Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warns that Iran faces additional sanctions if they do not show full transparency; Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.) said that the international community has 18 months to decisively act against Iran.
Climate Week Raises Consciousness, but Negotiations Fall Short
ABC News' Carrie Halperin reports: The United Nations Environmental Programme’s (UNEP) first ever Climate Week has officially ended. From Sept. 21 to 25 there was a whirlwind of events in more than 100 cities around the world including a high...
Clinton: Obama's problems 'manageable'
by Mark Silva
Is that "right wing conspiracy'' that the Clintons complained about still alive and well, and is President Barack Obama feeling some of that heat today?
"Oh you bet,'' former President Bill Clinton said in an appearance this morning on NBC News' Meet the Press. "Sure it is... It's not as strong as it was, because America has changed, demographically.. But it's as virulent as it was. They're saying things about him, like when they accused me of murder....
"They can take his numbers down, they can run his opposition up,'' Clinton said of the president's critics. "But fundamentally, he and his team have a positive agenda for America... Their (opponents') agenda seems to be of one for him to fail. And that's not a good prescription for America.''
A good debate is needed about economic stimulus and restoring a budgetary balance, suggested the former president, who presided over four annual budget surpluses during his second term as president, handing the budget off to President George W. Bush and eight years of budget deficits, which have reached a new record high on Obama's watch. Obama has pledged to cut the annual deficit in half by the end of his term.
Does Clinton worry about a repeat of 1994, when Republicans took control of Congress midway through his first term?
"There's no way they can make it that bad,'' Clinton said. The country has changed, he said, viewing it as "more ... They've seen this movie before, because they had eight years under George Bush when the Republicans finally had the whole government, and they know the results were bad....
"Whatever happens, it will be manageable,'' Clinton predicted of the midterm.
Social Security Likely To Go Into Red Next Year
Big job losses and a spike in early retirement claims from laid-off seniors will force Social Security to pay out more in benefits than it collects in taxes the next two years, the first time that's happened since the 1980s.
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