And now, our interview with former president Clinton. This week, he hosted his second annual global initiative forum in New York, more than $7 billion dollars was pledged to tackle some of the worst problems in developing countries, such as poverty, disease, and climate change. As part of the conference, Mr. Clinton agreed to his first one-on-one interview ever on Fox News Sunday. The ground rules were simple. 15 minutes for our sit-down split evenly between the global initiative and anything else we wanted to ask. But as you'll see now in the full, unedited interview, that's not how it turned out. This president welcomed to Fox News Sunday. Thanks. In a recent issue of the New Yorker, you say, quote, I'm 60 years old and I damn near died and I'm worried about how many lives I can save before I do die. Is that what drives you in your effort to help in these developing countries? Yes, I really, but I don't mean that sounds sort of morbid when you say it like that. I mean, I actually, yes. But yeah, but the way I said it, the tone in which I said it was actually almost whimsical and humorous, that is, this is what I love to do. It is what I think I should do. That is, I have had a wonderful life. I got to be president. I got to live the life of my dreams. I dodged a bullet with that heart problem. And I really think I should, I think I owe it to my fellow countrymen and people throughout the world to spend time saving lives, solving problems, helping people see the future. But as it happens, I love it. I mean, I feel it's a great gift. It's a rewarding way to spend my life. Someone asked you and I don't want, again, to be too morbid. This is what you said. He asked you if you could wind up doing more good as a former president than as a president. And you said, only if I live a long time. Yeah, that's true. How do you rate, compare the powers of being in office as president and what you can do out of office as a former president? Well, when you are president, you can operate on a much broader scope. So for example, you can simultaneously be trying to stop a genocide in Kosovo, you know, make peace in the Middle East, pass a budget that gives millions of kids a chance to have after-school programs and has a huge increase in college aid at home. In other words, you got a lot of different moving parts and you can move them all at once. But you're also more at the mercy of events. That is, President Bush did not run for president to deal with 9-11. But once it happened, it wasn't as if he had an option. Once I looked at the economic, I'll give you a much more mundane example. Once I looked at the economic data, the new data, after I won the election, I realized that I would have to work much harder to reduce the deficit and therefore I would have less money in my first year to invest in things I want to invest in. So what is it that you can do as a former president? So what you can do as a former president is you don't have the wide range of power. So you have to concentrate on fewer things. But you are less at the mercy of unfolding events. So if I say, look, we're going to work on the economic empowerment of poor people on fighting AIDS and other diseases, on trying to bridge the religious and political differences between people and on trying to avoid the worst calamities of climate change and help to revitalize the economy in the process. I can actually do that. I mean, because tomorrow, when I get up, if there's a bad headline in the paper, it's the President Bush's responsibility not mine. That's the joy of being a former president. And it is true that if you live long enough and you really have great discipline in the way you do this, like this CGI, you might be able to affect as many lives or more for the good as you did as president. When we announced that you were going to be on Fox News Sunday, I got a lot of email from viewers and I got to say I was surprised. Most of them wanted me to ask you this question. Why didn't you do more to put Ben Laden and Al Qaeda out of business when you were president? There's a new book out. You may, I suspect you've already read, called The Looming Tower. And it talks about the fact that when you pulled troops out of Somalia in 1993, Ben Laden said, I have seen the frailty and the weakness and the cowardice of U.S. troops. Then there was the bombing of the embassies in Africa and the attack on the coal. Okay. Let's just go through it. I mean, I just finished the question, sir. And after the attack, the book says that Ben Laden separated his leaders, spread them around because he expected an attack and there was no response. I understand that hindsight is always 2020. Let's talk about it. But the question is, why didn't you do the work, connect the dots and put them out of business? All right. Let's talk about it. I will answer all those things on the merits. But first, I want to talk about the context in which this arises. I'm being asked this on the Fox Network. ABC just had a right-wing conservative run in their little pathway to 9-11. Faultsley claiming it was based on the 9-11 Commission report with three things asserted against me directly contradicted by the 9-11 Commission report. And I think it's very interesting that all the conservative Republicans who now say I didn't do enough claimed that I was too obsessed with Ben Laden. All of President Bush's neo-cons thought I was too obsessed with Ben Laden. They had no meetings on Ben Laden for nine months after I left office. All the right-wingers who now say I didn't do enough said I did too much. Same people. They were all trying to get me to withdraw from Somalia in 1993 the next day after we were involved in Black Hawk Down. And I refused to do it in state six months and had an orderly transfer to the United Nations. Okay. Now let's look at all the criticisms. Black Hawk Down. Somalia. There is not a living soul in the world who thought a Somalia has anything to do with Black Hawk Down or was paying any attention to it or even knew Al Qaeda was a going concern in October of 1993. I understand. No wait, no wait. No, tell me this. You asked me what I do more to Ben Laden. There was not a living soul. All the people who now criticize me wanted to leave the next day. You brought this up so you get an answer. But you can't do it. I'm perfectly happy. All right. Secondly, Ben Laden says that Ben Laden said that. Ben had showed the weakness of the United States. But it would have shown the weakness if we'd left right away. But he wasn't involved in that. That's just a bunch of bull. That was about Muhammad al-Deed, a Muslim warlord murdering 22 Pakistani Muslim troops. We were all there on a humanitarian mission. We had no mission. None. To establish a certain kind of Somali government or keep anybody out. He was not a religious fanatic. There was no al-Qaeda with respect, if I may. Instead of going through 93 and 90%. No, no. You asked it. You brought it up. But me, I asked it.