"I don't need to tell you about the truly awful effort that is being conducted by the president himself and his allies like Sean Hannity and Janine Perrow to throw mud on the story to American institut..."
"You know what, FBI agents having political opinions is not politicizing the FBI."
"The American people need to be prepared to respond to the firing of Mueller or to further attacks on the DOJ and the FBI."
"It looks like Michael Flynn is cooperating with Robert Mueller. And the president just injected sort of a get out -- a potential, I should say, a potential 'get out of jail' free card to Michael Flynn..."
"I think it's fair to say the indictments he secured, the guilty pleas he secured in the last week or so, I should say month, were surprises to most of us."
"Yes, I really do, Anderson. Look, we have at least a two-track effort to make these investigations go away, to make them irrelevant, to make them marginal."
"It is a profoundly damaging thing, not just today, but to the confidence that Americans should have in their presidency and in their government."
"If Mueller comes out with new indictments, with new information, and the House is clueless on that stuff, how is that going to look?"
"You don't have a democracy unless you have an impartial, de-politicized Department of Justice and FBI."
"this is part of a much larger pattern that involves people like General Flynn and involves people like Donald Trump Jr., of people forgetting or simply lying about contacts with Russia."
"the best way for this investigation to go away, of course, is for people to be totally up front."
"we started in a place where there was a blanket, unconditional denial of any contact with the Russians."