David Axelrod actually said...

"There's got to be a great deal of trepidation about the prospect of this President sitting down in front of those prosecutors."

"The fact is the memo was designed to try and discredit the whole probe to put pressure on all those involved in the probe."

"He overruled his own FBI director, director of National Intelligence and the Justice Department and took the advice of Director Hannity on this."

"I think the goal is to politicize the entire discussion so that it looks like a political tug-of-war and not a legitimate investigation."