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♪♪[Drum and Bugle Corps]♪♪

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Narrator:
Welcome to the West Wing Week;
your guide to everything that's

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happening at 1600
Pennsylvania Avenue.

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This week: The President urged
Congress to take a responsible

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approach to deficit reduction
instead of the indiscriminate

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across-the-board spending
cuts called the sequester.

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He also met with the
Prime Minister of Japan;

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America's governors; and the
country's only all black Army

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Ranger Unit; and
unveiled a true,

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moving monument to Rosa Parks.

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That's February 22nd to February
28th or "Hope Springs Eternal."

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The President:
Hope Springs Eternal.

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And I will just keep on making
my case, not only to Congress,

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but more importantly the
American people to take a smart

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approach to deficit reduction
and do it in a way that doesn't

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endanger our economy
and endanger jobs.

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Narrator:
On Friday, Prime Minister Abe
of Japan visited the White House

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for a bilateral meeting with the
President where they discussed

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the important relationship
between our two countries.

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At the end, a reporter asked the
President to comment on what was

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at the forefront of
everyone's mind that day,

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the looming sequester.

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The President:
This is not a smart way for
us to reduce the deficit.

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There is an alternative which
is for us to take the kind of

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balanced approach that I
presented where we have more

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strategic cuts on programs we
don't need and we close the tax

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loopholes that are taken
advantage of only by the

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well-connected and the well-off.

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Narrator:
That afternoon, the White House
Office of Digital Strategy

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hosted programmers from across
the country for an Open Data Day

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Hack-a-thon, where participants
were given access to We the

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People petitions API in an
effort to find ways to make the

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online platform both more
detailed and more user friendly.

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On Monday, the President,
Vice President,

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First Lady and Dr. Biden spoke
at the Meeting of the National

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Governors Association.

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The President praised governors
for working across party lines

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and called for that same kind of
cooperation in Washington, D.C.

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The President:
All of us are elected officials.

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All of us are concerned
about our politics.

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But at some point we've
got to do some governing.

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And certainly what we can't
do is keep careening from

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manufactured crisis to
manufactured crisis.

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Narrator:
On Tuesday, the President
traveled to Newport News,

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Virginia, to visit a
shipbuilding facility and

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highlight the devastating impact
the sequester would have on jobs

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and middle class families and to
urge Congress to take action to

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replace these arbitrary
across-the-board spending cuts

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with balanced deficit reduction.

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The President:
Do I close funding for the
disabled kid or the poor kid?

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Do I close this Navy
shipyard or some other one?

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When you're doing things
in a way that's not smart,

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you can't gloss over the pain
and the impact it's going to

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have on the economy.

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And the broader
point is, Virginia,

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we can't just cut our
way to prosperity.

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That's not fair.

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And it's not good
for the economy.

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Narrator:
West Wing Week caught up
with the President and CEO of

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Huntington Ingalls Industries to
hear his take on what's at stake

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in the sequester negotiations.

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Mike Petters:
Right now, for our programs this
is really about the generation

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after next, the
administration after next.

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The platforms that
we start this year,

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the ships that we start this
year will be making history for

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the next 50 years.

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And so if we could think about
future generations maybe we can

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find a way to get through this.

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Narrator:
On Wednesday morning, the
President was one of the leaders

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on hand at the U.S. Capitol for
the unveiling of the monument

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honoring civil rights icon Rosa
Parks one hundred years after

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she was born and 58 years after
she refused to give up her seat

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on an Alabama city bus.

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The President:
We see the way things are:
Children hungry in a land of

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plenty; families hobbled
by job loss or illness;

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and we make excuses
for inaction.

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And we say to ourselves,
there's nothing I can do.

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Rosa Parks tells us there is
always something we can do.

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Narrator:
Then, as African American
History Month came to a close,

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the President honored members
of the Second Ranger Infantry

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Company, a ranger light infantry
company active during the Korean

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War, and the United States'
first and only all black

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ranger unit.

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They all then made their way
to the East Room where the

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President reflected
on the meaning of the

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month-long celebration.

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Meanwhile, Secretary Duncan
helped host a White House event

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in the South Court auditorium
called Taking Action,

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creating model emergency
management plans for schools,

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institutions of
higher education,

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and houses of worship.

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All of this is a part of the
President's plan to protect our

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children and communities
by reducing gun violence,

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one of the 23 Executive Actions
to reduce gun violence that he

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announced on January 16th.

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Secretary Duncan:
We all learn from each
other, learn together,

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will go back home
to our communities,

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makes me hopeful about where we
will go despite the tremendous

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challenges we face.

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Narrator:
The day ended with a visit to
a gathering of the Business

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Council where the President
spoke about pursuing a balanced

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approach to deficit reduction
because it's in the interest of

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the American economy
and American businesses,

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large and small.

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The President:
This is going to be a
big hit on the economy.

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That means hundreds of thousands
of people are not going to get

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jobs that otherwise
would get them.

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It means that you
have fewer customers.

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The worst part of it is,
it's entirely unnecessary.

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It's not what we
should be doing.

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Narrator:
On Thursday, the President met
with the Commander-in-Chief of

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the VFW and the National
Commander of the

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American Legion.

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To find out more information on
any of these second term topics,

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to make your voice heard, and
to see complete videos of these

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events, go to WhiteHouse.gov.

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And thanks again for checking
out your West Wing Week.

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Female Bystander:
Mr. President!

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Mr. Anderson:
This is one of the grandkids.

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The President:
Oh, that's one of
the three kids?

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Mr. Anderson:
Yeah, from the Parks,
the Parks side.

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The President:
Go with me.

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Come on.

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Here, go with me.

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Uh-oh!

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Male Bystander:
Say cheese!

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The President:
What's your name?

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Terrell Anderson, Jr.:
Terrell.

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The President:
How old are you?

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Terrell Anderson, Jr.:
Three.

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The President:
Oh, okay.

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Good to see you!