David Axelrod actually said...

"The fact is the memo was designed to try and discredit the whole probe to put pressure on all those involved in the probe."

"I think the goal is to politicize the entire discussion so that it looks like a political tug-of-war and not a legitimate investigation."

"Impeachment becomes a tool that you use to get rid of Presidents with whom you don't agree politically. That's a very dangerous thing."

"When you have the president's own appointee as director of the FBI, when you have his Justice Department and when you have his director of national intelligence all urging the president not to release..."