There were shortcomings. There were breakdowns in communication, things that we shouldn't be tolerating in our country in a post-9/11 world, and President Bush takes responsibility and accountability for that.

We had some defensive breakdowns.

Despite all of these grievances -- despite all of these fundamental concerns about the actions our country has taken -- it's only now, in the course of this campaign, that Dick Clarke decides to talk in the form of this book.

We've had a good week. We feel like the president heads out of the country on a strong note.

No doubt, we had some breakdowns on defense,

The mental errors, we had too many turnovers, too many breakdowns on defense that we don't normally have, and we couldn't really get back into the hunt.