The life of Joe Biden

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He's now the front-runner of the Democratic primary. This is the life of Joe Biden.

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00:00I can remember my mother, a sweet lady, looking at me after we left the hospital

00:09and saying, Joey, out of everything terrible that happens to you,

00:16something good will come if you look hard enough for it. She was right.

00:30This country was not built by Wall Street bankers and CEOs and hedge fund managers,

00:46a lot of good people, but decent people. It was built by the great American middle class,

00:54the most significant economic power in all of history. For real.

01:05That's the American story, a story of ordinary people from the neighborhoods you and I grew up

01:09in, going out and giving half a chance and doing extraordinary things.

01:24I remember to this day how stuttering felt, how dehumanizing, how embarrassing,

01:43how much it put into question, in my own mind as well, my capabilities.

01:59My dad used to say, and I give him my word to this, he'd say, Joey, remember, a job is about

02:14a lot more than a paycheck. It's about your dignity. It's about your place in the community.

02:20It's about who you are. It's about being able to look your child in the eye and say, honey,

02:26it's going to be okay and mean it. Well, that's how we were raised.

02:56So

03:07I was in Washington hiring staff. I got a phone call. My wife and three children were Christmas

03:31shopping. Tractor trailer broadsided it and killed my wife and killed my daughter.

03:37And they weren't sure that my sons would live.

04:02So I've made over, they actually calculated this,

04:068,200 round trips, over 2,100,000 miles on that trailer.

04:19It's not a referendum on whether or not sexual harassment is a grave offense. I said from the

04:27beginning, this is about whether or not sexual harassment occurred.

04:44I haven't always been right. It was a big mistake when it was made. We thought we were told by the

04:48experts that the crack, you never go back. It was somehow fundamentally different. It's not

04:54different, but it's trapped an entire generation.

05:24So

05:54this is an extraordinary election. The American people are ready. I am ready.

06:06Barack is ready. This is his time. This is our time. This is America's time.

06:18My name is Joe Biden and I love ice cream.

06:24You all think I'm kidding. I'm not.

06:25The Taoiseach knows a lot about it. His mom lived in Long Island for 10 years or so.

06:32God rest her soul. And although she's, wait, your mom's still,

06:36your mom's still alive as your dad passed. God bless her soul.

06:40I got to get this straight.

06:46I'll tell you what, man, I'm going to be honest, but I'm not stupid.

07:01Bo was my soul. Bo was my conscience. Bo was my,

07:08Bo was like, he was the little boy who, when he was six years old, he was 30 years old.

07:15For the loved ones we've all lost, for the families that we can still save,

07:30let's make America the country that cures cancer once and for all.

07:33What do you say, Joe?

07:42Joe, for your faith in your fellow Americans, for your love of country,

07:49and for your lifetime of service that will endure through the generations,

07:53for the final time as president, I am pleased to award our nation's highest civilian honor,

08:00the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

08:12Look, everyone knows who Donald Trump is. We have to let him know who we are.

08:17We choose hope over fear. We choose science over fiction.

08:24We choose unity over division. And guess what? We choose truth over lies.

08:46We need a president who can bring us together. Unite our party when this nomination is all over.

08:53Unite the country. We're a democracy. I get criticized for saying we can unite the country.

08:59Well, folks, we're a democracy. Democracies depend on consensus.

09:05And there's no way to govern, to progress, if we can't reach consensus in America.

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