You might want to read the old clippings about Martha Stewart .

I think the blind trusts have not been created because of an ethical conflict, it's been created because of a political issue. He was trying to eliminate the political appearance of a conflict. It didn't work, that's the bottom line.

I don't think with everything we've gone through the past five weeks there is a possibility, a realistic possibility of a faithless elector.

Everybody gets religion after a scandal, at least for a while. There are a lot of ethics rules in the House and Senate. The problem is that there either aren't enough rules or the enforcement has been insufficient.

Either he's got a lot of evidence he's holding back or he's shooting blanks. I just don't know.

There is a second political issue about whether he made a misstatement about his knowledge concerning these blind trusts, ... That's something he has to explain — the lawyers can't do that for him. He has to explain why he made what seems to be an exaggeration.

The securities issue is potentially lethal for him. He has not yet really explained why he did this at this particular time.