MSNBC to Axelrod: Obama’s Executive Action Will End 2008 Promise of Bipartisanship

MSNBC's Wagner to Axelrod: Obama's Immigration Executive Action Will End 2008 Promise Of Bipartisanship (RealClearPolitics)

ALEX WAGNER, MSNBC: David let me start with you. In many ways, as hopeful as this is for the five million men and women who will not face deportation likely in the next coming months, this in some ways does mark the end of President Obama's 2008 promise of bipartisanship and a Washington that could function above politics, or partisan politics. Is that in someway, as someone who sort of shepherded us through that moment, how does this moment make you feel in terms of that legacy?

DAVID AXELROD, OBAMA CAMPAIGN STRATEGIST AND ADVISOR : Well, look, that was the -- that was the promise, the hope of that campaign and the night of the inauguration, 15 leaders of the House of Representatives met to talk about how they could thwart every aspect of the president's agenda, including the relief measures that were necessary to deal with the economic catastrophe that had been visited upon the country. So, I don't know that this is news that there are big differences in Washington.