American education will be determined by the quality of American public education, and that's public schools that are available.

The Democrats have this high level of expectation of what government can do.

Donald Trump is appealing to the basest, the most selfish and the most literally un-American of instincts.

The Republicans are looking at a country that is going to be a majority minority country in just over a generation. And they are an increasingly white party.

The other thing that has changed - and this is more detailed to CPAC than the general Republican Party - is they have always been an outsider, Ann Coulter, sort of protest style, a little ruder than most Republicans. And this goes back all the way to [Ronald] Reagan.

That's the job of a free press is to hold the lamp up, to investigate, to hold accountable. And denying access, as Sean Spicer did , is the first step toward a dictatorship.

Presidential trust is something, that's perishable and it's precious. And once a president loses it, it's not a question of whether it's conflict of interests laws or there aren't conflict of interests laws.