David Axelrod: “The facts are harsh, and they are immutable. The fact is that we have four percent of the world's population, and we've…”

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

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

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

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…