David Axelrod actually said...

"It is consequential that the person who helped lead that organization is now one of the -- or maybe the principal Foreign Policy adviser, National Security adviser to the President of the United State..."

"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 ..."

"There is a certain obligation on the part of the press secretary and the administration when they stand in front of a podium and they are talking not just to reporters but the American people to tell ..."