he is aware of, so i think there's more work to be done before we can rest assured that there are no recordings of any conversation between the president and james comey. >> so you're not ruling out the possibility, congressman, when the president said this tweet, i did not make and do not have any such recordings, you're not ruling out necessarily the possibilities that others have the possession -- possess and made those kinds of recordings, his conversations with comey? >> well, i have to assume that this tweet was carefully worked on with his lawyers. and it doesn't rule out the possibility that there are tapes. it only says i didn't make them and i'm not aware of them. it doesn't speak for the rest of the white house in terms of whether others in the white house may have made tapes. so i don't think we can accept this as a complete answer, and of course the president hasn't explained why, if there were never tapes why he made that suggestion to begin with. was he trying to intimidate james comey? was he trying to discourage