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SCOTT McCLELLAN: Jumping in the middle here. I didn’t call on you. Wait your turn. I’m going to Mark, and I’ll come back to you.

Q. Back to the –

Q. You let Helen do it. (Laughter.)

MR. McCLELLAN: We have to instill discipline, otherwise this will get out of control. (Laughter.) Helen has been here a little bit longer than you have. (Laughter.)

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THE PRESS: Week ahead?

ARI FLEISCHER: Oh, I’m sorry, thank you. Thank you for continuing the pain. (Laughter.)

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ARI FLEISCHER: Number one, I have not seen a draft of his speech yet for next week, and so — I don’t think you’re in a position to know, either, whether he will or will not raise that issue. I would invite you to attend Monday’s speech.

Q. But will he take the plunge?

MR. FLEISCHER: Will the President take the plunge?

Q. The plunge, yes.

MR. FLEISCHER: You mean will he say that?

Q. Something like –

MR. FLEISCHER: Well, if I tell you now you might not show up for Monday’s speech. You need to be there.

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Q. Can I just follow on that?

ARI FLEISCHER: Campbell, we have an order. You were called on earlier.

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Q. Ari –

ARI FLEISCHER: You know our system, Les. You’re sitting, you’re not standing. You’re half up. We’re going to come back to you at the end, Les. That’s our –

Q. — no seat, there’s a chair.

Q. Well, it was a vacant chair. (Laughter.)

MR. FLEISCHER: David Sanger — Wendell, you’re one row behind Mr. Sanger. We always go row by row by row.

Q. You always go row by row, and you always get back to –

MR. FLEISCHER: I get there. (Laughter.) Oh, now we’re going to go all around the room. (Laughter.) Wendell, you follow Les today.

Q. And then you come to the side.

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Q. And the second one, just to follow that. The President may have seen the report that the former President Bill Clinton will have his own talk show. (Laughter.) Will President Bush watch him — (laughter.)

Q. Or be a guest. (Laughter.)

Q. What does he think of the idea?

ARI FLEISCHER: I will diplomatically refer you to the statement put out by Ms. Payne, the President’s — former President’s spokeswoman. I think she has fully addressed it.

Q. What does the White House think? What does this White House think?

MR. FLEISCHER: I think this is a perfect segue to Les. (Laughter.)

Q. Actually, that was one of my questions. (Laughter.)

MR. FLEISCHER: Now you can’t ask it. No, Les, and now you’re down one.

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ARI FLEISCHER: …Deborah, who keeps moving to a different seat every briefing or gaggle.

Q. Well, if we only had a permanent one, I wouldn’t have to do that.

MR. FLEISCHER: You don’t have a permanent seat?

Q. That is correct.

Q. Me, too.

MR. FLEISCHER: Is there anybody who’d like to give up their permanent seat? (Laughter.)

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