David Axelrod: “The hard thing about working in this White House is, you know, you're taking friendly fire all the time from the man on…”

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.

Unless the economy and his numbers rebound, Republicans are going to feel less willing to follow him blindly.