He did not ask General Flynn, did not direct General Flynn to make those phone calls to the Russian ambassador.

I think that this White House unfortunately has fed us so many misleading statements and so many lies over time.

It seems unlikely someone would call five times unless he were on a mission that was encouraged by the president or by somebody higher up in the White House.

When did he know? And when did he know it? If they had a report to the legal counsel, the general counsel would have reported presumably to the president. Why then is Flynn still there?

It's unimaginable that the White House General Counsel would sit on it and not tell anybody else in the White House. At the minimum, he would tell the chief of staff. In every White House I've ever known, it would go to the president like…

It's not actually saying, well, the President's right, that there's a lot of killers, or that, you know, whatever the subject may be.

I cannot believe the Trump administration will say they -- will ignore this. I think they'll say tonight they're confident they're going to prevail in the end.

this is a single most important initiative that Donald Trump has put on the table since he became president.

I think if you look at the totality of that, this really weakens Rex Tillerson at the very moment. We need a strong Secretary of State.

Taking Iraq's oil is preposterous on its face and, you know, with a sovereign nation.

I do believe McCain and Graham have issued the first direct challenge to Donald Trump over the future conduct of his presidency and his policies starting with Putin.