David Axelrod: “I think this is an ordered hit from Donald Trump, who wants to portray equivalence. They went after me, we're going…”

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.

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.

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.