Karl Rove:"It didn't happen. I hate to say this, but he's a serial exaggerator. If I was being unkind, I would say liar, but it is a habit he ought to drop.
With all due respect to the vice president, these are the kind of things you can get away with if you are a United States Senator or a backbencher in the U.S. House of Representatives. You should not exaggerate and lie like this when you are the Vice President of the United States."
Ari Fleischer:
Where is the press in all this? If Dick Cheney had said that he had a private meeting with Bill Clinton and he in that meeting, told Bill Clinton that Bill Clinton was wrong, I think that the press would have said to Cheney, where did you get that? Back it up. Where are the dates? There's no scrutiny here for Joe Biden. That's why I wonder why the issue is what Karl said.
Other Bush officials back up Rove's assessment, including former White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card, former Press Secretary Ari Fleischer, and Calinda Wolff, former Bush White House liaison to Congress. Fleischer reportedly reviewed detailed notes of Biden's White House visits, which include direct quotes from the former Senator. Wolff, took particular issue with another of Biden's stories, in which he recalled spending "hours" alone with President Bush in the Oval Office.
The president would never sit through two hours of Joe Biden. I don't ever remember Biden being in the Oval. He was such a blowhard on all that stuff - there wasn't a reason to bring him in."
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