of your connection to this place. we are going to be tested, and i mean that. we are going to be tested, all levels of government, first responders, people who live there, near there, and all the rest of you too. why? because you re going to be needed. people may not survive, and those who do will not be able to survive for long on their own. cash to candles, clothing to classroom materials. construction, simple consolation. the need is going to be great. my argument is this. on the day that we say never forget, remember what we re really about. remember how we deal with true torment. trouble is coming, and it is time to remember who we are when times are at their worst. it s time for this country to show once again who and what it
mean that. we are going to be tested, all levels of government, first responders, people who live there, near there, and all the rest of you too. why? because you re going to be needed. people may not survive, and those who do will not be able to survive for long on their own. cash to candles, clothing to classroom materials, construction, simple consolation. the need is going to be great. my argument is this, on the day that we say never forget, remember what we re really about. do forget what tortures our political dialogue right now, and instead remember how we deal with true torment. trouble is coming, and it is time to remember who we are when times are at their worst. it s time for this country to show once again who and what it is at its best. thank you for watching.
most of the media has been negative. i m not fussing about that. it s just a fact. number two, the bill has changed a lot. i think a lot of folks don t really understand yet what s in it. not because they re not smart but because it s just changed. i mean, i probably spent i don t know, 300 hours on this legislation, trying to keep up with the changes. i ll tell you this. the conference committee report made this bill better. senator rubio, senator lee, in my opinion, did the american people a great service by increasing the child tax credit. we cleaned up some of the problems. for example, we re not going to tax tuition labors for graduate students. we re not going to remove teachers deduction for out-of-pocket spending on classroom materials. we re not going to we re going to expand parents ability to use 529 program. a lot of the stuff that never
this is t.j. back in atlanta. you hearing me okay? arwa damon is not hearing me right now. arwa damon one of a number of cnn correspondents who spent a lot of time in iraq over the last several years reporting there literally from the very beginning of that war and throughout. we ll try to get her back in a moment. a historic day we saw even though a few thousand american service members in iraq. they will make their way out, many of them this weekend and, again, formally, it is over. let me turn to our zain verjee. the whole world, zain, she s joining me from london. the whole world watched this event today. what is the world saying now that it s over? well, there s been a lot of reaction today, as you can imagine. it s been eight years, eight months and 26 days. and a lot of blood, sweat and tears on both the sides of the american people, as well as the iraqi people. let me give you an idea. the guardian. has this headline. the u.s. troops are pulling out, but what have