David Axelrod: “The president made a very tough decision and it was the right decision, and the result is we now have a very competitive…”

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

Donald Trump doesn't believe in rules and laws and norms or institutions. He doesn't believe them domestically. He doesn't believe in them internationally and he has defied them to get to this point and back to the presidency.

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