One of your tasks is to separate the "personal" from the "substantive." The two can become confused, especially if someone rubs the President wrong.

One of your tasks is to separate the 'personal' from the 'substantive.' The two can become confused, especially if someone rubs the President wrong.

They undoubtedly come through Syria and they come through Iran, probably, and through other countries to be available for tasks that he has in mind, ... And money comes in as well.

It's a one-pager, ... It is basically a memorandum that says the NSC is going to do that which it is chartered to do. It is chartered to do interagency coordination, and that's what the memo says.

Don't begin to think you're the President. You're not. The Constitution provides for only one.

But I certainly never gave the president a briefing with the impact that one would have had you seen the photographs or the video. I mean, let there be no doubt about that. He was just as blindsided as the Congress and me and everyone else.