The White House issued a statement yesterday saying that President Bush was “pleased with the Attorney General’s testimony.” But as CBS legal analyst Andrew Cohen notes:
Given Mr. Bush’s travel plans Thursday — he flew to Ohio and was gone from Washington from 11:10 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. — it’s unclear to me whether or how the President even could have watched the testimony that he later endorsed so heartily. And, indeed, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino told CBS News this morning that the President was “updated” on the Gonzales hearing but that she does not know whether Mr. Bush actually saw any part of the proceedings.
Cohen adds that Gonzales’ performance was “among the worst I have ever seen offered by a public official on Capitol Hill.”
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