, three clintons now, bill, hillary and chelsea at the clinton global initiative. everyone will be watching what hillary clinton says and no accidental moment that won't be per used too carefully. >> i think with hillary clinton, i know we played the clip from david letterman, bill clinton saying she hasn't made up her mind. i think everything she is doing, her speeches, what she's focused on, her carefulness in her statement on syria, she's very careful what she said, everything suggests the things you do if you want to put the places -- put the pieces, excuse me, in place to run for president. that doesn't mean she decided to run. i take them at her word that she hasn't but she's doing everything she would need to do if she wanted to flip that light switch on. above anyone else, the clinton family understands that she's doing that. >> including the interview with the very well placed and timely interview with new york magazine. >> absolutely. >> chris, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> that does it for us for this edition of andrea mitchell reports. follow th

we should also say we reached out to the clinton global initiative and doug band for comment. neither got back to us. we will be back with someone who wrote a piece on the clintons only to have it spiked from the magazine. [poof!] [clicks mouse] there's doughnuts in the conference room. there's doughnuts in the conference room. automatic discounts the moment you sign up. >>> earlier in the show, we asked you what you thought we'd next learn about ted cruz and we got a bunch of replies on twitter and facebook. carter hall said "we'll find out ted cruz is heavily into does not johns and dragons" and then we'll find out he pronounces mom as mum, oh canada. and then "we'll find out ted is a huge indigo girls fan." i would actually like him a lot more if that were true. >>> still with me is alec macgillis and joining me is rebecca tracer, journalist and author of the fantastic book "big girls don't cry: the election that changed everything for american women." and joshua green, national correspondent for bloomberg businessweek. in 2007, he wrote a piece about hillary clinton for "g

and we'll have much more on chelsea's role at the clinton global initiative. she's taken a much larger role there. and another couple other topics we'll talk about that piece coming up. >>> the 4-year-old girl baby veronica back with her adoptive parents. she's at the center of a three-year custody battle involving her biological father. it went all the way to the supreme court. elaine quijano is with us. >> good morning, we sat down with her parents, matt and melanie capobiancos. they told us how they were there and raised her for the first two years of her life. while dustin brown said he misunderstand stood and never meant to sign away his parental right. it's a heart wrenching case. late monday evening, veronica's biological father dustin brown handed the child over to her adoptive parents, matt and melanie capobianco. it's a four-year battle that began shortly after the south carolina couple began the process of adopting veronica in 2009. her unmarried biological mother gave permission for veronica to be adopted by them. as a cheerky, she cited a federal

david: clinton global initiatives annual meeting. liz, you spoke to the ceo of one of the most valuable and

at the clinton global initiative. this is the first year that your wife, hillary clinton, former secretary of state and your daughter chelsea clinton are co-hosting. what's different this year? >> well first of all, we're having a good year. we've got more members coming in. we have more really interesting new commitments. we're going to have a lot of impressive progress reports. that's important to me because when i agreed to start this i said i don't want to just have another meeting. i want people to commit to do something. and i want us to check. it will be more and better i think and will be focused on how do you mobilize people to actually get done what you want to do and a lot of our commitments will feature that will feature big partnerships, kind of the thing we need more of in washington big partnerships, people walking across lines. >> this is a sprawling philanthropic organization. and you have helped hundreds of millions of people. however, as you know there have been reports of financial mismanagement an

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hillary clinton is about to take the stage at the global clinton global initiative. there she is. so we're going to go live there for a moment. and, of course -- >> thank you, martin -- >> and, of course, ed, our viewers will be able to join you immediately at 5:00. >> we're about having to a conversation concerning health care. and i thought hard about how to introduce these two men. and the more i thought about it, the more i realized how much they have in common. they're both left-handed. they both love golf, a game that does not often reciprocate the love they put into it. they both are fanatic sports fans. and go to great lengths to be in front of the tv or on the side of the court or the field. they both are master politici

david: clinton global initiatives annual meeting. liz, you spoke to the ceo of one of the most valuable and respected brands in the world, coca-cola. liz: who among us hasn't owned coca-cola at some point or another. there is nobody behind me because president clinton is about to be in the house. they're doing a massive security sweep here in midtown manhattan. we have many luminaries here. aside from bono, front man of u 2. we also have cheryl sandberg, chief financial officer of facebook. what do we have? mukhtar kent, the head of coca-cola. he was right here with just moments ago, talking about a bunch of things. first of all, david, he is very concerned about the global economy and people have a negative perception. he said deal with it. it is going to be a very slow slog of growth we need to find once again. he is looking everywhere on planet for growth and he finds it in africa. >> for the next five to 10 years africa will be a very fast-growing environment, macroeconomicly. why is that happening? because there is small increme

he'll be with former president bill clinton at the clinton global initiative later this afternoon to talk health care with the clinton/obama alliance. here are the new laws. plus, an old clinton pal, terry mcauliffe, is starting the day with some positive new poll numbers in that fight for virginia governor. can tim cuccinelli do anything to close a massive gender gap? good morning from new york. it's tuesday, september 24th, 2013. this is "the daily rundown." i'm chuck todd. right to my first reads of the morning. president obama and the iranian president ra hanni assuming such a meeting logistically could take place. if it does it would be the first time u.s. and iranian leaders have spoken since 1977. if it doesn't happen, you can probably blame logistics more than anything else. it's been hard to coordinate this. no official meeting is scheduled. with rue hanni opting out of the u.n. lunch because it's serving alcohol, there's no opportune moment to bump into each other. the president is still expected to address iran in his speech. maybe iran will make concessions on the nuclear

off the annual meeting of his clinton global initiative today. i sat down with him this afternoon at the site of the gathering in midtown new york. >> president bill clinton, thank you for talking with us. >> glad to do it judy. woodruff: we're here at the clinton global initiative but first the news of the day, the terrible horrific attack in kenya on a mall, a group of terrorists, scores are dead, over a hundred wounded. what does this say about the threat of these groups that say they're inspired by al qaeda? >> well, al shabbab has been doing a lot of damage in that part of the world for a long time and they attempted to take over somalia and they were moving across the boarder to try to keep them from causing trouble in kenya so they have been looking for an opportunity to exact retribution and it's a terrible thing. and all of those innocent people. we lost one of our foundations people there, at one of our health access works are who was a wonderful nurse who was in nairobi because she was about to have a baby and she and the baby's father

hillary clinton is about to take the stage at the global clinton global initiative. there she is. so we're going to go live there for a moment. and, of course -- >> thank you, martin -- >> and, of course, ed, our viewers will be able to join you immediately at 5:00. >> we're about having to a conversation concerning health care. and i thought hard about how to introduce these two men. and the more i thought about it, the more i realized how much they have in common. they're both left-handed. they both love golf, a game that does not often reciprocate the love they put into it. they both are fanatic sports fans. and go to great lengths to be in front of the tv or on the side of the court or the field. they both are master politicians. each of them has only lost one election. they are both democrats. they have fabulous daughters. they each married far above themselves. and they each love our country. and so please join me in welcoming number 42 and number 44, bill clinton and president barack obama. ♪

neutrogena®. ♪ >>> the clinton global initiative draws the a-list every year. some in the audience had questions. geena davis who played commander in chief, the first lady president of the united states. >> she's my president. i always tell her that. >> i think she has a very pertinent question for you, mr. president. >> the high point of my life was after the show when i saw you and you said my president. i said, well, now i can die happy. my administration was much shorter than yours. really the only difference. i people understand the scale of cgm and the powerful focus on women's empowerment and women's economic empowerment and not only in separate discussions about that but including women in every topic that's discussed. can you just share with us a little bit about why you think that's so important? >> sure. first of all, the reason cgi has done so much is i'm not doing it. even our foundation is not doing it. when we showed the film yesterday on our foundation and how we try to define what we were about, i said i had gone out of my way never to actually

hillary clinton is at the clinton global initiative. she's speaking about women's issues today. let's bring back our gaggle. molly, if somehow the clinton global initiative could become a bigger part of the democratic party, it has, it was sort of -- obama was sort of going to the clinton house yesterday. it was sort of an interesting thing. the clintons really are reminding people they're kind of in charge of the democratic party again. >> and they certainly will be even more if hillary ends up running, right. but we've had some of these damaging stories come out, particularly about the clinton global initiative. i think you start to see chinks in that facade and a little bit of a preview of what she would be up against if she jumps into this race. >> danielle, she's got to insulate herself because this is the same stuff we heard six years ago. >> yes. >> there's too much ink connected to the clintons. >> and one would think that you learn from the past so i have to manl that the team that she is assembling around her now would know how to respond to this better. >> how formida

global initiative. and it gets asked when he's interviewed but again he's basking again in lots of favorable -- >> people are nostalgic given the current state of the country. if they get hillary, maybe they get bill back as well. >> i think that the reason that the global clinton initiative, which renamed bill clinton, hillary clinton and chelsey clinton, the reason we're getting so much coverage of bill is because of hillary now. it's not the other way around. it's because of his wife and her twitter account who says the glass ceiling crasher and her occupation tbd, the clinton noble englishive would not be getting this attention now i think if it weren't for her. not saying they're not doing good works, not saying they're not mismanaging money. >> the media always focusing on the two of them reminds me of the '92 campaign when they said you get two for the price of one. >> that's exactly what you're getting two for one in the american public's eyes and the media's eyes. >> you're also getting a lot a

so everyone goes home happy. >>> the clinton global initiative draws the a-list every year. some in the audience had questions. gina davis who played commander in chief, the first lady president of the united states. >> she's my president. i always tell her that. >> i think she has a very pertinent question for you, mr. president. >> the high point of my life was after the show when i saw you and you said my president. i said, well, now i can die happy. my administration was much shorter than yours. really the only difference. i people understand the scale of cgm and the powerful focus on women's empowerment and women's economic empowerment and not only in separate discussions about that but including women in every topic that's discussed. can you just share with us a little bit about why you think that's so important? >> sure. first of all, the reason cgi has done so much is i'm not doing it. even our foundation is not doing it. when we showed the film yesterday on our foundation and how we try to define what we were about, i said i had gone out of my way never to actually

i spoke with them at the clinton global initiative here in new york. >> i still believe that we're going to do the right thing before calamity hits the earth. but we're pushing it. and i believe there are lots of economically attractive ways to fight climate change that we have ignored. and i don't think we -- one of the things that althoughs a ton more about than i do is how to calculate the real price of what we're doing now. >> rose: the president of somalia, hassan sheikh mohamud and former president of the united states bill clinton and the former vice president of the united states al gore when we continue. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. captioning sponsored by >> this is the threat of al-shabaab to the region and to the world at large. we send our condolences to the kenyan government. >> rose: hassan sheikh mohamud is here to address the general assembly. his administration is the first recognized government in somalia in over 20 years. they're facing piracy, corruption and terrorism by islamic militants like al

that's the clinton global initiative thing at the clinton foundation summit in new york. on the right of the screen, you see -- that's appropriate, i suppose, on the right of the screen, senator ted cruz, republican of texas, still going on the senate floor in an effort to suck the funding out of the health care law. let's bring back our panel. you guys are so good, we made you stay to give us your closing thoughts on these events of the day. maggie, i'll start with you. ted cruz, the significance of this, if anything. >> the significance of this i think is you're seeing republicans in d.c. who are much more concerned about preserving their own brands than worrying about the larger republican brand. this is not bad for ted cruz back home in texas. >> it's fantastic. >> pretty good for ted cruz back home in texas but this is very problematic for national republicans and congressional republicans who do not want to be dealing with this right now. >> i want to go to you two quickly, about 20 seconds each on rouhani. what are you looking for? >> the lelection of a moderate ir

. >> at this clinton global initiative bono had fun with president clinton. >> when i first met bono he walked into the oval office and i actually thought it was ["daily show" theme song playing] captioning sponsored by comedy central ( theme song playing ) ( cheers and applause ) thank you, ladies and gentlemen. thank you for being here. >> that's what i am talking about. the big story tonight, our apiecer in chief called on his belly in front o in front of the u.n. general assembly today, once again apologizing for america's greatness. >> jim. >> and the emmy goes to the colbert report! >> sorry! what? >> wait a second! i have got to say, i don't know -- how did that get in there? and more importantly, how did these get out here? [ cheers and applause ] ladies and gentlemen, folks, i have toll you, it is exciting to be up there at the emmys drinking in the adulation and i got a little love drunk and i had a bit of a verbal gaff, a blooper, if you will. jim. >> thank you to everyone who works on the show to make it possible. >> boing! >> huh-uh. i don't know what i was thinking. bec

at the annual meeting of the clinton global initiative and a delayed clinton kept vips waiting so broke with a spot on impression. >> walked into the oval office and i thought it was a member of his own road crew. he wasn't really dressed right. i felt like the rock star on that occasion. >> i must be really easy to make fun of. >> bono was so good. if that singing thing doesn't work out he has a new career. >>> three decades later and still no photo opbetween the u.s. and iran. both presidents obama and rowhani spoke separa-- rouhani separately. >> i believe if we can resolve the issue of iran's nuclear program that can serve as a step down the long road of a different relationship. >> our national interests make it imperative that we remove any and all reasonable concerns about iran's peaceful nuclear program. iran poses absolutely no threat to the world or the region. >> israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says not so fast eluding to deep skepticism with iran. >> israel would welcome a genuine resolution but we will not be fooled by half measures that merely provide a smoke scr

initiative and he helped design the clinton global initiative that he traded in on his access and he is part of an investment firm now and he said i can deliver bill clinton and cashed in on the name. >> it is not by coincidence that the company that we have heard about where -- when she came back from maternity leave she got a consulting agreement with the state department and was able to consult for a private company. it's the same company we were talking about. >> at this point, "a," do you think this doug band issue is going to have legs that could hurt hillary clinton down the road? and what do you think the main factors will be for her to decide? >> the answer to "a" is easy. no. three years and two months away from the election. this week, even tonight, there is an ongoing terrorist attack in nairobi. seven days away from a government shutdown and may default on our credit. the middle class is under siege. any sentient being people would say i'm concerned about doug band. let's cast our vote based on them. i know them both. doug band came into bill clinton's life and took over

as major donors meet to support the clinton global initiative this week look for former secretary of state hillary clinton to turn up onstage when her husband and president obama address health care reform -- once her signature issue as first lady.... nats. and speak at the same awards dinner as good friend joe biden her would-be 2016 opponent. she's dipping her toe into domestic political waters... but she'll also tackle the kind of do-no-harm issues that keep her in poll numbers in the stratosphere. programs for women and girls, "i have always believed that women are not victims" promoting clean cookstoves for the developing world and a plan to save africa's elephants. who can be against that? right now the best politics is focusing on issues and avoiding the partisan rancor. i've never met anyone on the political scene, jessica, who's ever said they wished they got involved in partisan debates earlier. since leaving office the former diplomat has weighed in on controversial topics on very few occasions... voicing support for the voting rights act....the president's position on syr

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the president joined clinton tuesday for a q- and-a session sponsored by the clinton global initiative in new york. obama compared his plan to other countries who have universal health care. "and if we spent the same amount of money on health care that canada or france or great britain did or japan or any other industrialized country, with the same outcomes or better outcomes, that essentially would remove our structural deficit, which would then free up dollars for us to invest in early childhood education and infrastructure and medical research and all the other things that can make sure that we're competitive and growing rapidly over the long term." the white house has planned a series of speeches and pitches for the affordable care act in the coming months. enrollment open begins october 1st and closes march 31st. republicans are trying to stall a government funding bill unless it defunds obamacare. coming up on the early edition... arguments over raising the minimum wage. why some people believe it could hurt the people it's supposed to help. ((break 1)) of wine... for the price o

at the meeting of the clinton global initiative, the delayed bill clinton kept a few vips waiting so bono jumped in with a spot-on impression. >> when i first met bono, he walked into the oval office and i thought it was a member of his own road crew. he wasn't really dressed right. actually, i felt like the rock star on that occasion. >> i must be really easy to make fun of. >> three decades later and still no photo-op between the u.s. and iran. u.s. officials say iran ultimately deemed the meeting between the leaders as, quote, too complicated. both president obama and rowhani spoke separately at the united nations tuesday, calling for improved relations and resumed nuclear talks. >> that can serve as a major step down a long road toward a different relationship, one based on mutual interests and mutual respect. >> translator: our national interests make it imperative that we remove any and all reasonable concerns about iran's peaceful nuclear program. iran poses absolutely no threat to the world or the region. >> but israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says not so fast, allu

. >>> ben affleck found quite a way to welcome the crowd to the clinton global initiative dinner. >> my name is bruce wayne. i would like to welcome my fellow billionaires tonight. >> referring to him being in the new batman movie. >> jimmy fallon is back in the music room with the roots and a few personalities from sesame street. ♪ how to get to sesame street ♪ >> i like that version. >>> aaron paul has honored the finale of "breaking bad". by starting a fundraiser on omaze. on here fans donate to the kind campaign. they had a chance to win a trip to two to l.a. to watch the finale with the cast. wednesday night paul tweeted that he raised nearly $1.8 million. that to me is just remarkable >> staggering. >> absolutely. serious fan base there. >>> i'm betty nguyen. this is "early today." we hope this is just your first stop of the day on nbc. >> you're watching wbal-tv 11. live, local, late-breaking. this is 11 news today at 5:00 a.m. good morning. we have a little bit of cloud cover to start the day we do not expect any rain. 57 in catonsville. 57 in chestertown. temperatures wi

but it's also becoming known for another big meeting, the clinton global initiative. the program brings together world leaders, ngos business leaders, fi. in recent years, president clinton's famous family members have taken a larger role in his foundation. i asked him about that and about the political futures of both hillary and chelsey. president clinton, you've renamed your foundation, and you've added your wife hillary's name, of course, but also chelsey. what does all that mean? >> well, first of all, it reflects the reality that it's a joint interprice now. and chelsey has been very active for the last couple of years. and she's helped us reorganize the foundation, try to put it on a sounder operational footing, making the kind of thing that can last beyond my ability to oversee the thing on a daily basis and raise all the money every year and all that. she's very good at all that. and she's the only one of us that has any training in public health. she's got a masters from columbia in public health and about to get her phd at oxford. so this is her area. hilla