 During our hiatus, we were then told that Trump would make a statement. After a long wait, we were rushed into a conference room where the president quickly appeared. There was no time to set up our equipment and test the audio levels. In a near panic, he says, I slammed one end of my XLR cable into the audio distribution box and blindly hit the record button. I didn't have a spare second to put on my headphones before Trump began speaking. My fellow Americans.