1 00:00:03,520 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: Last night, President Biden addressed the American people from the 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:12,000 Speaker 1: Oval Office from behind the resolute desk, flanked by the 3 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:15,600 Speaker 1: flags of the Office of President of the United States 4 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:20,599 Speaker 1: and the American Flag. This is the seat of America's power. 5 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:25,919 Speaker 1: This is the office where Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill 6 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:30,120 Speaker 1: sat together, and where FDR mixed cocktails for the British 7 00:00:30,120 --> 00:00:36,440 Speaker 1: Prime Minister during history's darkest hours, when a great Access 8 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:42,159 Speaker 1: controlled much of the world's territory and vast swaths of 9 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:47,640 Speaker 1: its oceans. In that moment in time, a gun was 10 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:54,120 Speaker 1: pointed at America and freedom was greatly threatened. In the end, 11 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:58,480 Speaker 1: four hundred and five thousand Americans would die in the 12 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:04,640 Speaker 1: Second World War. Franklin Roosevelt always suspected, always knew the 13 00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:10,839 Speaker 1: dangers ahead. He knew the inevitability of war because he knew. 14 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:15,959 Speaker 1: The character of the Access powers today is not then, 15 00:01:16,959 --> 00:01:20,760 Speaker 1: but there are parallels. The world that we live in 16 00:01:20,840 --> 00:01:25,919 Speaker 1: today was certainly shaped by Franklin Roosevelt and his broad 17 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:31,240 Speaker 1: vision and epic imagination. He talked about the world that 18 00:01:31,280 --> 00:01:34,240 Speaker 1: would emerge after the Second World War with a lot 19 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:41,720 Speaker 1: of optimism. FDR imagined a world of four freedoms, freedom 20 00:01:41,720 --> 00:01:47,440 Speaker 1: of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from want, and freedom 21 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:53,000 Speaker 1: from fear. He talked about these freedoms. He talked about 22 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:59,200 Speaker 1: his aspirations, both publicly and privately. His greatest vision was 23 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:04,040 Speaker 1: a world at peace, and all of the institutions that 24 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:08,920 Speaker 1: have existed for the last eighty years that have built 25 00:02:08,919 --> 00:02:14,680 Speaker 1: that world are under stress and under threat. And that 26 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:19,600 Speaker 1: is what he talked about last night. He talked about 27 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:25,640 Speaker 1: this country, the richest nation in the history of the world, 28 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:32,200 Speaker 1: what Roosevelt called the vast arsenal of democracy, giving a 29 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:37,760 Speaker 1: one hundred billion dollar aid package to two vital American 30 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:43,040 Speaker 1: allies that are under attack, that are under assault from 31 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:49,000 Speaker 1: deadly foes. Think about China, a part of this new 32 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:54,800 Speaker 1: world access that President Putin, the Russian dictator is trying 33 00:02:54,840 --> 00:03:00,880 Speaker 1: to bring into existence. The Chinese state harvests the organs 34 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:06,000 Speaker 1: of its political prisoners for sale on a global black market. 35 00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:11,400 Speaker 1: It imprisons its people in concentration camps. The Russian state, 36 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:16,119 Speaker 1: in addition to committing tens of thousands of war crimes, 37 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:21,919 Speaker 1: has kidnapped tens and tens of thousands of Ukrainian children. 38 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:28,480 Speaker 1: They seek to wipe out a people, a state Vladimir 39 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:34,359 Speaker 1: Putin's position with regard to Ukraine is precisely the same 40 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:39,440 Speaker 1: as Hamas's an Iran's position with regard to the state 41 00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:43,840 Speaker 1: of Israel and the Jews, which is that it doesn't 42 00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:47,720 Speaker 1: exist and it should be wiped off the face of 43 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:52,200 Speaker 1: the earth. It is unacceptable in the twenty first century, 44 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:56,560 Speaker 1: and that is why President Biden spoke to the American 45 00:03:56,680 --> 00:04:02,240 Speaker 1: people from the Oval Office last night. Now, the men 46 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:06,480 Speaker 1: who fought in the Second World War, a lot of 47 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:11,720 Speaker 1: them were born exactly one hundred years ago. They were 48 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:16,640 Speaker 1: born between nineteen twenty and nineteen twenty four. They were 49 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:21,559 Speaker 1: men like Jimmy Carter and George Herbert walker Bush, both 50 00:04:21,640 --> 00:04:26,480 Speaker 1: men born in nineteen twenty four. Jimmy Carter stayed in 51 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:31,040 Speaker 1: the Naval Academy, graduating in nineteen forty six. When the 52 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:35,600 Speaker 1: war was over, George Herbert walker Bush became the youngest 53 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:39,440 Speaker 1: fighter pilot in the United States Navy. He was nineteen, 54 00:04:39,960 --> 00:04:44,320 Speaker 1: flying off of aircraft carriers into combat. I looked at 55 00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:50,640 Speaker 1: my son the other day. He's seventeen, tall, six foot one, 56 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:56,000 Speaker 1: big broad smile on his face, mop haired like all 57 00:04:56,000 --> 00:05:03,039 Speaker 1: of his friends. Young. Then they don't look so different 58 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:05,200 Speaker 1: to me than the pictures of the young men in 59 00:05:05,279 --> 00:05:08,480 Speaker 1: black and white who were born a hundred years ago, 60 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:13,200 Speaker 1: as they stood in civilian clothes being sworn into the 61 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:19,320 Speaker 1: United States military in nineteen forty nineteen forty one, the 62 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:23,960 Speaker 1: men and the women that Tom Brocaw said were part 63 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:30,480 Speaker 1: of the Greatest Generation, John Kennedy's generation, forged by depression, 64 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:35,720 Speaker 1: seasoned in the flames and fire of the Second World War. 65 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:41,279 Speaker 1: They were all young men, once young women. Once They 66 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:45,600 Speaker 1: looked exactly like all of our kids. But I looked 67 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:49,320 Speaker 1: at my son for the first time, and I wondered. 68 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:56,360 Speaker 1: I wondered about his destiny. It seems so improbable, incredible. 69 00:05:56,440 --> 00:06:01,400 Speaker 1: Even as someone who is fifty three years old, it's 70 00:06:01,440 --> 00:06:06,120 Speaker 1: incredible to think about the world that was for a 71 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:10,120 Speaker 1: brief moment, for a decade or so, at the end 72 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:13,960 Speaker 1: of the Cold War, there was a famous author, a historian, 73 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:19,720 Speaker 1: Francis Fukuyama. He posited that history was at its end, 74 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:28,000 Speaker 1: that small l liberalism, democracy was triumphant, ascended. The argument 75 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:32,760 Speaker 1: was over, the world had entered something of an enlightened age. 76 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:36,480 Speaker 1: It didn't turn out to be. And as crazy as 77 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:42,479 Speaker 1: that premise sounds, it wasn't so crazy. Back then, when 78 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:47,919 Speaker 1: Bill Clinton, a young president, talked about building a bridge 79 00:06:47,920 --> 00:06:51,279 Speaker 1: to the twenty first century, it was an exciting place. 80 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:59,279 Speaker 1: It was a peaceful place. There were infinite possibilities. Certainly 81 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:02,960 Speaker 1: when I was in my thirties, though there was war 82 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:09,440 Speaker 1: in the world, it was fantastical to imagine a world 83 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:13,360 Speaker 1: in flames again, a world on the edge of war. 84 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:17,800 Speaker 1: But here we are at the quarter point of the 85 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:22,480 Speaker 1: twenty first century, and I'm looking at my son, and 86 00:07:22,520 --> 00:07:27,640 Speaker 1: I'm wondering, is this generation of Americans going to fight? 87 00:07:28,440 --> 00:07:32,840 Speaker 1: Are they going to fight and die in far away places? Again? 88 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:40,480 Speaker 1: Are they going because our politicians have learned none of 89 00:07:40,520 --> 00:07:45,760 Speaker 1: the lessons of history. Because the United States House of 90 00:07:45,840 --> 00:07:53,160 Speaker 1: Representatives is held hostage and under siege by a caucus 91 00:07:53,320 --> 00:08:00,240 Speaker 1: that's a gang of imbeciles, of vandals, of unfre fit, 92 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:07,280 Speaker 1: disordered personalities, that hate their fellow citizens, that despise democracy, 93 00:08:08,320 --> 00:08:13,120 Speaker 1: that are interested in only one thing, their power and 94 00:08:13,200 --> 00:08:19,560 Speaker 1: being famous. Are we really as a people going to 95 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:28,640 Speaker 1: tolerate that the continuum that exists between Franklin Roosevelt and 96 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:34,679 Speaker 1: Joseph Biden has only been broken by one man. This obligation, 97 00:08:35,520 --> 00:08:40,840 Speaker 1: this American obligation, and Let's be clear about it. It 98 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:47,880 Speaker 1: is our obligation, it's our responsibility, not out of altruism, 99 00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:55,360 Speaker 1: but out of self interest, because if the chaos comes close, 100 00:08:56,720 --> 00:09:03,160 Speaker 1: then American boys like my son in all over the 101 00:09:03,160 --> 00:09:09,240 Speaker 1: world there are white graves of young men who have 102 00:09:09,559 --> 00:09:17,439 Speaker 1: left these shores in expeditionary forces to push back the evil, 103 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:23,559 Speaker 1: push back the chaos, to defend the concept that if 104 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:28,920 Speaker 1: it is dowsed, may not rekindle for a thousand years 105 00:09:28,920 --> 00:09:34,200 Speaker 1: of time. That's what liberty is. That's what freedom is. 106 00:09:36,440 --> 00:09:44,640 Speaker 1: Please understand something. The Russians have kidnapped tens and tens 107 00:09:44,679 --> 00:09:52,839 Speaker 1: of thousands of Ukrainian children, disappeared them and taken them east. 108 00:09:54,280 --> 00:09:59,240 Speaker 1: Will they ever be seen again? I want you to 109 00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:02,600 Speaker 1: think about this. If you hear my voice, if you're 110 00:10:02,640 --> 00:10:09,040 Speaker 1: a young person, if you're a parent, can you imagine 111 00:10:09,559 --> 00:10:17,600 Speaker 1: being separated from your child, from your parents, kidnapped and 112 00:10:17,679 --> 00:10:24,840 Speaker 1: taken away by an army that is in your country, 113 00:10:26,040 --> 00:10:34,640 Speaker 1: invading it, raping and killing. Can you imagine hiding in 114 00:10:34,679 --> 00:10:41,280 Speaker 1: a bomb shelter while terrorist killers outside hurl grenades into it, 115 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:46,679 Speaker 1: and your only chance of survival is that the shrapnel 116 00:10:47,040 --> 00:10:50,760 Speaker 1: and the blast or absorbed by the dead bodies all 117 00:10:50,800 --> 00:10:57,160 Speaker 1: around you. Can you imagine the noise, the sound, the screams, 118 00:10:57,320 --> 00:11:02,000 Speaker 1: the smell. Can imagine what it's like to have missiles 119 00:11:02,080 --> 00:11:08,280 Speaker 1: raining down, rockets raining down. What it feels like to 120 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:12,640 Speaker 1: be burned alive in the seconds before you know it happened. 121 00:11:13,280 --> 00:11:19,600 Speaker 1: Can you imagine being burned alive? Imagine the terror, knowing 122 00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:23,679 Speaker 1: the flames are about to touch you, the searing heat. 123 00:11:25,520 --> 00:11:29,200 Speaker 1: Can you comprehend it? And the answer is, of course not. 124 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:37,120 Speaker 1: All of this is incomprehensible. Yet it is real, but 125 00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:42,080 Speaker 1: not in Congress, because there the reality show goes on 126 00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:51,439 Speaker 1: and it risks real lives, American lives. There are almost 127 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:59,679 Speaker 1: forty of our people, Americans that were killed by Hamas terrorists. 128 00:12:00,920 --> 00:12:07,920 Speaker 1: President Biden was very clear about something. American forces are 129 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:13,199 Speaker 1: not going to fight in Ukraine, but they will have 130 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:19,160 Speaker 1: to fight if Russia wins in Ukraine and Putin does 131 00:12:19,880 --> 00:12:24,760 Speaker 1: what he said he would do, which is reincorporate the 132 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:30,120 Speaker 1: Baltic States or take back parts of Western Poland. The 133 00:12:30,160 --> 00:12:38,160 Speaker 1: world is on fire. All over the world. Armies are 134 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:42,280 Speaker 1: moving closer to each other. On the border of Kosovo 135 00:12:42,360 --> 00:12:47,400 Speaker 1: and Serbia and Europe, on the border of Azerbaijan and 136 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:55,400 Speaker 1: Armenia Central Asia. Israel is under siege on three sides 137 00:12:56,800 --> 00:13:01,080 Speaker 1: by a terrible menace to the world, Iran that seeks 138 00:13:01,160 --> 00:13:07,480 Speaker 1: nuclear weapons. The only hope for peace is the strength 139 00:13:08,120 --> 00:13:14,600 Speaker 1: of the United States. Look at your children today. These 140 00:13:14,640 --> 00:13:20,319 Speaker 1: are the hours to count. The United States must arm 141 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:26,560 Speaker 1: the democracies so they can fight, and we do not 142 00:13:26,760 --> 00:13:33,880 Speaker 1: have to. How can it be in twenty twenty three 143 00:13:34,120 --> 00:13:41,200 Speaker 1: that this central, common sensical lesson of history is not 144 00:13:41,400 --> 00:13:45,640 Speaker 1: understood by members of the United States Congress in the 145 00:13:45,679 --> 00:13:51,120 Speaker 1: Maga Party, Or maybe it is understood. It's understood perfectly 146 00:13:52,640 --> 00:13:55,280 Speaker 1: in the same way it was understood by Charles Lindbergh. 147 00:13:56,280 --> 00:14:01,600 Speaker 1: You see, these people root for the Nazis in Europe 148 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:07,760 Speaker 1: at that time. They fetishized to fascists because they wanted 149 00:14:07,800 --> 00:14:11,400 Speaker 1: to be like them, and they wanted to rule like them, 150 00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:17,400 Speaker 1: and they wanted all of us to live like the 151 00:14:17,520 --> 00:14:23,760 Speaker 1: people in those despotic fascist countries lived in fear and 152 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:30,280 Speaker 1: terror of the powerful. And we must say no. This 153 00:14:30,520 --> 00:14:37,480 Speaker 1: moment is a moral moment, in an immoral time. The 154 00:14:37,680 --> 00:14:45,359 Speaker 1: United States of America must arm the freedom loving peoples 155 00:14:45,520 --> 00:14:49,440 Speaker 1: of the world in their hour of need. When a 156 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:54,560 Speaker 1: terrible monster has arisen again to try to snuff out 157 00:14:54,920 --> 00:14:59,360 Speaker 1: the flame of liberty. This is no joke, It is 158 00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:05,920 Speaker 1: no exactly and if we do not support the people 159 00:15:06,320 --> 00:15:12,920 Speaker 1: who are willing to die in a fight for their freedom, 160 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:18,200 Speaker 1: then Americans will die in huge numbers in a fight 161 00:15:18,280 --> 00:15:23,720 Speaker 1: for hours. And you know that is true because it 162 00:15:23,760 --> 00:15:28,280 Speaker 1: has always been true time and time again.