introduced me to cy hersh. cy hersh then so would me all of this information. i sent that privately to the rich family. they said, you know what, ed, if you ever have anything concrete, let us know. then i said why don t you hire a private detective. and they said, we would love to. we can t afford one. you know what, chris? you don t know the me but a lot of people out there do. you know what i said? i said i ll pay for it. now, i m not a rich guy. i m not some rich donor. i don t know why you guys keep saying that because i m not rich at all. i said you know what? i d be happy to pay for it. i thought as most people would say, no thank you, we don t know the you. they said yes. and i said, oh. i had no idea how much a private detective cost. i started asking, who knows anybody who is a private detective. i got recommended rod wheeler by somebody. i have an e-mail exchange that i ll share with you. they said why don t you meet rod
say. he wanted whistleblower status according to rod wheeler because he had a lot of stuff to expose and rod wheeler had been talking to him. matter of fact, rod wheeler s notes with joey day la camera is on a website called debunking rod wheeler s claims.com. it s all listed there. rod wheeler was trying to help him because he was in a lot of trouble to get whistleblower status. what does that have to do with saying that the white house is interested? why wouldn t you say day la camera. why did you say white house? what i said was rod wheeler asked me to see what we could do to see if i could help this guy. i made some calls. they never an talked to anybody at the white house. i ve never talked to president trump in my life. president trump nor the white house has anything to do with any of this. as you dissect this, i m going to give you the honest answer. all of the stuff is little innuendos.
what is your response? not not true. you have to understand, rod wheeler is dead broke. rod wheeler and i can send these text messages and you can send them out to everybody. had been asking me to get him a job or help, find a way to get him into the trump administration, not the administration but a job there. i probably have five text messages from rod saying that. okay? and the part that i heard a second ago i think is really important. the voice mail that i left for him about the full attention of the white house, that had to do with joey day la camera, the dc detective and the dc detective wanted to come out and talk because he has a lot of information, and rod. why would a dc why would a dc detective equal the white house in your voice mail? well, that s what i m trying to explain to you. but help us understand that part. how does a dc detective get coded white house? what does he have to do with the white house. that s what i m trying to
i just left. i thought it was cool. did he say i ll follow up with you about this. no, he had no interest at all. were you disappointed? no, i thought it was cool being in the white house. but ed, you went there to tell him something you thought was important. you wanted him to know about this tape. i wasn t disappointed. you just thought it was cool to be there. he said ed, you know what? i m new here. i don t know. but i can t do anything. nobody here can do anything. you got to whatever. we just let it go. he didn t tell to you keep him aware of anything or anything like that? no, he had no interest. he didn t even know i was going to talk about anything. we ended up talking about other things, about being in here, how cool it was. the tv was on. there was some game on. we talked about that. rod wheeler did not talk about asking for a job. i told rod come along and meet him. maybe somehow you can smooze and get to develop a relationship with him.
now. there s a lot of spin out there. let s try to create a record of fact going in order of what matters most here. the suggestion that the president was aware of the story, he may have seen it in advance, that he had a profound interest in its advancement, what is your response? not not true. you have to understand, rod wheeler is dead broke. rod wheeler and i can send these text messages and you can accepted them out to everybody had been asking me to get him a job or help, find a way to get him into the trump administration, not the administration but a job there. i probably have five text messages from rod saying that. okay? and the part that i heard a second ago i think is really important. the voice mail that i left for him about the full attention of the white house, that had to do with joey day la camera, the dc detective and the dc detective wanted to come out and talk because he has a lot of information, and rod. why would a dc why would a