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CNN Saturday Morning News

Bush Monitors Mideast Events From Crawford, Texas

Aired March 30, 2002 - 09:12   ET

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MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: President Bush is spending the holiday weekend at his ranch in Crawford, Texas. Needless to say, he's plugged in, monitoring events in the Middle East.

CNN White House correspondent Major Garrett is plugged in and monitoring the president for us.

Good morning, Major.

MAJOR GARRETT, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Miles.

President due to have his standard intelligence briefing in about an hour at the Texas ranch. Overnight he kept in close contact with his national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, as well as U.S. representatives at the United Nations, where a Security Council resolution was passed which the United States eventually came to support.

Why? Well, because the United States did not see that that resolution condemned Israel or ordered it any time in the near future to withdraw from Ramallah, but nevertheless expressed concern about that, the same type of concern the United States had expressed yesterday in the form of Secretary of State Colin Powell urging the United -- the Israeli government, rather, to exercise restraint in its incursion in Ramallah and to make sure Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat came to no harm -- Miles.

O'BRIEN: All right, CNN's Major Garrett, thank you very much, Crawford, Texas, his dateline today.

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