David Axelrod actually said...

"He overruled his own FBI director, director of National Intelligence and the Justice Department and took the advice of Director Hannity on this."

"I think the goal is to politicize the entire discussion so that it looks like a political tug-of-war and not a legitimate investigation."

"The notion that a President would overrule his own FBI director, the guy he appointed, his own appointee at the Justice Department, both of whom have warned that this was reckless, dangerous, had pote..."

"When you have the president's own appointee as director of the FBI, when you have his Justice Department and when you have his director of national intelligence all urging the president not to release..."