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Alex Brandon / AP
President Trump told Fox & Friends' Ainsley Earhardt that his original tweet suggesting there could be tapes of his Oval Office conversations with ex-FBI Director James Comey came from concerns that the Obama administration may have been surveilling the White House:
The quote: "You never know what's happening when you see that the Obama administration, and perhaps longer than that, was doing all of unmasking and surveillance and you read all about it... the horrible situation with surveillance all over the place... But when [Comey] found out that I, you know, that there may be tapes out there, whether it's governmental tapes or anything else, and who knows, I think his story may have changed."
- Should Mueller recuse himself from special counsel? "[H]e's very, very good friends with Comey, which is very bothersome... we'll have to see. I can say that the people that have been hired are all Hillary Clinton supporters... I mean the whole thing is ridiculous."
- On health care: "I've done in five months what other people haven't done in years... It's a very complicated situation from the standpoint, you do something that's good for one group but bad for another."
- On rumors Pelosi is being ousted: "I hope she doesn't step down. I think that it would be very, very sad for Republicans if she steps down. I'd be very, very disappointed if she did. I'd like to keep her right where she is, because our record is extraordinary against her."
- Democrats being obstructionists: "I think they'd do much better, as a party, if they got along with us... I honestly think they'd do better at the polls... boy, would the people love to see two parties getting together and coming up with the perfect health care plan... I don't think that's going to happen, but that is what should happen."