David Axelrod

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…

I think it's a fair criticism that past presidents have not been able to solve this problem.

I think what the government is arguing and would know better than I is that he really is bet hardly a lawyer at all, that much of what he does has nothing to do with law in the traditional sense.

This is obviously a fraught time in which our whole justice system is on tinder hooks here because of the campaign that's being waged against it by the President and his allies.

You have to wonder about how all of this is going down.

That's a very bad day. And so clearly, he has got something to worry about.

This is tainted organization.

If impeachment becomes a partisan tool and not an assiduous process, then you are damaging democracy.

My concern about Donald Trump is less his policy, even though I disagree with many of his policies. It's his utter disregard for democratic institutions.

I think the whole thing is bizarre. I don't think ethics meant much in this administration starting with the President himself.

I don't think he can confirm anybody to replace Sessions if he fires him right now.

One of the appeals Pruitt may have been until the last few days that Pruitt has a constituency in the Senate.

When time and time and time again he refuses to rebuke Putin, it sends a very clear message.

There's so many reasons why it raises eyebrows, not the least of which that he was apparently advised not to do it.

Never before have we seen a secretary of state call the President a moron before.

I don't want that. I don't need people to tell me what to do.

He painted himself into a corner on this issue of guns saying one thing at that public session and then getting a lecture by the NRA and private.

This would have a catastrophic impact on the country if it continues where the chaos he's talking were barely pass the one year mark for this administration.

If you don't respect rules you can do anything if you're President of the United States as he has pretty much said including this.

You can't be in the midst of the Middle East peace process or dealing with Mexico and the faded relations we have with Mexico right now... without top secret security clearance.

For all of this chaos to reign around him, for this flouting of rules, the near potential trade war that he apparently lost rather casually today over the advice of many of his senior national security and economic advisors, those kinds of…

He's comfortable with chaos. That's how he's always operated. It doesn't bother him.

The Trump administration don't really believe the American people should have visibility into the business dealings of the President or anybody around him.

It's really quite something.

Donald Trump has basically lived his life flouting rules, norms, institutions, sometimes skirting laws and has made that a business practice.