stream news media. so that would come with the suggestion that you should believe his tweets as they're written, as they're posted. so to have jay sekulow go on the sunday talk shows and the morning talk shows this morning and explain this away you have to come back to the simple truth, and that is when the president tweets something, the white house believes that is the gospel around here. i will tell you today that we tried to get answers to other questions, whether he has recordings of his conversations. we did not get an answer to that. the president said we would get an answer to that shortly. and also this question of whether or not he believes he can fire robert mueller, the special counsel. that question was asked time and time again today and we did not get an answer. >> the briefing today was off camera, there was no recording of audio actually allowed. what is the reasoning behind that? what justification is there? >> reporter: the reason today, and keep in mind the reason today may not be the reason