Paul Begala

The president needs to do two things. Lawyer up and shut up.

I don't have enough confidence in Donald Trump to keep his stupid mouth shut and not obstruct justice or tamper with the witness when his witness is the son-in-law.

This is not marginalia. Two words, don't lie. Where's the camera? Jared, don't lie. Don't lie. They'll catch you.

The fact that he snap, this health care bill nationally only has 18 percent support. I doubt it's much higher even in Montana.

There's a lot the public needs to know.

What did Russia do? How did they hack our election? They've been trying for years.

I do think Professor Dershowitz makes a good point, that an independent public inquiry is necessary for the policy reasons, not the legal reasons.

If Mr. Mueller feels that he's not getting the resources I believe he will sort of let the Justice Department know, maybe Congress.

I would say, Donald Trump ran on a pledge of law and order and that God help him he's going to get it. Mr. Mueller is a credible law enforcement official. And he is going to get to the bottom of it.

There are good people in that building who are going to become collateral damage. This president will throw them under the bus.

He's making a huge mistake politically and probably legally by not volunteering that he will cooperate fully.

In February, the president meets, we now know, privately, with the FBI director, hugely inappropriate, may be obstruction of justice.

I think they wanted to pin this on Mr. Clean. Rosenstein has a well-deserved reputation for integrity and ethics.

The substance of the deputy attorney general's memo was that Comey should be fired because he was so mean to Hillary. I happen to agree with that. But the notion that Donald Trump believes that is preposterous. He fired Comey because of…

The problem is I think he's fixated on this because there's some there, there.

It's the President of the United States problem. OK.

The President of the United States fired the head of the FBI. The FBI is investigating that president's campaign to find out if in fact that campaign colluded with Russia.

The percentage of non-college whites who think Trump is honest has dropped 12 points in the last five months.

The Republicans today there are no Barry Goldwater. They've all put their integrity in a blind trust and jump in the Trump train.

If, in fact, the motive was to disrupt the investigation, it's catastrophic.

You cannot convince anyone that the reason that the president fired the FBI director is that he was too mean to Hillary.

Frankly, I knew he was going to be crooked. I didn't know he'd be stupid. I always thought he was a smart guy.

The Republicans on the Hill, they have been gutless. They've been (inaudible) and careless.

Comey violated that order and it's a tough case where you have to follow the procedure.

He should have shut up. Prosecutors speak through indictments.