colleague jim acosta who reached out to the former obama folks who said that the former president certainly did not tape conversations in the oval office so if, and it's a big if -- if the current president is recording conversations, he's not using a system that was set up by his predecessor. but that was an unusual comment that roiled things at the end of an already difficult week. remember this is a week when the president's communications team because they were left out of the loop on his decision to fire director comey was left scrambling. they were left scrambling to come up with a good way to explain the president's move to the press and more broadly to the american people. we got a lot of changing storylines and even heard the vice president go up to capitol hill and say seven times the president was acting on recommendations of the justice department. of deputy attorney general rod