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Illegal leaking of information. i have no idea whether there are tapes or recordings of my conversations with james comey. u but i did not make and do not have such recordings. what's the response at the white house? >> reporter: there's a sense of sort of relief that the president has answered this question that has been really put to the top officials here over and over and over again. none of them were given the ability to answer it. either they did not know the answer or were not given the authority to answer. it ends that. part of the spin they try to put on this is they say the president...

For this to be laid to rest. >> you asked for an answer. he gave you one. >> day 154 of the trump era, a day where a massive health care bill was overshadowed by presidential tweets about nonexikpiexistent tapes. we'll talk about that. nancy pelosi comes out swinging at critics within her own party. 60% of women are wearing the wrong size pad and...

No evidence. if these two say there's no collusion evidence that they know of between the trump campaign and russia, i would want that one out too. i'll give him pass on that one. i'll wait for the evidence on that one. this one is quite final. the president tweeted this and he made everyone -- frankly i don't think people thought there were tapes but maybe there was. there's no good motive for saying this except to intimidate james comey and he had many opportunities to fix it and he doesn't. today when all the attention is on health care it's almost like he slips it in to get out of trouble....

Not only was does it appear to have been an attempt to intimidate comey, you better hope you don't have these tapes, it was a dumb attempt to do so because you're talking about a guy, one guy who has a reputation for telling the truth. one guy, president trump, who's got a reputation for not telling the truth and our new nbc wall street journal poll almost two to one say they rate him poorly for being honest rather than strongly for being honest. it's kind of like some flabby old dudewalk ugh up to the heavy weight champion saying you better watch out, i got a black belt. we now see it's a blu...

Want that. i have don't want any problem of getting the truth out there. this is a finite, this is not where there was evidence to be taken on this. he tweeted. i don't know how you can read this but trying to scare off comey to shut up. he tweeted it and did nothing about it and waited for a huge news day to slide in that he doesn't have the tapes. >> we broadly expected he would make the announcement by the end of the week. the house intelligence committee said would you please tell us what you're talking about with these tapes. tomorrow was supposed to be the day he answered. we had always ...