I hope we’re not all complicit in assisting an unintended suicide.

So the man remained, passed out in the blazing noon sun. I guess that’s how the City of Chicago deals with such situations.

I moved on, like many others who simply ignored him.

Unless the economy and his numbers rebound, Republicans are going to feel less willing to follow him blindly.

The nature of presidential politics is the bar gets raised constantly.

I think there's a lot of concern among Republican officeholders. Governor Pawlenty could speak more readily to this than me.

The place where it has influenced politics is in Canada. Now, Justin Trudeau is not -- he's stepping down. He's going to step down. But there's going to be an election in the next few days for the new Liberal Party leader and then there…

I mean, he's president of the United States. He was elected. They should be there.

I think Democrats would be very foolish to go all Marjorie Taylor Greene here and WWE stuff and so on. I think they should respond. But I don't think they should, you know, heckle and do the kinds of things that some have talked about.

There's no doubt about that. But I also want to say this. You know, all presidents sort of feed off of perceptions of the person who came before and they want to position against what people found lacking in the person that came before.

That was shredded today in that meeting in the Oval Office.

I think the political question is the political question. And I think, Jim, I don't think this helps Trump.

I think the darker interpretation of what we saw today is that they were setting up a pretext, he and the vice president for walking away from Ukraine and blaming Zelenskyy for it.

The president is among those nine percent. Twelve percent of Americans have a favorable view of Vladimir Putin. Most Americans recognize that Vladimir Putin is a murderous, autocrat, dictator, war criminal who instigated this war.

He wanted Zelenskyy to be an accomplice in dirtying up Joe Biden, who he feared as an opponent.

There's a reason why federal courts are stepping in to slow this process down, because Elon Musk is in flagrant disregard of rules and laws and norms here.

You have to pick your battles in terms of communication.

this is another norm that's just going by the wayside in the era of Trump. But, I don't think it has particular meaning.

Donald Trump doesn't believe in rules and laws and norms or institutions. He doesn't believe them domestically. He doesn't believe in them internationally and he has defied them to get to this point and back to the presidency.

There's a cost to U.S. credibility and there's a cost to Trump's credibility by bluffing like this and then pulling back.

Well, the question is, what would prevent them from doing things similar to what they've done before? And I think that's the thing that the president and the Republican Party should worry about.

One of the things that he -- one of the habits of Donald Trump is he doesn't tolerate prosperity very well, his own prosperity. And I think the lesson he's drawn from the last four years is he can get away with anything.

The party should look deeper and say, why is it that so many people are disaffected from institutions in this country?

Well, look, it's obviously a historic day. I think whatever you think about Donald Trump, you have to acknowledge this is probably the most astonishing comeback in American political history.