"I think that in his head, he's running. I listen to him in that interview and I see a guy who's thinking, he's going to be running for president of the United States in 2020."
"There's got to be a great deal of trepidation about the prospect of this President sitting down in front of those prosecutors."
"The fact is the memo was designed to try and discredit the whole probe to put pressure on all those involved in the probe."
"He overruled his own FBI director, director of National Intelligence and the Justice Department and took the advice of Director Hannity on this."
"I think the goal is to politicize the entire discussion so that it looks like a political tug-of-war and not a legitimate investigation."
"The notion that a President would overrule his own FBI director, the guy he appointed, his own appointee at the Justice Department, both of whom have warned that this was reckless, dangerous, had pote..."
"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..."
"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."
"I think the circus thing, I think it's an important thing to remember. Because I do think that part of the strategy of the White House is to try and turn the entire discussion into a partisan circus."
"In a democracy party wins the White House, they have a right to make policy subject to the approval of a Congress. You may not like the policies they make, but that's our system."
"Impeachment becomes a tool that you use to get rid of Presidents with whom you don't agree politically. That's a very dangerous thing."