Political Pundits

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.

Nothing's going to make it better it's going to be worse. We are plunging into a period of crisis and, you know, I would say is we're going to have ethical crisis followed by constitutional crisis.

If Sessions doesn't meet that criteria he might want to reconsider.

If there are allegations, these type of concerns, hearings are appropriate. Let's see the evidence.

I think that they are troubling. But you've got to give everybody a fair opportunity to have a hearing.

These are not your normal tactics that we see in a presidential race, unleashed against a journalist who asked a tough question.

Yes. The 99 percent of those people who voted for Donald Trump are not Alt-righters. They are not racists.

It's important because you don't empower people like that. You just don't do that. It's not smart.

I think he has already stated very clearly where he stands. He doesn't -- I don't know if anybody -- I mean look, Anderson, the word racism has been thrown around, and racist, so much to good, decent people that aren't racist.

I do not believe that Donald Trump is a member of the Alt-right. I don't believe he believes any of this. I don't even think that Donald Trump is a racist.

You all know why, in your heart, Donald Trump won the Republican nomination. You know it. You know why he won it? Because he dared to call out the phonies, the frauds, and the corruption that has gone unexposed and uncovered for too long.

This is the highest office in the land. It is the biggest honor on planet Earth to work in that building and we should have the best and Bannon is not the best.

The idea that we would now say, well, you put out a publication that, you know, gave aid and comfort and a platform for anti-Jewish bigots and for white nationalists, but you didn't actually write all the articles, therefore, you're OK?

We've got to continue to have a serious debate about the direction of our country and that includes talking about who's putting the inner circle of the president of the United States.

You aren't just serving the president, you're serving the presidency.

You could not script a better human being than Donald Trump has been.

I think that if there is one thing that Donald Trump could do now, that might calm some people... He could get out in front of it. I hope he does.

With respect to -- listen, Donald Trump is doing well right now. That's important for people to get. There is a trust deficit.

They're not going to fall in line for Donald Trump, they're not going to fall in line for this Senate Democrats.

They feel alienated from faith tradition, they feel alienated from the political parties, they feel alienated from big media, and this is a challenge for the country.

Muslim parents that are afraid right now aren't afraid because of kids with signs. They're afraid because he said over and over again that he wanted to ban people of their faith.

Among Democrats, today was a difficult day. I mean, there's no doubt about it, Democrats expected to be having a very different day today.

I think it's time we start talking about the Hillary Clinton coalition.