Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says if President Trump recorded his conversations with former FBI Director James Comey he should hand them over to Congress.
The New York Democrat made the comments Sunday during an appearance on CNN's State of the Union.
Schumer was referring to a tweet from Trump last week where he said that Comey better hope there are no tapes of conversations between the president and Comey before he starts leaking to the press.
It hasn't been determined if the president is recording conversations in the Oval Office, but if that happened, Schumer has a warning.
“If there are tapes, the president should turn them over, immediately, of course. To destroy them would be a violation of law but he should turn them over to Congress and to the investigators. If there are no tapes, he should apologize to both Jim Comey and the American people for misleading them.”
Schumer also continued the call Democrats have been making to appoint a special prosecutor into alleged Russian meddling in U.S. politics.
And the senator says he's disappointed more Republicans in the Senate are not joining him in the request for a special prosecutor to be appointed.
“There’s so much factual fabrication and then backsliding and contradiction; we need our Republican colleagues, not every day, but on the occasions when it’s necessary, such as for a special prosecutor, such as what’s happened in the last week to speak out, because this is country, this is an issue of country, not party.”
Schumer made his comments to CNN, and also to NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday from the WXXI studios in Rochester. The senator was in the region over the weekend, stopping by various commencement ceremonies, including St. John Fisher and the College at Brockport on Saturday, and Nazareth College on Sunday.
