David Axelrod: “I do think, at the end of the day, the president will be impeached because the facts are very stubborn here.”

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.

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

The nature of presidential politics is the bar gets raised constantly.

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