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welcome to "american morning." >> good morning to you, and to you. it is a busy week. breaking news. freedom coming for two u.s. hikers held priter in in iran. they could be out with the half hour. right to mohammed jamjoon covering this. whats the latest? >> reporter: well, ali, weve heard from a lawyer from the the two detained hikers tells us a second judge in iran has signed the paperwork, the bail paperwork for josh fattal and shane bauer. the lawyer says now he can take that pape...

for state hood. this hour, the president is expected to meet with palestinian authority president abbas. he held a separate meeting just a little while ago with benjamin netanyahu. lets bring in our chief white house correspondent, jessica yellin. shes covering this from new york. the president also delivered a major address before the u.n. general assembly. >> thats rig, wolf. the palestinians continue pressing their case here at the united nations and it was the most dramatic issue t...

republican leaders promptly dismissed it calling the plan class warfare. does the presidents plan have a chance? joining me is gene sperling director of the national economic council. thank you for joining me. the president announced today hell go after the rich. the republicans say that is a form of class warfare. the president says its math. but the reality is it is class warfare. the rich are a class and hes going after them. >> its the opposite. the president is asking for balance,...

he plans to cut and veto any legislation that cuts medicaid and medicare that doesnt raise taxes on the wealthy. >> i will not support any plan that butts the burden on ordinary americans. i will veto any bill that does not raise serious revenues by asking the wealthiest americans or biggest corporations to pay their fair share. this is not class warfare. its math. >> this is not class warfare, reference to the opposition hes getting from republicans who are saying it is just that, cla...

forum all week. i had a chance to sit down with the former president bill clinton for an extensive interview. part of it will air this hour. part in the next hour. i want you to stand by. only a few blocks away at the united nations, president obamas on a major diplomatic mission of his on and a number of critical issues are on the table. lets bring in jessica yellin. shes with me here at the clinton global initiative. a huge day today. maybe even a more important day for the president...

trillionplan to cut the deficit. reduce spending in iraq and afghanistan and higher taxes on the wealthiest american. republican leaders promptly dismissed it calling the plan class warfare. does the presidents plan have a chance? joining me is gene sperling director of the national economic council. thank you for joining me. the president announced today hell go after the rich. the republicans say that is a form of class warfare. the president says its math. but the reality is it is c...

in spending that weve already cut from the budget, our plan makes additional spending cuts that need to happen if were to solve this problem. we reform agriculture subsidies. subsidies that a lot of times pay large farms for crops that they dont grow. we make modest adjustments to federal retirement programs. we reduce by tens of billions of dollars the tax money that goes to fannie mae and freddie mac. we also ask the largest financial firms, companies saved by tax dollars during fina...

about this for years and under the presidents plan anyone making more than $1 million a year would paper the same percentage of taxes at the middle class. boy, it does not sit well with republicans. >> when you pick one area of the economy and say were going to tax those people, because most people are not those people, thats class warfare. >> warren buffett has been honest and others i know who have havent fortunate in life and wealthy say, for goodness sake, raise my taxes if thats g...

extraordinary hour. >> real heart broken, heart broken. ♪ thank you for coming back. i can only imagine its been a hideous few weeks for you. how are you and the family holding up since amy died? >> very difficult, piers, very, very difficult indeed. we have each other, a wonderful family. and extremely wonderful friends. and we kept each other strong and, of course, weve got the foundation that were working on. so were doing okay. under the circumstances, were doing okay. >> obvio...

former imf cheap dominique strauss-kahn says something inappropriate and of moral weakness happened in that new york hotel suite in may. but he says it was not violent or aggressive. he gave his first post sex scandal today in paris and i spoke with jim bittermann about that a short time ago. >> reporter: we were expecting a very short interview, but it went on for about 20 minutes, covered a lot of topics including what happened in new york, also what hes facing here, what his politic...