"There would have been an effort to persuade the country that, what, it didn’t happen or it’s overblown or who knows what the explanation would have been."
"I wanted to explain my journey from prosecutor to congressman with a reputation for bipartisanship, to liberal lightning rod, scourge of the right and archenemy of a president."
"Donald Trump thinks it’s in his personal interest, or he thinks it’s in his future political interest. And he has always but his personal interests above those of the nation."