“He (Bannon)threw up his hands again, this time as if to say, “Hands off”.
“I know no Russians. I don’t know nothin’ about nothin’. I’m not bein’ a witness. I’m not hiring a lawyer. It is not gonna be my ass in front of a microphone on national TV answering questions. Hope Hicks is so ****ed, she doesn’t even know it. They are going to lay her out. They are going to crack Don, Jr. like an egg on national TV. Michael Cohen, crack like an egg.
He, the President, said to me, ‘Everybody would take that Don, Jr. meeting with the Russians.’
I said, ‘Everybody would not take that meeting.’ I said, ‘I’m a naval officer. I’m not gonna take a meeting with Russian nationals and do it in headquarters. Are you ****in’ insane?’
And he says, “But he’s a good boy”.
Bannon, F & F