I don't have any problem with a reporter or a news person who says the President is uninformed … - David Gergen

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But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on.

David Gergen

I don't have any problem with a reporter or a news person who says the President is uninformed on this issue or that issue. I don't think any of us would challenge that. I do have a problem with the singular focus on this, as if that's the only standard by which we ought to judge a president. What we learned in the last administration was how little having an encyclopedic grasp of all the facts has to do with governing.

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