Scott McClellan: “I have a higher loyalty than my loyalty necessarily to my past work. That's a loyalty to the truth.”

But the federal government should have taken more responsibility, because, to the American people, I think, the federal government is the failsafe backstop to all that.

The federal government should have taken more responsibility, because, to the American people, I think, the federal government is the failsafe backstop to all that.

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.