David Axelrod: “What he did today was very much about protecting his integrity and the integrity of the Justice Department.”

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.

So the man remained, passed out in the blazing noon sun. I guess that’s how the City of Chicago deals with such situations.

I think Democrats would be very foolish to go all Marjorie Taylor Greene here and WWE stuff and so on. I think they should respond. But I don't think they should, you know, heckle and do the kinds of things that some have talked about.

I think there's a lot of concern among Republican officeholders. Governor Pawlenty could speak more readily to this than me.