(Bush's) low poll numbers go back to last summer. Andy is not responsible for the poll numbers.

Andy has tried to resign several times but the president just would not have it.

Poll numbers don't matter.

If you look at poll numbers and things like that, we face challenges,

I do not see my job as being anything other than a staffer responsible for the staff, ... It's my job to facilitate the president's ability to get the best out of his staff.

Some of those numbers are low because we have not historically asked the gang question. But even so, it was apparent in 2005 that these groups of people were becoming increasingly violent.