get word by the house the end of this week possibly if there are tapes, tape recordings of the president's conversations with the fired fbi director james comey. why is it taking so long to get -- to set the record straight? are there recordings or aren't there record ings? >> well, we don't know for sure, wolf. the president suggested he wanted to leave all of us in suspense. the truth might be that there aren't any tapes at all and he just doesn't want to fess up to that because he suggested as a threat to james comey there were tapes of their conversations. he might be worried whether it would make him look bad if there weren't tapes. it might be more of just a plain legal explanation, the white house maybe needs to get their things together to get prepared. they have a request from the house intelligence committee for any tapes if they do exist. but what's interesting, an interesting sort of clue as to whether there might be any tapes, is when "wall street journal" through a foia request