Ari Fleischer Talks to Fox News About McClellan Book

ARI FLEISCHER TELLS FOX NEWS CHANNEL HE IS ‘SCRATCHING HIS HEAD' AT MCCLELLAN'S BOOK AND THAT IT'S ‘HEARTBREAKING'

Former White House Secretary, Ari Fleischer was a guest on FOX News Channel's America's Newsroom to discuss Scott McClellan's book and he expressed confusion at what the book says.

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ON WHY MCCLELLAN WROTE THE BOOK:
“Well there's just something about it that doesn't make any sense, and I say that because Scott never once approached me publicly, privately, to express any misgivings.”

“I would think if he harbored such deep feelings about things he wouldn't have and shouldn't have accepted the press secretary job in the first place.”

ON WHY THE BOOK IS COMING OUT NOW:
“I don't know. I wish I knew. I will always like Scott and my heart goes out to him in so many ways. He had a very tough time at the White House.”

ON HIS ROUGH TIME AT THE WHITE HOUSE:
“He got dealt a deck of cards that were very tough. He was the press secretary at a time when the war in Iraq started to go very badly, he had issues inside with staffers who deceived him.”

“There are some legit issues that Scott raises, but the point he makes about the President and the war in Iraq, that's the part I just don't understand.”

ON THE BOOK NOT SOUNDING LIKE MCCLELLAN'S THOUGHTS:
“There are just parts of here that don't sound like Scott McClellan.”

“It's got his name on it and Scott knows that and he said the chips will fall wherever they may, that's what he told me yesterday, but on principle and on policy this doesn't make any sense to me because if it did, I think Scott would have expressed it privately and repeatedly.”