David Axelrod: “He could not refrain from taking shots at his predecessors, and particularly, President Obama.”

I hope we’re not all complicit in assisting an unintended suicide.

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…

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.

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