The wild card here is which president will show up. Will it be the disinterested, annoyed and unprepared one? Or will it be the one we expect?

They will not be impacted in any severe way, the president will continue to do the job he was elected to do, and where we need to fill in, we'll fill in.

You're talking about a plan that will likely mean deep cuts in the Social Security guaranteed benefits, and is based on the fact that he hopes that the stock market does well.

some perceived political gain here.

At this point there's been no requests for our assistance. We are following this closely, and if the Russians are in a position where they believe we can offer some assistance, we will do that.

Any comments or suggestions President Clinton committed to the release or promised the release of Jonathan Pollard are false and inaccurate,