After the title of Valerie Plame Wilson's book had already been widely disseminated, on August 19, 2007, on "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, Gregory asked Rove, who identified himself as an "avid Republican", among other statements pertaining to the CIA leak grand jury investigation attributed to him, whether he "considered her fair game in this debate" between her husband and The White House over the President's so-called "sixteen words". Rove responded that the phrase "fair game" attributed to him by Chris Matthews was Matthews' phrase not his own and that he himself did not consider Wilson (in Gregory's phrase) "an appropropriate target in this debate."