It is preposterous to assume that all of these stories and all of these sources are concocted by Bob Woodward to present a negative portrait of this president.

There is a real concern about turnout. And these individual members of Congress aren't going to inspire to come out in large numbers. The one guy who can inspire the base to come out is Donald Trump.

Forty-nine percent of people in this poll said they would support Congress beginning impeachment proceedings which was more than the number who said they did not.

Donald Trump does not feel like he should be accountable. He doesn't want to be accountable to the law.

The president of the United States has the biggest mega phone. It was the president of the United States who sat alone for two hours with Vladimir Putin.

The president keeps reinforcing the Kremlin's line. And that is a source of great concern and confusion for anyone who is trying to read what's actually going on here in our own government.

The bottom line is this president doesn't believe that he has any obligation to share that information with people. He calls the press the enemy of the people. He conflates his political interest with the public interest.

I don't think it's -- look, as you pointed out at the beginning, every President is irritated at times by their coverage, but most Presidents understand that that is part of the obligation of the job. That a free press is enshrined in the…

This is a precedent-shattering White House. And particularly when it comes to issues of transparency and disclosure, starting with the president's refusal to release his tax returns and running through a whole series of things.

He is trying to impeach the media so that when facts are reported that are inconvenient to him, he can dismiss them as political in nature. And that to me is a very insidious thing.

I have to believe that Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, and others are urging him to postpone any kind of meeting until after the election.

Yes, I'm sure the news of this invitation was greeted with wild enthusiasm in the Republican cloakrooms up on Capitol Hill, Anderson. Look, this has been a terrible week. Now, the Republican Party coalesced, at least the rank and file…

I think there are some areas in which as I mentioned in some of these suburban house races I think even though her house doesn't vote on these things it will perhaps energize the Democratic base even more.

There is an impeachment process, there is no indication that this Congress would ever act on that.

And you know I think, that the base is demanding a fight to the death on this for all other reason that had been discussed, but also raises that expectation about what can be accomplished.

I don't think he thinks much of the Me Too movement and I think his general attitude toward women is going to be a problem for him particularly in some of these suburban districts that are going to be key to who controls the House after…

It says that ethics aren't a real big deal here and that should not be a surprise because everything flows from the top.

I would be very happy that he's on his way back to Oklahoma.

He has shredded the idea of civility in our politics from the moment he begun running for president.

Nobody was happier about these developments than Donald Trump. He was gleeful about it because it allowed him to depict his administration and his people as victims.

I make this point not because I am trying to defend the Trump administration, but because I am trying to defend civility as a value in our democracy.

If it's not -- if it wasn't meant to be a deterrent, what was it meant to be?

I think it's more likely that Congress is going to feel the need to act on this issue alone rather than embrace the President's total immigration package.

His behavior has raised the stakes for himself. And one of my big concerns about this whole thing from the moment that he signaled apparently on his own that he was ready to have this meeting is that he now is under pressure to produce…

the President has it backwards. And, you know, he is approaching this like a television show, like a real estate deal. It's far more complex.