A ROCHESTER BUSINESS HAS NEARLY FINISHED A MAJOR ORDER FOR THE PENTAGON FOR BULLETPROOF DOORS.

TAPE: EF01/0617 IN_TIME: 23:02:02 DURATION: 0:25 SOURCES: APTN RESTRICTIONS: DATELINE: Paris - 27 August 2001 SHOTLIST: 1. Two wide shots of Concorde taking off from Charles de Gaulle airport STORYLINE: An Air France Concorde took off from Charles De Gaulle airport outside Paris on Monday morning, flying out over the Atlantic in its second test flight to verify technical systems on the supersonic jumbo. The flight comes just days before the jets are likely to win clearance from aviation authorities to return to the skies. The needle-nosed planes have been grounded since 113 people were killed when an Air France Concorde crashed north of Paris last year. Last week,a British-French working group of aviation experts said the planes would probably get their airworthiness certificates before the end of August. The certificates will be delivered on a "plane-by-plane" basis as modifications proposed by Concorde's manufacturer, Airbus, are made. Since the accident, British Airways and Air France have made numerous changes to the plane, including reinforcing the fuel tanks with a lining of Kevlar, which is used in bulletproof vests, and adding puncture-resistant tires. On July 25, 2000, an Air France jet, spewing flames, crashed into a hotel near the town of Gonesse just minutes after takeoff from Charles de Gaulle. All 100 passengers, mostly German tourists, were killed along with the nine crew members and four people on the ground. Authorities believe a stray metal strip on the runway ripped one of the jet's tires, sending rubber debris into the fuel tanks and causing a leak and fire that brought the plane down.

This color picture from 1980 is an official National Aeronautics and Space Administration film report produced for NASA by Boeing in 1979. It dates to the dawn of the composite materials revolution, when a nearly $9 million research program was created to study whether an advanced composite elevator could be made for the cargo version of the Boeing 727. The picture focuses on the continuing efforts of manufacturers to develop aircraft that are lighter and more fuel efficient without sacrificing structural integrity. The film consists of scenes of engineers and designers working with a variety of composite materials as a narrator details the various technical measures being undertaken. At mark 02:05, the viewer is shown on such development — an advanced-composite elevator for the Boeing 727 — which makes up the majority of the film. Following its introduction, the narrator spends the remainder of the film providing a detailed explanation of its design, testing, and construction, as a film crew captures the action. The advanced composite elevator reduced the weight of the assembly by 26% and the number of parts by over 40%. <p><p>This film shows advances made in the 1970s when the composites industry began to mature. Better plastic resins and improved reinforcing fibers were developed. DuPont developed an aramid fiber known as Kevlar, which has become the product of choice in body armor due to its high tensile strength, high density and light weight. Carbon fiber was also developed around this time; increasingly, it has replaced parts formerly made of steel.<p>

FAA APPROVES BLAST-RESISTANT BAGGAGE CONTAINER FOR AIRLINERS

TAPE_NUMBER: EF99/1226 IN_TIME: 18:08:18 - 19:14:28 // 19:56:28 - 20:39:43 LENGTH: 01:37 SOURCES: APTN/BOEING VNR RESTRICTIONS: FEED: VARIOUS (THE ABOVE TIME-CODE IS TIME-OF-DAY) SCRIPT: English/Nat The U-S airplane manufacturer Boeing has stopped delivery of four commercial jetliner models because a cockpit component was made improperly and could burn too easily. Boeing said the problem was completely unrelated to the EgyptAir 990 crash and that there is no immediate safety concern. Boeing says hundreds of 747s, 757s, 767s, and 777s made in recent years are in operation with what they describe as "nonconforming" drip shields. The drip shields are designed to protect vital wiring and instruments from condensation. The shields are made from a sandwich of fibre glass or Kevlar, a middle layer of insulation and an outer layer of plastic. Tests found that an extra layer of adhesive had been improperly used, increasing the shield's flammability. The incorrectly manufactured part had been placed on every 747, 757, 767 and 777 for what Boeing said was "apparently a few years". According to Boeing, delivery of 34 planes is being delayed while Boeing and Federal Aviation Administration officials decide what to do about the problem. Production will not be interrupted, the company said. The executive safety chairman of the Air Line Pilots Association International is not worried about safety implications and is commending Boeing for making the recommendation. SOUNDBITE: (English) "I think it's to the credit of Boeing, in this climate of media excitement if you will, they went ahead and went forward with the recommendation as a normal regularly scheduled routine type of advisory. The airlines are getting these things on a more or less regular basis and they cope with them very, very nicely." SUPER CAPTION: Captain Paul McCarthy, Executive Air Safety Chairman of the Air Line Pilots Association International The FAA says it and Boeing are still deciding what to do about airplanes that have already been delivered. Boeing officials say replacing the shields altogether would take "several days" per plane, but that more tests are needed before taking such a drastic step. Captain McCarthy says it's not unusual for this type of thing to happen. SOUNDBITE: (English) "As with a manufacturer of any product, automobiles, hair dryers, baby food, you name it, they will occasionally look at their manufacturing process and say 'you know we could have done a better job on this,' and then they'll go out to the airlines and say 'hello we need to change this." SUPER CAPTION: Captain Paul McCarthy, Executive Air Safety Chairman of the Air Line Pilots Association International The FAA has not issued an airworthiness directive, which amounts to an order to U.S. carriers to correct the problem, and according to Boeing one does not appear imminent. Boeing officials say the EgyptAir 767 that crashed on Sunday, and a Lauda Air 767 that crashed in Thailand in 1991, had drip shields that conformed to Boeing and FAA standards. The company says manufacturing processes have been corrected and the problem should not affect Boeing's plans to deliver 620 planes this year. SHOTLIST: Washington, D-C, U-S-A - November 2, 1999 and File XFA BOEING VNR - FILE 1. Boeing 747-400 taking off 2. Construction in cockpit 3. Close up of instrument board APTN - Washington D-C - November 2, 1999 4. Captain Paul McCarthy walking down hallway 5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Captain Paul McCarthy - Executive Air Safety Chairman of the Air Line Pilots Association International. BOEING VNR - FILE 6. Boeing 757 in flight 7. Boeing worker doing quality control APTN - Washington DC - November 2, 1999 8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Captain Paul McCarthy - Executive Air Safety Chairman of the Air Line Pilots Association International. BOEING VNR - FILE 9. Boeing 767 landing?

A GEORGIA COMPANY IS MAKING KEVLAR DOORS THAT FIT IN THE COCKPITS OF AIRPLANES.

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TAPE: EF01/0781 IN_TIME: 00:02:43 DURATION: 1:42 SOURCES: APTN/VNR RESTRICTIONS: DATELINE: France/UK - Recent/File VOICED BY Vera Frankl SHOTLIST: British Airways VNR - Recent 0000 Wide shot Concorde taking off 0004 View from cockpit as Concorde takes off 0011 Pilot in cockpit 0015 Various interiors of Concorde APTN - Paris, France - October 29, 2001 0025 Wide of take off of first transatlantic Concorde test flight Paris-New York APTN - Gonesse, France - File, July 25, 2000 0035 Various aerials of scene of crash with destroyed hotel in smoke Air France VNR 0045 Concordes in hangar 0052 Technicians walking up ladder to the Concorde carrying Kevlar 0056 Technicians inserting Kevlar into plane 0101 Technician rolling out tyres to the Concorde Michelin VNR (Tyre Resistance Test) 0106 Tyre getting to 439 km/hour and blade being ejected without puncturing tyre APTN Michelin Tyre Research Lab, Clermond-Ferrand, France - Oct 30, 2001 0111 SOUNDBITE (English) Pierre Desmarets, Chief Executive of Michelin Aircraft Tyre Division APTN Paris, France - Jan 18, 2001 0126 Concorde fans holding banner reading (French) "Concorde we love you" Air France VNR 0128 Zoom in to tyres during test, with Concorde landing on new NZG tyres in wet weather ENDS 0142 STORYLINE The world's most exclusive jet is set to make a comeback. The supersonic Concorde will resume commercial flights from Paris and London to New York on Wednesday after an extensive refit. The resumption of flights comes in the wake of the fatal crash of an Air France Concorde outside Paris on July 25 last year, which killed all 109 people on board and four others on the ground. VOICE-OVER: 0000 (UPSOUND Take-off) 0003 This is the new-look Concorde as the supersonic jet makes its final preparations before returning to the skies. 0011 Back by popular demand, it will resume commercial flights from Paris and London to New York on Wednesday. 0017 The seven British Airways and five Air France Concordes are returning to commercial service after an extensive refit. 0025 Air France flew one of its Concordes from Paris to New York in less than four hours last week on what the company called a dress rehearsal for the resumption of passenger services. 0035 The refit follows the crash of an Air France Concorde outside Paris in July last year, which killed all 109 people on board and four others on the ground. 0045 The aircraft have since undergone major technical changes. 0049 In the crash, it's believed a metal strip on the runway punctured one of the tyres during take-off, causing it to explode and propel bits of rubber into the fuel tank. 0057 The new Concorde has been fitted with fuel-tank liners made of bulletproof material and a reinforced flameproof undercarriage. 0105 Concorde's manufacturer also asked French tyre maker Michelin to make new tyres for the jet. 0111 (SOUNDBITE (English) Pierre Desmarets, Chief Executive of Michelin Aircraft Tyre Division) "We have never been able to make this tyre blow up. We've tested this tyre on our machines hundreds of times and this tyre has always kept its air pressure which means that it has always carried the load." 0126 The modifications convinced the civil aviation authorities to allow the jet to resume commercial service, and air travel analysts say they're confident that those who can afford to fly on Concorde will return to supersonic air travel. ENDS 0142

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TAPE: EF01/0535 IN_TIME: 22:07:10 DURATION: 3:10 SOURCES: APTN/POOL/British Airways VNR RESTRICTIONS: DATELINE: Various, July 17, 2001/ File SHOTLIST: APTN - Heathrow Airport, England - 17 July, 2001 1. Front shot as Concorde takes off and wheels retract Pool - Heathrow Airport, England - 17 July, 2001 2. Rear shot as Concorde climbs away British Airways VNR - Recent 3. Worker handling new Kevlar protective material for Concorde fuel tanks 4. Worker pushing up new insulation into Concorde fuselage 5. Worker fitting insulation into fuselage APTN - Brize Norton base 17 July 2001 6. Concorde landing 7. Cutaway of wind sock on runway 8. Wide of Concorde on runway 9. Close up of cockpit 10. Wide of front of plane 11. Mid shot of men at plane's wheels 12. Wide of plane and media on runway 13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Captain Mike Bannister, British Airways' Chief Concorde Pilot "A real joy to be flying this wonderful aircraft once more and taking her back where she belongs. And the reception we had on leaving Heathrow, and the reception here is very very encouraging. And not only that all the way en route we have had so many well wishers, so many other pilots and air traffic organisations saying good luck to us. It really is tremendous tribute to all the people on both sides of the channel, the manufacturers, the airlines, the accident investigators, the authorities who were really working together, to get Concorde back in the air once more." 14. Cutaway 15. SOUNDBITE: (French) Captain Mike Bannister, British Airways' Chief Concorde Pilot "The flight was very very good, the aircraft was marvellous." 16. Cutaway 17. Wide of plane 18. Wide of Captain Bannister going up steps to cockpit File - 26 July, 2000 - Gonesse, France 19. Firefighters dousing flaming wreckage File - 25 July, 2000 - Gonesse, France 20. Wide shot of smouldering wreckage and onlookers File - 26 July, 2000 - Gonesse, France 21. Wide shot emergency services carrying away bodies on stretchers STORYLINE: A newly modified British Airways Concorde completed a test flight on Tuesday - the first supersonic flight since the fleet was grounded last year. With chief Concorde pilot Captain Mike Bannister at the controls, the sleek aircraft took off from London's Heathrow airport at 1318 GMT. The flight plan, intended to duplicate the operating conditions of Concorde's London-New York route, saw the plane fly out over the Atlantic, turn round the southwest of Iceland, then return to the UK. During the three hour and twenty minute flight, extensive testing was carried out on safety equipment added since last year's crash near Paris. British Airways has strengthened the wiring in the undercarriages of its seven Concorde's, lined the fuel tanks with a special protective material called Kevlar, and made other changes meant to prevent fuel leaks. The French tyre maker, Michelin, has also developed a new strengthened tyre to prevent punctures. The plane landed at Royal Air Force Brize Norton air base at 1640 GMT. Members of the public gathered at the rain-lashed airfield to welcome back the supersonic aircraft. Captain Bannister said it was "absolutely fantastic to get back behind the controls" and described the flight as the "best ever". He also said that he was confident that Concorde would be back in the air soon and added that BA would stage another test flight as modification work continues. The Concorde fleets of British Airways and Air France were grounded after an Air France Concorde crashed outside Paris on July 25 last year, killing 113 people. Authorities believe a stray metal strip on the runway ripped one of the Concorde's tyres, causing rubber debris to smash into the fuel tanks which leaked and caught fire, bringing the plane down. A four-man crew checked the runway for any debris before Tuesday's test flight. The British carrier says it hopes to fly its Concordes commercially again by late summer. Air France, which has conducted Concorde test flights at subsonic speeds, hopes to fly again by the autumn. On Tuesday's test flight, it reached a top speed of 2,170 kilometres per hour, around twice the speed of sound, and climbed to 18,300 metres. The plane will remain in Oxfordshire for checks by engineers.

President Joe Biden says continuing remarks of law enforcement at a Joint Session of Congress in first State of the Union address to ban assault weapons with high-capacity rounds, anyone thinking a deer were wearing Kevlar vest, repeal a liability shield that made gun manufacturers the only industry in America that could not be sued, to imagine if that were done to tobacco manufacturers, laws not to infringe on the Second Amendment but save lives, the most fundamental right in America the right to vote, he calling on the Senate to pass the Freedom to Vote Act and John Lewis voting rights act as new state laws are passed not only to suppress but subvert the entire election, he thanking Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, an Army veteran, constitutional scholar and retiring justice for his service, to applause, Chief Justice John Roberts looking on.

TAPE: EF01/0780 IN_TIME: 04:25:03 - 07:39:19 DURATION: 4:34 SOURCES: APTN/VNR/Pool RESTRICTIONS: DATELINE: Various, 29-30 Oct /File SHOTLIST: APTN Paris- October 29, 2001 1. Wide of take off of first transatlantic Concorde test flight Paris-New York 2. Concorde fan filming the take off APTN Gonesse, France - File- July 25, 2000 3. Various aerials of scene of crash- destroyed hotel 4. Firefighters dousing flames after crash 5. Wide fireman at scene of crash AIR FRANCE VNR 6. Concordes in hangar 7. Technicians walking up ladder to the Concorde carrying Kevlar 8. Technicians inserting Kevlar into plane 9. Technician rolling out tyres to the Concorde 10. Test of Concorde landing with new NZG tyres 11. Technician sealing reinforced undercarriage of the Concorde APTN Le Bourget Aviation Museum - October 30, 2001 12. Still photo of Commander Joseph Robin (without mustache) in Concorde's cockpit with copilot. 13. Set up shot of Joseph Robin reading a magazine 14. SOUNDBITE (French) Commander Joseph Robin, former Concorde pilot (1985-91) on piloting a Concorde: "You can compare this to, I think, a Formula One car and a bus, or something like that. You really have the feeling you have the very best in terms of technology." APTN Heathrow Airport, England - 17 July, 2001 15. Front shot as Concorde takes off and wheels retract Pool Heathrow Airport, England - 17 July, 2001 16. Rear shot as Concorde climbs away 17. Various Concorde on runway 18. SOUNDBITE: (English) Captain Mike Bannister, British Airways' Chief Concorde Pilot: "A real joy to be flying this wonderful aircraft once more and taking her back where she belongs" 19. Close up name tag APTN Heathrow Airport, England - 19 September, 2001 20. Various of BA Concorde outside hangar 21. Close up of man cleaning BA Concorde APTN Paris, France - October 23, 2001 22. Set up shot of Eric Blain, aviation analyst for CONSORS at his desk 23.SOUNDBITE: (English) Eric Blain, Airlines Analyst for CONSORS: "Concorde is a secure plane, Concorde has a lot of advantages for some kind of customer, I mean it's not for everybody - but for some kind of customer it's a great advantage and I think those advantages are still there." APTN Gonesse, France - July 25, 2001 (one year after the crash) 24. Wide shot of family members of victims in an emotional gathering at crash site 25. Zoom in to gathering at crash site 26. One of the relatives nearly faints, overcome with emotion 27. SOUNDBITE (French) Carmela Siracusa, former employee at Hotelissimo: "At the moment, my objective is to put (the crash) behind me, even if I still think about what happened, even if I will think about it for the rest of my life. To put it behind me...and to have a brand new start in life." 28. Shot of Concorde crash memorial near Air France headquarters 29.Close up of Memorial plaque APTN Orly Airport, Paris - May 2001 30.Concorde Landing APTN Paris, France - Jan 18, 2001 31. Concorde fans holding banner reading (French) "Concorde we love you" STORYLINE : The world's most exclusive jet is making a comeback. Back by popular demand the supersonic Concorde will resume commercial flights from Paris and London to New York on Wednesday after an extensive refit. It followed the crash of an Air France Concorde outside Paris on July 25, 2000, which killed 109 persons on board and four on the ground. It was the first crash in the plane's 25 years of commercial service but it dealt a severe blow to the reputation of the prestige aircraft. Questions were raised about whether it was time to retire the luxury jet but both companies were determined to return the Concorde to service as soon as possible. Over time, crash investigators pieced together the cause of the disaster. They believe that during takeoff from Paris, a stray strip of titanium metal on the runway punctured one of the jet's tyres, which then exploded, propelling bits of rubber into the fuel tank. The tank ruptured, causing a tremendous fuel leak which then caught fire. The fire melted the controls and crippled the engines causing the plane to spin out of control and crash. Ever since, Air France and British Airways have been hard at work redesigning parts of the plane to prevent a similar chain of events from occurring. Concorde manufacturer EADS asked French tyres maker Michelin to develop an extremely tough tyre especially for the Concorde. All of the modifications taken convinced the civil aviation authorities to permit the Concorde to resume commercial service. Air travel analysts are confident that the type of passengers who can afford to fly on Concorde will return to supersonic air travel. But relatives of those killed are still trying to recover from the events of July 25, 2000.

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TAPE: EF01/0547 IN_TIME: 23:11:36 DURATION: 3:53 SOURCES: APTN/VNR RESTRICTIONS: DATELINE: Various - Recent and File SHOTLIST: APTN - Gonesse - July 26, 2001 1. Firefighters dousing flames after crash 2. Firemen behind cordon 3. Firemen carrying bodies away APTN - Brize Norton base - July 17, 2001 4. Concorde taking off after first major test flight 5. Wind sock on runway 6. Concorde on runway 7. Cockpit 8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Captain Mike Bannister, British Airways' Chief Concorde Pilot "A real joy to be flying this wonderful aircraft once more and taking her back where she belongs. And the reception we had on leaving Heathrow, and the reception here is very, very encouraging." APTN - Paris - April 17, 2001 9. Concorde takes off from Paris to Istres (French military air base) VNR - January 26, 2001 10. Various tests on Concorde in Istres APTN - Paris - July 18, 2001 11. SOUNDBITE: (French) Jean-Claude Gayssot, French Transport Minister "And I keep thinking that there's a possibility to get the flying certificate back, I would think sometimes during autumn of this year, as soon as they secure all the parameters so that the chain of events that led to the crash last year never happens again." Michelin VNR - Paris - July 2001 12. Tests for new Concorde tyre - metallic plate attached to titanium blade for tests 13. Tyre being tested against titanium blade - demonstrating how the new tyre remains inflated and is not detreaded during the simulation tests with tyre spinning at 384 kilometre per hour APTN - June 7, 2001 14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Pierre Desmarets, Director General of Michelin's Aviation Tyre Division "This tyre has simulated landings and takeoff of the Concorde over a hundred times and we've never been able to make this tyre blow up." VNR 15. Fitting of these Michelin tyres on Concorde in Istres, France military base 16. Spraying of runways followed by breaking test on wet surface 17. Concorde outfitted with NZD tyres passes through the wet surface APTN - Military base near Le Bourget Airport, outside Paris - July 11, 2000 18. Various Concorde debris after the crash being checked as part of BEA investigation (French Bureau of Accident and Inquiry) APTN - London - July 23, 2001 19. Various shots of French Bureau of Accident and Inquiry website with latest Concorde report published APTN - Paris - July 12, 2001 20. SOUNDBITE (English) Paul-Louis Arslanian, Head of France's Bureau of Accident and Inquiry "It maybe qualified as bad luck or maybe fate, but in aviation, especially when you're dealing with safety you cannot just rub things up saying it's bad luck or it's fate. You have to identify what has to be done in order for bad luck to be more difficult next time." APTN - Paris - January 18, 2001 21. Enthusiasts with poster saying 'We love Concorde' STORYLINE: New tests bolster the theory that a metal strip _ believed to have sparked the events that led to last year's Concorde crash _ came from a Continental Airlines jet, investigators said Monday. Photographs taken in Houston, where Continental is based, helped identify the strip as coming from a Continental DC-10, France's Accident Investigation Bureau, or BEA, said in a statement. Continental officials said they were studying the report but would not comment in detail on the accident while the investigation was still under way. Investigators believe one of the Concorde's tires burst after running over a stray metal strip on the runway. The explosion sent rubber debris hurtling toward fuel tanks and prompting a fuel leak and fire that brought the plane down. The statement issued Monday said that tests have "established a close relation between the metallic strip and the joint area on the cowl on engine 3 of the Continental Airlines DC-10." The French Accident Investigation Bureau ruled out speculation that poor maintenance had contributed to the tragedy. A piece missing from the DC-10's cowl, which covers part of the engine, had been changed twice, on June 11 and July 19, 2000, the statement said. The Concorde crashed on July 25, 2000. The statement summarizes the latest work by investigators trying to determine why the luxury jet crashed just minutes after taking off from Charles de Gaulle airport outside Paris, killing 113 people. Now, the question many are asking is, "When will Concorde fly again?" It was a terrible air accident but also the collapse of a legend. A year ago, on July 25, 2000, an Air France Concorde burst into flames after take-off, killing 109 people on board and 4 on the ground. An air catastrophe has never had such enormous repercussions as this one. Concorde, capable of going from Paris to New York in three hours and 45 minutes had never had a fatal accident in 25 years and seemed unconquerable. But both Air France and British Airways grounded their fleets after the crash. Now the airlines are working together to get Concorde back into service, but they still do not know exactly when, or if, the supersonic will start flying again. Both companies estimate regular flights will pick up in the end of Autunm 2001. However, the Concorde is still awaiting approval to get its flying certificate back from the Civil Aviation Authorities (CAA) in England, and the from the General Direction of the French Civil Aviation (DGAC) in France, which was annulled for both companies in August last year. A newly modified British Airways Concorde completed a test flight last Tuesday (July 17) - the first supersonic flight since the fleet was grounded. With chief Concorde pilot Captain Mike Bannister at the controls, the sleek aircraft jet flew out over the Atlantic, turned round the southwest of Iceland, then returned to the UK. Bannister said it was absolutely wonderful to be back at Concorde's controls. During the three hour and twenty minute flight, extensive testing was carried out on safety equipment added since last year's crash near Paris. British Airways has strengthened the wiring in the undercarriages of its seven Concorde's, lined the fuel tanks with a special protective material called Kevlar, and made other changes meant to prevent fuel leaks. Air France has also had its own, shorter, test flights a few month back in Istres, France. Top officials say the Concorde will soon have its certification back. The new improved Concorde also has new tyres, to eliminate the possibility of a repeat of the events which lead to the crash a year ago. In June, the French tyre manufacturer, Michelin, unveiled its new extra-resistant tyre technology designed specifically for the Concorde. The new radial near zero growth tyre will be instrumental in helping the Concorde regain its authorisation for flight. The tyres were built at the request of EADS - the European Aeronautic Defence and Space company which manufactures the Concorde. Following the crash, EADS contacted tyre manufacturers across the world to find a model more resistant to damage by foreign objects. Michelin told reporters that its new tyre held up when passed over a 30cm metal strip at 380 kilometers per hour in laboratory tests. The French Accident Investigation Bureau (B-E-A) will issue their final report in the coming months. The interim report, published on Monday, confirmed initial findings that the plane had hit a metal strip on the runway, causing debris to burst under wing fuel tanks and start the fire that brought the plane down. Officials at the B-E-A are keen to make sure nothing like that happens again. So it now appears that the sleek jet will rebound from the Air France crash. British Airways says it hopes to resume flying its Concordes commercially by late summer. And Air France has suggested that it hopes to resume service by autumn. Each airline would initially fly one daily roundtrip to New York's JFK airport, with British Airways eventually adding a second.

TVU 9 JOE BIDEN FRANKLIN NH TOWN HALL ABC UNI 110919 2020 No major news from former Vice President Joe Biden's two other events today following the raucous scene at the New Hampshire State House earlier today. TVU 9 JOE BIDEN FRANKLIN NH TOWN HALL ABC UNI 110819 2020 183541 BIDEN>> Thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. My name is Joe Biden, I'm Jill Biden's husband. And, you know, when she starts talking about her dad and her grand-pop and it reminds me of -- You know, I think that all of us, you know, this town is like the town that I was raised in. Scranton was bigger and a little steel town I moved to when Scranton died because of coal dying. 183617 And my dad had to, had to leave and find another job. My dad was not a coal miner. If you listen to Barack, you'd think I climbed out of a coal mine with a lunch bucket in my hand. Scrappy Joe Biden from Scranton. But my dad was a well-read, high school educated guy who's greatest regret he didn't get to go to college. And he was, he was in sales. But when everything died in Scranton, there were no jobs. And so we moved back to where he had been a kid. He started off in Baltimore where he was family was from and his dad worked for an American oil company. 183651 They opened up new gas stations in Delaware, so he lived in Wilmington from 3rd grade to 11th grade and we moved back to Delaware, because there were jobs back in Delaware. We moved to a little, little steel town called Claymont, Delaware right on the border. Had a large -- they had four thousand people working in the steel mill. And, my dad used to talk about at a job -- because when there was a recession or something occurred like that, you know, it was one of these deals where somebody in the family or extended relative or a distance relative or some neighbor got laid off and lost a job for a while. 183732 My dad used to use this expression, for real, I give you my word. He used to say, Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It's about your dignity. It's about your place in the community. It's about your sense of self respect. And he'd say, it's about being able to look your kid in the eye and say, honey, it's gonna be okay. It's gonna be okay. And I think -- what I was thinking about when Jill was talking about my dad was that, how hard it must have been for him to make what I call the longest walk that many of you know people had to make. 183801 And that is up a short flight of stairs to tell their kids you can't go back to school, to Cooper School, you can't, you can't play in that little league team, dad doesn't have a job. We got to move. Or how hard it must have been to go up my -- ask my grandfather Finnegan who was, who was the father of four boys and my mom and say, Ambrose can I leave, can I leave Jean, my mom, Jean and the kids here with you for about a year. It's only -- I'll come home every weekend, it's 156 miles away. 183832 And, you know, it's gonna be okay. And that must have took a lot of pride to -- a lot of hit on your pride to go and ask that question. But, he did, because he believed then that, that if you worked like a devil, there was still a shot, he meant it when he said everything's gonna be okay, Joey, when he told us that. And it turned out it was. It took about three years to be able to get a home, or actually four years to buy a home, but we lived in apartments that were decent and so on. And, but I remember how he talked about it always about your dignity. 183906 And I'm gonna end this and take questions in just a second. But here's the deal. What's happening now is so many -- how can you maintain your dignity as a parent when you turn and look at a child and realize that preexisting condition, you can't do anything about it, you couldn't afford it. Or how can you maintain your dignity as a parent when you look at your child or your loved one, your husband, wife, son, daughter who has a terminal disease and the insurance company's able to come along toward the end and say, sorry you've run out of coverage. Suffer in peace the last three or four months. 183942 Or you have a kid who has a capacity to go onto school and, by the way, 6 out of 10 jobs right now require more than a high school degree in the United States of America, and has this potential and saying sorry, we can't borrow the money, don't know how we're gonna get you there. Not sure how we can do it. How many people had conversations at their dinner table or at the breakfast this morning and said, who's gonna tell her she can't go back to UNH, we're just not gonna have the money for next semester. 184013 It's all about, all about people being able to have a fair shot, just a decent shot. And so many middle class folks don't have a shot anymore. They don't have a shot anymore. And rural America is being left behind in so many ways, in so many ways, in my state and I suspect in yours. And so, this is about, how do you -- this is not rocket science. It's about how do you provide opportunities for people. How do you provide opportunities for people? You don't have to break the bank to do it. You can do it. We can do it. 184044 It's within our wheelhouse. The last thing I'll say is, that we have to reestablish who in God's name we are as a people. The fact is that, we -- this president has gone out of his way to divide us based on race -- based on race, ethnicity, our religious background, whatever it is. Everything is about division. Why do I have a problem? It's the other. It's because of the other, that's why I have a problem. That's why I have a problem. 184114 And he's dividing America. And you know, the other part of America is we're an idea. Only country in the history of the world that's an idea. And idea. No other country was based on a premise that we have organized our country. We hold these truth to be self-evident. That all men, women, are created equal, endowed by the Creator. We've never lived up to it. We've never walked away from it before. We've never walked away from it before. This administration has walked away from it. Has walked away from it. 184142 So part of what we have to do is establish the decency and honor that's reflected who we are in the past. Our children are listening. Our children are listening. And our silence is complicity. If we sodnt speak up. So the concluding I'll make is this is an election bigger than just whether a Democrat wins. This is about restoring the soul of this country. You know, it really is. About the rest of the world being able to look at us. 184213 We've led not just by the example of our power, but the power of our example. And this guy goes out and embraces thugs, Putin, Kim Jong Un. sicks, pokes his finger in the eye of our allies. Abandons our friends. It can't continue. We can handle 4 years of this guy with a lot of difficulty. We got a lot to make up. What worries me most he's so -- as the walls close in on him, he gets more and more erratic. I'm worried what he may do next. 184244 But, we can't handle 8 years of him. It'll change the nature of who we are. As a people. At least for a couple generations. That's why I'm running. That's why I think it's so important. And I'm confident, I'm confident, we can do this. With that, I'm gonna hush up and my nurse practitioner's gonna recognize people who want to ask me a question, I'm ready. I'll let the boss do it. 184316 Q>> This comes from Toby, who's wounded in Afghanistan, waiting to come home. He's worried about immigrant families who are separated. Wants to know what you're going to do to put these things back together. 184336 BIDEN>> Toby, you here? MOD>> No, he's in Afghanistan. BIDEN>> Oh, he's in Afghanistan now? Oh, I've spent a lot of time in Afghanistan. And it's a -- it's one godforsaken country. It's a country that is still organized based on and looks like, if you go through it, like it was, you know, way way back, when the Brits left there. I mean, it is really, it's like 17th century, there's so much that has to be done. And those troops, our son, Beau, was an attorney general of the state of Delaware but he volunteered to go to Iraq for a year. 184416 He came back with a Bronze Star, (?) conspicuous service medal, and a number of other decorations. And also came back probably was exposed to a lot of carcinogens and with terminal cancer. But my point is, that you know, first of all, only 1% and sir thank you for your service in Vietnam. Only 1% of our population, protects 99% of us. And we owe them. We owe them badly. Three things we're going to do to make sure veterans are covered. 184449 Number one, right today, i carry with me everyday, i think I have it with me, my schedule. It has a schedule and there's a little black box in the schedule. Can you see what it says? I carry it everyday. I have my staff contact the Defense Department everyday, now (?) go online and do it. It says daily daily troop update. Number of U.S. troops that died in Afghanistan and Iraq. 184509 6,898, not 6800 or so. Every single one of these fallen heroes, fallen angels, has left behind an entire community. Drives me nuts when I hear around that many people. Wounded, 52,954. Not 52,000. What's not listed on here, is roughly 300,000 troops coming home with post traumatic stress. 184547 Dealing with it. And one of the things we have to do is we have to significantly increase our commitment to the VA. So people, when they come home, and how they come home, because the (?) one of the famous economist says we have an obligation, after the last troop has come home, after every street has been named, after every parade has occurred, we're going to have an obligation because those same (?) that was--that you received in Vietnam, if you received that same (?) in Afghanistan or Iraq, you had a 4 times greater chance at dying in Vietnam than we did in Iraq and Afghanistan because of the golden hour. 184623 They provided for the ability to air lift these folks. But here's the deal. We have more amputees than any war since the civil war. They're entitled to the most up to date--one of the things i'm proudest of, is having the law changed so that they're entitled for the rest of their life the most up to date prosticious. No matter what it is. Without having to pay for it. Constantly doing that. All these other things that they're entitled to. But we have an obligation. Andit is a multi billion dollar commitment for the next gen because they're living, the average age of these people coming home wounded, is 39 years left to live. 184659 So we have an overwhelming obligation. So the first thing is, if he is not able to physically get home, if that's the problem now, you ought to, when we leave here, give me a name. And give me the access. We'll get him home. He's coming (?) okay and i won't ask publicly what the wounds are and how bad they are but but the generic point is, we owe folks. We owe them. 184726 99% of us owe the 1% that is over there protecting us. But here;s the other thing, we don't need to have deployed hundreds of thousands of troops around the world, on a permanent basis. But we do need is to end (?) wars. That doesn't make sense. But we do need though, we have to be able to, we have to be able to project power particularly in terms of our special forces so that we can organize the other 65 nations that are helping us deal with stateless terrorizism. [18:47:31] We don't need to have deployed hundreds of thousands of troops around the world on a permanent basis. But what we do need these endless wars. That doesn't make sense. But we do need, though. We have to be able to we have to be able to project power, particularly in terms of our special forces, so that we can organize the other 65 nations that are helping us deal with stateless terrorism. The war that you fought was the war that we were, in fact, making sure that we didn't never to suffer, but we became the world's policeman. Well, we're not going to be the world's policeman, but we have to organize the world. [18:48:08] Absent that, no one else will. Last point I'll make about this. It's like what happened in in in eastern Syria. The Kurds with true are just a couple hundred troops. We were able to train them and move them and help them and deploy them and be a buffer between them and the Turks coming after them. [18:48:32] And guess what? Eleven thousand of them died defeating the caliphate. Defeating ISIS. They put in jail. In jail, behind prison bars. Ten thousand ISIS terrorists. And what's happening? We, in fact, walked away from them. You saw those scenes of our tanks and armored Humvees coming out and our soldiers, their heads down, feeling like what they did. [18:48:59] They were forced to abandon these folks, abandon them. Who takes our word around the world? I bet I know every single major world leader I've met personally over the last 40 years. It's only a few newly elected, I don't know. [18:49:14] And they're sitting there wondering, wait a minute, what's the US's word? How, how, how much how how much can you count on their word? And what's happening? [18:49:23] You have as recently as yesterday, Moscone, the leader of France, saying we have to make a different arrangement maybe with Russia as part of NATO. And they NATO has to do it. That's because they don't think we're going to be their president. Treats NATO like it's a protection racket. If you don't sign up for this and pay this is that much, then, then we're not going to keep our commitment, our sacred commitment on Article 4 anyway. So the point is we have to be able to unite the world like we did before. [18:49:57] It doesn't require significant numbers of large standing armies, but it does require us to be able to organize the world, whether it's dealing with what the what the military did with serious disease in Africa. [18:50:10] Ebola is the United States military in an organized effort, not with guns, because we brought in the World Health Organization couldn't do it. We did it. We stopped the gigantic epidemic. So, folks, we can't just walk away if we walk away, the rest, the bad guys are going to fill the vacuum. They're going to fill the vacuum. [18:50:34] And so I really think, first of all, I'd like to have his name because I want to personally talk to him, but we own we own big and there's a lot we can do without having permanent large numbers of troops stationed around the world to keep our commitment to the rest of the world and keep our alliances. We need the alliances for our own safety sake. [18:51:02] Oh, interest question on immigration. [18:51:05] One of the great things that Jim and I were, I think to I don't know this for a fact, but Jim is one of the few spouses of the first or second ladies has gone into a war zone when a war is going on. She came with me to Iraq to offer our palace where there was one of Saddam Hussein's gaudy palaces he built. And and we had we had now occupied it. You know, I went there. I went to swear in, I think. How many was it? It was about one hundred and fifty, 160 people as U.S. citizens. They all were wearing military uniforms. A number of several had one. Silver Star is already the number one Bronze Stars. [18:51:50] They all were in combat. They were there. They were they were volunteers, volunteers. And they were immigrants without citizenship. And I was able to go. And one of the neatest things and I thought the ultimate irony, one of Saddam's palaces swam in every one of them as U.S. citizens, as U.S. citizens. Here's the deal, guys. We are a nation of immigrants. We have to protect our borders. There's ways to protect our borders with the technology we have available to us. But I would make sure these kids who are so-called dreamers and they are not. Yes. They're not just from from South and Latin America. There's a number of Asian Pacific folks who are part of those, the Dreamers Moon kids, these kids age brought to the United States by their parents. [18:52:35] I can picture it now. No. Mom moved me on the side of the Rio Grande. I don't want to go. Leave me here. And they've turned out to be real citizens. They end up gone through school. They've done well. They've. And so the second thing is we have to provide a path to citizenship. Earn citizenship for the 11 million undocumented people, most of whom didn't cross the border illegally. Most of them came on visas and then go home. And so we should be doing we. The first thing I will do is send to the United States Senate and House a bill for people to be able to earn their way into being able to get in line to be United States citizens. [18:53:15] That requires all the things learning the language and a whole range of things that a lot of your grandparents and parents and great grandparents did. And so that's the route I would take because the rest of the world looks at us and it's not who we are, putting kids in cages at the border, separating families. [18:53:34] I mean, that's not what we've done. It's not who we are. You know, that statue meant something. You know, send me your. And we're just. And it's hurting us internationally as well. And they can in fact, it will, in fact, be good citizens. [18:53:48] And so but they've got to earn their way just like everybody else did and have a pathway. But to isolate them and keep them in the shadows and people fearful that tomorrow someone's going to drop in and I might drop my kid off at school, they're going to nab me in front of my child. [18:54:06] That's not a rational way for us to do it. So we need we need immigration reform. There's a lot more to say than setting up. [18:54:21] So I'm 10 years old and the projections are that in eleven years this planet won't make it because of climate change. Well, you take the no fossil fuel mantle pledge and pledge to fix our climate and our democracy. [18:54:36] Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I'm impressed. The answer is I have taken the pledge and I keep the pledge. Here's the deal. We are able to. The first thing I will do as president Untied States is redoing what I helped put together the Paris climate accord. [18:54:55] Number one. [18:55:02] The second thing the second thing I'll do is call a meeting within the first hundred days of 173 nations who belong to the Paris Climate Accord and up the ante with both people. No, no, we've set that up. We wrote into the law that if science indicated there was less time, we thought you had to up the ante. You had to make a greater commitment and hold every one of the nations accountable for what they are not doing at home. We can in fact, I've laid out a detailed plan. And honey, you seem to be pretty smart about this. I'm going to send you a copy of it, OK? You go on. You can go on Joe Biden dot com and get it. But here's the deal. We can now. We can get to zero net zero emissions in the United States and all the territories,. [18:55:49] United States by 2050. But we can lock in changes in the next 10 years that can't be can't be undone, that relate to everything from dealing with, for example, when we build it by in the next 10 years, every highway we build and we have to rebuild highways to deal with the environmental changes taking place every single highway we built. We're going to put in five hundred thousand charging stations. You say, why? This sounds silly, but we can easily do it. The cost is totally within our wheelhouse to do it because guess what? We should own the electric vehicle market and we could cut emissions gigantically. We're in a position where we're going to. In the meantime, up mileage standards. [18:56:36] Why are we in a position in United States America where we're not building any new high speed rail? Cutting down significantly, significantly the cost of transportation as well as the emissions that come from automobiles being in a position where we have farmers being paid to provide for the absorption of carbon by the plants they in fact plant in their fields. So they absorb carbon, they absorb it. We're in a position where we should be doing what we did in our administration, which we did with the Recovery Act. [18:57:11] We invested more money in renewable energy than any administration ever has. It's now as cheap an a Beiteinu unit to do wind and or solar power as this coal power. No one is going to build a new coal power plant. Nobody's going to. The simple reason it's not efficient cost too much money beyond the pollution, beyond the pollution. We're going to invest four hundred billion dollars in new technology. So we all we own the renewable energy market. We're the net exporter of this technology. We have the capacity in the United States to do this and create over 10 million good paying jobs, not 15 dollar an hour jobs or not even we don't have that yet,. [18:57:53] But jobs that average forty five dollars an hour because they have to pay they have to pay prevailing wage to do them to preserve produced the jobs. We have the best minds in the world right here in the United States of America. We should become the net exporter of the technology that can absorb the carbon, that can change the technology as to why we can move to zero net zero emissions. But the last point I'll make and this is a long, long story. I apologize, honey, but here's the deal. The United States of America, if we got to net zero emissions tomorrow, nobody suggests that's possible. But if we could tomorrow, that only takes care of 15 percent of the problem. 85 percent of the problem is internationally. [18:58:39] So the polar caps are still a little known. The sea rising sea levels are going to rise. Your coastal places like just like in Delaware, where average three feet above sea level, we're going to be underwater. Look what's happening in the Midwest right now. Seven of our major military bases being put at risk because of flooding in the Midwest in the middle. Look what's happening out west now. The fires, there are always those five. But now we're in a position where because of weather changes, they, in fact, are occurring in a way, these devastating regions spending billions of dollars, these firefighters risking their lives and losing their lives. There's so many things we can do quickly. For example, we should have tax credits to make sure that we have billions with net zero emissions we can do. [18:59:25] We can provide encouragement for every major building to have a tax credit. They changed the windows, changed the exhaust, changed everything. So you're not you're not wasting energy. We can provide for a whole range of things right off the bat that can get an awful lot done and lock in things that can't change my. Looking at me like Joe, you're talking too long and she's way better. But that's. That's a really important subject, which is totally within our capacity to do it. And we don't have much time. The young lady is absolutely correct. I introduced the first climate change bill that was. Said by what they call there's there's an outfit that checks the honesty of the assertions, said it was a game changer back in 1986, entered as the first global warming deal. But guess what? [19:00:14] Since then, the problem is you even get more exact, more difficult, more. We've moved far beyond it. It's moving quickly. We have to keep pace with it. We're able to do it. [19:00:24] We have to resolve to do it because it is the the existential problem facing humanity. It is fundamental. [19:00:32] This gentleman is going to jump out of his chair if I don't ask. [19:00:36] Read about Joe. I want to thank you very much for his service. Eight years with Barack Obama. [19:00:43] For starters. [19:00:49] See, nowadays you look at the average average American neighborhoods where one serious problem, addiction, she everytime every week, not a week goes by. [19:01:04] We hear about someone ODing on a substance. People being arrested. More stuff comes up. Stuff like car fentanyl. Stuff as you tranquilize animals, large animals and people use this stuff by numbers and numbers and more and more Americans, young American that are dying as people in schools, people's on the work job for people, people who are homeless. [19:01:34] They'd rather not pay their bills and go take their money and get their substance. [19:01:41] We have a serious, serious problem with addiction, and I want to like to address it in the United States of America. We need to do something now because that's another form of terrorism that we are all facing. How are you gonna handle that? [19:01:58] Right. It's a good question. Here's the deal. Look, first of all, this state is fully aware of the opioid problem. And you may recall early on I got criticized when we're in office for saying that we had to do some by the drug companies are peddling these opioids without telling people. It used to be we went into this. Well, it wasn't intentional on the part of docs, but we decided that the way you measure whether or not a hospital is meeting its requirements is how many people are in pain. And so it became the notion that the whole idea was no one is going to be in pain. Well, one thing led to another. And how many times you gone to a dentist and and you you have a root canal and they give you a week's supply of painkillers that are essentially opioids. [19:02:50] How many times you see on the air when they talk about dealing with these prescription drugs? How many times hear me saying if you take them IV's press, you take more in five days, you can become addicted. I'm addicted. What happened was we ended up early on. Last year, you saw the report that the major drug companies had sold over nine billion, nine billion pills, nine billion pills, and that we should be showing them. [19:03:23] Now, there's class action suits and you see these major companies going under because they've acknowledged that they knew what they were doing. There's data. So it suggests that they knew what they're doing and they're going out of business. We should, in fact, understand that it, in fact, is honest. We need to have truth in advertising what you're doing. There was no truth in the advertising. It's a little bit like tobacco, you know. [19:03:48] Tobacco companies knew what was going on, but they kept it secret. The phenomenal impact on cancer rates. It has a profound impact. They kept selling it like it was. Well, were it not for these class action suits? Guess what? They continue to pollute the world and pollute the country. And so the first thing is we should with the drug companies, hold them accountable. Hold them accountable for what they're doing. Fentanyl is another version, a street version of a really bad thing that's already going on. [19:04:21] And so secondly, what we need is we need we need mental health parity, meaning that nobody should be going to jail for the use of a drug. [19:04:31] They should be going to rehabilitation. Mandatory, mandatory. The bill will I put together years ago provided for drug courts. So if the only crime you commit is you have become addicted, you would be sent to a drug rehabilitation center for a long time. There is evidence that even though it doesn't work for everybody, it cuts down crime as what it is, putting people in jail for the same amount of time and a cost about a third of what it costs to keep someone in jail over a thousand bucks a week. And so thirdly, we're finding out a lot more in terms of the science. The science is that a lot of people assume drug addiction causes mental illness. [19:05:16] Mental illness generates. We now are learning from the experts and their scientists that drug addiction, addiction flows from mental illness. We have now we don't recognize what there is. I know these are essay questions, so I'll try to get to the end of a quickly. But here's the deal. I would immediately deprive the drug companies of the 8 billion dollars a year they get to deduct or advertising off the bottom line. Number one. Number two, to hold them accountable, to be able to say exactly what they know. [19:05:51] The drug that they're producing does and doesn't do and hold them accountable for what it says it does and doesn't do. And thirdly, we have to open significantly more mental health clinics around the country. And it starts, by the way, in schools to realize now that every expert says you need somewhere between one school psychologist for every 700 kids. Well, guess what? We have one for every 15 hundred twenty kids. We go fund them anymore. We also don't fund school psychologist. [19:06:27] Excuse me. Social workers in our schools to identify problems early on when they see them occurring. Not for punishment sake, for the ability to go out and help the child avoid getting into a pattern that it ends up. Causing them to be at odds with the law or involved in drugs. And that's why we should be putting every single child in 3, 4 and 5 years old be able to go to preschool. That's why I call for and I'll end this. Right now we have to call Title 1 schools. Schools from neighborhoods that have lower incomes across the board. We spend 15 billion dollars a year on that. If you triple that, you can make sure the teachers in those schools get paid. What other graduates get paid for for the same amount of time they've been involved? [19:07:13] They get paid 22 percent less than anybody else graduating in a four year degree from school on average, along with social workers. Number one, you can put every single child in America in a 3, 4 and 5 years old in school, law school, not daycare. And all the data shows at your universities and universities across the country. That it increases exponentially. The prospect that that child succeeding, no matter what their economic background, no matter what zip code, they're from succeeding in getting through high school and going beyond high school by some 53 or 54 percent. [19:07:48] And it is something we can fully afford to do. And so there's a lot of things we can do. That's why in the Affordable Care Act we put together. And what I'm proposing to add onto that is that we provide for mental health parity. One of the biggest problems we have now with people who are coming home and needing needing care, as you know, from the Vietnam era, is that they, in fact, are a shamed they're told to be tough and they don't want to be in a position where they're asking for help and saying, I've got a problem, I'm having nightmares, I'm having this problem. I'm having that problem. But we have to make sure that is no longer viewed as something that is is a weakness. It's no different if you break your arm or break your back or have get a disease. [19:08:36] It is a disease of the brain and it should be treated that way. And so part of it is demystifying and taking the what would you call is sort of the I don't know how you say it, maybe taking the stigma off of seeking help if you have a mental problem. [19:08:54] There's a lot we can do and we can do without spending a whole hell of a lot of money. We can provide community health centers. And by the way, in rural America, it is a real problem. It's a real problem, especially out West. When I say rural, you've got to travel a hundred twenty miles to get somewhere or get to a V.A. hospital or whatever. And so there's a lot we can do. The capacity to do it exists. [19:09:18] And we have to get talking about investing in investing in education, investing in mental health clinics, investing in the ability for people to get the help they need. [19:09:30] And that's for the way I would move in that direction is a lot more to talk about. Go on my Web site, Joe Biden dot com. I lay out in detail, in great detail how to deal with that. And by the way, a practical nurse here can tell you more about that than most people can because it did. Well, no, I'm serious, but I don't know whether people know it or whether they really know it. [19:09:52] So it's important I can do yes or no. [19:09:55] If you give me an easy answer, you join in with your questions. [19:10:02] You can take it. How are you going to make schools more safe from mass shootings? [19:10:18] Think about this. Those your over 30. Could you ever imagine having asked that question to your kid? You talk about the soul of America. It's a sick soul we have when in fact, we send our kids into school these days that duck and cover. Building schools so they have a butt mints in the hallways to teach kids how to hide behind you. [19:10:43] You know, I spoke with the American Psychiatric Association, International Psychiatric Psychiatric Association, London asked me to come and speak. And you know what? [19:10:51] The single greatest generation is most uneasy about their future, so-called generation C, Z, 17 to 20. What their greatest fear is being shot in school. [19:11:07] And the greatest anxiety they have. Making them the least stable generation because they're so worried. [19:11:15] How old are you, honey? Ten year old kid asking that question. I don't think you put him up to it. [19:11:20] I think it's probably real, but I think about it. First thing you do is you take on the NRA and you beat them. [19:11:37] Smart guy would be the emotionally. I beat them twice. [19:11:47] What's out there's a Second Amendment. I believe in the right to be able to own a weapon, own a gun. But guess what? The Constitution doesn't say anybody can own a gun. It says the limitations who cannot win. Wonder what kind of gun or weapon they can own. And those folks who are my and I were that we were one of the largest states with the most guns for the highest percentage of gun owners in my state. When I push this through didn't make me very popular initially, but I walk through the buyers, not the buyers. I walk through the southern Delaware. It's Della Delmarva Peninsula. A lot of screams and kooks and connecting the Chesapeake Bay and the Delaware River and the Delaware Bay and and all through there. [19:12:31] And I'd walk through campaigning because the sports room are officially so dangerous. Why are you taking my shotgun for me? And I'd show my AR 15. I see you need one of these to hunt. She must be a lousy hunter. You must be. And you need a hundred rounds in a clip or 50 rounds in a clip. Or you don't want to deal with, you know, the myth that I was I was even having trouble getting the copper Teflon tip bullets outlawed. I said, you know how many do that? They weren't Kevlar vests. Folks, look, we protect geese, you know, flying over this territory from Canada more than we do children. [19:13:10] You're only allowed to have three shotgun shells, three a chain grab by a magazine with 100 clips in it. I mean, a hundred shells have bullets in it. So, folks, every amendment has its limitations. [19:13:26] So from the very beginning and by the way, you have people to talk about. Well, the tree of liberty is water with the blood of patriots. Well, if you're gonna need it for the government, you need to own an F 15 man, some Hellfire missiles, a few tanks. Not a joke. I'm serious. Yeah. You you you want to do what you think you have to take on a government. That's what it was all about. Well, guess what, man? You better get moving. But you can't own a bazooka. You can't own a machine gun. You can't own it. Go down the list. It's just rational. [19:13:59] Rational. But look what happened. Look at all these mass shootings, by the way. There are more mass shootings going on in inner city neighborhoods today that you don't even get noticed. [19:14:10] The cumulative effect is mass shootings. Kids sitting on a porch getting shot just by this. Just stand by. [19:14:20] And so, folks, that deal that the president made with the NRA member, he's talked about wanting to do something about this and background checks. My lord, you realize that, in fact, a number of the states, Tony, report to the next program. That is the program. You know, you you're going to buy a weapon. You got to go in and you've got to get a background check. Well, if it's not done in 48 hours, then, in fact, you come out of states aren't even moving and giving all the data that they have to the Knicks. And so we have to change the way we deal with this. We're not defined anybody their right to own a gun. [19:15:00] What kinds of guns you can own? Last thing I'll say is that right now and I've been pushing this for a while, you will not violate anyone's Second Amendment. [19:15:13] If, in fact, the only person that could pull the trigger on the weapon you have is you by your biometrics and your finger. That technology exists now. Is James Bond stuff? No, it really does. You can manufacture any weapon. So the only person who pull the trigger is if it has essentially it's more than this. But your fingerprint on it. Look at what would have not happened in Sandy Hook if that had been the case. Why is it if some of you left your keys in the car outside in the parking lot and a 14 year kid, 14 year old kid picks it up, takes it out on the highway, gets in an accident, kills somebody or themselves. [19:15:51] You can be sued. Why, if you do not have a trigger lock on your gun, why if you don't have your gun in a safe. Why, if you don't protect your gun or weapon at home, why should you be any less liable? Why is that the case? We're not violating anybody's rights. You have a weapon. You have an obligation to keep it out of the hands of people who either don't know how to handle it or in fact, would do something bad with it. So you lock it up, by the way. So what happened in Silicon Valley? They came up with some pistols that you could only use your biometric marker on pulling the trigger. Several gun manufacturers, gun stores started to sell it. What happened? The NRA boycotted them and put them out of business. [19:16:40] So guess what? None of all carry them now. This goes to the last thing. It's not just gun. It's not just the NRA and the NRA and members of the NRA. I believe over 50 percent think we shouldn't have be selling automatic weapons or selling weapons that, in fact, are weapons of war. They agree with us. They should have background checks. But guess why? It's not happening because of gun manufacturers. Gun manufacturers are the only industry in the United States, America that is exempt from being able to be sued. [19:17:17] How about if we had done that with the tobacco companies? Probably done that with the drug companies. [19:17:22] They're the only ones that have this exception. It's going to change if I'm president. It's going to change.