Donald Trump actually said...

"I have to watch every word I tell you people. He asked me a question, a simple question. I'd like to give it, but I can't talk about it, because his judge just gave me a gag order and said you'll go t..."

"So I'm not allowed to comment on any of that. As you know, I'm under a gag order, which is very unprecedented."

"He wanted to know how it was playing, and just my thoughts and opinion about this story versus having the story - a different kind of story before the election had Mr. Cohen not made that payment."

"It was Mr. Trump's opinion that it was better to be dealing with it now and that it would have been bad to have that story come out before the election."