David Axelrod actually said...

"I think it's such a dangerous position to take because these are professionals -- most of these people I would guess all of these people are people who are career professionals within the State Depart..."

"I cannot imagine meetings, principals' meetings where you don't want to hear from the director of National Intelligence as you're making decisions about the National Security of the country."

"If reporters can't trust the information that they're getting from the press secretary, if they don't feel like they're getting real, honest, true facts, then it makes it much harder for them, moving ..."

"You cannot do that. That is a bad idea."