Obama: World Today Better Plan than What I Inherited

‘If you think about what I walked into when I came into office, we had not only two wars still active, but we also had a world financial system that was becoming unraveling’

KROFT: "You run into people on the street and they say the world is falling apart. You got Syria. You've got Iraq. You've got Ukraine. You've got Ebola. Is this the most difficult period of your presidency, the biggest challenge of your presidency, this period we're in right now?"
OBAMA: "It's a significant period. But if you think about what I walked into when I came into office, we had not only two wars still active, but we also had a world financial system, that was becoming unraveling, and we were losing 800,000 jobs a month. So you know, we've had challenges before. And we've overcome them. That's not to downplay the serious challenges that we do face right now, mostly internationally."

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