The speechwriter in general mcmaster has ordered me to tell the story of the speech. With the first page of the speaking copy. And first for some historical background after a portion of berlin itself with the british and french control even with east berlin and all of the surrounding east germany and with a communist regime its important to grasp that west berlin is completely surrounded and you can see it is a little. Insight east germany. Again, after the war, thousands of these germans flee the communist music regime east germany to the democratic west. How do they do this . Very often they do it just by stepping across the street and then they could get on the train to cross the german territory to the west. So by 1960, one fifth of the entire population of east germany just that. They fled. So to stop the enormous exodus these germans proposed a physical barrier and moscow agreed and in the middle of the night august 13, 1961, the east germans strong barbed wire all the way aroun
[indiscernible conversations] [indiscernible conversations] good evening from washington. You have been watching cspans live coverage of the white house Correspondents Dinner here in washington. It is an annual tradition, as you heard from Kelly Odonnell. It is with the exception of former President Donald Trump that every president has attended at least one of these annual dinners, beginning with Calvin Coolidge in 1924. Some 2700 guests walked the red carpet to attend the dinner tonight, including andrew mccarthy, steve ducey of fox news, followed by the Senate Majority later, other journalists, hollywood stars, and politicians attending. [indiscernible conversations] and that is Comedian Colin Jost with Scarlett Johansson. Colin jost is the entertainment tonight. And the speaking portion of the program is expected to begin around 9 30 p. M. Eastern time, with president joe bidens remarks being delivered after 10 00 p. M. , followed by saturday night lives just. Colin jost. If you ha
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Second time. House democrats are drafting articles and they could introduce them as early as monday. Joe biden going after President Trump and says he wont stand in congresses way if they tried to throw crump out of office. Watch with the congress decides to do is for them to decide. What this president has done is rip the bandaid all the way off. Left the country know who he is. And what hes about. And how thoroughly unfit for office he is. Hes one of the most incompetent president s in the history of the United States of america. And so the idea that i think he shouldnt be out of Office Yesterday is not the issue. He indicated he wasnt going to show up at the inauguration. One of the few things he and i have ever agreed on. He has been an embarrassment to the country, embarrassed us around the world, not worthy, not worthy to hold that office. If we were six months out, we should be moving everything to get him out of office, impeaching him again. Trying to invoke the 25th amendment,
House democrats are drafting articles and they could introduce them as early as monday. Joe biden going after President Trump and says he wont stand in congresses way if they tried to throw crump out of office. Watch with the congress decides to do is for them to decide. What this president has done is rip the bandaid all the way off. Left the country know who he is. And what hes about. And how thoroughly unfit for office he is. Hes one of the most incompetent president s in the history of the United States of america. And so the idea that i think he shouldnt be out of Office Yesterday is not the issue. He indicated he wasnt going to show up at the inauguration. One of the few things he and i have ever agreed on. He has been an embarrassment to the country, embarrassed us around the world, not worthy, not worthy to hold that office. If we were six months out, we should be moving everything to get him out of office, impeaching him again. Trying to invoke the 25th amendment, whatever it