Trump is always shooting off his mouth. Via the AP:
In the wake of James Comey’s riveting testimony, congressional investigators say they want to know if the White House has recordings of Trump’s discussions with the former FBI director. If it does, they want to listen to them.
Trump added to the mystery Friday by saying he will address the question of tape recordings “sometime in the very near future,” while warning reporters they would be disappointed.
On Friday, the House Intelligence Committee sent letters to White House counsel Don McGahn, asking “whether any White House recordings or memoranda of Comey’s conversations with President Trump now exist or have in the past.” The committee said it wants those materials by June 23.
Rep. Adam Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said his committee is now focusing on verifying Comey’s testimony.
“If there are tapes of the conversations at the White House, we’d like to know,” said Schiff, D-Calif. “Now is the time for a lot of hard spade work.”
Verification of Comey’s claims are seen as an important next step in determining if congressional investigators should start focusing on possible obstruction of justice. The former FBI director’s testimony could also prompt an expansion of the ongoing investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller, said Carole Rendon, former U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
Rendon, now in private practice at BakerHostetler, said she expects that, following Comey’s testimony, “the investigation will expand to include possible obstruction of justice.”