President Obama and Former President Bill Clinton will team up next month for yet another joint big dollar fundraiser. But you don't have to be a rich celebrity to attend the New York City event. The campaign is inviting two grassroots supports for as little as 3 dollars!

Similar to the successful fundraiser with George Clooney, every small dollar contribution will be automatically entered to win a seat at the June 4th event with Clinton. The campaign promises to pay for travel for the two winners and their guests. Earlier this month, the Obama campaign raised over $8million from supporters hoping to be invited to Clooney's house.

The former president appeared at a joint fundraiser in April for Mr. Obama, contributing to the $43.6 million raised by the campaign in April alone. Clinton's New York City event in June is the second of three events the former president will hold for the sitting president. (read more)

President Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel will remain at Camp David Saturday evening after the G8 Summit ends. While the other leaders will return home or head to Chicago for the NATO Summit, Obama and Merkel will hold a bilateral meeting the White House announced Saturday.

The G8 meeting was originally also scheduled in the president's home town of Chicago, but he moved the summit to the presidential retreat in order to create a more relaxed set of talks. And while many leaders have been taking walks around the camp grounds and having smaller casual discussions on patios, Chancellor Merkel and President Obama have more to discuss.

"Chancellor Merkel was one of the leaders that president Obama was able to talk to last night after the session," Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes said Saturday, "he's also going to have a bilateral meeting with Chancellor Merkel after the conclusion of the G8. So the president will conclude the G8, he will have a statement to the press, and then he'll have a formal bilateral meeting actually here at Camp David with Chancellor Merkel." (read more)

In their first working dinner of the two day talks, the G-8 leaders spent more than two hours discussing a broad range of security issues. But the majority of their first meeting as a group focused on Iran and Syria.

The summit at Camp David is just days ahead of the international P5+1 talks in Baghdad over concerns with the Iranian nuclear program.

"The G-8 affirmed the importance of having a unified effort in approaching this Baghdad talks next week and continued to underscore a commitment to a dual track process in which we seek a diplomatic resolution to the situation in Iran," a Senior White House official told reporters at Camp David.

The leaders also discussed additional pressure on Iran through sanctions. "The leaders noted the urgency for Iran to take concrete steps to assure the international community of its peaceful purpose of its program and those types of steps will be discussed at the upcoming talks in Baghdad," said the White House official. (read more)

President Obama will host the 38th G8-Summit at Camp David Friday, but the group will look quite different than their last meeting. Of the eight countries represented for the two day talks, four have elected new leaders since the summit hosted by France last year.

France, Italy, Japan & Russia all have new presidents or prime ministers.

The new French President, Francois Hollande sworn into office last week, is visiting with President Obama in Washington prior to the start of the summit.

Hollande is a socialist, who made campaign promises to withdraw all French troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2012, breaking from the NATO agreements of his predecessor, a point expected to be discussed in the coming days.

Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda of Japan took office in September & visited the White House in April. Italy Prime Minister Mario Monti was sworn into office in November. This is his first visit with President Obama.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is not attending the summit, but sending Prime Minister and former president Dimitry Medvedev to do his bidding for him. Medvedev has much experience with President Obama. The two most recently held a bilateral meeting in South Korea at the Nuclear Summit earlier this year. (read more)

The White House Tuesday cautioned the North Korean plan to launch a rocket in defiance with the United Nations resolution could have impacts on aid to the country.

White House press secretary Jay Carney said it would be nearly impossible to follow through with the US planned aid in the form of nutritional assistance to the isolated country should they violate sanctions. "The proposed missile launch, if conducted, would represent a clear and serious violation of North Korea's obligations under two United Nations Security Council resolutions that explicitly prohibit North Korea from testing ballistic missiles," Carney said aboard Air Force One.

While North Korea says their rocket is ready for lift off this week, the White House is working with international partners to discourage otherwise. Carney says the United States is working with international partners "to work to persuade North Korea to consider a different path, the path that would lead to progress towards feeding its people, educating its people, and ending its severe, self-imposed isolation."

On the third and final day of Supreme Court arguments over the White House's signature achievement, the administration remains confident the health care law will be upheld. White House Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest says one of the many reasons the Affordable Care Act is constitutional, is because the individual mandate was originally a Republican idea.

"This was a novel policy solution that was conceived of by the Heritage Foundation, was promoted by conservative Republicans in Washington, D.C., as a solution to difficult health care challenges, and it was an idea that was put forward as the central part of the plan that was advanced by the Republican governor of Massachusetts, who put in place his own health care reform proposal," Earnest told reporters at the White House Wednesday.

The law appeared doomed after Supreme Court justices asked tough questions on day two of arguments, possibly shaking the Solicitor General, arguing the case for the administration. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli sounded unprepared and lacking confidence in audio recordings from the court Tuesday. (read more)

Following next week's State of the Union address, President Obama will take his message on the road, as part of a three-day, five-state trip, the White House announced Wednesday. Mr. Obama will visit Iowa, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado and Michigan.

While its customary for presidents to travel around the country in the days after addressing the nation, the five states Obama will visit this month are all swing states, vital to his reelection.

Obama also heads to Florida this Thursday, the ultimate swing state and site of the upcoming, all important Republican primary on Jan. 31. The president will make a tourism announcement at Disney World; just days before his Republican rivals head to the Sunshine State in pursuit of the GOP nomination.

But the president isn't just hitting the next Republican primary state. As part of his post-address trip, Obama will stop in Las Vegas, Nev., on Jan. 25 and 26, where the Republicans will caucus the first weekend of February.

Coincidence? The White House doesn't think so. "Our schedules are made with a lot of different considerations well in advance," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told skeptical reporters Wednesday.

Carney says the president's message for the tour will be "fiercely focused on economic growth and job creation." (read more)

Ames, IA -- Carl Cameron caught up with Rick Santorum in Ames, Iowa Friday afternoon as the presidential hopeful cheered on the Iowa State University Cyclones in the Pinstripe Bowl with Rutgers. Check out the interview below from the Iowa sports bar & what the former Pennsylvania Senator had to say about some of his rivals:

With his wife and daughters in Hawaii for Christmas, President Obama took the smallest member of the first family to do some holiday shopping. Bo! The first dog accompanied Mr. Obama on an impromptu shopping spree in the nearby suburbs.

Doing his part to boost holiday sales, the president dropped some cash at a Pet Smart and Best Buy in northern Virginia. The president selected a pricey $24.99 rubber chew toy for his best friend, shaking hands while Bo sniffed around with other shopping dogs.

At Best Buy Obama picked up one of this season's most popular items for his daughters; Just Dance 3 for the Wii gaming system for his daughters. Obama told reporters they would never see him playing the dance video game.

Also on the president's shopping list, The Sims 3 Pet Special and 2 apple itunes gift cards in the amount of $50 each.

The president paid for the gifts with his personal credit card, joking to the press that he hoped the card still works. (read more)

The newest executive order from the Obama administration aims at reducing fraud in the Medicare and Medicaid entitlement programs.

The White House Tuesday announced the latest in a series of executive orders they're calling "We Can't Wait", a message aimed at acting without Congress. The new pilot program, overseen by the Department of Health and Human Services will cut waste and fraud in Medicare and Medicaid and reduce the errors in spending according to the administration.

The executive actions, as they pertain to the entitlement programs, will include private inspection and auditing of the programs, changes in hospital billing systems, doing away with poorly rated medical equipment and working with the states systems to better detect fraud. Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will oversee the steps. (read more)