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her father. then, it s mr. trump s turn and he ll deliver what many are calling the most important speech of his career. his primary task is to convince the american people that he should be their 45th president. everything has been leading up to this moment, the moment when donald gets to speak to the nation. but this man is unpredictable, known for going off script and shooting from the hip traits that make him seem at times unpresidential. that could be risky for him. john, can he polish up his act? does he have to? some have argued that s part of his appeal. here s what he has to do. whether an unscripted part or written text. he has to make americans feel differently than he has up until now. he has a base. he won the republican nomination but he needs to expand that base to win the general election and he s got to have people be able to envision him behind the oval office, see him as commander in chief. the campaign has already released some transcripts, som ....
mutually protocol, so i m interested in not going through it today but in reviewing that we do in terms of the protocol, what it is and how it is communicated to our workforce, number one. and number two, i m wondering if the department has ideas on how the physical layout of the plan, the campus, might be adjusted to enhance safety and also to enhance the capacity of your members to do their job? certainly the physical security is one of our main issues. we have a very robust physical security services bureau, and they had all the physical security aspects working very closely with the architect and the capital. the measures that were put in place post-9/11, we are at the lifecycle in a a lot of the life. we are looking at doing lifecycle replacement. of course, always a very expensive issue but it s certainly something that is very necessary. let me interrupt because i don t think i was clear on my question. for example, where is the perimeter? you can t really, i ....
threaten our security. those measures must involve some military action, and that military action will include intercepting intelligence and financing air superiority and air aid for our allies on the ground without committing massive numbers of u.s. troops to that effort. that war must be pursued even as we pursue the war against terror and hatred here at home. but hardening our defenses requires this kind of action. and so we must commit as a body to stop the terrorist gap from continuing to threaten our security at home, as well as implementing universal background checks that will keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people. we owe it not only to the memory of the children and educators at sandy hook and the countless innocent people who have perished since in the mass shooting that so preoccupy our attention, but also the daily shooting, 30,000 of them every year. in downtown hartford and around connecticut, no place is immune. no one is safe so long as there is ....
a senator: thank you, mr. president. let me first extend my thanks to chairman shelby and to ranking member mikulski for putting together a truly bipartisan bill. mr. murphy: i m honored to be a member of the appropriations committee. this is a difficult bill to put together but they did very good work in the subcommittee to make this a product that both sides could support. and so i thank them for allowing me to be a part of that process. second, let me acknowledge the remarks that senator mikulski who noted that in many ways the world and the country has changed since this bill was scheduled to come to the floor. our heartbreaks collectively in this country for the citizens of orlando and as i ll speak in a moment, in particular in connecticut. our heartbreaks for the people of orlando because we know in a very real way the pain that exists there today but we also know how that pain is really never ending, how ....
i know how deeply personally affected he has been. and i guess i tell you why i am doing this as a means of telling you why senator blumenthal and i are doing this, and i tell it through a prism of a story that just awful, awful series of days following the shootings in sandy hook. senator blumenthal and i went through the first of what were umpteen wakes and funerals, and we were standing in line at the first wake about to talk to the first set of parents who had lost in this case their young daughter, and i remember being so uncertain about what we were supposed to say to these parents, not just what you were supposed to say to provide some measure of condolence, but we were their elected representatives. we had some additional obligation to show them that we were ready to act, but was it too soon to make that offer? was it not the right moment to suggest that there was a public policy response to the slaughter of their children? it was senator blumenthal that very ge ....