Robert Gibbs: “Why did we depend on Donald Trump to be the one and only boogeyman, the only thing we had to run a campaign against?”

I think Democrats and Republicans will get an agreement on this. It`s not in anybody`s interest to fight out the government shutdown at this point.

I think it`s things like that working on gas prices, trying to keep them low, cost of living kitchen table issues, doing not just telling, I think is what is going to get this White House back on track seven months before an election.

I think suburban voters, particularly in Texas, are going to wonder why their attorney general is spending a lot more time as a defendant than he is as a prosecutor.

I think the idea that Trump is going to emerge, unscathed is certainly unlikely.