david corn of mother jones, former clinton and reagan advisor, david gergen, time magazine editor, rick stengel, and our own john dickerson. stay with us. >> schieffer: welcome back to face the nation. back now at cbs news headquarters in new york, our political panel, david corn, who is the author of showdown, now out in paper zero back, david is also a reporter that uncovered the mitt romney fund raiser video from mother jones we want to ask him about that. peggy noonan, a columnist for the wall street journal, a speechwriter before that for president reagan, david gergen and i don't know anybody else who has this on his resume, he worked for both president reagan and for bill clinton, he is now at harvard university, rick stengel who worked with president clinton on the time magazine cover story that bill clinton authored this week, and let's also bring in round out the team with john dickerson, our own political director. let me just start by asking somebody on the panel, would anybody like to volunteer, did bill clinton say that he wants to temporarily extend the bush tax cuts or did he sa

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resume, he worked for both president reagan and for bill clinton, he is now at harvard university, rick stengel who worked with president clinton on the time magazine cover story that bill clinton authored this week, and let's also bring in round out the team with john dickerson, our own political director. let me just start by asking somebody on the panel, would anybody like to volunteer, did bill clinton say that he wants to temporarily extend the bush tax cuts or did he say not? a show of hands here. who would like to answer that question. >> do we know? >> it was a wonderful, long, complicated answer. the end of which left you thinking, what the heck did he just say? >> yes. nobody knew what the heck he was doing and everybody sort of went on with life. >> and with strategic, not deliberate. >> schieffer: create i think a fog so everybody can find an exit and then when the fog lift everybody is in a safe place. i think he is trying to say basically the commitments of the sequester and of the tax cuts, we can put those off if we can get a deal but that's the kind of thing that led to the seq

with us now, "time" magazine managing editor rick stengel. magazine. rick, what is it this week? >> hi, joe. well, we have bill clinton on the cover with his five ideas that are changing the world for the better. this is a collaboration between us and the clinton global initiative which starts next week to coincide with the u.n. general assembly. and you know, as i call clinton in my little editor's letter, he's the fiphilanthropist in chf around the world. and the clinton global initiative has, over the last five or six years, raised $70 billion for problems around the world treating inequality, instability, unsustainability. and it's really -- it's not a secret, but it's really one of the most powerful forces in the world now, as powerful and probably more than many governments and certainly than most foundations out there. so this is bill's view of the world. and why he's optimistic about things like inequality, instability, the growth of democracy and global economies. it's an unusually optimistic note in these somewhat pessimistic times.

let's talk about the new issue with "time" magazine managing editor, rick stengel joining us now. now, how do you explain that, rick? >> well, part of it, wolf, is i call him in my editor's letter the global philanthropist in chief. even though he has become president obama's number one surrogate, he does have a day job. that is running the clinton global initiative. he is doing things, he's raising billions of dollars to wipe out inequality around the world, to alleviate children's poverty and disease. so i think people just look at him now as one of the good guys who's doing stuff that benefits everybody, not just one particular party or person. >> and the speech he gave at the democratic convention in charlotte was obviously one of the best that he's given. and he's gotten really, really great grades for that. let me read another quote from the article. this is president bill clinton. "i see evidence all over the world that women are gaining social and economic power that they never had before. it's been proven that women tend to reinvest economic gains back into their families