The president is out there today trying to talk about health care, and the reality is nobody cares about what he's saying on health care because this news is consuming everything. No president could tolerate that or should tolerate it.

I don't engage in hypotheticals.

The political and substantive reality is that the agenda has to change. I don't think they have any choice.

I have tremendous confidence in the ability of government institutions and the American people to do what is right to make sure that our democracy stays on the right track.

Well look, CIA is an agency that has to collect intelligence, do operations. We have to take risks and it's important that we take risks and that we know that we have the support of the government and we have the support of the American people in what we're doing.

I think a quality that a national security adviser must have is the ability to set up procedures.

I don't think there's any question that America is safer as a result of the bin Laden operation.