The only investigation currently proceeding is in the hands of the Kennedy Country Sheriff's department and releasing their findings is up to them.

We don't feel that the vice president was ever in any danger.

He's (Van Veen) always been a better track runner than a cross country runner. Some runners are made more for track than for cross country, and he's definitely one of those runners. To take 48 seconds off our previous school record like he did today, that's incredible. Especially considering that he did it at a meet like this.

This has not been a distraction to him. He looks at challenges that are facing this country in the global war on terror.

Piracy remains a real problem for virtually every sector in every country in the world.

We don't know yet about Europe; it will go country by country and will depend on the reception in the U.S..