David Axelrod actually said...

"It is absolutely true that the president can lift the veil on a lot of this, simply by making the kinds of disclosures that have been the norm since Nixon."

"Yes. That makes sense to me. I'm wondering where the abundance of caution was before the president had multiple conversations with the FBI director."

"the first rule of politics is if you want to get out of a hole, stop digging. And the president has been digging furiously for some time here."

"What he did today was very much about protecting his integrity and the integrity of the Justice Department."