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His house. he was on the veranda on the phone. i waved him over. he came over and talked to me and said come in and meet the wife and kids. in a way i feel look i got real insight there because here he is not prepared. >> is it your impression he ever was considering not running for president? a lot of people thought the minute he almost beat ted cruz, he had decided that he should run for president. >> i think that he actually did -- there was a period of ambivalence for him. i think he had to think about what he could bring and also whether he had the fortitude. there was a lot of conversati...

Do to the congress the following week. and we'd also agreed at withone point to ask jim -- to neck down to brief the president and jim thought it would be better to do it alone just for the sake of discretion. and i completely agreed with that. and so we were at the -- as we were winding up the normal briefing, you know, they started drafting reince priebus did, a press release to go out about this session and wanted to say that we said that there was no impact on the election by virtue of the russian interference which we didn't say, we didn't examine that. all we had said was we saw no evide...

Say you got a phone call from then department of homeland security secretary john kelly now the chief of staff at the white house. in which he referred to the president as dishonorable and was talking about quitting. you told him not to quit. were you surprised when he took a job as the white house chief of staff and have you been surprised to see him as one of president trump's strongest defenders? >> i don't remember john calling the president dishonorable. he was talking about people and i don't like you being treated this way and i won't stay and work with people that would treat you in a ...

Congratulatory call from putin, et cetera, but the president saying this in february is kind of, it's just kind of interesting because it sounds like it occurred at some point, you know, at some point in the past. and i think that the president went out of his way to ask comey to disprove this. to effectively act as his private investigator and disprove this and comey said to him, you know, it's hard to disprove a negative. if it -- it's hard to disprove something that didn't happen and sort of said i can't. >> you can read that statement, though, as just the president embellishing -- he also ...

Tallies and made no pronouncement on the impact of the russian interference on the election but that's the spin, the angle that they wanted to take even before we left the room which was, you know, i thought awkward and inappropriate. so at a pause in the conversation jim spoke to the president-elect and said, you know, sir, we have one other matter we'd like to discuss with you and like to do it on a one on one basis. mr. priebus asked the president-elect, do you want anybody with you? he said, no. everybody else left the room. for me it was a relief to leave and then jim and briefed the pres...