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- Welcome to the 198th
episode of the West...
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- Wing...
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- Week.
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- Stay tuned for episode two...
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- Hundred.
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- We out.
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Narrator:
Welcome to the West Wing Week,
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your guide to
everything that's happening
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at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
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This week, the President sat
down for lunch with young
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organizers who are working to
help implement the Affordable
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Care Act, hosted the president
of Spain and the Miami Heat,
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traveled to the home of the
Wolf Pack to announce a new
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public-private effort to support
investment in our manufacturing
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sector, announced his nominee
to run the Small Business
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Administration, spoke on
expanding college opportunity
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alongside the First Lady,
while the Vice President
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was in the Motor City.
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That's January 10th
to January 16th, or...
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"Give Peace a Chance."
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The President:
Give diplomacy a chance,
and give peace a chance.
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Narrator:
Kicking off this West Wing Week
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up at a popular home office
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for D.C.'s Columbia Heights
residents, the Coupe,
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the President got together with
five advocates who are working
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to help enroll younger consumers
and spread the word
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about the options available
to young people
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in the health care marketplace.
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The President:
Tell me what
you've been hearing,
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what you've been seeing,
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what's worked,
what hasn't worked.
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Narrator:
He also got the chance to talk
with some of the D.C. denizens
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seeking caffeine and community
up there at the Coupe --
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and couldn't resist
some baby time.
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The President:
Oh, there are
babies here, though.
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I think I'm going to have
to say hi to the babies.
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What's going on, bud?
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- Just had lunch with the
President this Friday and talked
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about the Affordable Care Act
and really meeting young people
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where they are to get
the information out.
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And we're just hoping to
engage young people in their
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communities and get information
to them, so it was exciting.
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The President:
Oh, what did you just break?
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Narrator:
Monday was also known as Lunes
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to many in the
West Wing that day,
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as the president
of Spain and his delegation
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visited for a bilateral
meeting with the President
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in the Oval Office.
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The President:
We finalized an interim
agreement with Iran
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that could solve diplomatically
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what has been
the long-running concern
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around Iran's nuclear programs.
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Narrator:
On Tuesday morning, the
President called his first
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cabinet meeting of this
2014 Year of Action.
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The President:
I've got a pen,
and I've got a phone.
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I can use that pen
to sign executive orders
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and take executive actions,
administrative actions that move
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the ball forward to make sure
that people are getting
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the skills that they
need to get those jobs
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that our businesses
are creating.
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Hello, everybody.
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Narrator:
Then the President, for
the second year in a row,
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welcomed the NBA champion
Miami Heat to the White House
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to honor the team for
winning last year's title.
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The President:
Outstanding athletes,
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outstanding organization,
outstanding team.
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We wish them great luck
for the rest of the season,
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unless they're
playing the Bulls.
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Narrator:
The First Lady and a few
of the Heat took some time
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to produce a PSA to spread the
word about eating healthy
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and drinking water.
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Stay tuned for
the final product.
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On Wednesday, the President
traveled to Raleigh,
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North Carolina, to tour Vacon,
a company that manufactures
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AC drives which
are used to control the speed
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of electric motors
to maximize energy efficiency.
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He then spoke at North
Carolina State University,
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the home of the Wolf Pack,
to announce new steps with the
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private sector to boost advanced
manufacturing
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and attract the kind of
good jobs with good wages
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that a growing
middle class requires.
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The President:
So, in the coming weeks,
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we're going to be launching two
more of these innovation hubs.
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We've already got
them all planned out.
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And together they're going to
help build new partnerships
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in areas that show potential.
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They'll help to lift
up our communities.
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They'll help spark the
technology and research that
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will create the new industries,
the good jobs required for folks
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to punch their ticket
into the middle class.
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Narrator:
Then the President
traveled back from sunny
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Raleigh, North Carolina, to the
more wintry climes of D.C. and
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back to the White House, where
he announced his nomination
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of Maria Contreras-Sweet
as Administrator
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of the Small Business Administration.
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The President:
Maria, on the way in,
told me a wonderful story
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about how her grandmother
was a migrant worker,
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you know,
said to her, you know,
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if she worked hard,
studied, stayed in school,
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that someday she'd be able to
work in an office as a secretary
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and, you know,
really make her proud.
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And now she's going
to be helping the folks
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who are following behind
her achieve their dream.
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Narrator:
Thursday was Motor City
Day in this edition
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of West Wing Week, with
the Vice President speaking
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at the North American
International Auto Show in --
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where else?
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-- Detroit.
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The Vice President:
The President gets credit,
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and he deserves it,
but the truth is,
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the reason why the industry's
back is all of you.
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Narrator:
Later, the Vice President
got to tour the exhibit.
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The Vice President:
[inaudible] hubcaps.
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- Sorry, they'll only
show you the new one.
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- Yeah, take a ride.
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The Vice President:
Get out of the way.
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It feels good.
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- Looks good.
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The Vice President:
Oh, you kidding me?
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I'm like a kid in a candy shop.
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I tell you what,
technology matters.
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- Stingray or Z-06.
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The Vice President:
The Z-06.
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- That's the one you want.
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The Vice President:
That's the one I want.
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Narrator:
That afternoon
at the White House,
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the President and First Lady
hosted an event on expanding
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college opportunity that
included college and university
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presidents and leaders
from nonprofits, foundations,
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state governments,
and businesses
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from all across the country.
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The President:
Because what you're
doing here today means
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that there are a bunch
of young people like Troy
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and like Michelle and
like me who suddenly may be able
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to see a whole new
world open up before them
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that they didn't
realize was there.
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Narrator:
To find out more information
on any of these topics
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or to see complete
videos of these events,
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go to WhiteHouse.gov.
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And thanks again for checking
out your West Wing Week.
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The President:
He's a cheerful guy.
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- For the most part, yeah.
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The President:
I mean, not always,
but, you know.
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- He can be.
