David Axelrod: “He thinks that this works. He thinks he is profiting from it politically.”

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 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.

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