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Bret Baier explores the nations resilience · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: Thanks Shannon. Over the past two hundred and fifty years,
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  Speaker 1: America has time and again shown resilience as a nation.
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  Speaker 1: As part of my new book The Case for America,
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  Speaker 1: An Argument on Behalf of Our Nation, I spoke with
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  Speaker 1: political leaders, business leaders, and historians across the country about
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  Speaker 1: the American success story. Tonight we bring you some of
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  Speaker 1: those interviews and the history of American perseverance. The flag
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  Speaker 1: symbolizes the time, the end of war for the greatest generation.
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  Speaker 2: The cheers ring out, especially for the stars and stipes.
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  Speaker 1: A launch pad for future endeavors.
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  Speaker 2: We choose to go to the moon and distcate and
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  Speaker 2: do the other things not because they are easy, but
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  Speaker 2: because they are.
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  Speaker 1: Hard, and to pitch for better days ahead. America has
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  Speaker 1: proven time and again that anything is possible.
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  Speaker 3: What's your key takeaway about American resilience.
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  Speaker 4: American resilience is fairly evident from what happened in the
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  Speaker 4: Civil War. This is a country that was split apart,
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  Speaker 4: but the country showed enormous resilience in coming together and
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  Speaker 4: rebuilding the country.
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  Speaker 1: The country became whole in the aftermath of the Civil War,
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  Speaker 1: as more than three million enslaved people were now free
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  Speaker 1: and the years after black Americans were elected to state
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  Speaker 1: governments and the US Congress, the South saw its first
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  Speaker 1: state funded public school systems and equitable tax legislation, but
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  Speaker 1: discrimination still existed and thrived.
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  Speaker 4: We all evolved over hundreds of thousands of millions of years. Well,
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  Speaker 4: we should also learn how a country evolves and how
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  Speaker 4: a country can grow and prosper and become better than
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  Speaker 4: it once was. You have to understand what it was
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  Speaker 4: that made the country good or bad? What led to
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  Speaker 4: the Civil War, what led to the racial discrimination, what
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  Speaker 4: led to the anti Semitism, and see if we can't
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  Speaker 4: fix those things.
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  Speaker 1: Is there a historical moment that stands out most for
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  Speaker 1: you as I'm sharing kind of a uniquely American greatness?
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  Speaker 2: There is, Brad, I've been covering news for about sixty years,
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  Speaker 2: and the story that moved me most was the fiftieth
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  Speaker 2: anniversary of D Day, because all of us who were
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  Speaker 2: covering that were intent on trying to tell people what
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  Speaker 2: we saw there. They weren't there for conquest, they were
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  Speaker 2: there for liberation.
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  Speaker 1: Soldiers who returned home after World War Two were met
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  Speaker 1: with celebrations. The US economy saw growth and expanded markets overseas.
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  Speaker 1: What was the formative experience that taught you that this
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  Speaker 1: is the land of opportunities? Was there the story of
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  Speaker 1: something that.
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  Speaker 5: Was World War Two? I remember going to the movies
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  Speaker 5: on Sundays and the propaganda movies and going home and
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  Speaker 5: feeling good, you know, because the good guys always won.
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  Speaker 2: He will was conquered the site of that famous flag
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  Speaker 2: raising on Mont Surrobacci.
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  Speaker 5: That was the last noble war.
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  Speaker 1: While foreign wars would divide the country in the years
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  Speaker 1: to come, NASA's emerging space program would bring the country together.
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  Speaker 1: What do you see as the crimary values Americans?
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  Speaker 5: Hope? You know.
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  Speaker 6: The big one that I've always gravitated toward was this
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  Speaker 6: idea of western expansion in our Americans in motion. When
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  Speaker 6: John F. Kennedy sold the Moonshot in a bipartisan way,
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  Speaker 6: you know, he would constantly frame it as a new frontier.
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  Speaker 6: It's the journey on the seas and then across the continent,
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  Speaker 6: and now we're going into the stars, you know, aiming
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  Speaker 6: for the moon and beyond.
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  Speaker 7: Space is there, and we're going to climate and the
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  Speaker 7: moon and the planets today and new hopes for knowledge
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  Speaker 7: and peace of ay.
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  Speaker 6: There's a kind of frenetic motion driven aspect to American life.
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  Speaker 1: Even in the wake of tragedy, Americans have moved forward together,
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  Speaker 1: united in shared experience.
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  Speaker 3: There was times, obviously after a nine to eleven when
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  Speaker 3: the nation came together in tremendous unity. A lot of
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  Speaker 3: people talk about nine to twelve and how much unity
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  Speaker 3: there was on nine to twelve. There were other times, though,
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  Speaker 3: when the nation was really divided.
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  Speaker 1: Talk about the challenge of balancing those two in really
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  Speaker 1: the same administration.
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  Speaker 7: We tried, and President Bush really was determined about this
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  Speaker 7: that he believed that, yes, it was important that the
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  Speaker 7: country would be united, but he didn't want it to
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  Speaker 7: be united permanently in fear. The President has been criticized
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  Speaker 7: about not mobilizing the country at that moment around that
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  Speaker 7: sense of pride, around that sense of what it was
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  Speaker 7: to be American in the way you know, the analogies
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  Speaker 7: all the way in the way we were mobilized around
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  Speaker 7: World War Two. But he felt, and I think it.
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  Speaker 8: Was wise that we didn't want America to be in
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  Speaker 8: a constant state of fear ab our terrorism. We wanted
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  Speaker 8: America to go on with its Americans to go on
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  Speaker 8: with their life.
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  Speaker 7: The case for America is not that America is perfect.
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  Speaker 8: The case for America is we keep strung.
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  Speaker 1: You can visit the Casefoamerica dot com to share your
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  Speaker 1: case for our country. My book, The Case for America,
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  Speaker 1: An Argument on Behalf of our Nation is in stores now.
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