New York Times White House correspondent Glenn Thrush comments on the leaked transcript of President Trump's phone call with the president of Mexico.



"The statement about the wall towers above everything else [in the transcript]," he said. "Can you imagine if Donald Trump had this kind of information about Hillary Clinton in his hand?"



"He'd go all out... This is a monumental admission," Thrush said about Trump's admission to the Mexican President that he knew all along Mexico would not pay for a border wall.



About Trump's comment that the Granite State had been turned into a "drug den" by Mexican drug cartels, Thrush said: "Having been to New Hampshire, I can tell you they have excellent pancakes -- in addition to bodies lying on the side of the highway from opiates."



"[President Trump] is talking like a man that perhaps does not intend to run in another New Hampshire primary -- I'm kidding about that," he said. "But a lot of the stuff that this guy says in private is just very, very consistent with what he says in public."



He also suggested that world leaders should want to talk to President Trump, simply because they will look "dignified and professional" in comparison: "I disagree with what [David Frum] said that foreign leaders will not want to talk candidly. I think it is the opposite... I think they come out looking more dignified, professional, and politically prudent."