Ari Fleischer: “What Rush said was reprehensible. It's insulting. He didn't need to say it, he shouldn't have said it. He should…”

He made a reference to barrel bomb himself and how concerned he was about that.

I think in the Trump White House there are no standard rules. Everybody's job is amped-up and more difficult, and that's because of the personality, the nature of the President and the way the President conducts himself.

Critics note he made the announcement after getting hired to do P.R. for the Saudis' golf venture.

Let me just for argument's sake grant his argument, his logic, none of what he said would have stopped 9/11 from taking place.