David Axelrod: “He has a right to be outraged that people aren't showing loyalty to him. But I don't think he understands loyalty to the…”

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

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.

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

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.