David Axelrod: “I cannot imagine meetings, principals' meetings where you don't want to hear from the director of National Intelligence…”

I moved on, like many others who simply ignored him.

I mean, he's president of the United States. He was elected. They should be there.

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…

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.