At press conference, declines to return fire on Huckabee’s Foreign Affairs article.

But responds to question about Clintons’ “around-the-world” trip with father: “Well 41 didn’t think it’s necessary…sounds like it’s going to be a one-man trip.”

Says of TIME choosing Vladimir Putin as Person of the Year: “I presume they put him on there because he is a consequential leader…. The fundamental question is, then, consequential to what end?”