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Speaker 2: This will be and ask me anything where I answer

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Speaker 2: your questions. The question is from Janice, and in summary,

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Speaker 2: it's this, why is Haiti and American responsibility? Why are

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Speaker 2: adds she understands the issue, she lives in Florida. Well, Janice,

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Speaker 2: there's not an easy answer other than the truth. And

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Speaker 2: the truth is the United States of America is the

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Speaker 2: most powerful nation in world history, and what happens outside

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Speaker 2: of our borders will affect us here at home. The

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Speaker 2: chaos inside of Haiti will leave Haiti now and it

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Speaker 2: will come to Florida. We have a stake instability in

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Speaker 2: the hemisphere and all over the world. American leaders have

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Speaker 2: always understood this, going all the way back to the

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Speaker 2: There is a question of humanity at hand, and one

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Speaker 2: of the things in our divided time that we forget

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Speaker 2: to do is show each other grace, to be able

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Speaker 2: to look at the opposition in politics and find decency

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Speaker 2: and shared humanity. You may not know this, but the

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Speaker 2: effort begun under the George W. Bush administration and followed

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Speaker 2: after that. PEP Far, the President's emergency plan for age

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Speaker 2: relief in Africa has saved nearly thirty million human lives.

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Speaker 2: Think of the genius that has been saved, and it

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Speaker 2: will be saved for generations of writers, of painters, of scientists,

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Speaker 2: it means to save that many lives. It would be

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Speaker 2: wonderful if Canada was able to meet its responsibilities, but

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Speaker 2: it cannot because it will not. And whether they do

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Speaker 2: or not, it does not abrogate the fundamental moral responsibility

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Speaker 2: of the United States to act, not unilaterally, not as

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Speaker 2: a police force, but in the name of humanity. For

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Speaker 2: the sake of humanity in Haiti, the United States of

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Speaker 2: America must act. It must lead where it will pay

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Speaker 2: the heaviest price, next to the Haitian people themselves. The

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Speaker 2: is not. Unfortunately, the State of the Union is a

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Speaker 2: is coequal come together. The Court is represented the legislative branch,

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Speaker 2: become steeped in tradition. There are ceremonies in most democratic

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Speaker 2: Why has not the administration given more exposure to Vice

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Speaker 2: President Harris Well. The truth of the matter is the

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Speaker 2: Vice President has been mishandled and mismanaged at an epic

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Speaker 2: One of the mysteries and wonders of the world will

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Speaker 2: many Americans will look and they will say, this is

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Speaker 2: an election in the end that will decide whether Kamala

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Speaker 1: And the answer to the question.

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Speaker 2: Will be that over the course of the Biden presidency,

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Speaker 2: many millions of people came into the country illegally, and

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Speaker 2: And the American people will go into the voting booth

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Speaker 2: thirty five days in this election, to make this issue

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Speaker 1: It's a suicide wish.

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Speaker 2: Stopping Donald Trump means understanding the root, the cause, the

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Speaker 1: Clearly, and unabashedly.

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Speaker 2: A small capal has become a minority faction that has

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Speaker 2: catastrophic consequences being very high. There's never been a genteel

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Speaker 2: time in American history. There was never a utopia moment

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Speaker 1: We have evaporated from.

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Speaker 2: That understanding, which is the cornerstone of our society, has

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