David Axelrod actually said...

"the idea of near fist fights outside the Oval Office, which apparently is not an uncommon event there, we now know about two of them, is really, I think as Maggie suggests a consequence of the leaders..."

"if the President sends a cue that decorum is -- doesn't matter and that -- and uses the kinds of inflammatory language that he does, it has -- it makes a difference."

"But what's clear is that the Congress isn't going to sit still if these facts come to the fore about the prince's involvement, and Saudi Arabia is going to have to make a decision."

"I think they'd love to be able to go back to that and they would like this issue to recede and go back to those winning issues that had them in a relatively good position before all this started."