"Character matters. And in this administration, we see over and over again excuses being made for bad behavior."
"These are all faux scandals that are thrown out there for the sole purpose of causing some Americans to say, golly, I wonder whether the FBI is on the up and up because at some point Bob Mueller may c..."
"Well, you know, it feels like just a week ago, I was standing right here talking about how sad it was that a United States senator would trade his legacy and his dignity, his integrity, for this crazy..."
"It's important to the president's supporters to have that uncertainty out there."
"Trey Gowdy, who is not exactly thought of on my side of the aisle as, you know, kind of one of the guys who reaches across the aisle, he said this in no way vindicates the president or damages the Mue..."
"I will be astonished, it may happen, I will be astonished if the Trump administration does something that it's never done before, which is voluntarily allows a fact pattern that is not necessarily con..."
"So, when the president comes to my office and I ask him to release the memo, and he says 100 percent, I'll agree that the process is exactly parallel."
"I will tell you that that part of the Nunes memo is just flat out wrong. It is not true. That is not what Andrew McCabe said."
"anybody who knows anything about FISA warrants applications know that they are very, very rigorously vetted. They are based on multiple sources."
"the notion that the judge was not told the context in which this information was developed is incorrect."
"the notion that they hoodwinked the judge which, of course, is the core here is -- is just not supportable by the evidence."
"Like the Nunes memo, that's a complete misrepresentation of the facts because FBI has been keeping our eye on Carter Page long before Christopher Steele was in the picture."