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

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

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

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…

It is not right to be dangling pardons in front of -- in a really sensitive case, unless you have something you want to cover up.

The question is whether Dowd acted at the behest of the president, the instruction -- we don't have to debate that. It's very clear he would not act without the president's blessing.

I think this lowers our sense of what politics we're just down in the muck.

I think you've got series of these stories coming out and a lot of women are going to say, yuck.