"I have a wife and a family and a dog and a cat."

Trump also said he would not be firing his top campaign lieutenant, calling him 'a good guy.'

'The easiest thing' to do, he said, would be to say: ''Corey, you're fired.' I can't do that. Can't do it.'

'He's got a beautiful wife and children,' Trump said of Lewandowski, 'and I'm not gonna destroy a man for that.'

As soon as I heard Trump say that I was reminded of Watergate.

Ken Clawson [Deputy Director of Communications, the White House]: Please, listen, now, if you're going to refer to that alleged conversation with Sally Aiken, you can't print that it took place in her apartment. I have a wife and a family and a dog and a cat.

Ben Bradlee [Executive Editor, The Washington Post]: A wife and a family and a dog and a cat. Right, Ken, right, yeah. Uh, Ken, I don't want to print that you were in Sally's apartment...

Ken Clawson: Thank God.

Ben Bradlee: I just want to know what you said, in Sally's apartment.