and anytime a foreign national enters the oval office, it s a risk. but that vulnerability has been identified by the secret service and there s mitigating action that they take. the program is technical surveillance countermeasures. it s a very comprehensive and technical program to search and hunt out listening devices, whether it s in the oval office or anywhere that the president goes. so this is something that has happened, you know, administration after administration, so in this instance, i ve got to say that security policies and procedures were followed and there was no issue with allowing that photographer in. this is just an optics issue. jonathan, thank you. it is indeed, 24 hours after what happened. michelle, thank you, as well. coming up next on cnn, president trump praising tivo as one of the greatest inventions of all time. the crystal chandelier he personally purchased to spruce up the white house. some of these details from a new time magazine interview.
including jeff flake of arizona has not ruled it out, murkowski. but nobody s embracing that idea. even john mccain who was critical of the firing and does support the special committee. i asked him specifically whether he supports a special prosecutor. he is not there yet. you mentioned that comey hearing on tuesday, a classified briefing, if mr. comey does agree to attend. the question is will they allow any will they have actually an open hearing where the public can view it? we don t know the answer to that question yet. i tried to ask richard burr, the chairman of the committee that on the way into this hearing right now. he didn t take any questions. he said he would talk after the hearing. so we ll see what he has to say then, but that s a big question going forward, will we ever hear from james comey? will senators get to question him and will the public get to listen to what he has to say? look, he can expect to get a prime place in the president s tivo there. that will ex
to stop putting people on tv who have no credibility. at some point it s not worth it. it s a circular conversation that goes nowhere. joining us now, editor of time magazine nancy gibbs. this week s cover story is from a nearly 100-minute interview during dinner at the white house earlier this week. how did that go? it was fascinating. inevitably this would be not only because time we spent with him in the oval office, in the private office in which he literally had tivo d the hearings that day with henry yates and clapper and wanting to show us the highlight reel but taking us through the lincoln bedroom and talking about lincoln and then quite a long time over dinner of him really wanting to provide the alternate narrative of this presidency which he is absolutely convinced is not being told and he s getting a bum deal from the
the night before president trump decided to fire james com comey, he invited three correspondents from time magazine for an intimate tour of the white house. so they were shown the golden walls. the crystal chandelier he per n personly contribuperso personally contributed. and here to talk all things tivo and ice cream i m an sxernt expert in all things. i like two scoops, too. but let s start with some of the die tails. president trump was apparently flipping lieu tthrough tivo. didn t know that still existed. and president said former director of national intelligence james clapper and former acting attorney general sally jats said the following, watch them start to choke like dogs. watch what happens. they are desperate for breath.
he felt comfortable with you guys. he showed you what was on his tivo. what did you watch? the sally yates and jim clapper testimony on monday testifying before the senate. it wasn t exactly his primetime lineup. but, you know, the president was essentially giving us his color kmem te commentary in his private dining room off the oval office pointing out when he thought senator grassley did a great job questioning or lindsey graham, he s a good questioner. then analyzes the responses to the crowd reaction. it wases almost like watching, you know, color commentary in a football game. my colleague, steve kornacki, has a question for you, zeke. everybody knows donald trump, people who don t like him, people who like him, know him as the character first from the reality show, now obviously now as the president of the united states, but in the exposure you had, did you see any aspects of his permisonality, that you saw side of donald trump that the rest of us watching him through tv a