Donald Trump actually said...

"I thought it was a very, very strong signal or whatever. I know Mr. Manafort -- haven't spoken to him in a long time, but I know he was with the campaign, as you know, for a very short period of time,..."

"Now, as far as somebody else, where did they file the right papers or did they forget to file a paper? You know, I guarantee, if you went around and looked at everybody that made a speech or whatever ..."

"It's fine. It is what it is. It's fine. Everybody said there's no collusion. You look at the councils that come in, we have a Senate hearing, we have judiciary, we have intelligence and we have a Hous..."

"And frankly, the people that were questioning that statement, was it too tough? Maybe it wasn't tough enough."