David Gergen

Let her be herself, be Hillary. Let us see who she is.

The rise of Donald Trump to me is basically an indictment of the political class, not only people in politics and frankly some of us in the media that people are so fed up.

It's absolutely true that it's a roll of the dice for the country to elect somebody to the presidency who has never held public office a day in his or her life.

What strategy would he propose for the Middle East?

I do think that's a gotcha. It's trying to reveal gaps in his knowledge, but what we want to know is are you going to be surrounded by people who don't have these off-the-wall ideas who can bring you in and help you sort of see what…

So far this Trump thing has been a one-man show.

I think you should know basically a lot about the Middle East and the dynamics of the Middle East.

What Americans want now is leadership that is strong as well as steady and it is steadying force.

Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, is a calm, steadying force. People are really worried about will she is he strong enough for the job.

This is going to be a testing time for presidents -- for the candidate that goes far beyond the summer.

What Joe Biden has certainly earned the right to run out for serving eight years as vice president.

We have a remarkable situation now, were the two leading candidates Hillary Clinton on one side, Donald Trump in the other, more than half the country distrust them.

The longer he waits, go to Maggie's point, I think the more of a risk, the more of a gamble it becomes.

It's very early in the process. But who is surging in both parties now? They're all the antiestablishment candidates.

I think he is going to find that if he really wants to win the nomination, and he does obviously have a more durable following than almost any pundit thought, then he is going to have to move.

I thought it was a negative sign when he divorced Roger Stone.

The downside is that, in effect, the success can go to the head of a narcissist.

Losing Stone I think was a mistake. But he has now made these signs. He is going to put out position papers.

What I do think, Anderson, is he has got to give us a rational for why he wants to be the president tonight. What is his cause? What mission is he trying to pursue?

That's so vague. I mean, make America great in what way? It's got to be -- I assume it is about economic growth, that's where his strength is.

Despite their public statements, Anderson, behind the scenes we all know that the White House really, starting with the president, loathe Benjamin Netanyahu and that they have privately hoping that Herzog would be able to put together a…

I don't see how Benjamin Netanyahu as a prime minister there is going to be a realistic hope for a peace process on his watch.

This is a real embarrassment for Republicans.

This is now become exhibit one in that argument.

When you have three-man people, four-man people marking all over France, and joined by people from all over the world, that sends an extraordinarily important signal.