This suggestion that people would just carelessly ignore what is a very well-defined law and boundaries, and that a president of the United States would, of his own volition, just authorize taps for political purposes on players in the American political landscape.
Axelrod expresses concern about the implications of Trump's wiretapping claims on the presidency.
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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.
I think there's a lot of concern among Republican officeholders. Governor Pawlenty could speak more readily to this than me.
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.
The place where it has influenced politics is in Canada. Now, Justin Trudeau is not -- he's stepping down. He's going to step down. But there's going to be an election in the next few days for the new Liberal Party leader and then there…
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