comey to drop the investigation of flynn among other things. he asked dan coates to intervene to get the fbi to back off flynn and he asked nsa mike roggeers to publicly deny existence of everyday of collusion with russia. the difference between this and nixon on the broadest possible brush here. nixon knew he had done a lot of things wrong that could come out. lots of things are on the record. i did a lot of digging, myself, from the national archives. nixon told his people to go in and steal everything from brookeings. he said to go in and make it look like a democrat job. all this is on the tames. nixon knew all that could come out. could you tell u casualty dirty tricks, going after the script it was all there. so he had reason to play defense. we have yet to find the clarity of what trump is hiding. no, xats exactly right. that s exactly right. it s looking increasingly like there are tames. you don t know the content that might be on the tapes.
his decisions, is within the realm of executive privilege. the most powerful assertion requires there to be something about the president s seeking information for which to make a decision. and if that s the case, then it fits within its definition. it is most powerful when it is the congress trying to invade the executive branch s deliberative process. it is least powerful in a criminal investigation, as we learned in the nixon tames. i ll not the lawyer. you are. not only is the president tweeting but specifically, the president. james comey, you d better hope there are no tapes. there s this idea of waiving any executive privilege. when he said it publicly. is that correct? so executive privilege has the last name privilege. the first name executive.
obstruction of justice charge. but comparing the nixon and trump investigation at the earlier stages, as a prosecutor, i like the trump case better. nixon used go betweens. president trump, he doesn t have a problem going to the fbi director, the director of the national security agency and saying can you help me out? so we re a long way away, there was a smoking gun, tape in the nixon case. you know, trump has bragged about there being tapes. those tames might being as unhelpful to trump as they were to nixon. nixon sat on the skillet for a year and a half. sources tell nbc news that president trump is expected to retain a private attorney on matters related to the russian matters. let s talk about michael flynn. michael flip said things that were directly untrue, like i didn t get any money from
number one. number two, i don t know how that got there. pause i didn t ask that question. what about the idea that from a tweet you said there might be tape recordings. that i can t talk about. i won t talk about that. all i want is for comey to be hon e. i hope he will be. i m sure he will be. he will not talk about those tames. let s get to justice correspondent pete ryan. let s start first off with that dinner. is donald trump, the president s accounts correct? well, there were two peel in the room. we we heard from one and friends from the other. we have not we heard from james comey about this. we haven t we heard from him directly or indirectly since he was fired on tuesday. he hasn t responded to the interview. what his friends say and i have to give credit to the new york times for first fer eting it out. his friends say comey talked to them right afterwards and before. right afterwards, he said the
worst happen. i can confirm to you from a source that terrorism specialist firearms have now arrived on scene. these forces are the elites of the firearms unit. they are specifically trained to deal with encountering terrorism incidents. just on sunday, i was done on the river tames with an exercise with the officers where they were involved. they were boarding one of these riverboat pleasure cruises where apparently the scenario as hostages on board. they train for this regularly. clearly, they have been dispatched to the scene. what they are doing at the moment is helping in this area search on the houses of parliament. you can see, there from the images, that is one of the