The day after Mueller was appointed, so it would be May 18 of last year, the president was in the Oval Office and normally he would sit at the Resolute Desk.

On how the Russia investigation has affected President Trump And I think it illuminates what's going on, and not in some kind of abstract way. And, yes, they're protecting themselves but, my God, who doesn't try to protect themselves? But they were willing to help me in this process. There's a lot of conscience and courage in this - people speaking up. You then are in that position to verify it with others and get a level of truth that's not available on the record, unfortunately. If you use deep background, you're going to use but not say where it came from. You let people talk on the record, and you get things that are not true. I knew that people in office in these sensitive positions were not going to talk on the record. On why he interviews people for his book on 'deep background,' as opposed to on or off the record What's going on in the Trump administration - and I said this to the president when I called last month - I said, 'We are at a pivot point in history.' I am convinced that people need to wake up and not kind of pretend this is just politics or this is partisan. Politics 'Idiot,' 'Unhinged,' A 'Sixth-Grader': Aides Fault Trump In Explosive New Book It's 1,000 percent correct.' Because that's somebody who knows that I worked hard on this and tried to dig in and excavate what the reality was. But, as I've said, nothing's off the record, and in the first days, after parts of the book came out last week, one key person in office now called me up and said, 'Everyone knows what you've written is true. On Secretary of Defense James Mattis and White House Chief of Staff John Kelly publicly denying having said things they are quoted as saying in Woodward's book. We're being played as suckers, especially NATO.' I think we could be so rich if we weren't stupid.

these are verbatim from a note taker there: 'What do we get by maintaining a massive military presence in the North Korean Peninsula? What do we get from protecting Taiwan, say?'Īnd this is when Mattis finally says, 'We're doing this in order to prevent World War III.' Then the president says, 'We're losing so much money and trade with South Korea and China and others. 19, this whole question comes up about money and the president says.

At a National Security Council meeting earlier this year, Jan. On why Trump wanted to pull troops out of the Korean Peninsula Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Fear Subtitle Trump in the White House Author Bob Woodward

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