CO 10: Script
For more than 200 years, our tradition of welcoming immigrants from around the world has given us a tremendous advantage over other nations. It’s kept us youthful, dynamic, and entrepreneurial. It has shaped our character as a people with limitless possibilities –- people not trapped by our past, but able to remake ourselves as we choose.
But today, our immigration system is broken -- and everybody knows it.
Families who enter our country the right way and play by the rules watch others flout the rules. Business owners who offer their workers good wages and benefits see the competition exploit undocumented immigrants by paying them far less. All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America. And undocumented immigrants who desperately want to embrace those responsibilities see little option but to remain in the shadows, or risk their families being torn apart.
It’s been this way for decades. And for decades, we haven’t done much about it.
When I took office, I committed to fixing this broken immigration system. And I began by doing what I could to secure our borders. Today, we have more agents and technology deployed to secure our southern border than at any time in our history. And over the past six years, illegal border crossings have been cut by more than half.
CO 9 Script
‘I have just chaired a meeting of the Government’s emergency committee, COBRA, following the sick and depraved terrorist attack on the streets of our Capital this afternoon(…)
‘These events provide a particular reminder of the exceptional bravery of our police and security services who risk their lives to keep us safe. Once again today, these exceptional men and women ran towards the danger even as they encouraged others to move the other way. On behalf of the whole country, I want to pay tribute to them.’ (…)
‘The location of this attack was no accident. The terrorists chose to strike at the heart of our Capital City, where people of all nationalities, religions and cultures come together to celebrate the values of liberty, democracy and freedom of speech.’
‘These streets of Westminster – home to the world’s oldest Parliament – are engrained with a spirit of freedom that echoes in some of the furthest corners of the globe. And the values our Parliament represents – democracy, freedom, human rights, the rule of law – command the admiration and respect of free people everywhere.’
‘That is why it is a target for those who reject those values. But let me make it clear today: any attempt to defeat those values through violence and terror is doomed to failure. Tomorrow morning, Parliament will meet as normal. We will come together as normal. And Londoners – and others from around the world who have come here to visit this great City – will get up and go about their day as normal. They will board their trains, they will leave their hotels, they will walk these streets, they will live their lives.’
‘And we will all move forward together - never giving in to terror, and never allowing the voices of hate and evil to drive us apart.’
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The Stoneman Douglas Highschool massacre are mobilizing with a message for their elected officials: Enough is enough ! The students there are demanding that law makers take action on gun control, so students can be safe at school. Two of those students who you will recognize joined us now, we have Emma Gonzalez and David Hogg.
Guys, it is so great to have you both back on the show and on that clip that we’ve just played, that has been viewed this morning about 20 million times around the world. People have clicked on that because they were so interested in what you had to say, so, to the politicians that you were talking about, to Senator Marco Rubio who said after this shooting: ‘You know you can pass the law but you’re still gonna have these horrible attacks’, what do you say to him?
I say to that even though they say that criminals get guns no matter what laws you have in place, that might be true, but we don’t have to encourage them to get those guns, we can make it harder, absolutely make it harder and we can prevent some seriously nasty crimes and some seriously indescribable tragedies from occurring, and if somebody doesn’t want to do this at this point, that’s pathetic.
So what do you say to the NRA? Look, I don’t have to tell you guys, they give millions of dollars to politicians, they have a very powerful tool, so I mean how do you expect politicians, who need money to keep running for office, to say no to the NRA?
Because we keep telling them that if they accept this blood money, they’re against the children, they’re against the people who are dying. You’re either funding the killers or you are standing with the children, the children who have no money. We don’t have jobs so we can’t pay for your campaign. We will hope that you have a decent morality to support us at this point.
CO 7: American children want safe schools.
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CO 8: Shopping online
"Hello, I’m joined today by Cath."
"Hello Rob."
"Now, we’re talking about the growing trend in online shopping today."
"Oh, yes, shopping via the Internet, now that is something I like to do."
"OK, well you’re not the only person who likes to shop this way. Millions of people choose to shop online, and last week saw the biggest day of the year for doing this. It was called Mega Monday."
"The biggest day of the year for online shopping. But people are still going out shopping in high streets and shopping centres."
"Let’s hear from the BBC Graham Satchel’s reporting on the effects of Mega Monday on high street in the UK."
"The high street is really struggling. For the third Christmas in a row, sales are expected to be down this year by 2.1 %. Instead, more and more of us are shopping online. And Mega Monday is the busiest day. One estimate suggesting that there’ll be 3,300 purchases a minute."
"People are becoming more accustomed to buying things online. Retailers are making it much easier to buy things over the Internet."
"OK, let’s hear from some shoppers in the English market town of Newark, about whether they prefer shopping on the internet or in the shops."
"I’ve done a lot online, I’ve got a new-born baby so it’s a lot easy just sitting at home doing it. It’s nice and warm, and a lot easier."
"What do you like about it?"
"Well, the variety, the choice, the ease, you can stay at home, you stay at home and click on your IPad.”
“I’ve attempted to do it online today for the first time, but I like to try things on, I like the atmosphere of going into town and shopping, so I don’t think it’s my cup of tea.”
