Bill Clinton recounts the FBI decision making process during Waco siege

At a press conference outdoors at the White House, President Bill Clinton stands behind a lectern with two microphones on top of it, and says these words: "These people killed four federal officials in the line of duty. They were heavily armed. They fired on federal officials yesterday repeatedly, and they were never fired back on. We did everything we could to avoid the loss of life. They made the decision to immolate themselves and I regret it terribly and I feel awful about the children. "But in the end, the last comment I had from Janet Reno is, and I talked to her on Sunday and I said 'I want you to tell me once more why you believe, not why they believe, why you believe we should move now rather than wait some more.' And she said 'It's because of the children. They have evidence that those children are still being abused and that they are in increasingly unsafe conditions, and that they don't think it will get any easier with time, with the passage of time. I have to take their word for that.' So that is where I think things stand."
At a press conference outdoors at the White House, President Bill Clinton stands behind a lectern with two microphones on top of it, and says these words: "These people killed four federal officials in the line of duty. They were heavily armed. They fired on federal officials yesterday repeatedly, and they were never fired back on. We did everything we could to avoid the loss of life. They made the decision to immolate themselves and I regret it terribly and I feel awful about the children. "But in the end, the last comment I had from Janet Reno is, and I talked to her on Sunday and I said 'I want you to tell me once more why you believe, not why they believe, why you believe we should move now rather than wait some more.' And she said 'It's because of the children. They have evidence that those children are still being abused and that they are in increasingly unsafe conditions, and that they don't think it will get any easier with time, with the passage of time. I have to take their word for that.' So that is where I think things stand."
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