perjury, the future president said i just wanted him to think i was recording him. of course i didn t actually record him. tapes? what tapes? i m not equipped to tape anybody. who tapes people. so this is a thing he does. he has done this for years. there it is, black and white in a court deposition. that is why it was not totally out of left field when the president raised the specter last month that there might be tape recordings from his one on one meetings with james comey at the white house. the president asked james comey to pledge his loyalty to the president in one of those one on one meetings. for weeks the president and the white house itself has been fuelling speculation of whether the tapes might exist. the house intelligence committee sent a formal letter demanding that the white house turn over those tapes to the committee. they set a deadline of tomorrow and so now today the president admitted that no, of course there are no tapes.
deposition he was caught up in a lawsuit that was going bad. he was suing his biographer because he didn t like what ended up in the biography. and in the course of the lawsuit the biographer incidentally reporter tim o brien who was a guest on our show saying that tim o brien told him during the course of the conversations, he said over and over again he was tape-recording their conversations. in the course of the lawsuit trump gets asked about that under oath on the record in an official deposition. mr. trump, you told tim o brian over and over again that you were tape recording your conversations with him. did you actually tape-record those conversations? and despite all of the times that he priestly said it, when he had to answer that question at risk of perjury, the future president said i just wanted him to think i was recording him. of course i didn t actually record him. tapes? what tapes? i m not equipped to tape anybody. who tapes people? [ laughs ]
now megyn kelly, yes, no, maybe? maybe. but it s not clear. the law requires two-party consent in florida. if i want to tape you, we both have to consent to it. 12 states have two party. that s exactly right. but if you can prove the person you taped, even though you department get his express consent didn t have a reasonable expectation of privacy because it was an event of 150 people at a fund raiser, held in a private home, but not exactly a private event. two people talking. bill: so this is on the margin here. it s on the margin. bill: in florida and 11 other states, in order to secretly tape somebody, you have to have dual consent? yes. but in the other states, duke whatever the hell you want. tape anybody at any time, anywhere, there is no expectation. that s horrible. and the federal law, you can tape anybody you want. uh-huh.
now megyn kelly, yes, no, maybe? maybe. but it s not clear. the law requires two-party consent in florida. if i want to tape you, we both have to consent to it. 12 states have two party. that s exactly right. but if you can prove the person you taped, even though you department get his express consent didn t have a reasonable expectation of privacy because it was an event of 150 people at a fund raiser, held in a private home, but not exactly a private event. two people talking. bill: so this is on the margin here. it s on the margin. bill: in florida and 11 other states, in order to secretly tape somebody, you have to have dual consent? yes. but in the other states, duke whatever the hell you want. tape anybody at any time, anywhere, there is no expectation. that s horrible. and the federal law, you can tape anybody you want. uh-huh.
now megyn kelly, yes, no, maybe? maybe. but it s not clear. the law requires two-party consent in florida. if i want to tape you, we both have to consent to it. 12 states have two party. that s exactly right. but if you can prove the person you taped, even though you department get his express consent didn t have a reasonable expectation of privacy because it was an event of 150 people at a fund raiser, held in a private home, but not exactly a private event. two people talking. bill: so this is on the margin here. it s on the margin. bill: in florida and 11 other states, in order to secretly tape somebody, you have to have dual consent? yes. but in the other states, duke whatever the hell you want. tape anybody at any time, anywhere, there is no expectation. that s horrible. and the federal law, you can tape anybody you want. uh-huh.