Moreover, despite promising his viewers “the facts” with this new daytime program State of Play, Alexander opened on Monday with a lie. You deserve the facts, and I am committed to doing the best I can to report those facts here each day. Ironically, Alexander closed out his first show by thanking the audience and proclaiming they "deserve the facts." “Washington lawyers say it's naive to think there can be a complete break between the Justice Department and the White House,” NPR wrote. And close ties between President Bush and his attorney general, Alberto Gonzales, fueled accusations that the Justice Department had become too political.