
President Obama launched a whole-of-government effort, he appointed me to lead a team at the White House to coordinate it.
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President Obama launched a whole-of-government effort, he appointed me to lead a team at the White House to coordinate it.

We do not have a travel ban, we have a travel band-aid right now.

this isn't a partisan issue, and I reiterate that this is not a partisan issue.

If we're going to sacrifice the national security of the country if we're going to withhold military aid. If we're going to bestow favors in U.S. resources to countries where the President has investments, is that what we want driving U.S…

It will mean heretofore that when a president is impeached that one party can deny the other witnesses, and that will be the new normal that would be trials without witnesses.

So that was -- those were the driving factors that he also mentioned to me in past that the corruption related to the DNC server? Absolutely, no question about that. But that's it, that's why we held up the money.

We do that all the time with foreign policy.

We do that all the time with foreign policy. I have news for you. Get over it.

Again, I was involved with the process by which the money was held up temporarily.

There's going to be political influence in foreign policy.

The look back to what happened in 2016 certainly was - was part of the thing that he was worried about in corruption with that nation, and that is absolutely appropriate.

This is a corrupt place, I don't want to send them a bunch of money have them waist it, have them spend it, have them use it to line their own pockets.

We're going to do the 46th G7 Summit on June 10th through 12th at the Trump National Doral Facility in Miami. Doral was by far and away, far and away the best physical facility for this meeting.

I think the President has pretty much made it very clear since he's got here that he doesn't profit from being here, he has no interest in profit from being here.

The look back to what happened in 2016 certainly was part of the thing that he was worried about in corruption with that nation. That is absolutely appropriate.

We do -- we do that all the time with foreign policy.

I have news for everybody. Get over. There is going to be political influence in foreign policy.

We're going to do the 46th G7 Summit on June 10 through June 12 at the Trump National Doral Facility in Miami. Doral was by far and away, far and away the best physical facility for this meeting.