Matthew Yglesias highlights this quote from the Commander-in-Chief: Mr. Bush chuckled at the suggestion that he and Mr. Cheney had chosen to be interviewed together so they could prop each other up or prevent discrepancies in their answers. "If we had something to hide, we wouldn't have met with them in the first place," he said. Bush is chuckling, but, as Yglesias points out, not meeting with them in the first place is exactly what he tried to do.