David Gergen actually said...

"It added to the sense that we were headed toward a confrontation and people were looking for ways to spark this."

"There are ominous signs that we're stepping up the pressure and that they're stepping up the pressure simultaneously."

"It's hard for a law and order administration too to say, well, if somebody else does it, they have to go to jail, but if it's one of ours, they don't, you know, they don't have to pay a price."

"So this is building, legally and politically, this is really building."