The press lost credibility with Republicans and independents during the Obama years, setting itself up for the damage that's going to be done during the Trump years.
Ari FleischerThe president of the United States and the secretary of defense would not assert as plainly and bluntly as they have that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction if it was not true, and if they did not have a solid basis for saying it.
Ari FleischerBush to USSS: 'We need to get back to Wash. We don't need some tin horn terrorist to scare us off.'
Ari FleischerWhy then would people look to the United Nations as an instrument of peace, if instead all it is, is an instrument of putting out declarations that nobody intends to take seriously anyway?
Ari Fleischer