I hope whatever he does is the right thing. I hope it does hurt Assad and discourage him in some way from doing this again.

This is a really, really alarming development from the standpoint of the White House.

The link that will make this a full-blown crisis is if a link can be made between people in the Trump campaign organization and Russians.

I was one who was really disturbed by General Flynn's behavior at the convention, when he led those 'lock her up' chants.

Here's the political reality of this. ... If they don't vote for the president and the speaker on this bill, and they don't keep their promise on repeal and replace, whatever repeal and replace is, they're subject to challenge in their…

the negotiation is open until the final gavel falls on the vote.

sometimes, you have to force the issue.

the president is saying to these freedom caucus members is, I'm calling the question and you have to decide whether you want to be the ones who stood in the way of repealing and replacing.

The fact is, tens of millions of people are going to lose their health insurance, premiums will go up and not down.

When you tweet that your predecessor bugged you or ordered your offices wiretapped, that's a pretty specific charge and it wasn't true.

There's also a history between Steve Bannon and Speaker Ryan. Bannon being no fan of Ryan.

I mean, that's a very explosive story. And if this is proven, and if the FBI and if the Justice Department comes to that conclusion, you know, this is a major, major, major scandal and it will rock this government.

It would be good if he acknowledged how insidious the efforts of the Russians were to interfere in our election and how brazen.

There has to be some sort of control, but he has to be willing to be controlled.

I think one thing we ought to ask is that no -- whatever investigation is going on, chances are Donald Trump has some sense of what it is and where it might lead.

I'm sure he finds that galling.

This suggestion that people would just carelessly ignore what is a very well-defined law and boundaries, and that a president of the United States would, of his own volition, just authorize taps for political purposes on players in the…

I think it's wrong to assume that he was irked and exasperated about the personal affront of Pres. Trump after all was accusing him of a crime with that tweet on Saturday, even if Pres. Trump didn't realize it.

Well, look, you had the president go out hours before the Attorney General stepped out to recuse himself to say he didn't think he should recuse himself, so obviously, they're not very much a tuned here to what's going on from moment to…

While there are many people who are looking for him to reach out to broaden his circle and so on, there's also a danger for Donald Trump.

This is an all Republican Washington. That's an obligation, an opportunity, it's also a burden. The Republicans now have to deliver, they won the election.

We have seen since the President took office a systematic effort to impeach all kinds of institutions.

If you listen to what both the President and Steve Bannon have said in the last 48 hours, they've essentially declared war on the news media.

This was a conversation about an ongoing investigation, coverage of an ongoing investigation.

Had it been another administration, had there been a Democratic president, this Republican Congress would be well down the road on hearings having seen the story.