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On the recordNovember 20, 2007
McClellan is not saying or suggesting that the president sent him out to lie, but he certainly heavily suggests that the president was complicit, that the president was somehow an enabler in him going before the press corps and lying about noninvolvement of, you know, Libby and Rove.
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David Gergen
Independent · Massachusetts

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David Gergen discusses the implications of Scott McClellan's statements regarding the president's involvement in misleading the press.

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