David Axelrod actually said...

"There's got to be a great deal of trepidation about the prospect of this President sitting down in front of those prosecutors."

"I think that in his head, he's running. I listen to him in that interview and I see a guy who's thinking, he's going to be running for president of the United States in 2020."

"He overruled his own FBI director, director of National Intelligence and the Justice Department and took the advice of Director Hannity on this."

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