MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN ANCHOR: We want to go to CNN's Dana Bash, who is following President Bush today, with his latest comments regarding the situation in Liberia. Dana joins us on the telephone. Are you there -- Dana?</s>DANA BASH, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Marty. I sure am. Well, first of all, Ari Fleischer, the White House spokesman, briefed some reporters on the plane with the president on the way here to Dayton, and what he said was that the president has authorized what he called an "assessment team" to go to the region, to go to Liberia to assess the situation on the ground, to work, as Ari Fleischer said, with the United Nations and others in the region to figure out what exactly would be needed to establish stability in Liberia, if the president were to make a decision to send the troops. But Fleisher made it clear that the president has not made a final decision, and that he actually said that he wouldn't be held to what Ari Fleischer called "artificial deadlines." And that was referring to the fact that the president is, of course, going to Africa on Monday, and that is something that everybody is sort of looking towards as a potential deadline. Ari said that that is something that the president won't be held to.</s>SAVIDGE: All right, Dana Bash, thanks very much for the latest on the situation of the president talking about Liberia.
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