David Axelrod: “This is a frontal assault on the, you know, the global order and on the sovereignty of nations.”

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

There's no doubt about that. But I also want to say this. You know, all presidents sort of feed off of perceptions of the person who came before and they want to position against what people found lacking in the person that came before.

I think there's a lot of concern among Republican officeholders. Governor Pawlenty could speak more readily to this than me.

I moved on, like many others who simply ignored him.