David Gergen

If Cohen is indeed a felon or, you know, he's pled guilty of a felony, why isn't Donald Trump then guilty of a felony?

I think this puts increased pressure on him to go to Mueller.

Joe McCarthy was one of the great villains in American history.

He seems to be extremely nervous and getting more so by the day and getting more irrational by the day.

It's a vanity project. It's a vanity project. You know, and this was being done essentially to please one man.

I think mostly it's going to be sighs of relief. I think he pays a political price for the petulance he has shown for closing it down, in attacking the mayor of District Columbia and people around it being the reason why they couldn't put…

I think we have -- we are quietly more confident about who we are in our military. We have the best trained military in the world. The morale in our current military is very high, and we don't feel the need to be -- express ourselves in…

I think the real issue here is whether the President is going to knock over all these norms.

He is simply going after his critics to silence them, to punish them because Brennan in particular has been tough on him.

It's very rich for this White House to be talking about the erratic behavior of John Brennan and about his, quote, wild outbursts. It's just unbelievable that they choose those rationale.

This President has very strong authoritarian instincts, and we don't know what he's going to do if cornered.

What happens in a presidency is that everybody takes their cues from the president.

I do think Donald Trump has ample reason to be angry now at her because she has violated all the norms and rules that go with being a White House staffer.

the President is facing an ominous choice within the first few minutes of his interview with Bob Mueller if it ever happens.

the narrative surrounding the purpose and the outcome of the Trump Tower meeting, it's changed so much over the course of last year.

What this president and this White House seem to not to accept is that that's their responsibility at these rallies, to ensure that a free press can exercise day to day work.

Unless he stops this soon, I will tell you, if there is violence against any reporter that's tied to this, the blood is going to be on his hands.

I'm afraid it does, I mean if he's read parts of the constitution like the Second Amendment but is not terribly familiar with other parts of it like the First Amendment.

This administration has taken it to a whole new level. We haven't seen this level of suppression of critics, discrediting of the press on a regular basis.

President is angry at the press in general.

They're trying to manipulate the press, they're trying to manipulate what questions they can ask and not ask.

I'm afraid you're right, Anderson. The -- as healthy democracy depends heavily upon a robust debate with different points of view being freely expressed.

This is the road to authoritarianism. We can't go too far down this road. It's very dangerous.

This is the worst day in the Trump presidency since Charlottesville.

I think he really hopes this was going to give him a lift in the midterm elections.