David Axelrod actually said...

"He wants to have political control over the Justice Department, and she -- to Scott's point, I think she's fully -- fully, willing, able and capable of doing that."

"I think it was a good move to get Gaetz out of the nomination, because he clearly was going to crash and burn, and he shouldn't have been there in the first place. It was a horrific choice."

"Matt Gaetz doesn't go quietly anywhere. So he's clearly not going anywhere now. He's ambitious."

"he wants to put loyalists in there who will do what he wants."