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Understanding 9/11tv President Biden Delivers 2024 State of the Union Address CSPAN March 8, 2024 3:10am-4:48am EST
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[gavel banging] >> >> mr. speaker, the president of the united states. [cheers and applause]
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pres. biden: thank you. ■t■4■[gavel banging] pres. biden: good evening. if i were smart, i would gme now. [laughter] speaker, madam vice president, members of congress, my fellow americans.
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in january, 19 41, franklin roosevelt came to this chamber to speak to the nation and he i address you at a moment unprecedented in the history of the union. war was raging in europe. t roosevelt's purpose was to wake up congress and alert the american people that this was no ordinary time. freedom and democracy were under assault in the world. tonight, i come to this same chamber. now we who face an unprecedented moment in the history of the union. yet my purpose tonight is to wake up the american people that this is no ordinary moment, either. not since president lincoln and the civil war has freedom and democracy been under assault as it is today.
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freedom of democracy is under attack both at home and overseas at the same time. overseas, putin and russia is on the march, invading ukraine and sewing chaos throughout europe and beyond. if anyone thinks vladimir putin will stop at ukraineassure you he will not. [applause] but ukraine can stop putin. ukraine can stop putin, if we stand with ukraine and provide the weapons that it needs to defend itself. [applause] that is all ukraine is asking. they are not asking for american soldiers.
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in fact, there apa no american soldiers in the war in ukraine and i am determined to keep it that way. but now, is being blocked by those who want to walk away from our world leadership. it wasn't long ago when republican president ronald reagan thundered, "mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall." now my predecessor, a former republican president, tells putin "do whatever the hell you want." quote. a former president actually said that, bowing down to a russian leader. i think it's outrageous, dangerous, and it's unacceptable. [applause]
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america is a founding member of nato. mi alliance of democratic nations created after world war ii to prevent war and keep the peace. and, we have made nato stronger than ever. we welcome finland to the alliance last year. and just this morning, sweden officially joined, and their minister is here tonight. stand up. [applause] pres. biden: welcome, welcome, welcome. ■÷and they know how to fight. mr. prime minister, welcome to nato, the strongest milita seen. i say this to congress, we have to stand up to putin.
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send me a bipartisan national security bill. history is literally watching. the united states walks away, it will put ukraine at risk. europe is at risk. the free world will be at risk, emboldening others to do us harm. my message to president putin is simple. we will not walk away. [cheers and applause] we will not bow down. i will not b din a literal sensy is watching. just like history watched three years ago on january an
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insurrection stormed this very capitol and threatened democracy. many of you were here on that darkest of days. we all saw with our own eyes that the insurrectionist were not patriots. they came to stop the peaceful transfer of power and overturn the will of the people. january 6 lies about the 2020 election and the plot to steal the election posed threat to u.s., democracy the greatest since the civil war, but they failed. [applause] amic strong and democracy prevailed. let's be honest, the threat to democracy must be defended. my predecessor and some of you here seek to bury the truth about january 6. i will not do that.
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this is a moment to speak the truth and bury the lies. here's the simple truth. you can't love your country only when you win. [cheers and 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 the also for office and defend against all threats foreign and domestic. respect free and fair elections. restore trust in our institutions and make clear political vice place. [applause]
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again, it is not hyperbole. history is watching. your children and grandchildren will read about this day and what we do. history is watchult on freedom. joining us tonight is a social worker from birmingham, alabama. 14 months ago she and her husband a baby girl thanks to the miracle of ivf. she is scheduled a treatment to have a second child. the alabama supreme court shut down the treatment across the state unleashed by the supreme court decision to overturn roe v. wade. she was wait. her family would not have happened unless congress acts. so tonight, let's stand up for■ families like her. to my friends across the aisle, don't keep this waiting any longer. guarantee the right to ivf. guarantee it nationwide.
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[cheers and applause] pres. biden: like most americans, i believe roe v. wade got it right. i think vice president harris for being an incredible leader defending reproductive freedom and so much more. [applause] thank you. my predecessor was determined to see roe v. wade overturned. and he brags about it. look at the chaos. that has resulted. joining us tonight is kate cox, the wife and mother from dallas. she has become pregnant again and had a fetus with a fatal condition. her doctor told kate that her own life andli have children in the future were at
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risk if she did not act. texas law banned her ability to act so kate and her husband had to leave the state to get what she needed. what her family went through should never have happened but it's happening with too many others. the state law criminalizing doctors, forcing survivors of rape leave their state to get treatment they need. many of you in this chamber and my predecessor havss a ban on re freedom. my god, what freedom else would you take away? the decision to overturnwade, te the following, and with all due respect, justices, women are not without electoral power -- electoral or political power. [cheers and
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■lclearly, clearly those braggig about overturning roe v. wade have no clue about the power of women, but theynd out when reproductive freedom was on the ballot. we won in 2022 and we will win again in 2024. [applause] if you the american people send me an congress the support, i promise you, i will restore roe v. wade as the law of the land again.
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folks, america cannot go back. show what i believe is the way forward. i know how far we've come. four years ago next week before i came to office, the country was hit by the worst pandemic and worst economic crisis in a century. rememb the fear, record losses, spikes in crime and murder rate, raging virus that took more than one million american lives, the loved ones that many left behind. the mental health crisis and isolation and loneliness. my prece failed the most basic presidential duty he owes to the american people, the duty to care. i think that's unforgivable. i came to■; office determined to get us through one of the toughest periods in the nation's history. we have. it doesn't make news, but in
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1000 cities and towns, the american people are readying the greatest comeback never told. [applause] let's tell the story here. tell it here and now. america's comeback is building the future of american possibilities, building the econom from the middle out and bottom up, not the top down. investing in all americans to make sure everyone has a fair shot. we leave no one behind. the pandemic no longer controls our lives. the vaccine that saved us from cod is now being used to beat cancer, turning setbacks into comebacks. that's what america does. [applause] folks, when i inherited the
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economy, it was on the brink. now it is 15 million jobs in just three years, a record. a record. [applause] unemployment at 50 year lows. a record 16 million americans starting small businesses and each one is a little act of with historic job growth and small business growth for blacks, hispanics, and asian americans, 800 thousand new manufacturing jobs in america, and counting. we can be the manufacturing capital of the world. more people have health insurance today than ever before. the racial wealth gap is as small as it has been in 20 years. wages go up and inflation is dropping. it has dropped from 9% to 3%,
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the lowest in the world, and tending lower. now instead of importing and exn jobs, we are importing american lr■o products -- exporting amern products and creating american jobs. time but the american people are beginning to feel it. consumer studies show consumer confidence is soaring. by america has been the law of the land since the 1930's. the tax administration including my predecessors, and including some democrats in the past, failed to buy american. not anymore. on my watch, federal projects that you fund by helping build american roads, bridges, and
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products will be made with american products a built by american workers. paying good paying american jobs. [applause] and thanks to our trips and science act, the united states is investing more research and development than ever before. there's -- there was a shortage of cell phones and ships that drovethe prices. by the way, we invented those chips in america. instead of importing them, private companies are investing billions of dollars to build new chip factories here in america creating tens of thousands of jobs, many paying $100,000 a year and don't require a college degree. [applause] in fact, my policies have
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attracted 650 billion dollars in private sector investment, clean energy, advanced manufacturing, creating tens of thousands of jobs here in america. thanks law, 46 thousand new projects have been announced across all communities. by the wayyou who strongly votet it are there cheering on. [applause] i'm with you. if any of you don't want that money in your district, just let me know. [laughter] roads and bridges, ports and airports, public transit, removing poisonous lead pipes n water without risk of brain
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damage. [applause] providing affordable high-speed internet for every american no matter where you live, urban, suburban, rural communities in red states and blue states. record investments in tribal communities. because of my investment and family farms, read by my secretary of agriculture who s this better than anyone i know, we are better able to stay in the family because at small farms, children and grandchildren don't have to the great comeback story is belvidere, illinois, home to an auto plant for nearly 60 years. before i came to office, the plant was on its way to shutting down. thousands of workers feared for their livelihoods. hope was fading. cted office and we raised the belvidere repeatedly
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with autoworkers knowing unions would make the difference. the uaw worked like hell to keep the plant open and get jobs back , and together we succeeded. instead of all the factories shutting down, all the factories state-of-the-art factories being built. [applause] the belvidere, i say instead of your town being left behind, your community is moving forward again because instead of watching auto jobs of theure go overseas, 4000 union jobs with higher wages are building the future in belvidere right here in america. tonight, the uaw president, a
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great friend and great labor leader. ■ñwhere are you? stand up. [applause] and dawn sims, a third generation uaw worker at , proud to be the first president standing at the picket line. today, don has a good job providing stability for the family. showing once again, wall street did not build america. they are not bad guys, but they did not build it. the middle class built the country and unions built the middle class. [cheers and applause] people, when america gets knocked down,
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we get back up. we keep goin's america. it's because of you america is coming back. it is because of you our future is brightest. it is because of you that tonight, we can proudly say the state of our union is strong and getting stronger. >>[chanting] four more years! pres. biden: tonight, i want to talk about the future of possibilities we can build together, a future where the days of trickle-down economics are over and the wealthy and big
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corporations no longer get tax breaks. i come from state that has more corporations invested in the state than the other states combined. i'm not anti-corporation, but i grew up in a home where trickle-down economics did not put much on my dad's kitchen table. that's why i'm■% determined to turn things around so the middle class does well. when they do well, the poor and the wealthy still do well. pxthere's more we can do to make sure you are feeling the benefits. . americans are paying more for prescription drugs than anywhere else in the world. it's wrong and i am ending it. [laughter] there's a lot that i proposed and signed, not one of you republican buddies voted for it.
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we finally beat big pharma. ■instead of paying $400 a month for insulin, it only costs $10 to make, and they can only get paid $35 now and still make a healthy profit. i want to cap cost of insulin to $35 for everyone. [applause] for years, people have talked finallyi÷ we got it done and gave medicaid the power to lower the cost of prescription drugs just like the v.a. is able to do for veterans. saving seniors money, it is saving taxpayers money. we cut the federal deficit by $160 billion. because medicare will no longer
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have to pay those prices to big pharma. this year medicare is negotiating prices for some of the costliest drmarket to treatm heart disease to arthritis. we will for 500 different drugs over the next decade. [applause] and they will still be extremely profitable. it will not only save lives, it will save taxpayers another $200 billion. starting next year, the same all caps total prescription drug costs for seniors on medicare to $2000 a year. even expensive cancer drugs that cost $10,000, 15 thousand dollars, i want to cap it at $2000 a year for everyone. [applause]
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i'm going to get in trouble for saying it, but in toronto, berlin, moscow -- i'm sorry, but owyou can get it for 40% of what you pay now. same company, same drug. folks,hee care act, the obamacare, is still a very big deal. [applause] yjover 100 million of you can no longer be denied health insurance because of a pre-existing condition. but my predecessor and many in this chamber want to take
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prescription drugs away by repealing the affordable care act. i'm not going to let that happen. [cheers and applause] we stopped at 50 times before and we will stop you again. in fact, i'm not only protecting it, i'm exinwe enact a tax cred0 per person per year, we can redugu h families. that tax credit expires next year. i want to make that savings permanent. [applause] to state thehalf our population. women's health has always been underfunded. . that's why we are launching the first ever white house initiative on women's research, led by jill, doing an incredible job as first lady.
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[applause] we passed my plan -- if passed, my plan will benefit millions of lives across america. i know the cost of housing is important to you. inflation keeps coming down, mortgage rates will come down as ges that, but i'm not waiting. i want to provide an annual tax credit to give americans $400 a mortgage rates come down to put toward their mortgages when they buy their first home or trade up for a little more space. applause. ] pres. biden: and my administration is also
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eliminating title insurance on federally backed mortgages. when you refinance your home, you can save $1000 or more as a for millions of renters, we are cracking down on big landlords who break antitrust laws by price-fixing and driving up rents. we cut red tape so builders canm financing which is helping build a record 1.7 million new housing units nationwide. [applause] i will pass and build and renovateon affordable homes and bring those rates down. xr[applause]
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to remain the strongest economy in the world, we need to have the best education system in the world. and i, like i suspect all of you, want to give every child a good start by providing access to preschool for three and four years old. i think i pointed out last year that children coming from broken homes where there is no books and they are not read to or spoken to very often start school, kindergarten or first grade having heard one million or fewer words spoken. studies go that children who go to preschool are nearly 50% more likely to finish high school and go on to earn a two-year or four-year degree no mte their background is. [applause]
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and that year and a half ago with the leaders of the business roundtable, they were madwell, . [laughter] why i wanted to spend money on education. i pointed out to them, as vice esident, i met with i think 182 of those folks. don't hold me to the exact number. i asked what they need most, the ceos. you've had the same experience on both sides of the aisle. they say a better educated workforce. so i come from delaware, dupont used to be the eighth largest corporation in the world and every new enterprise they bought, the educator the workforce. but none of you do that anymore. why are[n you angry with me providing you the opportunity for the best educated workforce in the world? they look at me and said, i think you're right.
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i want to expand high quality tutoring and summer learning to ensure every child learns to adthird grade. [applause] i'm also connecting local businesses and high schools so students get hands-on experience and a path to paying -- good paying jobs whether or not they go to college. i want to make sure college is more affordable. let's continue increasing pell grants to working and middle-class families and increase investmt minority serving institutions. [applause] i was told i way you dealt with student loans. i fixed two student loan programs that already existed to
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reduce the burden of student americans including nurses, firefighters, andthers in public service. like keenan jones, a public educator in minnesota who is here tonight. he's educating hundreds of students so they can go to college. now he's able to help after debt forgiveness to get his own daughter to college. [applause] it's good for the economy because folks are now able to buy a home, start a business, start a family. and while we are at it, i want to give public school teachers a raise. [cheers and applause] ■kby the way, the first coue
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years, we cut the deficit. now let me speak to the question of fundamental fairness for all americans. we already cut the federal deficit over $1 trillion. i signed a bipartisan deal to cut another trillion dollars in the next decade. it is my goal to cut the federal draft -- deficit another trillion dollars by getting big corporations to finally pay their fair share. [cheers and applause] look, i'm a capitalist. bucks, that's great. just pay your fair share in taxes. affaire taxngs to make this
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country get -- great. here's the deal. the last administration enacted a $2 trillion tax cut overwhelmingly benefiting the top 1%, the very wealthy and biggest corporations exploded the federal deficit. they added more history. check the numbers. folks at home, does anybody really think the tax code is fair? do the wealthy need another $2 sure don't. i'm going to keep trying to make it■- my plan, nobody will pay any additional in taxes. nobody, not one, and they
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haven't yet. [applause] in fact, the child tax cut that i passed during the pandemic cut taxes for millions of working families and cut child poverty in half. restore that child tax credit. no child should go hungry in this country. the way to make the tax code fair is to make big corporations and the wealthy begin to make their fair share. 55 of th■lc3 biggest companies n america made $40 billion and paid zero in taxes. zero. anymore. thanks to the bill i signed, big companies have to pay a minimum of 50% but that's still less than working americans have to pay in taxes. it's timeo make it 21% so
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every big corporation finally begins to pay their tax want tar alliance and others. they can but deduct a million. end it now. there are 1,000 billionaires in america. you know what the average federal for those billionaires? no, they're making great 8.2%, far less that be the vast majority of americans pay. no billionaire should may pay a lower tax rate than a teacher, sanitation worker or a nurse. [applause] i propose a minimum tax for billionaires of 25%. just 25%. you know what they would raise? that would raise $500 billion
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over the next 10 years and imagine what that could do forñ america. imagine a future with affordable child care, millions of families can get what they need to go to imagine a future with paid leave because no one should have to choose between working and taking care of their sick family member. agine the future of home care and elder care and people living with disabilities so they can stay in their homes and family caregivers can finally get the pay they deserve. tonight, let's all agree once again to stand up for s [applause] many of my friends on the other side of the aisle want to put social security on the chopping block. if anyone here trials to cut social security or medicare or raise the retirement age, i will stop you. [applause]
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the working people -- the working people who built into sl kurt nan millionaires and billionaires do. it's not fair. we have two ways to go. republicans can cut social security and give more tax breaks to the wealthy -- that's the proposal. oh, no, you guys don't want another $2 trillion tax cut. i kind of thought that's what your plan was. well, that's good to hear. you're not going to cut another $2 trillion for the super wealthy, that's good to hear. our protected social security will make the health oh wealthy pay their fair share. [applause] look -- too many corporations raise prices to pad their profits, charging more and more
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for less and less. that's our cracking diana on corporations engaged on price gouging and deceptive prices from food to health care to housing. in fact, the snack companies think you won't notice if they change the seithe bag and put a hell of a lot fewer -- same sites bag, put fewer chips in it. it's called string-flation. pass bicycle casey's bill and st tly mean it. [applause] you probably all saw that commercial on snickers bars. you get charged the same amount and you have, i don't know, about 10% fewer snickers in it. i'm also ge getting rid of
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junk fees. those hidden fees at the end of the bill that your knowledge. we're cutting social security fees from 20 dollars to $8. credit card companies allowed to charge what it costs them to instigate the collection and that's a lot like $8 nan 30 something dollars. credit card companies don't like it but i'm saving american families $20 billion something a year with all eliminating. [applause] folks at home, that's why the banks are so mad is $20 billion in profit. i'm not there. my administration proposes rules to make cable, online ticket sellers to tell you the
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price up front so there are no surprises. matters, and so does. in november, my team began serious negotiations with a bipartisan group of senators. the result was a bipartisan bill with the toughers set of border reforms we've ever seen. oh, you don't think so? oh, you don't like that bill, huh? that conservatives got together and, was a good be darnelled, ts amazing. that bipartisan would hire 1,500 machine security agents and officers. 100 more immigration officers help tackle the backlog. new policies so theyses in six f six years now. [applause] what do you get?
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100 more high-tech drug detection machines to stop vehicles smuggling fentanyl into america that's killing thousands of children. this bill would save lives and bring order to the border. it would also give me and■ any new president new emergency north to temporarily shut down the border when the number of migrants at the border is overwhelming. the board every patrol has endorsed this bill. yeah, yeah. you're at the facts. [applause] i know you know how to read. [applause] i believe that give the opportunity for a majority in the house and senate would endorse the bill as. a majority right now but
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unfortunately politics has derailed this bill so far. i'm told my predecessor of conge senate to demand they block the bill. he feels it would be a political n a political loser for him. it's not about him, it's not about me. i'd be a winner,- lincoln riley, an innocent young woman who was killed bian -- laken riley, an innocent young woman who was killed bian illegal, that's out to you. having lost children myself, i understand but look, if we exchange the dynamic at the border. people pay these smugglers
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$8,000 to get across the border because they know if they get by and let into the country, it's six to eight years before they have a hearing and it's worth taking the chance at the $8,000 but -- but, it's only six weeks, the idea is it's highly unlikely that people will pay that money and come all that way knowing that they'll be able to get kicked out quickly. folks, i would respe suggest my republican friends owe it to the american people, get this bill done. we need to act now. [audience chanting] and to my predecessors watching, instead of playing politics and pressuring members of congress
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to block the bill, join me in telling the congress to pass it. we can do it together apparently -- i will not demonize immigrants saying they are poison in the blood of our country. [applause] i will not separate families. i will not ban people because of their faith. unlike my predecessor on any first day in office i introduced a extensive bill. secure the border. provide a pathway for dreamers and so unlike my predecessor, i know who we are as americans. we're the only nation in the world with the heart and sou dr. home to native americans and ancestors that have been here for thousands of years. home to place on earth. they came freely.
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some came in chains. some came when if a mini struck like my ancestral home in ire land. some to chase persecution. some to chase dreams. that's america. and we all come from somewhere but we're all americans. [applause] >> look, folks, it's a simple fe border or we can fix it. [applause] i'm ready to fix it. send me the border bill now. [rhythmic applause] >> a transformational moment in history happened 58, 59 years ago today in selma, alabama.
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[applause] thank you. thank you, thank you, thank you. but 59 years later, there are forces taking us back in. voter suppression. unlimited -- john lewis is a friend to all of us here but if you truly want to march with him, it's time to do more than talk. pass the freedom to vote act. the john lewis voting right act. [applause]
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and stop -- stop denying another core value of■+ america. our diversity across american life. banning books, it's wrong. instead of erasing make history. protect fundamental rights, pass the equalityct. have i mentioned the transgender americans? i have your back. [applause] pass for workers' rights. raise the federal minimum wage because ev to a decent living more than seven bucks an hour. we're alsoaking history bill confronting the climate crisis, not denying it. i don't think any of you think there's no longer climate crisis. at least i hope you don't. i'm taking the most significant
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action on our climate in the history of the world. i'm cutting our carbon emiss has of thousands of clean energy jobs by the ibw workers creating 500,000 electricity vehicles. conserving 30% of a land and waters by 2030. and taking action on environmental justice, fence line communities smoer of pollud patterned after the peace corps and america corps, i launch the young people to work in the forefront of our clean energy future. i'll triple that number in a [applause] to state the obvious -- all americans deserve the freedom to
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be safe and america is safer today than when i took offers. the year before i took office, murder rates were up 30%. 30% they went up. the biggest increase in history. it was then through my american rescue which every america voter voted against, we made the largest investment in public safety ever. last year the murder rate saw the biggest decri i history. the murder rate fell to more than 50%. but we have more to do. mo health -- mental health workers. funds to cut down on retail crime and carjacking. taking executive action for police reform and calling for it
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to be the law of the land. my cw the federal classification of marijuana bauled for simply usir have it on their record. take on crimes of domestic violence. and ramping up the federal enforcement of the violence against women act that i proudly wrote when i was a start so it can finally, finally end the scourge against women in america. [applause] there are other kinds of violence i want to stop. jasmine, whose jackie was murdered with 21 classmates and teachers in elementary school in uvalde, texas. very soon after that happened, jill and ill we believe the to uvalde for a couple of days. by spent hours and how's with
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each of the families. so everyone in this room and this chamber could hear their men. the constant something. do something. i did do something by establishing the first ever office of gun violence prevention in the white house. and the vice president is leading the charge. thank you for doing it. [applause] meanwhile, meanwhile, my predecessor told the n.r.a. he's proud he did nothing on guns en he was president. ooh. after another shooting in iowa recently, he said when asked what to do about it, he said just get it. that was his quote, just get over it. i say stop it!
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stop it, stop it, stop it. [applause] i'm proud we beat when i signed the most significant gun safety law in nearly 30 years because of this congress. we now must beat the n.lr.a. again. i'm demanding a ban of assault weapons and high-capacity vast universal background checks. none of this, none of this -- i taught the second amendment for 1 years. none of this violates the second amendment orvilleifyings responsible gun owners. you know,■q as we manage -- at home we're also managing crisis abroad, including the middle east. i know the last five months abroad have been gut wrestling for so many people. for the lincoln and israeli
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people and so many here in america. this beg on october when the massacre group called hamas, 1,000 innocent and women, girls and boys, slaughtered after suffering sexual vibes. the deadliest day for the jewer people since the holocaust and 250 hos stag taken. here in the chamber tonight are families of those still being held held by hamas■. i pledge that we will not stop ideal bringing all of your loved ones home. [applause] we we will also work around the clock to be bring home evan and paul, americans being unjustly detained by the russians and others around the
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world. israel has the right to -- hamas. hamas ended this conflict by releasing hostages, laying down arms could end it by releasing hostages, laying down arms and vanneddering those responsible for october 7 but israel cuse m. israel has an added burden because hamas highlights and operates among the civilian population like cowards, under hospitals, derrick centers and all the liks a responsibility, to protect innocent civilians in gaza. [applause] this war has taken the greatest toll only center civilians than all previous wars in gaza combined. more than 30,000 palestinians have been killed, most of whom
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are not hamas. thousands of innocents, women and children, girls and boys also orphaned. nearly two mil are palestinians under dom barredment or displacement. homes destroyed, cities inrtbre. i've been working nonstop for an immediate cease-fire that would weeks to get all the hostages released. get them home and ease the intorabl and build toward something more enduring. the united states is leading the way to get more humanitarian assistance to gaza. tonight i'm directing the u.s. military to establish a temporary pier on the mediterranean on cost overgallsa that be receive large shipments carrying food, water, medicine and temporary
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shelters. no u.s. boots will be on the ground. a temporary pier will enable a massive increase in the amount of humanitarian assistance getting into gaza evesery day. [applause] and israel must do its israel must allow more aid into gaza to ensure humanitarian workers aren't caught in the 're announcing they're going to have a crossing in northern gaza. to the leadership of israel, i sayarian assistance cannot be a secondary consideration or a bargaining chip. protecting and saving innocent lives has to be a priority. as we look to the future, the only real solution to the situation is a two-state solution over time. [app and i say this -- as a lifelong
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supporter of israel, my entire career, no one has a stronger record record only this than i do. i challenge any of you here. i'm the only american president to visit israel in wartime but there is no other path that guarantees israel's security and democracy. no other path to guarantee palestinians can live with peace and dignity. no other path thatntees peace between israel and all of its neighbors, including called rain, with whom i'm talking. creati sbility in the middle east also means containing the threat posed by aaron. -- iran. that's why a bit a coalition of more than 100 countries to guard shipping in the red sea. as commander in chief i will■pét hesitate to direct further measures to protect our people and our military personnel.
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[applause] for years, i've heard many of my republican and democratic friends say that china is on the rise. and america is falling behind. they've got it saying it for ovr four years, even when i wasn't president. america's rising. we have the best economy in the world. and since i've got come to office, our g.d.p. is up, our trade deficit to china is down to the lowest point in over a decade. and we're standing up for peace and stability across the taiwan stits. revitalized our partnership and alliance in the pacific. india, australia, japan, south korea, pacific islands. i've made sure that the most advance american technologies can't be used in china, not
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allowing to trade them there. frankly, for all this tough talk on china, it never occurred to my predecessor that. i want competition with china, not conflict. we're in a stronger is position to win the conflict in the 21st century against china than anyone else, for that matter, than any time as well. here at ho i've signed over 400 bipartisan bills but there's more to pass my unity gentle. strengthen penalties on fentanyl trafficking. you don't want to do that, huh? pass privatization to protect our children online. [applause] harness the promise of a.i. to protect us from peril. ban a.i. voice impersonations and more and keep our truly sacred obligation to train and
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equip those we send into harm's way and care for them and their families when they come home and when they don't. [applause] that's why the help of dennis we virginia, i signed the pact act. one of the most significant laws, helping millions of veterans who now are battling with more than 100 different cancers. many ofe but we owe them and their families support. we owe it to ourselves to keep supporting our new healthcy register, and remind us that we can do big things like end cancer as we know it, and we will. [applause]
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let me close with this --lause] yay. i know you don't want anymore, lindsay but i have to say a few more things. i know it may not look like it but i've while. when you get to be my age, certain things become clearer than ever. i know the american story. again and again i've seenhe contest between competing forces in the battle for the soul of our nation. between those who wants to pull america b past and those wanting to move america into the future. my lifetime has taught me to embrace freedom and democracy, a future based encore values that have defined america. honesty, decency, dignity,
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equality, to respect everyone, to give everyone a fair shot. to give hate no safe harbor. other people my age see it differently. the american story of resentment, revenge and retribution. that's not m■w i amid world war ii when america stood for the freedom of the world. i grew up novanten, paver and delaware among working class people who built in country. i watched in horror as two of my heroes, like many of you did. dr. king and bicycle kennedy, who were assassinated and their legacies inspire a career of public service. my city was the only city in america to occupy the national guard after dr. king assassinated because the rioting. i became a county councilman almost by accident. i got elected to the united
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states senate when i had no intention of running at age 29. then vice president to our first black president. now president to the first woman vice president. [applause] in my career, i've been told i was too young. [laughter] didn't let me ascende elevators to vote sometimes. not a joke. i've been told i'm too old. whether young or old, i've always known what endures. i've known our north star. the very idea of americans, the. deserve to be treated equally throughout our lives. we've neverfully lived up to idd
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away from it either and i-won't walk away from it now. [applause] i'm optimistic really am, i'm o, nancy.ks my fellow americans, the issues facing our nation isn't how old we are, it's how old our ideas. hate, anger, revenge, retribution are the oldest of ideas but you can't lead america with ancient ideas. only take us back. you lead america, possibilities, you need a vision for the future and what can and should be done. tonight you've heard mine. i see a future where defending democracy you don't diminish it. i-see a future that will restore the right to choosend
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our freedoms, not take them away. [applause] i se the middle class timely has a fair shot and the wealthi have to pay they're fair share in taxes. i see a future where we save the planet from the climate crisis and our country from gun violence. [applause] above all, i see a future for all americans. i see a country and i'll always be president for all americans because i believe in america. i believe in you northwestern people. you're the reason we've never been more optimistic about our future than i am now so let's build the remember who we are. we are the united states of america! [applause] and there is nothing, nothing beyond our capacity.
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when we act together. god bless you all and may god protect our troops. thank you, thank you. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2024] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org]
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them, did i? [cheers] [indiscernible] >> some places hurt and some places help and campaign for you again. [laughter] >> great job. >> good job. great job.
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>> thank you, man.■& >> great job. >> thank you. >> great job, mr. president. >> thank you.vk le]
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>> we're going to get a deal done. >> good job on the border. thank you, thank you. >> thank you. no, i really mean it. this guy does too. >> you did a good job. you were right on target. >> you were on fire today. you were on fire today.
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>> thankou much. >> thank you. [indiscernible] >> congratulations. >> thank you. >> thanks for coming.
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[. >> we're walking this way. >> we're going that way? >> thank you, thank you, thank you.■■q
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>> i'm so proud of you. [laughter] >> thank you. >> how are you doing? everything you've done for new mexico. >> knocked it out of the park. >> getting texts from everybody watching saying wow. my mom jumping up and down
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saying phenomenal. >> where's your mom? >> in houston. houston, texas.■a >> should we take a photo right here? ok, here we go.
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excellent. i got multipl excellent. >> appreciate you. i'm out of your life and out of your world. thank you. >> i think around is probably >> picture for the governor. >> yes, yes, yes, yes. >> happy to do my part. [laughter]
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>> they'll write about it. >> from rhode island. >> i'm happy you're here.ka to l him he invited me to the white house. you did -- i kno
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>> mr. president, former congressman from detroit. sensational. thank you for what you're doing for the country.c8
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>> my wife ice outside. >> thank you. [indistinct chatt [indistinct chatter] >> i know you, ma'am.
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e 'em hell harry with. don't give 'em hell, just tell them the truth. >> they don't like to hear it.a] >> mr. president, we're excited. how are you?oc■g■(
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