David Gergen

They think it's like your amendment rights to be, you know, protesting has been part of the American fabric since the open days of the Republican.

This suggests, Anderson, I must say, it has a whiff of a lot more about politics and trying to once again divert us from more serious matters especially regarding to Mueller and all the controversies.

I think that Trump has a growing possibility within Democratic ranks that more sober people are saying, unless there's a clear smoking gun, why don't we instead of pursuing impeachment, let the voters settle this at the ballot box in 2020…

There is no question.

I think this happens a lot. People do -- when they leave the White House they often set up lobbying companies with somebody there who is a top Republican, somebody who is a top Democrat.

It's clearly unethical. You know, and the influence peddling.

The President pulls off this North Korean deal give him credit. But on the Iranian deal, there are four big decisions that the President has made that have directly spit in the eye of our long-term friends and allies, pulling out of Paris…

This is the man's attorney.

It's very dangerous. And unfortunately we are at a point with the United States is not in great speaking terms with its European friends and other countries about how to handle the Middle East.

I just cannot imagine that Mueller is going to sit there and let him filibuster for four hours and walk away without having to answer any real questions.

I think in the end of the day, the president is going to have to answer questions under oath.

Rudy has many very good qualities. He was an excellent mayor of New York, as we all know. But he's gotten very loquacious on this.

It's good legal advice, it's terrible political advice. I just think it would be a disaster for him to take the Fifth.

It's so good, Anderson, to hear those -- the sentiments from the Trumps and the Obama's. They recall another age when people were more civil.

You serve, you do it under the rest of times, it can be rough at times, you have to go through this together, but it's important to who you are, not your wealth but to service.

If we have this much uncertainty, it's hard to govern.

I think that President Trump, first and foremost, likes Scott Pruitt because he thinks he's a tough guy.

A lot of the people around the President are telling him not to fire Sessions because he will have a (INAUDIBLE) on his hands trying to get anybody confirmed starting with Pruitt.

it's nuts doing peril as a trade war would the very economic recovery that he has some legitimacy in claiming.

He's dismissive of truth as he is of ethics.

I think increasingly has becoming a threat, we're not there by any means but it is a threat and if we had this President and we had a couple more like him, you know, I think we would be very close.

Presidents, no matter how much experience they have, need stabilizing forces around them.

There's no pressing need here. This is more of a political move.

It is very healthy for a president to have a good friend, someone who can look him in the eye and tell him what's going right, but also what's going wrong, to give candid advice and not be as intimidated by the office and by the man…

No, it would be a serious mistake to go without a chief of staff. You know, there was a time a very early time, when Democrats tend to tend not to have very strong chief of staff and Republicans like the pyramidal system with a strong…