one administration source told me, send the initial tweet about tapes to force james comey to tell the truth, the truth that he was talking about at the time was, get out there that i'm not under investigation. the events that he sparked with that tweet ended with comey getting out a lot more than maybe the president bargained for, including allegedly that the president told james comey to drop the flynn investigation, which now means there's a special prosecutor that actually potentially is looking into the president. so, you know, this is such a cycle that as david said, there's so many people who are close to the president who were just dying that he actually started in his quest, in his desperation for the public to know that he wasn't under investigation going as far as just saying things willie nilly like he better hope there aren't tapes to try to call his bluff.