Republicans and Democrats agree: If Trump has tapes, hell need to turn them over to Congress

[Julian Englis]

Source: Washington Post

Lawmakers in both parties said Sunday that President Trump will need to hand over any recordings of conversations in the White House if such a taping system does exist.

Trump suggested Friday that he taped private White House conversations with then-FBI Director James B. Comey, who was abruptly fired last week, and White House officials have not confirmed or denied the existence of a recording system.

The nondenials have intensified calls by Democrats for an independent, nonpartisan special prosecutor to investigate Russian meddling in the 2016 election. And several key Republicans and Democrats said Sunday that any recordings of White House conversations will need to be preserved for congressional review.

“If there are any tapes of this conversation, they need to be turned over,” Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) told NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/republicans-and-democrats-agree-if-trump-has-tapes-hell-need-to-turn-them-over-to-congress/2017/05/14/cbfea12a-38b6-11e7-a058-ddbb23c75d82_story.html?utm_term=.9e6fc1006400

[Tanuki]

1. If he's going to claim that he doesn't have tapes, he needs to say so

under oath.

[benpollard]

2. What if he just say's "no?"

Republicans won't do anything if he says no. They'll just say that they have more important work to do and move on.

It's like when Harriet Miers and Karl Rove were subpoenaed and just didn't show up. Nothing at all happened to them

[groundloop]

3. Here it comes......18 minutes mysteriously erased by one of his staff

This shit is getting surreal.

[jmowreader]

4. Now that we have digital they'll just delete the whole thing