David Axelrod: “I hope whatever he does is the right thing. I hope it does hurt Assad and discourage him in some way from doing this…”

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.

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

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.