Morning Briefing

During opening remarks of the Clinton Global Initiative's annual meeting in New York, former President Bill Clinton said, "[W]e have more attending this meeting than ever before," Dow Jones/Wall Street Journal reports. "Despite record attendance and commitments made, Clinton addressed the reduction in global wealth upfront, urging leaders who have not yet identified which causes to support to instead support multi-year pledges already under way that have been restructured due to lack of funding," according to the news service. After Clinton, President Barack Obama addressed the summit, "[f]ollowing" a theme that encouraged meeting participants to take action (Banjo, 9/22).