Former White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Sunday that Chuck Hagel’s performance at his confirmation hearing on Thursday was “unimpressive,” though he also said the questions being asked were inappropriate.
“The disconcerting thing, obviously, for anybody that watched it was he seemed unimpressive and unprepared on the questions that, quite frankly, he knew was coming,” Gibbs said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
“The next defense secretary is not going to deal with Iraq and the surge,” Gibbs said, referring to a combative line of questioning from Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). “This was a vanity thing for John McCain to try to prove to a former friend who disagreed with him that he was right on the surge and that Chuck Hagel was wrong.”
