STEVE: HE IS GETTING STARTED
WITH A BRAND NEW BOOK TODAY
CALLED LET ME FINISH.
THE POWER OF IN YOUR FACE
POLITICS.
CHRIS CHRISTIE THE FORMER
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF NEW
JERSEY JOINS US LIVE.
CHRIS: SOUNDS JUST LIKE ME.
STEVE: THE BOOK IS TERRIFIC.
>> THANK YOU.
STEVE: WE WILL TALK ALL
ABOUT IT IN THE NEXT
SEGMENT.
IF YOU HAVE A QUESTION FOR
THE GOVERNOR EMAIL US AT
FRIENDS@FOXNEWS.COM.
BECAUSE YOU ARE MUCH LIKE
NANCY PELOSI, A MASTER
LEGISLATOR, LET’S TRY TO
FIGURE OUT WHERE WE GO FROM
HERE REGARDING THIS
THREE-WEEK, YOU KNOW,
RESPITE FROM THE GOVERNMENT
SHUTDOWN.
CHUCK SCHUMER ESSENTIALLY
SAYS THE PRESIDENT NEEDS TO
STAY OUT OF THE NEGOTIATION.
LISTEN TO THE SOUND BITE.
>> IN THE PAST, WHEN THE
PRESIDENT HAS STAYED OUT OF
IT, WHEN THE PRESIDENT HAS
GIVEN CONGRESS ROOM, WE HAVE
BEEN REPEATEDLY ABLE TO
FORGE BIPARTISAN AGREEMENTS.
WHEN THE PRESIDENT INJECTS
MAX MALLIST PARTISAN DEMANDS
INTO THE PROCESS
NEGOTIATIONS TEND TO FALL
APART.
THE PRESIDENT SHOULD ALLOW
THE CONFERENCE COMMITTEE TO
PROCEED WITH GOOD FAITH
NEGOTIATIONS.
STEVE: OKAY.
HOW GOOD FAITH ARE THEY
GOVERNOR?
>> THEY HAVEN’T BEEN GOOD
FAITH SO ARE IF A.
THE IDEA THAT THE PRESIDENT
SHOULDN’T BE INVOLVED IS A
RECIPE FOR FAILURE.
BECAUSE, IN THE END THEY
NEED HIS SIGNATURE.
I USED TO SAY WHEN I WAS
GOVERNOR IN TRENTON, THERE
WERE THREE NUMBERS THAT
MATTERS, 41, 21 AND 1.
MAJORITY IN THE LOWER HOUSE
YOU WERE HOUSE AND
GOVERNOR’S SIGNATURE.
I ALWAYS LOVED TO BE IN THE
ONE.
THAT WAS THE EASIEST ONE TO
CONTROL BECAUSE IT’S YOUR
DECISION.
THEY HAVE TO INVOLVE THE
PRESIDENT.
THE PRESIDENT IS READY TO BE
INVOLVED.
I’M CONFIDENT THE PRESIDENT
IS READY TO BE INVOLVED.
WHAT HE IS NOT READY TO DO
IS TO CAPITULATE.
I THINK, YOU KNOW, THAT’S
WHAT THEY’RE LOOKING FOR AND
LOOKING TO TRY TO ROLL HIM.
I THINK HE LEARNED A LOT
FROM THE LAST 35 DAYS.
I THINK HE NEEDS TO BE MUCH
MORE READY TO GET IN THERE
WHAT YOU HAVE TO DEAL WITH
WHEN YOU ARE DEALING WITH A
LEGISLATURE OF THE OAR
PARTY.
BRIAN: PEOPLE SAID HE LOST,
HE CAVED.
IT’S REALITY.
IF SOMEONE IS NOT GOING TO
NEGOTIATE AND ENGAGE AND
THEY CAN RUN OUT THE CLOCK
AND YOU TOOK RESPONSIBILITY
FOR THE SHUTDOWN, YOU ARE
GOING TO LOSE TEMPORARILY,
HE ALSO SAID BEHIND CLOSED
DOORS HE BLAMES PAUL RYAN
BECAUSE PAUL RYAN GAVE HIM A
BUDGET IN THE FALL THAT ONLY
HAD 1.6 BILLION FOR THE
WALL.
DOES HE KNOW WHAT HE RAN ON?
HE SAID THE WORD WAS
SCREWED.
>> ONE OF THE THINGS THAT
THE PRESIDENT SEES NOW IS
THAT THIS PROCESS IS ONE
WHERE YOU DON’T ALWAYS AS A
PRESIDENT OR GOVERNOR HAVE
ALL THE LEVERAGE THAT YOU
WANT.
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ALL THE TIME
THAT HE IS STUBBORN AND NOT
WILLING TO CHANGE HIS MIND.
DID HE CHANGE HIS MIND WHEN
HE SAW THE SUFFERING GOING
ON BY WORKERS LOST TWO
PAYCHECKS AND WORKERS GOING
ON AIRPORT.
>> HE SAID I WANT THE WALL.
I’M NOT GOING TO DO THAT TO
THESE FOLKS.
GIVE THEM THREE WEEKS TO
GOOD FAITH.
SOMEBODY WHO KNOWS HOW TO
CHANGE THEIR MIND TO ADJUST
TO THE CIRCUMSTANCES.
AINSLEY: WHEN PARENTS WERE
SEPARATED FROM CHILDREN HE
PUT THEM BACK TOGETHER.
DACA RECIPIENTS CAN STAY IN
THE COUNTRY.
NOW THEY ARE MAD BECAUSE
THEY ARE NOT LETTING THE
PARENTS STAY.
>> THEY WILL ALWAYS MOVE THE
GOAL POST.
MAINSTREAM MEDIA TREATS HIM
LIKE A CARTOON CHARACTER.
THEY REALLY DO PART WHAT
PEOPLE NEED TO UNDERSTAND
THIS IS A GUY WHO LISTENS.
IS HE STRONG AND TOUGH BUT
HE LISTENS.
HE MADE SOME CHANGES.
NOW I THINK THIS THREE WEEKS
IS GOING TO BE VERY
INTERESTING.
IF THEY TRY TO EXCLUDE HIM.
THEY ARE SETTING EVERYBODY
UP FOR FAILURE AND LEAVING
HIM WITH NO ALTERNATIVE BUT
TO TAKE EXECUTIVE ACTION
HIMSELF.
STEVE: WHICH HE HAS
THREATENED.
BRIAN: YESTERDAY MATT
WHITCHER THE ACTING ATTORNEY
GENERAL SAID IN FIRST PRESS
CONFERENCE THAT HE BELIEVES
MUELLER IS COMING TOWARDS
CLOSE TO BEING COMPLETED OF
HIS INVESTIGATION.
FROM WHAT YOU KNOW ABOUT
INVESTIGATIONS.
AND ROBERT MUELLER WHAT DO
YOU THINK.
>> LISTEN, MATT WOULD KNOW
BETTER THAN ANYBODY.
SINCE MATT IS SUPERVISING
IT.
I CAN JUST TELL YOU THAT THE
THING ABOUT THIS MUELLER
INVESTIGATION IS THERE HAVE
BEEN NO LEAKING.
AND YOU JUST DON’T KNOW WHAT
THEY ARE UP.
TO SAY AND I USED TO SAY
WHEN I WAS U.S. ATTORNEY.
THE BEST THING ABOUT BEING
U.S. ATTORNEY ONLY I KNEW
WHAT I KNEW.
BOB MUELLER IS CERTAINLY
FOLLOWING THAT MANTRA.
MATT PROBABLY KNOWS MORE
THAN ANYBODY IN THE COUNTRY.
TAKE MATT’S WORD FOR IT BUT
BOB MUELLER DOESN’T FEEL, TO
ME, LIKE HE IS ALMOST DONE.
I DON’T THINK HE IS ENDING
ON ROGER STONE BUT MIGHT BE.
STEVE: WE HAVEN’T SEEN
MUELLER TIP HIS HAND.
YOU HAVE SEEN HIS
INDICTMENTS.
SO FAR YOU LOOK AT ROGER
STONE ON FRIDAY FIVE COUNTS
OF LYING TO CONGRESS.
OBSTRUCTION, MAYBE WITNESS
TAMPERING.
THERE IS NO COLLUSION U AND
THAT WAS THE WHOLE PREMISE.
>> OF COURSE.
AS I SAID, ON THIS SHOW.
WAY BACK WHEN I WAS GOVERNOR
AND THEY FIRST APPOINTED
MUELLER THAT THE PROBLEM
WITH SPECIAL COUNSEL IS THAT
THEY FEEL LIKE IF THEY ARE
NOT BRINGING CHARGES, THEY
ARE NOT DOING ANYTHING.
REGULAR PROSECUTOR KNOWS IF
I DON’T DO THIS CASE I DO
THE NEXT CASE AND CAN WALK
AWAY FROM A CASE.
SPECIAL COUNSEL, IF THEY
DON’T DO SOMETHING ON, THIS
THEY ARE ELIMINATED AND
THAT’S ONE OF THE PROBLEMS.
BRIAN: YOU SAID, TOO.
WHEN IT COMES TO COLLUSION,
YOU SAID COULDN’T GET --
TAKING A DIG AT TRUMP.
COULDN’T GET A GROUND GAME
GOING IN PENNSYLVANIA HOW
ARE THEY GOING TO GET
SOMETHING COLLUDING WITH THE
RUSSIANS?
>> ONE OF THE BEAUTIES OF
THE CAMPAIGN AND SHORT
COMINGS IT WAS BY THE SEAT
OF THE PAINTS.
YOU DIDN’T HAVE UNTIL
KELLYANNE CONWAY GOT THERE.
YOU ARE TELLING ME DIDN’T
HAVE FIELD OP.S IN
PENNSYLVANIA RUNNING SOME
SORT OF COLLUSION SCHEME OUT
OF TRUMP TOWER.
I DON’T BUY IT AND I NEVER
HAVE BOUGHT IT.
STEVE: IN YOUR BOOK YOU TALK
ABOUT HOW YOU ARE ON THE
VERGE OF PENNSYLVANIA.
JARED KUSHNER CALLS YOU UP
HOW MANY PEOPLE DO WE NEED
THERE?
THIS IS POLITICS 101 AND
THAT GUY IS RUNNING THE
SHOW.
>> WE DON’T HAVE THEM YET?
LATE AUGUST?
WE GOT 60 DAYS UNTIL THE
ELECTION.
WE HAVE GOT TO GET GOING
HERE.
AINSLEY: WHAT ABOUT 2020?
ALL THESE DEMOCRATS ARE
PUTTING THEIR NAMES IN THE
HAT NOW.
THEY ARE VERY, VERY FAR LEFT
SOCIALISTS.
>> YEP.
AINSLEY: FURIOUS WITH HOWARD
SCHULTZ.
>> GOD BLESS HOWARD SCHULTZ
RUN HOWARD RUN.
YOU LOOK AT THIS GROUP.
LET’S FACE IT HERE’S THE
THING.
YOU CAN’T LOOK AT THAT GROUP
AND PICK OUT HOT WINNER IS
GOING TO BE.
YOU JUST CAN’T.
AND I REMEMBER BEING -- OUR
GROUP IN 2016.
BRIAN: YOU HAD 16?
>> WE HAD 17 PEOPLE.
AT THIS TIME THREE YEARS
AGO, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE WERE
SAYING JEB BUSH WAS THE
FRONTRUNNER.
NOBODY CAN REALLY TELL
WHAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN WHEN
THESE GUY -- I ALWAYS SAY
ALL THE TIME PRESIDENTIAL
CAMPAIGNS WHEN THE LIGHTS GO
ON THEY ARE SO BRIGHT YOU
EITHER SHINE OR YOU MELT.
WE WILL SEE A WHOLE BUNCH OF
THESE PEOPLE WHO THINK THEY
ARE GOING TO BE PRESIDENT
MELT REALLY QUICKLY.
STEVE: I REMEMBER THE
MORNING OF THE NEW HAMPSHIRE
PRIMARY YOU JOINED US AT OUR
FIRST EVER DINER LOCATION,
THE AIRPORT DINER IN
MANCHESTER.
IT WAS YOU, DONALD TRUMP AND
JEB BUSH ALL TOGETHER THAT
WAS PRETTY MUCH THE STARTING
GATE.
THINGS DIDN’T WORK OUT FOR
YOU.
THE PRESIDENT WOUND UP
WINNING NEW HAMPSHIRE.
IN YOUR BOOK THOUGH, YOU
MAKE IT PRETTY CLEAR THAT
YOU WERE JUST NOT THE CHOICE
THE NUMBER TWO CHOICE TO BE
VICE PRESIDENT.
BUT THE ONE PERSON BETWEEN
YOU AND THAT JOB WAS
PROBABLY JARED KUSHNER.
>> THAT’S THE WAY IT SOUNDS
AND THAT’S CERTAINLY WHAT I
WAS TOLD AT THE TIME.
THE PRESIDENT AND I HAVE A
17-YEAR FRIENDSHIP.
THAT’S WHAT A LOT OF PEOPLE
DON’T UNDERSTAND.
I DIDN’T ENDORSE DONALD
TRUMP THREE WEEKS AFTER I
DROPPED OUT OF THE RACE
BECAUSE, WELL, I LIKED HIM.
I ENDORSED HIM BECAUSE WE
HAD A LONG-TERM FRIENDSHIP
AND I KNEW THAT IF I HELPED
HIM THAT I COULD HELP HIM BE
A GOOD CANDIDATE, A BETTER
CANDIDATE AND HOPEFULLY
PRESIDENT.
AINSLEY: YOU HELPED HIM.
ZERO GOVERNORS HAD ENDORSED
HIM AND ZERO SENATORS YOU
WRITE ABOUT IN YOUR BOOK.
AND EVEN SOME PEOPLE ON YOUR
STAFF WERE NOT SUPPORTIVE OF
YOU ENDORSING HIM.
HE IS YOUR FRIEND FOR 17
YEARS.
WOULD YOU GO UP AGAINST HIM
IN 2020.
>> NO.
NO, NO, NO.
AINSLEY: YOU DID SAY NEVER
SAY NEVER IN AN INTERVIEW.
>> I DID SAY NEVER SAY NEVER
TO RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT
SOME DAY.
NO, I’M NOT CHALLENGING THE
PRESIDENT IN 2020.
I’M A FREFNSD THE PRESIDENT
AND SUPPORTER OF THE
PRESIDENT.
I FULLY EXPECT THE PRESIDENT
IS GOING TO BE OUR NOMINEE.
WITH HOWARD SCHULTZ IN THE
RACE.
HE HAVE AN ABSOLUTELY
SMASHING VICTORY WHOEVER THE
DEMOCRAT IS.
SO, NO, I ANSWERED A
QUESTION IN CALIFORNIA A
WEEK AGO WHERE THEY SAID
WILL YOU RUN FOR PRESIDENT
AGAIN I SAID EVER IS A LONG
TIME YOU NEVER SAY NEVER I’M
ONLY 56 YEARS OLD.
SOME PEOPLE MISINTERPRET
THAT 2020 IS THE PRESIDENT’S
GAME TO PLAY.
BRIAN: WOULD YOU RUN IF
STEVE RUNS?
>> I WOULD RUN AGAINST
STEVE.
BRIAN: WHAT ABOUT YOUR
FRIENDSHIP?
>> LIKE THE SEMI-FINAL.
JERSEY KINGS IS AND THEN YOU
MOVE FROM THERE.
STEVE: SPEAKING OF THE
JERSEY THING AND YOU TALK A
LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT
BECAUSE THE FEELING WAS
BECAUSE YOU WERE RUNNING THE
TRANSITION, YOU KNOW, YOU
AND TWO OTHER GUYS FROM
JERSEY SOMEHOW IT GOT INTO
THE PRESIDENT’S HEAD
PROBABLY FROM HIS SON-IN-LAW
IT WAS A JERSEY THING.
>> 140 PEOPLE AND THREE GUYS
FROM JERSEY.
THREE GUYS FROM JERSEY.
NONE OF THEM WERE GETTING
PAID.
UNUSUAL FOR A JERSEY GUY.
WE TOOK NO PAY.
STEVE: REGARDING JARED
KUSHNER THOUGH THE REASON HE
DID NOT WANT YOU IN THE
ADMINISTRATION.
YOU GOT FIRED BY STEVE
BANNON FOR THE TRANSITION
AFTER YOU HAD DONE ALL THAT
WORK FOR SIX OR SEVEN
MONTHS.
BRIAN: HOW YOU KEPT YOUR
COOL, I DON’T UNDERSTAND.
>> I LOVE THE PRESIDENT
THAT’S HOW I KEPT MY COOL.
STEVE: YOU DO TELL THE STORY
’THE REASON JARED KUSHNER
DIDN’T WANT YOU AND YOU CAME
TO BLOWS IN A ROOM WITH
DONALD TRUMP IS HE WAS STILL
ANGRY THAT YOU PUT HIS DAD
AWAY FOR 24 MONTHS.
YOU DETAIL IN THE BOOK WHAT
HIS DAD ALLEGEDLY DID AND IT
WAS NOT GOOD STUFF.
>> LISTEN, IT’S NOT
ALLEGEDLY, STEVE, HE
ADMITTED IT HE PLED GUILTY.
THIS IS NOT A CASE WHERE
SOMEONE SAYS IT WAS RUN
AMUCK JURY AND I WASN’T
REALLY GUILTY HE PLED GUILTY
TO 18 COUNTS.
SO, YOU KNOW, I WAS DOING MY
JOB.
THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT.
I HAVE TO TELL YOU HOW MUCH
I ADMIRED THE PRESIDENT THAT
DAY.
IT WAS JUST ME, THE
PRESIDENT AND COREY
LEWANDOWSKI IN THAT ROOM.
AND JARED WAS MAKING HIS
CASE ABOUT WHY I WAS
UNTRUSTWORTHY ABOUT WHAT I
HAD DONE TO HIS FATHER.
DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE
PRESIDENT SAID HE?
SAID HE WAS DOING HIS JOB.
HOW FAR COULD YOU CRITICIZE
CHRIS FOR DOING HIS JOB?
HE WAS THE PROSECUTOR.
HE HAD THIS EVIDENCE.
YOU WOULD HAVE DONE THE SAME
THING IF YOU WERE IN HIS
POSITION.
BRIAN: HE WENT ON TO SAY,
TOO.
IF YOUR DAD DID SOME REALLY
BAD THINGS AND IT WAS HIS
BROTHER THAT BROUGHT THE
CASE TO YOU.
YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT THIS
WHOLE THINGS.
THEY HAD VIDEOTAPES.
YOU PICK UP THE CELL PHONE.
I COULD HAVE PROSECUTED THIS
CASE.
>> YES, YOU COULD HAVE.
BRIAN: BECAUSE I WATCHED
PAPER CHASE IN 1978.
THIS IS NOT YOUR FAULT.
AND IT’S AMAZING THAT HE
NEVER LET IT GO AND IN THE
END I THINK IT’S HARD NOT TO
CONCLUDE HE HURT THE
PRESIDENT’S FIRST TWO YEARS.
>> GETTING RID OF THE
TRANSITION NOT ONLY JARED IT
WAS STEVE BANNON.
HE WAS THE ONE WHO PULLED
THE TRIGGER.
WORSE THAN FIRING ME WAS
THEY THREW OUT THE WORK OF
140 PEOPLE FOR SIX MONTHS IF
YOU LOOK BACK ON SOME OF THE
REPORTING BACK THEN, PEOPLE
WERE REPORTING THAT OUR
TRANSITION WAS WAY AHEAD OF
HILLARY CLINTON’S AND MUCH
BETTER.
STEVE: THEY COULD HAVE
BRIAN: THE NAME OF THE BOOK
IS CALLED LET ME FINISH AND
PRETTY MUCH THE PERFECT
WORD, THE PERFECT TITLE FOR
A GUY THAT WAS REALLY MADE
HIS NAME AS A YOUTUBE OPEN
FORUM GOVERNOR WHERE HE
TOOK -- YOU TOOK ALL
QUESTIONS?
>> YEP.
BRIAN: YOU LET PEOPLE GO AT
YOU.
THE HARDER THE QUESTION THE
MORE AGGRESSIVE THE BETTER
YOU DID.
>> I ENJOYED IT AND NEW
JERSEY IS THAT KIND OF
PLACE.
AINSLEY: WHEN WAS THE FIRST
PRESS CONFERENCE WHEN IT ALL
STARTED.
STEVE: TOWN HALL.
AINSLEY: WHEN YOU SAID YOU
BETTER GET OFF THE BEACH.
>> I CALLED ONE OF THE
REPORTERS THIN SKINNED GUY
IN AMERICA.
BECAME CRAZY.
WE WERE THE FIRST GOVERNOR
TO USE YOUTUBE IN A REALLY
AGGRESSIVE WAY.
HARD TO REMEMBER WHEN WE
DIDN’T HAVE IT.
BUT, BACK IN 2010.
NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE WERE
USING IT.
>> YOUR BOOK IS GREAT.
I LOVE THE STORY.
YOU ARE WITH THE PRESIDENT,
SOON TO BE PRESIDENT DONALD
TRUMP.
STEVEN MILLER HAD CRAFTED A
GREAT CONCESSION SPEECH.
BUT SAID, YOU KNOW WHAT?
WE DON’T HAVE A VICTORY
SPEECH AND THEN YOU SAT DOWN
AND TRIED TO FIGURE IT OUT.
>> WE ALL SAT TOGETHER AND
VICE PRESIDENT ELECT AND
STEVEN MILLER AND JARED AND
IVANKA.
STEVE: WHAT DOES D. THAT SAY
NO VICTORY SPEECH.
>>S YOU WHAT THE MINDSET IS.
WHEN I GOT TO THE TRUMP
TOWER THE EXIT POLLS WERE
OUT REALLY BAD.
YOU CAN’T HELP BUT BE
AFFECTED BY THAT AND I THINK
EVERYBODY WAS.
THAT’S WHY YOU GOT TO
ACTUALLY COUNTS THE VOTE.
AINSLEY: GOVERNOR, WE HAVE
QUESTIONS FROM VIEWERS.
ASKED THEM TO SEND THEM.
IN JASON WRITES IF YOU WERE
PRESIDENT AND HAD THE
SHUTDOWN LOOMING, WOULD YOU
CALL STATE OF EMERGENCY FOR
THE WALL?
>> I THINK THE PRESIDENT
MADE THE RIGHT DECISION NOT
TO DO IT AND TO TRY TO WORK
IT THE OTHER WAY.
BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WE DON’T
KNOW HOW THE COURTS WILL
RULE ON THE STATE OF
EMERGENCY ULTIMATELY AND
ALSO THE PRESIDENT IS TRYING
TO KEEP A GOOD RELATIONSHIP
WITH CONGRESS.
HE DOESN’T WANT TO TAKE THAT
POWER AWAY FROM CONGRESS.
AND I THINK THE PRESIDENT
MADE THE RIGHT DECISION.
WHAT PEOPLE DON’T UNDERSTAND
ABOUT THIS PRESIDENT IS HE
DOES KNOW HOW TO NEGOTIATE.
HE KNOWS HOW TO BUILD
RELATIONSHIPS.
AND HE IS TRYING TO DO THAT
BUT IF PEOPLE ON THE OTHER
SIDE DON’T WANT TO BUILD A
RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU.
IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO DO IT.
BRIAN: THERE IS A COUPLE OF
THINGS.
THE NEXT QUESTION YOU
COVERED, MEDIA COVERAGED HIM
LIKE A CAR TOONGET REAL
QUICK ABOUT YOU AS AN
INDIVIDUAL.
FIRST YOU THOUGHT YOU WERE
GOING TO BE VICE PRESIDENT.
THE ONLY OTHER JOB I’M
INTERESTED IN IS ATTORNEY
GENERAL.
SO THEN PRETTY MUCH YOU GET
KNOCKED OUT AND GET FIRED
YOU DIDN’T LIKE THE FACT
THAT THE PRESIDENT NEVER
ADMITTED YOU GOT FIRED.
THEN THEY COME OUT AND SAID
WE NEED TO SEE YOU.
SOMETHING YOU MIGHT BE
INTERESTED RNC CHAIRMAN.
>> YEAH.
BRIAN: YOU ARE NOT GOING TO
BE RNC CHAIRMAN.
REINCE PRIEBUS STARTS
RATTLING OFF ALL THESE OTHER
THINGS, NO, NO, AND NO.
>> WHAT PEOPLE NEED TO
UNDERSTAND AND WHAT COMES
THROUGH IN THIS BOOK IS THAT
I LOVE THE PRESIDENT AND HE
IS MY FRIEND.
WHEN I SAW THAT STUFF GOING
ON THERE AT THE END.
I ASKED TO SEE THE PRESIDENT
AND I SAID LISTEN, I CAME TO
SAY GOODBYE THERE ARE SOME
PEOPLE AROUND HERE WHO DON’T
WANT ME AROUND YOU.
I DON’T WANT TO MAKE THIS
HARD FOR YOU.
DON’T WORRY ABOUT MAKING ME
HAPPY.
DON’T WORRY ABOUT IT I’M A
BIG BOY AND I WILL BE HERE
TO HELP YOU ANY TIME YOU
NEED HELP LIKE I WAS WITH
THE OPIOID COMMISSION OR
ANYTHING ELSE HE NEEDS ME TO
DO BECAUSE I BELIEVE IS GOOD
FOR THE COUNTRY.
WILL DO YOU KNOW HOW I KEPT
MY COOL?
I KEPT MY COOL BECAUSE I
LOVE THE PRESIDENT AND
THAT’S THE MOST IMPORTANT
THING.
BRIAN: THIS IS THE INSIDE
STORY HE COULDN’T POSSIBLY
KNOW FROM YOUR PERSPECTIVE.
>> I THINK PEOPLE WHEN YOU
READ IT, YOU UNDERSTAND THAT
I HAVE GREAT ADMIRATION AND
RESPECT FOR THE PRESIDENT’S
LEADERSHIP ABILITY.
AND WHAT A GOOD CAMPAIGNER
HE WAS.
IF YOU DIDN’T RUN AGAINST
HIM YOURSELF.
YOU CAN’T UNDERSTAND IT.
AINSLEY: VERY DETAILED.
LOTS OF CONVERSATIONS YOU
HAD WITH THE PRESIDENT
INCLUDING WHAT YOU FELT
ABOUT MICHAEL FLYNN.
YOU TALK ABOUT GROWING UP IN
HIGH SCHOOL, PLAYING
BASEBALL AND THEN YOUR
SENIOR YEAR ANOTHER KID FROM
PRIVATE SCHOOL WHO IS A
LITTLE BIT BETTER COMES IN
AND TAKES YOUR SPOT AND HOW
THAT AFFECTED YOU.
IT’S A GREAT BOOK.
CONGRATULATIONS.
>> THANK YOU.
ALWAYS GREAT TO BE WITH YOU
GUYS.
BRIAN: I HAVE YOU FOR AN
HOUR ON RADIO.
>> LOOKING FORWARD TO IT.
STEVE: JUST GET OFF THE
BEACH.
>> GET THE HELL OFF THE
BEACH.
COME ON, STEVE.
STEVE: THREW ARE, YELL AT ME
AGAIN.