I think that they're looking at the aggregation of evidence and clearly obstruction of justice is something that's very much on the mind of Mr. Mueller.

I think it does have an impact actually, Anderson. I think presidents want people around them with whom they're comfortable.

The question for the Republican Party is, not just whether they're going to put statements out condemning this particular incident. But are they going to go after the issue of this element within their own party.

Donald Trump is who he is. He's not going to change.

At some point, we have to conclude it's not coming. He's throwing kerosene on the fire.

This is who Donald Trump is. This is who he was throughout the 2016 campaign.

this was a catastrophic week that capped off a turbulent six months.

you wonder how General Kelly -- it seems like a culture clash, because General Kelly is coming from the military.

The president wants a pugnacious person out there, who's slugging away for him.

I think that strength is something that he sees in himself, and his style is very much replicate -- I call Scaramucci mini me.

Well, it's obviously big for Jeff Sessions. It impugns him in a way at a time, as you point out, that is very, very inconvenient because he seems to be on the rocks as it is.

It is hard to speak for this President because you make representations presumably with his approval and then he will take it in a completely different direction, often cutting you off at the knees, costing you your credibility.

He surely does. You know, I spent an hour with him, the initial 'Axe Files' on CNN with John McCain.

I don't think anybody in the White House is saying thank God we have this Russian spy scandal because, the fact that health care is frozen is not getting, as much attention.

I think that would go down as the glass is half full interpretation on Rick's part and I admired the effort.

I think that must be a rhetorical question, Anderson, plainly not. I mean, the fact is I'm not even sure that the White House has its arms around what the story is completely.

Well, I've been involved in four presidential campaigns. And trust me, we were never approached by agents for Russia offering up information about our opponent. I mean that was highly, highly unusual. So I would dismiss that.

You know, what's really interesting to me, nobody understands the sort of gestalt of the Trump organization better than Maggie Haberman. She's been covering Donald Trump for a couple of decades and she covered that campaign as assiduously…

That's just plain stupid and so they want to deal with Mike Pence who's a more sophisticated politician and understands these basic elements of politics apparently better than this president or the White House does.

None of that is proof of anything, but it certainly raises a lot of suspicion.

You cannot -- the president has sent two horrible messages in the recent weeks. One is when he asked the Republicans in the House to walk the plank on the bill that they passed and then cut them off at the knees by calling it mean.

I don't think that Pres. Trump has the personal investment in this issue or the knowledge of the issue that Barack Obama did.

You are being asked to walk the plank for something that will never become law and it will be tattooed on your forehead.

This would increase the level of this crisis by like 100 fold, because every single member of Congress, Republican and Democrat, said at the time of Mueller's appointment, 'This is what we need. This is the impartial guy.'

It was kind of competition to see who could be more obsequious.