It's pretty clear they did not anticipate this backlash. They misjudged what was going to come.
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Gergen comments on the White House's misjudgment regarding the public backlash following the Bergdahl situation.
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If he had a receptive audience, and I will tell you, when everything -- when all the facts were to come out, it would be like Nixon and the tapes.
I think the signs are just as Margaret says. They are saying that he is increasingly interested. Strikingly, Anderson, his interest seems to intensify when he sees Biden in trouble.
I think there ought to be a delegation of Republicans like Mitch McConnell who ought to be talking to the President.
No, their problem is Anderson, he's got more support back in their districts in their states than they do and that gives him enormous -- it gives him enormous leverage against them.





