LARRY KING: Do you favor executive privilege or should Karl Rove and others in that like position be forced to testify before the House or Senate?
OBAMA: Well, you know, I, I think we'll -- we'll determine uh over the next several weeks uh how this administration uh uh responds to the very appropriate call by uh Patrick Leahy, the the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, to have uh these individuals come in and testify. Uh, there's been a tendency on the part of this administration to -- to try to hide behind executive privilege every time there's something uh a little shaky that's taking place. And I think, you know, the administration would be best served by coming clean on this. Uh, there doesn't seem to be any national security uh issues involved with the U.S. attorney uh uh question. Uh, There doesn't seem to be any justification for not offering up some clear, plausible uh rationale for why these -- these U.S. attorneys were targeted when, by all uh assessments, they were doing an outstanding job. I think the American people deserve to know what was going on there.