David Axelrod: “I thought, the part of the speech, the bulk of the speech in which he made the case for why we had to leave Afghanistan…”

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 nature of presidential politics is the bar gets raised constantly.

I think Democrats would be very foolish to go all Marjorie Taylor Greene here and WWE stuff and so on. I think they should respond. But I don't think they should, you know, heckle and do the kinds of things that some have talked about.

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