Bill Clinton: “We can't discuss that yet. It's not 9:30 a.m. [Laughter] But that's not the point. You can't tell anything from the…”

“We can't discuss that yet. It's not 9:30 a.m. [Laughter] But that's not the point. You can't tell anything from the month's figures anyway. This thing is moving forward in fits and starts, and we're doing a pretty good job of creating jobs, the American economy is now. But the global economy dictates a more aggressive response at this moment from America. But the reason I think that this will work is I think, first of all, it's a 5-year program. Secondly, keep in mind, we had allocated in the budget, as you remember when we went to the Westinghouse plant, some $20 billion over 5 years that could be used for the total aggregate amount of defense conversion. And some of that money was counted in this. But we allocated another $2 billion to environmental cleanup because that's a huge deal. We can move these bases in a hurry if we can figure out who's responsible for the environmental cleanup and then get about doing it. So, the details can be answered. I believe the Congress will support this, because I think there's enormous bipartisan understanding that you simply cannot take this away from communities without reinvesting something in them. And if it is a net savings to the Government over the long run, we have to invest something back to justify the cut.”