national security reporter ken dilanian and "washington post" white house bureau chief robert -- philip druker. the whole exchange over whether he did or did not have recordings was ridiculous at best and adam schiff says was this an effort to intimidate james comey or an effort to silence james comey? that seems like the piece of the self-inflicted damage that trump is still is still paying for. >> yeah. it's important to remember that original tweet announcement he made that on may 12th. may 11th is when "the new york times" reported that explosive story about the one-on-one dinner that comey had with trump that detailed trump's request of comey demands for loyalty. and so this seems to be interpreted at the time as trump trying to intimidate, to pressure, to threaten comey about leaking to the press by mentioning the tapes thing. it went on for 5 1/2 weeks. the president and the senior white house officials including sean spicer refused to tell the public whether or not these tapes existed until we found out today that of course they don't. >> of course they don't. ken dilanian, you have so