TAPE: EF02/0093 IN_TIME: 00:40:34 DURATION: 2:30 SOURCES: POOL RESTRICTIONS: DATELINE: 6 Feb 2002 SHOTLIST: 1. Wide shot President Bush receiving tour at NY Police Command Center 2. Medium shot with, from left to right: NY Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, President Bush, unidentified police officer, NY Mayor Michael Bloomberg, NY Governor George Pataki, Director of Homeland Security Tom Ridge 3. Medium shot Bush and Kelly 4. Medium shot Bloomberg, zoom out to wide 5. SOUNDBITE: (English) George W. Bush, U-S President "I want you to know something - when I say I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it. I told the people of New York that we will work to provide at least 20 (b) billion dollars to help New York rebuild herself -- and that includes money apart from the victims compensation fund. And when I say twenty, I mean twenty." 6. Cutaway Bush on tour of facility greeting officers 7. SOUNDBITE: (English) George W. Bush, U-S President "I loved it when our pilots found on some of the munitions this simple sign - 'I love New York.' America loves New York. We love your strength. We love your resolve. We've loved your courage in the face of incredible difficulty." 8. Wide shot Bush at facility 9. SOUNDBITE: (English) George W. Bush, U-S President "We're a nation that will not rest until we have brought justice, not only on the al-Qaida killers, and on the governments that support and house them, but on terrorism everywhere. Now we must seize the moment - history has called this nation into action." 10. Wide shot Bush receives applause after speech and shakes hands with police officers STORYLINE: President Bush, viewing live pictures of the World Trade Center disaster site from a police command center on Wednesday, reiterated his financial commitment to aid the city's recovery. Bush greeted about 40 high-ranking police officials, who gave him a standing ovation as he entered the room. Later on Wednesday, the president was scheduled to attend two fund-raisers for New York Governor George Pataki. The governor's aides said they expect the events will raise almost 2 million U-S dollars for Pataki's re-election campaign. At the first fund-raiser, the president was set to join Pataki, former mayor Rudolph Giuliani and an elite group of real estate developers and Wall Street financiers at Mayor Michael Bloomberg's luxury townhouse. Tickets for the affair were 15,000 U-S dollars for individuals and 25,000 for couples. About 100 people are expected.

NAME: US ECONOMY 3 20080925I TAPE: EF08/0977 IN_TIME: 10:54:16:19 DURATION: 00:03:02:21 SOURCES: AP/NYSE DATELINE: Washington DC/New York - 25 Sept 2008 RESTRICTIONS: SHOLTIST AP Television Washington 1. US Senator Richard Shelby walking out after meeting at White House 2. SOUNDBITE: (English), Senator Richard Shelby, Republican from Alabama: "We hadn't gotten an agreement, there's still a lot of a different opinions. Mine is that it's flawed from the beginning; I said that the other day at the banking committee. Secretary (Henry) Paulson and Chairman (Ben) Bernanke, had they considered other alternatives, some of you recall the silence, they hadn't but they should." 3. SOUNDBITE:(English), Senator Richard Shelby, Republican from Alabama Reporter: The agreement that Dodd announced this morning? "That agreement is obviously no agreement." 4. Shelby walks away NYSE New York City 5. Mid shot closing bell AP Television New York City 6. Tilt down from New York Stock Exchange to man with sign 7. Tight shot of sign 8. UPSOUND: (English) Protester: "How many times do we have to dig in our pockets, our homes get foreclosed on." 5. Mid shot of people chanting 6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Reverend Jesse Jackson, political activist: "I would think that one of the things we must deal with is, why are we in this this mess? One is that banks used their power to get money without regulation. Then they neutralised checks and balances by Congress getting so much money from Wall Street, that they would not enforce fair lending laws, so that combination has put us in this mess." 7. UPSOUND: (English) Protester: "Trust your banker, give us your blank check. We'll fix the economy. Give us your first born and your blank cheques." 8. UPSOUND: (English) Protester: "We're the working majority, we will not be ruled by the rich minority." 9. Tilt down from New York Stock Exchange to protest 10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Arun Gupta, protestor: "I'm here to oppose the bailout plan because it is a massive transfer of wealth for working Americans to elite institutions and the super wealthy, who have already made a killing off the mortgage crisis." 11. Wide shot of Harry's café 12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Richard Simonelli, private investor: "Well I think the longer that it takes, the more people are going to dissect and draw their own conclusions about the viability of it. And it could start affecting other things like oil prices and mortgage prices and the like. It could so it could have an effect on other things, in the market place besides the market itself." 13. Pan from bar to customers STORYLINE: Urgent efforts to lash together a 700 (b) billion US dollar rescue plan for the national economy broke apart on Thursday night, hours after key lawmakers had declared they had reached a deal. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke sped to Capitol Hill to try to revive or rework the proposal that the administration says must be quickly approved by Congress to stave off economic disaster. Congressional leaders were to meet with the economic chiefs into the night. Earlier Senator Richard Shelby, the top Republican on the Senate Banking Committee, said that no agreement on the deal had been made. Shelby made the comments after coming out of an historic White House meeting involving President George Bush Republican presidential candidate John McCain and Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama. The candidates, who have both sought to distance themselves from the unpopular Bush, sat down with the president at the White House for an hour long afternoon session that was striking in this brutally partisan season and apparently without precedent. "We hadn't gotten an agreement, there's still a lot of a different opinions. Mine is that it's flawed from the beginning; I said that the other day at the banking committee," Shelby told reporters outside. "Secretary (Henry) Paulson and Chairman (Ben) Bernanke, had they considered other alternatives, some of you recall the silence, they haven't but they should," he added. Key members of Congress said they had struck a deal earlier in the day. By also including Congress' Democratic and Republican leaders, the meeting gathered nearly all Washington's political power structure at one long table in a small West Wing room. As lawmakers wrangled over the details protests took place on Wall Street. The groups said the working poor and middle class shouldn't bear the brunt of the crises created in part by Wall Street financial firms and banks eager to lend and borrowers eager to accept. Civil rights activist Reverend Jesse Jackson added his voice to the protest. "I would think that one of the things we must deal with is, why are we in this this mess? One is that banks used their power to get money without regulation. Then they neutralised checks and balances by congress getting so much money from Wall Street, that they would not enforce fair lending laws, so that combination has put us in this mess," he said. One of the protest organisers, Arun Gupta, called the plan, "a massive transfer of wealth for working Americans to elite institutions and the super wealthy, who have already made a killing off the mortgage crisis." There is wide agreement the U.S. economy is in peril, with financial institutions going under or near the edge and recession looming along with the resulting layoffs and increased home foreclosures. There had been hopes for broad agreement, too, on a prescription by now, with a confident White House announcement by the president, John McCain, Barack Obama and congressional leaders. One group of House Republican lawmakers circulated an alternative that would put much less focus on a government takeover of failing institutions' sour assets. This proposal would have the government provide insurance to companies that agree to hold frozen assets, rather than have the government purchase the assets.

NAME: US MURDOCH 2 20070801I TAPE: EF07/0919 IN_TIME: 10:15:12:19 DURATION: 00:02:54:05 SOURCES: AP TELEVISION DATELINE: New York - 1 August 2007/File RESTRICTIONS: SHOTLIST: New York City - 1 August 2007 1. Wide exterior News Corporation building 2. Mid of News Corporation Chairman Rupert Murdoch walking into building, UPSOUND: (English) Rupert Murdoch: "It's done." 3. Zoom out from Murdoch headline of Wall Street Journal 4. Zoom out from headline of New York Times New York City - 1 August 2007 5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Louis Hau, Forbes.com media writer "Certainly it's something that he's long wanted in his stable of properties. It is widely considered to be the crown jewel of daily financial journalism. It's got an unbeatable brand name in terms of credibility when it comes business and financial news. And that sort of hard news credibility is something that a lot of people might argue is one thing that he doesn't yet have in some ways." 6. Zoom in of Dow Jones building FILE: New Jersey - 7 January 2007 8. Mid of Wall Street Journal printing press 9. Pan newspapers on assembly line New York City - 1 August 2007 10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Louis Hau, Forbes.com media writer: "That's sort of the 64,000 dollar question right now. Will he interfere in the Journal's editorial operations to a degree that it compromises their independence and their editorial integrity. I suppose the one thing to say about that is that Murdoch has been called pretty much every name in the book by his detractors. One thing he hasn't been called too often is stupid and to do anything that would compromise the credibility of the Journal and the journalism that it produces, would not be a smart thing to do." 11. Zoom out man buying newspaper at stand 11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mike Nocera, vox pop: "I think it's bad for the independence of the media. Too much concentration in few hands in our American media these days, and unfortunately it looks like it's going to go through, but I think in the end it probably will not be the best thing for the Wall Street Journal, one of the best newspapers in the world." New York City - 1 August 2007 12. Mid of Dow Jones news ticker, reading "Murdoch wins his bid for Dow Jones" New York City - 1 August 2007 13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Robb Mahoney, vox pop: "If it shifts, the editorial's changed in a way that I wouldn't want to read about. I don't read the New York Times because of the left leaning way that it seems to go, so...." 14. Mid of man handing out fake Wall Street Journal newspapers, demonstrating in front of Dow Jones building 15. Mid of woman holding up fake Wall Street Journal paper 16. Close pan headlines from fake Journal STORYLINE Rupert Murdoch has sealed a deal to buy Wall Street Journal publisher Dow Jones & Company for 5 billion (b) US dollars, ending a century of family ownership and adding a crown jewel to his global media empire, News Corporation. "It's done," Murdoch told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The companies said early on Wednesday morning that they had signed a definitive agreement after the deal won sufficient support to pass from a deeply divided Bancroft family, which has controlled the newspaper publisher for generations. Murdoch is getting one of the great trophies of US journalism and a newspaper that is considered required reading among the business and power elite. The deal will also expand Murdoch's already massive global media and entertainment empire News Corporation, which owns the Fox broadcast network, Fox News Channel, the Twentieth Century Fox movie and TV studio, the social networking site MySpace, newspapers in Australia and the UK, and several satellite TV broadcasters. Dow Jones and News Corporation said in a statement that Bancroft family members and trustees representing 37 percent of the company's shareholder vote have agreed to support the deal. Combined with the 29 percent of the vote held by public shareholders, who are very likely to support Murdoch, the deal is now assured of passing. The companies said a member of the Bancroft family or another mutually acceptable person would be appointed to News Corporation's board of directors as part of the agreement. The Bancroft family, descended over several generations from an early owner of Dow Jones, Clarence Barron, clashed long and hard over whether to sell to Murdoch, with several members saying they feared the quality and independence of the paper would suffer under his watch. The paper's managing editor, Marcus Brauchli, tried to reassure newsroom employees that the Journal will maintain its editorial independence. "It is too early to know how or even whether News Corporation ownership might alter priorities or structures at Dow Jones," Brauchli wrote in an e-mail sent to Journal staffers early on Wednesday. "Our current and likely future owners have given formal assurances, however, that the newsroom will retain its independence." Murdoch has said he would invest in the Journal's Washington bureau and digital operations and expand its domestic readership, taking on the two other national US newspapers, The New York Times and Gannett Company's USA Today. He has also said he would expand the Journal's presence overseas, where it would go up against other business publications including Pearson PLC's Financial Times. Murdoch also plans to launch a business-themed cable news channel in the United States later this year to rival General Electric Company's highly profitable CNBC network. Murdoch hopes Dow Jones' news resources and brand name would help jump-start that channel, but he would have to negotiate out of a deal CNBC has to use Dow Jones news through 2012. A union representing Journal reporters and other Dow Jones employees has objected to Murdoch's bid, saying he would downgrade the quality of the paper's coverage and tilt its stories to suit his business interests. Murdoch countered with a promise not to interfere with the paper's newsroom and has agreed to set up a five-member board, whose initial members would be jointly chosen by both News Corporation and Dow Jones, with the power to approve the hiring or fire top editorial officials. Louis Hau, Forbes.com media writer, said shifting the editorial line of the newspaper would not be a smart thing to do. "I suppose the one thing to say about that is that Murdoch has been called pretty much every name in the book by his detractors," Hau said. "One thing he hasn't been called too often is stupid and to do anything that would compromise the credibility of the Journal and the journalism that it produces, would not be a smart thing to do," he added. A Wall Street Journal reader was not happy to hear about Murdoch's takeover. "I think it's bad for the independence of the media," said Mike Nocera. "Too much concentration in few hands in our American media these days, and unfortunately it looks like it's going to go through, but I think in the end it probably will not be the best thing for the Wall Street Journal, one of the best newspapers in the world."

TAPE: EF03/0051 IN_TIME: 00:57:13 DURATION: 3:13 SOURCES: APTN RESTRICTIONS: DATELINE: Buenos Aires - 16 Jan 2003 SHOTLIST: 16 January 2003 1. Wide shot street scene 2. Mid shot street scene 3. Pull out from bank sign to wide shot of fortified bank 4. Wide shot of fortified Citibank 5. Man leaving bank with "Away with the IMF!" spray-painted on it 6. Grafitti on bank wall 7. Fortified bank entrance 8. People entering and leaving spray-painted bank 9. Grafitti saying: "IMF out!" 10. People on street 11. Mid shot of people on street 12. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) vox-pop, Matilda: "This agreement is a mistake. We will owe more money, with really high interests and it will all end up in the pockets of (Argentinian President Eduardo) Duhalde, (Foreign Minister Carlos) Ruckauf, Moyano and all this leadership which has crushed us Argentinians." 13. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) vox-pop, Antonio: "We should pay (the debts) but within our possibilities so that we do not end up debtors, which is bad for any country. But only pay what is possible for us." 14. Pan down from Central Bank sign to man repairing road in front of it 15. Mid shot of man repairing road 16. Set-up shots of Analyst Rosendo Fraga 17. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Rosendo Fraga, Political Analyst: "I think this is no more than just a chapter in the crisis, a chapter which will more than anything permit Duhalde hand things over to the next government after the 25th of May without having to deal with the economy. The big topic is left for the next president, which is to reintigrate Argentina back into the world." 18. Various of exchange rate signs 19. Various of man withdrawing money from bank 15 January 2003 20. Various shots of Buenos Aires stock exchange STORYLINE: The International Monetary Fund and Argentina have ended 11 months of arduous negotiations by announcing an agreement on new loans to keep the cash-strapped nation from defaulting on its debts. Thursday's agreement will be transmitted to fund executives in Washington and presented to the IMF's 24-member executive board for review in the coming days. The board usually approves its negotiators' deals. In Buenos Aires, President Eduardo Duhalde told local radio that the country would dip into its reserves to make a one (B) billion US dollars payment it owed to the IMF on Friday. Until now, he had refused to make most debt payments to international lenders, saying it risked his ability to control monetary policy. It is expected that the new loans will total around six (B) billion dollars, enough to meet obligations to the IMF and other multilateral lending institutions through midyear and facilitating presidential elections on April 27. A successor to Duhalde is to take office on May 25. Argentina failed to meet a 680 (M) million dollars payment due on Wednesday to the Inter-American Development Bank. In November, Argentina defaulted on all but a fraction of an 805 (M) million dollars loan due the World Bank. A default to the IMF would have cut the country off from its last source of foreign loans. The news of the agreement received a mixed response in Argentina. In Buenos Aires, many banks these days look more like bunkers, having fortified themselves against the near-daily protests that have seen many financial institutions ransacked. On the streets, some Argentinians said the agreement would put the country on the road to normality, while others said that it simply provided more money for the country's corrupt political elite to steal. Economic and political analyst Rosendo Fraga said that the agreement would just postpone Argentina's problems for the new government to be elected in April.

SENATOR CHUCK SCHUMER NEWS CONFERENCE FS7X83 1715 SCHUMER PRESSER FS7 83 18;02;38;10 Donald Trump talks about making America secure. Security begins at home. He never should have had such a sensitive discussion in such a public place. Senate Democrats News Conference on Nomination of Steve Mnuchin to be Treasury Secretary SCHUMER: OK, good evening, everyone. Sorry we're late. My fault. Senator Casey and Wyden were here and I'm happy to be joined (AUDIO GAP) and I want to thank them for their tireless efforts to protect consumers and fight for the middle class. Now over the course of the 2016 campaign, we heard from candidate Trump time and time again that he'd be tough on Wall Street. He held rallies lambasting elites, criticizing bankers and hedge fund managers. He said, quote, "I'm not going to let Wall Street get away with murder. Wall Street has caused tremendous problems for us." That is candidate Trump. So what does President Trump do when he takes office? Let's go to the tape. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) CANDIDATE TRUMP: The hedge fund managers, the Wall Street investor is the powerful protecting only the powerful. I fight for you. WARREN: But he's already started attacking the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which holds powerful people accountable when they misuse (inaudible). That's a broken promise. CANDIDATE TRUMP: When you (inaudible), just picture a Wall Street board room filled with the special interests and imagine the look on their faces when you tell them, you're fired. SPEAKER: But unfortunately he lied. His chief financial adviser comes from Goldman Sachs and his cabinet is filled with billionaires and Wall Street insiders. Another broken promise. CANDIDATE TRUMP: I'm not going to let Wall Street get away with murder. Wall Street has caused tremendous problems for us. SPEAKER: Instead of cracking down on Wall Street, he's rolling over. That's a broken promise. CANDIDATE TRUMP: I'm going to do what's right for the people and I'm going to do what's right for the country. And I'm for a (inaudible) term. SPEAKER: The president has already (inaudible) a rule that would protect the retirement savings from unethical investors. That's a broken promise. (END VIDEOTAPE) SCHUMER: Now, as you just saw, candidate Trump told America, when you cast that ballot, just picture a Wall Street board room filled with special interests and imagine the look on their face when you tell them, you're fired. But President Trump told Steve Mnuchin, a hedge fund manager and Wall Street insider with decades of experience in that board room, you're hired as my Treasury secretary. That is a broken promise. Candidate Trump told America in 2015 that, quote, "The hedge fund guys are getting away with murder." But with one of his first executive orders President Trump started the process to roll back Wall Street reform, trying to undo protections we put in place after the financial crisis to eliminate the threat of banks being too big to fail, and ensure that systematically risky institutions like AIG could no longer cripple the entire financial system. And candidate Trump promised to fight for the American worker and middle class families, but now he wants to eviscerate the one agency that sticks up for consumers when they're being ripped off by payday lenders, debt collectors -- the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. A president who was a true champion for working America would never even consider unwinding protections that were designed to make our financial system more secure and protect hardworking Americans from the risky practices of Wall Street. Unfortunately, President Trump is already proving he is not that champion, by breaking key promises to stand up to Wall Street and fight for the middle class, the working class. Senator Wyden. WYDEN: Thank you, Senator Schumer. The leader said it very well. Look, the public is obviously getting used to broken promises, but you'd think a guy who personally embraced a rule named after himself would want to stick to it for a while. That has not been the case with the Mnuchin rule. Let me quote specifically what Steve Mnuchin said. He said, and I quote, "Any reductions we have in upper income taxes would be offset by less deductions, so there would be absolutely -- there would be no absolute tax cut for the upper class." (inaudible) is that already that promise from Steve Mnuchin is on the ropes. If you look at what the Trump tax plan is all about, if you look at what Republicans have advocated in the past with respect to the Affordable Care Act, what you see is their tax legislation is a Trojan horse to come up with new tax rates for the most fortunate. And I think that's why we wanted to gather today to make sure that the word got out that we have a different set of priorities. Our priorities are twofold. One, we're focused on working families. Two, we keep our word. And I want to turn this over to Senator Casey, and I appreciate that Senator Schumer asked me to join him. CASEY: I was struck by that video. I never saw the juxtaposition of those promises with what's happened since. I was also struck when we went back today and looked at what some of the first words that we heard from Steve Mnuchin when he was nominated to be Treasury secretary, way back at the end of November, where he said the following. This was in a headline -- November 30 headline in Politico. Quote, "Dodd-Frank will be targeted," Mnuchin says. That's the legislation that helped us deal with the circumstances that the country faced after the crash and after the -- and just prior to the great recession, which, by one estimate cost the country $19 trillion in household wealth and something like 8.7 million jobs. It's remarkable that in light of those -- in light of that history that he would appoint someone whose -- almost their first word released back in November were that he was going to go right at Dodd- Frank. And then of course the president, with his executive order, put him in charge of coming up with a plan to do just that. What we should expect from a public servant, especially one who would be in charge of the Treasury Department, such a substantial responsibility, we would hope that we would have someone who would be on the side of people that have lived through some of those nightmares that we saw in 2008 and 2009 and going forward. Here's a report from a television station in Pittsburgh, WTAE, an investigative report. The headline on the text of the report is, "Trump pick for Treasury secretary foreclosed on hundreds -- hundreds -- of homeowners in western Pennsylvania." It focuses in particular on Nellie Millenich (ph). She's from Westmoreland County, just east of Pittsburgh. Here's what Nellie says. Let me just give you the background. Nellie and her husband -- or I'm sorry, Nellie -- in this case there was a mortgage in place but Nellie then lost her husband to cancer. She lost her son to an overdose, and then she lost her home to One West Bank, headed by Mr. Mnuchin. Here's the most important part, though, is about what she had asked for. She asked One West to help her keep the house by adjusting her payment, but she said the bank refused and then foreclosed on her. Here's what Nellie says. Quote, "They should have worked with me to meet a payment that I could make." She filed for bankruptcy, but even then could not save her house. She said it caused her, quote, "A lot of depression," unquote. And then the report goes on to talk about those hundreds and hundreds of foreclosures. I say that because there was a dispute on the record between what Mr. Mnuchin said about mortgage foreclosures and mortgage modifications. Of course a modification is a lot better circumstance for a homeowner. But just coming into the Treasury secretary job with that kind of a record causes me great concern, and it's one of several reasons why I'll vote against his confirmation. But when you step back and put it in the context of this administration and those promises that you saw by Candidate Donald Trump as opposed to the actions of President Donald Trump, I think the country is justifiably concerned, and I think it's our job to hold both the Treasury secretary, were he to be confirmed, and the president accountable. SCHUMER: Thank you, my colleagues. Just one other point while we're talking about broken promises. Candidate Trump campaigned as a friend of the working people. His nominee for Labor secretary is so anti-working people that it's appalling. Tonight there's even consternation on the Republican side about his moving forward, and I would urge President Trump to withdraw the nomination of Mr. Pudzer for Labor secretary as well. Questions to any of us. Yes? QUESTION: Can I ask a question about one of President Trump's employees, Michael Flynn, has come under fire for some controversy about whether or not he's supposed to meet ambassador to Russia, about sanctions. Sean Spicer says that current -- president has evaluated the situation. Do you agree with leader Pelosi that President Trump should fire Michael Flynn? What role does Congress have in investigating... SCHUMER: Well, first, we have asked for and demanded an independent investigation of what Flynn's discussions were with the Russian ambassador and all others, and we'll be saying more about that soon. Second, his security clearance ought to be withdrawn until that independent investigation is completed, and if he has violated any law or ethical precept, he ought to be fired. QUESTION: Have Democrats yet decided on their strategy for nominations going forward beyond the current batch? Have you guys (inaudible) use up all 30 hours going forward again? SCHUMER: Well, as we've said, you know, we feel we have done the country a service by exposing these nominees for who they are in terms of their conflicts of interest, in terms of their views, which are contrary to what candidate Trump said, and in terms of their not cleaning -- they don't represent average Americans. They represent a whole bunch of billionaires. And for the big eight we're going to give them full scrutiny, and there may be others we give full scrutiny to as well. Yes? QUESTION: Senator, can you comment on Senator Elizabeth Warren's letter that she sent this morning regarding Andy Pudzer? Is that... SCHUMER: I haven't seen her letter so I couldn't comment on it. I've said what I've had to say about Pudzer the last few minutes. Yes. QUESTION: Senator, can you talk a little bit about Prime Minister Netanyahu's upcoming visit. Are you going to be meeting with him? SCHUMER: I am going to be meeting with him, both with a group of senators and privately. QUESTION: Senator, have you seen the pictures that arose from some of the members of Mar-a-Lago who were nearby the dinner table where Donald Trump was reacting to the missile test by North Korea? SCHUMER: Yes. QUESTION: What do you make of the fact that that was addressed in such a public setting. SCHUMER: I'd say Donald Trump talks about making America secure. Security begins at home. He never should have had such a sensitive discussion in such a public place. QUESTION: Thanks, Senator. Regarding North Korea and their test last week, what sort of options do you see for Congress moving forward to exercise oversight of the Trump administration? SCHUMER: Well, look, to me, first, I don't know if they've done it today, but as of yesterday while it was very good that the president issued a statement with the president of Japan, he should do the same with South Korea, who is more in the firing line of North Korea than any other country. And second, we need to increase pressure on China. China is the key to the North Korea problem. They control 90 percent of the exports and imports, and if China were really tough with North Korea, they'd have to stop. Thank you, everybody.

AP-APTN-1830: Afghanistan Bank Saturday, 4 September 2010 STORY:Afghanistan Bank- REPLAY Concerned residents withdraw money from troubled bank LENGTH: 01:50 FIRST RUN: 1330 RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only TYPE: Dari/English/Nat SOURCE: AP TELEVISION STORY NUMBER: 656655 DATELINE: Kabul - 2/4 Sep 2010 LENGTH: 01:50 AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY SHOTLIST September 4, 2010 1. Wide exterior of Kabul Bank 2. Sign reading (English) "Kabul Bank" 3. Wide of Kabul Bank customers waiting in line 4. People coming out of Kabul bank branch 5. Various of people outside Kabul Bank branch 6. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Mohammad Nawaz, Kabul Bank customer: "After we heard the news, we have come to Kabul Bank to close my account, but it is very busy here, a lot of people are here to withdraw their money." 7. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Mohammad Habib Angar, Kabul Bank customer: "For the time being I want to withdraw my money and then I will wait to see what will happen next. If the bank is able to create confidence, for sure I will put my money back in Kabul Bank because I do not want to close my account." September 2, 2010 8. Wide of press conference by Afghan Finance Minister Omar Zakhilwal 9. Mid of podium 10. SOUNDBITE (English) Omar Zakhilwal, Afghan Finance Minister: "My message to all the depositors is: their money is safe, the government of the Afghanistan bank is standing behind Kabul Bank, we know the money is there, they must not panic. If they need their money on a regular basis they can withdraw it. But to panic and say their money will be lost, I guarantee to them it will not be." September 4, 2010 11. Exterior of Kabul Bank branch 12. Close of Western Union sign 13. Man carrying money STORYLINE Nervous Afghans pulled more deposits out of the nation's largest bank on Saturday, despite assurances from government leaders that their money was safe. Crowds gathered at Kabul Bank branches around the capital to withdraw US dollar and Afghan currency savings, with customers saying they had lost faith in the bank's solvency following a change in leadership and reports that tens of (m) millions of dollars had been lent to political elites for risky real estate investments. "After we heard the news, we have come to Kabul Bank to close my account, but it is very busy here, a lot of people are here to withdraw their money," said Mohammad Nawaz, head of an Afghan aid group who had been trying for three hours to withdraw the 15-thousand US dollars in his account. Mohammad Habib Angar, a calligrapher, said he was taking out most of his Afghan and dollar savings, but wasn't ready to close his account. "For the time being I want to withdraw my money and then I will wait to see what will happen next. If the bank is able to create confidence, for sure I will put my money back in Kabul Bank because I do not want to close my account," Angar said. The bank run that began earlier in the week undermines efforts by the central government to build an efficient political and financial system to drag Afghanistan out of its dire poverty. Afghan Finance Minister Omar Zakhilwal assured depositors on Thursday that their money was safe. "If they need their money on a regular basis they can withdraw it. But to panic and say their money will be lost, I guarantee to them it will not be," he said. Problems at the bank could also have wide-ranging political repercussions since it handles the pay for Afghan public servants, soldiers and police in the unstable nation beset by a Taliban insurgency, widespread drug trafficking and the plundering of aid money. While there was little apparent sign of panic, the deputy commander of the international coalition in Afghanistan said contingency plans were being drawn up to respond in the event of unrest. Kabul Bank's woes further underscore entrenched problems with cronyism and corruption, with (m) millions of dollars in deposits allegedly loaned to relatives and friends of the ruling elite to buy property in financially troubled Dubai. The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that Kabul Bank's losses could exceed 300 US dollars (m) million - more than the bank's assets. In addition, The Washington Post said Afghanistan's central bank had ordered Kabul Bank's newly resigned chairman to hand over 160 (m) million US dollars in Dubai real estate holdings. On Thursday, President Hamid Karzai reassured anxious bank customers, saying every penny of their deposits would be guaranteed by the government. "The Kabul Bank is safe," Karzai said in comments echoed by the country's central bank governor and independent banking association. Calls to bank executives rang unanswered on Saturday and it wasn't clear how much had been withdrawn. 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AP-APTN-2230: ++US Facebook Wednesday, 1 February 2012 STORY:++US Facebook- +4:3 Facebook to go public with Wall Street launch eight years after foundation LENGTH: 02:37 FIRST RUN: 2230 RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only TYPE: English/Nats SOURCE: AP TELEVISION/FACEBOOK STORY NUMBER: 726006 DATELINE: Various, 1 Feb 2012/recent LENGTH: 02:37 AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY FACEBOOK VNR - AP CLIENTS ONLY SHOTLIST: AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY Menlo Park, California - 1 February 2012 +16:9+ 1. Various of Facebook signage outside headquarters AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY Raleigh, North Carolina - 30 January 2012 +4:3+ 3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Brian Hamilton, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Sageworks: "Based on preliminary numbers, this company could trade between 18 and 25 times sales and basically almost at 50 to 100 times profit. Which you know is really a rich valuation." FACEBOOK VNR - AP CLIENTS ONLY FILE: Palo Alto, California - 23 September 2011 +16:9+ 4. Various of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg on stage AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY Menlo Park, California - 1 February 2012 +16:9+ 5. Close-up of street sign reading: (English) "Hacker Way AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY Raleigh, North Carolina - 30 January 2012 +4:3+ 6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Brian Hamilton, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Sageworks: "It looks like there's positive cash flow from operations, it looks like there's positive earnings - that's positive. However, again you really have to look at the valuation of the company, what is it based upon? When you look at other IPOs (Initial Public Offering) and they're coming out and they're three to five times sales and this company is coming out at possibly 18-20 to 25 times sales with a very high earnings multiples, it means that the company quite frankly is priced in a very rich way. Which means in a year from now or six months from now there's potential downside on the price if you come in on the IPO." AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY Menlo Park, California - 1 February 2012 +16:9+ 7. Wide of Facebook workers outside headquarters AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY Raleigh, North Carolina - 30 January 2012 +4:3+ 8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Brian Hamilton, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Sageworks: "Facebook is the dominant company in its position. It is the social media empire. So the branding is great, the consumers like it, it's growing. There is some question by the way as to whether or not they're bumping up against demand, but this whole IPO is about valuation. If you're coming in right now and the company is priced too high it leaves potential for downside on price in six months to a year." AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY Menlo Park, California - 1 February 2012 +16:9+ 9. Mid of Facebook workers outside headquarters AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY Raleigh, North Carolina - 30 January 2012 +4:3+ 10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Brian Hamilton, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Sageworks: "I think this company is coming into an existing trend right now, meaning the IPO market over the last 12 months has begun to become a little bit more frothy. There's companies that are going public very successfully they're raising money. The economy seems to be turning a bit. So they're coming in at a good time. I don't believe that this is going to be the beginning of a big IPO trend, they're actually just kind of riding the wave right now." AP TELEVISION - AP TELEVISION CLIENTS ONLY New York City - 1 February 2012 +16:9+ 11. Various Facebook screen shots STORYLINE: The Internet social network Facebook made a much-anticipated status update on Wednesday saying it is going public eight years after its computer-hacking chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg started the service at Harvard University. Its debut is likely to be the most talked-about initial public offering (IPO) since Google in 2004. If its IPO of stock makes enough friends on Wall Street, Facebook will probably make its stock-market debut in three or four months as one of the world's most valuable companies. In its regulatory filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Facebook Inc. indicated it hopes to raise five (b) billion U.S. dollars in its IPO. That would be the most for an Internet IPO since Google Inc. and its early backers raised 1.9 (b) billion U.S. dollars in 2004. The final amount will likely change as Facebook's bankers gauge the investor demand. Some financial analysts fear that some investors will become so enamoured with Facebook's brand and brawn that the will try to buy the IPO share with little financial analysis or recognition of the risks. The CEO of financial information company Sageworks, Brian Hamilton, said there is significant risk in buying initial stock in Facebook. "Based on preliminary numbers, this company could trade between 18 and 25 times sales and basically almost at 50 to 100 times profit. Which you know is really a rich valuation," Hamilton said. "If you're coming in right now and the company is priced too high it leaves potential for downside on price in six months to a year," he added. However, joining corporate America's elite would give Facebook newfound financial clout as it tries to make its service even more pervasive and expand its audience. It also could help Facebook fend off an intensifying challenge from Google, which is looking to solidify its status as the Internet's most powerful company with a rival social network called Plus. The intrigue surrounding Facebook's IPO has increased in recent months, not only because the company has become a common conduit -for everyone from doting grandmas to sassy teenagers - to share information about their lives. Zuckerberg, 27, has emerged as the latest in a lineage of Silicon Valley prodigies who are alternately hailed for pushing the world in new directions and reviled for overstepping their bounds. In Zuckerberg's case, a lawsuit alleging that he stole the idea for Facebook from some Harvard classmates became the grist for a book and a movie that was nominated for an Academy Award last year. Even before the IPO was filed, Zuckerberg was shaping up as his generation's Bill Gates - a geek who parlayed his love of computers into fame and fortune. Forbes magazine estimated Zuckerberg's wealth at 17.5 (b) billion U.S. dollars in its most recent survey of the richest people in the U.S. Depending on how long regulators take to review Facebook's IPO documents, the company could be making its stock market debut around the time that Zuckerberg celebrates his next birthday in May. The IPO filing casts a spotlight on some of Facebook's inner workings for the first time. Among other things, the documents reveal the amount of Facebook's revenue, its major shareholders, its growth opportunities and its concerns about its biggest competitive threats. What's not in there, yet, is Facebook's market value. That figure could hit 100 (b) billion U.S. dollars, based on Facebook's rapid growth and the appraisals that steered investors who bought stakes while the company was still private. 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TVU 11 BERNIE SANDERS LONG BEACH CA RALLY ABC UNI 080619 2020 financial system in this state. And let me thank Vivian, for the work that she is doing in the trade union movement and for public education. I'm here tonight with several reasons. I'm here to ask for your help to win the Democratic primary in the great state of California. I'm here tonight to ask for your help to win the Democratic nomination. I am here tonight to ask for your help to defeat the most dangerous president in the history. And I'm here tonight to ask for even more. Because our job is not just to defeat Trump, and his racism and xenophobia, and his sexism. Our job together is to transform this country. Create a government and an economy that works for all of us, not just for one person. And his friends are working all the time trying to divide us up, which is what demagogues always though. demagogues are cowards, And they are bullies. Pick on people who are politically helpless. Well, we got news for Donald Trump. We allow ourselves to be divided up, we're gonna come together, black and white, Latino, gay and straight. And we are going to get together as one people to tell the corporate elite, they will no longer get it all, that this country, Our government belongs to all of us, not just a few. Now, in Congress and in the corporate media, There is not a whole lot of talk about perhaps the most important domestic issue that we face. And that is the grotesque level of wealth and income inequality. Congress may not talk about it, Media may not talk about it, we will talk about is not acceptable to me, nor the American people, that today we have three people owning more wealth than the bottom half of American society. It is not acceptable that the top 1% now owns more wealth than the bottom 92%. It is not acceptable that at a time when millions of people in Vermont, California and all over this country are working two, three jobs to keep their heads above water, That 49% of all new income goes to the top 1%. It is not acceptable that CEOs of major corporations Now make 300 times what that workers bank. It is not acceptable that half of our people are living paycheck to paycheck. And that's the reality in America, we're going to talk about it. But More importantly, we're going to do something about it is not acceptable that in this great country, wealthiest country in the history of the world, We have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country on Earth. And I get sick and tired of hearing politicians tell us how much they love America. But apparently they do not love the children. If you love America, you will love our children. When we talk about what goes on in our economy, What we have seen in the last 3040 years, is a massive transfer of wealth from the middle class and working class of this country to the top 1%. Over the last 30 years, The Top 1% listen to the top 1% have seen a $21 trillion increase in their wealth. Bottom 50% have seen a $900 billion decline in their well. So whether the 1% likes it or not, We are going to create an economy where there is a fair distribution of wealth and income. We're going to create an economy where all of our people, our children, our elderly, our veterans, but working families of this country Enjoy a decent standard of living. Now, how does that happen? How does it happen that after all of the speeches, and all of the party platforms and all of the legislation that we are in a moment in history where we have so much income and wealth inequality, We are in a moment when a 40 million people living in poverty. We are in a moment where tonight 500,000 fellow Americans will be sleeping out on the streets or an emergency shelters. How does that happen? And I will tell you exactly how it does. It happens because we have a corporate elite whose religion is great. This is a corporate elite that literally wants more and more tax breaks for the rich and large corporations. And then they come to Congress, they say cut social security, cut medicare cut medicaid cut education. This is a corporate elite, where last year on Wall Street, the five largest banks made 110 billion dollars in profit. This is a corporate elite, which charges the American people by the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. And top 10 companies pay $69 billion in profit. This is a corporate elite, where the insurance industry make 23 billion in profits Last year. And they work overtime trying to deny people the claims that they are entitled to. This is a corporate elite, where the fossil fuel industry last year made $48 billion While their product is destroying our planet. This is a corporate elite, where the top 10 defense contract is made $26 billion in profit, while the political Pentagon has not yet had a successful independent audit. So that is what we are up against. We are up against people who have incredible economic power, who have incredible political power, because as a result of that disastrous Citizens United Supreme Court decision, billionaires are now able to buy elections. Because I want to be honest with you. And to tell you that when we speak about our campaign, We're not just talking about Bernie, what we are talking about us, not me Looking a catchy bumper sticker? Well, yes, it is. What it is far more than that. It is a profound philosophical and political statement. When we talk about us that me, what we understand is that we are in this together. That means that my job is an American citizen, is to worry about the needs of you and your family. And your job is to worry about my family. That's what being in it is to get it right. But there is another profound political statement. When we talk about us, stop me. So Let me tell you what I know of a presidential candidate, I will tell you, And that is no president, not Bernie Sanders, or anybody else can do it alone. I wish I could tell you otherwise. I wish I could tell you both Bernie, elect me president, I'm going to deal with all of the concerns of America. But if I told you that I would be lying to you, and I'm not gonna lie to you. So when we talk about us, not me, What that means is the only way we transform this country, is when millions of people from Vermont to California begin to stand up and create an unprecedented grass roots movement, a grassroots movement that looks around them, and says that the status quo may be working for the billionaire class, but it is not working for ordinary Americans. And together, we're going to change that. Going to stand up to Wall Street and break up the major financial institutions. To stand up to the drug companies. We are gonna stand up to the fossil fuel industry and tell them, no longer Will they be able to destroy our planet. We're gonna spend on to the private, profitable corporations and the 1%. And tell them that under a Bernie Sanders administration, Yes, they all got to start paying their fair share of taxes. When we talk about why nothing significant happens on the Republican leadership, and has everything to do with the power of the corporate elite. And let me give you one tragic example of that everybody here, has seen and heard and been entirely demoralized, by the tragedies that we have seen in the last week right here in California. And I'll Pass Paso, in Dayton, Ohio. And we shake our heads and we we ask ourselves, how could it possibly be that in this country, we have deranged people who walk into a mall at Walmart for walk into an active social area nightclubs, take out a gun and start killing our fellow Americans. And this is the moralizing This is painful, This is hard to even talk. But from coast to coast with the American people, I say we have got to do something about this insane. This is not me talking not you talking. This is what the American people what they want common sense God safety legislation. Word says we're gonna expand background checks to make sure that nobody in America owns a gun, who should not have the right tone of going there that we're going to do away with the gun show loophole that we're going to make sure that when somebody legally walks into a gun shop and buys many guns, that that person is not allowed to the strawman provision to sell those guns to criminal elements. And margin. This has been my view for 30 years. And I think the American people are catching on now. That assault weapons of war, our weapons of war, designed to kill as many people as possible in a short period of time, and more and more Americans understand that we must ban the sale and distribution of assault weapons, ideas, these radical ideas, this is what the American people want. So How come? How come Congress in the Senate, how come the Senate is not passing this legislation? And The answer is that the Republican leadership is intimidated by the NRA. Tonight, I say to the Republican leader in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, have the guts. I have the guts to stand with the American people have the guts to stand up to the NRA, bring us back to Washington, let us pass common sense. Right. Now, when we talk about where we must go, I want to tell you, I want to thank you, because over the last four years because of your efforts, We have made some real progress in this country When I came to California, Four years ago. And I said, you know, maybe we should raise the minimum wage to a living wage. For years ago, that seemed like a radical and crazy idea. I am happy to tell you now that seven states in this country, including California have done to tell you that several weeks ago, the US House of Representatives did just go No, I say, again, to the cowardly Republican leadership in the Senate, do the right thing, Bring the house bill to the floor of the Senate. And let us pass a $15 an hour. And By the way, it's not just raising that minimum wage to a living wage. It is also making it easier for workers to draw in union. And when we talk about wages, Together, we're going to end the absurdity of women making 80 cents on the dollar. We believe in equal pay for equal work. Four years ago, when I came to California, I said, you know, in a competitive, global economy, We have to rethink what public education means it's no longer good enough to talk about public education being K through 12. And we have got to make public colleges and universities to we should pray was over again, that was a radical idea. You can't do that. Bernie, Well, guess what, here in California and all over this country and in New York, State streets, and communities are moving forward to make public colleges and universities tuition free. Well, years ago, I said, you know, we got an absurd situation, in that we have told our young people that in order to get ahead to do the right thing, You need to go to college, you need to get a good education, and you've got to go out there and get the good jobs that are available. That's what we told the young people and they did. And the result of that is millions of young people graduated school or they dropped out of college, deeply in debt. How many people here Oh, college that I should have asked how many people do not have college. 45 million Americans are now dealing with death, that amounts to about $1.5 trillion. And I was I learned about this couple of years ago, When a young lady in Burlington, Vermont, who was a doctor working at a community health center. When she said, Bernie, look, I love my job. I'm so happy I was able to go to medical school, but I'm $300,000 in debt. And I couldn't believe that. And then I heard in Iowa young woman telling me, she went to dental school for $100,000 in debt. And we got people who go to graduate school, I sat down with some young people from Howard University, we're going to be teachers there 100, hundred and $50,000 in debt as they prepare to go into the teaching profession. So I thought about all of this stuff. And I thought about talking to people from coast to coast, who literally cannot get married and have kids. Because of this. They can't buy a home because of their student debt. They can't buy a car because of their student debt every month, they're paying off that student debt. Meanwhile, the millennial generation, For the first time in the modern history of America will unless we turned it around, have a lower standard of living and their parents. So the conclusion that I reached is that if we could bail out 11 years ago, the crooks on Wall Street. If Trump and his friends can give over a trillion dollars in tax breaks to the top 1% and large, profitable corporations, if they could do that, we can cancel Oh, I'll tell you people say well, Bernie, you know, you want to make public colleges, four year colleges, two year colleges, tuition free, you want to cancel all student debt. That's an expensive proposition. It is. It is about a $2.2 trillion dollar program over a 10 year period. But we are going to pay for that. By asking our good friends on Wall Street who we bailed out. We're going to impose a very modest speculation tax on Wall Street, which will raise more than enough money. So we're going to stop thinking small and start thinking big. We cannot any longer afford tax breaks for billion years, Huge military budgets Analysts was We have to focus on the needs of the working families of this country and catch on. Well, years ago, I came to California, And I said, you know, if every major country on earth can guarantee health care to all of their people as a right, so can United States. And once again, we were told this is a radical and extreme idea, something the American people will never go for. Well, guess what? Whoa, after poll after poll shows us that that is exactly what the American people want. American people now understand It is that it is absurd that we maintain a dysfunctional system in which today 87 million Americans are either uninsured completely zero insurance, or under insured with large deductibles and co payments. American people understand that we cannot maintain a system in which 30,000 American's die each year because they don't get to the doctor when they should, because they're underinsured or they are under insured. The American people understand that it is totally grotesque and immoral. That this year 500,000, Americans will go bankrupt, because they suffered a serious illness and cannot afford to pay their medical bills. The American people I mean, just think about that for a moment. If you are sick, if you're struggling with cancer or heart disease, you got to focus on getting better. That's what your mission is, you should not have to worry about your family going bankrupt, simply because you had a serious illness. The American people understand. The American people understand that it is unacceptable. That in America, we pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. A week ago, Sunday, I was in Windsor, Ontario with a number of people from the Midwest. And we went to Canada In order to purchase insulin, although the people that I went with were diabetic. And they need insulin to stay alive. We went to Windsor, Ontario, And we bought the exact same vial of insulin that they bought in the United States for one 10th of the price. And it's not just insulin is prescription drug after prescription drug sold in Canada or sold in Europe at a fraction of the price that is sold here in the United States. And the American people are sick and tired of the greed of the pharmaceutical industry. Now, my critics, my critics. And By the way, what you are going to see Mark my words on this one, What you will see is the healthcare industry, which made $100 billion last year. For the that's the drug companies and the insurance companies alone made 100 billion dollars a year profits are soaring for the healthcare industry, When so many of our people are unable to go to the doctor or they become bankrupt. These greedy people will spend hundreds of millions of dollars to defeat our effort to pass Medicare for all and they're going to say Oh, this is so complicated, It's going to disrupt the system. And that is absolutely untrue. It's going to bring stability to the system. Right now, Every single year 50 million Americans lose the private insurance they have, Whenever you change your job, You likely lose your private insurance. If you quit your job, you'll lose it. If your employer says Hey, Joe, guess what, we've changed insurance companies, you got a new insurance policy 15 million people every single year. And what we are simply doing is taking the most popular Health Insurance Program in America, which is called Medicare. All right, we are expanding Medicare benefits for the elderly to include dental care, hearing aids and I glasses. And then in year one over four year period, this is all that it is. We start off right now. Medicare eligibility is 65. year one, we cover all of the children, we expand those benefits, We go from 65 down to 55. There are millions of people in this country who are 6062, who have no health insurance or an adequate health insurance, who are desperately trying to get into Medicare, wait till they're 65, we are going to lower that age to 55 first year. Second year 35. Third you. And then we come back every man, woman and child with comprehensive health care. This is comprehensive health care, including dental care, including mental health care. This is health care, which says no more premiums, no more deductibles no more out of pocket expenses. In Canada, if you have a heart transplant, If you have any kind of serious surgery and you're in the hospital for weeks or months, when you come out, there is no bill. That is what a civilized democratic society is about. On the murder capital, they're gonna be a lot of lies about what we're trying to do. It means the freedom of choice regarding any doctor you want any hospital you want, any clinic you want. Bottom line here is this really is not a debate about health care, because it is impossible for anyone to defend a dysfunctional healthcare system in which we spend twice as much per person as through the people of any other country. And yet we have so many people uninsured underinsured, we pay outrageous prices for prescription drugs, nobody can defend that. So what this is all about is whether we have the capability of standing up to the greed of the healthcare industry, which made 100 billion in profits. Last the thought is what this struggle is about. What I believe and I know you believe, is the function of health camp is to provide quality camp for all not making the insurance companies and the drug companies unbelievably rich. And when I looked at health care, I see it is a human rights issue. When we talk about the greed, and the dysfunctionality of Washington, We cannot not speak about the crisis of climate change. Now we have a president, We have a president who among many other attributes, happens not to believe in science is too busy is too busy spreading is racism, and sexism and xenophobia, to read any literature about the crisis of climate change. But all of you know that the debate over climate change is over. The scientists are virtually unanimous in telling us not only the climate change is real, But it is bringing mass destruction, not just to the United States, but the countries all over the world. And what the scientists tell us that this is pretty scary. They say we have less than 12 years to transform our energy system, away from fossil fuel to energy efficiency and sustainable energy, Or else there will be irreparable damage done to our planet. Now, my view is that it is not acceptable That the fossil fuel industry destroy this planet for their short term profits. And that is why. And the other point that we have to know is the climate change, as everybody here knows Donald Trump doesn't quite get it. It's not just an American issue, it is obviously a global issue. That's what it is. So Our job is the most powerful nation on Earth, where we have great scientists and great engineers. Our job is not only to transform our own energy system, but lead the world and transforming a global energy. Now, I maybe I may be a little bit utopian here, but this is what I will try to do, can guarantee that will succeed. But as President of the United States, what I will do is reach out to Russia, and to China, and to India and Pakistan and Brazil and the countries in Africa and Asia all over the world. And make it clear that it is insane that we as a planet Continue to spend a trillion and a half dollars on weapons of destruction designed to kill each other. But instead of spending money to kill each other, We've got to use those resources to come together to combat our common enemy. And when we do when we transform our energy system, We will create millions of decent paying union jobs in this country, and jobs all over the world. And we say to our brothers and sisters who work in the fossil fuel industry, we understand that you are struggling to feed your families, you are not our enemy. And there will be a just adjustment. For those workers who are displaced, We will get them the jobs, the education and the health care that they deserve. When we talk about prices in America, That should not exist in the wealthiest country on Earth, We must talk about the crisis in affordable housing. So now as I mentioned earlier, in America, We're going to have over 500,000 people sleeping out on the streets or an emergency shelters. Today In America, we have some 18 million families Spending 50% of their limited incomes on housing. What Our job is, is to make it clear that just as healthcare is a human rights, justice, education is a human right. So is the right to have affordable, decent housing. There are many, many things that we have got to do, we have to build seven, 8 million new units of affordable housing. We have to build Low Income Housing rental units to make sure that we get people off of the streets, We have to put more money into the section eight program. We have to give communities around this country the flexibility to do rent control, if that is what they want to do. I know that rent control, Get some real estate people a little bit nervous. Does it get me nervous, I grew up in a rent controlled apartment. And we have got to end gentrification acceptable that real estate developers and speculators come into a community and buy up the housing, the affordable housing the working class people have lived in, in some cases for their entire life. And then they build the units and only the wealthy can afford them. So we're gonna give communities the tools to combat gentrification. And by the way, if a developer wants to come in and build expensive housing, We're going to tell him, he's also going to build affordable housing at the same time. Let me say a word to our immigrant brothers and sisters. I am the proud son of an immigrant. Like many other families in America, my father came to this country At the age of 17, came alone, without a nickel in his pocket, couldn't speak a word of English, and came with very limited education. And he never made much money. But he became the proudest American you ever saw because he saw what this country could do for him and his family. So I say to Donald Trump, I and all of the other immigrant families in this country, we help build America. We have done the dirty work, we have done the dangerous work. And we are sick and tired of Trump demonizing PMD, Greg, We will pass comprehensive immigration reform for the 11 million undocumented citizens. My first day in office, I will sign an executive order to restore legal status to the 1.8 million people. We will remain policy which understands that about mom and our children travel 1500 miles to escape violence and poverty, they are not criminals, we will treat them with respect. And when we are in the white house together, We are going to finally reform a broken and racist criminal justice system. This is America and we will not have more people in jail, disproportionately African American, Latino and Native American than any other country on Earth. The destructive so called war on drugs, fund the records of those people arrested for marijuana. Together, we are going to invest, you know young people in jobs and education, not more jails and more incarceration. Today in America, 20% of the people in jail, are guilty of one thing. And that is they are poor and cannot afford cash. People should not be in jail, because they cannot afford bail. We're gonna catch bell. Tonight, we say to all Americans, but especially the women, that we get sick and tired of hearing politicians, conservative politicians saying we want to get the government off of our backs. We believe in small government. Well, if you want to get the government off the backs of the people, If you believe in small government, then understand that it must be women who control their own bodies. No politician. This campaign is the most consequential in the modern history of this country. We're not just talking about economics. We're not just talking about ending racism and sexism and homophobia and religious bigotry. We're not just talking about climate change and trying to save the planet. We are talking about saving democracy. Democracy for the president, who obviously has not read the Constitution of the United States. separation of powers. Now, at the end of the day, This is the last point that I want to make. At the end of the day, the top 1% have unlimited, And I use the word unlimited amounts of wealth and power. They control the economy. They own the media, and through their campaign contributions. They are able to elect all kinds of candidates from the Senate to the house to governance all over this country. They are enormously powerful and do not for a moment, underestimate their power. But at the end of the day, the 1% is 1% And We are 99 we stand together And we don't allow Trump to divide us up because of the color of our skin or where we were born to the language that we speak or our sexual orientation or our religion. If we come together Brothers and sisters we can transform this country Let's go out parking for us today. Yes sir. But they didn't tell us He was just making criminal threats and efficient with police state they didn't say Wj said that's my story. That's why I'm Hey guys. 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NAME: SWI WEF3 20100127I TAPE: EF10/0084 IN_TIME: 10:36:13:13 DURATION: 00:03:57:21 SOURCES: AP TELEVISION DATELINE: Davos, 27 Jan 2010 RESTRICTIONS: SHOTLIST 1. Wide of opening plenary of the World Economic Forum''s annual meeting, Swiss President Doris Leuthard, Klaus Schwab opening 2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF): (++PARTLY OVERLAID WITH WIDE OF SCHWAB++) Our fellow human beings in Haiti desperately need our help to rebuild their destroyed country, to restore their lives. Haiti''s devastation harshly underscores the common humanity that we share. We all want to unite in Davos to reconstruct Haiti and encourage a long term, sustained economic course. And tomorrow, President Clinton and I will launch a special initiative in this respect." 3. Wide of audience 4. French President Nicolas Sarkozy walking onto stage, shaking hands with Schwab 5. Cutaway of audience 6. Wide of Sarkozy at podium 7. Sarkozy speaking 8. SOUNDBITE (French) Nicolas Sarkozy, French President: "Ladies and gentlemen, without state intervention, everything would have imploded: total collapse. This is not a matter of liberalism or state intervention, or socialism, of left or right. This is a fact." 9. Wide of stage 10. SOUNDBITE (French) Nicolas Sarkozy, French President: "It is not a crisis in globalisation, this crisis is a crisis of globalisation. It is a vision of the world, which at a given moment in time revealed its failings. It is our vision of the world that we must therefore correct." 11. Wide side view of Sarkozy on stage 12. SOUNDBITE (French) Nicolas Sarkozy, French President: "Free trade and competition are only means, not ends. Let us not confuse the means and the end objective that we must set ourselves. From the moment we accepted the idea that the market was always right and that no other opposing factors needed to be taken into account, globalisation skidded out of control." 13. Mid of Schwab listening 14. SOUNDBITE (French) Nicolas Sarkozy, French President: "It (globalisation) gave rise to a world in which everything was given to financial capital: everything. And almost nothing to labour, in which the entrepreneur, the entrepreneur gave way to the speculator, in which those who lived on unearned income left the workers far behind, in which the use of leverage - we''ve all heard this buzz word, the leverage - this use of leverage to an unreasonably disproportioned extent created a form of capitalism in which taking risks, playing with other people''s money, preferably other people''s money, was the norm." 15. Wide of stage 16. SOUNDBITE (French) Nicolas Sarkozy, French President: "If we do not change banking regulations, if we do not change prudential rules, if we do not change accounting rules - and this is not only a matter of experts, technique, expertise, if we don''t do all that then we are we leading the sort of capitalism we want? What do we want with this capitalism of ours?" 17. Wide of Sarkozy on stage 18. Sarkozy shaking hands with Schwab STORYLINE French President Nicolas Sarkozy offered a broad riposte to unrestrained free-market capitalism at the World Economic Forum, telling the gathering of business and political elites to prepare for tighter regulations including new accounting rules and executive pay limits. Sarkozy, giving the keynote address on Wednesday, said the risks were too great if "we do not change the regulation of our banking system and the rules for accounting and prudential oversight." He expanded his criticism to target what he considers reckless free trade, profits without job creation and currency manipulation. "Finance, free trade and competition are only means, not ends," Sarkozy said. "From the moment we accepted the idea that the market was always right and that no other opposing factors need to be taken into account, globalisation skidded out of control." The French leader''s speech contrasted with much of the tone on the opening day of the five-day conference in Davos, where business leaders warned that a flood of new regulations risked choking off a global economic recovery. Sarkozy chose a key moment, just hours before President Barack Obama''s first State of the Union address, where he is expected to address reforming Wall Street. Bankers at Davos, however, disagreed. Peter Sands, the CEO of Britain''s Standard Chartered Bank, added that his industry already has been fundamentally changed by tighter regulations and supervision, while Deutsche Bank Chairman Josef Ackermann said everybody would lose if governments clamp down on markets too zealously. Sarkozy, however, called for a regulatory and cultural upheaval. He called for stimulus packages to be withdrawn slowly so they don''t alarm jittery markets. But he laid down the gauntlet to chairmen and CEOs in attendance by saying excessive profits and pay packages would no longer be tolerated when they have no relationship to the creation of wealth and jobs. Free trade, he added, has weakened democracy because it has been prioritised above all else. Sarkozy also praised Obama''s efforts to move banking away from reckless speculation, and raised the question of tougher taxes on banks to ensure safer investment policies and combat poverty. Earlier, during his speech at the opening ceremony Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the WEF, pledged to help Haiti rebuild and embark on a sustained economic course after the devastating earthquake there earlier this month. Schwab said he would launch a special initiative for Haiti together with former US President Bill Clinton on Thursday.

NAME: ASIA MARKETS 2 20070301I TAPE: EF07/0254 IN_TIME: 10:59:48:19 DURATION: 00:03:45:18 SOURCES: AP TELEVISION/TV TOKYO DATELINE: Various, 1 March 2007 RESTRICTIONS: See Script SHOTLIST: AP Television Beijing China 1. Wide of exterior of stock trading centre 2. Wide of interior of stock trading centre 3. Close-up of bulletin board indicating Shanghai Composite Index 4. Pan from stock buyers looking at board, to board 5. Wide of interior of stock trading centre 6. Mid of stock buyers in front of computers 7. Close-up of computer screens 8. Set up of Professor Peng Zhan 9. Close-up of computer screen 10. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Peng Zhan, Professor, Chinese Academy of Social Science: "Those stockholders and organisations manoeuvre the direction of the Chinese stock market in the back door. It has always been like that. The plunge yesterday had been conspired long before." 11. Close-up of stock bulletin board 12. Various of interior of stock trading centre Ap Television Tokyo, Japan 13. Wide pan of Tokyo Stock Exchange 14. Mid shot of traders 15. Close up of trader watching board showing stock price index 16. Wide shot of board showing stock price index 17. Close up of stock price index 18. Wide shot of Tokyo Stock Exchange TV TOKYO - No Access Japan Tokyo, Japan 19. Wide shot of Shiozaki walking into press briefing 20. SOUNDBITE: (Japanese) Yasuhisa Shiozaki, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary: "My understanding hasn't changed from the last time we spoke. Basically the Japanese economy is right on the recovery track." 21. Wide shot of press briefing AP Television Mumbai - India File, Recent 22. Exterior of stock exchange AP Television Mumbai - India, 1 March 2007 23. SOUNDBITE (English) Mr. M.A. Parameshwar - Director Shreyas Stocks Pvt.Ltd: "Looking at the investor we would say it is a short term pain and long term gains, that you would have in this market, because these are all temporary factors you are seeing, and when these sort of events happen, yes there there is some meltdown here and there, but on the whole I think clearly a short term pain and long term gain here." 24. Cut away of people trading 25. SOUNDBITE (English) Mr. M.A. Parameshwar - Director Shreyas Stocks Pvt.Ltd: "Other factor to be noted here is it is a month of March,and there will be realignment as far as brokerage house and others are concerned, but the fact of matter is I think very soon about 500 points downslide, that's maximum, I don't see any much fall beyond that, I think from here we looking at upside we looking at about 16000 mark, maybe in next 6 months or year is very much possible. 26. Parameshwar looking at a computer AP Television Manila, Philippines 27. Wide shot of the Philippine Stock Market opening 28. Electronic board 29. Trader smiling while on the phone 30. Wide shot of trading floor 31. Various of traders looking at the electronic graphs 32. SOUNDBITE (English) Ismael Guerrero Cruz, president of IGC Securities Inc: "Yesterday we dropped at close eight percent so we are seeing this morning a very healthy recovery, so the panic is over." 33. Wide shot of trading floor STORYLINE Major Asian stock markets retreated for a third session on Thursday amid persistent unease about the global economy despite an overnight rebound on Wall Street that was buttressed by upbeat comments from U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. But others had made a complete recovery. Shares in Tokyo and Shanghai fell more than one percent, while markets in Australia, Hong Kong, and Malaysia retreated mildly. But smaller markets in New Zealand and the Philippines rebounded. Chinese stocks fell modestly on Thursday. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index fell 1.7 percent by midday to 2,831.57 and the smaller Shenzhen Composite Index was 0.5 percent lower at 733.05. On Tuesday, the Shanghai index tumbled nearly 9 percent, triggering a sell-off in global markets, before rebounding almost 4 percent on Wednesday. An analyst from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences said he thought the slump was conspired by an "elite group" of privileged Chinese. "Those stockholders and organisations manoeuvre the direction of the Chinese stock market in the back door. It has always been like that. The plunge yesterday had been conspired long before," said Professor Peng Zhan. Other Analysts said investors were taking their cues from the lingering malaise in other markets, especially Hong Kong, where the key Hang Seng Index was down 0.46 percent at 19,561.61. The H-share index, which measures mainland Chinese-registered companies with shares traded in Hong Kong, was 0.87 percent lower. On the region's biggest bourse, the Tokyo Stock Exchange, the benchmark Nikkei 225 Index fell 150.61 points, or 0.86 percent, to finish at 17,453.51 after being down by as much as 1.5 percent. Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary remained upbeat however. "My understanding hasn't changed from the last time we spoke. Basically the Japanese economy is right on the recovery track," Yasuhisa Shiozaki said. Hong Kong stocks were down 0.6 percent, while Kuala Lumpur and Sydney dipped 0.3 percent and 0.2 percent respectively. Chinese stocks continued their roller-coaster ride, with the Shanghai Composite Index down 1.7 percent by midday to 2,831.57. The index had plunged 8.8 percent on Tuesday, sparking a global financial market sell-off, before rebounding nearly four percent on Wednesday. The losses underlined lingering worries about the global economic outlook. While analysts said the global jolt was most likely a correction to cool overheating markets, some said market volatility could persist for months. Mr. M.A. Parameshwar, Director Shreyas Stocks, said from Mumbai, India, described the situation as "a short term pain and long term gain." The meltdown began on Tuesday - just one day after Chinese stocks hit a record - as investors unloaded Chinese shares to lock in profits amid speculation about a fresh round of austerity measures from Beijing to slow the nation's sizzling economy. Stock brokers at the Bombay Stock Exchange in Mumbai say it's a case of short term pain for a long term gain. "These are all temporary factors you are seeing, and when these sort of events happen, yes there there is some meltdown here and there, but on the whole I think clearly a short term pain and long term gain here, " Mr. M.A. Parameshwar told AP television. In Asia, some markets that posted big losses on Wednesday were already rebounding as investors hunted for bargains. In the Philippines, the key index bounced back 4 percent to 3,190.12 after tumbling 7.9 percent Wednesday in its biggest single-day drop since 1997, at the height of the Asian financial crisis.

WASH 9 DONALD TRUMP MONESSEN PA POLICY SPEECH POOL C16 062816 14:20:34 Today, I am going to talk about how to Make America Wealthy Again. Have to do it. We are thirty miles from Steel City. Pittsburgh played a central role in building our nation. The legacy of Pennsylvania steelworkers lives in the bridges, railways and skyscrapers that make up our great American landscape. But our workers' loyalty was repaid, you know it better than anybody, with total betrayal. Our politicians have aggressively pursued a policy of globalization - moving our jobs, our wealth and our factories to Mexico and overseas. 14:21:22 Globalization has made the financial elite who donate to politicians very, very wealthy. I used to be one of them. Hate to say it, but I used to be one. But it has left millions of our workers with nothing but poverty and heartache. When subsidized foreign steel is dumped into our markets, threatening our factories, the politicians have proven they do nothing. For years, they watched on the sidelines as our jobs vanished and our communities were plunged into depression-level unemployment. Many of these areas have still never recovered. And never will, unless I become president. Then they're gonna recover fast. Our politicians took away from the people their means of making a living and supporting their families. Skilled craftsmen and tradespeople and factory workers have seen the jobs they loved shipped thousands and thousands of miles away. 14:22:40 Many Pennsylvania towns once thriving and humming are now in a state of total disrepair. This wave of globalization has wiped out totally totally our middle class. It doesn't have to be this way. We can turn it all around - and we can turn it around fast. But if we're going to deliver real change, we're going to have to reject the campaign of fear and intimidation being pushed by powerful corporations, media elites, and political dynasties. The people who rigged the system for their benefit will do anything - and say anything - to keep things exactly as they are. 14:23:32 The people who rigged the system are supporting Hillary Clinton because they know as long as she is in charge nothing will ever change.The inner cities will remain poor.The factories will remain closed. The borders will remain open.The special interests will remain firmly in control.Hillary Clinton and her friends in global finance want to scare America into thinking small - and they want to scare American people out of voting for the better future and you have a great future folks, you have a great future. These people have given her tens of millions of dollars. My campaign has the absolute opposite message.I want you to imagine a much better life and a life where you can believe in the American dream again. 14:24:34 Right now you can't do that. I want you to imagine how much better our future can be if we declare independence from the elites who've led us to one financial and foreign policy disaster to another. Our friends in Britain recently voted to take back control of their economy, politics and borders. I was on the right side of that issue as you know- with the people - I was there, I said it was going to happen, I felt it, while Hillary, as always, stood with the elites, and both she and president Obama predicted that one, and many others, totally wrong. Now it's time for the American people to take back their future. 14:25:45 That's the choice we face. We can either give in to Hillary Clinton's campaign of fear, or we can choose to Believe In America. Very sadly we lost our way when we stopped believing in our country. America became the world's dominant economy by becoming the world's dominant producer. You know that from right here, right in this plant. The wealth this created was shared broadly, creating the biggest middle class the world had ever known. But then America changed its policy from promoting development in America, in, in, in America to promoting development in other nations. That's what's happening and that's what's happened. We allowed foreign countries to subsidize their goods, devalue their currencies, violate their agreements, and cheat in every way imaginable. 14:27:04 Trillions of our dollars and millions of our jobs flowed overseas as a result. I have visited cities and towns across this country where a third or even half of manufacturing jobs have been wiped out in the last 20 years. Today, we import nearly $800 billion more in goods than we export. Can't continue to do that. This is not some natural disaster. It is a political and politician-made disaster. Very simple and it can be corrected and we can correct it fast when we have people with the right thinking right up here. It is the consequence of a leadership class that worships globalism over Americanism.This is a direct affront to our Founding Fathers, who wanted America to be strong, they wanted this country to be strong and they wanted it to be independent and they wanted it to be free. 14:28:24 Our Founding Fathers Understood Trade much better than our current politicians believe me. George Washington said that "the promotion of domestic manufacturing] will be among the first consequences to flow from an energetic government." Alexander Hamilton spoke frequently of the "expediency of encouraging manufacturing] in in in the United States." 14:29:08 And listen to this, the first Republican President, Abraham Lincoln, warned that: "The abandonment of the protective policy by the American government. will produce want and ruin among our people." He understood it much better than our current politicians. That's why he was Abraham Lincoln, I guess. Our original Constitution did not even have an income tax. Instead, it had tariffs - emphasizing taxation of foreign, not domestic, production. Yet today, 240 years after the Revolution, we have turned things completely upside-down. We tax and regulate and restrict our companies to death, then we allow foreign countries that cheat to export their goods to us tax-free. 14:30:17 How stupid is this. How can it happen. How stupid is this. As a result, we have become more dependent on foreign countries than ever before. Ladies and Gentlemen, it's time to declare our economic independence once again. That means voting for Donald Trump, I'll do it, no doubt about it, not even a little doubt, it also means reversing two of the worst legacies of the Clinton years. America has lost nearly one-third of its manufacturing jobs since 1997 - even as the country has increased its population think of this by 50 million people. 14:31:20 At the center of this catastrophe are two trade deals pushed by Bill and Hillary Clinton. First, the North American Free Trade Agreement, or the disaster called NAFTA. Second, China's entry into the World Trade Organization. NAFTA was the worst trade deal in history, it's like the history of this country, and China's entrance into the World Trade Organization has enabled the greatest job theft in the history of our country. It was Bill Clinton who signed NAFTA, people don't remember, in 1993, and Hillary Clinton who supported it. And the havoc that it wreaked after he left office was unbelievable. It was also Bill Clinton who lobbied for China's disastrous entry into the World Trade Organization, and Hillary Clinton who backed that terrible, terrible agreement. 14:32:28 Then, as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton stood by idly while China cheated on its currency, added another trillion dollars to our trade deficits, and stole hundreds of billions of dollars in our intellectual property. And I have been talking about China for many years and you know what nobody listened but they are listening now that I can tell you.The city of Pittsburgh, and the State of Pennsylvania, have lost one-third of their manufacturing jobs since the Clintons put China into the WTO.Fifty thousand factories across America have shut their doors in that time. And this factory because of your great owners, Gabe and Gloria. It's hanging in, hanging in but they just told me it's not easy. 14:33:36 Almost half of our entire manufacturing trade deficit in goods with the world is the result, and it's the result of trade with China.It was also Hillary Clinton, as Secretary of State, who shoved us into a job-killing deal with South Korea in 2012. As reported by the Economic Policy Institute in May, this deal doubled our trade deficit with South Korea and destroyed nearly 100,000 American jobs.As Bernie Sanders said, Hillary Clinton "Voted for virtually every trade agreement that has cost the workers of this country millions of jobs." 14:34:28 Trade reform, and the negotiation of great trade deals, is the quickest way to bring our jobs back to our country. To understand why trade reform creates jobs, and it creates a lot of them, we need to understand how all nations grow and prosper.Massive trade deficits subtract directly from our Gross Domestic Product.From 1947 to 2001 - a span of over five decades - our inflation-adjusted gross domestic product grew at a rate of 3.5%.However, since 2002 - the year after we fully opened our markets to Chinese imports - that GDP growth rate has been cut in half. 14:35:26 What does this mean for Americans? Not good. For every one percent of GDP growth we fail to generate in any given year, we also fail to create over one million jobs. What a waste, and what a sad sad thing. America's "job creation deficit" due to slower growth since 2002 is well over 20 million jobs - and that's just about the number of jobs our country needs right now to put America back to work at decent wages. Wages are very low because there is no competition and they are going to go up because we are going to thrive again as a country. The Trans Pacific-Partnership is the greatest danger yet. 14:36:34 The TPP as it is known would be the death blow for American manufacturing.It would give up all of our economic leverage to an international commission that would put the interests of foreign countries above our own.It would further open our markets to aggressive currency cheaters, cheaters that's what they are cheaters, they are not playing by the rules they are cheating. It would make it easier for our trading competitors to ship cheap subsidized goods into U.S. markets - while allowing foreign countries to continue putting up barriers in front of our exports. Which is what they do it is very hard to export to their countries, they make it very difficult. We on the other hand come on in everybody come on in. Bad leadership. 14:37:33 The TPP would lower tariffs on foreign cars, while leaving in place the foreign practices that keep American cars from being sold overseas. That's not all, mark my words, China will enter the TPP through the backdoor at a later date. They are watching, they are studying, they're not in it now, but they're gonna be in it. If it's good, they'll be there. By the way if it's no good, they'll pass. Same way, always is. The agreement would also force American workers to compete directly against workers from Vietnam, one of the lowest wage countries on Earth. Not only will the TPP undermine our economy, but it will undermine our independence. That's what's happening. The TPP creates a new international commission that makes decisions the American people are no longer given the right to veto. 14:38:35 These commissions are great for Hillary's Wall Street funders who can spend vast amounts of money to influence the people on the commissions and the outcomes. It should be no surprise then that Hillary Clinton, according to Bloomberg, took a "leading part in drafting the Trans-Pacific Partnership". Please remember that, especially in November. She praised or pushed the TPP on 45 separate occasions, and even called it the "gold standard". Hillary Clinton was totally for the TPP just a short while ago, but when she saw my stance, which is totally against, she was shamed into saying she would be against it too - 14:39:32 And I will tell you, it was the same shame that she had recently where she was sort of forced into saying radical islamic terrorism, which she didn't want to say, but she was shamed into that. But have no doubt that she will immediately approve it if it is put before her, and that is guaranteed. She will do this just as she has betrayed American workers for Wall Street and throughout her career, her whole career. She has betrayed the American worker. She's trying to put on a good front now, she will betray you again. Her career and her husband have signed so many disasters and never ever forget NAFTA, just never ever forget it because you know what it's done, and I know what it's done. And in touring I've seen the devastation that it's left behind. 14:40:36 Here's how it would go: she would make a small token change, declare the TPP pact fixed, and ram it through and you will suffer. That's why Hillary is now only saying she has problems with the TPP "in its current form," you know what that means, that means they'll make a little two word change and she'll fix it and she'll feel great but she says in its current form, she can rush to embrace it again and she will at the earliest opportunity. 14:41:08 If the media doesn't believe me, I have a challenge for you and Hillary. Ask Hillary Clinton if she is willing to withdraw from the TPP her first day in office and unconditionally rule out its passage in any form. There is no way to "fix" the TPP. We need bilateral trade deals. We do not need to enter into another massive international agreement that ties us up and binds us down, like TPP does. A Trump Administration will change our failed trade policies and I mean quickly. Here are 7 steps I would pursue right away to bring back our jobs. 14:42:20 Number one: I am going to withdraw the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which has not yet been ratified. I'm going to appoint the toughest and smartest, and I know them all, trade negotiators to fight on behalf of American workers. I'm going to direct the Secretary of Commerce to identify every violation of trade agreements a foreign country is currently using to harm you, the American worker. I will then direct all appropriate agencies to use every tool under American and international law to end these abuses, and abuse is the right word. Number four: I'm going tell our NAFTA partners that I intend to immediately renegotiate the terms of that agreement to get a better deal by a lot, not just a little, by a lot, for our workers. 14:43:58 And If They do not agree to a renegotiation, which they might not because they are so used to having their own way, not with Trump they won't have their own way. Then I will submit notice under Article 2205 of the NAFTA agreement that America intends to withdraw from the deal. Number Five: I am going to instruct my Treasury Secretary to label China a currency manipulator, which should have been done years ago. Any country that devalues their currency in order to take advantage of the United States, which is many countries, will be met with sharply, and that includes tariffs and taxes. 14:45:04 Six: I am going to instruct the U.S. Trade Representative to bring trade cases against China, both in this country and at the WTO. China's unfair subsidy behavior is prohibited by the terms of its entrance to the WTO, and I intend to enforce those rules and regulations and basically I intend to enforce the agreements for all countries including China.. Seven: If China does not stop its illegal activities, including its theft of American trade secrets, I will use every lawful presiden--- hey look this is very easy, this is so easy- I- I love saying this, I will use every lawful presidential power to to remedy trade disputes, including the application of tariffs consistent with Section 201 and 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 and Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 and when they say Trade expansion they are talking about other countries they are not talking about us because there is no expansion. They get the expansion we get the joblessness that's the way it works. Not gonna happen anymore. 14:46:47 President Reagan deployed similar trade measures when motorcycle and semiconductor imports threatened U.S. industry, I remember. His tariff on Japanese motorcycles was 45% and his tariff to shield America's semiconductor industry was 100%. And that had a big impact folks a big impact. Hillary Clinton, and her campaign of fear, will try to spread the lie that these actions will start a trade war. We already have a trade war and we are losing badly, baaadly. She has it completely backwards.Hillary Clinton unleashed a trade war against the American worker when she supported one terrible trade deal after another - from NAFTA to China to South Korea it doesn't matter, no matter where she went, the american worker was hurt and you will be hurt worst than ever before if she becomes president of the US that I can tell you. 14:48:05 A Trump Administration will end that war by getting a fair deal for the American people, and the American worker. The era of economic surrender will finally be over. It will be over, you're not gonna see it anymore. Although I can't guarantee it because after me they'll probably start doing it again, but we will have 4 and maybe 8 great great great productive years and we'll never go back and we'll make sure we never go back. A new era of prosperity will finally begin. America will be independent once more, independent once more doesn't that sound great. Under a Trump Presidency, the American worker will finally have a President who will protect them and fight for them. 14:49:19 We will stand up to trade cheating, cheating, cheaters that's what they are cheaters, we will stand up to trade cheating anywhere and everywhere it threatens the American job. We will make America the best place in the world to start a business. We'll hire workers and we'll open factories, and we'll get rid of these horrible regulations that make it impossible to do business in this country. This will also include massive tax reform to lift the crushing burdens on American workers and businesses. We will also get rid of all of these rules and all of these problems and all the bureaucracy which are destroying, absolutely destroying our job creation capacity, which we used to be the best in the world and now we're getting close to the bottom folks, we're getting close to the bottom. 14:50:31 Many people think that these regulations are an even greater impediment than the fact that we are one of the highest taxed nations in the world. We are also going to fully capture America's tremendous energy capacity. This will create vast profits for our workers, and that's what we want, for our workers, growth for our economy and begin reducing our budget deficits, which are massive, yearly budget deficits massive, our trade deficits, we don't even wanna talk about it. Our budget deficits are massive. Hillary Clinton wants to shut down energy production and shut down the mines and she wants to shut down and she said it just recently she wants to shut down the miners. I want to do exactly the opposite. 14:51:30 A Trump Administration will also ensure that we start using American steel for American infrastructure. And aluminum. Just like the American steel from Pennsylvania that built the Empire State building, that's what we're gonna do, that built the Empire State Building. It will be American steel that will fortify American's crumbling bridges, American steel, it will be American steel. It will be American steel that sends our skyscrapers soaring, soaring into the sky, beautiful sight, more beautiful with American steel. It will be American steel that rebuilds our inner cities. 14:52:26 It will be American hands that remake this country, and it will be American energy - mined from American resources - that powers this country. It will be American workers who are hired to do the job. Nobody else, American workers. We are going to put American-produced steel and aluminum, back into the backbone of our country. This alone will create massive numbers of jobs. High paying jobs, good jobs. Not the jobs we have today. Which everybody agrees are bad jobs, We are going to create massive number of good jobs. 14:53:24 On trade, on immigration, on foreign policy, we are going to put America first again. We are going to make America wealthy again. We are going to reject Hillary Clinton's politics of fear, and her policy of absolute nonsense because it's not working and it's grossly incompetent and we can't take it any longer and we're not going to take it any longer. We are going to embrace the possibilities of change, but real change, not Obama change, real change.. It is time to believe in the future. It is time to believe in each other. It is time to Believe In America again. This Is How We Are Going To Make America Great Again - For All Americans. For all Americans. 14:54:48 We Are Going To Make America Great Again For Everyone - Greater Than Ever Before and I promise you if I become President we are going to be working again, we are going to have great jobs again, you are going to be so happy, you are going to be proud of your president, you are going to be proud proud proud of our country once again. Thank you very much I appreciate it. Thank you, thank you I appreciate it. Thank you very much. . Thank you. MONESSEN, PA - In his first campaign stop since returning from Scotland, presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump stopped in steel country, addressing a crowd of about 150, outlining a seven point plan to bring jobs back to the United States to deal with what he called "failed trade policies." Announcing a twist on his campaign slogan made during this economic speech, Trump outlined a seven point plan to "Make America Wealthy Again," and claimed that the country was robbed by the "financial elite" of which he "used to be" part. "The legacy of Pennsylvania steelworkers lives in the bridges, railways and skyscrapers that make up our great American landscape. But our workers' loyalty was repaid you know it better than anybody with betrayal," Trump said in Alumisource, a steel mill in Western Pennsylvania. 14:20:34 "Our politicians have aggressively pursued a policy of globalization - moving our jobs, our wealth and our factories to Mexico and overseas," he added. "Our politicians took away from the people their means of making a living and supporting their families. Skilled craftsmen and tradespeople and factory workers have seen the jobs they loved shipped thousands and thousands of miles away." 14:20:34 But a reminder of our previous reporting, that Donald Trump has manufactured ties, suits and dress shirts overseas. (See this ABC News report <http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-admits-gear-made-china-labels/story?id=13472355>) And ABC's David Muir reminded Trump just last week that he has done the same thing he continues to hammer Hillary Clinton on - outsourcing jobs. "I openly say I do it," Trump told Muir. "But you know what, let them charge me a tax when the ties come back in. Let then charge me a tax. I'd love to be able to not do it. And the way we're not going to be able to do it and the way people will stop doing it and stop moving, as an example, Carrier announced they're laving 1,400 great people that have worked for them for many, many years and they're moving to Mexico. If they know that there's a price to pay in bringing their air conditioners back into this country, they're not going to move. And we don't want them to move." While standing in front of an unusual background (what I observed as "bales of aluminum" or garbage on television), Trump slammed globalization and said that it made "the financial elite" very wealthy, noting that "I used to be one of them. Hate to say it." He went on to criticize NAFTA, the World Trade Organization, and the work of Bill Clinton's administration as well as Hillary Clinton's time as Secretary of State, accusing her of standing "idly" by "while China cheated on its currency, adding another trillion dollars to our trade deficits, and stole hundreds of billions of dollars in our intellectual property." 14:32:28 "I've been talking about China for years but they didn't listen, but they're listening now," Trump said. 14:32:28 Trump outlined seven steps he would take to help bring back American jobs lost to globalization, including withdrawing the U.S. From the Trans-Pacific Partnership, renegotiating the terms of NAFTA, order the Secretary of Commerce to identify trade agreement abuses and "direct all appropriate agencies to use every tool under American and international law to end these abuses." 14:42:20

Ohio Clock Stakeout - Republican & Democratic Congressional leadership hold separate press avails following caucus luncheons. Slugged: RS35 1230 OHIO CLOCK 71 Disc # 652 AR: 16X9 SEN. MITCH MCCONNELL, R-KY., SENATE MINORITY LEADER, HOLDS A MEDIA AVAILABILITY FOLLOWING A CLOSED POLICY LUNCHEON 14:14:44MCCONNELL: Hello. You missed us terribly, right? Yes, I can tell by the sad expression on your face. 14:15:06 Obviously, the biggest issue on the agenda as we return from the Easter break is the question of financial regulation. 14:15:24 We've taken a good look at the Dodd bill that came out of the Banking Committee on a party-line vote, and one thing you can say for sure about it, it provides for an endless taxpayer bailout of Wall Street banks. 14:15:38 In other words, perpetuates the one thing the American people have said they don't want to happen again, which is to have their tax money used to prop up the a large failed institution. 14:15:52 I believe that there is overwhelming Republican opposition to that kind of approach, and the ranking member of the Banking Committee, who's been working with Senator Dodd, hoping to get a better proposal, is with us today, and I'm going to ask him to address the issue. 14:16:04 But finally, I would say all signs we get from the White House is they're not interested in talking, they're not interested in making a deal with us. They want to jam through a totally partisan bill. And if they do that, and it looks like the Dodd bill, it will guarantee perpetual taxpayer bailout of Wall Street banks. With that, let me turn to Senator Shelby. SHELBY: Thank you, Mr. Leader. 14:16:41 We've been working on this regulatory reform bill for about 15 months now, and we've had endless hearings. You know what happened in the committee, as Senator McConnell just said. The Dodd bill came out on a partisan vote. 14:16:53 What we're looking for is a bipartisan solution to some tough problems. That is, too-big-to-fail, I think, trumps it all. And there are a lot of other things that we're continuing to work with. 14:17:03 I continue to work with Senator Dodd. Our staffs are working as we speak. We are hoping to come together on a substantive bill. But I think that the Dodd bill, as Senator McConnell just alluded to, would enshrining the too-big-to-fail. I've pointed this out from the beginning, after the markup, and will continue to do this. 14:17:24 SHELBY: But we can get a good bill, if they will meet us halfway. And they haven't yet. I hope they will. We continue to be open. But we're not open to a bad bill, because that would be continuing what we're doing. It will not be in the taxpayers' interests. It will not create jobs. It will not be in the people's interest, period. MCCONNELL: We'll take a few questions, if there are any. QUESTION: Are you and Senator Reid (ph) meeting with the White House regarding a Supreme Court nominee? And what would you like to see out of a nominee? 14:17:54 MCCONNELL: Well, obviously, that's the president's prerogative. We intend to evaluate the nominee, once he or she is put forward, and not prejudge the outcome. And, you know, beyond that, I really couldn't go because I think it's clearly up to him who he chooses to pick. 14:18:23 Most of my members have been historically concerned about judicial activism, but we'll have to wait and see who the president nominates, and we'll go from there. QUESTION: Senator McConnell, your conference was remarkably unified throughout the health care debate. Will you compare that unity to where you are with financial regulatory reform? 14:18:41 MCCONNELL: Well, I think the financial regulatory debate is just beginning with the larger community. The public is just beginning to focus on it. 14:18:54 I had thought, I gather somewhat naively, that this was going to go forward on a relatively bipartisan basis. Now, all indications are -- and many of you have written about it -- that the White House is pulling people back from bipartisan negotiations. Their goal is to have the most far-left proposal they can. That's the proposal that came out of the Banking Committee in the Senate. And it institutionalizes and sets up in perpetuity taxpayer funding of bailouts. That's not something I think Republicans are likely to agree to. QUESTION: And you think that will bring overwhelming Republican opposition. Is that unanimous Republican opposition? 14:19:32 MCCONNELL: Well, as we go forward, we'll keep you posted. QUESTION: There's a report out that you and Senator Cornyn went to New York last week to meet with elite hedge fund managers and other Wall Street executives. Is that true? QUESTION: And how much did those discussions play into your decision to oppose the... MCCONNELL: Was the first part of your question what? QUESTION: That you and Senator Cornyn, there's a... MCCONNELL: Yes, we've had... QUESTION: ... report that you went to meet with hedge fund executives. MCCONNELL: ... we've had a number of... QUESTION: How much did that play into your decision (inaudible)? MCCONNELL: ... we've had a number of conversations not only in the past couple of weeks, but over the past few months with people who are affected by this. But the most influential people I've heard from have been the community bankers in Kentucky. I think there's widespread concern that this bill doesn't do what it's supposed to. And what we need here is truth in packaging. And this bill, make no mistake about it, is a permanent taxpayer bailout of Wall Street banks. That is not what the American people have in mind. 14:20:26 And as far as people's advice about it, we're happy to get it from all sources. I've certainly been visited by a number of community bankers in Kentucky on the subject. QUESTION: Senator McConnell, this morning (inaudible) you gave some pointed criticism about things you don't like that are in the bill, are there some areas that you need to see some things put in the bill? (CROSSTALK) 14:20:47 MCCONNELL: Well, let me tell you what ought to happen. This effort by the White House to turn this into a completely partisan bill ought to stop. They ought to tell Senator Dodd he ought to reengage with Senator Shelby. And let's get it right and do it on a bipartisan basis, which we all thought was the direction this issue was going to take over the months. 14:21:13 That apparently has stopped, and if they -- if they want to try to pass what they're going to try to pass, then they're going to have to live with the burden of advocating a perpetual taxpayer bailout of Wall Street banks. 14:21:25 I don't think that's where they want to end up. We're willing to meet them in the middle. Senator Shelby's been talking to people for a long time. It's time to get back to genuine bipartisan discussions. QUESTION: (OFF-MIKE) about allowing big banks (inaudible) allowing them to fail, but how do you -- how do you make sure that you're not in a situation where you're voting for the TARP, as you did in the last collapse (inaudible)? 14:21:51 MCCONNELL: Well, there were an overwhelming majority of members of the Senate on both parties that thought that was an emergency. That is not to say that we think it ever ought to be done again. And the goal here is to prevent in the future revisiting a situation where tax dollars have to be used to rescue large failed institutions. 14:22:14 Thanks, everybody. SEN. HARRY REID, D-NEV., SENATE MAJORITY LEADER, HOLDS A MEDIA AVAILABILITY AFTER CLOSED POLICY LUNCHEON 14:24:22 REID: The day after tomorrow is tax day. I think it's pretty clear that no one looks forward to this. (CROSSTALK) Pretty nice floor. Over at the Library of Congress, in that -- in the Members' Room, they have a beautiful room, the Members' Room. And during World War II, they carpeted all that because they needed the office space. It wasn't until we did the renovation of that that they took that carpet off and found all those beautiful floors. And (inaudible) people talk about there aren't good craftsmen anymore in America. Those floors, those are all underground cables. Really modern technology. I mean, there's (inaudible) that really are beautiful there. That building was completed around the turn of the 20th century. It was built by the Corps of Engineers. It came in ahead of time and under budget. (CROSSTALK) 14:26:04 OK, everybody, we're talking about tax season. No one looks forward to that. 14:26:13 But we have made tax day easier for people this year -- we, the Democrats, we, the administration and Congress. 14:26:21 We've done that by, we know people are worried about their homes and their wages. They're worried about making their car payment or a tuition payment for one of their children. And really, they should be able to reap the benefits of their hard work. 14:26:46 That's the reason we cut taxes for 98 percent of the American people. We gave tax cuts for buying a new car, a new home, or making their home more energy efficient, tax cuts to help families afford college and consumers to revitalize the economy. We closed many corporate loopholes, while cutting business taxes that will create jobs here at home. We've done all of that. 14:27:05 Taxpayers have saved an average of about $900 a year in Nevada, alone. And in some places in the country -- the average in the country is about $1,150. 14:27:22 So the overwhelming tax benefits that I've talked about go to 80 percent of the American people, people that make the top 20 percent didn't get the tax breaks that those that make the -- make the least amount of money. 14:27:41 And this represents change, and there's no question about that. When Republicans ran this town, they gave tax breaks to CEOs. As we know many of those jobs were shipped overseas and struggling families were told no. 14:28:00 And so, in short, the American people can't afford these policies again. But that hasn't stopped the Republicans from hanging on to some of their old policies that they want, including leaving the unemployed out to dry. 14:28:16 We're doing our very best. We're taking valuable time here in the Senate to protect the people that don't have lobbyists back here to lobby for them. These are people who have been out of work for a long time. We have never extended unemployment benefits except under emergency basis. And we can't do that now. It would set a terrible precedence for all emergencies. 14:28:45 These people lost their jobs through no fault of their own. They're struggling to make ends meet. And Mark Zandi, John McCain's chief economic adviser, said that the number one way to revitalize the economy, our struggling economy, is to give people unemployed an unemployment check. 14:29:01 So we would hope the Republicans would join with us and move one with the short-term unemployment-COBRA extension. QUESTION: On health care, as you know, the new law is supposed to put you and other members and most staff into the exchange in 2014. QUESTION: But a new Congressional Research Service report says that it's not entirely clear what will happen to your health care between now and then, because it wasn't explicit that you can keep the current federal health benefits program. Two questions. One is, is that something that you need to address, to fix? And two, what does that say, if it's murky about what happens to a member of Congress -- members of Congress, what does that say about the average American who needs to figure out what this health care plan means to them? 14:29:54 REID: This is the Coburn amendment? 14:30:03 On my trip home, for more than two weeks, people were so happy with health care reform. There was a neverending stream of people talking about how happy they were with the bill. 14:30:21 A child who has diabetes -- they now can't be denied because of this so-called pre-existing disability. The doughnut hole is filled. Twenty-four thousand small businesses in Nevada have the ability to get insurance for the first time for their employees. 14:30:34 There are many, many issues here that people are so happy about that kick in right now. There is going to have to be some oversight in this bill, as we do with every major piece of legislation. And if there's a problem with this, we'll take care of it. QUESTION: Senator, can you lay out your agenda for this work session? And back home in Nevada, you were very passionate about immigration reform, bringing that up almost as quickly as possible. Would that be part of this work session? And what will the other items be in this work session? 14:31:05 REID: We have a lot of work to do. And we're dealing, everyone has to understand, with a party of no, that they're trying to stop everything. The latest is my counterpart came on the floor today and talked about, in effect, not wanting to do regulation reform. 14:31:29 First of all, we're going to do that. Anything we bring up, they're against. This work period, we're going to have to take a look at nominations. We're going to move forward on a series of nominees very quickly. It appears we're going to have to file cloture on a lot of these. And if we have to do that, we're going to do that. That will mean some late-night votes. It will mean some speeches, showing the American people how unusual this is in the history of our country, to have a party saying no to everything. 14:32:09 We're going to do regulation reform. We're going to do food safety. We have to look at this Citizens United legislation. REID: We have to -- we're going to see when we can move to energy. We have the long-term extension of the bills that are expiring -- the legislation expiring -- I'm sorry, not bills -- that we have sent to the House. We have to work something out in conference. 14:32:44 There's -- we won't -- we won't get to immigration reform this work period. We won't get to the Supreme Court justice this weekend. We have lots of things to do and I've spent most of the caucus today visiting with my caucus as to the things we have to do and how we're going to do them. QUESTION: Senator Reid, Senator McConnell before you came to the podium accused Democrats and the administration of trying to jam through a partisan financial regulatory reform bill. I wanted to get your response to that and also what he said involving Republican opposition, which he said if you continue on the road you are with the Dodd bill there will be overwhelming Republican opposition. REID: This is a little unusual reasoning of my friend, Senator McConnell. We have a committee made up of as many moderates on this Banking Committee, Democrats, significant number of moderates who make up this committee on the Democratic side. Senator Dodd reached out to the Republicans on that committee and senators not on that committee. "Work with me," he said, "we want to have a bipartisan bill." He worked with them days, weeks and months. And finally we have to move forward on this. We couldn't get anything done. This is a good piece of legislation that Senator Dodd has reported out of that committee. Now, if the Republicans don't like this bill, they're going to have an opportunity to amend it. I think that's what they should do. We think -- we think that it's very important that we have a bill that ends bailouts by liquidating these big firms. We think a reform bill should stop an entity being too big to fail. We think that there should be transparency in how consumers deal with people that can take advantage of them in the financial world. 14:34:48: This is a good piece of legislation that is very, very timely. Wall Street took advantage of America. It's now our turn to look at Wall Street, have them contribute to a better America, and that's what this bill's all about. QUESTION: Senator Reid, on April 21st, a number of companies are supposed to come to Capitol Hill to talk about how the... REID: Who's coming? QUESTION: Like John Deere, Caterpillar, among others, who are going to be talking about how the health care (inaudible) is going to affect them as far as with their retirees. How is this supposed to help the private sector in terms of jobs? 14:35:17: REID: I don't know what Caterpillar's talking about. We'll be happy to visit with them. Overwhelming number of people -- for example, I talked to one senator today, in fact he reported to us. Senator Conrad, chairman of the Budget Committee, had a series of meetings in North Dakota. He took to those meetings chief executives of the hospitals where he was meetings, AARP representatives, chamber of commerce representatives, and a wide range of people went with him to all these meetings. And as I understood Senator Conrad's remarks, they were in keeping with the same feeling I got and the same response I got in Nevada, that is, the people support this legislation. The more they know about it, the more they like about it. For example, last night on my BlackBerry, we have two community health centers that are going to be formed in Reno, Washoe County. Just this piece of it alone, $12.5 billion to educate 20,000 health care professionals, including primary care physicians, creating 10,000 new community health centers across America, the CLASS Act, dealing with people who with disabilities. This is a good piece of legislation. 14:36:39 And if there are problems with it, we'll be happy to take a look at them. QUESTION: (inaudible) see the Senate approving START treaty this year? REID: The START treaty: I'm very happy with what President Obama has done. A presentation made in our caucus today by Senator Durbin on this issue alone shows that more than 70 percent of the American people support what the president is doing, with trying to take these nukes away from and not letting terrorists get their hands on them. The summit being held here today, I've met with a number of the leaders in town and I'm meeting with the president of Georgia later today. 14:37:29: A couple of examples: The -- I met with the president of Chile yesterday. The president of Chile is -- all of their materials that could be deemed nuclear in nature, they're not going to allow -- they'll no longer be in Chile. I think it was extremely important, it speaks volumes, that Ukraine, part of the former Soviet Union, is giving up all of their weapons-grade material, which could create a significant number of weapons. So this is good, and I'm going to do everything I can to advance this as quickly as I can. It may take until the first of the year to get it done, but I think it's important we try to get this done. This is a step forward for humanity. This is a good piece of legislation. This treaty is important. And I think that -- I can't imagine, although I've been surprised in the past, I can't imagine the Republicans saying no to this. 14:38:20: Thanks, everybody.

AP-APTN-0930: ++Serbia Election Thursday, 3 May 2012 STORY:++Serbia Election- Sunday's general election could have major impact on Serbia's EU bid LENGTH: 02:57 FIRST RUN: 0930 RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only TYPE: Serbian/Nat SOURCE: AP TELEVISION STORY NUMBER: 739374 DATELINE: Belgrade - 2 May 2012/Recent LENGTH: 02:57 AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY SHOTLIST: Belgrade - 2 May 2012 1. Mid of people waving the pro-Western Democratic Party flags at rally 2. Wide of Democratic Party supporters waving the party flags and the EU flags 3. Mid of a performer singing the Serbian national anthem at rally 4. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Boris Tadic, leader of the Democratic Party: "We shall win this 2012 election, and we shall win in 2016 as well. We will win because we have a team of people that are the strongest, they are the most competent group of people." 5. Mid of Tadic singing and dancing alongside other Democratic Party leaders at rally 6. Close of people waving flags 7. Wide of a man pushing cart of cardboard boxes across a bridge past election billboards 8. Tilt up of election billboards 9. Wide of cars parked in front of election billboard 10. Wide of people passing by various election posters Belgrade - 26 April 2012 11. Wide of pro-Russian nationalist Progressive Party rally 12. Supporters waving Serbian flags and holding banner of Serbian Progressive Party leader, Tomislav Nikolic 13. Various of supporters waving flags at rally 14. Serbian Progressive Party leader, Tomislav Nikolic, walking on stage and waving to crowd 15. Mid of supporters listening 16. Wide of Nikolic with supporters on stage Belgrade - 30 April 2012 17. Wide of Srdjan Bogosavljevic, analyst at Ipsos Strategic Marketing polling agency, discussing the latest polls in his office 18. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Srdjan Bogosavljevic, analyst: "It's very interesting to analyse what the main issues are for the voters in this election. The economy is the most important issue at hand for all voters, there's no question about that. The question of Kosovo's status and the EU admission process are not the most dominant questions in these elections, but are very important for every voter." 19. Close up of Bogosavljevic talking 20. Close up of Bogosavljevic's hands 21. Wide of man walking dog past election posters 22. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Aleksandar Ristic, small business owner: "People should go out and vote in this election. Every vote they cast can decide the fate of Serbia. Whether someone trusts or distrusts our politicians is a personal matter." 23. Close of people passing by election poster 24. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Vox pop, local resident: "The election doesn't mean anything to me. I won't vote on this election. I won't cast my ballot because I don't trust the politicians." Belgrade - 2 May 2012 25. Close of a rotating billboard depicting two local party leaders 26. Wide of an election billboard standing on a street in Belgrade, graffiti on wall reading (Serbian Cyrillic) "My Belgrade" STORYLINE: Serbia's bid to join the European Union will be strongly tested at this weekend's general election that pits ruling pro-Western democrats against nationalists who are promising jobs, economic revival and closer ties with Russia. Held in the shadows of the French and Greek ballots, some seven (m) million voters in Serbia will choose a president, a 250-seat national parliament and local councils - a triple vote held amid deep economic problems, joblessness and widespread discontent over rapidly falling living standards. Sunday's balloting is key for Serbia's plans to become an EU member, after being an isolated pariah state in the 1990s'. It also could determine whether Serbia will continue reconciling with its neighbours, including the former province of Kosovo which declared independence in 2008. The two leading contenders are the pro-EU Democratic Party and its leader Boris Tadic, who resigned as president to make way for an early presidential election, and Tomislav Nikolic, whose populist Serbian Progressive Party has Russia's support. On Wednesday Tadic spoke to supporters at a Democratic Party rally telling them he is confident of victory. "We shall win this 2012 election, and we shall win in 2016 as well. We will win because we have a team of people that are the strongest, they are the most competent group of people." In March, Tadic led Serbia's bid to gain an EU candidate status, following the long-awaited arrest of Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic. The wartime Bosnian Serb leaders were turned over to a UN tribunal in the Netherlands to face genocide charges for their part in the 1992-95 Bosnian war. Nikolic, a former ally of Milosevic who lost power in a popular revolt in 2000, has struck a chord with voters for criticizing the widespread social injustice and corruption in Serbia, and for promising jobs, financial security and billions of dollars in foreign investments if he and his party win the elections. Despite occasional outburst of nationalist rhetoric, the pre-election campaign has mainly focused on the Balkan country's flagging economy that includes a staggering 24 percent unemployment rate and a 30 (b) billion US dollars (23 (b) billion euros) foreign debt. Tadic's biggest problem remains the economic downturn and corruption within the ruling elite. Faced with the global financial crisis, which slowed down much needed foreign investments, Tadic's government has seen massive job losses and plummeting living standards. "People should go out and vote on this election," says Aleksandar Ristic, a 30-year-old with a small business in the capital of Belgrade. "Every vote they cast can decide the fate of Serbia. Whether someone trusts or distrusts our politicians is a personal matter." Progressive Party leader Nikolic, who has narrowly lost two earlier presidential votes against Tadic, claims to have shifted from staunchly anti-Western to pro-EU, and says that he wants Serbia both "in the West and the East." But, hardly anyone in the pro-democratic camp believes that the former far-right politician, who only a few years ago said that he would rather see Serbia become a Russian province than an EU member, has so dramatically shifted his stance. All recent polls have suggested that the pro-EU and nationalist camps are virtually neck-and-neck, with Tadic and his democrats slightly trailing, but with a bigger negotiating potential to attract smaller parties to form the future coalition government. Tadic has had the support of the Socialists, the party founded by Milosevic, but which has switched to a pro-EU stance. Polls indicate Nikolic would not be able to come to power without the help of a small conservative party led by former President and Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica, which is staunchly anti-EU and seeks close ties with Russia instead. Though the outgoing Serbian government was pro-Western, Serbia is traditionally an ally of Russia, which supported its opposition to the independence of Kosovo that is considered the cradle of Serbian statehood and religion. Several other parties and presidential candidates will take part in the elections, but they are considered long shots. A presidential runoff is expected in two weeks as both Tadic and Nikolic are unlikely to get more than 50 percent of the votes in the first round. Tadic has urged voters to allow him and his democrats to "finish the job" of restructuring Serbia's economy along the EU standards, and continue reconciling with its wartime foes, Bosnia and Croatia. Tadic has also overseen a more conciliatory stance toward Kosovo than Nikolic who was in Milosevic's government during a violent crackdown against ethnic Albanian separatists in 1999. Most EU countries and the United States have recognised Kosovo's independence, but not Serbia or Russia. Despite ethnic tensions it has caused, the parliamentary and presidential vote will also be held in Kosovo after the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe agreed to oversee it. Kosovo's ethnic-Albanian authorities have vowed to prevent local elections, as they would create parallel Serbian rule financed from Belgrade. 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PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE SENATOR HILLARY CLINTON (D-NY) Hillary Clinton Story City Iowa 12/28/07 1st Event HRC I think we need a champion in the white house I want to introduce buy I want to tahnnk Moline Nolan and Olivia NYDK19250S Back to Pakistan to compete in an election that she knew that she would be on the up and up and he rdeath it is a tremendous blow to pakistans stability to its effots and it put s a very bright spotlight and the business elite the military leadership as well as the failed politices of president ush ev It en after pres musharaf suppressed a free press president bush was saying he was a reliable ally our he has failed on two counts try to move Pakistan what I elieve required and waging the ward against the Taliban and our allies and so I hope in the nexdt year when president bush is still in office when I come bcack from Pakistan I called the white house and I said I have spoken to president musharayou know that they are not 3:27 musharaf getting a blan check is over - 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to reform our government the corruption and the incompetence and and the immunity of blackwarer and Halliburton and all of the crony contractors that have been profiteering from the war we waged. 3:51 is up and by and for the few and we are going to 3:20 how about appointing the qualified people You know and finally we are going to have a new beginning with ends wby ending the war in iraq I will ask the joint chiefs of staff to see exactly what planning has been done because I got in an In six days you have a unique opportunity an responsibilt ynot only the eyes of the country but also the eyes of theworld will be warching 3:56pm I ask you to caucus for me by going to your precinct but doing it for yourselves doing it for the country we love we desperately need to get back on the right track you will be standing up for others who wont be there maybe they are patrolling in iraq Who cant leave their job a lot of people need a president caucus for peoplw who aren't evern here in iowa who are worred abtou that we have lost our way that we have ignored the rule of law that we are turing into a county we dotn even recognize that America has been on it is a weighty responsibility y358 I hope that you will participate in this process of picking a president I tell you this if you will stand with me for one night I will stand and wage a fight im still here all im I promise you that every day in the white house I will think about you I will think aotu the faces and the stories I twill think about eht mitchells to rasie a beauitul family together we can do this iam confidedn and optimistic if we pick the right president we will once angain ffeel pride and hes we will make histoy together I don't think no child left behind is working imagine my surpisrse whtn I heard it was never funded the way it was promised the net result is so that we have a program one sice fits all 4:00 Ill take a fewquestions - 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TVU 27 BERNIE SANDERS SPRINGFIELD MA TOWN HALL ABC UNI 022820 2020 Sen. Bernie Sanders addressed a crowd of nearly 5000 in Springfield, Massachusetts- Sen. Elizabeth Warren's home state. Near the top of his remarks, Sanders announced that his campaign has exceeded 8 million individual contributions from 2 million donors. Sanders, seemingly in an effort to speak to young voters, urged voters to get involved the political process. 195740 "Now, I know and you know that many of your friends think politics is bullshit, right? All right. But we have got to tell them to stop complaining. We don't want to hear about how they can't afford rent, how they're not making enough money, how they're paying off their student debt, can't afford health care -- stop complaining, tell them to get involved in the political process. [cheers] The architect of the Green New Deal pointed out his use of a reusable water bottle to the crowd. 195856 "We're having a lot of fun tonight. [cheers] But -- but here is the good news. It is a great generation, but it does not vote in high enough numbers. So what we have got to do is change the culture of America. You know, people fought and died -- people fought and died for our right to vote, and we have got to stand up and fight for democracy. Get involved in the political process. [cheers] 195936 See, and I'm politically correct. Not using a plastic bottle. [cheers] Alright." Similar to the appeals Sanders made in earlier in South Carolina, Sanders asked for the support of voters in Massachusetts. 202115 "So, here we are, a few days before the important primary in Massachusetts and Super Tuesday. I am here tonight to humbly ask for your support. [cheers] I am here to ask you to bring out your friends and your family and your coworkers, so that we have the largest voter turnout in the history of the Massachusetts primary." 202502 "So ?this Tuesday?, Super Tuesday -- very important day, maybe the most important day in the whole primary process. We are here to ask your help to win here in Massachusetts, [cheers] to help us win the Democratic nomination, [cheers] to defeat Donald Trump, [cheers] and to transform this country and create an economy and a government that works for all, not just the people on top. [cheers]" TIMECODES FROM TVU 2 WTNH COVERAGE HIGHLIGHTS Apathy < Action 195740 Now, I know and you know that many of your friends think politics is bullshit, right? All right. But we have got to tell them to stop complaining. We don't want to hear about how they can't afford rent, how they're not making enough money, how they're paying off their student debt, can't afford health care -- stop complaining, tell them to get involved in the political process. [cheers] Reusable Water Bottle 195809 And we're going to win because we have the agenda that speaks to disenfranchised, disillusioned working people and to young people, as well. [cheers]All of us, as Americans, should be proud that the younger generation today is the most progressive young generation in the history of this country. [cheers] This is a generation that is anti-racist, anti-sexist, anti-homophobia, anti-xenophobia, anti-religious bigotry. [cheers] 195856 We're having a lot of fun tonight. [cheers] But -- but here is the good news. It is a great generation, but it does not vote in high enough numbers. So what we have got to do is change the culture of America. You know, people fought and died -- people fought and died for our right to vote, and we have got to stand up and fight for democracy. Get involved in the political process. [cheers] 195936 See, and I'm politically correct. Not using a plastic bottle. [cheers] Alright. Massachusetts on Super Tuesday 202115 So, here we are, a few days before the important primary in Massachusetts and Super Tuesday. I am here tonight to humbly ask for your support. [cheers] I am here to ask you to bring out your friends and your family and your coworkers, so that we have the largest voter turnout in the history of the Massachusetts primary. Winning Massachusetts 202502 So this Tuesday, Super Tuesday -- very important day, maybe the most important day in the whole primary process. We are here to ask your help to win here in Massachusetts, [cheers] to help us win the Democratic nomination, [cheers] to defeat Donald Trump, [cheers] and to transform this country and create an economy and a government that works for all, not just the people on top. [cheers] TRINT (top cut off) [19:48:00] Two million people off of the health care they have. Tried to do away with the protections that people with preexisting conditions have. When Trump was running for office, he said, well, my tax plan is going to benefit working families, not the rich. [19:48:25] Puli Aid. [19:48:30] And the benefits of that plan that he pushed through over a 10 year period goes to the top 1 percent. [19:48:43] Donald Trump said. You know. I have a different type of Republican. I'm not going to cut Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security. He lied. Take a look at his budgets year after year, calling for massive cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. [19:49:11] We are going to defeat Donald Trump. Because the American people are sick and tired of a government that works for the rich and it goes to everybody else. Sick and tired of a grotesque level of income and wealth inequality, which allows three billionaires to own more wealth than the bottom half of American society. [19:49:57] They are tired of tax breaks for the rich. When five hundred thousand Americans are sleeping out on the streets tonight. They are tired of the fact that over a forty five year period, with all of the increases in technology and productivity, the average American worker today doesn't make a nickel more in real inflation accounted for dollars than he or she did forty five years ago. The American people are sick and tired of kids not being able to afford to go to college or leaving school deeply in debt. [19:50:45] They are tired of 18 million Americans spending 50 percent of their limited incomes on housing. They are tired of not having affordable child care. So what this campaign is about is, number one, we're going to beat Trump and we're going to beat him badly. But second of all, we are in the process of putting together an unprecedented multi-racial, bow tie, generational grassroots movement. This is not just a campaign. It is a movement that says. It is a movement that says to the corporate elite, you can not have it all. [19:51:51] We're coming back. And what this campaign is doing is bringing together. Blacks and whites and Latinos, Native Americans, Asian Americans, the gay community, the straight community. We are standing together for an agenda that works for all of us, not just wealthy campaign contributors. And I'll tell you, one of the things that I'm very, very proud of and I want all of you to be proud of. Our campaign does not have a super PAC. Where you don't have billionaires putting money in an undisclosed way into a superPAC. [19:52:46] I don't go to rich people's homes begging for money. [19:52:54] Our campaign at this particular moment has received more campaign contributions, some 8 million from more Americans, about 2 million. That is more contributions from more people than any campaign in the history of the United States of America. [19:53:25] As the son of the American working class who grew up in a rent controlled apartment, I am proud to tell you that this is a campaign of the working class by the working class and for the working class. [19:53:45] And whether the corporate elite likes it or not, we intend to create a government that works for us, not just a few. [19:54:00] Now, some of you may have noticed. That the political establishment and the corporate elite are getting very nervous. [19:54:13] I read something. Just read something yesterday. Military industrial complex. He's really nervous. [19:54:24] Wall Street is getting nervous. The insurance industry is getting nervous. The drug companies who tried just the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. They're getting nervous. The fossil fuel industry looks destroying this planet, getting nervous. The prison industrial complex did get a nervous. And you know what? They have a right to get nervous with going after a. [19:55:11] But one of the things that you're hearing from the establishment now is really pretty funny, what they are saying is you see these crowds, turnouts like this all over the country make a very nervous. And what they say is they say, oh, Bernie can't be Trump. Well, I would urge them to take a look at the last 60 national polls. [19:55:47] And they will find that 56 out of 60 times would be Trump. I would urge them to take a look at battleground states like Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, weeping Trump. See, they're not worried that I can't be Trump. They're worried that we will be Trump. And the reason we're going to be Trump is because of you right now as we speak all over this country, as we approach Super Tuesday. There are thousands and thousands of people knocking on doors, making the telephone calls that we have to make. [19:56:34] That is why we won the popular vote in Iowa. Why we won New Hampshire. Why we won Nevada. And that is why we're going to win here in Massachusetts. Why we are going to win the Democratic nomination? And why, with great pleasure. We're going to beat Trump, beat him badly. And the reason. We're going to beat them is that we are going to create in November the largest voter turnout in the history of this country. [19:57:22] And that's not something that I can do alone. We got to do it together. The United States has the lowest voter turnout rate of any major country on Earth. And together we have got to change that. Now, I know and you know that many of your friends think politics is bullshit, right? All right. But we have got to tell them to stop complaining. We don't want to hear about how they can't afford rent, how they're not making enough money, and they're paying off their student debt. Can't afford health care. Stop complaining. Tell them to get involved in the political process. [19:58:09] And we're going to win because we have the agenda that speaks to this, enfranchise the solution, working people and to young people as well. [19:58:24] All of us as Americans should be proud that the younger generation today is the most progressive young generation in the history of this country. [19:58:36] This is a generation that is anti racist and sexist and tie homophobia and xenophobia and high religious bigotry. We're having a lot of fun tonight. [19:59:01] But but here is the good news. [19:59:04] It is a great generation, but it does not vote in high enough numbers. [19:59:13] So what we have got to do is change the culture of America. You know, people fought and died. People fought and died for our right to vote and we have got to stand up and fight for democracy. Get involved in the political process. So you're not politically correct. Not using a plastic bottle. [19:59:44] What does that mean? [19:59:45] You know, some of you may have seen the food fight that appeared to be a debate the other night. And that's sad because we need serious discussion there, a lot of serious crises facing this country. [20:00:00] And they have to be discussed. And that was not a mechanism to do that. But what politics is about really when you get beyond what media tries to do. It's not complicated. It is saying what is going on in our country today? How did we get to where we are and where do we want to go? [20:00:22] And when we talk about where we want to go, I always remember a brilliant short statement by Nelson Mandela. And what Mandela said, I want you to think about what he said. He said everything is impossible until it happens. [20:00:46] Everything is impossible until it happens. [20:00:56] It was impossible a hundred plus years ago for workers to form a union. Couldn't happen. It was impossible for the African-American community to stand up and get the right to vote to defeat racism. [20:01:14] Impossible for women to get the right to vote. [20:01:19] Impossible for our gay brothers and sisters to get married. [20:01:25] Always impossible until it happened. [20:01:35] The major obstacle that we have and what this campaign is dealing with right now is I know the power of Wall Street and corporate America. They're enormously powerful, enormously wealthy. They are not the major problem. The major problem is the limitation of our own imaginations. [20:01:56] Of where we want to be and what I'm asking you, will one I'm begging you is don't listen to the media and their definition of reality. Don't listen to Congress. And that definition of reality. Ask yourself where this great country should be going. [20:02:20] And then when you do that and when you look at the issues facing the country and you know them better than I. And then you say where we want to go, the answers on, not hard. No one. Never, ever forget that today you are living in the wealthiest country in the history of the world. [20:02:40] That's what you are. But nobody knows it because almost all of the income and wealth goes to the top 1 percent. [20:02:52] So when we look at the issues, we say, OK, in America today, we have tens and tens of millions of people who are working for starvation wages. That's a fact. We're going to raise the federal minimum wage to fifteen bucks an hour. We're going to end the absurdity of women making 80 cents on the dollar compared to men. Because we believe in equal pay for equal work. And when millions of workers in this country desperately want to join unions, we're going to make it easier for workers to join unions. We have a proposal in that in a four year period will double the number of workers in the trade union movement. [20:03:52] This is the wealthiest country on Earth. Our infrastructure, roads, bridges, water systems, wastewater plants should not be falling apart. [20:04:05] We're going to invest in rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure and create millions of good paying union jobs. In America. Five hundred thousand people should not be homeless tonight. And 18 million families should not be spending 50 percent of their income on housing. We're going to build 10 million units of low income and affordable housing. [20:04:39] And when we talk about an agenda that works for working people, we understand that there is nothing more important than education. We understand that 0 through 4 are the most important years of human development. [20:05:02] And we cannot understand why we continue to have a dysfunctional child care system. And that is why. Together we will have universal, high quality, affordable child care for every family in America. If you love America, you love the children. And if you'll love the children, we're going to make sure they got off to a great start as little kids. [20:05:36] And we believe that all of our children, no matter what their income is, no matter what their zip code may be, are entitled to high quality education. And that is why we're going to triple funding for Title 1 low income schools. And I'll tell you something else, because we believe in education. We believe in educators. Our teachers. [20:06:09] I just came back this afternoon from South Carolina. Thousands and thousands of teachers quit every year because their earnings, starvation wages. It is not too much to say that if we want our kids to have a great future, that we need to attract the best and the brightest into education and hope many of you would give thought to becoming teachers. And my view is that no teacher in America should earn less than $60000 a year. [20:06:51] And if you believe in education, you understand that free public education is not just K through 12. We've got to make public colleges and universities tuition free. And if you think outside of the box and if you think about a government that represents workers and not billionaires, then you ask yourself, how did it happen that 12 years ago against my vote, Congress voted to bail out the crooks on Wall Street? How did it happen the two years ago, Trump gave his billionaire friends and large corporations a trillion dollar tax cut. [20:07:38] Well, if we could bail out the crooks on Wall Street, you know what we can do? We can cancel all student debt in America. And let me pick up on a point that Jamie Eldridge and Lindsey Sabat also talked about. And that is we will end the international disgrace of being the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to every man, woman and child as a human right. [20:08:15] And I want all of you to understand this right now in America, we are spending twice as much as the people in Canada and in virtually every other major country. We are spending eleven thousand dollars for every man, woman and child for healthcare. That is an outrageous sum of money. But for all of that money, we end up with eighty seven million people uninsured or underinsured. [20:08:52] And let me tell you about under insured means that you've got high deductibles, high co-payments, and you hesitate to go to a doctor when you should. [20:09:03] And it's a result of that at least. And this is, I know, a conservative number, but shamefully, unbelievably, thirty thousand people in our country die every single year because they don't go to a doctor when they should. They die unnecessarily. And then we have a situation. Where we are paying by far the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs, you all know that. [20:09:37] You can go to Canada. You can go to Europe and you can buy the same exact prescription drug in some cases for one tenth the price, but the drug companies are selling it to us here. And then. Dad, insult to injury and this is really unbelievable because it speaks to the cruelty, the extreme cruelty of this system. Five hundred thousand people a year go bankrupt because of medically related debt. [20:10:14] Think about that one for a second, think about the ugliness of that. Somebody goes to the doctor, they are sick. Doctor says, I'm sorry, you have cancer. And the person's mind is reeling. What am I going to do? What, doctor? I go to what treatment do I go to? What medicine do I use? They're fighting for their lives. And while people are fighting for their lives with cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer's, whatever it may be. [20:10:39] Then they got to worry about financial ruin for their family. [20:10:46] That is not what this country can be about. [20:10:50] God has got to end. [20:10:56] And that is why after a hundred years of talk, you know, we in this country been talking about universal health care for over 100 years. Teddy Roosevelt talked about it. FDR talked about Truman talked about it, Johnson talked about it. Barack Obama talked about it. A hundred years of pork is enough. Now is the time for action. [20:11:22] Last steel, last steel. While 87 million people were uninsured or underinsured and we paid the highest prices in the world for drugs. The health care industry made a hundred billion dollars in profit. So today we say to the health care industry, the function of a rational and you mean health care system is to provide quality care for all. Not to make billions in profits for the health care industry. [20:12:01] Now we've got a president who embarrasses us every day. But he is also embarrassing and endangering the entire world. Donald Trump continues to believe that climate change is a hoax. Well, I myself think that Donald Trump was a hoax. Now, I'm gonna make a radical suggestion to you. Oh, you're ready for a radical suggestion. Now we've got emergency medical service available if anybody collapses, but here it comes. Our administration will believe in science. [20:12:57] And what the scientists are telling us is that the situation regarding climate change is even worse than they had previously thought. What they are saying is they have underestimated the speed and severity in which climate change is ravaging our country and the planet. What they are telling us is that the polar ice caps are melting at a faster rate than they had previously thought, that the oceans are warming at a faster rate than they had thought and the sea levels are going up and up at a faster rate. [20:13:36] What they are telling us is that there is more drought than they had anticipated. More extreme weather disturbances. What they are telling us is that the ocean is becoming more acidic, which means fish are dying and people who get their protein from the ocean will no longer be able to do that. [20:13:56] And what the United Nations is telling us is if we don't get our act together, there will be several hundred million climate refugees by the end of the century. That is what the scientists, not Bernie Sanders. That's what the scientists are telling us. [20:14:18] And that is why that is why. [20:14:23] Unapologetically. I have introduced the most sweeping climate change proposal ever introduced by any candidate for federal. [20:14:37] Based on the principles of the Green New Deal. This proposal will create up to 20 million good paying union jobs as we transform our energy system away from fossil fuel to energy efficiency and sustainable energy. And because climate change is obviously not just an American issue, but a global issue. My job if I'm elected president is to tell China, tell Russia, tell India, tell Pakistan that we are in this together. And that maybe, just maybe instead of spending one point a trillion dollars a year on weapons of destruction. Maybe we should pool our resources, fight our common enemy, which is climate change. [20:15:43] And when we talk about issues that must be addressed, we have got to deal with a broken and racist criminal justice system. [20:15:57] It is not acceptable to me, nor to you that we have more people in jail today, disproportionately African-American, Latino and Native American than any other country on Earth. And that is why together we are going to invest in our young people, making sure they have good jobs, good education. Stop investing in more jails and it costs duration. That is why we are going to end private prisons and detention to. [20:16:41] And that is why we're going to end the destructive war on drugs. Now, it turns out that there are some things that a president can do through executive order. Other things need legislation. Turns out that one of the things you could do with executive order is to legalize marijuana in every state in the country. How many people in this room know somebody who was arrested for possession of marijuana? [20:17:20] That is what the war on drugs has done together. We're going to move forward to expunge the records of those arrested for possession of. And when we talk about systems that are broken, we are going to bring major, major reforms to our immigration system. On a very, very busy day one, we're going to sign another executive order restoring the legal status of the 1.8 million young people eligible for the DOCA. Under our administration, no federal agent at the border will be snatching babies from the arms of their mothers. [20:18:14] And together, what we will do is what the American people want us to do, and that is to pass comprehensive immigration reform and a path towards citizenship. [20:18:29] No matter what our political point, the view may be, the American people are disgusted and horrified by the level of gun violence in this country. [20:18:41] The American people want strong gun safety legislation right now, as I think you all know, Donald Trump and the Republican leadership are intimidated by the NRA. As president, I will not be intimidated by the NRA. We will pass universal background checks. [20:19:13] People who have a violent past, including domestic violence, should not own a gun. We're going to end the gun show loophole. [20:19:26] We're gonna do something that I have fought for for 30 years, and that is to end the sale and distribution of assault weapons in this country. [20:19:41] Now, some member of the United States Senate, I hear a lot of speeches on the Senate floor and I hear them from conservative Republicans who tell us that they believe in smaller government than they believe in getting the government off the backs of the American people. [20:19:58] Well, I say to those hypocrites, if you believe in getting the government off the backs of the American people, understand that it is women who have a right to control their own bodies, not the government. So here is a promise you can take to the bank. [20:20:24] I will never nominate anyone to the Supreme Court or the federal bench who is not 100 percent pro Roe v Wade. [20:20:36] We will fight to codify put into law Roe v. Wade. [20:20:45] Trump and his friends want to severely cut funding for Planned Parenthood. [20:20:54] Well, we've got some bad news for them because we're going to expand funding for planned. Bottom line is it is not complicated. It is women who have a right to control their own bodies, not the government. So here we are a few days before the important primary in Massachusetts and Super Tuesday. I am here tonight to humbly ask for your support. [20:21:37] I am here to ask you to bring out your friends and your family and your coworkers so that we have the largest voter turnout in the history of the Massachusetts primary. But I'm asking something of you that is even more than that. As all of you know, the message of our campaign is us, not me. And what that is about goes beyond an election. What it says is that our view of human life is that we are stronger when we understand that we are in it together. [20:22:24] Then every family in America has its share of problems. And when my family cares about your family and your family cares about my family, we all do better. [20:22:40] And the other thing that was not me reflects is an understanding of the power structure in America, something that is not talked about terribly much in the media, and what it means is that no president and I'm the only candidate I think would tell you this. No President Bernie Sanders or anybody else can do it alone. [20:23:02] Because what we are doing is taking on extraordinary power. I know these guys, I'm a senator. I know Wall Street and I know the insurance companies and I know the drug companies and I know the fossil fuel industry. And I know the military industrial complex. I know the prison industrial complex. I know their incredible power and their enormous amounts of money that they have. They are very, very powerful. If we are going to transform this country, the only way we do it is to gather. [20:23:44] When millions of working people stand up and demand decent wages, we're going to get decent wages. [20:23:54] When people stand up and say we're not going to pay 50 percent of our income in housing, we're going to build the affordable housing we need, when mums and dads demand affordable, high quality childcare, we'll get affordable, high quality childcare. [20:24:13] When young people say they don't want to leave college deeply in debt. We'll get free tuition at public colleges and. [20:24:25] And when people in our country and all over the world say we want our kids and grandchildren and future generations to live in a healthy and habitable planet, yes, we'll take on the fossil fuel and. So this is, again, not just the campaign. It is a movement and we need you in that movement. We need you to be reaching out to your friends and get them to rethink their role as citizens in this country. You just can't sit back and watch the TV. You've got to get involved. So this Tuesday, Super Tuesday, very important day may be the most important day in the whole primary process. We are here to ask your help to win here in Massachusetts. [20:25:19] To help us win the Democratic nomination. To defeat Donald Trump. [20:25:29] And to transform this country and create an economy and a government that works for all, not just the people on top. Springfield, thank you.

TVU 23 BERNIE SANDERS DAVENPORT IA TOWN HALL WITH RASHIDA TLAIB ABC UNI 011120 2020 P2 DAVENPORT, Iowa -- Just over 24 hours after the latest CNN/Des Moines Register Iowa poll <https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.desmoinesregister.com%2Fstory%2Fnews%2Fpolitics%2Fiowa-poll%2Fcaucus%2F2020%2F01%2F10%2Fiowa-poll-2020-bernie-sanders-lead-iowa-caucus-president-election%2F4426492002%2F&data=02%7C01%7CJenna.X.Levine.-ND%40abc.com%7C5c905bec7d754e7441cc08d79708e52f%7C56b731a8a2ac4c32bf6b616810e913c6%7C1%7C0%7C637143936870544331&sdata=QjqEge0eAepYTMzDufrRkXSPeC4j%2B%2BZGM8%2BlnlbCefU%3D&reserved=0> placed him at the top of the Democratic presidential pack, Sen. Bernie Sanders made like the race's frontrunner and spent much of his time at a Saturday night rally looking forward to a potential general election matchup with President Trump. The focus on the president comes at the end of the week in which Trump's campaign was unusually preoccupied itself with the Vermont senator, firing off tweets and emails and cutting videos to make the argument that Sanders' foreign policy positions, in the wake of the killing of Qassem Soleimani, are "dangerous" (see more below from Steakin on Wednesday). "It seems to me that Donald Trump is getting a little bit nervous, because you may have noticed that in the last few days, he and his Republican lieutenants are focusing their anger against our campaign. Because they know what we know, and that is that we are the strongest campaign to defeat Donald Trump." (20:11:30) "They know that we will expose Trump as the liar and fraud that he is." (20:12:10) The Trump-centric portion of Sanders' remarks, which were otherwise composed of his regular stump lines, came at the top of a crowded event at St. Ambrose University in Davenport where the campaign packed in more bodies than they had chairs to see -- the latest sign of enthusiasm for Sanders who has been drawing strong crowds in recent weeks to coincide with his uptick in the polls. As he continued to speak about the president, Sanders drew upon Trump's 2016 general election campaign, arguing that the president has done little to follow through on his promises to working-class voters. "I have very little respect for somebody who campaigns in 2016 as candidate who's going to represent the interests of the working class of this country and then proceeds to sell them out." (20:12:30) "When you say during your campaign that you're a different type of Republican, you're not going to cut Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security. And then, as president, you bring forth a budget which calls for massive cuts to Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security disability fund, that's not being a friend of the working class, that is being a liar." (20:13:45) Looking ahead to November, Sanders expressed confidence that the same turnout-focused strategy he intends to employ to capture the Democratic nomination would be what propels him to victory in a general election matchup. "We are going to defeat Trump because our campaign is going to bring out more people and have the largest voter turnout than any campaign in the history of this country." (20:15:00) "The only way-- let's be clear, Trump will be a very formidable opponent for a number of reasons. And the way you defeat Trump is talk to working people in this country who are so exasperated, so tired of working longer hours for lower wages, so tired of working for 10, 11, 12 bucks an hour and not being able to afford to maintain their family with the dignity that family deserves. The way you beat Trump is to reach out to young people and get them involved in the political process in a way that we have never seen before." (20:15:30) RASHIDA TLAIB ON THE STUMP Sanders was introduced by "Squad" member, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., Saturday, who is joining him on this weekend's Iowa swing. Tlaib was supposed to attend Sanders' earlier event Saturday in Newton, Iowa, but was delayed due to weather. During her remarks, Tlaib drew on her own personal story of working throw law school in order to maintain health insurance, and supporting her young son at work because she could not afford childcare, to make the case for several of Sanders' signature proposals. Tlaib said she feels like "we've already won" (19:59:15)? because the senator's presence in the presidential race is bringing progressive issues to the forefront of Democratic politics. "People are talking about issues they've never talked about. They have to answer these questions. I had never heard of people saying, Well, I'm not going to take corporate PAC money. Now everybody is saying it." (19:59:30) ? But even with that progress she described, she still argued that Sanders was her choice because she could be assured that he would follow through on his promises. "We can't guarantee that with others. But we can guarantee it with someone who has been saying the same exact thing for the last 40 years." (20:07:10) [21:00:08] Let me conclude with she's not here. Come on over. You know, you got gonna roll. We the same. It holds a common view. Oh, no. But something even deeper than that. [21:00:44] Because we all understand that the only way to change a slice. [21:00:49] Is when millions of people stand up, fight back and get involved in the struggle for justice, economic justice, racial justice. Social justice and environmental justice. That's what this campaign is about. No, she doesn't know how to say she knows. And I know she spoke. [21:01:15] But the power of the call really for the power of Wall Street, where six financial institutions hold assets of over 10 trillion dollars. [21:01:27] 6. [21:01:29] We know for the power of controlled companies who don't know what we should over the price of your investments tomorrow. [21:01:36] And it is perfectly legal because they hold the United States Congress to make billions of dollars. [21:01:42] Of campaign contributions and a lot it we know the power of the insurance companies. [21:01:48] We know the power of fossil fuel industry. [21:01:51] We know a little power over the military industrial complex. So let's get to the guys who spend money on the military in the next 10 nations to. [21:02:01] We know the power of the prison industrial complex. We know that we know something else. [21:02:07] We know that is powerful, has the 1 percent and in the corporate elite all and they are enormously powerful. [21:02:15] Then it went into the bottle. Ninety nine percent it stands up and does not allow themselves to be divided up by Trump and his friends based on the color of our skin or where we were born or our religion or our sexual orientation. When we stand together around an agenda that works for all of us, no matter what the power of the one percent, it is one million to stand up and fight back. There is nothing that will stop us. That's what this campaign is about.

LONDON FEED: VARIOUS IRAQ EXPLOSION FOOTAGE RS 25 XDECK76 SLUGGED: 1242 LONDON EB X76 12/17/03 12:46:08 031217#020 Name: 031217#020 Title: IRAQ EXPLOSION 3 APTN 0900G Type: APTN FEED In point: 09:00:47.18 Out point: 09:04:55.10 Duration: 00:04:07.22 Clip Location PDR A Tape ID 5851 Source APTN Notes Dopesheet AP-APTN-0900: Iraq Explosion 3 Wednesday, 17 December 2003 STORY: Iraq Explosion 3 - WRAP Scene of blast, wounded in hospital, morgue LENGTH: 4:07 FIRST RUN: 0900 RESTRICTIONS: APTN Clients Only TYPE: Natsound SOURCE: APTN DATELINE: Baghdad, 17 Dec 2003 SHOTLIST: (First Run 0400 Europe Early, Dec 17) Night shots 1. Mid shot burning vehicles 12:46:17 2. Wide shot burning vehicles, zoom in, men running past 12:46:23 3. Injured person being carried 12:46:31 4. Various of burning vehicles 12:46:39 (First Run 0715 Asia Pacific, Dec 17) 5. Burnt out utility vehicle and car 12:47:09 6. Wreck of minibus 12:47:18 7. Wreckage, pan of debris 12:47:25 8. Burnt-out car 12:47:43 9. Pan of burnt-out car 12:47:49 10. Man pointing at steering wheel of burnt-out car 12:47:53 11. Various of burnt-out utility vehicle 12:48:02 12. Pan of scene of explosion 12:48:16 (First Run 0715 Asia Pacific, Dec 17) 13. Various of seriously injured man being treated in Al-Yarmook hospital 12:48:23 14. Close up injured leg 12:48:57 15. Close up man's face 16. Wide shot injured in hospital beds 17. Various close ups of injuries 18. Wide shot hospital exterior r12:49:08 19. Wide shot exterior morgue 12:49:22 20. Various of dead bodies lined up 12:49:28 21. Various of grieving relatives 12:49:46 22. Various of a body being carried from the morgue 12:49:51 23. Body being placed in coffin 24. Close up man crying 25. Wide shot morgue exterior 12:50:13 STORYLINE: An explosives-laden truck speeding toward a police station collided with a bus at an intersection before dawn Wednesday, killing at least 10 people amid a surge of violence since the weekend arrest of Saddam Hussein. Twenty people were also injured in the attack in al-Bayaa, a poor district in southwest Baghdad, hospital officials said. Ahmed Kadhim Ibrahim, deputy interior minister, said the dead were Iraqis, and that the truck driver had planned to strike the police station. The charred, crumpled bus lay in the intersection after the blast. Body parts were scattered in the area. A pink plastic shoe sandal lay in the street. Two cars nearby were destroyed. U.S. soldiers arrived and took photographs of the shattered remains of the truck. "I was leaving home when I heard an explosion and saw cars burning at al-Bayaa intersection," said Ahmed Ayyoub, a 23-year bus driver. "I ran to the place to see if there were people injured. There were lots of human remains on the sidewalks and we started collecting them," he said. The rescue effort was more difficult because it was still dark at the time of the blast, he said. Assailants have previously attacked the al-Bayaa station several times. Four days ago, police said, attackers fired rocket-propelled grenades at the station. U.S. soldiers staying at the station left the station after that attack at the request of Iraqi police who believed their presence was provoking attacks. Medhat Ghanem, 32, said he was on the sidewalk waiting for a bus when he saw a yellow truck speed down the main road and explode. "After the explosion, I fell to the ground and was unconscious for a bit. Then I found that my leg was broken," Ghanem said in a hospital where his leg was put in a cast. Ibrahim blamed the bomb Wednesday on Saddam's supporters. "They were trying to avenge the cowardly leader, who they saw as a hero in the past," Ibrahim said. 12:50:32 031217#080 Name: 031217#080 Title: IRAQ MOSUL 2 AP 1600G Type: APTN FEED In point: 16:04:27.17 Out point: 16:06:13.16 Duration: 00:01:45.27 Clip Location PDR A Tape ID 5866 Source aptn Notes IRAQ MOSUL 2 AP 1600G Dopesheet -APTN-1600: ? Demo 2 Wednesday, 17 December 2003 STORY: ? Demo 2 - WRAP demo ends in violence LENGTH: 1:44 FIRST RUN: 1600 RESTRICTIONS: APTN Clients Only TYPE: Arabic/Nat SOURCE: APTN DATELINE: Mosul, 17 Dec 2003 ?,? AS INCOMING SHOTLIST: (First Run 1600 Europe Late, 17 December 2003) 1. US soldiers standing beside military vehicles, facing pro-Saddam anti-US demonstrators 2. Demonstrators holding Saddam pictures and chanting 12:50:39 3. US military vehicles driving down street 12:50:45 4. More demonstrators 12:50:49 5. Demonstrators run as soldiers fire shots 12:50:59 6. Injured man on the ground 7. Demonstrators and US soldiers surround injured man 8. Demonstrators disperse 9. Various of pro-Saddam loyalists (First Run 1300 Europe Update, 17 December 2003) 10. Demonstrators chanting anti-US slogans 11. Demonstrators holding Saddam pictures 12:51:29 12. Demonstrators running as shots are fired 12:51:32 13. American humvee and Iraqi police 12:51:35 14. Demonstrators chanting pro-Saddam slogans 12:51:39 15. US helicopter hovering above demonstrators 12:51:44 16. Car damaged when US troops and Iraqi police opened fire 12:51:47 17. Bullet holes 12:51:51 18. Demonstrators on car carrying Saddam pictures and chanting 12:52:02 19. Man putting Saddam pictures on top of car windscreen 20. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Salim Ahmed, Protester 12:52:05 "Shame on the people who betrayed their country and shame on the Governing Council and all who came with the Americans to invade Iraq." 21. US soldiers climbing onto wall of university 12:52:14 STORYLINE: At least four people are believed to have been injured at a pro-Saddam demonstration in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. Witnesses said passengers in a car opened fire on the protesters on Wednesday. Hundreds of protesters were expressing their anger at the arrest of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Earlier reports said the rioting in Mosul had resulted in one policeman being killed and another injured. At one stage the US troops and Iraqi police apparently opened fire to disperse the demonstrators. Many Saddam loyalists have refused to believe that images beamed across the world of a disheveled and bearded man in US captivity is Saddam Hussein - the man whose 23-year rule augmented their position as the country's political elite. Saddam's capture has caused a wave of clashes between insU-R-G-E-N-Ts and US troops and their Iraqi allies in Fallujah, Samarra, Tikrit and Mosul. The rise in attacks since Saddam's arrest on Sunday and pro-Saddam protests in Baghdad's Sunni Muslim areas and other cities appear to be an attempt to spoil the victory scored by the United States when it found the former dictator in a hide-out near his hometown of Tikrit. 12:52:38 031217#087 Name: 031217#087 Title: IRAQ SAMARRA RAID EVN1/AP Type: EVN FEED In point: 16:03:42.21 Out point: 16:06:03.24 Duration: 00:02:21.01 Clip Location PDR A Tape ID 5867 Source AgPool Notes Dopesheet SAMARRA RAID Date Shot: 17-DEC-2003 Location: SAMARRA Country: IRAQ Sound: NATURAL Language: Source: AGPOOL Restrictions: Web Use Restricted: N Dopesheet: North of Baghdad, the U.S. Army staged a huge raid in the restive town of Samarra, detaining at least a dozen guerrilla suspects after snaring almost 80 others, including an alleged rebel financier, in the past few days. The 4th Infantry Division and Iraqi forces started the new series of raids, dubbed Operation Ivy Blizzard, on Wednesday in Samarra. Backed by armored vehicles and Apache helicopters, U.S. troops conducted door-to-door searches designed to stamp out guerrilla resistance in the restive town. At least a dozen people were detained. "Samarra has been a little bit of a thorn in our side," said U.S. Army Col. Nate Sassanan. "It hasn't come along as quickly as other cities in the rebuilding of Iraq. This operation is designed to bring them up to speed." Prior to Wednesday's operation in Samarra, the 4th Infantry Division raided the nearby village of Abu Safa, 100 kilometers (60 miles) north of Baghdad. U.S. troops arrested Qais Hattam, the No. 5 fugitive on the 4th Infantry's list of "high value targets," said Capt. Gaven Gregory. The guerrilla leader was described as a major financier of insurgents who have been fighting the U.S.-led coalition for months. Hattam is not on the U.S. list of the 55 most wanted Iraqis. Thirteen fugitives from that list remain at large. Shotlist: SAMARRA - 17 DECEMBER 2003 1. night vision soldiers painting their faces 12:52:42 2. tank door closing 12:52:57 3. soldiers on raid in samara 12:53:01 4. soldier pointing his gun 12:53:04 5. explosion in the door of a house to open the door 12:53:08 6. soldiers searching inside the house 12:53:13 7. various of an arrest of an Iraqi 12:53:20 8. mid shot of the cell where the put the prisoner 9. cell of prisoners 10. (early morning with sun rising) - tanks 12:53:50 11. soldier opening doors 12. door being blown open 12:54:29 13. soldier searching inside garage 14. tank opening door 12:54:35 15. soldiers departing 12:55:25 P-APTN-1300: ? IGC Wednesday, 17 December 2003 STORY: ? IGC - NEW Presser from Iraqi Governing Council, plus bite from Justice Min LENGTH: 3:15 FIRST RUN: 1300 RESTRICTIONS: APTN Clients Only TYPE: English/Arabic/Nat SOURCE: APTN STORY NUMBER: 404338 DATELINE: Baghdad, 17 Dec 2003 SHOTLIST: 1. Members of Iraqi Governing Council sitting down for press conference 2. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Mouwafak al-Rubaie, councillor: 12:55:30 "There is no evidence that Saddam Hussein was transferred to another country. Saddam is still in Iraq and will be tried by an Iraqi court." 3. Wide shot of press conference 12:55:41 4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mouwafak al-Rubaie, councillor: 12:55:45 "I think there may well be an upsurge of violence in the next few days or couple of weeks, probably, as an emotional reaction from those who have lost This incident of arresting Saddam Hussein has a devastating blow on their moral, because it's a sign of despair they may do something silly in the way of violence. But in the medium term I do believe that it's going to be continuously decreasing and reducing the violence in number and in quality." 5. Wide shot of press conference 12:56:26 6. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Mouwafak al-Rubaie, councillor: 12:56:31 "Because of his (Saddam's) psychological condition and the hole he was living in, I don't believe that Saddam was leading the terrorist operations. He is accused of many crimes but he is innocent of this one." 7. Wide shot of press conference 12:57:01 8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Adnan Pachachi, councillor: 12:57:07 "We could appoint international judges if we feel that it is necessary. Secondly, whether there are enough experienced judges in Iraq to take this task - I think there are. And, as I said, if we feel that we need some outside help we will not hesitate to get this help." 9. Wide shot of press conference 12:57:35 10. Set up of Justice Minister Hashim al-Shibli 12:57:45 11. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Hashim al-Shibli, Iraqi Minister of Justice: 12:57:52 "We have nothing to do with what other people are saying. We are a country with our own values and judicial experience. We are fully independent and we are completely free to take to court anyone who has done any wrong against the Iraqi people. What Iran, Israel or any other party has said is something that concerns them. We have totally nothing to do with them." 12.Exterior of Justice Ministry 12:58:28 STORYLINE: On Wednesday, a member of the US-appointed Iraqi Governing Council said Saddam Hussein is still being held in Iraq. Mouwafak al-Rubaie spoke at a news conference where council members issued a statement asking for Iraqis to seek reconciliation following the capture of Saddam. The council has established a war crimes tribunal and hope to try Saddam for human rights abuses. Council member Adnan Pachachi said foreign judges could be appointed to the tribunal but added that he thought there were enough experienced judges in Iraq to handle the task. Al-Rubaie said he didn't believe Saddam had been leading terrorist operations in Iraq, mainly because of his psychological condition. He said he thought there might be an upsurge in violence in the short term, probably as "an emotional reaction" to the arrest of Saddam. Meanwhile, Minister of Justice Hashim al-Shibli rejected calls to try Saddam Hussein in an international tribunal. APTN APEX 12-17-03 0916EST

LONDON FEED: VARIOUS IRAQ EXPLOSION FOOTAGE RS 25 XDECK76 SLUGGED: 1242 LONDON EB X76 12/17/03 12:46:08 031217#020 Name: 031217#020 Title: IRAQ EXPLOSION 3 APTN 0900G Type: APTN FEED In point: 09:00:47.18 Out point: 09:04:55.10 Duration: 00:04:07.22 Clip Location PDR A Tape ID 5851 Source APTN Notes Dopesheet AP-APTN-0900: Iraq Explosion 3 Wednesday, 17 December 2003 STORY: Iraq Explosion 3 - WRAP Scene of blast, wounded in hospital, morgue LENGTH: 4:07 FIRST RUN: 0900 RESTRICTIONS: APTN Clients Only TYPE: Natsound SOURCE: APTN DATELINE: Baghdad, 17 Dec 2003 SHOTLIST: (First Run 0400 Europe Early, Dec 17) Night shots 1. Mid shot burning vehicles 12:46:17 2. Wide shot burning vehicles, zoom in, men running past 12:46:23 3. Injured person being carried 12:46:31 4. Various of burning vehicles 12:46:39 (First Run 0715 Asia Pacific, Dec 17) 5. Burnt out utility vehicle and car 12:47:09 6. Wreck of minibus 12:47:18 7. Wreckage, pan of debris 12:47:25 8. Burnt-out car 12:47:43 9. Pan of burnt-out car 12:47:49 10. Man pointing at steering wheel of burnt-out car 12:47:53 11. Various of burnt-out utility vehicle 12:48:02 12. Pan of scene of explosion 12:48:16 (First Run 0715 Asia Pacific, Dec 17) 13. Various of seriously injured man being treated in Al-Yarmook hospital 12:48:23 14. Close up injured leg 12:48:57 15. Close up man's face 16. Wide shot injured in hospital beds 17. Various close ups of injuries 18. Wide shot hospital exterior r12:49:08 19. Wide shot exterior morgue 12:49:22 20. Various of dead bodies lined up 12:49:28 21. Various of grieving relatives 12:49:46 22. Various of a body being carried from the morgue 12:49:51 23. Body being placed in coffin 24. Close up man crying 25. Wide shot morgue exterior 12:50:13 STORYLINE: An explosives-laden truck speeding toward a police station collided with a bus at an intersection before dawn Wednesday, killing at least 10 people amid a surge of violence since the weekend arrest of Saddam Hussein. Twenty people were also injured in the attack in al-Bayaa, a poor district in southwest Baghdad, hospital officials said. Ahmed Kadhim Ibrahim, deputy interior minister, said the dead were Iraqis, and that the truck driver had planned to strike the police station. The charred, crumpled bus lay in the intersection after the blast. Body parts were scattered in the area. A pink plastic shoe sandal lay in the street. Two cars nearby were destroyed. U.S. soldiers arrived and took photographs of the shattered remains of the truck. "I was leaving home when I heard an explosion and saw cars burning at al-Bayaa intersection," said Ahmed Ayyoub, a 23-year bus driver. "I ran to the place to see if there were people injured. There were lots of human remains on the sidewalks and we started collecting them," he said. The rescue effort was more difficult because it was still dark at the time of the blast, he said. Assailants have previously attacked the al-Bayaa station several times. Four days ago, police said, attackers fired rocket-propelled grenades at the station. U.S. soldiers staying at the station left the station after that attack at the request of Iraqi police who believed their presence was provoking attacks. Medhat Ghanem, 32, said he was on the sidewalk waiting for a bus when he saw a yellow truck speed down the main road and explode. "After the explosion, I fell to the ground and was unconscious for a bit. Then I found that my leg was broken," Ghanem said in a hospital where his leg was put in a cast. Ibrahim blamed the bomb Wednesday on Saddam's supporters. "They were trying to avenge the cowardly leader, who they saw as a hero in the past," Ibrahim said. 12:50:32 031217#080 Name: 031217#080 Title: IRAQ MOSUL 2 AP 1600G Type: APTN FEED In point: 16:04:27.17 Out point: 16:06:13.16 Duration: 00:01:45.27 Clip Location PDR A Tape ID 5866 Source aptn Notes IRAQ MOSUL 2 AP 1600G Dopesheet -APTN-1600: +Mosul Demo 2 Wednesday, 17 December 2003 STORY: +Mosul Demo 2 - WRAP demo ends in violence LENGTH: 1:44 FIRST RUN: 1600 RESTRICTIONS: APTN Clients Only TYPE: Arabic/Nat SOURCE: APTN DATELINE: Mosul, 17 Dec 2003 ++QUALITY AS INCOMING++ SHOTLIST: (First Run 1600 Europe Late, 17 December 2003) 1. US soldiers standing beside military vehicles, facing pro-Saddam anti-US demonstrators 2. Demonstrators holding Saddam pictures and chanting 12:50:39 3. US military vehicles driving down street 12:50:45 4. More demonstrators 12:50:49 5. Demonstrators run as soldiers fire shots 12:50:59 6. Injured man on the ground 7. Demonstrators and US soldiers surround injured man 8. Demonstrators disperse 9. Various of pro-Saddam loyalists (First Run 1300 Europe Update, 17 December 2003) 10. Demonstrators chanting anti-US slogans 11. Demonstrators holding Saddam pictures 12:51:29 12. Demonstrators running as shots are fired 12:51:32 13. American humvee and Iraqi police 12:51:35 14. Demonstrators chanting pro-Saddam slogans 12:51:39 15. US helicopter hovering above demonstrators 12:51:44 16. Car damaged when US troops and Iraqi police opened fire 12:51:47 17. Bullet holes 12:51:51 18. Demonstrators on car carrying Saddam pictures and chanting 12:52:02 19. Man putting Saddam pictures on top of car windscreen 20. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Salim Ahmed, Protester 12:52:05 "Shame on the people who betrayed their country and shame on the Governing Council and all who came with the Americans to invade Iraq." 21. US soldiers climbing onto wall of university 12:52:14 STORYLINE: At least four people are believed to have been injured at a pro-Saddam demonstration in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. Witnesses said passengers in a car opened fire on the protesters on Wednesday. Hundreds of protesters were expressing their anger at the arrest of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Earlier reports said the rioting in Mosul had resulted in one policeman being killed and another injured. At one stage the US troops and Iraqi police apparently opened fire to disperse the demonstrators. Many Saddam loyalists have refused to believe that images beamed across the world of a disheveled and bearded man in US captivity is Saddam Hussein - the man whose 23-year rule augmented their position as the country's political elite. Saddam's capture has caused a wave of clashes between insU-R-G-E-N-Ts and US troops and their Iraqi allies in Fallujah, Samarra, Tikrit and Mosul. The rise in attacks since Saddam's arrest on Sunday and pro-Saddam protests in Baghdad's Sunni Muslim areas and other cities appear to be an attempt to spoil the victory scored by the United States when it found the former dictator in a hide-out near his hometown of Tikrit. 12:52:38 031217#087 Name: 031217#087 Title: IRAQ SAMARRA RAID EVN1/AP Type: EVN FEED In point: 16:03:42.21 Out point: 16:06:03.24 Duration: 00:02:21.01 Clip Location PDR A Tape ID 5867 Source AgPool Notes Dopesheet SAMARRA RAID Date Shot: 17-DEC-2003 Location: SAMARRA Country: IRAQ Sound: NATURAL Language: Source: AGPOOL Restrictions: Web Use Restricted: N Dopesheet: North of Baghdad, the U.S. Army staged a huge raid in the restive town of Samarra, detaining at least a dozen guerrilla suspects after snaring almost 80 others, including an alleged rebel financier, in the past few days. The 4th Infantry Division and Iraqi forces started the new series of raids, dubbed Operation Ivy Blizzard, on Wednesday in Samarra. Backed by armored vehicles and Apache helicopters, U.S. troops conducted door-to-door searches designed to stamp out guerrilla resistance in the restive town. At least a dozen people were detained. "Samarra has been a little bit of a thorn in our side," said U.S. Army Col. Nate Sassanan. "It hasn't come along as quickly as other cities in the rebuilding of Iraq. This operation is designed to bring them up to speed." Prior to Wednesday's operation in Samarra, the 4th Infantry Division raided the nearby village of Abu Safa, 100 kilometers (60 miles) north of Baghdad. U.S. troops arrested Qais Hattam, the No. 5 fugitive on the 4th Infantry's list of "high value targets," said Capt. Gaven Gregory. The guerrilla leader was described as a major financier of insurgents who have been fighting the U.S.-led coalition for months. Hattam is not on the U.S. list of the 55 most wanted Iraqis. Thirteen fugitives from that list remain at large. Shotlist: SAMARRA - 17 DECEMBER 2003 1. night vision soldiers painting their faces 12:52:42 2. tank door closing 12:52:57 3. soldiers on raid in samara 12:53:01 4. soldier pointing his gun 12:53:04 5. explosion in the door of a house to open the door 12:53:08 6. soldiers searching inside the house 12:53:13 7. various of an arrest of an Iraqi 12:53:20 8. mid shot of the cell where the put the prisoner 9. cell of prisoners 10. (early morning with sun rising) - tanks 12:53:50 11. soldier opening doors 12. door being blown open 12:54:29 13. soldier searching inside garage 14. tank opening door 12:54:35 15. soldiers departing 12:55:25 P-APTN-1300: ++Iraq IGC Wednesday, 17 December 2003 STORY: ++Iraq IGC - NEW Presser from Iraqi Governing Council, plus bite from Justice Min LENGTH: 3:15 FIRST RUN: 1300 RESTRICTIONS: APTN Clients Only TYPE: English/Arabic/Nat SOURCE: APTN STORY NUMBER: 404338 DATELINE: Baghdad, 17 Dec 2003 SHOTLIST: 1. Members of Iraqi Governing Council sitting down for press conference 2. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Mouwafak al-Rubaie, councillor: 12:55:30 "There is no evidence that Saddam Hussein was transferred to another country. Saddam is still in Iraq and will be tried by an Iraqi court." 3. Wide shot of press conference 12:55:41 4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mouwafak al-Rubaie, councillor: 12:55:45 "I think there may well be an upsurge of violence in the next few days or couple of weeks, probably, as an emotional reaction from those who have lost This incident of arresting Saddam Hussein has a devastating blow on their moral, because it's a sign of despair they may do something silly in the way of violence. But in the medium term I do believe that it's going to be continuously decreasing and reducing the violence in number and in quality." 5. Wide shot of press conference 12:56:26 6. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Mouwafak al-Rubaie, councillor: 12:56:31 "Because of his (Saddam's) psychological condition and the hole he was living in, I don't believe that Saddam was leading the terrorist operations. He is accused of many crimes but he is innocent of this one." 7. Wide shot of press conference 12:57:01 8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Adnan Pachachi, councillor: 12:57:07 "We could appoint international judges if we feel that it is necessary. Secondly, whether there are enough experienced judges in Iraq to take this task - I think there are. And, as I said, if we feel that we need some outside help we will not hesitate to get this help." 9. Wide shot of press conference 12:57:35 10. Set up of Justice Minister Hashim al-Shibli 12:57:45 11. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Hashim al-Shibli, Iraqi Minister of Justice: 12:57:52 "We have nothing to do with what other people are saying. We are a country with our own values and judicial experience. We are fully independent and we are completely free to take to court anyone who has done any wrong against the Iraqi people. What Iran, Israel or any other party has said is something that concerns them. We have totally nothing to do with them." 12.Exterior of Justice Ministry 12:58:28 STORYLINE: On Wednesday, a member of the US-appointed Iraqi Governing Council said Saddam Hussein is still being held in Iraq. Mouwafak al-Rubaie spoke at a news conference where council members issued a statement asking for Iraqis to seek reconciliation following the capture of Saddam. The council has established a war crimes tribunal and hope to try Saddam for human rights abuses. Council member Adnan Pachachi said foreign judges could be appointed to the tribunal but added that he thought there were enough experienced judges in Iraq to handle the task. Al-Rubaie said he didn't believe Saddam had been leading terrorist operations in Iraq, mainly because of his psychological condition. He said he thought there might be an upsurge in violence in the short term, probably as "an emotional reaction" to the arrest of Saddam. Meanwhile, Minister of Justice Hashim al-Shibli rejected calls to try Saddam Hussein in an international tribunal. APTN APEX 12-17-03 0916EST

LONDON FEED: VARIOUS IRAQ EXPLOSION FOOTAGE RS 25 XDECK76 SLUGGED: 1242 LONDON EB X76 12/17/03 12:46:08 031217#020 Name: 031217#020 Title: IRAQ EXPLOSION 3 APTN 0900G Type: APTN FEED In point: 09:00:47.18 Out point: 09:04:55.10 Duration: 00:04:07.22 Clip Location PDR A Tape ID 5851 Source APTN Notes Dopesheet AP-APTN-0900: Iraq Explosion 3 Wednesday, 17 December 2003 STORY: Iraq Explosion 3 - WRAP Scene of blast, wounded in hospital, morgue LENGTH: 4:07 FIRST RUN: 0900 RESTRICTIONS: APTN Clients Only TYPE: Natsound SOURCE: APTN DATELINE: Baghdad, 17 Dec 2003 SHOTLIST: (First Run 0400 Europe Early, Dec 17) Night shots 1. Mid shot burning vehicles 12:46:17 2. Wide shot burning vehicles, zoom in, men running past 12:46:23 3. Injured person being carried 12:46:31 4. Various of burning vehicles 12:46:39 (First Run 0715 Asia Pacific, Dec 17) 5. Burnt out utility vehicle and car 12:47:09 6. Wreck of minibus 12:47:18 7. Wreckage, pan of debris 12:47:25 8. Burnt-out car 12:47:43 9. Pan of burnt-out car 12:47:49 10. Man pointing at steering wheel of burnt-out car 12:47:53 11. Various of burnt-out utility vehicle 12:48:02 12. Pan of scene of explosion 12:48:16 (First Run 0715 Asia Pacific, Dec 17) 13. Various of seriously injured man being treated in Al-Yarmook hospital 12:48:23 14. Close up injured leg 12:48:57 15. Close up man's face 16. Wide shot injured in hospital beds 17. Various close ups of injuries 18. Wide shot hospital exterior r12:49:08 19. Wide shot exterior morgue 12:49:22 20. Various of dead bodies lined up 12:49:28 21. Various of grieving relatives 12:49:46 22. Various of a body being carried from the morgue 12:49:51 23. Body being placed in coffin 24. Close up man crying 25. Wide shot morgue exterior 12:50:13 STORYLINE: An explosives-laden truck speeding toward a police station collided with a bus at an intersection before dawn Wednesday, killing at least 10 people amid a surge of violence since the weekend arrest of Saddam Hussein. Twenty people were also injured in the attack in al-Bayaa, a poor district in southwest Baghdad, hospital officials said. Ahmed Kadhim Ibrahim, deputy interior minister, said the dead were Iraqis, and that the truck driver had planned to strike the police station. The charred, crumpled bus lay in the intersection after the blast. Body parts were scattered in the area. A pink plastic shoe sandal lay in the street. Two cars nearby were destroyed. U.S. soldiers arrived and took photographs of the shattered remains of the truck. "I was leaving home when I heard an explosion and saw cars burning at al-Bayaa intersection," said Ahmed Ayyoub, a 23-year bus driver. "I ran to the place to see if there were people injured. There were lots of human remains on the sidewalks and we started collecting them," he said. The rescue effort was more difficult because it was still dark at the time of the blast, he said. Assailants have previously attacked the al-Bayaa station several times. Four days ago, police said, attackers fired rocket-propelled grenades at the station. U.S. soldiers staying at the station left the station after that attack at the request of Iraqi police who believed their presence was provoking attacks. Medhat Ghanem, 32, said he was on the sidewalk waiting for a bus when he saw a yellow truck speed down the main road and explode. "After the explosion, I fell to the ground and was unconscious for a bit. Then I found that my leg was broken," Ghanem said in a hospital where his leg was put in a cast. Ibrahim blamed the bomb Wednesday on Saddam's supporters. "They were trying to avenge the cowardly leader, who they saw as a hero in the past," Ibrahim said. 12:50:32 031217#080 Name: 031217#080 Title: IRAQ MOSUL 2 AP 1600G Type: APTN FEED In point: 16:04:27.17 Out point: 16:06:13.16 Duration: 00:01:45.27 Clip Location PDR A Tape ID 5866 Source aptn Notes IRAQ MOSUL 2 AP 1600G Dopesheet -APTN-1600: +Mosul Demo 2 Wednesday, 17 December 2003 STORY: +Mosul Demo 2 - WRAP demo ends in violence LENGTH: 1:44 FIRST RUN: 1600 RESTRICTIONS: APTN Clients Only TYPE: Arabic/Nat SOURCE: APTN DATELINE: Mosul, 17 Dec 2003 ++QUALITY AS INCOMING++ SHOTLIST: (First Run 1600 Europe Late, 17 December 2003) 1. US soldiers standing beside military vehicles, facing pro-Saddam anti-US demonstrators 2. Demonstrators holding Saddam pictures and chanting 12:50:39 3. US military vehicles driving down street 12:50:45 4. More demonstrators 12:50:49 5. Demonstrators run as soldiers fire shots 12:50:59 6. Injured man on the ground 7. Demonstrators and US soldiers surround injured man 8. Demonstrators disperse 9. Various of pro-Saddam loyalists (First Run 1300 Europe Update, 17 December 2003) 10. Demonstrators chanting anti-US slogans 11. Demonstrators holding Saddam pictures 12:51:29 12. Demonstrators running as shots are fired 12:51:32 13. American humvee and Iraqi police 12:51:35 14. Demonstrators chanting pro-Saddam slogans 12:51:39 15. US helicopter hovering above demonstrators 12:51:44 16. Car damaged when US troops and Iraqi police opened fire 12:51:47 17. Bullet holes 12:51:51 18. Demonstrators on car carrying Saddam pictures and chanting 12:52:02 19. Man putting Saddam pictures on top of car windscreen 20. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Salim Ahmed, Protester 12:52:05 "Shame on the people who betrayed their country and shame on the Governing Council and all who came with the Americans to invade Iraq." 21. US soldiers climbing onto wall of university 12:52:14 STORYLINE: At least four people are believed to have been injured at a pro-Saddam demonstration in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. Witnesses said passengers in a car opened fire on the protesters on Wednesday. Hundreds of protesters were expressing their anger at the arrest of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Earlier reports said the rioting in Mosul had resulted in one policeman being killed and another injured. At one stage the US troops and Iraqi police apparently opened fire to disperse the demonstrators. Many Saddam loyalists have refused to believe that images beamed across the world of a disheveled and bearded man in US captivity is Saddam Hussein - the man whose 23-year rule augmented their position as the country's political elite. Saddam's capture has caused a wave of clashes between insU-R-G-E-N-Ts and US troops and their Iraqi allies in Fallujah, Samarra, Tikrit and Mosul. The rise in attacks since Saddam's arrest on Sunday and pro-Saddam protests in Baghdad's Sunni Muslim areas and other cities appear to be an attempt to spoil the victory scored by the United States when it found the former dictator in a hide-out near his hometown of Tikrit. 12:52:38 031217#087 Name: 031217#087 Title: IRAQ SAMARRA RAID EVN1/AP Type: EVN FEED In point: 16:03:42.21 Out point: 16:06:03.24 Duration: 00:02:21.01 Clip Location PDR A Tape ID 5867 Source AgPool Notes Dopesheet SAMARRA RAID Date Shot: 17-DEC-2003 Location: SAMARRA Country: IRAQ Sound: NATURAL Language: Source: AGPOOL Restrictions: Web Use Restricted: N Dopesheet: North of Baghdad, the U.S. Army staged a huge raid in the restive town of Samarra, detaining at least a dozen guerrilla suspects after snaring almost 80 others, including an alleged rebel financier, in the past few days. The 4th Infantry Division and Iraqi forces started the new series of raids, dubbed Operation Ivy Blizzard, on Wednesday in Samarra. Backed by armored vehicles and Apache helicopters, U.S. troops conducted door-to-door searches designed to stamp out guerrilla resistance in the restive town. At least a dozen people were detained. "Samarra has been a little bit of a thorn in our side," said U.S. Army Col. Nate Sassanan. "It hasn't come along as quickly as other cities in the rebuilding of Iraq. This operation is designed to bring them up to speed." Prior to Wednesday's operation in Samarra, the 4th Infantry Division raided the nearby village of Abu Safa, 100 kilometers (60 miles) north of Baghdad. U.S. troops arrested Qais Hattam, the No. 5 fugitive on the 4th Infantry's list of "high value targets," said Capt. Gaven Gregory. The guerrilla leader was described as a major financier of insurgents who have been fighting the U.S.-led coalition for months. Hattam is not on the U.S. list of the 55 most wanted Iraqis. Thirteen fugitives from that list remain at large. Shotlist: SAMARRA - 17 DECEMBER 2003 1. night vision soldiers painting their faces 12:52:42 2. tank door closing 12:52:57 3. soldiers on raid in samara 12:53:01 4. soldier pointing his gun 12:53:04 5. explosion in the door of a house to open the door 12:53:08 6. soldiers searching inside the house 12:53:13 7. various of an arrest of an Iraqi 12:53:20 8. mid shot of the cell where the put the prisoner 9. cell of prisoners 10. (early morning with sun rising) - tanks 12:53:50 11. soldier opening doors 12. door being blown open 12:54:29 13. soldier searching inside garage 14. tank opening door 12:54:35 15. soldiers departing 12:55:25 P-APTN-1300: ++Iraq IGC Wednesday, 17 December 2003 STORY: ++Iraq IGC - NEW Presser from Iraqi Governing Council, plus bite from Justice Min LENGTH: 3:15 FIRST RUN: 1300 RESTRICTIONS: APTN Clients Only TYPE: English/Arabic/Nat SOURCE: APTN STORY NUMBER: 404338 DATELINE: Baghdad, 17 Dec 2003 SHOTLIST: 1. Members of Iraqi Governing Council sitting down for press conference 2. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Mouwafak al-Rubaie, councillor: 12:55:30 "There is no evidence that Saddam Hussein was transferred to another country. Saddam is still in Iraq and will be tried by an Iraqi court." 3. Wide shot of press conference 12:55:41 4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mouwafak al-Rubaie, councillor: 12:55:45 "I think there may well be an upsurge of violence in the next few days or couple of weeks, probably, as an emotional reaction from those who have lost This incident of arresting Saddam Hussein has a devastating blow on their moral, because it's a sign of despair they may do something silly in the way of violence. But in the medium term I do believe that it's going to be continuously decreasing and reducing the violence in number and in quality." 5. Wide shot of press conference 12:56:26 6. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Mouwafak al-Rubaie, councillor: 12:56:31 "Because of his (Saddam's) psychological condition and the hole he was living in, I don't believe that Saddam was leading the terrorist operations. He is accused of many crimes but he is innocent of this one." 7. Wide shot of press conference 12:57:01 8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Adnan Pachachi, councillor: 12:57:07 "We could appoint international judges if we feel that it is necessary. Secondly, whether there are enough experienced judges in Iraq to take this task - I think there are. And, as I said, if we feel that we need some outside help we will not hesitate to get this help." 9. Wide shot of press conference 12:57:35 10. Set up of Justice Minister Hashim al-Shibli 12:57:45 11. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Hashim al-Shibli, Iraqi Minister of Justice: 12:57:52 "We have nothing to do with what other people are saying. We are a country with our own values and judicial experience. We are fully independent and we are completely free to take to court anyone who has done any wrong against the Iraqi people. What Iran, Israel or any other party has said is something that concerns them. We have totally nothing to do with them." 12.Exterior of Justice Ministry 12:58:28 STORYLINE: On Wednesday, a member of the US-appointed Iraqi Governing Council said Saddam Hussein is still being held in Iraq. Mouwafak al-Rubaie spoke at a news conference where council members issued a statement asking for Iraqis to seek reconciliation following the capture of Saddam. The council has established a war crimes tribunal and hope to try Saddam for human rights abuses. Council member Adnan Pachachi said foreign judges could be appointed to the tribunal but added that he thought there were enough experienced judges in Iraq to handle the task. Al-Rubaie said he didn't believe Saddam had been leading terrorist operations in Iraq, mainly because of his psychological condition. He said he thought there might be an upsurge in violence in the short term, probably as "an emotional reaction" to the arrest of Saddam. Meanwhile, Minister of Justice Hashim al-Shibli rejected calls to try Saddam Hussein in an international tribunal. APTN APEX 12-17-03 0916EST

LONDON FEED: VARIOUS IRAQ EXPLOSION FOOTAGE RS 25 XDECK76 SLUGGED: 1242 LONDON EB X76 12/17/03 12:46:08 031217#020 Name: 031217#020 Title: IRAQ EXPLOSION 3 APTN 0900G Type: APTN FEED In point: 09:00:47.18 Out point: 09:04:55.10 Duration: 00:04:07.22 Clip Location PDR A Tape ID 5851 Source APTN Notes Dopesheet AP-APTN-0900: Iraq Explosion 3 Wednesday, 17 December 2003 STORY: Iraq Explosion 3 - WRAP Scene of blast, wounded in hospital, morgue LENGTH: 4:07 FIRST RUN: 0900 RESTRICTIONS: APTN Clients Only TYPE: Natsound SOURCE: APTN DATELINE: Baghdad, 17 Dec 2003 SHOTLIST: (First Run 0400 Europe Early, Dec 17) Night shots 1. Mid shot burning vehicles 12:46:17 2. Wide shot burning vehicles, zoom in, men running past 12:46:23 3. Injured person being carried 12:46:31 4. Various of burning vehicles 12:46:39 (First Run 0715 Asia Pacific, Dec 17) 5. Burnt out utility vehicle and car 12:47:09 6. Wreck of minibus 12:47:18 7. Wreckage, pan of debris 12:47:25 8. Burnt-out car 12:47:43 9. Pan of burnt-out car 12:47:49 10. Man pointing at steering wheel of burnt-out car 12:47:53 11. Various of burnt-out utility vehicle 12:48:02 12. Pan of scene of explosion 12:48:16 (First Run 0715 Asia Pacific, Dec 17) 13. Various of seriously injured man being treated in Al-Yarmook hospital 12:48:23 14. Close up injured leg 12:48:57 15. Close up man's face 16. Wide shot injured in hospital beds 17. Various close ups of injuries 18. Wide shot hospital exterior r12:49:08 19. Wide shot exterior morgue 12:49:22 20. Various of dead bodies lined up 12:49:28 21. Various of grieving relatives 12:49:46 22. Various of a body being carried from the morgue 12:49:51 23. Body being placed in coffin 24. Close up man crying 25. Wide shot morgue exterior 12:50:13 STORYLINE: An explosives-laden truck speeding toward a police station collided with a bus at an intersection before dawn Wednesday, killing at least 10 people amid a surge of violence since the weekend arrest of Saddam Hussein. Twenty people were also injured in the attack in al-Bayaa, a poor district in southwest Baghdad, hospital officials said. Ahmed Kadhim Ibrahim, deputy interior minister, said the dead were Iraqis, and that the truck driver had planned to strike the police station. The charred, crumpled bus lay in the intersection after the blast. Body parts were scattered in the area. A pink plastic shoe sandal lay in the street. Two cars nearby were destroyed. U.S. soldiers arrived and took photographs of the shattered remains of the truck. "I was leaving home when I heard an explosion and saw cars burning at al-Bayaa intersection," said Ahmed Ayyoub, a 23-year bus driver. "I ran to the place to see if there were people injured. There were lots of human remains on the sidewalks and we started collecting them," he said. The rescue effort was more difficult because it was still dark at the time of the blast, he said. Assailants have previously attacked the al-Bayaa station several times. Four days ago, police said, attackers fired rocket-propelled grenades at the station. U.S. soldiers staying at the station left the station after that attack at the request of Iraqi police who believed their presence was provoking attacks. Medhat Ghanem, 32, said he was on the sidewalk waiting for a bus when he saw a yellow truck speed down the main road and explode. "After the explosion, I fell to the ground and was unconscious for a bit. Then I found that my leg was broken," Ghanem said in a hospital where his leg was put in a cast. Ibrahim blamed the bomb Wednesday on Saddam's supporters. "They were trying to avenge the cowardly leader, who they saw as a hero in the past," Ibrahim said. 12:50:32 031217#080 Name: 031217#080 Title: IRAQ MOSUL 2 AP 1600G Type: APTN FEED In point: 16:04:27.17 Out point: 16:06:13.16 Duration: 00:01:45.27 Clip Location PDR A Tape ID 5866 Source aptn Notes IRAQ MOSUL 2 AP 1600G Dopesheet -APTN-1600: +Mosul Demo 2 Wednesday, 17 December 2003 STORY: +Mosul Demo 2 - WRAP demo ends in violence LENGTH: 1:44 FIRST RUN: 1600 RESTRICTIONS: APTN Clients Only TYPE: Arabic/Nat SOURCE: APTN DATELINE: Mosul, 17 Dec 2003 ++QUALITY AS INCOMING++ SHOTLIST: (First Run 1600 Europe Late, 17 December 2003) 1. US soldiers standing beside military vehicles, facing pro-Saddam anti-US demonstrators 2. Demonstrators holding Saddam pictures and chanting 12:50:39 3. US military vehicles driving down street 12:50:45 4. More demonstrators 12:50:49 5. Demonstrators run as soldiers fire shots 12:50:59 6. Injured man on the ground 7. Demonstrators and US soldiers surround injured man 8. Demonstrators disperse 9. Various of pro-Saddam loyalists (First Run 1300 Europe Update, 17 December 2003) 10. Demonstrators chanting anti-US slogans 11. Demonstrators holding Saddam pictures 12:51:29 12. Demonstrators running as shots are fired 12:51:32 13. American humvee and Iraqi police 12:51:35 14. Demonstrators chanting pro-Saddam slogans 12:51:39 15. US helicopter hovering above demonstrators 12:51:44 16. Car damaged when US troops and Iraqi police opened fire 12:51:47 17. Bullet holes 12:51:51 18. Demonstrators on car carrying Saddam pictures and chanting 12:52:02 19. Man putting Saddam pictures on top of car windscreen 20. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Salim Ahmed, Protester 12:52:05 "Shame on the people who betrayed their country and shame on the Governing Council and all who came with the Americans to invade Iraq." 21. US soldiers climbing onto wall of university 12:52:14 STORYLINE: At least four people are believed to have been injured at a pro-Saddam demonstration in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. Witnesses said passengers in a car opened fire on the protesters on Wednesday. Hundreds of protesters were expressing their anger at the arrest of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Earlier reports said the rioting in Mosul had resulted in one policeman being killed and another injured. At one stage the US troops and Iraqi police apparently opened fire to disperse the demonstrators. Many Saddam loyalists have refused to believe that images beamed across the world of a disheveled and bearded man in US captivity is Saddam Hussein - the man whose 23-year rule augmented their position as the country's political elite. Saddam's capture has caused a wave of clashes between insU-R-G-E-N-Ts and US troops and their Iraqi allies in Fallujah, Samarra, Tikrit and Mosul. The rise in attacks since Saddam's arrest on Sunday and pro-Saddam protests in Baghdad's Sunni Muslim areas and other cities appear to be an attempt to spoil the victory scored by the United States when it found the former dictator in a hide-out near his hometown of Tikrit. 12:52:38 031217#087 Name: 031217#087 Title: IRAQ SAMARRA RAID EVN1/AP Type: EVN FEED In point: 16:03:42.21 Out point: 16:06:03.24 Duration: 00:02:21.01 Clip Location PDR A Tape ID 5867 Source AgPool Notes Dopesheet SAMARRA RAID Date Shot: 17-DEC-2003 Location: SAMARRA Country: IRAQ Sound: NATURAL Language: Source: AGPOOL Restrictions: Web Use Restricted: N Dopesheet: North of Baghdad, the U.S. Army staged a huge raid in the restive town of Samarra, detaining at least a dozen guerrilla suspects after snaring almost 80 others, including an alleged rebel financier, in the past few days. The 4th Infantry Division and Iraqi forces started the new series of raids, dubbed Operation Ivy Blizzard, on Wednesday in Samarra. Backed by armored vehicles and Apache helicopters, U.S. troops conducted door-to-door searches designed to stamp out guerrilla resistance in the restive town. At least a dozen people were detained. "Samarra has been a little bit of a thorn in our side," said U.S. Army Col. Nate Sassanan. "It hasn't come along as quickly as other cities in the rebuilding of Iraq. This operation is designed to bring them up to speed." Prior to Wednesday's operation in Samarra, the 4th Infantry Division raided the nearby village of Abu Safa, 100 kilometers (60 miles) north of Baghdad. U.S. troops arrested Qais Hattam, the No. 5 fugitive on the 4th Infantry's list of "high value targets," said Capt. Gaven Gregory. The guerrilla leader was described as a major financier of insurgents who have been fighting the U.S.-led coalition for months. Hattam is not on the U.S. list of the 55 most wanted Iraqis. Thirteen fugitives from that list remain at large. Shotlist: SAMARRA - 17 DECEMBER 2003 1. night vision soldiers painting their faces 12:52:42 2. tank door closing 12:52:57 3. soldiers on raid in samara 12:53:01 4. soldier pointing his gun 12:53:04 5. explosion in the door of a house to open the door 12:53:08 6. soldiers searching inside the house 12:53:13 7. various of an arrest of an Iraqi 12:53:20 8. mid shot of the cell where the put the prisoner 9. cell of prisoners 10. (early morning with sun rising) - tanks 12:53:50 11. soldier opening doors 12. door being blown open 12:54:29 13. soldier searching inside garage 14. tank opening door 12:54:35 15. soldiers departing 12:55:25 P-APTN-1300: ++Iraq IGC Wednesday, 17 December 2003 STORY: ++Iraq IGC - NEW Presser from Iraqi Governing Council, plus bite from Justice Min LENGTH: 3:15 FIRST RUN: 1300 RESTRICTIONS: APTN Clients Only TYPE: English/Arabic/Nat SOURCE: APTN STORY NUMBER: 404338 DATELINE: Baghdad, 17 Dec 2003 SHOTLIST: 1. Members of Iraqi Governing Council sitting down for press conference 2. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Mouwafak al-Rubaie, councillor: 12:55:30 "There is no evidence that Saddam Hussein was transferred to another country. Saddam is still in Iraq and will be tried by an Iraqi court." 3. Wide shot of press conference 12:55:41 4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mouwafak al-Rubaie, councillor: 12:55:45 "I think there may well be an upsurge of violence in the next few days or couple of weeks, probably, as an emotional reaction from those who have lost This incident of arresting Saddam Hussein has a devastating blow on their moral, because it's a sign of despair they may do something silly in the way of violence. But in the medium term I do believe that it's going to be continuously decreasing and reducing the violence in number and in quality." 5. Wide shot of press conference 12:56:26 6. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Mouwafak al-Rubaie, councillor: 12:56:31 "Because of his (Saddam's) psychological condition and the hole he was living in, I don't believe that Saddam was leading the terrorist operations. He is accused of many crimes but he is innocent of this one." 7. Wide shot of press conference 12:57:01 8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Adnan Pachachi, councillor: 12:57:07 "We could appoint international judges if we feel that it is necessary. Secondly, whether there are enough experienced judges in Iraq to take this task - I think there are. And, as I said, if we feel that we need some outside help we will not hesitate to get this help." 9. Wide shot of press conference 12:57:35 10. Set up of Justice Minister Hashim al-Shibli 12:57:45 11. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Hashim al-Shibli, Iraqi Minister of Justice: 12:57:52 "We have nothing to do with what other people are saying. We are a country with our own values and judicial experience. We are fully independent and we are completely free to take to court anyone who has done any wrong against the Iraqi people. What Iran, Israel or any other party has said is something that concerns them. We have totally nothing to do with them." 12.Exterior of Justice Ministry 12:58:28 STORYLINE: On Wednesday, a member of the US-appointed Iraqi Governing Council said Saddam Hussein is still being held in Iraq. Mouwafak al-Rubaie spoke at a news conference where council members issued a statement asking for Iraqis to seek reconciliation following the capture of Saddam. The council has established a war crimes tribunal and hope to try Saddam for human rights abuses. Council member Adnan Pachachi said foreign judges could be appointed to the tribunal but added that he thought there were enough experienced judges in Iraq to handle the task. Al-Rubaie said he didn't believe Saddam had been leading terrorist operations in Iraq, mainly because of his psychological condition. He said he thought there might be an upsurge in violence in the short term, probably as "an emotional reaction" to the arrest of Saddam. Meanwhile, Minister of Justice Hashim al-Shibli rejected calls to try Saddam Hussein in an international tribunal. APTN APEX 12-17-03 0916EST

LONDON FEED: VARIOUS IRAQ EXPLOSION FOOTAGE RS 25 XDECK76 SLUGGED: 1242 LONDON EB X76 12/17/03 12:46:08 031217#020 Name: 031217#020 Title: IRAQ EXPLOSION 3 APTN 0900G Type: APTN FEED In point: 09:00:47.18 Out point: 09:04:55.10 Duration: 00:04:07.22 Clip Location PDR A Tape ID 5851 Source APTN Notes Dopesheet AP-APTN-0900: Iraq Explosion 3 Wednesday, 17 December 2003 STORY: Iraq Explosion 3 - WRAP Scene of blast, wounded in hospital, morgue LENGTH: 4:07 FIRST RUN: 0900 RESTRICTIONS: APTN Clients Only TYPE: Natsound SOURCE: APTN DATELINE: Baghdad, 17 Dec 2003 SHOTLIST: (First Run 0400 Europe Early, Dec 17) Night shots 1. Mid shot burning vehicles 12:46:17 2. Wide shot burning vehicles, zoom in, men running past 12:46:23 3. Injured person being carried 12:46:31 4. Various of burning vehicles 12:46:39 (First Run 0715 Asia Pacific, Dec 17) 5. Burnt out utility vehicle and car 12:47:09 6. Wreck of minibus 12:47:18 7. Wreckage, pan of debris 12:47:25 8. Burnt-out car 12:47:43 9. Pan of burnt-out car 12:47:49 10. Man pointing at steering wheel of burnt-out car 12:47:53 11. Various of burnt-out utility vehicle 12:48:02 12. Pan of scene of explosion 12:48:16 (First Run 0715 Asia Pacific, Dec 17) 13. Various of seriously injured man being treated in Al-Yarmook hospital 12:48:23 14. Close up injured leg 12:48:57 15. Close up man's face 16. Wide shot injured in hospital beds 17. Various close ups of injuries 18. Wide shot hospital exterior r12:49:08 19. Wide shot exterior morgue 12:49:22 20. Various of dead bodies lined up 12:49:28 21. Various of grieving relatives 12:49:46 22. Various of a body being carried from the morgue 12:49:51 23. Body being placed in coffin 24. Close up man crying 25. Wide shot morgue exterior 12:50:13 STORYLINE: An explosives-laden truck speeding toward a police station collided with a bus at an intersection before dawn Wednesday, killing at least 10 people amid a surge of violence since the weekend arrest of Saddam Hussein. Twenty people were also injured in the attack in al-Bayaa, a poor district in southwest Baghdad, hospital officials said. Ahmed Kadhim Ibrahim, deputy interior minister, said the dead were Iraqis, and that the truck driver had planned to strike the police station. The charred, crumpled bus lay in the intersection after the blast. Body parts were scattered in the area. A pink plastic shoe sandal lay in the street. Two cars nearby were destroyed. U.S. soldiers arrived and took photographs of the shattered remains of the truck. "I was leaving home when I heard an explosion and saw cars burning at al-Bayaa intersection," said Ahmed Ayyoub, a 23-year bus driver. "I ran to the place to see if there were people injured. There were lots of human remains on the sidewalks and we started collecting them," he said. The rescue effort was more difficult because it was still dark at the time of the blast, he said. Assailants have previously attacked the al-Bayaa station several times. Four days ago, police said, attackers fired rocket-propelled grenades at the station. U.S. soldiers staying at the station left the station after that attack at the request of Iraqi police who believed their presence was provoking attacks. Medhat Ghanem, 32, said he was on the sidewalk waiting for a bus when he saw a yellow truck speed down the main road and explode. "After the explosion, I fell to the ground and was unconscious for a bit. Then I found that my leg was broken," Ghanem said in a hospital where his leg was put in a cast. Ibrahim blamed the bomb Wednesday on Saddam's supporters. "They were trying to avenge the cowardly leader, who they saw as a hero in the past," Ibrahim said. 12:50:32 031217#080 Name: 031217#080 Title: IRAQ MOSUL 2 AP 1600G Type: APTN FEED In point: 16:04:27.17 Out point: 16:06:13.16 Duration: 00:01:45.27 Clip Location PDR A Tape ID 5866 Source aptn Notes IRAQ MOSUL 2 AP 1600G Dopesheet -APTN-1600: +Mosul Demo 2 Wednesday, 17 December 2003 STORY: +Mosul Demo 2 - WRAP demo ends in violence LENGTH: 1:44 FIRST RUN: 1600 RESTRICTIONS: APTN Clients Only TYPE: Arabic/Nat SOURCE: APTN DATELINE: Mosul, 17 Dec 2003 ++QUALITY AS INCOMING++ SHOTLIST: (First Run 1600 Europe Late, 17 December 2003) 1. US soldiers standing beside military vehicles, facing pro-Saddam anti-US demonstrators 2. Demonstrators holding Saddam pictures and chanting 12:50:39 3. US military vehicles driving down street 12:50:45 4. More demonstrators 12:50:49 5. Demonstrators run as soldiers fire shots 12:50:59 6. Injured man on the ground 7. Demonstrators and US soldiers surround injured man 8. Demonstrators disperse 9. Various of pro-Saddam loyalists (First Run 1300 Europe Update, 17 December 2003) 10. Demonstrators chanting anti-US slogans 11. Demonstrators holding Saddam pictures 12:51:29 12. Demonstrators running as shots are fired 12:51:32 13. American humvee and Iraqi police 12:51:35 14. Demonstrators chanting pro-Saddam slogans 12:51:39 15. US helicopter hovering above demonstrators 12:51:44 16. Car damaged when US troops and Iraqi police opened fire 12:51:47 17. Bullet holes 12:51:51 18. Demonstrators on car carrying Saddam pictures and chanting 12:52:02 19. Man putting Saddam pictures on top of car windscreen 20. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Salim Ahmed, Protester 12:52:05 "Shame on the people who betrayed their country and shame on the Governing Council and all who came with the Americans to invade Iraq." 21. US soldiers climbing onto wall of university 12:52:14 STORYLINE: At least four people are believed to have been injured at a pro-Saddam demonstration in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. Witnesses said passengers in a car opened fire on the protesters on Wednesday. Hundreds of protesters were expressing their anger at the arrest of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Earlier reports said the rioting in Mosul had resulted in one policeman being killed and another injured. At one stage the US troops and Iraqi police apparently opened fire to disperse the demonstrators. Many Saddam loyalists have refused to believe that images beamed across the world of a disheveled and bearded man in US captivity is Saddam Hussein - the man whose 23-year rule augmented their position as the country's political elite. Saddam's capture has caused a wave of clashes between insU-R-G-E-N-Ts and US troops and their Iraqi allies in Fallujah, Samarra, Tikrit and Mosul. The rise in attacks since Saddam's arrest on Sunday and pro-Saddam protests in Baghdad's Sunni Muslim areas and other cities appear to be an attempt to spoil the victory scored by the United States when it found the former dictator in a hide-out near his hometown of Tikrit. 12:52:38 031217#087 Name: 031217#087 Title: IRAQ SAMARRA RAID EVN1/AP Type: EVN FEED In point: 16:03:42.21 Out point: 16:06:03.24 Duration: 00:02:21.01 Clip Location PDR A Tape ID 5867 Source AgPool Notes Dopesheet SAMARRA RAID Date Shot: 17-DEC-2003 Location: SAMARRA Country: IRAQ Sound: NATURAL Language: Source: AGPOOL Restrictions: Web Use Restricted: N Dopesheet: North of Baghdad, the U.S. Army staged a huge raid in the restive town of Samarra, detaining at least a dozen guerrilla suspects after snaring almost 80 others, including an alleged rebel financier, in the past few days. The 4th Infantry Division and Iraqi forces started the new series of raids, dubbed Operation Ivy Blizzard, on Wednesday in Samarra. Backed by armored vehicles and Apache helicopters, U.S. troops conducted door-to-door searches designed to stamp out guerrilla resistance in the restive town. At least a dozen people were detained. "Samarra has been a little bit of a thorn in our side," said U.S. Army Col. Nate Sassanan. "It hasn't come along as quickly as other cities in the rebuilding of Iraq. This operation is designed to bring them up to speed." Prior to Wednesday's operation in Samarra, the 4th Infantry Division raided the nearby village of Abu Safa, 100 kilometers (60 miles) north of Baghdad. U.S. troops arrested Qais Hattam, the No. 5 fugitive on the 4th Infantry's list of "high value targets," said Capt. Gaven Gregory. The guerrilla leader was described as a major financier of insurgents who have been fighting the U.S.-led coalition for months. Hattam is not on the U.S. list of the 55 most wanted Iraqis. Thirteen fugitives from that list remain at large. Shotlist: SAMARRA - 17 DECEMBER 2003 1. night vision soldiers painting their faces 12:52:42 2. tank door closing 12:52:57 3. soldiers on raid in samara 12:53:01 4. soldier pointing his gun 12:53:04 5. explosion in the door of a house to open the door 12:53:08 6. soldiers searching inside the house 12:53:13 7. various of an arrest of an Iraqi 12:53:20 8. mid shot of the cell where the put the prisoner 9. cell of prisoners 10. (early morning with sun rising) - tanks 12:53:50 11. soldier opening doors 12. door being blown open 12:54:29 13. soldier searching inside garage 14. tank opening door 12:54:35 15. soldiers departing 12:55:25 P-APTN-1300: ++Iraq IGC Wednesday, 17 December 2003 STORY: ++Iraq IGC - NEW Presser from Iraqi Governing Council, plus bite from Justice Min LENGTH: 3:15 FIRST RUN: 1300 RESTRICTIONS: APTN Clients Only TYPE: English/Arabic/Nat SOURCE: APTN STORY NUMBER: 404338 DATELINE: Baghdad, 17 Dec 2003 SHOTLIST: 1. Members of Iraqi Governing Council sitting down for press conference 2. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Mouwafak al-Rubaie, councillor: 12:55:30 "There is no evidence that Saddam Hussein was transferred to another country. Saddam is still in Iraq and will be tried by an Iraqi court." 3. Wide shot of press conference 12:55:41 4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mouwafak al-Rubaie, councillor: 12:55:45 "I think there may well be an upsurge of violence in the next few days or couple of weeks, probably, as an emotional reaction from those who have lost This incident of arresting Saddam Hussein has a devastating blow on their moral, because it's a sign of despair they may do something silly in the way of violence. But in the medium term I do believe that it's going to be continuously decreasing and reducing the violence in number and in quality." 5. Wide shot of press conference 12:56:26 6. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Mouwafak al-Rubaie, councillor: 12:56:31 "Because of his (Saddam's) psychological condition and the hole he was living in, I don't believe that Saddam was leading the terrorist operations. He is accused of many crimes but he is innocent of this one." 7. Wide shot of press conference 12:57:01 8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Adnan Pachachi, councillor: 12:57:07 "We could appoint international judges if we feel that it is necessary. Secondly, whether there are enough experienced judges in Iraq to take this task - I think there are. And, as I said, if we feel that we need some outside help we will not hesitate to get this help." 9. Wide shot of press conference 12:57:35 10. Set up of Justice Minister Hashim al-Shibli 12:57:45 11. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Hashim al-Shibli, Iraqi Minister of Justice: 12:57:52 "We have nothing to do with what other people are saying. We are a country with our own values and judicial experience. We are fully independent and we are completely free to take to court anyone who has done any wrong against the Iraqi people. What Iran, Israel or any other party has said is something that concerns them. We have totally nothing to do with them." 12.Exterior of Justice Ministry 12:58:28 STORYLINE: On Wednesday, a member of the US-appointed Iraqi Governing Council said Saddam Hussein is still being held in Iraq. Mouwafak al-Rubaie spoke at a news conference where council members issued a statement asking for Iraqis to seek reconciliation following the capture of Saddam. The council has established a war crimes tribunal and hope to try Saddam for human rights abuses. Council member Adnan Pachachi said foreign judges could be appointed to the tribunal but added that he thought there were enough experienced judges in Iraq to handle the task. Al-Rubaie said he didn't believe Saddam had been leading terrorist operations in Iraq, mainly because of his psychological condition. He said he thought there might be an upsurge in violence in the short term, probably as "an emotional reaction" to the arrest of Saddam. Meanwhile, Minister of Justice Hashim al-Shibli rejected calls to try Saddam Hussein in an international tribunal. APTN APEX 12-17-03 0916EST

AP-APTN-1830 North America Prime News -Final Thursday, 22 April 2010 North America Prime News US Oil Rig 2 01:03 AP Clients Only REPLAY At least 11 missing as oil rig explodes, night shots of rig on fire US IMF 02:33 AP Clients Only REPLAY IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn on Greece Europe Passengers 03:45 Pt No Access UK/RTE/CNNi/Al Jazeera English WRAP Stranded Britons board cruise ship, Ryanair sot, Germany Iceland Volcanoes 2 03:15 AP Clients Only WRAP Aerials of dormant Katla volcano, vulcanologist, active volcano ++US Obama 03:02 AP Clients Only NEW Obama keeps up pressure for financial overhaul, trader reax Estonia NATO 03:53 AP Clients Only REPLAY NATO meeting, Clinton says US sees value in diplomatic ties to Syria US Elian 03:16 See Scripts REPLAY Tenth anniversary of raid on Elian Gonzalez's home in Miami Iran War Games 02:32 No Access Iran/ BBC Persian / VOA Persian REPLAY Iran begins war games in the Persian Gulf, Revolutionary Guard comment B-u-l-l-e-t-i-n begins at 1830 GMT. APEX 04-22-10 1456EDT -----------End of rundown----------- AP-APTN-1830: US Oil Rig 2 Thursday, 22 April 2010 STORY:US Oil Rig 2- REPLAY At least 11 missing as oil rig explodes, night shots of rig on fire LENGTH: 01:03 FIRST RUN: 1330 RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only TYPE: Natsound SOURCE: US Coast Guard STORY NUMBER: 643683 DATELINE: Off Louisiana - 20 April 2010 LENGTH: 01:03 US COAST GUARD - AP CLIENTS ONLY SHOTLIST ++NIGHT SHOTS++ 1. Various aerial shots of oil rig being consumed by flames with fire and smoke shooting high into the night sky STORYLINE The US Coast Guard resumed an aerial search on Thursday morning for 11 workers, missing after a massive explosion aboard an oil platform off the Louisiana coast. The Coast Guard also released new aerial video on Thursday, filmed in the hours after the initial explosion on Tuesday. The dramatic video from a Coast Guard helicopter shows the rig completely consumed by flames as fire and smoke is seen shooting high into the night sky. The air search for the missing workers was resumed at dawn after Coast Guard rescuers, helicopters and cutters, failed to reveal any signs of the missing workers overnight. Officials hoped the 11 missing workers might have been able to get to a covered lifeboat with enough supplies to survive for an extended period. The rig, where exploratory drilling was being done about 50 miles off the coast of Louisiana, exploded late on Tuesday, sending workers scurrying for safety. Seventeen people were injured in the blast, four critically, in what could be one of the nation's deadliest offshore drilling accidents of the past half-century. The Coast Guard said the 17 taken by air or sea to hospitals suffered burns, broken legs and smoke inhalation. Meanwhile, survivors of the explosion were being reunited with their families at a suburban New Orleans hotel early on Thursday. About 100 workers who made it to a supply boat after Tuesday night's explosion, arrived in Port Fourchon earlier Thursday where they were checked by doctors. The rig is owned by Transocean Limited and was under contract to oil giant BP. Authorities could not say when the flames might die out on the 400-by-250-foot (122-by-76 metre) rig, which is roughly twice the size of a football field, according the Transocean's website. A column of boiling black smoke rose hundreds of feet over the Gulf of Mexico as fireboats shot streams of water at the blaze. Officials said the damage to the environment appeared minimal so far. Adrian Rose, vice president of Transocean, said the explosion appeared to be a blowout, in which natural gas or oil forces its way up a well pipe and smashes the equipment. Precisely what went wrong, however, was still under investigation. A total of 126 workers were aboard. Seventy-nine were Transocean workers, six were BP employees and 41 were contracted. Rose said the Deepwater Horizon crew had drilled the well to its final depth, more than 18-thousand feet (5.5 kilometres), and was cementing the steel casing at the time of the explosion. According to Transocean's website, the rig was built in 2001 in South Korea and is designed to operate in water up to 8-thousand feet deep (2.4 kilometres) and accommodate a crew of 130. It floats on pontoons and is moored to the sea floor by several large anchors. 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APTN APEX 04-22-10 1429EDT ------------------- END -- OF -- ITEM ------------------- AP-APTN-1830: US IMF Thursday, 22 April 2010 STORY:US IMF- REPLAY IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn on Greece LENGTH: 02:33 FIRST RUN: 1630 RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only TYPE: English/Nat SOURCE: AP TELEVISION STORY NUMBER: 643673 DATELINE: Washington DC - 22 April 2010 LENGTH: 02:33 AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY SHOTLIST 1. Wide of International Monetary Fund (IMF) news conference 2. Cutaway of photographer 3. SOUNDBITE (English) Dominique Strauss-Kahn, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director: "It's clear that the Greek situation is a very serious one and we are very much concerned. It's a serious one for the question of macroeconomic stability of Greece and even more than Greece, it's also a very serious question for the Greek people." 4. Cutaway of media 5. SOUNDBITE (English) Dominique Strauss-Kahn, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director: "There's no way, no silver bullets to solve it in an easy manner. So we will have all together; the Europeans, the Greeks, the Greek authorities I mean, but also the Greek people and all of part of the society, the unions, the business union, everybody and the IMF to find together the best way to put Greece back on track." 6. Wide of Strauss-Kahn at news conference 7. SOUNDBITE (English) Dominique Strauss-Kahn, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director: "We expect to contemplate over time some revaluation of the currency, just in the interest of the Chinese economy itself because when you have a more domestic led growth model, you want to fight inflation, you want to need, to give more purchasing power to your consumers and this goes along with higher value of the Renminbi (Chinese yuan, also known as the renminbi). So I'm not expecting that it is going to happen overnight but I think that's the medium term strategy that I will advise the Chinese authorities to follow and I think they will follow, not because I am advising it but because it's in their own interest." 8. Cutaway of media 9. SOUNDBITE (English) Dominique Strauss-Kahn, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director: "It will be totally wrong to argue that because of the stimulus you have an increase in the debt ratio. Because of the stimulus you had more growth and less increase in the debt ratio that we would have had without the stimulus and that I think is a very very important point. The other point is of course our main concern today; has to do with unemployment and the answer I gave to your Canadian colleague is that one of the threat, not only one of the concern but a threat to the recovery. One of the concern because it means the crisis is not over but one of the threat because with high unemployment you have high, sorry have low private demand and this low private demand may be one of the reasons why the recovery doesn't go fast enough." 10. Wide of Strauss-Kahn at news conference STORYLINE The head of the International Monetary Fund said on Thursday that the debt crisis in Greece is serious and there would be no "silver bullet" to resolve the issue in an easy manner. IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said that negotiations with the IMF over conditions for a support package were just beginning and would take some time to come to a resolution. But Strauss-Kahn told reporters that the IMF was not considering some type of restructuring of Greek debt that would make holders of the debt accept something less than full value for their loans. That worry has roiled markets in recent days. "It is clear that the Greek situation is a very serious one," Strauss-Kahn said. "There is no single way, no silver bullet to solve it in an easy manner." Strauss-Kahn spoke in advance of discussions over the next three days among global finance officials including finance ministers and central bank governors of the Group of 20 nations, which include the world's richest industrial countries and major developing nations such as China, Brazil, India and Russia. While markets slammed Greece on Thursday after the European Union revised the country's deficit and debt figures, Strauss-Kahn said that for the IMF team negotiating the terms of financial support, the changes would just mean that "if the problems start a little worse than expected, we will take this into account." Also on Thursday, ratings agency Moody's Investor Services downgraded its rating on Greece's debt by one notch to A3 from A2, and warned that further downgrades were a distinct possibility. Moody's downgrade was likely to make it even more difficult for the cash-strapped Greek government to tap the bond markets for money. The government has insisted that it prefers to access money via the markets to meet its borrowing requirements instead of resorting to a joint eurozone-International Monetary Fund rescue package. Greek Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou was headed to Washington and was scheduled to meet with Strauss-Kahn on Saturday. The Greek government is holding talks with the IMF, the European Central Bank and the European Commission in an effort to develop a three-year debt rescue package for the country. On China, Strauss-Kahn said he would advise Chinese officials to a revaluation of the Renminbi (Chinese yuan). He said he thought the Chinese would follow his advise" not because I am advising it but because it's in their own interest." Strauss-Kahn said while the finance meetings were being held at a time when the global economy appeared to be on a recovery path, a number of challenges remained which finance officials would need to address. The IMF reported on Thursday that the global economy would expand this year by 4.2 percent, slightly better than the IMF's view in January, and significantly better than the 0.6 percent drop in global growth that occurred last year, the largest slump in the post Word War II period. He said it would be important for the G-20 leaders to push ahead with efforts to overhaul financial regulations, making sure that each country's reforms were compatible with the global system. An IMF briefing paper that recommends adopting new banks taxes is expected to provide a basis for the discussions with the G-20 finance officials meet on Friday. 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APTN APEX 04-22-10 1429EDT ------------------- END -- OF -- ITEM ------------------- AP-APTN-1830: Europe Passengers Thursday, 22 April 2010 STORY:Europe Passengers- WRAP Stranded Britons board cruise ship, Ryanair sot, Germany LENGTH: 03:45 FIRST RUN: 1230 RESTRICTIONS: Pt No Access UK/RTE/CNNi/Al Jazeera English TYPE: Eng/Spa/Ger/Nat SOURCE: AP TELEVISION/SKY STORY NUMBER: 643672 DATELINE: Various - 22 April 2010 LENGTH: 03:45 AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY SKY - NO ACCESS UK/RTE/CNNI/AL JAZEERA ENGLISH SHOTLIST: (FIRST RUN 0830 EUROPE PRIME NEWS - 22 APRIL 2010) AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY Bilbao, Spain - 22 April, 2010 1. Wide pan from ship to line of coaches 2. People gathered around the buses 3. Travellers being handed luggage forms 4. Man filling out form on a suitcase ++NEW (FIRST RUN 1130 ME EUROPE PRIME NEWS - 22 APRIL 2010) AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY Bilbao, Spain - 22 April, 2010 5. Various of people boarding cruise ship 6. Wide of cruise ship ++NEW (FIRST RUN 1130 ME EUROPE PRIME NEWS - 22 APRIL 2010) AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY Madrid, Spain - 22 April, 2010 7. Various of passengers queuing at the Ryanair check in at Barajas Airport 8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sebastian Pass, Ryanair passenger: "Well, you pay a lot for the flights and I hope that the company are taking care of their customers. Ryanair, it's different - you pay a very cheap price so it's just like they take you from one point to another point and that's all." 9. Cutaway of Ryanair flight board 10. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Miguel Perez, Ryanair passenger: "I think it's savage! This is a joke. If you fly with Ryanair because it is cheap and then you have to spend 400 or 500 Euros (534 - 667 US dollars) to stay here or to come back to your country it is a joke. We should denounce it." 11. Ryainair check in desk (FIRST RUN 1130 ME EUROPE PRIME NEWS - 22 APRIL 2010) SKY - NO ACCESS UK/RTE/CNNI/AL JAZEERA ENGLISH Dublin, Ireland - 22 April, 2010 12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Michael O'Leary, Ryanair Chief Executive: "We've never refused to pay, we just said yesterday we would propose to limit the payments to the ticket price paid. It's gone off, we're clearly in a hole this morning and I think the best thing you do when you're in a hole is stop digging. So we've said today we'll comply with EU261 regulations, it means we will reimburse reasonable receipted expenses from disrupted passengers if they send them to us, but we will not be paying compensation because the EU261 says no compensation arises if the cancellations are not the fault of the airlines - which is clearly the case in this case." ++NEW (FIRST RUN 1230 NEWS UPDATE - 22 APRIL 2010) AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY Berlin, Germany - 22 April, 2010 13. Wide of Berlin Tiegel airport control tower 14. Various Lufthansa planes on tarmac 15. Workers unloading baggage from landed plane 16. Various of airport arrivals board showing landed flights 17. Various of passengers inside airport 18. SOUNDBITE (German) Heidrun Goldberg, tourist returning from Thailand: "We extended our vacation by five days and we enjoyed it. We found an inexpensive clean hotel and we do not expect any compensation for it at all." 19. Passengers at information counter 20. SOUNDBITE (German) Luana Santos, passenger bound for Brazil: "At the moment costs do not matter. My mother died in Brazil and I was supposed to be there three days ago. Costs have increased but I'm happy to get there now and that's all that matters." 21. Worker and Brussels Airlines plane on runway 22. Lufthansa plane taking off STORYLINE Stranded European passengers were steadily streaming home on Thursday, as airports sent thousands of planes into the sky after a week of unprecedented disruptions caused by the volcanic ash cloud from Iceland. Nearly all of the continent's 28-thousand scheduled flights were going ahead, with every plane packed to capacity as airlines squeezed in some of the hundreds of thousands of travellers who had been stranded for days among passengers with regular Thursday tickets. Other forms of transportation were still very much in use however with a new 500 (m) million UK pounds (772 (m) million US dollar) luxury cruise ship arriving in Bilbao, Spain, to pick up more than 2,500 stranded British tourists. Crew members from the Celebrity Eclipse helped weary passengers on board the 122,000 ton liner, which had been dispatched from Southampton the previous night. The liner had been preparing for a two-day inaugural cruise but was diverted to come to the aid of the passengers, some of whom had been stranded abroad for seven days and had waited all night for the ship to arrive. The Eclipse though should provide travellers with some luxury after their ordeal. Equipped to carry 2,850 passengers, the liner has numerous bars, ten restaurants, a casino, a theatre and swimming and spa pools. The passengers are just some of many desperate travellers who have been piling onto buses, trains and ferries, with thousands converging on the French port of Calais in a bid to get home. Spain has also become a magnet for wayward travellers because its airports mostly remained opened during the crisis. Spain arranged for more than 600 special flights, including 316 on Wednesday alone, to help move an estimated 90-thousand stranded passengers out over the past three days. Meanwhile, budget airline Ryanair has done a surprise U-turn and agreed to pay the hotel and food bills of tens of thousands of customers left stranded during Europe's volcano-ash crisis. A Ryanair spokesman said on Thursday that the airline acknowledged it got European law wrong when it initially vowed to limit customers' claims to the original cost of their air fare. The reversal of policy means Ryanair will be expected to pay out claims to a minority of the airline's approximately one (m) million customers who suffered cancelled flights over the past week. Ryanair said it would reimburse receipted expenses only to customers who did not request a ticket refund or make alternative travel plans, which would comply with European consumer law. Speaking in Dublin on Thursday, Ryanair Chief Executive Michael O'Leary said: "We've never refused to pay, we just said yesterday we would propose to limit the payments to the ticket price paid. It's gone off, we're clearly in a hole this morning and I think the best thing you do when you're in a hole is stop digging." Airlines expect losses topping two billion (b) US dollars and have sharply criticised European governments' handling of the disruption that grounded thousands of flights on the continent. For the last six days most flights had been cancelled due to the volcanic eruption in Iceland on the 14 April which sent a plume of ash across Europe, bringing many airlines to a grinding halt. The crisis left (m) millions in flightless limbo, creating debilitating losses for airlines and other industries. Most of Europe's airspace was reopened on Wednesday after the vast, invisible ash-laden cloud dispersed to levels deemed safe, but airlines have been struggling to meet demand after a week of crippled air travel. With a massive flight backlog, officials say it could take over a week to get everyone home. However in Germany, passengers and aviation officials were in a cheerful mood on Thursday, praising a quicker than expected return to normal. German air controllers expected about 8-thousand flights to pass through on Thursday, compared with some 10-thousand on an average day. The news however was not as positive in Scandinavia as shifting winds sent a new plume of volcanic ash over Scandinavia, forcing some airports in Norway and Sweden to close again. The new airspace restrictions applied to northern Scotland and parts of southern Norway, Sweden and Finland, a spokeswoman for Eurocontrol, the European air traffic agency said. Scientists at Iceland's meteorological office meanwhile said the Eyjafjallajokull volcano produced very little ash on Thursday but remained quite active, with magma boiling in the crater. The plume of ash was below 10-thousand feet (3 kilometres) and winds were not expected to take it over 20-thousand feet (6 kilometres). Scientists said volcanic ash was expected to fall south and southwest of the crater in southern Iceland in the coming days, but would not disrupt air travel between Europe and North America. 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APTN APEX 04-22-10 1430EDT ------------------- END -- OF -- ITEM ------------------- AP-APTN-1830: Iceland Volcanoes 2 Thursday, 22 April 2010 STORY:Iceland Volcanoes 2- WRAP Aerials of dormant Katla volcano, vulcanologist, active volcano LENGTH: 03:15 FIRST RUN: 1330 RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only TYPE: Icelandic/Eng/Nat SOURCE: AP TELEVISION STORY NUMBER: 643684 DATELINE: Eyjafjallajokull/Hvolsvollur/Vik - 21 April 2010 LENGTH: 03:15 AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY SHOTLIST ++NEW (FIRST RUN 1330 EUROPE PRIME NEWS - 22 APRIL 2010) Hvolsvollur - April 22, 2010 1. Various shots of Eyjafjalla volcano partly covered by low cloud 2. Set up shots of vulcanologist, Bryndis Brandsdottir, on the phone 3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Bryndis Brandsdottir, Vulcanologist: "What happened last week was unexpected. We did not expect the tephra (ash) fall in this amount. But I am a seismologist and I monitored the volcano closely using seismic stations. And presently, you know, there are no major earthquakes in the volcano. Very small earthquake activity. But we have some tremors indicating that the eruption is still ongoing." 4. Various shots of Eyjafjalla volcano (FIRST RUN 1230 NEWS UPDATE - 22 APRIL 2010) Eyjafjallajokull glacier - April 21, 2010 5. Various aerial shots of the Katla volcano Hvolsvollur - April 22, 2010 6. SOUNDBITE (English) Bryndis Brandsdottir, Vulcanologist: "We are closely monitoring all of our volcanoes with both geodetic and seismic instrumentation, and presently there is no earthquake activity in Katla, indicating that the volcano is quiet. It has been seismically active in recent years just like Eyjafjalla and this indicates that it's alive, but once it erupts, it lies beneath very thick glacier, so most of the tephra (ash) will be washed away." 7. Various shots of glacier 8. Various shots of volcanic beach Vik - April 21, 2010 9. Various shots of Vik village 10. Various shots of family at home 11. Mid shot of family at home 12. SOUNDBITE (Icelandic) Gudmundur Guageirsoon, Bookkeeper: "We are not afraid of Katla. We respect her. We know she is there. We are not sure when she will start erupting, but it will happen some day." 13. Mid shot of family at home STORYLINE: As the eruption of Iceland's Eyjafjalla volcano appeared to decrease in intensity on Thursday, local scientists said they were closely monitoring nearby sister volcano, Katla. Katla, which lies under a glacier, has been dormant since 1918 but its activity is sometimes linked to that of Eyjafjalla. However, vulcanologist Bryndis Brandsdottir, said on Thursday that having monitored Katla there was no indication of "earthquake activity" at this stage. Residents of the nearby village of Vik live practically under the shadow of Katla. In 1918, a large eruption melted the Myrdalsjokull glacier, flooding the village which was then coated in thick ash. Retired farmer Einar Kjaransson was born in Vik and says his mother used to tell the story of how the village was partially destroyed by the fury of Katla. European airports resumed flights on Thursday after a week of unprecedented disruptions, but shifting winds sent a new plume of volcanic ash over Scandinavia, forcing some airports in Norway and Sweden to close again. Brandsdottir said the eruption of Eyjafjalla was "unexpected," and that the volcano's activity continued to decrease. 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APTN APEX 04-22-10 1430EDT ------------------- END -- OF -- ITEM ------------------- AP-APTN-1830: ++US Obama Thursday, 22 April 2010 STORY:++US Obama- NEW Obama keeps up pressure for financial overhaul, trader reax LENGTH: 03:02 FIRST RUN: 1830 RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only TYPE: English/Nat SOURCE: AP TELEVISION/POOL STORY NUMBER: 643699 DATELINE: Various - 22 April 2010 LENGTH: 03:02 AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY POOL - AP CLIENTS ONLY SHOTLIST: AP Television - AP Clients Only New York City - 22 April 2010 1. Wide exterior New York Stock Exchange 2. Tight shot exterior of NYSE 3. Mid of traders inside the NYSE watching Obama's speech on screen 4. Mid of traders POOL - AP Clients Only New York City - 22 April 2010 5. SOUNDBITE (English) Barack Obama, US President: "I believe in the power of the free market. I believe in a strong financial sector that helps people to raise capital, and get loans and invest their savings. That is part of what has made America what it is, but a free market was never meant to be a free licence to take whatever you can get, however you can get it." AP Television - AP Clients Only New York City - 22 April 2010 6. Pan of traders watching Obama's speech POOL - AP Clients Only New York City - 22 April 2010 7. SOUNDBITE (English) Barack Obama, US President: "... because ultimately there is no dividing line between Main Street and Wall Street; we will rise or we will fall together as one nation." AP Television - AP Clients Only New York City - 22 April 2010 8. Pan left of traders watching Obama's speech to television screen POOL - AP Clients Only New York City - 22 April 2010 9. SOUNDBITE (English) Barack Obama, US President: "We will not always see eye to eye. We will not always agree, but that does not mean that we've got to choose between two extremes. We do not have to choose between markets that are unfettered by even modest protections against crisis, or markets that are stymied by onerous rules that suppress enterprise and innovation. That is a false choice." AP Television - AP Clients Only New York City - 22 April 2010 10. Zoom out from Obama's speech on TV to NYSE traders watching the speech 11. Pan down from NYSE board to traders 12. SOUNDBITE (English) Bernie McSherry, Cuttone &amp;amp; Company: "You know, I think the speech was not the scolding that many of us had expected it to be; it was more a statement of purpose of what they were trying to accomplish. I think some folks would prefer to have heard more about individual personal responsibility on the behalf of some of Americans for their behaviour. But over all it was a moderate speech, and it was not the attack on Wall Street that many of us had feared." 13. Pan of traders 14. SOUNDBITE (English) Doreen Mogavero, Mogavero, Lee &amp;amp; Company: "The speech was inarguable. You know, you couldn't really find too much wrong with it. But I do think that we need to see the details, because as you know when the pendulum swings too far in either direction there's always a correction necessary." 15. Wide exterior of the NYSE, tilt down AP Television - AP Clients Only Washington, DC - 22 April, 2010 16. SOUNDBITE (English) Douglas J. Elliott, Brookings Institution: "I thought it was a good speech, and the message was fairly predictable. The administration has had its views on this fairly consistently for over a year; it makes sense the President is pushing it hard now. You know, the thing is, it makes policy sense, but it also makes political sense. This is going to get passed, it will be viewed as a victory, and it's more of his victory the more he is out front." POOL - AP Clients Only New York - 22 April, 2010 17. Wide of Obama finishing his speech and leaving to applause STORYLINE: US President Barack Obama rebuked Wall Street on Thursday for risky banking practices, even as he sought its leaders' help to devise banking regulations to head off any new financial crisis. "Ultimately there is no dividing line between Main Street and Wall Street. We rise or we fall together as one nation," he said, and urged the finance sector to join him in his efforts. Obama made the important speech in New York, not far from the nation's financial hub of Wall Street. Many of the traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange stopped trading to watch the speech on television. Obama told the audience, which included many of the nation's top bankers, he was not against the free market. "I believe in the power of the free market. I believe in a strong financial sector that helps people to raise capital, and get loans and invest their savings. That is part of what has made America what it is, but a free market was never meant to be a free licence to take whatever you can get, however you can get it," said Obama. Obama's speech came at a delicate time in negotiations over the Senate measure, which could be debated next week. The House has passed its own version of financial overhaul legislation. Obama did not say which one he favoured but told an audience that included dozens of financial leaders that both bills represented "significant improvement on the flawed rules we have in place today." Obama said the choice was not a choice of extremes. "We will not always see eye to eye. We will not always agree, but that does not mean that we've got to choose between two extremes. We do not have to choose between markets that are unfettered by even modest protections against crisis, or markets that are stymied by onerous rules that suppress enterprise and innovation. That is a false choice," said Obama. On the NYSE floor, Bernie McSherry, of Cuttone &amp;amp; Company, said he was happy that Obama had not been too hard on Wall Street. "I think the speech was not the scolding that many of us had expected it to be; it was more a statement of purpose of what they were trying to accomplish. I think some folks would prefer to have heard more about individual personal responsibility on the behalf of some of Americans for their behaviour. But over all it was a moderate speech, and it was not the attack on Wall Street that many of us had feared," said McSherry. Doreen Mogavero, of Mogavero, Lee &amp;amp; Company, watched Obama's speech from inside the NYSE. "The speech was inarguable. You know, you couldn't really find too much wrong with it. But I do think that we need to see the details, because as you know when the pendulum swings too far in either direction there's always a correction necessary," she said. Obama's speech was an effort to ramp up pressure on Congress. Former investment banker, Douglas Elliot, who is now a fellow at the Brookings Institution, believes new regulatory rules are going to be passed by Congress and no matter what the law looks like it will be viewed as a political victory of the President. "I thought it was a good speech, and the message was fairly predictable. The administration has had its views on this fairly consistently for over a year; it makes sense the President is pushing it hard now. You know, the thing is, it makes policy sense, but it also makes political sense. This is going to get passed, it will be viewed as a victory, and it's more of his victory the more he is out front," said Elliot. Obama gave his speech in the hall where Abraham Lincoln in February 1860 spelled out his position on freedom and slavery ahead of the presidential campaign that year. It also came just six days after the Securities and Exchange Commission's fraud case against the huge investment bank Goldman Sachs. The sweeping regulation proposal represents the broadest attempt to overhaul the U.S. financial system since the 1930s, and aims to prevent another crisis. It would create a mechanism for liquidating large, interconnected financial firms whose sudden collapse could shake the economy. At the height of the crisis in 2008, the Bush administration and the Federal Reserve provided billions of taxpayer dollars to prop up the giant insurer American International Group Incorporated, several banks and various financial institutions considered too big to fail. The moves were highly unpopular with voters. The bills also, for the first time, would impose oversight on the market for derivatives - complicated financial instruments whose value is derived from the value of other investments. The measures also would create a council to detect threats to the broader financial system and establish a consumer protection agency to police consumers' dealings with banks and other financial institutions. 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APTN APEX 04-22-10 1601EDT ------------------- END -- OF -- ITEM ------------------- AP-APTN-1830: Estonia NATO Thursday, 22 April 2010 STORY:Estonia NATO- REPLAY NATO meeting, Clinton says US sees value in diplomatic ties to Syria LENGTH: 03:53 FIRST RUN: 1330 RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only TYPE: English/Nat SOURCE: AP TELEVISION STORY NUMBER: 643681 DATELINE: Tallinn - 22 April 2010 LENGTH: 03:53 AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY SHOTLIST: 1. Various of Tallin skyline 2. Exterior of Estonian Foreign Ministry building 3. Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet and US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton entering 4. Cutaway of cameraman 5. Paet and Clinton shaking hands 6. Cutaway of media 7. Paet and Clinton heading for talks 8. Cutaway of media 9. Paet and Estonian delegates seated in board room 10. Wide of delegates at meeting 11. Mid of Clinton 12. Cameraman 13. Clinton taking her seat for news conference 14. Close of Clinton 15. SOUNDBITE (English) Hillary Rodham Clinton, US Secretary of State: "First, with respect to the bases, we have been given assurance by the new leadership in Kyrgyzstan that the United States will retain access to the Manas airbase. We have also discussed this with the Russians because as you may know the Russians have agreed to permit us to transport assistance and troops across their airspace and across their territory for Afghanistan and I guess the immediate destination of a lot of this material is the Manas airbase so would not make sense that they would give us the go ahead to cross their territory and not support the continued use by the United States of the Manas airbase. So as of today, we see no problem with our continuing access to and utilisation of that base in Kyrgyzstan." 16. Cutaway of media 17. SOUNDBITE (English) Hillary Rodham Clinton, US Secretary of State: "So the actions of Iran speak louder than the words and the recent statements are of a theme that we hear frequently from Iranian leaders. There is a very simple way out of this, Iran needs to fully comply with its obligations under the NPT (Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty). Iran needs to respond to the frequent concerns articulated by the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency), by the United Nations Security Council. Iran needs to become what it professes to be, a country interested only in the peaceful use of nuclear energy." 18. Cutaway of cameraman 19. SOUNDBITE (English) Hillary Rodham Clinton, US Secretary of State: "We would like to have a more balanced and positive relationship with Syria as do other of its neighbours from Egypt to Saudi Arabia. We would like to see Syria play a more constructive role and engage in an effort to resolve its outstanding conflict with Israel. We would like to see Syria refrain from interfering in and potentially destabilising the government of Lebanon." 20. Cutaway of media 21. Clinton leaves news conference 22. Exterior of flags outside Foreign Ministry building STORYLINE: Kyrgyzstan's new administration and Russia have given Washington assurances that the United States will be able to continue using a crucial air base for the war effort in Afghanistan, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said on Thursday. "We have been given assurances by the new leadership in Kyrgyzstan that the United States will retain access to the Manas air base," Clinton told reporters on the sidelines of a NATO summit in Estonia. The Manas base is a key refuelling point for war jets flying over Afghanistan and a major hub for combat troop movement. On Saturday a top official in Kyrgyzstan's new interim government told The Associated Press that the United States' presence on the base is "not justified" - the first sign of significant divisions in the Central Asian country's new administration over the facility. Clinton said, however, she saw "no problem" with the continued use of the base. She said Washington had discussed the issue with Russia, which also has a military base in Kyrgyzstan and historically has been suspicious of US military presence in the region. Moscow has allowed the Pentagon to transport materials and troops destined for Afghanistan across Russian airspace, Clinton noted. Kyrgyzstan's interim leader Roza Otunbayeva has criticised the United States in the past for supporting the deposed President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, but said her government would extend the lease on the air base for another year after the current one expires in July. Clinton also spoke about the Iranian nuclear issue, saying that the country needed to "fully comply" with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. "Iran needs to become what it professes to be, a country interested only in the peaceful use of nuclear energy," Clinton added. The US Secretary of State also indicated that the Obama administration is still committed to improving relations with Syria, despite unconfirmed claims that the nation is aiding the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia in neighbouring Lebanon. Some US senators have threatened to hold up the confirmation of the administration's choice for US ambassador to Syria - career diplomat Robert Ford - because of unconfirmed reports that Syria was transferring Scud missiles to the Hezbollah militia in Lebanon. Clinton did not confirm the reports. Without mentioning Scuds or Iran, which many believe is the source of the missiles, she described the situation in a way that strongly suggested that the US does not believe Scuds have been transferred to Hezbollah yet. "We would like to see Syria refrain from interfering in and potentially destabilising the government of Lebanon," Clinton said. Israel, which regards Hezbollah as a major threat, has accused Syria of providing the group with Scuds. A Scud has a far longer range and can carry a much bigger warhead than the rockets Hezbollah has used in the past, and could reach anywhere in Israel from Hezbollah bases in southern Lebanon. Syria has denied the charge, as has Lebanon's Western-backed prime minister. 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APTN APEX 04-22-10 1447EDT ------------------- END -- OF -- ITEM ------------------- AP-APTN-1830: US Elian Thursday, 22 April 2010 STORY:US Elian- REPLAY Tenth anniversary of raid on Elian Gonzalez's home in Miami LENGTH: 03:16 FIRST RUN: 1730 RESTRICTIONS: See script TYPE: Spanish/English/Natsound SOURCE: AP TELEVISION/ABC/AP PHOTOS STORY NUMBER: 643705 DATELINE: Miami - 20 April 2010/FILE LENGTH: 03:16 AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY AP Photos - No Access Canada/For Broadcast use only - Strictly No Access Online or Mobile ABC - No Access North America/internet SHOTLIST: AP TELEVISION - AP Clients Only Miami, Florida, US - 20 April, 2010 ++MUTE+++ 1. Various exteriors of Elian Gonzalez's relatives' house in Little Havana, now a museum 2 Interior house, glass case showcasing magazine covers with coverage of Elian Gonzalez story 3. Pan from gouge in wall to wardrobe where Elian was seized by US agents AP Photos - No Access Canada/For Broadcast use only - Strictly No Access Online or Mobile FILE: Miami, Florida, US - April 2000 4. STILL: armed SWAT agents during raid on house to remove Elian to return to Cuba, heavily armed agent pointing machine gun at Elian and Donato Dalrymple, the fisherman who had found him, in wardrobe AP TELEVISION - AP Clients Only Miami, Florida, US - 20 April, 2010 5. Delfin Gonzalez, Elian's great-uncle, walks into house where Elian was snatched, that he maintains as a museum 6. Gonzalez showing the closet where Elian was taken by federal officials ten years ago 7. Pan up of Elian's bedroom, many soft toys 8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Delfin Gonzalez, Elian's great uncle "I said several times that we would not deliver him anywhere and that if they wanted they could come and get him, and then pay the political consequences of raiding a house." 9. Various establishing shots of Kendall Coffey, attorney who represented Elian's Miami family 10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Kendall Coffey, Attorney for Elian Gonzalez's Miami relatives "The Republican presidential vote among Cuban Americans was a significantly greater margin in 2000 than it was in 1996 or even in 2004. There is no doubt that in the minds of many in this community, the Democratic administration had to be accountable for what was seen as a terrible treatment of a child and a terrible treatment of the child's family." ABC - No Access North America/internet FILE: Miami, Florida, US - April 2000 +++NIGHT SHOTS+++ 11. Elian Gonzalez being taken from house by federal agents in raid and put in car, door closed, AUDIO: screaming and shouting 12. Angry man throwing stool at vehicle 13. Federal officers around car, car pulls away AP Television - AP Clients Only FILE: Havana, Cuba - Early 2000 (exact date unknown) 14. Wide shot people marching and chanting (Spanish) "Return our son," Cuban flag and poster in background with Elian Gonzalez's picture and sign (Spanish) "Return Elian to the homeland" 15. Rear medium shot women marching, holding placard with picture of Elian 16. Female relatives of Elian marching wearing T-shirts with photo of Elian AP Television - AP Clients Only FILE: Havana, Cuba - June 28, 2000 17. Various of Elian Gonzalez's return to Cuba, at Havana airport, welcome committee, people embracing him AP Television - AP Clients Only FILE: Havana, Cuba - January, 2004 18. Medium shot Elian Gonzalez with Fidel Castro, then President of Cuba AP Television - AP Clients Only FILE: Cardenas, Matanzas, Cuba - December 6, 2004 19. Zoom out Fidel Castro with Elian and his relatives 20. Medium shot Fidel Castro and Elian blowing out birthday cake candle AP Television - AP Clients Only FILE: Cardenas, Matanzas, Cuba - December 6, 2006 21. Medium shot Raul Castro entering theatre with Elian Gonzalez and people clapping 22. Medium shot Raul Castro, Elian and Juan Miguel Gonzalez, Elian's father AP Television - AP Clients Only FILE: Havana, Cuba - April 3, 2010 23. Elian Gonzalez speaking in the Cuban Communist Youth Congress STORYLINE: When US federal agents stormed a home ten years ago in the Little Havana community of Miami, Florida, and snatched Elian Gonzalez from his father's relatives to return him to his father in Cuba, thousands of Cuban-Americans took to Miami's streets. Their anger helped give George W. Bush the White House months later and simmered long after that. "The Republican presidential vote among Cuban Americans was a significantly greater margin in 2000 than it was in 1996 or even in 2004. There is no doubt that in the minds of many in this community the Democratic administration had to be accountable for what was seen as a terrible treatment of a child and a terrible treatment of the child's family," said Kendall Coffey, a former U.S. attorney who represented Elian's Miami relatives. The family said the political repercussions were predictable. "I said several times that we would not deliver him anywhere and that if they wanted they could come and get him, and then pay the political consequences of raiding a house," said Elian's great uncle Delfin Gonzalez. Elian was just shy of his sixth birthday when a fisherman found him floating in an inner tube in the waters off Fort Lauderdale, Florida on 25 November 1999. His mother and others drowned trying to reach the US. Elian's father, who was separated from his mother, remained in Cuba, where he and Fidel Castro's communist government demanded the boy's return. Elian was placed in the home of his great-uncle, Lazaro Gonzalez, while the Miami relatives and other Cuban exiles went to court to fight an order by US immigration officials to return him to Cuba. Ten years later, the Little Havana home - which for weeks was the epicentre of a standoff that divided the US - is a museum dedicated to Elian's brief time in this country, but visitors are rare. Janet Reno, President Bill Clinton's attorney general and a Miami native, insisted the boy belonged with his father. When talks broke down, she ordered the raid carried out April 22, 2000, the day before Easter. Her then-deputy, current US Attorney General Eric Holder, has said she wept after giving the order. Associated Press photographer Alan Diaz captured the memorable image of Donato Dalrymple, the fisherman who had found the boy, backing into a bedroom closet with a terrified Elian in his arms as an immigration agent in tactical gear inches away aimed his gun towards them. The image won the Pulitzer Prize and brought criticism of the Justice Department to a frenzy. Lazaro Gonzalez declined to comment, as did his daughter, Marisleysis, who became Elian's surrogate mother during his US stay. The Justice Department has never released the identity of the agent and did not immediately respond to an AP request this week for the agent's name. More than 300 protesters were arrested in the hours after the raid, and the community's outrage did not subside. Al Gore, the sitting vice president, lost Florida that November to George W. Bush by a mere 537 votes, and with it the White House. Many pundits said the Elian debacle made the difference. The only people who seem to want to commemorate Elian's saga serve in Cuba's government. Earlier this month, officials there released photos of now-16-year-old Elian wearing an olive-green military school uniform and attending a Young Communist Union congress. Cuba usually organises ceremonies marking Elian's birthday each December 7 at his school and elsewhere in his hometown of Cardenas, on Cuba's north coast. Before he became ill, Fidel Castro would usually attend. The Cuban government, which tightly controls media access to Elian and his father, said neither was willing to give an interview. Clients are reminded: (i) to check the terms of their licence agreements for use of content outside news programming and that further advice and assistance can be obtained from the AP Archive on: Tel +44 (0) 20 7482 7482 Email: infoaparchive.com (ii) they should check with the applicable collecting society in their Territory regarding the clearance of any sound recording or performance included within the AP Television News service (iii) they have editorial responsibility for the use of all and any content included within the AP Television News service and for libel, privacy, compliance and third party rights applicable to their Territory. APTN APEX 04-22-10 1512EDT ------------------- END -- OF -- ITEM ------------------- AP-APTN-1830: Iran War Games Thursday, 22 April 2010 STORY:Iran War Games- REPLAY Iran begins war games in the Persian Gulf, Revolutionary Guard comment LENGTH: 02:32 FIRST RUN: 1130 RESTRICTIONS: No Access Iran/ BBC Persian / VOA Persian TYPE: Farsi/Comm/Nat SOURCE: IRIB/Al-ALAM STORY NUMBER: 643663 DATELINE: Strait of Hormuz - 22 April 2010 LENGTH: 02:32 IRIB - NO ACCESS IRAN/NO ACCESS BBC PERSIAN / NO ACCESS VOA PERSIAN AL- ALAM - NO ACCESS IRAN/NO ACCESS BBC PERSIAN / NO ACCESS VOA PERSIAN ++AP Television is adhering to Iranian law that stipulates all media are banned from providing BBC Persian or VOA Persian any coverage from Iran, and under this law if any media violate this ban the Iranian authorities can immediately shut down that organisation in Tehran.++ SHOTLIST IRIB - NO ACCESS IRAN/NO ACCESS BBC PERSIAN / NO ACCESS VOA PERSIAN 1. Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps' (IRGC) vessel called 'Ya Mahdi' firing missile 2. Wide of missile launched from Ya Mahdi 3. Interior of vessel with hand showing points on radar 4. Wide of hypothetical enemy target hit by missile fired from Ya Mahdi 5. Aerial of hypothetical enemy's vessel surrounded by Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps' (IRGC) boats 6. IRGC's speedboats 7. Various of explosion on hypothetical enemy vessel 8. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) General Morteza Safari, Chief Commander of IRGC's Naval Forces: "Today the first stage of the Great Prophet 5 war games was conducted with the blessed operation code of 'Ya Zeinab'. Different drills were conducted at the first stage." 9. IRGC commando moving down rope from helicopter towards hypothetical enemy's vessel to capture it 10. Wide of helicopter 11. IRGC commando pointing gun at hypothetical target 12. Wide of hypothetical enemy's vessel AL- ALAM - NO ACCESS IRAN/NO ACCESS BBC PERSIAN / NO ACCESS VOA PERSIAN 13. Various tracking shot of missile-mounted speedboats sailing on high speed toward hypothetical enemy vessel 14. Tracking shot of speedboats sailing towards target, firing missiles with smoke rising from targeted vessel, zoom in 15. Wide of smoke rising from attacked hypothetical enemy's vessel, zoom in on the vessel 16. Various of damage on attacked hypothetical enemy's vessel 17. Wide of hypothetical enemy vessel with IRGC's navy helicopters hovering over, it in reduced visibility 18. IRGC forces hoisting Iranian flag on enemy's captured vessel 19. Wide of hypothetical enemy vessel and IRGC forces surrounding it STORYLINE Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard began large-scale war games in the Persian Gulf and the strategic Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, state television reported. Iran has been holding military manoeuvres in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz annually since 2006 to show off its military capabilities. The last four military exercises were held in the summer, but there has been no official explanation as to why they were brought forward this year. The war games have routinely heightened tension in the region, but they have more recently taken on added significance as the standoff between the West and Tehran over Iran's nuclear programme grows deeper. The West suspects the programme conceals a nuclear arms production drive - a charge that Iran denies. Iran has in the past signalled that it would close the Strait of Hormuz if attacked by the West - something that makes holding war games there a particularly sensitive move. Some 40 percent of the world's oil and energy supplies pass through the narrow waterway at the mouth of the Persian Gulf. In Washington, Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell played down the significance of the manoeuvres, saying that they didn't seem out of the ordinary from what Iran's military had done in the past. Asked on Wednesday - the day the manoeuvres were announced in Tehran - what concerns he had about the Iranian war games, Morrell said: "I haven't heard any particular concerns." The Iranian television report said naval, air and ground units from the Guard were participating in the three-day games codenamed "The Great Prophet". It said the war games would witness the commissioning of what it described as an "ultra-speed" vessel called "Ya Mahdi", while a total of 313 speedboats with the capability of firing rockets and missiles would also take part. On Wednesday, Iranian Defence Minister General Ahmad Vahidi said "new weapons" would be test-fired in the war games, but did not give any details. Morrell said on Wednesday that Tehran often made exaggerated claims about its weapons testing. Tehran was angered by US President Barack Obama's announcement this month of a new US nuclear policy in which he pledged America would not use atomic weapons against nations that don't have them. Iran and North Korea were pointedly excluded from the non-use pledge, and Iranian leaders took that as an implicit threat. Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said on Wednesday that the US "nuclear threat" was a "stigma in the US political history," saying Iranians would not allow the US to dominate the country. Iran's arch-enemy, Israel, has not ruled out military action against Iran's nuclear facilities. 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