David Axelrod: “Yes. That makes sense to me. I'm wondering where the abundance of caution was before the president had multiple…”

An elderly man, probably homeless, was sprawled unconscious on the museum's front stone steps in the midst of a heat emergency. I called 911, and the operator said, ‘Well, is he ASKING for help?’ When I said no, she said, ‘Well, I'm not…

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

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.