Norman Eisen: “He is escalating the pressure. It's something that I write about in my book. This is straight out of the autocrat's tool…”

What Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who Trump admires, has done in Hungary is probably the right comparison to what might happen here in a second term.

Clearly, the president was envisioning in that same twisted mind that gave us the 'Access Hollywood' tape something entirely different and disgusting.

it should be an absolute imperative to modernize, and update, and limit utilization of this dangerous statutory tool.

What the president did today -- lying, dishonoring the Constitution, disdaining American justice by calling it a joke and a laughingstock, attacking due process by saying we need quicker, stronger results as if our American courts were not…