a two party consent state of florida if he was recording something in florida he would have to have the consent of the person recording. washington and new york you can record. that s right and all presidents tape some amounts of international calls fdr had tapes works kennedy you mentioned in the package of cuban missile crisis. it s a record. but the phone is different if you re calling donald trump you got to think somebody is listening in on the white house phone but a private dinner one one-on-one what an intrusion of comey s privacy if he had done that. brian was mention attention the letter asking for the tapes unless it s a subpoena the white house doesn t have to go along with it. and it was nixon s refusal to hand them over the subpoena that that is what led to downfall. the big difference nixon didn t want anybody to know not henry kissinger not anyone. it was secret donald trump is kind of bragging you know i
nothing. if only we could find legal scholar allen dershowitz. thankfully he is with us and cnn senior legal analyst jeffrey tuber we heard sean spicer is that accurate do you believe the the president has been completely appropriate in dealing withes james comey. everybody wants to know they re under investigation every time i i have a contract i try every way to find out whether they re under investigation. i know they re not supposed to tell me that doesn t mean i shouldn t try. and sometimes they do give me hints for example they ll say well if i haven t gotten a target letter then ushld know he is not a target. or if you ve gotten a subject letter you know so you do get information but the president is different of course the president also a. also at a dinner where according the president james comey basically saying he wants to stay on i guess that adds to the dinner of i would like to stay on in my job you know are you loyal to me a am i under investigation? well he
former white house staffers tell us the technical capability exists for the president to tape phone conversations. but that s different from a built in white house taping system. president kennedy used one as did president johnson. here trying to convince someone to be hayes campaign manager. any way you want to do it but i want you to do it. among nixon s legendary recording a 1972 oval office conversation on how to push back on the watergate investigation. what the hell did mitchell know about this thing. this one is often referred to as the smoking gun tape. that white house taping system was shut down in the summer of 197 at the height of the watergate scandal. the american people, press or the media didn t know anything about the taping systems. until alexander butterfield a white house aide in july of 1973 told the senate watergate committee told the staff that tlfrs a taping system.
better hope there are no tapes of conversations before he starts leaking to the press. i don t see that as a threats. everything is so overblown let s go back to the blackmail this whole blackmail ning is utter nonsense this they were afraid flynn was going to be blackmailed that s east 80 sally yates g guess to flynn and say by the way we know that you had this phone call with the russians no more blackmail. it s over. so why are they talking about blackmail why are they putting the responsibility on other people it s the easiest theng to indiana the blackmail you just tell him the russia beens have nothing over him. that tweet is a good example how we are normalizing behavior that would have been seen as completelily outrageous from by any other president. i don t know if you want to call it a threat. i think it s certainly a taunt. it is. it s inappropriate for a president to behave that way towards one who was until 48 hours ago a very senior government official. i don t kn
people with what he is doing on their behalf what he is doing to keep the nation safe what he is doing to grow jobs and yet we see time and time again an attempt parse every little word and make it more of a game of gocha as opposed to really figure out what the policies are, why something is being pursued or what the update is on this. i think that s where there is a lot of dma. i don t think it s something that just alone the president feels. well keep in mind it is a little rich just generally that the president chief spokesman is complaining about being held accountable to what he says especially about something so freightwood the controversy as the charge firing a guy in charge of investigating himself and associates. it s something to hear just hours after scene sean spicer and so many others as including as we said the president of the united states spent nearly two days putting out what with he know were phoney talking points on why director comey was fired. . president tru