David Axelrod: “You don't want that decision being made in a chaotic environment or in a casual way.”

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

Unless the economy and his numbers rebound, Republicans are going to feel less willing to follow him blindly.