Marc Short: “It’s impressive how he’s held the conference together.”

There's a crime problem in our inner cities that we're not addressing.

I think ultimately, the buck stops with the President. He has responsibility to listen to advice, or discard advice. But I also think that there's - there were people, around the President, who I think served him very poorly, and, I think…

I think the president talking about taxes and border security are issues that continue to keep that momentum and enthusiasm up among the base.

But I think he ultimately knew that his fidelity to the Constitution was his first and foremost oath.