visual or audio
a special counsel, close quote. reporter: so anderson on the one hand they re looking at comey as a credible witness because he said the president was not under investigation at certain points on the other hand questioning his credibility. they took issue with a number of things comey said in his testimony. they re denying trump ever demanded loyalty from james comey and denying he ever asked comey to back off into the investigation of former security advisor michael flynn. one of the big pieces of news was director comey saying he thinks the president and his team are liars. the white house was insistent the president is not a liar. reporter: certainly not a good day when you have to make that statement as a white house spokesperson. that s what we saw sara huckabee sanders do today. she said the president is not a liar. when she was asked about something else james comey mentioned the prospect whether there is a recording system in this white house and whether
where we tried to ask the president questions. in the last few seconds they did give us the two-minute warning so this may be happening fairly quickly. unanswered questions that may need to be answered, one, does the presidents have a recording system that allows him to record conversations at the white house. and what does he make of james comey repeatedly calling him a liar during that sworn testimony yesterday. and what about this notion and you heard this from marc kasowitz that james comey is somehow a leaker. my expectation is you ll hear the president go to that talking point during this news conference because they feel it s a potent weapon to go after james comey in terms of his credibility, of course. there are questions about whether he can even call james comey a leaker since it wasn t a classified information and it was his personal memo to disclose. he wasn t under any executive privilege order invoked by the president. but all of this is going to play out here in a cou
is not somehow taking over the white house. she also took questions about a recording system since that came out through the questioning today. with director comey, the former director. she said she does not know of any recording system and in a lighthearted way said she ll look under the couches. also newsworthy is the discussion of attorney general jeff sessions, for days, we re told that the top people had not spoken with the president about his level of confidence with the attorney general. today, sarah huckabee sanders said the president has absolute confidence in his cabinet, inclusive of the attorney general. so, that s a bit of a change with the trump white house backing up sessions. thank you. nicolle wallace, just another thursday at the white house. yeah. i would love to know what the president s dealings with the situation between qatar and