discussions were going on from the day he announced his candidacy to the day he won. earlier today the story started changing and evolving. he said the president had no recollecti recollection, discussions since there were no records documenting any of the conversations and of course it was later that he released the full, more formal statement that said that his comments about the discussions, about trump tower moscow and didn't represent the timing and circumstances and in that same statement he went back to insisting that the proposal was always in the early stages, never advanced beyond the nonbinding letter of intent so finally trying to go back to square one but really creating a lot of confusion in the process. >> do we know from the sources you're talking to, is there any strategy behind the quickly