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Good evening and welcome to PBS
News live coverage of President

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Biden's address to the
nation. I'm Geoff Bennett

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and I'm Amna Navaz with only 4
days remaining in Mr. Biden's
presidency. The White House

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is billing tonight's Oval Office
speech as a farewell address,
a chance for the president

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to highlight his achievements
and to affirm his legacy from
50 years of public service,

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and this will be the 2nd time
the president has spoken to
the nation today. That's after

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announcing a ceasefire
deal between Israel and
Hamas. Our White House
correspo. find it Larboro

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Lopez is at the White House.
Laura, what do we expect to hear
tonight from President Biden.

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Jeff, the president is expected
to talk about the crises that
he has led the nation through

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that includes the COVID-19
recovery, uh, bringing the
economy out of the pandemic

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as well as the wars in
Ukraine and the Middle East,
and this is his 5th and

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final Oval Office address
that is expected to sum up
his five decades in politics.

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5th and final address on
a momentous day for the
president, having just announced

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that historic ceasefire deal.
We're going live now to the
Oval Office and President Biden.

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My fellow Americans. I'm
speaking to you tonight from
the Oval Office. Before I begin,

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let me speak to important
news from earlier
today. After 8 months of
nonstop negotiation. My

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administration.

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by my administration A
ceasefire and hostage deal
has been reached by Israel
and Hamas. The elements

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of which I laid out
in great detail in May
this year. This plan was
developed and negotiated by

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my team. And it will be
largely implemented by the
incoming administration.
That's why I told

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my team to keep the incoming
administration fully informed.
If that's how it should

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be.

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Working together as
Americans. This will be my
final address to you from
the American people from

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the Oval Office from this desk
as President. And I've been
thinking a lot about who we

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are.

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And maybe more importantly
who we should be. Long
ago in New York Harbor,

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an ironworker installed beam
after beam, day after day. He
was joined by steel workers,

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stonemasons, engineers.
They built not just a single
structure. But a beacon of

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freedom. The very idea of
America was so big. We felt
the entire world needed to

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see.

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The Statue of Liberty.
A gift from France after
our civil war. Like the

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very idea of America was built
not by one person, but by many

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people.

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From every

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background

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And from around the

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world.

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Like America The Statue
of Liberty is not standing

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still.

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Her foot literally steps
forward atop a broken chain
of human bondage. She's on the

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march.

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And she literally moves. She
was built to sway back and
forth to withstand the fury of

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stormy weather. To stand
the test of time because
storms are always coming.
She sways a few inches,

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but she never falls into the
current below. An engineering
marvel. The Statue of Liberty

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is also an enduring symbol of
the soul of our nation. A soul
shaped by forces that bring us

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together and by forces
that pull us apart. And
yet through good times and
tough times. We've stood it

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all.

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A nation of pioneers and
explorers. Of dreamers
and doers. Of ancestors

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native to this land.
Of ancestors who came
by force. The nation of
immigrants came to build

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a better life. nation Holding
the torch of the most powerful
idea ever in the history of the

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world.

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That all of us All of us are
created equal. All of us deserve
to be treated with dignity.

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Justice and fairness. That
democracy Must defend And be
defined And be in imposed.

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Moved

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In every way possible.
Our rights, our freedoms,

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our dreams. We know the idea of
America. Our institution, our
people, our values that uphold

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it

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are constantly being tested.
Ongoing debates about
power and the exercise of

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power.

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But whether we lead by the
example of our power. Or
the power of our example.

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Whether we show the courage
to stand up to the abuse of

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power.

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Or we yield to it. After
50 years at the center of
all of this. I know That
believing in the idea of

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America means respecting
the institution is govern
a free society. The
presidency The Congress The

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courts

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A free and independent
press. Institutions that are

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rooted.

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Not just not reflect
the timeless words,

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but they they they echo. The
words of the Declaration of
Independence. We hold these

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truths to be self-evident.
Rooted in the timeless words
of the Constitution. We the

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people.

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Our system of separation
of powers. Checks and
balances. It may not be

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perfect.

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But it's maintained our
democracy for nearly
250 years. Longer than
any other nation in

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history.

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That's ever tried such a bold
experiment. In the past 4
years. Our democracy is held

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strong. And every day
I've kept my commitment
to be president for all

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Americans. You're one of
the toughest periods in
our nation's history. I've

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had a great partner and Vice
President Kamala Harris.
It's been the honor of my

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life.

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To see the resilience.
Of a sense of workers
getting us through once

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in a century pandemic.
The heroism Of service
members and first
responders keeping us safe.

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The determination of advocates
standing up. for our rights
and our freedoms. Instead of

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losing their jobs. To
an economic crisis that
we inherited millions
of Americans. Now I have

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the dignity of work.
Millions of entrepreneurs
and companies. Creating new
businesses and industries.

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Hiring American workers, using
American products. Together
We've launched a new era

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of American possibilities. One
of the greatest modernization
of infrastructure in our entire

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history.

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A new roads, bridges, clean
water. Affordable high-speed
internet. For every American We

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invented the semiconductor.
Smaller than the tip of
my little finger. And
now it's bringing those

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chip factories and those
jobs back to America where
they belong. Creating
thousands of jobs.

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Finally Give me Medicare,
the power to negotiate
low prescription drug
prices from millions

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of seniors. And finally Doing
something to protect our
children and our families. By

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passing the most significant
gun safety law in 30 years.
And bringing violent crime to a

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50-year low. Meeting our
sacred obligation to over 1
million veterans so far. We're

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exposed to toxic materials.
and to their families
Providing medical care
and education benefits and

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more.

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For their families. You

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know

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It will take time To
feel the full impact of
all we've done together.

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But the seeds are planted.
And they'll grow and
they'll bloom for decades to

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come.

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At home we've created
nearly 17 million new jobs,
more than any other single
administration a single

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term.

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Speaker 12 [8:08:17 PM] More
people have health care than

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ever before. And overseas
we strengthen NATO.
Ukraine is still free.
And we've pulled ahead

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of our competition with China.
So much more I'm so proud of
how much we've accomplished

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together. For the American
people. And I wish the
incoming administration's
success. Because I want

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America to succeed. That's
why I held my duty. To
ensure a peaceful and
orderly transition of

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power. To ensure we lead by the
power of our example. I have
no doubt that America's in a

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position to continue to
succeed. That's why my farewell
address tonight. I want

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to warn the country of
some things that give
me great concern. This
is a dangerous concert

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and that's a dangerous
concentration of power. In
the hands of a very few ultra

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wealthy people. The dangerous
consequences. If they're abuse
of power is left unchecked.

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Today

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An oligarchy is taking
shape in America of
extreme wealth, power,

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and influence that really
threatens our entire
democracy. Our basic
rights and freedoms. And a

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fair shot for everyone
to get ahead. We see the
consequences all across

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America.

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And we've seen it

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before.

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More than a century ago. But
the American people stood up.

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To the robber barons
back then. And busted the

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trust.

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They didn't punish the
wealthy. This made the wealthy
pay to play by the rules,

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everybody else had to do.
Workers want rights to
earn their fair share.

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You know, they were dealt
into the deal. And helped put
us on a path to building the

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largest middle class, most
prosperous century, any
nation in the world has
ever seen. We've got to do

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that again. The last 4
years, that's exactly what
we've done. People should
be able to make as much

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as they can. But pay play by
the same rules, pay their fair
share of taxes. So much is at

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stake.

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Right now The existential
threat of climate change.
Has never been clear.

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Just look

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across the country.
From California to North
Carolina. That's why I signed

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the most significant
climate and clean energy
law ever. Ever in the

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history of the world and
the rest of the world
is trying to model it

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now.

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It's working Creating jobs and
industries of the future. Now
we prove that we don't have

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to choose between protecting
the environment and growing
the economy. We're doing both.

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The powerful forces. Want
to wheel their unchecked
influence to eliminate the steps

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we've taken to tackle the
crime and crisis to serve their
own interest. For power and

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profit. We must not be bullied
the sacrifice in the future.
The future of our children

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and our grandchildren. Must
keep pushing forward. And
push faster There's no time to

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waste.

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It's also clear that
American leadership and

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technology.

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is unparalleled an
unparalleled source of
innovation. That can transform

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lives.

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We see the same dangers.
The concentration of
technology, power and

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wealth.

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You know, it's farewell
addressed President
Eisenhower. Spoke of

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the dangers of the
military industrial

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complex.

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He warned to stand
about and I quote,

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A potential For the disastrous
rise. of misplaced power,
end of quote. 6 days 6

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decades later. I'm equally
concerned about the potential
rise. Of a tech industrial

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complex.

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It could pose real dangers for
our country as well. Americans
are being buried. Under an

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avalanche of misinformation
and disinformation.
Enable in the abuse of
power. The free press is

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crumbling. Others are
disappearing. Social
media is giving up on
fact checking. Truth

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is smothered by lies. To for
power and for profit. We must
hold the social platforms

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accountable. Protect our
children. Our families
In a very democracy
from the abuse of power.

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Meanwhile Artificial
intelligence. Is the most
consequential technology
of our time. Perhaps

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of all time. Nothing offers
more profound possibilities
and risks for our economy.

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And our security Our
society A very for humanity.
Artificial intelligence

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even has the potential
to help us answer my call
and cancer as we know

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it.

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But unless safeguards are in

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place.

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AI could spawn new
threats to our rights,
our way of life to our

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privacy.

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How we work and how we protect
our nation. We must make sure
AI is safe and trustworthy. And

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good for all humankind. In the
age of AI. It's more important
than ever. That the people must

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govern. And as the land
of liberty, America Not
China Must lead the world
in the development of

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AI. You know, in the
years ahead. Go to be
It could be up to the
president. The presidency,

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the Congress, the courts, the
free press and the American

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people.

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Confront these powerful

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forces.

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We must reform the tax code.
Not by giving the biggest
tax cuts to billionaires,

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but by making them begin to
pay their fair share. We need
to get dark money. That's that

14:10.366 --> 14:13.033 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
hidden funding behind too
many campaigns contributions.
We need to get it out of

14:13.033 --> 14:18.033 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70%
our politics. When you
do an act in 18-year time
limit. Term limit Time
and turn for the strongest

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ethics and the strongest ethics
reforms for a Supreme Court.
We need to ban members of

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Congress

14:27.900 --> 14:29.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
from from trading stock
while they're in the

14:29.933 --> 14:32.266 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
Congress.

14:32.266 --> 14:36.200 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70%
We need to amend the
constitution to make clear
that no president, no
president is immune from

14:38.300 --> 14:41.733 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
crimes that he or she commits
while in office. presence power
is not limit. It's not absolute.

14:44.933 --> 14:49.933 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
And it shouldn't be. And in
a democracy, there's another
danger. the concentration of

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power and wealth. It erodes
the sense of unity and
common purpose. It causes
distrust and division.

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Participating in our
democracy. Becomes exhausting
and even disillusioning.

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People don't feel like
they have a fair shot. We
have to stay engaged in the

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process.

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I know it's frustrating. A
fair shot is what makes America
America. Everyone's entitled

15:18.733 --> 15:23.600 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
to a fair shot, not a guarantee,
but just a fair shot and
even Plainfield. Going as

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far as your hard work and
talent can take you. We can
never lose that essential
truth remain who we

15:31.466 --> 15:32.833 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
are.

15:32.833 --> 15:33.366 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
I've always

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believed

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And I've told other world
leaders America can be
defined by one word.
Possibilities. Only in

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America. Do we believe
anything is possible. Like
a kid with a stutter from
a modest beginnings in

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Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Claymont Delaware Sitting behind
the this desk in the Oval

15:55.766 --> 15:59.633 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
Office. As President of the
United States. That's the magic
of America. It's all around

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us.

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Upstairs in the residence
of the White House. I've

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walked by a painting of
the Statue of Liberty.
I don't know how many

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times.

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In the painting There are
several workers climbing on the
outstretched arm. The statute

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that holds the torch. Reminds
me every day I pass it. Of the
story and soul of our nation.

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And the power of the American
prayer people. There's a story
of a veteran. This is a veteran,

16:30.933 --> 16:35.133 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
son of an immigrant. Whose
job was to climb that
torch and polish the amber

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paints. So rays of light could
reach out as far as possible.
He was known as the keeper

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of the flame. He once said that
the statue of Liberty. speaks
a silent universal language.

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One of hope That anyone
who sees and speaks
freedom can understand. Yes

16:59.066 --> 17:04.066 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70%
We sway back and forth
to withstand the fury of
the storm. To stand the
test of time. A constant

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struggle.

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Constant struggle A short
distance between peril
and possibility. What I
believe Is the America

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of our dreams is always closer
than we think. It's up to us to
make our dreams come true. Let

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me close. By stating
my gratitude to so many
people. To the members
of my administration.

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As well as public service
and first responders across
the country and around the

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world.

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Thank you for stepping up
to serve. To our service

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members

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And their families. It's
been the highest honor of my
life to lead you as commander

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in chief. And of course
to Kamala. And our
incredible partner. Historic

17:51.400 --> 17:56.266 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
vice president. She and
Doug have become like
family to me. Family's

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everything.

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My deepest appreciation.
Amazing first lady was
with me in the ovals

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today.

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For our entire family. You're
the love of my life and the
life's of my love. My eternal

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thanks to you, the American
people. After 50 years of
public service, I give you my

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word.

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I still believe in the
idea. For which this
nation stands. nation
where the strengths of our

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institutions.

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The character of our people
matter. It must endure.
Now it's your turn to stand

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guard.

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May you all be the keeper
of the flame. And you

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keep the faith. I love America.
You love it too. God bless you

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all.

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May God protect our troops.
Thank you for this great

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honor.

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President Biden speaking
to the American public
for the final time before
he leaves office next

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week. A farewell to a nation
he has served for half a
century. We're joined now by our

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correspondents who have been
watching the president's
remarks. Lisa Desjardin covers

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Congress and our White House
correspondent Laura Baron Lopez
is at the White House. So Laura,

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one of the things we heard
President Biden say, he warned
of what he called a dangerous

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concentration of power in the
hands of a few wealthy people.
He warned of an oligarchy taking

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shape in this country. What
other themes and, and, and
remarks stood out to you.

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That's right, Jeff. I
mean, ultimately the
president's speech could
potentially be summed up

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by one of the lines he
said at the very beginning
where he said that he was
reflecting on who we are

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as a nation and who we should
be and. In that vein, a lot of
this speech he was dedicated to

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those warnings that you
just referenced, yes,
he talked about the
accomplishments that he made,

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whether it was the
infrastructure bill, whether
it was passing semiconductors
and and create more job

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creation, as well as,
uh, allowing Medicare to
negotiate drug prices,
and he said that it may

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take time for the American
public to fully feel
the effect of the things
that he accomplished in

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his one term, but the majority
of the Speech was about bigger
themes about what he still

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sees as a threat to democracy
and questions of separation of
power of checks and balance, uh,

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the fact that he said that
no president is immune
from crimes committed
well in office and that a

20:28.700 --> 20:33.700 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70%
president's power is
not absolute, very clear
warnings that he's making
about what he still

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sees as a threat posed
by the incoming president
Donald Trump and what
Donald Trump has forecasted

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about what He would do to exert
his control and try to expand
much of the presidential powers.

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And Lisa we saw in their
messages from the president
directed certainly

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straight to the American people
saying you are now the keepers

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of this flame to lawmakers
as well. There seem to
be messages directed

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at the incoming
administration as well.
All of this is unfolding
as you've been covering the

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confirmation hearings for many
of these incoming administration
members, what did you take away

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from some of his warnings
about, as Laura was
mentioning, respecting
democratic institutions.

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Well, this is a man who's
had a truly remarkable in
our history of political
career. I covered just

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a small part of that career,
20 years, so it shows how
long he's been in office.
He ran for office 13

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different times, as as
a politician, so he has
taken a long view here
and he knows that this is

21:30.100 --> 21:35.100 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
yet another pivot point. What
I took from these remarks is at
times we've seen, uh, President

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Biden, including in
his convention speeches
stressed something that
I didn't hear tonight,

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the battle for the soul
of America. Instead,
this was a more sort of
tangible speech about

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what he sees are the direct
and specific problems
right now. Now he could
have talked a lot more at

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length about his own
accomplishments. For example,
we just got an incredible
jobs report, you know,

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his jobs record is something
I think economists will
be talking about for
years. That's not where

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his mind is. His mind as you
all are reporting, is instead on
the oligarch taking power which

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he said threatening freedoms and
the phrase he repeated again and
again, a fair shot for people.

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It was also interesting
to me, someone who was
privileged enough to cover
both his campaign and

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now President-elect Trump's
campaign. We talk a lot about
President Trump in terms of the

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1980s being formational for him,
but I think he goes back to an
even older time, maybe the 1880s

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really with all this imperialism
and populism, and here we heard
the phrase robber barons that uh

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President Biden is talking
about. He's saying that
there are dangers that
have been in this country

22:35.600 --> 22:40.233 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70%
before from oligarchs
that we are now returning
to, and he wants people
to pay attention. And,

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and Larro Lopez, a majority of
Americans poll after poll has
shown this. Give President Biden

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low favorability ratings.
They disapprove of of his how
he's conducted himself in in

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office. How does the White
House reconcile that disconnect,
that gap between what the

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White House views as their
achievements and and the
perception among the majority of

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Americans.

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Oh, I

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think

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Jeff, that we heard some of the
president's response to that
tonight when he specifically

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talked about social media
giving up on fact checking and
he talked about the level of

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disinformation and the
tech industrial across the
tech industrial complex
which is what he called

23:21.900 --> 23:24.866 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70%
it, that is something
that this White House,
the Democrats, that aides
inside the White House have

23:27.066 --> 23:30.333 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70%
vented a lot about
throughout the presidency,
which is essentially
that they feel as though

23:30.333 --> 23:35.333 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70%
despite the fact that
President Biden did a lot
to bring the country back
from The COVID-19 pandemic,

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despite statistics and
data showing that the
economy is rebounding that
they feel as though he

23:43.966 --> 23:47.633 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70%
hasn't gotten credit for
that, or the job creation
as a result of the
infrastructure bill and new

23:49.933 --> 23:54.500 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80%
climate change actions that
he's implemented and and
so they ultimately have
blamed some of that on

23:56.933 --> 24:01.200 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70%
this new information
environment that the
country is in on lies spread
across easily across social

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media and the responsibility
that this president believes the
people in charge of those social

24:07.200 --> 24:12.200 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
media companies have in trying
to make sure that facts are what
reached the public and not lies

24:14.433 --> 24:18.300 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80%
and disinformation also a
lot of White House aides
have often said what the
president said tonight,

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which is that again they think
that ultimately Americans will
look back on President Biden's

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time in office very differently
than they view it right
now in the current moment,

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and, uh, potentially very
similar to the way Americans
viewed some of President Obama's

24:34.800 --> 24:39.633 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70%
action. such as the
Affordable Care Act, they
believe that ultimately
the public will credit

24:39.633 --> 24:44.633 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80%
him for some of the actions
that he took and that
it will take time as the
president said tonight,

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and that's how they reconcile
it, Jeff, but ultimately
right now leaving office,

24:49.000 --> 24:54.000 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
you're right, his uh polling
numbers do not look very
good, and we have a poll,

24:56.033 --> 24:59.600 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
a recent poll out today from
uh PBS News Marist and NPR
and in it it shows that the

25:01.733 --> 25:06.633 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
president's disapproval rating
is at 50. in his approval
rating is at 42% currently, Jeff

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Lisa, meanwhile, we know he's
been leading the nation for 4
years. He's also been leading

25:12.533 --> 25:15.666 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
his party. What are your
Democratic sources tell
you about this moment?

25:15.666 --> 25:20.066 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
I have been texting with a lot
of Democrats elected lawmakers
at the Capitol. I can't

25:20.066 --> 25:24.666 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
find one yet who was watching
this speech, and in fact, as we
talk now as he talks about the

25:24.666 --> 25:28.300 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
future of the country, what
are Democrats doing? A number
of them are at Democratic

25:28.300 --> 25:33.300 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
National Committee headquarters
for a forum for the candidates
who want to lead the party,

25:33.300 --> 25:37.300 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
so Biden is talking about
his legacy, but the party
is moving on to someone

25:37.300 --> 25:39.033 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
else.

25:39.033 --> 25:41.133 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
A lot of questions with
the party's future ahead
and as the president

25:41.133 --> 25:46.100 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
mentioned tonight concerns
that he has for the country's
future as well. Meanwhile,

25:48.200 --> 25:51.333 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
that concludes our special live
coverage of President Biden's
address. Our thanks to Lisa

25:53.400 --> 25:56.133 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
and Laura for their insights
tonight. Thanks to you for
joining us. I'm Amna Navaz and

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I'm Jeff Bennett. We'll
have much more on the news
hour tomorrow night. Right

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