Scott McClellan: “The federal government should have taken more responsibility, because, to the American people, I think, the federal…”

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.

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…

He too had been deceived and therefore became unwittingly involved in deceiving me. But the top White House officials who knew the truth, including Rove, Libby, and possibly Vice President Cheney, allowed me, even encouraged me, to repeat…

I think he believes that. He's convinced himself to believe that, but I don't think it's true.