"THIS WEEK" This Week -- the Annotated Version -- 4/18/2010

Part one of our exclusive interview with former President Bill Clinton -- on politics and philanthropy -- can be viewed here:

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April 18, 2010 | Permalink | User Comments (1)

Roundtable: Politics of Financial Regulation

The "This Week" roundtable took on the politics of financial regulation and the troubles at Goldman Sachs. On the Senate Minority Leader's newfound tone, Bloomberg TV's Al Hunt said "Mitch McConnell as an anti-Wall Street populist is about as credible...

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April 18, 2010 | Permalink | User Comments (12)

Clinton vs. Clinton on Health Care

You would think if you asked Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton the same question about health care, you would probably get the same answer. Turns out that’s not the case. Last week, I asked Secretary...

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April 18, 2010 | Permalink | User Comments (7)

Follow #ThisWeek Live on Twitter at 10am ET

We'll be live tweeting the This Week broadcast at 10 a.m. ET. You can follow on the This Week Twitter list during and after the show – Karen Travers (@karentravers) will be leading the live tweet today: http://twitter.com/abc/lists/this-week And if...

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April 18, 2010 in This Week | Permalink | User Comments (1)

A Clinton on the Court? Go Younger, They Would Advise

I asked former President Bill Clinton why he isn’t on the short list for a Supreme Court appointment, to follow in the footsteps of President William Howard Taft, the last former president to be appointed to the Court. Clinton told...

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April 18, 2010 | Permalink | User Comments (6)

Clinton: I Was Wrong to Listen to Wrong Advice Against Regulating Derivatives*

In my EXCLUSIVE “This Week” interview, I asked former President Bill Clinton if he thought he got bad advice on regulating complex financial instruments known as derivatives from his former Treasury Secretaries, Robert Rubin and Larry Summers. He acknowledged that...

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April 17, 2010 | Permalink | User Comments (95)

Clinton: Rush Limbaugh Comment “Doesn’t Make Any Sense”

In my EXCLUSIVE “This Week” interview, former President Bill Clinton told me Rush Limbaugh’s assertion that Clinton had “set the stage for violence in this country” and that “any acts of future violence” would be on Clinton’s shoulders, “doesn’t make...

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April 17, 2010 | Permalink | User Comments (968)

Volcanic Ash Forces Obama to Cancel Poland Trip

ABC News' Vija Udenans reports: With most of European air space closed due to the volcanic ash wafting through the atmosphere, President Obama has decided not to fly to Poland for the funeral of Polish President Lech Kaczynski, who died...

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April 17, 2010 | Permalink | User Comments (52)

Obama: McConnell’s Arguments on Financial Regulation 'Cynical and Deceptive'

ABC News' Sunlen Miller reports: In his weekly address, President Obama called Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s mantra that the financial regulatory reform bill would amount to a bailout bill a “cynical and deceptive” argument. “The leader of the Senate...

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April 17, 2010 | Permalink | User Comments (214)

Fmr. President Bill Clinton's First 'This Week' Interview

Click here to watch Bill Clinton's first interview on "This Week with David Brinkley" in 1991, before he was even an official candidate for president. And don't forget to watch "This Week" on Sunday to see Clinton's latest appearance as...

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April 16, 2010 | Permalink | User Comments (8)

Obama Issues Veto Threat On Financial Reform

President Obama said today he will veto a financial regulatory reform bill that does not regulate the derivatives market properly.

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A Presidential Push for D.C. Voting Rights

President Obama today fought for Congressional voting rights for Washington, D.C. in a generations-old battle waged since the founding of the federal district.

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April 16, 2010 | Permalink | User Comments (27)

The Presidential Planner

ABC News' Sunlen Miller reports: Late morning President Obama will speak at the Department of the Interior for the White House Conference on America’s Great Outdoors. The day-long conference is a way to address the challenges, opportunities, and innovations about...

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April 16, 2010 | Permalink | User Comments (6)

Obama at Democratic Fundraiser: Tea Partiers Should Be Thanking Him for Tax Cuts

ABC News’ Karen Travers and Rachel Martin report: Speaking at a Democratic fundraiser tonight, President Obama touted his administration’s tax cuts and said that the recent tea party rallies across the nation have “amused” him. “You would think they should...

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April 15, 2010 | Permalink | User Comments (394)

The Final Frontier

Speaking to workers at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida this afternoon, President Obama insisted “nobody is more committed to manned space flight, to human exploration of space, than I am.” Neil Armstrong is not convinced. Our World News report:...

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April 15, 2010 | Permalink | User Comments (11)

President Obama Issues Memo Giving Hospital Rights to Gay and Lesbian Patients’ Partners

This evening President Obama issued a presidential memorandum for the Secretary of Health and Human Services today, requiring hospitals that accept Medicare and Medicaid dollars to recognize a patient’s “designated partner” in terms of visitation and health consultation rights –...

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April 15, 2010 | Permalink | User Comments (23)

Value Added Tax? Senate Thumbs Down

On Tax Day, and as part of an unemployment benefits extension, Senators also just approved a non-binding, Sense of the Senate amendment written by Sen. John McCain that suggests there should be no European-style Value Added Tax.

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The Ropa is Gonna Get You

In a pair of fundraisers in Florida this evening, anticipated to rake in $2.5 million for the Democratic Party, President Obama will be treated to quite the Miami fete.

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Lieberman, Collins Threaten to Subpoena Obama Administration for Withholding Info on Ft. Hood Shooter

Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., and Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, say they will issue subpoenas next week to the Pentagon and the Justice Department unless both departments end what they call “foot-dragging” in cooperating with the Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee’s probe of the Fort Hood shootings.

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Michelle Obama Says Adios to Mexico

ABC News' Yunji de Nies reports: Throughout her time in Mexico, Michelle Obama made it clear that her focus was on the country’s youngest citizens. On Wednesday, her one and only full day here, the First Lady visited an elementary...

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April 15, 2010 | Permalink | User Comments (6)