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And it's very difficult for them to carry out their job a/ when, rather than just being guards anyone thinks they're actually witnesses to what's happening behind them or around them - that's a problem they're worried about. Secondly, they're  worried because they're getting, as you are, as everybody in the United States is, all sorts of different cross opinions as to what their legal duties are and as law enforcement officers here or anywhere, they like to know what their duty is before they do it, so some of the ambiguity is what they are concerned about.\"   \u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Mike Leibig, Attorney \u003cbr/\u003eOn Thursday morning at the White House President Clinton met the Romanian president and briefly talked to the press about his meeting with Emil Constantinescu.\u003cbr/\u003eBut Clinton did not take any questions about the Lewinsky grand jury or any other matter.\u003cbr/\u003eBut White House press secretary Mike McCurry was confronted with\u003cbr/\u003erigorous questioning about the appeals court ruling at his regular press briefing.\u003cbr/\u003eMcCurry said the president was taking not taking any role in the case,\u003cbr/\u003eleaving it in the hands of the Justice Department and the Secret Service.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)   \u003cbr/\u003e\"He is the guy protected and the people who do the protecting by law are the ones that have to make the arguments in the courts about what they need in order to do their work.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Mike McCurry, White House Press Secretary \u003cbr/\u003eWith Cockell gone, the grand jury heard a sixth day of testimony from key prosecution witness Linda Tripp.\u003cbr/\u003eIt was Tripp's 20 hours of secretly tape-recorded phone calls with Monica Lewinsky that triggered the criminal investigation of the president.\u003cbr/\u003eThe grand jury is probing the possible suborning of perjury, witness tampering and obstruction in an alleged sexual relationship between Clinton and Lewinsky.\u003cbr/\u003eThe independent prosecutor wants to question the head of Clinton's Secret Service detail and eight uniformed officers about what they saw or heard about the president and the former White House intern.\u003cbr/\u003eIn doing so, Kenneth Starr is opening up a new and sensitive area of his investigation.\u003cbr/\u003eOfficials have said privately that the administration suspects Starr wants Cockell to testify about what he heard while riding in the limousine with the president after his January deposition in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case.\u003cbr/\u003eSecret Service agents worry that if they are compelled to divulge what they observe while protecting the president, they will be kept at a distance in the future.\u003cbr/\u003eThat, they say,  could endanger the president's life.\u003cbr/\u003e Washington, D.C. July 16, 1998 and February 5/ 17, 1998 and Los Angeles, California  July 9, 1998 \u003cbr/\u003eWashington, D.C.  - July 16, 1998 \u003cbr/\u003e1. Special Agent Larry Cockell leaves courthouse\u003cbr/\u003e2. Exterior of U-S federal courthouse\u003cbr/\u003e3. File shot of exterior of U-S Supreme Court\u003cbr/\u003e4. Attorney Mike Leibig walks to microphones\u003cbr/\u003e5. Cutaway of cameras\u003cbr/\u003e6. Wide shot Leibig\u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE: Mike Leibig, Attorney for Secret Service Officers\u003cbr/\u003e8. Pan from front of courthouse to Leibig\u003cbr/\u003e9. President Bill Clinton chats with Romania's president and press, then turns and leaves\u003cbr/\u003e10. Wide shot White House briefing\u003cbr/\u003e11. Cutaway of press\u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE: Mike McCurry, White House Press Secretary\u003cbr/\u003e13. Linda Tripp enters courthouse\u003cbr/\u003eJuly 9, 1998 - Los Angeles, California \u003cbr/\u003e14. Monica Lewinsky gets in van\u003cbr/\u003eFebruary 5, 1998 - Washington, D.C\u003cbr/\u003e15. Independent prosecutor Kenneth Starr exits courthouse\u003cbr/\u003eFebruary 17, 1998 - Washington, D.C. \u003cbr/\u003e16. 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