THE WHITE HOUSE

                     Office of the Press Secretary
                (Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam)
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For Immediate Release                                  November 16, 2000

                      REMARKS BY PRESIDENT CLINTON
                          IN PHOTO OPPORTUNITY
               WITH JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER YOSHIRO MORI

                         Royal Brunei Golf Club
                 Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam

2:20 P.M. (L)

Q Mr. President, are you disappointed at the lack of consensus on free trade at APEC?

THE PRESIDENT: I might have more to say about that before we go. Don't be too discouraged.

Q How about the Florida court ruling, sir?

THE PRESIDENT: I'm over here, so I'm not sure what it means. It's obviously going to have to be interpreted now, since the two sides have a different reading on it.

Q How about the Secretary of State denying the hand recount?

THE PRESIDENT: I'm over here doing this work; I don't think I should get involved in that.

The American people deserve a full and fair count . And I hope the process will produce it, and they're over there debating it in the appropriate way. I shouldn't be involved in that.

Q Should Gore and Bush meet?

THE PRESIDENT: What?

Q Should Gore and Bush meet?

THE PRESIDENT: I don't think I should be involved in that.

END 2:22 P.M. (L)