"If you're the president of the United States and you got people in your organization who in effect have become disaffected and have, you know, testified against you in some fashion, I don't think it's unreasonable for a president to sort of think that's not -- that's not a great team player on my pa..."
"I think it's unbecoming. It's sort of cheap and cheapens the presidency."
"If the President himself was personally engaged, it's a big deal."
"This has to be the worst day of the presidency so far for Donald Trump."
"It seems to me they want to get past this pretty quickly."
"If you have evidence that the President directed most of this, he directed Giuliani, he directed Mulvaney on - on, you know, on - on a variety of issues, if you have that kind of information, even tho..."
"The Chief of Staff is not going to make a decision, absent presidential direction of such weight and so controversial without taking it to the boss to start with."
"Mick Mulvaney is I think the weakest Chief of Staff in modern history."
"I think it's important for the country that we not have a secretary of state who seems compromised or potentially compromised in a very, very serious situation."
"It gives the granular view is much more sobering and distressing than what we had heard before today. I think the details show you this became a cesspool. Our own State Department became a cesspool."
"I think they have a point. Look, is there an information pipeline to the White House from Republicans? Yes."