David Gergen actually said...

"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 kn..."

"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."