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

Donald Trump has one test for all of this, which is does it work? Does it work? And he thinks that that works for him.

There is a sense of loss among like the folks who you really spoke to as a candidate, the sense that somehow their America is under siege and that change is working against them. And that is at the core of Trump's appeal.

I hear you, Rick, but it reminds me of when Winston Churchill lost re-election and lady Clementine said it's a blessing in disguise and he said, it's rather well disguised.

I think that his belief is that voter mobilization is the key and that he can be helpful in some of these close races by spurring people to the polls.

Either Trump will win the House or Paul Ryan will lose it.

This is a time for mobilization. And he is trying to get every Democrat out that typically in midterm elections... there is a drop-off.

Donald Trump unleashed the dogs of hatred in this country from the day he declared he was running for president and they've been snarling and barking at each other ever since and it's just inevitable.

He thinks it's working for him headed into this election campaign. And his rallies have become more and more vituperative, his charges more and more irresponsible as the day goes on.

You can't deliver a, you know, homilies about unity in the Oval Office during the day and then run off to rallies at night where you deliver extemporaneous jeremiads about the evil opposition and the -- at the media as the enemy of the…

He thinks that this works. He thinks he is profiting from it politically.

If you glorify violence in your speeches, people are going to hear that.

the idea of near fist fights outside the Oval Office, which apparently is not an uncommon event there, we now know about two of them, is really, I think as Maggie suggests a consequence of the leadership style of this president.

if the President sends a cue that decorum is -- doesn't matter and that -- and uses the kinds of inflammatory language that he does, it has -- it makes a difference.

But what's clear is that the Congress isn't going to sit still if these facts come to the fore about the prince's involvement, and Saudi Arabia is going to have to make a decision.

I think they'd love to be able to go back to that and they would like this issue to recede and go back to those winning issues that had them in a relatively good position before all this started.

There is no doubt that -- there -- he is mounted up a series of wins here and that has to be -- that has to be good from their standpoint right now.

Just as Mitch McConnell held up Judge Merrick Garland's appointment during the Obama administration, he has said from the beginning that he was going to get this done by the beginning of October.

He is worried about another date, that's November 6, the midterm elections, and the prospect that Democrats might take control of the Senate which would complicate the confirmation of any justice the president would push forward.

What this is about is raw politics.

He has a right to be outraged that people aren't showing loyalty to him. But I don't think he understands loyalty to the people around him.

Can you imagine what the reaction in this country would be, at least among the people who supported Donald Trump if he were removed by a vote of the cabinet? That's a very, very serious step for our democracy.

the oath is not to the President. The oath is to the country.

I fear that we're going to wake up in the not too distant future, and you're going to see, you know, mass firings and mass pardons because he seems to be increasingly unhinged.

This portrait is pretty stark and thoroughly credible. What it paints is the picture of a White House that is like nothing that we've ever heard of.