just stop talking, or you might walk into a perjury trap. you ve got senator james langford of oklahoma saying that the conversations that the president allegedly had with comey were very inappropriate. susan collins of maine saying just show us the tapes, stop giving us mixed messages. mike lee of utah about comey s testimony, asked if he believed him, saying he doesn t strike me as someone who would lie under oath. if you re sitting in the white house this morning, are you worried about this growing divide? i would be, if i were donald trump, that you re going to start losing too many republicans. i mean, the tape issue here is just incredible. i mean, here, i spent a lot of my career, poppy, i was director of the eisenhower center. i wrote a lot of books on world war ii. donald trump constantly talks about douglas macarthur and general patton. can you imagine them playing mamby-pamby games with tapes, like maybe i have them, maybe i don t, and the clownish routine, hijacking all
e we had business records, banking records, receipts for payments, et cetera. so we simply put questions in front of him that he had to answer that ran contrary to this long history of in public. the other thing you have dealt with is the tape issue. you didn t then donald trump say what did he say? when we d speak on the phone, we spoke frequently, multiple times a week. he said you don t mind if i record this. and i d say no. he said i may be recording this. i said that s fine. i was recording things too. but he wasn t. he wasn t. we finally during the deposition said to him, you said on multiple times that you were taping me. obviously, we wanted some of those tapes ourselves for the litigation. and he had to say, no, i didn t have a taping system in trump tower and have never had one. you re convinced even though
he has a problem. the white house has to continue to get the message out. so many wonderful things they re working on. faa, this week, huge feather in his cap to get that legislation passed, but he has to get those back to the forefront, and the continually drag, whether it be russian interference, the republican administration has to show what they do better than democrats, that this continually drag and beat isn t helpful for the administration to get things done. paul kellen, the president, somebody has to know if there are tapes or not. somebody knows this. and yet it is dragging out and the president as we heard him is saying you re going to hear shortly, he s building this drama. my question is why is there not a clear cut answer and what is the point of dragging it out? who benefits? you know, martin, i agree that it is very strange. i think it is downright bizarre that the president s playing games about this tape issue. i mean, he sent out a tweet
even before this tape came out this was the defining night. he has to find a big way to deal with this tape issue as soon as possible and so he can move onto other issues. those e-mails, great opportunity for trump. i want a hems atmosphere of borders. on this front, there s some in the past 36 hours, republican establishment saying they will write this mike pence. you had people saying that. mike pence, even though he didn t appear on stage yesterday made it clear that he is not going anywhere. he s going to stand by his man. he s going to be on the campaign trail in different swing states next week campaigning for him. mike pence looks at the same polls that some of these leaders are looking at. that is donald trump is doing well among republican voters.
diplomat. those who want to continue the war until the bitter end try to stifle positive sentiment in the opposition to prevent dialogue. state department officials on three continent have been scrambling to persuade leaders from the syrian rebels not to boycott meeting with secretary kerry scheduled for rome later this [ loss of audio ] bret: that was james rosen traveling with the secretary of state kerry. sorry for the tape issue. south african olympic sprinter oscar pistorius presented himself to authorities. he is abiding by conditions of his bail. he is free pending trial. on a charge he murdered his girlfriend op valentine s day. pistorius said he mistook the model for an intruder. we now have an end date for the castro family rein over cuba. raul castro says the five-year term will be his last.