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Ari Fleischer
@arifleischer· Republican · NY· Feb 5, 2017

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.

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Ari Fleischer
@arifleischer· Republican · NY· Oct 18, 2015

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.

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Ari Fleischer
@arifleischer· Republican · NY· Aug 31, 2015

He has continued much of the infrastructure that he criticizes unconstitutional.

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Ari Fleischer
@arifleischer· Republican · NY· Aug 31, 2015

Of course he should. He's the one who authorized the mission. The SEALs carried it out and the President deserves the credit for authorizing it.

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Ari Fleischer
@arifleischer· Republican · NY· Aug 31, 2015

Barack Obama didn't have any interest in extending America's guiding hand. He wanted to end it and get out of there.

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Ari Fleischer
@arifleischer· Republican · NY· Aug 31, 2015

I think what you can't argue about that Iraq in 2007 and 2008 was a stable country. That is the country that President Obama inherited.

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Ari Fleischer
@arifleischer· Republican · NY· Aug 31, 2015

The fact that ISIS exists does create -- is created because of the vacuums that President Obama has created.

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Ari Fleischer
@arifleischer· Republican · NY· Aug 11, 2015

I think it's a very unfair one way treatment of Jeb when everybody knows he's his own person, he'll make his own judgments.

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Ari Fleischer
@arifleischer· Republican · NY· Aug 11, 2015

Hillary is not popular. And Hillary is secretary of state, does have a lot of explaining to do, a lot of answers to give, and she has to be held accountable for what happened on her watch.

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Ari Fleischer
@arifleischer· Republican · NY· Aug 11, 2015

Not in the Republican primary. There's zero danger. You know, in the Republican primary, you can never be too critical of Hillary Clinton, no matter what your last name is.

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Ari Fleischer
@arifleischer· Republican · NY· Aug 6, 2015

Donald Trump's problem as he might come across so hot every single debate that those who want the heat are going to stay for him, but nobody else.

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Ari Fleischer
@arifleischer· Republican · NY· Mar 2, 2015

I think we are going to go to two votes in Congress. And it going to be crucial and it will be a massive fight over those votes and there is a lot of democratic support for Israel and the United States Congress.

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Ari Fleischer
@arifleischer· Republican · NY· Mar 2, 2015

I think it sort of two key moments, Wolf. One, there's going to be a vote in the United States Senate to give Congress a role in approving whatever it is that the president negotiates. And two, whether or not Congress moves forward. The…

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Ari Fleischer
@arifleischer· Republican · NY· Oct 6, 2014

The president was so willing just to wipe his hands and say, I end wars, I don't start wars, I'm withdrawing everybody.

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Ari Fleischer
@arifleischer· Republican · NY· Oct 6, 2014

President has created vacuums all around the world because of what you just said. He's not wanted to exercise American leadership.

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Ari Fleischer
@arifleischer· Republican · NY· Jan 8, 2014

I think you have to take it at face value he had reason to believe his staff, that's why he was so angry today about it.

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Ari Fleischer
@arifleischer· Republican · NY· Sep 8, 2013

This is what happens, Anderson, when a president of the United States says something he doesn't believe in in the first place. I don't think the president meant it when he drew that red line and called for enormous consequences. He was…

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Ari Fleischer
@arifleischer· Republican · NY· Sep 8, 2013

I think it's both. It's going to be pulled. It already has been pulled. No member of Congress are going to vote on this while there's a chance that something like this could happen.

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Ari Fleischer
@arifleischer· Republican · NY· Sep 5, 2013

I support the president because if we don't, the risk abroad from our adversaries, Iran in this instance, Russia and Hezbollah, is severe.

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Ari Fleischer
@arifleischer· Republican · NY· Aug 14, 2013

Well, that's the right thing to say and we should not take sides. We have two bad sides to take a choice between but we did take sides previously.

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