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a gigantic coincidence. that previously the earth was just in messy chemistry lab told me she was. aware of the improbable but. truth of the creation of our solar system with our planet is a bit like winning the lottery there is a really good. one for birth for you starts feb 11th on t.w. . the case for innovation couldn't be clearer the world's become a very different place and the pandemic is forcing companies to change the way they do business history shows firms that invest in innovation through
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a crisis outperform the competition in a recovery if they survive that is it's a balancing act the challenge is seizing the opportunity crises frightened investors and what's not to be scared about look at all the bankruptcy people out of work i'm happy i'm not in the hospitality sector and that i didn't start a business at any time in this crisis and of any type but what's going to happen to all those empty hotels and restaurants and the people who did launch a new business smack bang in the middle of a pandemic. i leased a hotel during the pandemic most of her rooms are empty. no one's checking in today told the henning has just opened a restaurant but she has no guests our circle crisis brings opportunities and as a team we want to just seize the moment. and we can keep this up much longer. having her own hotel was a dream come true for here no way and she enjoys chatting to the few guests that
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come. despite the pandemic lloyd took the plunge and invested a lot of money. but her hotel's occupancy rate is now just $0.12. we didn't expect things to be this bad and of course we're unsure we're worried about what the future will bring. 'd her life partner patrick went into the business together. is now in the middle of the crisis we will support for each other i think on our own each of us would probably have given up already. had. together they put several 100000 euros into giving the hotel interior a make over they used all their savings and money from the family to the plan and we obviously didn't plan to open in the middle of a crisis the planning was all done before that but we decided to go through with it
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anyway. we're just trying to delay the launch as long as possible. or we saw our earnings that was the 1st month we thought it was ok if it continues like this then we can live with breaking the law even and we will survive. and now we're trying to hang on as long as we can. get henning was thrilled when he was able to rent the restaurant t.v. . long dreamed of in downtown. and even though he has no guests right now and only takeaway orders are allowed for him it's a huge stroke of luck. this is an opportunity if you look at the place there's just nowhere else like it in berlin and when you get that chance you have to grab it you can't do anything else. in the kitchen only opens at
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lunchtime from thursday to sunday the other days they just do what they can yeah i'm just known as a team we've got to know each other in this time and you know what makes each other take we're all so many familiar with the processes involved in the business and the point of sale system accounting etc it's all been a slow introduction. they're doing in the basement tell me how parties. are. heading gave up a well paid job as a manager in real estate to pursue his restaurant dream. now he's living off his savings. factor of the coronavirus into our calculations we also took it into account during contract negotiations and the owners accommodated this extremely well $300.00 of demick clause in our contract. you sign
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a contract for 10 years you know things are hard for you $23.00 or maybe 4 months at the beginning that's the blink of an eye compared to that 10 year contract to do continue on. is also optimistic for now. we have no regrets about taking this step this crisis in particular has brought us closer as a team we've grown together and taken the hurdles together is a good start. one of their regular guests popped by recently with a surprise and. we were there during a difficult time. and now that we're not doing so well with a covert crisis he suddenly appeared at the reception and handed us a box containing little gifts. and a donation of 2000 euros. 5000. that was really a lot of money for him it was very generous and we were just incredibly touched i
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was moved to tears that someone could be so kind at a time like this and want to support a. 'd partner say they can hold out until april but after that they may well have to give up on their dream. incoming president of the united states joe biden says he wants to pump trillions of dollars into clean energy sources for many a ray of hope for others a nightmare like in the western state of wyoming where the coal industry is in freefall it's seen thousands of jobs lost you oil and gas industry is also feeling the pinch and green alternatives like wind turbines well they just haven't had enough luck as far as making jobs go so far at least so is this only a crisis or could it also be an opportunity.
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welcome to gillette wyoming the self-proclaimed energy capital of the united states the energy. industry has been the backbone of this community for 40 years. but the $30000.00 residents tested a rough patch until just about 10 years ago coal mining here and elsewhere in wyoming made up a whopping 40 percent of the total in a christie makes in the u.s. now it's a 20 percent former prosperity mayor memorabilia these days and thinks i'm not likely to get any better for the state's fossil fuel industries to the contrary president elect biden candidate biden said more than once that he intended to move the united states away from fossil fuels we take him at his word and that's going
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to be tough and we will we will do all we can to fight it but. the gas industry in wyoming lost a 3rd of its jobs from $13000.00 down to $9000.00 in one year alone the coal industry lost 2 and a half 1000 jobs within the last 4 yes now only about 4 and a half 1000 people work in coal a far cry from what was once i think we're not losers for a coal industry in particular it's going to be a tough 4 years at least on the outskirts of the office for coal miners oil workers and all of this working in the local fossil fuel industry and they're all worried says office owner jim plates and to be cult he worked 22 yes and cold himself before running his saloon. you know why people come and have a drink once in a while because they discuss their economic futures and they discuss. their life time futures fears
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a new store owner energy if your energy prices don't go up we don't have any way to make a living. that's the bottom why. or gas that's the bottom line. but the new biden administration's economic plan locates $1.00 trillion dollars to renewable and clean energy for folks here so this is a nightmare we're not into that renewable energy also fuels those words. those windmills running down with are not going to save anybody in this country. the new face of wyoming looks increasingly like this when turbine generators as far as one can see we're visiting a pacific or build on top of what used to be the glen rock coal mine 114000 acres $158.00 when turbines are generating clean energy now pacific orifice owned by no other than warren buffett his holding company berkshire hathaway plans to invest
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a total of $6000000000.00 into wind and solar in wyoming that sounds good but there is a problem clean energy doesn't generate enough new jobs and state tax revenue to offset the combined losses suffered from the declining fossil fuel industry. the real challenge in the state is trying to find him replacement activity people to make a living. and finding ones that they want to do i mean it has to match with your culture and your identity and so that's tough. people here always identified with coal oil gas and ranching rent as a 4th generation cattle rancher for many years he tried to make it by just being a rancher not anymore he's not old so the wind. today 15 winter on his property generates. powerful the grit and needed extra income for rick this
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changes benefited our family greatly this changes given us a steady revenue it's allowed us to be part of the bigger picture with the war on coal and not knowing where fossil fuels and what part they're going to play our country in this world needs electricity. that the city is betting on technology and new research that allows calls to become better carbon capture new coal products and hopefully a good working relationship with the incoming administration or the mayor this will make them when there's. any give me the option because we are looking forward we have already been working with department of energy and if you take president biden at his word i mean he just wants us all to work together so i take comfort in that because that's what we want to do. seems like it's not all gloom and doom for wyoming embracing change will be key.
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on a change will sooner or later force the energy sector to change its ways so what are some of the sustainable opportunities i recently discovered the power of geothermal energy on a trip to iceland is spectacular and or inspiring knowing that fountain of water old guys they could burn you to death it's around $100.00 degrees celsius is a vast reservoir of readily accessible energy right beneath our feet in this climate friendly energy sources were tapped the question is why not. obviously it's not only the senate and stunning. piece of. steel there one power makes plans oh my it's hot and dusty. and it makes clean electricity and heating for the isis. but not only iceland is blessed geothermal energy could pull the
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world for generations to come and to best thing is we come to find cures i mentioned having a place on this planet it's a sustainable eternity if to fossil fuels for countries around the world. in a shaft it's thundering a fire and it makes us having to because git em up and shell in the wrong but it is still largely untapped and most people will never go further back and have no comprehension of what you for of all if. so how does geothermal energy work and why is so much of it still not being used. it's almost like going to london we want a lot of food from the remote critics but. what a description of eyes in fact people didn't know a very proud of all geothermal energy it has changed the country iceland has moved from being poor country primarily you're seeing the importance of oil and coal
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change than we have transformed our energy system and geothermal energy and renewable it's became flies lunt what chocolate and banking office which is a system creates heating are all 9 of 10 houses and almost 60 percent but 1st let's start with a small one the one here what is geothermal energy. heat warms water that has seeped into underground reza was you can drill 2 x. is it or at the tectonic plate boundaries to want to break through the earth's surface as steam or hot water all by itself. and if you're really clever you can direct that into a turban and generate electricity and after using it the cold water is pumped back into the iris and in inside there is it's heated again on the way to the producing oil and hence what it's like
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a cycle of what i called water. and almost limitless renewable source that can be used for heating and electricity. like in iceland where geothermal energy has become more and more important it was pushed in the 1970 s. when all crisis hit the world and shook. and if you're really clever you can direct that in which urban and generate electricity and after using it the cold water is pumped back into the areas and in inside there is it's heated again on the way to the producing oil and count so it's like a cycle of what i called water. and almost limitless renewable source that can be used for heating and electricity. like in iceland where geothermal energy has become more and more important it was pushed in the 1970 s. when all crisis hit the world and shook tiny iceland as well some more lumbar or on
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the front. and it's a crisis of like you sort of use the you know or or speed of. almost. all important on was. a success story and countries around the world are learning from iceland and are keen to use the technology back home and especially in indonesia. this could be a game changer indonesia is an island archaeological because you can see it's all thousands of islands deligated along the equator and on top of a ring of active volcanoes the so-called ring of fire. we just say cynically until now and it makes us having the biggest jet a muppet show in the world approximately $29.00 go what's of potential geothermal power is spread across hundreds of locations on several islands such as java b.c. sumatra and bali but how much is that really 29 go words well in back to the future
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in the eighty's it took 1.21 gigawatts to travel through time a crazy big number back down. point was. today $29.00 gigawatts can be expressed as the output per year of $29.00 medium sized nuclear power plants or $12344.00 wind turbines that means potentially more than one 3rd of indonesia's energy capacity could come from geo film apollo plans one day it's now still mostly public by coal. 62 press and a holler at the city comes from the people on bad information we have this week and found that our called our planet and it makes the air pollution going so badly here that's why we need to change our energy choice and geothermal energy could be a smart choice it is available 24 hours per day $365.00
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days per year in contrast to so we're. on cloudy days or we have and when the wind doesn't blow and as it is a clean technology it could tell decarbonize the policy not only in indonesia but in other parts of the world the wrong tree to 4 percent of global energy demand by 2050 could be supplied from geothermal estimates a. whole of today just around the quantum of the norm potential around the world is being used one reason is it is not attractive to investors in the short term because it takes years to develop. once the operation is firmly developed and everybody has everything is running well it is definitely a parish you are making money left and right but it takes a long time and people are impatient and not
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a problem it's just thermal exploration could trigger earthquakes not just the drilling itself but removing the steam and returning to water can destabilize the on the grill it's rare but it can happen and in indonesia. is also resistance because many areas a sacred moment people thinking this is really out of their mind if that holly is being drilled you'll get just a minute. and since coal is still the top priority in indonesia it is hard to sell the idea of green geothermal energy. to local people who live close to the region off of the edge of the manager resources they don't talk about change they don't talk about green energy issue also green energy is not really despite some technological problems geothermal energy seems to have great potential not only in iceland but around the world and if we've learned something from the icelanders
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it's that other countries could start promoting and investing much more into it because there does a great and clean source of power waiting to be used right there. and look to the stars now with thanks to one of the most famous innovators of out time a long musk is project starlink promises to bring high speed internet to everyone not just people in big cities all richer economies this could be a solution for far off places all around the globe including remote communities in africa that avanti restricted access until now well we visited eastern congo where every upload is a challenge just sort of the way it is but it's also working. in some parts of africa uploading files is often a real challenge many places have little to no access to the internet.
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but. does the solution lie in space thousands of satellites are being deployed to enable high speed internet worldwide by star link and 10 bill. dollar project launched by south african born in long months. jacko had obama is a documentary filmmaker and journalist he also provides footage to t.v. broadcasters in europe and needs to transfer the images quickly over the internet. but in his hometown of sucking in eastern congo and getting a connection as often a hit or miss affair. he's currently trying to upload his footage by his cell phone . sometimes it's a way it's been some slow to work and good some day and you can say it's only 2 g. that waits much more and better to go boats can take given a big. full day sending just to do that.
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is not only sucky is all of the leads that means into needs but the form called the full country needs into it so what i can best do styling is to just come here and the. goods their company here because people need it. but aren't there more pressing problems here like fighting hunger and poverty. and if the internet is a necessity to any place you know what it is or where it is in africa and never was and it was communities to tap into whether it's education systems that they do not
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have access to all health care systems that they would otherwise have no access to . all of the cultural markets because the projects that they have no access to. starlink is intended to serve africa to. data and videos will be transmitted to satellites that will be in the material to tracking stations connected to the internet. starlink is currently testing its technology in the united states to get high speed internet connection users need a device which is easy to install initial reports say the connections are usually fast and stable. among. them becomes difficult someone. who now are bored. maybe for an. operation.
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yes. gaumont is the closest city in congo to muhammad's home internet cafes here promise wrap it up loads the journalist hopes he'll finally be able to send his video material all 40 kg of bytes of it. when i want to say it's just lead to bigger players if we're juggling cared. nothing. nothing. 40 gigabytes would cost him almost $150.00 euros here he did these people who are just silly and just love. this jillian because you're going to nothing with this it did it and it's about to open. the starling technology could improve speed and reliability in cyber cafes and allow unrestricted access to the worldwide web but that is precisely what the government and congo doesn't want. there to be.
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appreciated octagon but most of recognition. or. is this the end of the road for starlink in africa now neighboring rwanda has been using other providers satellites for fast internet for some time now it's seen as a driver for development internet tourists come to could gali from far and wide from hama it was a 4 hour trip by bus and motorbike. and this is where. the upload takes 2 hours his client in the netherlands has finally received the video files the price 20 year olds i didn't cross the border to border in the other country just to look for him to. do this i don't see. them to move.
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to the country. my country. that you swore it was a safe corey and that president there is. this all the way to. proceed. and true all of these. are make sure i don't actually. mean the mamba is tired of all the traveling around he still pinning his hopes on starlink and its promise to deliver high speed internet to africa. and his cross for jack and all the others around the world would like to enjoy all the information they can get their hands on thanks to the most impressive innovations about time the internet the team and me here in berlin it's join us for another episode made.
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grappling with some tricks. expressing feelings i am not very creative yet but i would love to be considered an artist mandate looking for new perspectives. to him and not to be replaced by a previous candidate doing things differently. come to a place where we reflect on society constantly. come on people. children to come tonight it's. one giant problem and we're nearly
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in no mood to see a picture you. in 5. days is in a fuel economy. how will climate change affect us and our children. and b.t.w. dot com slash water. oh and if we're. suffering like. i am this book that eating out of the bathtub was very well. put there was said by the al gore 1st but. the fun to go up from us. was like wow thank you.
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this is due to reduce the noise for berlin the world. come to our special inauguration program which will follow the swearing in of joe biden as the $46.00 president of the united states of america in about an hour from now biden and his vice president come laris are due to take their oath of office is an inauguration day like no other heavy security is in place after trump supporters stormed the capitol on january 6th we'll have full live coverage for you an analysis of the enormous challenges that lie ahead from a pandemic to foreign policy to dealing deep divides within the u.s. politics and society and meanwhile breaking with tradition presidents and donald
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trump outgoing president all trump refuse to welcome his successor as he clings to the lies that the election was stolen just a few hours ago he departed to washington now for his private mar a lago resorts in florida on mr trump now faces an impeachment trial in the senate . on little rock thank you so much for your company and welcome to our special inauguration of broadcast it is a new day in america those are the words of joe biden who is due to be sworn in in just over an hour from now as president of the united states his vice president come why harris will be the 1st to take the oath of office with a pair face daunting days ahead as they are faced with the challenge of bringing
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together a deeply divided nation will have full live coverage of the inauguration ceremony and joe biden's inaugural address well after doing everything within his power to stay on trump has now for the last time left the white house as president of the united states he was accompanied by the. first lady milan have the outgoing president pumped his fist and waved as he boarded the movie no one helicopter he leaves behind a nation bitterly divided ever the norm shattering president he's not attending the inauguration of his successor joe biden trump's 1st stop was the joint base andrews in maryland where he spoke to supporters take less so with that i just want to. say you are amazing people this is a great great country it is my greatest honor and privilege to have been your president. ali.
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i will always fight for you. i will be watching i will be listening and i will tell you that the future of this country has never been better i wish the new administration great luck and great success. i think they'll have great success they have the foundation to do something really spectacular and again we put it in a position like it's never been before despite the worst plague to hit. since i guess you'd say 1917 over 100 years ago and despite that. despite that the things that we've done have been just incredible and i couldn't have done a done it without you so just. say goodbye we love you we will be
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back in some form. ali. and that was departing president trump well as the u.s. turns the page on the presidency that donald trump does not want to give up or with me here in the studio is that every reporter william glue craft and our correspondent in his pool is on the ground for you as well and i believe we've got live pictures because the former presidents and u.s. presidents have already started arriving for the inauguration ceremony i want to go to innes who is in d.c. for you ines how remarkable is it that there hasn't been a trend xit a traditional transition of power in d.c. . oh it's just remarkable it's everything is unprecedented these days normally the leaving president tends to you know gratian than he greets the new
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president in the white house this is normally. a celebration of democracy people from all around the country come to washington. to the heart of this country but these days it's a total gridlock the streets are logged on and it's really hard to get everywhere the picture is dominated by more than $25000.00 troops of the national guard lost more than 20000 policemen to make sure that we won't see pictures again as we saw 2 weeks ago so this is something nobody has ever seen and you know as as your reporting you know we're seeing a close up picture there of vice president pence mike pence i mean he has really been stuck between a rock and a heart place. he doesn't do you so is the whole party
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the whole republican party i mean you just heard the last words. i will see you again in some form later the big fear here is the republicans donald trump is going to kind of start a new party and then watch my kindness knows that he was obviously really close to the president and then turned just thank towards. understanding off to himself by supporting the incoming president by actually just a fulfilling his duty as wife. this is the top spot and this is most definitely a very difficult day for him as well and with me here in the studio as we're watching these live pictures it is story day for america i know that word is is overused how would you describe it it's overused but in this case i think it's very fitting what do we mean by historic we mean that generations from now schoolchildren are going to be learning about this moment just as when i was
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a child i learned about things happening 10150 years ago 200 years ago these moments it seems so distant and so remote that seemed impossible to happen again. that's how children in the future are going to look back to this moment in time because let's be very clear about what we're seeing in these pictures it looks like all the normal pomp and circumstance and all the glamour of an inauguration but this is not a peaceful transfer of power this is not an orderly transfer of power which is a common go to phrase surrounding inaugurations the orderly transfer of power the president of the united states who is still donald trump is not turning power over to joe biden he is leaving he has left washington as president to to hold on to that mantle as long as he can still hasn't actually conceded joe biden is entering that as he has pointed out a dragnet of massive security that does not scream peaceful and orderly to me innes
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exactly when describe to us what washington is like right now because this is an inauguration that is just fraught with so much tension. right is it feels like a fortress you know and i was just helping yesterday and the shopping mall was actually the shopping place was full of soldiers and there was this nurse on the street totally exhausted off for a job fighting the pandemic we must keep in mind we just learned yesterday that 400000 americans have died of covert 19 and she saw the soldiers and that was really a very heartbreaking moment she said icon take that i'm fighting this horrible pandemic and know this it feels like really like in ways and sometimes you feel like being in the cutoff for a few movie so it's far from being this happy moment of celebration and as william
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just pointed out this will stack stuck to the memory of every single american i'm sure because this is this is these scenes here on the streets day and night we have never seen before helicopters are cruising you hear or see hear sirens the whole night through so this doesn't feel like a free state and the oldest democracy on earth exactly now so we've seen we've all seen those dystopian images of military a personnel all over washington d.c. please stay with us because dulles front has arguably have been the most divisive president in living u.s. memory and he leaves office in disgrace the only president to be impeached twice and happened america's position in world politics breaking a long standing alliances while building and on precedented wave of support back home with his america 1st message so how will he be
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remembered our next report looks at his legacy. i am officially running. for president of the united states. and we are going to make our country great again the it was his campaign slogan and became his mantra but once in office did donald trump make america great again ask a trump supporter and they'll say yes and point above all to job creation and tax cuts as major achievements. ask an opponent and they'll disagree slightly citing trance handling of the coronavirus pandemic as proof of his failure to hospital just so we're ordinary people searching a perfect world. after 4 years in the white house there's a range of issues that define trumps legacy and divide opinion some of them will continue to shape american society long after he's gone such as the new makeup of
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the us supreme court his appointment of 3 new judges has ensured a conservative majority years to come. on the streets police brutality continues to enrage people and racial tensions are running high the recent study by the f.b.i. found that hate crime is at its highest level for more than a decade and critics say trump has done nothing to bring people together give me what is a protester who i really can do out grow as a person right proud of i wish stand back and stand by but i'll tell you what i'll tell you what somebody has got to do something about anti for and the left because this is not a right as we. trump also leaves the controversial legacy when it comes to the environment he's reversed more than $100.00 protective regulations and left the paris climate accord environmentalists say it's caused damage that will be difficult to reverse. that's the sunsets on this time in the white house the united
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states is a deeply divided nation and donald trump stands accused of having undermined dialogue and democracy itself has just trust of science and journalism and just complicated relationship with the trees have not only polarized us society but been connected to the spread of conspiracy theories around the world. or look at look at all of the faith. and that may end up being donald trump's most profound an enduring legacy based in and outside of the united states. and in coming vice presidents come or harris has just arrived to a standing ovation people are clapping along with the 2nd gentleman the doc am off both of them are well received greetings. well yes this is if forced to be reckoned with this woman is so accomplished charismatic and the
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1st of many things talk just a little bit about comma i mean the the split screen can't be more profound you know what these pictures are seeing these rafters that they're sitting on they're standing out of the attendees of this inauguration are there these are these were just the rafters that just 2 weeks ago we saw mostly white mobs climbing off of clamoring on trying to attack trying to tear down and today we have the 1st woman the 1st woman of color about to assume the vice presidency putting her as they say a heartbeat away from the presidency. i think that just says so much about everything that you know it states is it it is the best it is the worst it is full of contradictions there is such a racial a racist undercurrent in the country but then there's also scenes like this and come iris not only comes at this filling these 1st as you've said but as
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a very accomplished accomplished lawyer accomplished attorney general for the state of california accomplished senator and she is as you say is going to be a force to be reckoned with in this new biden white house and i don't know if i'm reading too much into it but she's wearing a purple. i don't know if that's a sign well let's have color blind but i'll leave it to your nearest relatives and you know maybe bring people together going to his in washington i mean this is such a symbolic appointment by president elect joe biden what type of vice president do you think she will be. oh absolutely and it means so much you know when we were traveling in this country during the election campaign and she was to be the vice president we talked to many many african american especially also younger women they see that as the hope for their generation all of these 4 years of
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a very very vides administration and she will be strong as just pointed out one says she's only one heartbeat away from a president who is the oldest president ever been sworn in today she will be very energetic she comes from california who saw her talking and acting she has this smile this energy. she puts out but i mean she also has a huge burden on her shoulders because she will have to play a big role in bringing this country together again as she is the 1st female vice president but the 1st nonwhite president and i have too many many wounds healed especially from the air.
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