AMERICA - President Obama's Foreign Policy

"At U.N., President Obama Delivers 'Tough Love Speech,' Condemns Violent Protests" PBS Newshour 9/25/2012

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SUMMARY: In addressing the 2012 United Nations General Assembly, President Obama condemned 'mindless violence' in anti-American protests, said Syrian President Assad's regime must end and affirmed support for new democracies that rose from the Arab Spring. Judy Woodruff talks to Margaret Warner for reaction on the president's remarks.

"In the Face of GOP Criticism, Addressing Obama's Foreign Policy Challenges" PBS Newshour 9/25/2012

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SUMMARY: In Pueblo, Colo., and at the 2012 Clinton Global Initiative, Mitt Romney lambasted President Obama's handling of foreign affairs after the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya. Gwen Ifill talks to former U.S. Ambassador Nicholas Burns and Council on Foreign Relations' Richard Haass about the president's foreign policy.

GWEN IFILL (Newshour): And we return now to President Obama's United Nations speech and what it tells us about his administration's foreign policy challenges.

For that, we turn to Harvard University professor and former U.S. Ambassador Nicholas Burns and Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations.

President Obama's Full UN Speech (30:19 min)