house correspondent, take us through this. >> reporter: hi wolf, it's been a bizarre month and a half since the president posted that suggested tweet back in may. for weeks now, white house officials, including the president, refused to answer what should be a yes or no question, does the president have recordings of his conversations with james comey? now senior administration official told cnn it became clear today that the president would have to answer this question before tomorrow's deadline set by the house intelligence committee to turn over any tapes. so now we finally have an answer, but also more questions. it was perhaps the most consequential tweet of his presidency so far. three days after he fired fbi director james comey, the president wrote, james comey better hope that there are no tapes of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press. a tweet comey testified he hoped was true. >> i've seen the tweet about tapes. lordy, i hope there are tapes. >> reporter: 41 days after that