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On the recordMarch 14, 2007
But there is this issue that the president and his White House team have long wanted to protect their own people from having to go up to the Hill and testify.
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David Gergen
Independent · Massachusetts

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Gergen explains the White House's reluctance to have Karl Rove testify before Congress.

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