Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20170228:16:45:00
Right now. but in either case, what happens in the white house is drafts are passed around. drafts are commented on. in our white house, the president would go through the speech a few times. sometimes i watch president trump and it seems as if he's reading copy for the first time. he comments on a line. he'll read a line and say that's very true. as if he had just heard it. but on this kind of speech, it pays to practice because there will be such a big audience and we did do that. and the president would make -- and it's while he was going through those run-throughs. so it was a rigorous day...