Ben Car­son says he dis­cussed with Trump what they can do ‘to save this coun­try’

For­mer Hous­ing and Urban Devel­op­ment Sec­re­tary Ben Car­son revealed Sun­day that he and for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump have dis­cussed what the two of them can do “to save this coun­try” amid spec­u­la­tion that Trump might select Car­son to be his vice pres­i­den­tial can­di­date.
Car­son pre­vi­ous­ly ran for pres­i­dent as a Repub­li­can can­di­date in the 2016 pres­i­den­tial elec­tion, though Trump end­ed up win­ning the Repub­li­can nom­i­na­tion and the gen­er­al elec­tion. While dis­cussing the cur­rent sta­tus of the Unit­ed States, which Car­son said is “in trou­ble,” he was asked if Trump had con­tact­ed him about the pos­si­bil­i­ty of being his vice pres­i­dent.
“I don’t want to talk about what we’ve talked about, but we’ve talked about what can we do to save this coun­try and that we will work togeth­er to make sure that Am …