"Because you don't like the coverage that you're receiving, you're going to try and ban people from covering you? You can't go for that as a member of the media. You can't go for that."
"I was trying to figure out ways I could work with them in some like licensing way. But then I thought, '(Expletive) these guys. I don’t want to work for them. I just don’t.'”
That is not to say that NBC News won't cover Trump or look to feature him in its coverage of the run-up to the Republican primary, only that a town hall-style event is unlikely to happen.
"I was trying to figure out ways I could work with them in some like licensing way. But then I thought, '(Expletive) these guys. I don’t want to work for them. I just don’t.'”