David Axelrod: “I also wonder... about the recently departed NSA director, John Bolton. He certainly has an incentive to be forthcoming…”

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…

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.

I think there's a lot of concern among Republican officeholders. Governor Pawlenty could speak more readily to this than me.

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