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Well, he apparently doesn't if you heard his comments today which were just so shocking and appalling, tone deaf and, you know, just disconnected.

He's having to throw this raw meat to his base because he is in a weak position.

I think he looks foolish either way. I mean, you have a President who is inflicting real pain on real people who work for our government to try to solve a phony crisis at the border.

Having somebody good at the EPA is also important. Keeping America's water from having poison in it and the air from being polluted, all of these important jobs are not helped in the recruitment when you have these kinds of things.

It's not good news. There's a context here which we've now just gotten used to. It's important to remind people. Why won't the president sit down and have a conversation with Mueller?

The reality is, everybody knows -- everybody knows that Trump can't talk without lying. Now, this is a massive disability for anybody, let alone the head of a country, that literally his lawyers are terrified that if he opens his mouth, he…

You know, you have the House now firmly in the hands of Democrats. You saw real victories in the Trump heartland, industrial heartland, and states that he's got to hang onto.

I mean, I just think we've been punched numb. The idea that the President of the United States likes an ad, loves it, tweets it out, and it is so racist and so offensive that Fox News, no great friend of civil rights, can't even run it, we…

When you have fear and helplessness, you don't have the House, you don't have the senate, you don't have the Supreme Court, you don't have the White House, you've got nothing, it's unhealthy.

I think both parties have values that are offended when there's no redemption.

If Gillum wins, it's not just important for Florida, it's important for the Democratic Party.

This race is so important because it really is, it's a hand-picked kind of Trump person versus a very different vision of what a Democrat can do. This is a Democrat who is willing to be progressive, he is willing to be bold.

Across the country, there's a sense that, between the gerrymandering and voter suppression, that there's -- that the Republican Party is hostile to a fair vote.

I think now to see Trump out there doing that is frustrating for Democrats.

Most of the terrorists that we -- instances we've had in the United States are not being committed by Middle Eastern people, by Muslims, they're being committed by right wing extremists in our country.

I think it's much more likely that Donald Trump is paying for this than for George Soros to be paying for.

I don't think that makes a lot of sense. First of all, Democrats are having a hard enough time organizing inside the United States to do an election. This probably if anything hurts, because it raises this whole question, this whole…

I think the Trump White House needs to be put on trial for this spectacle.

I think one thing got answered this week. There are two superpowers in American politics. One is Donald Trump, and the other, the voice of women.

Without Obama on the ticket, Democrats lose. That is true. But I think that you now have a hunger in this party to hear forceful, passionate defense of our basic principles, and Obama's the best we've got.

You can't then say, listen, I want to be able to have a happy press conference about my happy topics and I'm going to be upset and throw a fit like a toddler because somebody asked me a hard question.

I think that's where, you know, you've got to continue to hold him accountable.

We're headed for a showdown, potentially a constitutional crisis in that, you know, Bill Clinton said, look, I don't want to answer to a subpoena. I'll sit down.

I think one thing we have to remember, the journalists are often as exposed as anybody even though they are being viewed in the same way that we view politicians.