David Axelrod actually said...

"The fact is the memo was designed to try and discredit the whole probe to put pressure on all those involved in the probe."

"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."

"In a democracy party wins the White House, they have a right to make policy subject to the approval of a Congress. You may not like the policies they make, but that's our system."

"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..."