David Axelrod: “He judges it through this narrow prism of how it affects him.”

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

I mean, he's president of the United States. He was elected. They should be there.

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

An elderly man, probably homeless, was sprawled unconscious on the museum's front stone steps in the midst of a heat emergency. I called 911, and the operator said, ‘Well, is he ASKING for help?’ When I said no, she said, ‘Well, I'm not…