David Axelrod: “They now have numbers and they want to use that leverage.”

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.

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…

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