I assume I'm being taped everywhere, so I never worry about that.

There's certain things that we do work with Russia on and then there's certain things when they do something wrong, I have no problem calling them out on it.

I don't feel like President Trump doesn't listen to me on Russia. If he had a problem with what I'm saying, he would say something. And he hasn't.

I think raise doubts that's what Russians are doing around the world. I think they're trying to do that. I think they're trying to cause everything to be in question. We see them playing in a lot of different elections and trying to do that, because that's all they've got.

I talk with countries, whether it's the Arab states or in the Middle East, and they talk about how they're glad to see us fighting against Iran. I talk with different countries in reference to Syria, and we talk about how we can get the Iranian influence out. We're talking about North Korea and what we need to do and the pressure we need to put on China. They're happy that we're finally beating up on Russia for what they've done in the Ukraine.

My job is to create jobs. In the end I'm going to have jobs to show for it.

I had a white senator call me a rag head, and I had an African-American legislator call me a conservative with a tan.