i don t recall ever being made aware of that before. i don t recall it. i do not recall such a conversation. i don t recall it. in your testimony today, you have stated i don t recall at least 20 times. is that fair to say? i have no idea. as former george w. bush speechwriter writes in the washington post, the russian investigation has led to a spectacular accumulation of lies. that was his phrase, by trump and his administration. lies on twitter, lies in the white house briefing room, lies to the fbi, self-protective lies by the attorney general, blocking and tackling lies by vice president pence. this is, with a few exceptions, a group of people whom truth, political honor, ethics and integrity mean nothing. that s tough writing. let s bring in our hardball table.
yours is a big one. they don t exist in isolation. that front policies that are alarming. yes. you would think either one of two things. you simp hi don t care or it s care gance. i m better than this. or, no one s going to find out about it or it s what you believe and you re going to double down on this. i m not sure of the truth. i think it s this is what i believe, who we are and quite frankly, this is what you got. and managing all this for the bush white house, a brilliant former tv producer. i wonder what you guys make? obviously, i went back and looked at the last three presidencies to see if there were any parallels of just sort of the cavalier nature of throwing paper towels to oh looked at bill clinton, president obama and george w. bush last night, their visits to natural disasters. nothing like that. i looked where anything that had
gersten piece, you missed out on lines like this. in all of this there s a spectacular accumulation of lies. lies on disclosure forms, lies at confirmation hearings, lies on twitter. lies in the white house briefing room. lies to the fbi. self-protective lives by the attorney general. blocking and tackling lies by the vice president. this is, with a few exceptions, a group of people for whom truth, political honor, ethics and integrity mean nothing. rev, this is my old colleague. his role in the white house was sizable. he was one of the most influential and most sort of spiritually connected people to george w. bush. his chief speechwriter and he was sort of the carrier of compassionate conservative during the bush presidency. and to hear him sort of lay it all out, he actually starts by describing being home sick and sort of finally getting through
mistakes on my watch while i worked for president bush and thought back to the campaign. i wonder, some of the images i remember the day there was an aerial around hillary clinton when she walked in. what is it for you that is the image? it s an obama one and it s bad. okay. it s the bergdahls in the rose garden. i fought for that photo. remember this? when bowe bergdahl was had been released, and that had i known, had i better appreciated how that was all going to play out, that was, an image that was not in the rose garden. bowe bergdahl in the rose gar n garden. what s the regret? you didn t know the circumstances how he conducted himself? yes. i didn t have all of that history and the people living in it and were so relieved to have gotten him out and the bergdahls, i remember seeing them in the west wing two days
don t couch it in a way that respects people, and it doesn t have that element in this white house, because they keep doing the same thing over. these are people now that have become repeat offenders of showing how much money they will splurge and show people. so you re not talking about a mistake. you re talking about people that are saying, this is my pattern. i don t care what you think. this is the way we re going to be. and that s arrogance based on a total lack of regard for the citizens that they are supposed to be taking care of. you re a communicator. put this back up of deported veterans. recirculated on veterans day. i saw it there and saw it all week. i put up the mission accomplished, part of the debacle communication that brought the horrible image of president bush, after katrina hit. part of the communications