the weekend by a group of fbi officials. is that someone you think you could get behind that would get bipartisan support? i think we re really early in the process. this is moving along at a very rapid pace. i d like to see who all the candidates are. their background as well as particularly i think what is important are the hearings. when the senate will be able to question those individuals and ask them pointedly about their ability to act autonomously from the president, act even from congress. this is supposed to be a ten-year term. we want to ensure the person is able to execute. before i let you go, some republicans and some democrats saying the president mentioned the prospect there might be tapes of his conversations, recordings with james comey. do you buy into that and should he release them if there are, in fact, recordings? i couldn t say whether this president or not has been taping conversations.
critics? do you think there s a real possibility that he has set up a taping system? i think it s important to note that with president trump when he was in business and when he was a candidate, people who worked for him largely assumed that their conversations with him were being taped in his new york offices. people generally worked under or that assumption. so the idea that he would be taping conversations is not out of the realm of possibility. it s much different when you re talking about conversations in the oval office. but the mere fact that we re having this conversation really extraordinary, and you have to put it, again, in some context. this is a president who was extremely frustrated with the way that the rollout of comey s firing was handled. he felt like he needed to step in there, he needed to be his own spokesperson. but in doing so both in the interviews that he did and his tweets, he only created more headaches and potentially legal makes for his white house. chris
just trolling the media and his critics? do you think there s a real possibility that he has set up a taping system? i think it s important to note that with president trump when he was in business and when he was a candidate, people who worked for him largely assumed that their conversations with him were being taped in his new york offices. people generally worked under or that assumption. so the idea that he would be taping conversations is not out of the realm of possibility. it s much different when you re talking about conversations in the oval office. but the mere fact that we re having this conversation really extraordinary, and you have to put it, again, in some context. this is a president who was extremely frustrated with the way that the rollout of comey s firing was handled. he felt like he needed to step in there, he needed to be his own spokesperson. but in doing so both in the interviews that he did and his tweets, he only created more headaches and potentially legal
critics? do you think there s a real possibility that he has set up a taping system? i think it s important to note that with president trump when he was in business and when he was a candidate, people who worked for him largely assumed that their conversations with him were being taped in his new york offices. people generally worked under or that assumption. so the idea that he would be taping conversations is not out of the realm of possibility. it s much different when you re talking about conversations in the oval office. but the mere fact that we re having this conversation really extraordinary, and you have to put it, again, in some context. this is a president who was extremely frustrated with the way that the rollout of comey s firing was handled. he felt like he needed to step in there, he needed to be his own spokesperson. but in doing so both in the interviews that he did and his tweets, he only created more headaches and potentially legal makes for his white house. chris
if james comey now unfettered by requirements of leading the fbi wants to speak on the record in public with helpful and add v adversarial questions put to him by members of congress, that s our institutions working. i hope he would take them up. from the clip you played, christi, sounded like it might have been a logistical problem, perhaps wants to confer with his lawyers, wrap up loose ends from having been fired as director of the fbi. i hope it is nothing more serious than that, and that he does intend to show up and i hope congress will take him up on it. remind us of the tweet yesterday when the president tweeted out james comey better hope there are no tapes of our conversations before he starts leaks to the press. that started a whirlwind of is the president taping conversations behind closed doors in the white house. it has been characterized as equating to nixonian era.