David Axelrod: “It's very hard to be the president of law and order, when you're holding a can of rhetorical kerosene in your hand.”

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.

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

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.