Claire McCaskill: “There have been a lot of conversions to Trump. Are they permanent? Is this the permanent Republican Party?”

The culture wars? I've got to tell you, this time around, bring it, because I think that Democrats want to talk about abortion, and they want to talk about guns.

I'm always optimistic. And I do think this is brutal. And people who think that body cams on police officers are not doing what they should, I get that. This young man died. But we now know exactly what happened. So, it does make a…

There is an over-classification problem, and I was surprised Secretary Gates didn't mention it.

This is never a referendum. Presidential elections, by the time they run around, is always, 'well, who do you like slightly better than the two you don't like?' So it is a binary choice.