"any work to do to rebuild credibility that might have been lost"? I

was listening to this press conference. Bush evaded the question. the emphasis is on the cockiness of Bush. yet the question needs to be answered (preferably by Bush tell rove to take a hike).

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/16/washington/16bush.html


..Mr. Wallsten offered to take them off, but the president said, "I'm interested in the shade look, seriously," and Mr. Wallsten did not.

Undaunted, he went on to ask Mr. Bush whether he had "any work to do to rebuild credibility that might have been lost" in the C.I.A. leak investigation. (Mr. Bush said a prosecutor's decision this week not to indict the president's deputy chief of staff, Karl Rove, "speaks for itself.")

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"He said, 'I needle you guys out of affection,' and I said, 'Now that you know about this, don't treat me any different than you would ordinarily,' " Mr. Wallsten said. "He said, 'I won't.' "

Mr. Wallsten said he invited the president to "needle away," to which Mr. Bush replied, "I will, but next time I'll just use a different needle."