EXCERPT:
AXELROD: “There's just a lot of concern about the age issue. And -- and that is something that I think he needs to ponder, just do a check and say, 'Is this the right thing to do?' I believe if he does run, he will be the nominee. And I'm not encouraging people to challenge him, I think the party will should fall in behind him if he's the nominee of the Democratic Party, because at the end of the day, this is a -- not a normal race, this is a race about democracy and the state of our democracy and the survival of our democracy.”