David Axelrod

But what we need to do is look to the future.

Look, I think if I were he, I would want to shorten the race as much as possible. He has a lot of assets that he can count on. He's well known, some of the candidates are not.

I think he has staked this out as a symbolic pillar of his presidency.

So when neo-Nazis march in Charlottesville, you can't say there are good people on both sides.

I mean, this position that the president has taken on the wall is not a majority view. That's not something she geared in on.

You want to feel like they -- no, they are not relying on their own instincts, particularly when he has no background in any of these areas.

He knows better than the generals. He knows better than his intelligence people. He knows better than the Fed chair. He knows better than everyone.

I think Democrats are wise at this point to define their own messages and define their vision for the country and talk about what the country after Donald Trump should look like and how they're going to tackle those problems that are…

The President is worried about his own re-election and he's being told by his allies on the right that if he doesn't do something dramatic to promote the wall that he will face a rebellion within his own party.

Absolute gift to Donald Trump. This would reduce the ceiling.

He is clearly being blamed for this.

I think one I think genuine and legitimate criticism is I don't think that the speaker would suggest that he not come because she was worried about security.

I think there are so many far flung tentacles of this that the President's problems are far from over.

Well, enormous pressure now especially with a Democratic Congress set to take office in January with the power of oversight that hasn't been exercised over the last two years. It's enormous pressure.

Those walls are closing in on him and the more he feels trapped, the more I think he's going to lash out.

I think he misses the other piece of this, which is that the incoming from Congress is going to be very, very intense.

We have a president who believes that, you know, that you take whatever you can take, however you can take it and the end justifies the means.

The President is surrounded by liars and crooks, and it leads a lot of people to conclude. Well, if all the people around him are lying and crooked, there is a good chance that he might be, too.

This was a very bad day for the President of the United States. And I would argue for the country because we only have one president at a time and what we learned today was that the President was implicated by prosecutors in New York in a…

If an American president can't rely on his own intelligence, then we have a very deep problem.

I think most presidents would have made it clear to the Saudis that this was unacceptable and that you can't have someone ordering a hit like this and still be dealing with the world as the face of that nation and expect that kingdom and…

I think there is a responsibility that comes with the oath you take and if there are egregious constitutional problems, they're going to have to respond to it.

I think my hope is that Democrats use this new majority to do what the members who got elected said they wanted to do, which is address the kinds of issues that have been neglected relative to health care, relative to economic security and…

The thing that infuriated Donald Trump was that Sessions recused himself.

I'll tell you what concerns me is the President tweeted this morning about, you know, raising the specter of voter fraud.