Some advisers, primarily on the right flank, believe that there should be a clear change of direction, he said.

He said that his senior advisers believed that whoever was responsible had to be getting outside help from some other country.

The president and his top advisers may very well have sincerely believed that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.

And many people have the impression that candidates are programmed to respond to issues according to what their advisers believe the voters want.

His advisers believe they cleared it up with his calculating call for a 15 percent tax cut last week.

Many advisers and investors believe that this is a strong bearish signal.

The adviser believed that it would be "bad policy" to make such decisions.