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I think he's a very dangerous man. And is a self-proclaim leninist that appreciates Lenin's technique of burning everything down and destroying the system so you could rebuild another one.

You cannot possibly think that it's great for the Republican Party or for a new administration to be out here deleting tweets that only put out facts.

For us to be in a week of what day five or something and we're already down to like the social media intern is getting, you know, bossed around, you know, from the White House is what it looks like, that's frightening and it's wrong-headed.

But let me say something else. It could be the case that this is the most genius thing that Trump has ever done because we are talking about this and maybe he's glad because all these wonderful things that he's done today are actually…

It's not healthy for the country to have these kinds of distractions.

Donald Trump right now has a winning hand, OK? He has the Senate, he has the House.

I think that is an insult in some ways to the heartland of this country.

He sees himself as a movement leader who has now captured state power and he wants to use that on behalf of the movement.

If something can get done, it should get done. We get back and forth about this tweet, that thing, you got people out in the country who are hurting and who would like to see America's government work for the American people, period.

I think it's very concerning. I don't think they're ready. I don't think they're ready. And that's dangerous.

We lost the House. Nobody noticed. We lost the Senate, nobody noticed. We lost 6,000 Democratic seats and nobody noticed it until November that the Democrats were in trouble.

We want a president who is strong for America, not weak for Russia.

Well, you know, and that's where we are. We have a divided country, if not a divided government.

It is going to be a very, very difficult couple of years if we don't see some signals that the president-elect is listening to all Americans.

If you go after American-Muslims, I'm going to speak out. He said if you go after dreamers and start dragging dreamers out of college campuses because, you know, they don't have their papers, I'm going to speak out.

There's something bid at stake here. I mean, this is a couple things, first of all, the future is important.

We have two big rivals. You have China that is hacking us to hurt our economy. And then you have Russia hacking us to hurt our democracy.

If you delegitimate the election, that's going to make a lot of Americans wonder why am I paying taxes? What's going on here?

This was a whitelash. This was a whitelash against a changing country. It was a whitelash against a black president in part.

I just -- I hate to be rude but we have one president at a time in our country. If you want to change the policy, you're more than welcome to do so when you're the president of the United States. This is radically disruptive.

It is true that there was a white nationalist part of the Trump phenomenon. It is unfair, though, to the vast majority of Trump voters to say they are all that.

For some people, those inflammatory comments were delightful. I would say those people are probably bigots. For a lot of people they were distasteful, but they weren't disqualifying.

He has a plan to maximize his conflicts of interest. And by the way, I think we need to stop using the term, conflict of interest here.