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

I think it's going to be a Rocky Scholes to navigate.

College-educated whites, they are an important component that Jones needs to win this race in these exit poll numbers, he is underperforming -- significantly underperforming what he would need.

I think this is a huge piece of this, where you guys obviously the evangelical piece, abortion and the larger concern about the Supreme Court and so on.

Roy Moore is not going to -- he's going to create an awful a lot of problems for the Republican Party.

It would be a mistake to leap to conclusions, these exit polls are wonderful tools but they're blunt tools sometimes and they're not awesome right.

This isn't the optimal circumstance under which to calm the President down. I think the President has reason to be nervous given these latest developments.

The hard thing about working in this White House is, you know, you're taking friendly fire all the time from the man on top and he's making your job more difficult.

Now he's got nuclear weapons, OK. Now, he is the most powerful man on the planet. So it really does matter whether he's delusional or not.

I am concerned, Anderson, because I sat next to the Oval Office for a couple of years. I saw the kinds of issues that come across that desk. I know the power that is repost in that office. And if the person who sits there is delusional…

He's trying to set the terms of the debate.

I think David Gergen raises a really important point. I don't know whether it's strategy or sort of a socio pathology that causes him to say these things.

I think for Republicans, they need to contemplate is, how do you deal with -- do you embrace Trump?

It was whether Ed Gillespie by embracing some of the cultural issues that Donald Trump is champion could rally his base without losing votes in northern Virginia.

If Northam had lost you would have heard that from Democrats.

This has been a race about Donald Trump and the news isn't particularly good for him tonight.

one of the habits of Donald Trump is when there's an inconvenient blaze over here, he starts one over here.

the Papadopoulos element was one that really jarred everyone around the president because whereas they were expecting the Manafort indictment and perhaps Gates, they were comfortable that that was about other matters.

demanding that the Justice Department open up investigations on Hillary Clinton and others.

It is. Look, this is the most profound, sobering responsibility a president has.

I don't see that capacity in this president.

I mean, there was this hope that the gravity of the office would change Donald Trump.

Somehow this president has the unerring capacity to turn moments that should be sacred into moments that are profane.

This is a guy who will punch down at anybody who takes a shot at him.

I don't know whether he's serious or not. And I don't know if he really knows what his authorities are.