David Axelrod actually said...

"Joe Biden was concerned that the mission was shifting away from its intention, which is what he talked about today, which was to disable al-Qaeda and go after the people who had attacked the U.S."

"The President said today we're going to continue to fight terrorism where we find it in Afghanistan and elsewhere and we're going to keep eyes on what's going on there."

"I thought, the part of the speech, the bulk of the speech in which he made the case for why we had to leave Afghanistan was very powerful and very compelling."

"They were absolutely shredded by Donald Trump. We have never seen anything like this, certainly in my lifetime, I think in our history."