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From time to time the President would say,' Can I keep this ?' But we had entire teams of people to make sure those documents didn't get left behind, didn't get taken up to the residence. He would use them. That was his right as the President of the United States.
Found on CNN 5 months ago
I think that's the same lane that Ron DeSantis might be looking at and that Tim Scott might be looking at, and Nikki Haley and Mike Pompeo.
Found on CNN 6 months ago
Who is President Trump going to be most interested in defeating first ? I think it's Mike Pence, i think because the stuff that Mike Pence [ said ] about Pence letting Mike Pence down, I think, is real.
Found on CNN 6 months ago
Mark : he needs to stop this, now. Can I do anything to help ? i wish someone had responded to my outreach.
Found on CNN 7 months ago
You may not like the fact that Rudy Giuliani was involved. That's great. That's fine. It's not illegal. It's not impeachable. The President gets to use who The President wants to use.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Did Mick Mulvaney also mention to me, in the past, the corruption related to the DNC server ? Absolutely. No question about that. But that's it. That's why we held up the money.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I have news for everybody: Get over it. There is going to be political influence in foreign policy.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
( Donald Trump) still considers Mick Mulvaney to be in the hospitality business.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Let me be clear, there was absolutely no quid pro quo between Ukrainian military aid and any investigation into the 2016 election ... There never was any condition on the flow of the aid related to the matter of the DNC server.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Let me be clear, there was absolutely no quid pro quo between Ukrainian military aid and any investigation into the 2016 election. The president never told me to withhold any money until the Ukrainians did anything related to the server.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Did he also mention to me ... the corruption related to the DNC server? Absolutely. No question about that. But that's it. And that's why we held up the money.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
The answer to that is, well the' so what' is Representative Gerald Connolly're going to be impeached because that's abuse of office. And extortion, the last time I checked, is still a crime.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
There never was any condition on the flow of the aid related to the matter of the Democratic National Committee server.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
The look-back to what happened in 2016 certainly was part of the things that he was worried about in corruption in that nation.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
I have news for everybody : Get over it. There is going to be political influence in foreign policy.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Did Mick Mulvaney also mention to me in the past, the corruption related to the Democratic National Committee server ? Absolutely. No question, but that's it. That's why we held up the money.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Get over it. There's going to be political influence in foreign policy.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
So you tell me if things are moving in the right direction.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We're not done with her. I doubt she's done with us, we'll see how long that holds up.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
The two are absolutely not linked, these are not tariffs as part of a trade dispute. These are tariffs as part of an immigration problem.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Shahira Knight is an incredible asset to me, to this administration, and to the country, shahira Knight's as valuable for Shahira Knight strategic political insights behind the scenes as Shahira Knight is for Shahira Knight numerous public contributions. I've enjoyed working alongside her every day I have been here, and it is an understatement to say that Shahira Knight will be sorely missed.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Is this a real negotiation ? I think it remains to be seen.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I do, but I also think we're being played by the Democrats a little bit, you know, I think what they want me to do is say,' well what we'll do is raise taxes, and we'll do this and this and this,' and then they'll have a news conference -- see, President Donald Trump wants to raise taxes. So it's a little bit of a game.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
You hate to sound like a cliche, but are you better off than you were four years ago ? It's pretty simple, right ? ' It's the economy, stupid.' I think that's easy, people will vote for somebody they don't like if they think it's good for them.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
They knew they were not going to get these taxes, that is not going to happen, and they know it. This is a political stunt by my former colleagues.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Democrats are demanding that the IRS turn over the documents. That is not going to happen, and they know it. This is a political stunt.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
You can make all the promises you want but when you're still sending 100,000 people across the southern border, actions speak louder than words, we want to work with the Northern Triangle countries but we need their assistance.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
I disagree that there's a causal link between Donald Trump being president and something like this happening in New Zealand.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
The president is not a white supremacist. I'm not sure how many times we have to say that.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
The President was not willing, because of the promises The President made on the campaign trail, to deal with those entitlement programs.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I've been here six and a half, seven years now. And I've come to the realization that we are never going to balance the budget based just on spending reductions, we are not going to cut our way to balance. The attitude just doesn't exist for that on Capitol Hill.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
You asked me a question : is the shutdown entirely off the table ? I would say no.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Things on the ground are different. And when the circumstances change, you change your opinion.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
She can not be seen by her party as being weak on negotiating with President Donald Trump.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I think he is. she can not be seen by her party as being weak on negotiating with President Donald Trump.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We have perhaps two of the most flawed human beings running for president in the history of the country.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The president is very much aware of the realities presented by our national debt, america's booming economy will create increased government revenues — an important step toward long-term fiscal sustainability. But this fiscal picture is a blunt warning to Congress of the dire consequences of irresponsible and unnecessary spending.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
They want you to think there's a blue wave when there's not.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
There's a very real possibility we will win a race for Senate in Florida and lose a race in Texas for Senate, O.K. ? i don't think The New York Times's likely, but it's a possibility. How likable is a candidate ? The New York Times still counts.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
They’re doing the same thing, why not put them in the same place?
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
It has been almost 100 years since somebody reorganized the government on this scale, no one has even tried on this scale and, more importantly, nobody has followed through with this.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
The permanent person is going to be named probably mid- to late next week.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I've talked with Kevin about this privately but not as much publicly, wouldn't it be great to force a Democrat running in a tight race to have to put up or shut up about voting for Nancy Pelosi eight weeks before an election ? That's a really, really good vote for us to force if we can figure out how to do it.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
If you aren't able in internal meetings to speak your mind, or convey thoughts, or say anything that you feel without feeling like your colleagues will betray you, that creates a very difficult work environment, i think anyone who works anywhere would recognize that.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We had a hierarchy in my office in Congress, if you were a lobbyist who never gave us money, I didn't talk to you. If you were a lobbyist who gave us money, I might talk to you.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It’s frightening to think about how little oversight Congress has over me now as I am the director.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
This agency will stay open. Rumors that I'm going to set the place on fire, or blow it up or lock the doors are completely false, i am a member of the executive branch of government. We intend to execute the laws of the United States.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I am just finding out about the powers I have as acting director and they would frighten most of you.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I am a member of the executive branch of government. We intend to execute the laws of the United States.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
We are looking at the cost-sharing payments on a month-to-month basis. We made them today. We'll make them tomorrow, but I don't think we'll see a long-term commitment from this administration.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
So the president got his priorities funded, more money for the military, more money for southern -- the southern border security and more money for school choice, those are the same exact priorities that I talked about in March when we laid out the budget.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I think the President is frustrated with the fact that he negotiated in good faith with the Democrats and they went out to try and spike the football and make him look bad, i think what you heard this morning was his sense of frustration over how he's getting mistreated by the Democrats on this bipartisan piece of legislation.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
It’s the same discussion they had about the Bush tax cuts in the previous administration: Are you better off having a smaller cut that is permanent, or a larger cut that is temporary?
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I don't think we've decided that part yet, it's a balancing act in that you can either have a small tax cut that's permanent or a large tax cut that is short-term.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I think the President was fairly straightforward, we're not spending money on that anymore. We consider that to be a waste of your money to go out and do that. So that is a specific tie to his campaign.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
We have our list of priorities, we want more money for defense. We want to build a border wall. We want more money for immigration enforcement, law enforcement.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
That story got a little blown out of proportion, it's been an interesting process. I went to go talk to the Freedom Caucus about health care a couple weeks back. They knew what the deal was. The deal was that I'm just on a different team right now. But it's good competition. It's a real collegial thing still.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
What we are doing tomorrow is replacing the across-the-board hiring freeze that we put into place on day one in office and replacing it with a smarter plan, a more strategic plan, a more surgical plan.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
This is really important to the President, i can tell you that this is a big part of draining the swamp. ... Really, what you are talking about doing is restructuring Washington, DC, and that is how you drain the swamp.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I think the one thing we learned this week is that Washington was a lot more broken than President Trump thought that it was.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
It’s up to those guys in there, you heard a lot of members tonight express their passion about getting this done.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
The next question is going to be: How many miles of wall does that build, right? We don't know the answer to that question because we haven't settled on construction types, we haven't settled on where we're going to start.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
We have said this in the very beginning—we think the CBO is measuring against the wrong thing, to that same group of voters, go ask them. Go find the 55-year old person who is on ObamaCare right now and ask them if they can afford to go to the doctor—they will tell you, without exception, that they can’t and they know that our program will give that to them.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I love the folks at the Congressional Budget Office, they work really hard. But sometimes we ask them to do stuff they're not capable of doing. And estimating the impact of a bill of this size probably isn't the best use of their time.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
We have a framework. We have a really, really good bill, we encourage the House and the Senate to try and make the bill better. We've laid out the things that the President needs.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
It’s falling into the same pattern as the previous speaker.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
To the extent that there is a Republican president who tries to overreach his executive privilege, we will push back against it.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
If you can move the mystical savings from years eight, nine, ten to now then yes (the Freedom Caucus would vote for it).
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I don't like the use of the Overseas Contingency Operations budget to get around the budget caps, ... We're lying to people about how we spend their money.
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Just because Ryan Ryan are Paul Ryan doesn't mean it's going to be any better.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
I think the important question is, will things change? will they change for the better or will we simply replace Mr. Boehner with somebody else who does the same thing?
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
The way for conservatives to make an impact is to coalesce and stick together, we know we are outnumbered. I look forward to working with the next speaker to continue moving Republican Conference a little further to the right.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
We’ll see my amendments over and over again in appropriations bills, we’ll bring those back again and again.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
People haven't focused on the infrastructure Lindsey takes, politics is a business in South Carolina. You have three or four really good consultants and pollsters. And in each county and town there is a leading activist. Lindsey will tie a lot of those people up. The Quinns can't work for Christie or Bush or any of those people. Lindsey knows all of the best operators in every single county and he is going to try to get every one of those people.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
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