I spoke to Putin twice. He called me on the election. Vladimir Putin called me on the inauguration. We had a very good talk, especially the second one, lasted for a pretty long period of time. But have nothing to do with Russia. To the best of my knowledge, no person that I deal with does.

I would rather, fight fabricated stories, even though most people say you shouldn't do that. But if you fight it, at least you're telling the truth. At least the word is out that, you know, you're innocent of these charges or stating you're innocent.

I never met Putin. This is not my best friend. But if the United States got along with Russia, wouldn't be so bad.

Jeff Sessions takes the job, gets into the job, recuses himself. Which frankly I think is very unfair to the president. How do you take a job and then recuse yourself? If he would have recused himself before the job, I would have said, thanks, Jeff, but you know, I`m not going to pick you. It`s extremely unfair, and that`s a mild word, to the president.

I think one of the reasons I'm standing here instead of other people is that, frankly, I talked about it, we have to have a strong military.

Being a celebrity at a very high level is a good thing.

Sometimes I'll say, wow, that's going be a great story, and I get killed.