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now. mr. speaker, madam vice president, members of the congress, my fellow americans, in january 1941, franklin roosevelt came into this chamber to speak to the nation. hed unprecedented history of the union. the war was raging in europe, prpose was to wake up congress and the working american people, but this was no ordinary time. freedom and democra were under underassault in the world. tonight, i come to the same chamber to address the nation. now i face unprecedented moments in the history of the union. and my purpose tonight is to wake up the congress and let■ te american people know that this is no ordinary moment. not since president lincoln and

of the civil war have freedom democracy been under assault at home as they are today. what makes it rare is freedom and democracy are under attack home and overseas at the very same time. overseas, putin and russia is on the march. ukraine, chaos in europe and beyond. if anybody in the room thinks putin will stop with ukraine, i ukraine can stop putin if we stand with ukraine and provide defend itself. [applause]

that is all ukraine is asking. they are not asking for american soldiers. in fact, there are no american soldiers in the war in ukraine, and i'm determined to keep it that way. [applause] but now,■m since ukraine, those want to walk away from the world leadership. it wasn't long ago when a republican president's name ronald reagan thundered mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. [applause] now, now my predecessor, a former republican president tells putin, quote, do whatever the hell you want. that's a quote. a former president actually said that, bowing down to a russian leader. i think it's outrageous,

dangerous and unacceptable. [applause] america is a founding member of nato. the military alliance, democratic nations created after world war ii to prevent war and keep the peace, andoday we've made nato stronger than ever, welcome to finland to the alliance last year. and just this morning, sweden officially joined, and their minister is here tonight. [applause] welcome. welcome, welcome, welcome. and they know how to fight. mr. prime minister, welcome to

nato, the stron world has ever seen. i say this to congress we have to stand up to putin. a bipartisan national security bill. history is watching. history is wch the united states walks away it will put ukraine at risk. europe is at risk, the free world at risk and bold and to do do us harm. my message is simple, we will not walk away. [applause] we will not bow down. i will not bow down. in a literal sense, history is

watching. just like history watched three years ago onst's stormed the capital. many of you here on that darkest of days. we all saw■6 with our own eyes e insurrectionist's were not patriots. they had come to stop lies about the 2020 election and the plot to steal the election posed the greatest threat to the u.s. democracy since the civil war. but they failed. [applause] amera stood strong and democracy prevailed. be defended.est, the threat to

my predecessor and some of you here's seek to bury the truth about january 6. i will not do that. this is a moment to speak the truth and to bury the lie is. here is the simple truth, you can't love your country only when you win. [applause] as i have done ever since being elected to office, i ask all of you without regard to party to join together and defend democracy. remember your oath of office is defending against all threats both foreign and domestic. [applause] respect free and fair elections, restore trust in our institutions and make clear political violence has no place

in america, zero place. [applause] again, it's not hyperbole. history watching. your children and grandchildren will read about this today and what we do. history is watching another assault on freedom. a social worker in birmingham alabama 14 months ago, she and hehu baby girl thanks to the miracle of ivf. she scheduled treatments to have a second child. the alabama supreme court shut down ivf treatments across the state unleashed by supreme court decision overturning roe v wade. she was told her dream would have to wait. what her family went through should never happen. unless congress acts, it could happen again. so tonight let's s u

courage to our friends across the aisle don't keep this waiting any longer. [applause] nationwide. [applause] like most americans, i believe roe v wade got it right. i think vice president harris for being a leade and so much more. [applause] thank you. my■j predecessor came to officeo see roe v wade overturned. he's the reason it's overturned and he brags about it. look athe chaos that has resulted. joining us tonight is kate cox a wife and mother from dallas.

regnant again and had a fetus with a fatal condition. her doctor told kate that her own life and ability to have future children were at risk if she didn't act because texas law banned her ability to act. kate and her husband had to leave the state to get what she needed. what her family gone through should have never happened as many others in the state laws banning the freedom to choose criminalizing doctors, forcing survivors of rape and incest to leave r they need. many of you in this chamber and my predecessor are promising to pan a national ban on reproductive freedom. my god, what else would you take away? the decision to overturn roe v wade and the supreme court majority wrote the following with all due respect, justices, women are not without electoralr

political power. you're about to realize -- [applause] those bragging about overturning roe v wade have no clue about the power of women, but they found out what reproductive freedom on the ballot and we will win again in 2024. [applause] if you and the american people send me to congress to force the right to choose, i promise you i will restore roe v wade as the

law of the land again. [applause] folks, america cannot go to shoi believe in the way forward, because i know how far we've come. four years ago next week, before i cameo was hit by the worst pandemic and worst economic crisis in a century. remember the fear, record losses, the spikes in crime and the murder rate, the raging virus that took more than 1 million american l ones, millions left behind? the mental health crisis of isolation and loneliness. a president, my presidential duty that he owes to the american people, the duty to care. i think that'sorgivable.

i came to office determined to get us through one of the toughest periods in the nation's the american people are writing the greatest comeback story never told. [applause] so let's tell the story here, tell it h and now. america's comeback is building the future of american possibilities, building an economy fromt not to the top down and investing in all of americans to make sure everyone has a fair shot, leaving behind. the pandemic no longer controls our lives. the vaccines that saved us from covid are now being used to beat cancer, turning a setback into a come back. that's what america does. that's what america does. [applause]

folks, the economy was on the brink and now the envy of the world. 15 million new jobs in just three years. a record, a record. [applause] unemployment at a 50 year low. record 16 million americans starting small businesses in each one is a little act of hope. with his slick job growth and small business growth for black and hispanics and asian americans, 800,000 new many 800n affecting jobs in america and counting. [applause] where is it written that we can't be the manufacturing we are, we will. [applause] more people have to have insurance today. or people have health insurance today than ever before.

the racial wealth gap is as small as it's been in 20 years. keep going up and inflation is coming down, from 9% to 3%, the lowest in the world. [applause] the landing is and will be soft. now instead of exporting american jobs, we are exporting american products and creating american jobs, right here in america where [applause] itakes time and the american people are beginning to feel it. consumer studies show confidence is by america has been the law of the land since the 1930s, passing out administrations including my predecessor, including some democrats as well in past failed to buy

american. not anymore. on my watch, federal projects that you fund like helping build highways will be made with american products and built by american workers. [applause] good paying american■> jobs. and thanks to the chips and science act, the united states is investing more research and development of an evee. during the pandemic the shortage of semi conductors, chips that drove up the price of everything, cell phones, automobiles -- and by the we invented those right here in america. instead of having to import them, private companies are now investing billions of dollars to build new chip factories here in america, creating tens of thousands of jobs. many of those jobs paying $100,000 a year and don't require a college degree.

[applause] policies have attracted $650 billion in private sector investment. clean energy, advanced manufacturing creating tens of thousands of jobs here in america. [applause] and tnk bipartisan infrastructure law, 46,000 new projects have been announced all across your communities. by the way, i noticed some of you strongly voted against it. i'm with you. if you don't want that money just let me know. [laughter]

roads and bridges, ports, the transit system removing so every child drink clean water without risk of brain damage. [applause]oviding affordable hid internet every american no matter where you live, urban, suburban, and red states and blue states, record investments in the tribal communities because of my investment in family farms read by my secretary of agriculture knows more than anything we are better to stay so our grandchildren don't have to leave to make a living. they a story is belvidere, illinois home to an auto plant for nearly 60 years. before i came plant was on its way to shutting

down. thousands of workers feared for their livelihoods. hope was fading and we raised repeatedly with auto companies knowing unions would make all the difference. uaw worked to keep thela open and get these jobs back and together we succeeded. instead of auto factoring shutting down, they are reopening in state and being built to power the cars. [applause] folks, instead of your town being left behind, the communities moving forward again because instead of watching all the jobs in the future go overseas, 4,000 union jobs with higher wages or building the future rig h

tonight, shawn, where are you? [applause] and a third generation burger, uaw worker belvidere, shawn proud to be the first president to stand in the picket line and today a good job in a hometown family and pride and dignity as well showing once again wall street didn't build america, the middle class built the country and the unions build the middle

class. i say to the american people when america gets knocked down, we get back up. we keep going. that's you, the ame people. it's because of you america is coming back into the future is brighter. it's because of you that tonight we can finally say the state of our union is strong and getting stronger. [applause] [chanting "four more years"] wae future of possibilities that we

can build together, a future where the days of trickle-dow0ln ■neconoms are over and the biggest corporations no longer get the tax breaks and i understand corporations. i come from a state wf you and everyone of your states in the united states combined. and i represent for 36 years. i'm notoration. i grew up in a home where trickle-down economics didn't put much on my dad's kitchen table. that's why am determined to put do things well. the poor and the wealthy still do well, we all do well and there's more to sure we are feeling the benefits of all we are doing. americans pay more for prescription drugs than anywhere in the world. wrong and i'm end. [applause]

the law that i propos and assign we finally beat big pharma. instead of paying $400 a month, with diabetes it only costs ten dollars to make they only get paid 35 a month and now still make a healthy profit. [applause] what to do next i want to cap■ the cost for every american who needs it.x0 everyone. for years people have talked about it but finally we got it done and gaveed power to negotiate lower prices on prescription drugs just like the va is able to do for veterans. that's not just money. it's saving taxpayers money. we cut the deficit by

$160 billion. medicare will no longer have to pay those prices to 0 big pharm. medicare's negotiated prices are some of the costliest drugs in the market to treat everything from heart disease and it's time to go further and give the power to negotiate the prices for 500 different drugs over the next decade. making a lot of money. and they wil s be extremely profitable and not only save lives but taxpayers and other $200 billion. starting next year the same prescription drug cost for seniors on medicare to $2,000 a year. the coast ten, 12, $15,000.

i want to cap the prescription drug costs that 2,000 for everyone. [applause] folks, i'm going to get in trouble for saying it but anyone want to get on air force one and fly berlin, moscow, excuse me, even moscow probably -- [laughter] and bring your prescription with you and i promise i will get it fo same company, same drug, same place. folks, the affordable carewi ac, the old obamacare is still a very big deal. [applause]■v over 100 million of you can no

longer be denied health insurance because of preconditions. my predecessor, many in the chamber want to take those prescription drugs away by repealing affordable care act. i'm not going to let that happen. we stopped you before and we will stop again. in fact i'm not only pteg but i'm expanding it. we enacted tax credits and self-care costs for millions of working familie credit expires t year. i want to make that savings permanent. [applause] to state the obvious, women are more than half the population. research of women's health has always been underfunded.

that's why we are launching the first ever white house initiative on the women's health research led by jill doing an incredible job. [applause] to transfer the research and benefit millions of lives all across america. i kw t!( cost of housing is so important to you. inflation keeps coming down, mortgages will come down as well, and the state acknowledges not waiting. i want to provide an annual tax credit that will give $400 a month for the next two years as mortgage rates come down to put towards their mortgage when they buy their first home or trade up for a little more space. [applause]

my administration is eliminating backed mortgages.n when you refinance your home, you can save $1,000 or more as a consequence. many cracking down on landlords who use antitrust laws by driving up rent we've cut red tape so builders can get federal financing which is already helping build a record 1.7 million housing units nationwide. now to renovate 2 million affordable homes and bring those down. [applause]

remaining the strongest economy in the world we need to have the best etiystem in the world. [applause] and i like all of you want to give every child a good start by providing access to preschool for three andrs-old. i think i pointed out lastrea lr children coming from broken homes where there's no books read to you often to start school, kindergarten or first grade having heard a few words spoken. studies show children that go50o finish high school, go on to her earn a two or four year degree

no matter what their background is. [applause] and a year and a half ago with of the leaders of the business roundtable they were madb8, ang, well, they were discussing why i wanted to spend money on education. i pointed out to them as vice president i met with over i think 182, i don't know the exact number, and i asked them what they need most and you've had the same experience, they say a better educated workforce. so id i come from delaware, it used to be the eighth largest corporation in the world. and every new enterprise■ú bought they educated the workforce to the enterprise. but none of you do that anymore.

why are you ary with■6 me providing you the opportunity to be the best educated workforce in the world and they looked at me and said i think you'reright. i want to expand high-quality tutoring to see that every child learns to read by third grade. [applause] i'm also connecting local businesses in high schools so students get hands-on experience and path to good paying jobs whether or not they go to college, and i want to make sure college is more affordable. let's continue increasing the pell grant to working and middle-class families and increase record investments and the minority serving institutions -- i was told i

couldn't universally just change the way you did that with student loans. i fixed to student loan programs that already existed to reduce the burden of student debt for nearly 4 million americans including nurses, firefighters and other public servants. [applause] like a public educator in minnesota who is here with us tonight. where are you? than you. he's educated hundreds of students so they can go to college. now he is able to help after debt forgiveness to get his own daughter college. [cheering] and folks, it's good for the economy because folks are able to buy a home, start a business, start a family. while we are at it, i want public school teachers to get a

raise. [applause] and by the way that the first couple years we cut the deficitn of fundamental fairness for all americans. i've been delivering real results and fiscally responsible ways. 'v federal deficit over a trillion dollars. i signed a trillion dollars. [applause] it's my goal to cut the federal deficit another 3 trillion by making big corporations finally begin to pay their fair share. [applause] look, i am a capitalist, you want to make millions and

millions of bucks, that's great, just pay your fair share in taxes. a fair tax code is how=f we make this country great. healthcare, education, so much more. but here's the deal, the last administration and activity to trillionol tax cut, overwhelmingly benefiting the top 1%. the very wealthy, the biggest corporations. it exploth federal deficit. they added more to the national debt than any presidential term in american history. check the numbers. folks at home, does anybody thinks the tax code is fair? do you think the wealthy and big corporations need another $2 trillion tax break? i sure don't. fighting like hell to make it fair. under my plan, nobody earning less than $400,000 a year will

pay an■ additional penny in taxes, nobody, not one penny. [applause] in fact, the tax credit cut taxes for millions of working families and cut the child poverty in half. [applause] restore that child tax credit. no child should go hungry in .. not anymore. thanks to the law i wrote and we signed big companies have to pay a minimum of 15%. but that is still less than working people pay in federal taxes.

it is time to raise corporate minimuax to at least 21%. [applause] every big corporation friendly against the pay their fair share. also want to end tax break for big pharma andve pay is only supposed to be a million dollars that can be deducted you can paint 28 million if they want but they deducted million. and it now. there 1000 billionaires in america. to the average federal tax is for those bs? making great sacrifices a point to percent. that's far less than the vast majority no billionaire should pay a lower federal tax rate than a teacher, sanitation worker, or

[applause] i propose minimum of 25%, just 25% and with that would raise? that would raise a $500 billion of the next 10 years. imagine what that could do. imagine the future with affordable childcare. munson families need to go to work to help grow theco no one checks just keep working and taking care of our sick family member. imagine homecare and eldercare. people living with disabilities they can stay in their homes finally get the fate they pay te tonight let's agree once again to stand up for seniors. [applause] many of my friends on the other side i want to put social security on the chopping block.

social security, medicare raise the retirement age i will stop you. [applause] the working people who built this country pay more in a social security than millionaires and billionaires do have two ways to go the republicans can cut social security get more tax breaks to the wealthy, that is the another to truly know tax cut? i kind of thought that is what your plan was. s good to hear. do not going to cut another $2 trillion is good to hear. i will protect incentive social security make the wealthy pay s. look, too many corporations

raise prices to pad the prophets, charging more and more for less and less. cracking down corporations food, to healthcare, to housing. in fact the snack companies think you won't notice if they change the size of fewer -- samg put fewer chips in it. i am not jokin pass the bill and stop this. i really mean it. you probably also the commercial on snickers bars you get charge

of the same amount you've got about 10% fewer snickers in it. look, i'm also getting rid of junk fees. those hidden fees at the end of the belt that are there without your knowledge. my administration announcer cutting credit card late fees $8. [applause] art credit card company allows to charge at what cost them to instigate the collection. and that's more like $8.37. they don't like it, the credit card companies don't like it but i'm saving the american families $20 billion a year with all the junk feeds on quick to eliminate. folks at home, that's where the banks are so mad $20 billion in profits i am noting there.

my administration will propose rules to make cable, travel, utilities and online ticket sellers tied the total price upfrono surprises. it matters. it matters. and so does this. in november might team began serious negotiation of the bipartisan group of senators. the result was a bipartisan bill with the top facet of border security reforms we have ever seen. you don't think s you don't like that bill? conservatives got together and said was a good bill. amazing. bipartisan 1005 or more security agents and officers. one hundred more immigration judges help tackle the 'of 2 million cases, more asylum months instead of six years now.

but you get one more high-tech drug detection machines. to do smuggling functional into america that is killing thousands of children. that saves lives and were working at the border. it will also give me an any new president new emergency authority temporally shutdown the border on a number of migrants at the borders overwhelming. the border patrol unit endorse this bill. the federal chamber of commerce yes, yes you say no, look at the facts. i know that you know how to read.

i believe given the opportunity for majority in the house and senate, would endorse the bill as well majority right now but unfortunately politics has derailed this bill so far. i am told my predecessor called members of congress from the senate demand they block the bill. about him, it's not about me. i would be a winner, not really. [inaudible] lake and riley an innocent young woman who was killed by an illegal that is many thousands of people being killed by illegals to her parents i say my heart goes out to having lost

ch i understand. but look, if we change the dynamic at the border people pay smug border they know if they get by and let into the country to six -- eight years before they have a hearing. it's worth taking the chance. but, butnly six months six weeks the idea is it's highly unlikely people pay that money and come all that weight knowing they will be kicked out quickly. folks, i will respectfully get this bill done. we need to act now.

[inaudible] and if my predecessor is watching instead of playing of politi and pur members of congress to block the bill, joint me and telling congress to pass it. we can do it together butf that apparently is what he will not do. i will not demonize immigrants sink their poisoning the blood of our country. i will not separate families. i not ban people because of their faith unlike my predecessor my first and offered light introduce the bill to fix immigration and said take a look at it h and more. secure the border, provide a pathway to citizenship for dreamers and so much more. but unlike my predecessor i know who we are as americans we are the only nation in the world with the heart and soul that

draws from old and new. home to native americans and access who have been here for thousands of years. home two people from every place on earth that came freely. some came in chains. some came when famine struck my ancestral family in ireland. some to flee persecution, to chase dreams that are impossible anywhere but here in america. that's americans are but we are all americans. look folks, it's a simple choice we can fight without fixing the border or we can fix it. [applause] i am ready to fix it. send me the border bill now.

this is a motion in history happen 59 years ago todayn selma, alabama. hundreds of foot soldiers for justice marched across the bridge named after the grand dragon of the ku klux klan to claim their fundamental right to vote. they were beaten, they were bloodied, and left for dead late friend and former colleague john lewis was on that march. march. weakness him. [applause]■a [applause] joining us tonight are other marchers in the galley and on the floor including b may known as the voice of selma the daughter of gospel singers and a preacher she sang songs of prayer and approach us on that

bloodied sunday to help shake the nation's conscience. five months later the voting rights act■j passed and was sigd into law. [applause] hank you, thank you. [applause] [applause] fifty-nine years later taking us back in time. voter suppression, left election subversion dark money extreme gerrymandering, john lewis is a great friend to many of us here you truly want to honor him and all those who marched with him it's time to do more than talk. past the freedom to vote act mo.

[applause] and stop, stop denying the core lu diversity cost american life banning books is wrong. instead, make history want to protect fundamental rights. pass the equality act. have i mentioned, i have your back. passed thect right. [applause] [cheering] raise the federal minimum wage because workers have a right to a decent living more than seven bucks an hour. also making by confronting the

limit crisis not by denying it i don't think any of you think there is no longer a climate crisis. at least i hope you don't. i'm taking the most significant action ever employment in the history of the world. i am cutting our carbon emissions in grading tens of thousands of clean energy jobs like workers building 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations. conserving 30% of america's land and water by taking action on environmental pollution.othered the legacy of patterned after the peace corps in the americorps, launch the climate cord to put 20000 young people to work in the forefront of our clean energy future. i will triple that number in a decade.

[applause] obvious, all americans deserve the freedom to be safe in america safer today w i took office murder rates were up 30% they went up. the biggest increase in history. it was then through my american rescue plan which every american voted against a might have made the largest investment of public safety ever. last of the murder rates all this decrease in history of violent crime fell toward the lowest levels in more than 50 years. but we have more to do to help cities invest in more community police officers, more mental health workers. more. [inaudible] crackdown on drug crime, retail

crime and carjacking. keep building trust or been doing b action on police reform, calling for it to be the law of the land. my cabinet to review the classification of marijuana expensing thousands of convictions for the mere possession because no one should be jailed for simply using or having it on the take on crimes of domestic violence. i'm ramping uphe violence against women's act i probably wrote when i was a senator. so it can finally, finally end inthe scourge against women in america.d of violence that i want to stop. with this tonight is jasmine 9-year-old sister jackie was murdered 21 classmates and

teachers in elementary school in texas. very soon after that happened jill and i went for a couple of days. we spent hours and hours with each of the families we heard their message so everyone in this room in this chamber could hear the same the constant refrain for every family they said do something. do. well, i did do something by severson first ever office of gun violence prevention in the white housek you. meanwhile. [cheering] meanwhile my predecessor told the nra he is proud he did nothing on guns when he was president.

after another shooting in iowa recently he said, when asked what to do about it he said just there is his quote, just get over it. i say stop it. stop it, stop it, stop i i am proud repeat then the gun d nearly 30 years to come to this congress. went out must beat the nra again. i am demanding an assault weapons and high-capacity. past universal background checks. none of this, none of this i taught the second map for 12 years none of this violates the second amendment or abilify's responsible gun owners. you know as managing child at or managing crisis abroad including the middle east.

i note the last five months have been gut wrenching for so many the palestinian people, and som many here in america. this crisis began on october 7 at mass secured by trorist groupalled hamas as you all know. 1200 innocent people women and girls, men and boys slaughtered after enduring sexual violence for the deadliest day for the jewish people since the holocaust. 250 hostages taken. here in this chamber tonight our families whose loved ones are still being held byi pledge to s will not rest until we bring every one of your loved ones home.

we also worked around-the-clock to bring calm evan and paul americans been unjustly detained by the russians and others around the world. her mouth entered this conflict by releasing hostages, link down arms could end it by releasing the hostages, link down arms and surrendering those responsible for october 7. israel an added burden as is a most hides and operates in the civilian population like cowards under daycare centers and all the like. also the fundamental responsibility though to protect innocent civilians in gaza. [applause]

this war has taken a greater toll on any siblings and all inl previous wars in gaza. further 30,000 palestinians have been killed most of whom are not hamas. thousands and thousands of innocent children roman envoys orphaned nearly 2 million under bombardment or displacent. neighbors and rubble cities in ruin without food, water, medicine it is heartbreaking.ngo establish an immediate cease-fire that will last for six weeks to get the prisoners released all the hostages released. to get the hostages home and the humanitarian crisis and build toward an enduring, something more enduring. united states is a leading leadg international skidmore humanitarian assistance to gaza. tonight i am directing a mission

to establish a temporary pier in the mediterranean on the coast of gaza we can receive large shipments now yes boot will be on the ground that one massive increase demanding he mentoring assistance with god's every day] israel must do its part is must allow a short humanitarian work workers not caught in the crossfire. whenever crossing into northern gaza the leaders of israel i say this, humanitarian assistant cannot be a second consideration or a bargaining chip protecting and saving innocent lives has to be a priority. as you look to the future, the only real solution to the situation is a two state

solution. [applause] and i say this. as a of israel, my entire career no one has a stronger record in israel than i do i challenge any of you but i'm the only americany president to visit israel and wartime. there is no other path that guarantees the security and democracy. live with peace and dignity. there is no other path that guarantees peace between israel and all of its neighbors including saudi arabia with whom i'm talking. trying to build the middle east means containing the threat posed by a coalition of more than a dozen countries to help defend international shipping in the red sea. abort strikes to degrade that capability defend u.s. forces in

the region. as commander-in-chief i will not hesitate to drop further mothers to protect our people in the military personnel. four years i've heard republican and democratic friends say china is on the rise. and america is falling behind. you've got it backwards. i'veeen saying it for over four years even when i wasn't president. america is rising. the best economy in the world. since i have to our trade deficit to china is down to lowest point in over a decade. we are standing up againunfair c practices. across the taiwan straits india,

australia, japan, south korea cannot be used in china. frankly, for all the tough talk on china never occurred to my predecessor to do any of that. i want competition with i'm a strongerposition to in that cont against china than any one else5 for that matter than any time as well. here at home i signed over bipartisan bills there is more past my unity agenda. unconventional traffic and you u don't want to do past bipartisan to protect her harness the promise of ai to protect.

then voice impersonations and more keep our truly sacred obligation should train and equip those we sent into harm's way care fnd their families when they come home and when they don't. [applause] that is why the strong support and health i sign the pact act. it is one of the most significant laws ever. millions of veterans and toxins. one hundred different cases. many of them do not come home. but we owe the support. we owe it to ourselves to keep supporting our new health research agency. and rind us that we can do big

things like and cancer as we know it. and we will. let me close with this. i know you don't hear anymore but i got a few say a few more things. i know it may not look like it but i have been around for a while. when you got to be my age certain things become clearer than ever. i know the american story. again and again it's in the is e battle for the soul of our nation. between those who want to pull america back to the past and those who want to may move america to the future. my lifetime has taught me too embrace freedom and democracy future based on core values that

define america honesty, decency, dignity, equality. to respect everyone to give everyone a fair shot no safe harbor. a lot of people my age see it the american story of resentment and revenge and retribution, that is not me. i was born amid world war when america stood for the freedom of the world. our group in scranton, pennsylvania about working-class people who built thisjc country. i watched in horror as two of my heroes like many of you did doctor king were assassinated.ée the legacy inspired me too pursue a career in service. i left a law firm and became a public defender because my city, bloomington was only city in america occupied by the national guard after doctor king was

assassinated due to the riots i became a county councilman almost by accident. i had elected to the right state senate when i'd no intention of running at age 29. then vice president first black president now president for the first women. [inaudible] [cheering] in my i was too young. [laughter] by the way they did not let me on the senate elevator to vote , joke. i've been told i am too old. where that young or old i have always been known i've always known what endures i have known our northstar.

the very idea of americans were all created equal. equally throughout our lives. with never fully lived up to that idea we have never walked away from either. and i won't walk away from it now. i am optimistic. i am optimisti. my fellow americans, and issues facing our nation is and how old we are it's how old our ideas. anger, revenge, retribution or the oldest of ideas but you ncient ideas it will only take us back. you need that land of possibilities. need a vision for the future and what can and6á■m should be done. [applause] did not you have heard mine.

i see a future where defendant democracy you don't diminish it. i see a future will restore the right to choose and protect our freedom not take them away. [cheering] i see a future where the middlef class4v has a fair shot and wealthy have to pay their fair share in taxes. i see a future where we save the planet from the climate crisis and our country from gun violence. above all, i see a future for all americans. i see a country for all americans2#fbe■ i will always be president for all americans because i believe in america. i believe in you, the american ope never been more optimistic about our future than i am now. so let's build the future

together let's remember who we are, we are the united states of america. and there is nothing, nothing beyond our capacity when we acted together. god bless you all and may god protect our troops. thank you thank y, you. [cheering] [cheering] [applause] [cheering] [applause] [cheering] [applause]

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