Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20190121:12:48:00
You trump? and i said well, i'm a reporter. >> and that sort of stopped him short. it takes a lot for the president to, you know, have a moment of silence but you did stop him short when you said that. you weren't who he was expect. >> no. i think he thought we kwere two sympathetic americans talking about him in paris. so when i said i'm a reporter and there was silence on the other end of the line. and at that point think he was probably as, you know, surprised about this telephone call as i had been when i picked up the phone. so then i said to him, mr. president, do you know who you're spe...