Scott McClellan: “So this law really was based on putting in new protections for someone when their life was at stake.”

It's too much about party and too little about the country. And we need to put the country first and put the party much lower.

This is a White House that doesn't like to look back. The president doesn't like to spend time reflecting.

Yes. No, I was sincere at the time. Now, looking back and reflecting on that, I have a different perspective on it.

We should have embraced a high level of openness and forthrightness, in addition to that, and then the expectations wouldn't have gotten so out of whack, and we wouldn't have been in the problem we were -- we came to later when the…