On right-to-life, see the Republicans flee from Todd Akin, who committed a gaffe while restating his support for what has been a plank of the Republican platform since 1980.

I cannot endorse the Republican nominee as of now. I cannot make that commitment because my party at the national level has become a Xerox copy, basically, of the Democratic Party, ... Face The Nation.

While anti-immigrant and anti-E.U. parties across Europe may not take power anywhere in 2017, theirs is now a permanent and growing presence, leeching away support from centrist parties left and right.

We would be much better off to agree on a wise and relevant platform plank and do so in platform committee. I hope that we can do that. If we can't, then possibly we'll have to take this to the floor. And then we'll see who has the votes.

The Republican Party of Richard Nixon was called to power in 1968 to bring an honorable end to the war in Vietnam and restore law and order to campuses and cities convulsed by crime, riots and racial violence. Nixon appeared to have succeeded and was rewarded with a 49-state landslide.

While President Obama may not have ordered any surveillance of Trump or his advisors, the real question is whether he or Attorney General Loretta Lynch were aware of or approved of any surveillance of Trump and his staff during the campaign.