David Axelrod: “I think he is selling himself to Republicans as sort of the antithesis of Barack Obama.”

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.

I hope we’re not all complicit in assisting an unintended suicide.

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.

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