credible about that conversation? >> well, i think the credibility -- the most credible part is the fact the president would deem to ask such a question, it's sototally seeing president going straightforward, he's such a straightforward man, straightforward asking comey whether he's under investigation. he wants to know. he also wants to know at the same time he's trying to decide whether comey stays in the job. keep in mind, that's when the conversation is happening at the same time. so i believe that and i can also believe that comey would find a way to answer the question, at least in the moment of what is true. and like you said, that answer might have changed. >> might have chanced. he prepped. he prepped before his conversations with the president, we're told, through a source familiar. >> right. >> before he went in there, he would want to have an idea, what could i be asked, how can i answer it? what i'm told is that it was a more nuanced conversation than him just saying -- >> right. >> -- you know, you are --