Bill Clinton: “Well, that's hard for me to do. But I think that his strengths are that he was in the Congress for 35 years and he knows…”

“Well, that's hard for me to do. But I think that his strengths are that he was in the Congress for 35 years and he knows how the system works. And he has a certain, probably, credibility and acquaintance with the people with whom he'd have to deal with if he were President and who would communicate him to the rest of the country. So I would say that is a strength. I also believe, as I've said many times, I think he genuinely loves our country and is often--not always but often right on his foreign policy instincts. Sometimes I think he's dead wrong, but a lot of times he's been right--not nearly as isolationist as some members of his party, some of the leaders. I think that the weakness I think he has is that I don't--from my perspective, I think his--I don't know that he thought through why he wanted to be President, what he wanted to do, so that here, right before the general election, long after he was the nominee, he adopts an economic theory that he had rejected all of his public life, this big tax cut which we can't afford, which will cause a big increase in the deficit and also cause bigger cuts in education, the environment, and the medical programs than we can afford. So I would say the idea, the theory of his campaign, is the biggest weakness. The other weakness, I think, is the record that he and Mr. Gingrich established in the 2 years when they were in control of Congress. I think they were wrong on a lot of things. And in the 2 years when I was--the first 2 years of my administration, the things they fought me on, I think the evidence has proved that I was right and they weren't. The economic plan--they said it would increase the deficit and break up the economy. It reduced the deficit by 60 percent and cut interest rates, and we got 10 million jobs. The crime bill--they said we were going to take people's guns away and the 100,000 police was a bad idea. And the crime rate is going down for 4 years in a row. They fought the family leave law; 12 million people have taken family leave, not lost their jobs, and taken care of their families and no harm to the economy. So I'd say those are the weaknesses. Ms. Shipman. But you mentioned as a weakness, for example, his economic plan that he just announced. And the polls show that his numbers have gone up after he's been talking about the tax cut.”