Robert Gibbs: “The President says, don't be afraid of it. You're going to beat it. That's not Churchillian. It's wrong. And it's anti…”

Why did we depend on Donald Trump to be the one and only boogeyman, the only thing we had to run a campaign against?

I think it`s things like that working on gas prices, trying to keep them low, cost of living kitchen table issues, doing not just telling, I think is what is going to get this White House back on track seven months before an election.

Let's privatize Social Security. You heard that tonight. Let's slash Medicare. You heard that tonight. Those aren't ideas that will make this country stronger.

I think, to Murphy`s point around the grip that Trump has on the Republican Party, I think we saw this weekend, that grip continues to get tighter and tighter.