JUDY WOODRUFF, CNN ANCHOR: Now we want to go to White House where John King has some comments on all this from the president -- John.</s>JOHN KING, CNN SR. WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Judy, the White House press secretary, Ari Fleischer, telling us a short time ago, quote, "the president is pleased that the process put in place to review this case has worked and worked well. Justice will be done." Now the president not announcing this himself. The attorney general did that, as you saw here live on CNN, but Mr. Bush has been intimately involved in this process. It was a national security counsel review that made the recommendation to Mr. Bush, and we are told that was 10 days ago now, that it would be best in their view to try John Walker in the federal court system, not in the military system. Attorney General John Ashcroft and the defense secretary, Don Rumsfeld, met at the end of that review process. They agreed on that recommendation. We are told, again, 10 days ago, the president signed off on it. It took the interim period of time to prepare the charges. And we are also told that as the president flew back to Washington today aboard Air Force One, the attorney general called Air Force One. Andy Card, the White House chief of staff, took the call and in that conversation, John Ashcroft said he was prepared to make public the charges against John Walker and that the president approved that. Mr. Bush briefed when he was back at the White House as well as to the developments. And we are also told here, Judy, the attorney general wouldn't say just when. But we are told by senior administration officials the transfer into law enforcement custody is imminent. John Walker will be back in the United States in a matter of days.</s>WOODRUFF: All right, John King at the White House.
President Reacts to John Walker's Charges