"I think it's more likely that Congress is going to feel the need to act on this issue alone rather than embrace the President's total immigration package."
"If it's not -- if it wasn't meant to be a deterrent, what was it meant to be?"
"Trump has put himself in a vulnerable position by raising the stakes so high for himself and standing at rallies being showered with Nobel chance and so on."
"the President has it backwards. And, you know, he is approaching this like a television show, like a real estate deal. It's far more complex."
"His behavior has raised the stakes for himself. And one of my big concerns about this whole thing from the moment that he signaled apparently on his own that he was ready to have this meeting is that ..."
"I think it's a fair criticism that past presidents have not been able to solve this problem."
"I think what the government is arguing and would know better than I is that he really is bet hardly a lawyer at all, that much of what he does has nothing to do with law in the traditional sense."
"You have to wonder about how all of this is going down."
"This is tainted organization."
"That's a very bad day. And so clearly, he has got something to worry about."
"This is obviously a fraught time in which our whole justice system is on tinder hooks here because of the campaign that's being waged against it by the President and his allies."