Look, for Mitch McConnell it's been a marriage of necessity, not one of respect, and I think what you're seeing is Mitch McConnell knows what the rest of the country knows, which is Donald Trump is on his way out the door and Mitch…

I think there's a lot in this behavior by the president. We know his pardon authority is largely at his own discretion, and he is choosing to use it for his own political and personal network, which you could make the case is an abuse of…

I think what we're seeing is Republicans today untethered from Donald Trump as independently acting in this way.

It's an inflection moment for Republicans where we see who they are untethered from Trump.

What does the Republican Party look like next year? I think that verdict is still out.

Yes, Chris. The remarkable thing, though, in terms of just the electoral calculation is this is a strategy and a man in Donald Trump that lost the state of Georgia, right, the first Republican nominee to lose in almost 30 years. So, why…

history judges followers just as harshly in this moment as it does the leader, Donald Trump.

What you're seeing is the very beginnings of the Republican Party becoming the opposition party again, which they are very good at.

The Constitution is keeping Donald Trump's powers in check. We will have an orderly transition. Joe Biden will be the next president. The courts are throwing out Donald Trump's contests.

You are the reason that 20 to 30 percent of the American public will forever question the legitimacy of the 2020 election.

The danger, the damning part of this, Chris, is that this is happening with the bully pulpit of the President of the United States.