Bill Clinton: “Well, I am satisfied that--I don't know that the crisis is over. What I am satisfied is, is that the level of--I hope…”

“Well, I am satisfied that--I don't know that the crisis is over. What I am satisfied is, is that the level of--I hope the level of violence has been brought lower and can be maintained lower, at a lower level, while all the people in the Middle East watch as these talks unfold. Keep in mind--keep in mind--let me ask you this. When you try to evaluate whether we did the right thing or not, or whether this has been worth doing, imagine what we would be reading in the press or seeing on the news if Chairman Arafat and King Hussein and Prime Minister Netanyahu had not come here and if everyone had withdrawn sort of to their respective positions and the turbulence that we were seeing in the region kept welling up. Imagine where we would be then. And keep in mind, too, that everybody who is here made a good-faith effort to address every single issue in the interim agreement, all the issues that they are bound to resolve, and to full-time negotiations beginning Sunday morning. So I'm just saying I think that they worked very hard--and their teams hardly slept at all, and they didn't sleep much--they worked very hard to put all these issues out, to see where they were, to identify the points of difference. I think when they start these full-time negotiations, they'd know a great deal about where they are now. And they should be given a little bit of time here to see if they can't produce some results. That's the only thing I'm saying. And I think they have all earned the right to that by coming here and proceeding in a good-faith manner. Yes, Rita [Rita Braver, CBS News].”