I don't think there's any other president in the modern era that has seen this kind of stability.

I think the president has raised the stakes for himself. He has raised the stakes for his presidency, so that if there are more explosions in the next few months ... his approval ratings will suffer some more.

If people stay that long, group-think can set in, and that's dangerous for a president.

This story's going to have legs if somebody gets indicted. I think the president has to lance the boil directly?. It starts with facing reality, accepting your share of responsibility without blinking.

We've seen the hubris. And now we're seeing the scandals.

For a two-term president after the November elections in the middle of your second term, things start going downhill and you really do start quacking like a duck.