That's heart breaking. That is monstrous. That's not the kind of America I think most people want.

The White House has to get ahead of this. The problem is they haven't been forthcoming, and that's really hard to regain credibility when you've lost it in the first day of a scandal.

Their big fear now, I guarantee, is no longer what did the president know and when did he know it? That's bad enough. What will General Flynn do now?

He's only president, he's president in part because of leaks, because of a foreign intelligence agency hacking the Democratic Party.

What does this say about the president? And if he fires General Flynn because Flynn has ties to the Russians and has been dishonest to the country? Wait a minute, what does that say about Donald Trump?

You cut him loose, Mr. President, you solve one problem right now. You know, Maggie Haberman gets off your back for a day.

It's appalling for him to use the power of the most powerful position on earth to try to bludgeon a corporation.

I want to keep this fair. I want the executive branch to be able to make national security decisions without having --

Anytime a president waves the bloody shirt of terrorism, it moves up; the American people panic and Trump is an expert at manipulating fear.

The president is clearly a highly intelligent man.

He's trying to undermine the free press, he's trying to undermine the independent judiciary, personal attack on this judge who ruled against him.