May 1, 2020 • 8 mins
Tom discusses why he feels that moving beyond the corona virus pandemic will require togetherness and working together…not just by us as citizens but by the members of the two major political parties.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I heard radio presents Tom broke Off now here. This
some small glimmer of hope that progress is being made
in the laboratories about dealing with COVID nineteen. It is
by no means a home run, but even the best
of the scientists are saying, let's wait and see. The
President continues his almost daily briefings talking about what he's
(00:24):
going to do to pull us out of all this.
His message is at best inconsistent. One thing one day,
another thing the next day. And in fact he's pulled
in his son in law, Jared Kushner. I'm not quite
sure what his qualifications are, but he's now holding forth
and what we need to do. It seems to me
(00:44):
that the President would be better served and certainly the
country would be better served, if he would say, look,
this is a national problem. It requires the best thinking
of all of us. I'm going to bring to the
White House the very best people that we can find,
and I'm going to reach your car the isle to
my Democrats who are finding fault with me as I
find fault with him, and say, come to the White House.
(01:07):
We'll have a closed door meeting. Will try to keep
it as secret as possible, so you can speak your mind.
This is something that is not confined to Pennsylvania Avenue.
This is something for all of us, and I need
your help, just as I need the help of those
scientists across the country who very often are saying something
(01:27):
completely different than what I have to say. Let's begin
with that. The fact is that this president has a
record of being mostly successful as a public figure. I
was there in New York when he first got a
lot of attention as a man who was building at
a very young age a very successful high rise hotel
(01:48):
in the middle of Manhattan. After that, he was known
mostly for being Donald Trump. Let me count the ways
in which he did not succeed. He did not succeed
in a lot of tell us that he was talking about,
including the celebrated Plaza hotel. He did not succeed in
establishing a new football league. He did not succeed in
(02:09):
fact and having a whole line of goods with his
name on it that didn't go anywhere. But his biggest
failures were in Atlantic City, where he was going to
rebuild the casino industry, and of course his father had
to bail him out of all that. So when you
make a judgment about somebody, you always have to look
at their record. This was a man who was a
(02:30):
genius at promoting himself and that paid off for him
in the presidential election. He did win the Electoral College,
but he was twenty million votes short in the popular
account against Hillary Clinton. The country was ready for someone
who would shake things up, and he was determined to
do just that, and he has continued on that vein inconsistently.
(02:53):
If you match up what he had to say in
February with what he's saying now, there is no consistency.
If you match up what he said last week as
compared to what he's saying now, again no consistency. He
is a kind of genius at promoting Donald Trump. Most
of all, what about the other side, What about Joe Biden,
who is going to be the presidential nominee of the
(03:14):
Democratic Party. Well, he's run into a real buzz saw
with the claims against him by a woman who words
worked for him, that he was not just inappropriate, that
he was aggressive, and how he handled her. So far,
we've not heard from Vice President Biden on what his
side of the story is, but he has no end
(03:35):
of supporters. Both working for him, and those who have
served with him who have denied that she was right
and what she was having to say. So we have
a ways to go before we know how all that
works out. We are at a point in our lives
when we're reinventing America. There are going to be so
many businesses that are never gonna be seen again. So
(03:56):
many people who had what they thought were secure jobs
and they're now on what they can get best from
the federal government or from their former employer. That's going
to have not just an economic effect on the country.
It's also going to have a psychological effect. People are
not going to feel secure in their job, or in
their community, or in their future. We've always been a
(04:18):
country that looks to the future and think, well, we're
gonna get out of us and we're gonna be okay.
I believe we will get out of this, but it
won't be easy and it's going to take time. It's
gonna also take the best attitude of the part of
our leaders, whether they're political or economic or cultural, and
saying to the people out there who are suffering, stay
(04:41):
with us, we want to work with you, We're here
to help. We can find a way to do this together.
That's the long curved story of this country, going back
to our revolution and the Civil War and World War
One and World War Two and the Great Depression, we
have always found in our genius a way to get
out of it. And if you want to know where
(05:01):
America stands in the world, simply look at the scientists
who are appearing on television now as experts in this
field from various hospitals. Almost all of them, frankly, if
not all of them, a lot of them have come
here from different places. You see Asian faces in South
American faces, and European faces. We remain the great destination
(05:24):
for people of a skill set and ambitions who want
all the protections that we have and are willing to
pay a personal price to get there. So it seems
to me right now we're at a kind of a crossroads.
We're gonna still lose a lot of people between now
and the fall. By the fall, maybe some institutions will
(05:45):
be open again. Hard to say at this point. We
don't want to do it before we're all ready for it.
We don't know what's going to happen to our great
sporting events, what's going to happen in universities and colleges,
So we have to kind of take a deep breath
and pledge to one another. We're gonna work together on this.
Together on this We're gonna deal with facts, not with rumors.
(06:08):
It seems to me that this is going to be,
in the long curve of American history, one of the
greatest tests that we've ever been through, and we all
have an obligation to our families, to one another, to
the country to take a deep breath, to go through
the great pain that will be inflicted on so many people,
(06:28):
and hope that there will be institutions that will step
up and that we will, out of our great pain,
find a way to be again the great promoters of
the American ideal. It's not gonna be easy, folks, and
it's time for the President and other political leaders to
remind the folks of this country, our fellow citizens, it's
(06:51):
not going to be easy. There is going to be
a price to pay, and we'll only get through it together.
That was true during the Great Depression. It was true,
and we're War two. It's been true throughout the long
history of this country. If you think this is a
difficult time, Just think for a moment about Abraham Lincoln
and the Civil War, when the country was deeply divided,
(07:13):
when the Confederacy was determined to break away. The pain
and the loss, and in fact the great cultural upheaval
of that time is unmatched in our history. We're up
to this. We just have to decide how we can
link arms physically and mentally and get through it. Step up,
(07:35):
and may we all come out of this a stronger
nation than we were at the beginning. May we all
come out of this with renewed hope for the continuation
of the greatest democracy, the greatest nation on earth in
the history of mankind. I'm Tom Brokaw for I Heart Radio.
(07:58):
Now here this and let's get going.
I heard radio presents Tom broke Off now here. This
some small glimmer of hope that progress is being made
in the laboratories about dealing with COVID nineteen. It is
by no means a home run, but even the best
of the scientists are saying, let's wait and see. The
President continues his almost daily briefings talking about what he's
(00:24):
going to do to pull us out of all this.
His message is at best inconsistent. One thing one day,
another thing the next day. And in fact he's pulled
in his son in law, Jared Kushner. I'm not quite
sure what his qualifications are, but he's now holding forth
and what we need to do. It seems to me
(00:44):
that the President would be better served and certainly the
country would be better served, if he would say, look,
this is a national problem. It requires the best thinking
of all of us. I'm going to bring to the
White House the very best people that we can find,
and I'm going to reach your car the isle to
my Democrats who are finding fault with me as I
find fault with him, and say, come to the White House.
(01:07):
We'll have a closed door meeting. Will try to keep
it as secret as possible, so you can speak your mind.
This is something that is not confined to Pennsylvania Avenue.
This is something for all of us, and I need
your help, just as I need the help of those
scientists across the country who very often are saying something
(01:27):
completely different than what I have to say. Let's begin
with that. The fact is that this president has a
record of being mostly successful as a public figure. I
was there in New York when he first got a
lot of attention as a man who was building at
a very young age a very successful high rise hotel
(01:48):
in the middle of Manhattan. After that, he was known
mostly for being Donald Trump. Let me count the ways
in which he did not succeed. He did not succeed
in a lot of tell us that he was talking about,
including the celebrated Plaza hotel. He did not succeed in
establishing a new football league. He did not succeed in
(02:09):
fact and having a whole line of goods with his
name on it that didn't go anywhere. But his biggest
failures were in Atlantic City, where he was going to
rebuild the casino industry, and of course his father had
to bail him out of all that. So when you
make a judgment about somebody, you always have to look
at their record. This was a man who was a
(02:30):
genius at promoting himself and that paid off for him
in the presidential election. He did win the Electoral College,
but he was twenty million votes short in the popular
account against Hillary Clinton. The country was ready for someone
who would shake things up, and he was determined to
do just that, and he has continued on that vein inconsistently.
(02:53):
If you match up what he had to say in
February with what he's saying now, there is no consistency.
If you match up what he said last week as
compared to what he's saying now, again no consistency. He
is a kind of genius at promoting Donald Trump. Most
of all, what about the other side, What about Joe Biden,
who is going to be the presidential nominee of the
(03:14):
Democratic Party. Well, he's run into a real buzz saw
with the claims against him by a woman who words
worked for him, that he was not just inappropriate, that
he was aggressive, and how he handled her. So far,
we've not heard from Vice President Biden on what his
side of the story is, but he has no end
(03:35):
of supporters. Both working for him, and those who have
served with him who have denied that she was right
and what she was having to say. So we have
a ways to go before we know how all that
works out. We are at a point in our lives
when we're reinventing America. There are going to be so
many businesses that are never gonna be seen again. So
(03:56):
many people who had what they thought were secure jobs
and they're now on what they can get best from
the federal government or from their former employer. That's going
to have not just an economic effect on the country.
It's also going to have a psychological effect. People are
not going to feel secure in their job, or in
their community, or in their future. We've always been a
(04:18):
country that looks to the future and think, well, we're
gonna get out of us and we're gonna be okay.
I believe we will get out of this, but it
won't be easy and it's going to take time. It's
gonna also take the best attitude of the part of
our leaders, whether they're political or economic or cultural, and
saying to the people out there who are suffering, stay
(04:41):
with us, we want to work with you, We're here
to help. We can find a way to do this together.
That's the long curved story of this country, going back
to our revolution and the Civil War and World War
One and World War Two and the Great Depression, we
have always found in our genius a way to get
out of it. And if you want to know where
(05:01):
America stands in the world, simply look at the scientists
who are appearing on television now as experts in this
field from various hospitals. Almost all of them, frankly, if
not all of them, a lot of them have come
here from different places. You see Asian faces in South
American faces, and European faces. We remain the great destination
(05:24):
for people of a skill set and ambitions who want
all the protections that we have and are willing to
pay a personal price to get there. So it seems
to me right now we're at a kind of a crossroads.
We're gonna still lose a lot of people between now
and the fall. By the fall, maybe some institutions will
(05:45):
be open again. Hard to say at this point. We
don't want to do it before we're all ready for it.
We don't know what's going to happen to our great
sporting events, what's going to happen in universities and colleges,
So we have to kind of take a deep breath
and pledge to one another. We're gonna work together on this.
Together on this We're gonna deal with facts, not with rumors.
(06:08):
It seems to me that this is going to be,
in the long curve of American history, one of the
greatest tests that we've ever been through, and we all
have an obligation to our families, to one another, to
the country to take a deep breath, to go through
the great pain that will be inflicted on so many people,
(06:28):
and hope that there will be institutions that will step
up and that we will, out of our great pain,
find a way to be again the great promoters of
the American ideal. It's not gonna be easy, folks, and
it's time for the President and other political leaders to
remind the folks of this country, our fellow citizens, it's
(06:51):
not going to be easy. There is going to be
a price to pay, and we'll only get through it together.
That was true during the Great Depression. It was true,
and we're War two. It's been true throughout the long
history of this country. If you think this is a
difficult time, Just think for a moment about Abraham Lincoln
and the Civil War, when the country was deeply divided,
(07:13):
when the Confederacy was determined to break away. The pain
and the loss, and in fact the great cultural upheaval
of that time is unmatched in our history. We're up
to this. We just have to decide how we can
link arms physically and mentally and get through it. Step up,
(07:35):
and may we all come out of this a stronger
nation than we were at the beginning. May we all
come out of this with renewed hope for the continuation
of the greatest democracy, the greatest nation on earth in
the history of mankind. I'm Tom Brokaw for I Heart Radio.
(07:58):
Now here this and let's get going.
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