On NBC's "Today":
"I think that we got carried away in the moment. We were having a birthday party and everyone was laughing, and suddenly this thing cropped up and we didn't catch it quickly enough."
Adds on ABC's "Good Morning America":
His daughters are "not spending a lot of time worrying about TV cameras or politics, and we want to keep it that way... Particularly the way it went around the cable stations, I don't think it's healthy, and it's something we'll be avoiding in the future."
And on CBS' "Early Show":
"In retrospect, if you had asked me, we probably would not have done it then. We wouldn't do it again."
