It's just hard to imagine President Bush, knowing this woman as well as he claims to know her, would knowingly put someone [on the court] who would go wobbly down the road.

[But whether Rove will be charged,] it's anybody's guess, ... We just don't know what [Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald] will do.

Is he, in a general sense, an extremely conservative Republican president? ... The answer to that is yes.

The bottom line is this was probably a dumb call. You pick up the phone, you say, 'Let's get a statement out and get this behind us.' You avoid the kind of feeding frenzy we're seeing here today. I think the press smells a little blood in the water.

It's going to slowly dawn on people — Democrats — that, 'Hey, are we getting snookered here?'

Certainly, the specter of this grand jury investigation hanging over the White House doesn't help the president's approval ratings.

It's exciting to come in and help build that national voice.