David Axelrod actually said...

"I make this point not because I am trying to defend the Trump administration, but because I am trying to defend civility as a value in our democracy."

"Nobody was happier about these developments than Donald Trump. He was gleeful about it because it allowed him to depict his administration and his people as victims."

"He has shredded the idea of civility in our politics from the moment he begun running for president."

"If it's not -- if it wasn't meant to be a deterrent, what was it meant to be?"