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David Axelrod

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David Axelrod is a prominent Democratic political consultant and strategist, best known for his role as the chief strategist for Barack Obama's presidential campaigns in 2008 and 2012. Born on February 22, 1955, in New York City, Axelrod has played a significant role in shaping modern political communication and campaign strategies. He served as a senior advisor to President Obama during his administration, focusing on messaging and public relations. Axelrod is also a co-founder of the consulting firm AKPD Message and Media.

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Jan 31, 2018

The notion that a President would overrule his own FBI director, the guy he appointed, his own appointee at the Justice Department, both of whom have warned that this was reckless, dangerous, had potentially grave consequences -- in order…

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Jan 31, 2018

Impeachment becomes a tool that you use to get rid of Presidents with whom you don't agree politically. That's a very dangerous thing.

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Jan 29, 2018

I think that one of the things that disturbs me about the president is his late and disregards for institutions for norms, for the things that are so essential to our democracy.

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Jan 29, 2018

If I were them, I would be looking for politically it is incredibly difficult not to testify.

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Jan 29, 2018

Democrats believe there should be significant public investment. Republicans believe there should be incentives for private investment in infrastructure.

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Jan 29, 2018

I think what John said earlier is really important. And I think there's a reason why there is this parallel campaign going on to impeach the investigation, to impeach the FBI.

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Jan 22, 2018

Absolutely not. And particularly, under these circumstances, but under no circumstances should a President do that.

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Jan 22, 2018

If anybody is politicizing the FBI is the President and the supporters. And that is a threat to the rule of law.

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Jan 22, 2018

He often speaks about the fact that he could fire this person or that person and he is also giving instruction to be the attorney general, instruction to the FBI through his tweet.

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Jan 15, 2018

Last week, literally one week ago the president was in a room with cameras talking about a bill of love, that's what he called this immigration bill that he hoped to sign.

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Jan 15, 2018

I do believe that they are going to get something done and the reason I believe it is because it would be a political calamity for the Republican Party at the end of the day not to do something.

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Jan 11, 2018

He is deeply, deeply unpopular in Britain. He was going to be greeted with demonstrations and protests and it was going to be a disaster for him.

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Jan 11, 2018

I don't think this is the last such outrage we're going to see because I think what's clear after a year of experience with Donald Trump as president... he does not change his behavior.

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Jan 3, 2018

Well, odd I think would be a polite way to describe it. I mean, there is -- it is so -- it is so foreign to me having worked in the White House and knowing how scrupulously people dealt with the Justice Department, the FBI, the notion of a…

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Jan 3, 2018

Well, I look I think that the -- his loyalty is to the president I believe, and the White House.

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Jan 3, 2018

The irony of all of this is it comes on a day when two members of Congress called for Sessions to be dismissed, and, of course, that's exactly what the president would want now because if he had an attorney general who wasn't involved in…

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Jan 3, 2018

One important question you can answer goes to this question of whether there was a cover-up of a crime.

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Dec 26, 2017

Yes, I mean I think it's a little early to talk about political capital because this is one of the most unpopular major pieces of legislation a president has passed in his first term.

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Dec 26, 2017

Yes, it's really peculiar. He feels -- he feels a compulsion to claim that his is the biggest, the best, the largest, record breaking, on almost every subject and it's unnecessary.

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Dec 19, 2017

This is a consequential bill. It's a major rewrite of the tax law. It does greatly reduce corporate taxes.

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Dec 17, 2017

There's an impetus, and I think it comes from the president to try and shut all of this down.

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Dec 17, 2017

If they come back from the counsel's office with bad news, you know, who knows how the president will react?

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