asked him to produce the tapes by the end of the week and it s a test of the efficacy of the russian investigationer have success the credibility of the president. if he produces them what s in them could corroborate his or comey s story. if he doesn t, can congress yell and scream and beat their chests or subpoena something they re not sure exists and the question where does this go from there. this is a push/pull and we ll see how this happens on the issue of the tapes and the question if they re not there, not produced, how many times can the president tweet about something in air quotes, wire tapping, tapes, and people defend him as this is a slip of the twitter finger and not poor judgment in terms of trying to divert attention away. he said whatever the outcome of the tapes we ll be disappointed. we ll see what happens. what does that mean? jeff? this week the president is going west of the mississippi for for the first time since he s within in office which is unusual, five
like wire tapping. so i don t know why we would believe the letter absent some verification. chief legal correspondent for msnbc, we re going to leave it there. up next we re talking about how it seems that all of these roads lead to russia. president trump meeting in the oval office right now with sergey lavrolavrov. what is the status of the investigation into russia and the tie to the trump administration. i m going to ask a member of the house intelligence committee when we come back. is helping power autonomous cars and the 5g network they connect to. with this, won t happen in the future. thanks, jim. there s some napkins in the glovebox. okay, but why would i need a napkin? you could have just told me a bump was coming. we know the future. because we re building it. i use what s alrey inside me to reach my goals.
have the same kind of relationship with theresa may, angela merkel who actually lead democracies that are allied to us us. it goes back to your theory about business where i don t have to worry about congress or parliament who gets in my way. that s what these guys can do. we shall see. we ve got more to go. the president s pressed to back up his wire tapping claims against president obama. all finished. umm. you wouldn t want your painter to quit part way, i think you missed a spot. so when it comes to pain relievers, why put up with just part of a day? aleve, live whole not part. you want this color over the whole house?
believe exist. while mccain is praising, you know, his national security team, he s also casting doubt on the real efocacy of house and senate investigations and questions whether it can be a credible investigation. yeah. and i think that s an excellent concern. i would agree with that. let s just imagine for a second, and i don t believe this to be true, but let s imagine there is something behind these whoite house claims of wire tapping. well, which is more important? trying to find out whether somebody was masks or unmasked or there was some strange thing ha happened to the surveillance or did russia try to influence the out of come these elections. that s a much more important question. there s got to be an independent way to get to that that is
in talks to get him here, although there are concerns that remain with steel about his safety. were he to speak with investigators and any response from the trump administration. it s happening as chairman devin nunes on the house side remains embattled after revelations of a secret source meeting on white house grounds last week. here to talk about it all is our panel. i m bring in amy linsky, david muir and alex side swal from nbc news. let me play for you what adam schiff and what jim himes, two powerful democrats had to say this morning about all of this. we re going to be listening let me parra phrase for you what he s talking about. essentially saying that the fact as schiff said, the fact that directors rebutted the claims of illegal wire tapping by president obama has something to do with the cancellation of the