Bill Clinton: “I have no--I do not know--I have no knowledge of the facts. Based on my knowledge of him, I find that hard to believe. I…”

“I have no--I do not know--I have no knowledge of the facts. Based on my knowledge of him, I find that hard to believe. I mean, the most--I think if you talk to the hundreds and hundreds of people who feel they know him, they'd all have a hard time believing that. He's one of the most widely esteemed people that I've ever known. He had very few detractors. So I think that we just have to take him at his word, give him a chance to go home and deal with this, and see what happens. I think he did the right thing. He also, I want to say, has been an enormous contributor at the Justice Department, really had an enormously positive impact there from the early days of my administration. I am very grateful to him. And he is a good personal friend of mine, as all of you know. I just--I wish him well. I hope that it works out. But I think he made the right decision because he wants to go home and really defend himself and work through this thing. And we'll just see what happens.”