Robert Gibbs: “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 the idea that Trump is going to emerge, unscathed is certainly unlikely.

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.

We have to understand what got us into this mess, and we have to make sure that we don't hire somebody to repeat those same mistakes that got us into that.