English subtitles for clip: File:36 Hours in Ukraine with Vice President Biden.webm

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The Vice President:
Hey, folks.

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Joe Biden.

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I just got off an eight,
nine hour flight from

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Washington to the
capital of Ukraine, Kiev.

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And I met with
the mayor of Kiev,

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who was a
world-famous boxer,

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but he has another
fight on his hands.

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One is Moscow crossing
the border and violating

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international norms, and the
second is endemic corruption

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that oligarchs have been
pursuing and engaged in for

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decades, and it's
a hard, hard fight.

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We are committed to help
them on both scores.

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That's what I'm here about,
and I'm going to be talking

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with the President,
with the Prime Minister,

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and then on Tuesday sitting
down to address their Rada,

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and make it clear that
American support is real,

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but we expect -- we
expect them to step up.

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The Vice President:
I'll say one thing.

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I'm here to listen.

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I'm not here to talk,
I'm here to listen.

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I want to know what you
would most like to see

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my country doing.

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All these people,
every one of them,

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gave their life for freedom.

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Every single one of these
people here

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-- ordinary Ukrainians.

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This government has an
obligation to not let this

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fail this time.

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The Orange
Revolution failed.

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What happened in the Maidan
and up on this hill can't fail.

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They have an obligation.

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How are you?

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(laughter)

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President Poroshenko: We're
waiting for you.

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The Vice President: And so
I hope you feel what you're

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doing is worthwhile, because
it really, really is.

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I never go into a country
without looking and speaking

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to the Embassy team, because
they work really hard.

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Our success of our foreign
policy depends as much on

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the Ambassador's team as
anything else that gets done.

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Am I blocking anybody?

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Hang on a minute.

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Hang on a minute, because
I'm blocking people.

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Male Speaker: No,
you're good now.

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The Vice President:
You ready?

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Okay.

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Here we go.

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(laughter)

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The Vice President:
Team photo.

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Male Speaker: One,
two, and three.

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The Vice President:
Everybody thinks it's really

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easy to be the son or
daughter of someone in the

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State Department or
the Foreign Service.

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And so these kids make
sacrifices for their country.

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They really do, and that's
why I spent so much time in

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there with them,
to thank them.

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I don't want to leave,
guys, but I have to.

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Hi.

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Female Speaker: Hi.

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The Vice President:
How are you?

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Good to see you.

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Prime Minister Yatsenyuk: We truly feel that the

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American people stand by the Ukrainian people.

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If I may (inaudible) the Ukraine,

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(speaks foreign language)

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The Vice President:
Urging restraint,

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as the world watched,
the final assault came.

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Amidst fire and ice,
snipers on rooftops,

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the Heavenly Hundred paid
the ultimate price of

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patriots the world over,
their blood and courage

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delivering to the Ukrainian
people a second chance

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for freedom.

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Their sacrifice,
to put it bluntly,

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is now your obligation.

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Ready to go home?

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This is a country that
has a second chance at

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establishing a
genuine democracy,

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something that the young
people on the Rada gave

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their lives for a second
chance to establish,

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and they have two great
threats: Russian aggression,

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and endemic corruption, and
we're prepared to help

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them tackle both.

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And if they do, I have no
doubt that they will go down

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in history.

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This congress, this
Rada, as they call it,

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as the founding fathers
of a new, first-time-ever,

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genuinely democratic,
free Ukraine.

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And that's my hope.

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That's my hope.