David Axelrod: “Those walls are closing in on him and the more he feels trapped, the more I think he's going to lash out.”

An elderly man, probably homeless, was sprawled unconscious on the museum's front stone steps in the midst of a heat emergency. I called 911, and the operator said, ‘Well, is he ASKING for help?’ When I said no, she said, ‘Well, I'm not…

Unless the economy and his numbers rebound, Republicans are going to feel less willing to follow him blindly.

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

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.