sent a letter asking about tapes and you know, and the story is that republican party remains aligned behind donald trump and there is no indication that they are going to send any such subpoena. and donald trump just fired head of the fbi because he was investigating the russia matter. the fbi will be cowed and refuse to investigate aggressively. so it could be done. the question is, will it be done? you know, rebecca, the sources have told cnn we have been reporting this that the fired fbi director james comey was uncomfortable during that one on one dinner at the white house with the president because the president pressed him for what was described as some sort of loyalty pledge which he refused to offer. the president denies ever asking for such a pledge. but he does tell fox news in a new interview today that it
refused. the white house says there was no request so who is right and would such a request be wrong? and not perfectly accurate. the president now says he moves so fast that his press team simply can t keep up saying it s not possible for them to explain his moves with perfect accuracy. he suggests ending the daily press briefings. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. backing news. once again the white house now scrambling to respond to a twitter outburst from president trump. this morning president warned that fired fbi director james connelly, quote, better hope that there are no tapes of our conversations. white house press secretary sean spicer later insist that had this is not a threat. spicer won t say if the
recusing himself, he wouldn t have recommended the firing. he should come to the house judiciary committee and explain what is going on. a few of your democratic colleagues, not many but a few, said this could potentially lead to impeachment. do you think there are grounds potentially that could lead to impeachment? wolf, the word i think we should use right now is investigation. we have investigations in house, senate and fbi but hurdles keep getting put up for those investigations. we need to hear the hurdles and what russia did and what persons were involved and if so they are held accountable. with you make reforms so that a hack like this and interference campaign like this never happens again. i think that would be most reassuring for the people. have you seen collusion? i want to make clear that
our white house correspondent sara mur me. sum it all up for our viewers. reporter: this has been a week of surprises and controversies from this white house and today was certainly no different as the president fired off a thinly veiled threat against his former fbi director and administration officials including the president himself refused to say whether he s taking secret recordings of people over in the white house. prufrm firing off an apparent threat to the ousted fbi director, trump tweeting james comey better hope that there are no tapes of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press. trump s warning coming as the president is facing scrutiny for his private conversations with comey before he was fired. today the president is refusing to explain what tapes he was referring to. and whether he s secretly recording conversations in the white house. i won t talk about that. all i want is for comey to be honest, and i hope he will be, and i m sure he will be, i hop
comey. in an extraordinary tweet, trump makes a thinly veiled threat against the fb i director he just fired days ago. it is says there is no mincing words so what did he mean? the president suggests there may be tapes of his conversations with comey but later says he can t talk about it. now lawmakers are asking for copies of any recordings of mr. trump and comey. will the white house turn them over? demanding loyalty. cnn is learning details of a white house dinner in which president trump asked fbi director comey to pledge his loyalty while comey is overseeing the investigation into ties between russia and the trump campaign. how did comey respond? and accuracy? maybe. as the president top aides keep up with the shifting narrative of firing james comey. mr. trump says he is so active it is impossible for his sur gates to be perfectly accurate. is he about to cancel all future