We will commence our hearing tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock.

No threat has been greater to us, according to, I think, everybody, than the potential of a 'dirty bomb'.

You've allowed summit after summit with Russian President Putin to go by without any action.

Global diplomacy, as you know well, is defined by the issues that a President of the United States chooses to publicly put on the table.

I answered, nuclear proliferation, globally, and the President agreed.

But they are very different in a lot of ways, and that is what concerns a lot of people who are struggling with this now.

I hope you will really take a look at this. I think it is an important mark of the current leadership because there are such political and obviously security overtones attached to this.

I think Colin Powell pushed as hard as he could.

And with respect to Iran, are you also denying or discounting any of the allegations in this article?

What steps are you going to take in the immediacy of your confirmation in the next days?

Of course, but they're anxious. I met with one of the principal leaders of Islam in Cairo, and they are fighting their own struggle.