Political Pundits

You've got to not just say it, you've got to come from your heart. You've got to be out there with them so they begin to understand that you're truly on their side.

Hillary Clinton has also been much stronger on criminal justice than her husband was.

They have been effective at getting Democrats to take criminal justice much more seriously, and also to take black issues in particular much more seriously.

You have a barroom brawler approach from a Trump and he is actually being thrown around a bit by the calm, cool judo of a Carson.

Paul Ryan came out there, he showed a level of maturity and also political smarts.

The problem we have now is he started out saying outrageous stuff. He gets called on it, he doesn't improve. He's not growing. He's getting worse.

When it's just Trump versus Hillary, he will certainly have for the first time equal treatment from the media. That will hurt him.

You have Hillary Clinton who is probably the most famous woman in the world and frankly, she's been now for decades one of the most respected women in the world in poll after poll after poll. Donald Trump, one of the most famous men in the…

Bernie Sanders is on fire. You talk to ordinary Democrats that have not given a penny nickel or dime to anybody since 2008 they're opening up there check books today for Bernie Sanders.

But now where's he going to grow, if those are Iowa voters and they uniformly said not only were they not for Trump, they would write in their best friend or something.

I think Carly Fiorina put herself in a position as you start maybe getting some Trump fatigue or some second glances for her to start picking up from him.

The biggest problem for Trump is that he's not really a Republican.

If I were a Marco Rubio or a Jeb Bush, or a Scott Walker or Chris Christie trying to play the long game or Kasich, certainly the fact that you have this kind of power vacuum on the GOP side and you haven't had people close fully support…

CNN's decision response appropriately to the existing political reality that she's more popular and better known today than she was several months ago, wise decision.

There are a lot of Democrats that think Donald Trump is somehow great for them.

The question is -- who can stand up to the bully? That's the real question here.

If tonight, Donald Trump cannot literally answer a single question coherently, as he has not through any of these interviews and gets away with it, that's bad for Democrats and Republicans.

I think Democrats have to look at this as a double threat. First of all, he is, he is bringing the debate to a place where certainly Hillary Clinton doesn't perform well.

If you are going to become president of the United States you have to conduct yourself in a different way.

If this is going about authenticity, you have Trump the authentic angry guy. Now, you get Kasich the authentic guy who cares.

That's why I'm saying he doesn't pledge allegiance to the party.

What is happening in Baltimore tonight is breathtaking in its beauty.

What you got to do in that situation if you're the mayor, is you got to create a stir step effect, where you do not unleash your police against your allies, the one Baltimore movement.

If you weren't coming with love in your heart, then what you're going to do is you're going to retrigger and that's why I say, 'You're a thug. You are this, you are that.'