It's never a good time, when you're the president of the United States and your own party is finding lots of different ways to distance themselves from you.

Usually, you do a shakeup because you know that you have a problem or you gaps and you're going to fill those gaps.

The media loves to spend a lot of time talking about itself and do a lot of navel-gazing, which the general public isn't quite that interested in. They aren't really particularly concerned with whether our feelings are hurt or the things that we complain about. They have their own lives and their own jobs that are difficult as well. I think where the media has gotten itself in trouble is the sense that they're much more interested in things like parsing words and getting into fights about little minutia, as opposed to stepping back and seeing what the big picture is.

The only problem with the "children of Reagan" line is it reminds you that Marco Rubio is the young candidate.

Even on Ben Carson, he's not exactly steeped in housing policy, but his statements on the issue have also been very conservative.

The real problem with Donald Trump is, if you engage him, it will only make things worse. It's like - it's a little bit what you were taught as a kid to not engage the bully, because they will continue to pick on you.

Donald Trump is an unconventional president doing unconventional things. And the Trump phone call with the president of Taiwan is not something that the traditional establishment would see as a good idea to do, especially when there's not necessarily a policy behind it.