David Axelrod

It might be to make the case that Rosenstein should be removed because one way to limit this investigation would be to remove him and put someone else in charge of that investigation.

When you have the president's own appointee as director of the FBI, when you have his Justice Department and when you have his director of national intelligence all urging the president not to release this memo, then it's more than a…

It is political malpractice.

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.

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

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.

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

He is under an enormous pressure. I feel for him.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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…

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

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…

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.

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.

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

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

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

The worst thing for Doug Jones was to have this race nationalized.