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Trump Tweet Raises Questions About Secret White House Recordings

Barbara Perry is the director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia's Miller Center. We called her up earlier today for some historical perspective on presidents recording their conversations.

Barbara Perry

Ultimately, Comey firing was justified, says Mary Kate Cary

Senior Fellow for Presidential Studies at UVA’s Miller Center and former speechwriter for President George H.W. Bush joins Michelle Makori

Mary Kate Cary

Could Donald Trump’s firing of James Comey lead to impeachment?

“If [Trump] is shutting down an attempt to investigate his activities or those of his administration and or his campaign it seems to me that would be obstruction of justice,” Perry said.

Barbara Perry

Placing Trump's Firing Of Comey In Historical Context

Historians Brian Balogh (@historyfellow) and Nathan Connolly (@ndbconnolly) tell Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson that to fully understand the relationship between a president and FBI director, one must look further back to J. Edgar Hoover, who oversaw the bureau under six presidents from 1924 to 1972.

Brian Balogh

‘Slavery by Another Name’ screening, talk in Jervis Saturday

The documentary film ‘Slavery by Another Name’ will be shown and discussed at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 13 in the handicapped-accessible auditorium at Jervis Public Library Auditorium, 613 N. Washington St.

Douglas Blackmon

Trump fires FBI Director James Comey

"There’s a lot of overheated rhetoric. If you listened last night and this morning to the left, this is a coup, this is a constitutional crisis, we are at DefCon 4. It is just out of control. And I really don’t think there is cause for that. The president had the authority to do what he did."

Mary Kate Cary