i got reelected to what would have been my fourth term in congress, i was focused on, that i was in washington getting ready to finish out my third term, and received a found call from vice president elect pence. and he said mike would you think about joining the administration. i said mr. vice president i just stent a lot of money to get reelected. he said if we found the right thing, he knew it would fall on my heart the right way, i said of course, friday morning they announced my nomination to be cia director. he called said, you are not going to believe this, i got nominated to be dir direct cia, i said what does he know about cook, the woulder in i culinary institute of america, then it dawned on me. i realized what a great fit. for someone with mike a background to do that. i said you will join me.
i got reelected to what would have been my fourth term in congress, i was focused on, that i was in washington getting ready to finish out my third term, and received a found call from vice president elect pence. and he said mike would you think about joining the administration. i said mr. vice president i just stent a lot of money to get reelected. he said if we found the right thing, he knew it would fall on my heart the right way, i said of course, friday morning they announced my nomination to be cia director. he called said, you are not going to believe this, i got nominated to be direct direct cia, i said what does he know about cook, the woulder in institu culinary institute of america, then it dawned on me. i realized what a great fit. for someone with mike a background to do that. i said you will join me.
secretary mattis, can you tell us a little bit about your relationship with the president. he s someone you have written you did not know prior to your first interview with him before he took the position. talk about how you would communicate with him, how it he absorb information, what was the best way for you to talk to him, how did that relationship evolve and have you spoken with him since you resigned? i have not spoken to him since i resigned. he s busy, i assume. he s got probably the toughest job in the world. i had never met the president. i took no part in the campaign. i don t believe generals should get involved in elections and speaking out. when i got the phone call from vice president pence, vice president elect pence to come back to the interview, i went back to the interview and the communication that president guided the discussion about 40 minutes long, we talked about several things. i disagreed with him on three of the primary points he brought up, so i thought
individual two was presumed to be this man on your screen, felix sater, a russian immigrant, real estate developer, once connected in connection with the russian mafia stock fraud. he was a significant player behind the trump project. sater promised to engineer a deal with the help of russian president vladimir putin. in august 2017, the new york times published portions of e-mail exchanges between cohen and sater. when he told cohen, quote, i ve arranged for ivanka to sit down in putin s private chair and his desk and office in the kremlin. i will get putin on this program and we ll get donald trump elected. sater moves on to say, buddy, our boy can become president of the usa. and we can engineer it. i will get all of putin s team to buy in on this. i will.
become incredibly weak. that is the term the president of the united states took this morning on his former attorney general and fixer michael cohen who previously said this about his longtime boss. i know mr. trump. i ve stood by him shoulder to shoulder for the past decade. i ve seen him in action. i know when donald trump wants something, there s nothing that s going to stop him from achieving his goal. the words the media should be using to describe mr. trump are generous, compassionate, principled, empathetic, kind, humble, honest and genuine. i ll do anything to protect mr. trump, the family, now vice president elect pence, as well as the campaign. well, somebody s changed his tune. now the man who said he would stop his administration like he did his business, with the best people slammed his former lawyer