it. so he s trying to distance himself. it s just it is a total what we call false exculpatory, what he says about his knowledge. it looks false because it is. and so i think, again, if he had a lawyer advising him, it was not a good lawyer. and, jill, the idea that this is helpful to the president himself alone saying this is a way of saying that the president isn t guilty of anything, i still can t think of any reason to put that in a tweet, even if that s what the president believed, that he wasn t guilty of anything. he s not getting very good legal advice. and something she said also reminded me of why, for example, rosemary woods was never indicted for perjury. she testified she erased 18.5 minutes and described how she did it and the testimony showed that that did not happen.
it. so he s trying to distance himself. it s just it is a total what we call false exculpatory, what he says about his knowledge. it looks false because it is. and so i think, again, if he had a lawyer advising him, it was not a good lawyer. and, jill, the idea that this is helpful to the president himself alone saying this is a way of saying that the president isn t guilty of anything, i still can t think of any reason to put that in a tweet, even if that s what the president believed, that she whe wasn t g of anything. he s not getting very good legal advice. and something she said also reminded me of why, for example, rosemary woods was never indicted for perjury. she testified she erased 18.5 minutes and described how she did it and the testimony showed that that did not happen. but we didn t indict her because
the shiny objects are distracting. let s look in a different facet of this object and ask you what your knowledge is of the current trump/cohen relationship if indeed it it can be called that these days and how much should we make of this recording apparently cutting off? i m asking for those of us old enough to remember the name rosemary woods. that s a great question about why is this such a short recording. i don t know the answerer to that. the status of the trump cohen relationship is obviously a strained onality this point. my colleague maggie haberman reported that when trump was told by the way mr. president this tape exists, his response was why would michael do that to me? so he feels betrayed by the existence hof tape i think you heard from davis s comments here that they feel as if they are being betrayed by the
but there was a catch. i was in the white house. things were fairly quiet. and i got a call to go to ron ziegler s office. i go up to ron s office thinking it s something routine and ziegler is clearing his throat a lot and is kind of rattling his coffee cup and that is when we learned about the gap in the tapes. we had been told just about three days earlier that the worst is behind us and suddenly there was an 18 1/2 minute gap in the tapes and all hell broke loose again. the conversation in question took place three days after the watergate burglars were caught and the watergate prosecutor thought it was important. we know the 18 1/2 minute gap was a conversation about watergate because it was with haldeman and the president and haldeman was a meticulous note taker and he took notes. the president s personal secretary, rosemary woods, was recalled to explain how she accidentally erased 18 minutes of a conversation with the president three days after the
mrs. woods used the machine to show how it happened. when i asked her to demonstrate, she pushed the button, kept her foot on and she supposedly reached back about six feet to get the telephone. her foot came off the pedal just with the mere movement. there was just no way it was believable. the white house intention that the talk between the president and haldeman was accidently erased would give more ammunition to the president s critics. to hear something that was so obviously untrue changed a lot of the american public s view of the whole situation. rosemary woods would stand by her story. bob woodward would later write the 18 1/2 minute gap became a symbol for nixon s entire watergate problem. the truth had been deleted. the truth was missing. -and we welcome back gary, who s already won three cars, two motorcycles, a boat, and an r.v. i would not want to pay that insurance bill.