Bill Clinton: “Well, we normally have a pretty good idea. And as I said, we certainly have no reason to believe, as I am talking to you…”

“Well, we normally have a pretty good idea. And as I said, we certainly have no reason to believe, as I am talking to you tonight, that there's something serious wrong. But we just don't know. We can't know everything, and we can't know everything instantaneously. But I have no reason to believe that he did anything but ask Al Gore if he could delay the meeting. And I don't consider it being stiffed since he knows what Al's--what his itinerary is in Russia. He's not being asked to stay later or anything to see him. Mr. Brokaw. Would you be surprised if Boris Yeltsin does not finish his 4-year term and that the reigns of power are assumed by somebody like General Lebed?”