Bill Clinton: “I can't, simply because I--it's one of the--how we're going to deal with this is one of literally a hundred items that…”

“I can't, simply because I--it's one of the--how we're going to deal with this is one of literally a hundred items that are on my agenda in this period after the election. All I can tell you is, I think that to deal with the baby boom issues of Social Security and Medicare, we need a bipartisan commission, and we need the longest possible timelines so we have to make the least painful possible changes. But that must not be--let me reiterate--that is not a reason not to go on and balance this budget and put 10 years on the Medicare Trust Fund. We need to do that now. Losing a year last year I think was an error. It may have been unavoidable, but it complicates all of our other balanced budget calculations. We need to go on and do it and start ratcheting down this spending issue. Go ahead, Karen [Karen Ball, New York Daily News]. Election Results”