UNIDENTIFIED
MALE: The speaker --
WILLIAM J.
CLINTON, FORMER PRESIDENT: Mr. Vice President --
RONALD
REAGAN, FORMER PRESIDENT: Distinguished members --
GEORGE
H.W. BUSH, FORMER PRESIDENT: Of the United States Congress.
GEORGE W.
BUSH, FORMER PRESIDENT: Members of the Supreme Court --
GERALD
FORD, FORMER PRESIDENT: Distinguished guests --
RICHARD
NIXON, FORMER PRESIDENT: My fellow Americans --
FORD:
Think for a minute how --
G. H.W.
BUSH: Far --
CLINTON:
We've --
CARTER:
Come --
FORD: In
200 years.
NIXON: We
find ourselves challenged by new problems.
FORD: In
this country --
REAGAN: At
home --
BARACK
OBAMA, FORMER PRESIDENT: And Abroad.
DWIGHT D.
EISENHOWER, FORMER PRESIDENT: There is a mandate of us.
G. H.W.
BUSH: Vigilance.
CARTER:
Determination.
JOHN F.
KENNEDY, FORMER PRESIDENT: And dedication.
HARRY
TRUMAN, FORMER PRESIDENT: We need many different kinds of strength.
OBAMA:
Military --
REAGAN:
Economic --
G. H.W.
BUSH: Political --
TRUMAN:
And moral.
REAGAN:
Nothing --
G. W.
BUSH: -- is impossible --
REAGAN: No
--
CLINTON:
Victory --
REAGAN: --
is beyond our reach. No --
G. H.W.
BUSH: Glory --
REAGAN:
Will ever be too great.
G. H.W.
BUSH: We are --
FORD:
Americans --
G. H.W.
BUSH: Part of --
OBAMA:
Something --
G. W.
BUSH: Larger --
G. H.W.
BUSH: Than ourselves.
OBAMA: God
bless --
REAGAN:
You --
NIXON: God
--
G. W.
BUSH: Bless --
G. H.W.
BUSH: The United States --
FORD: Of
America.
(END
VIDEOTAPE)
CARL AZUZ,
CNN 10 ANCHOR: Almost seven decades of U.S. presidential State of the Union
Addresses and speeches to Joint Sessions of Congress. The difference is where
we start today on CNN 10.
Last
night, President Donald Trump gave his first speech to a joint congressional
session. Why was it called that for the president's annual message instead of a
State of the Union Address? Because President Trump's been in office less than
two months, and like any first president in his first year, he's not expected
to know or to be in authority on the actual State of the Union.
But the
setup, the location, the attendance, it all looks the same as the State of the
Union Address.
(BEGIN
VIDEO CLIP)
UNIDENTIFIED
MALE: The president of the United States!
(APPLAUSE)
(END VIDEO
CLIP)
AZUZ: It
was delivered in the House of Representatives. It was in front of
representatives, senators, Supreme Court justices, the president's cabinet. And
it follows the annual tradition of a president speaking to other U.S. leaders
and the nation as a whole.
Tradition
is key, though, because the U.S. Constitution doesn't require most of what
takes place in an annual address. It says only that the president shall from
time to time give to the Congress information of the State of the Union. It
doesn't have to be in person, doesn't have to be every year, it doesn't have to
be on TV. The Constitution's framers didn't have TV. So, they wouldn't have had
the view that much of the world could have had last night when President Trump
outlined his vision for America's future.
Here are
some highlights.
(BEGIN
VIDEO CLIP)
DONALD
TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: All the nations of the world -- friend
or foe -- will find that America is strong, America is proud, and America is
free.
A new
national pride is sweeping across our nation. And a new surge of optimism is
placing impossible dreams firmly within our grasp. What we are witnessing today
is the renewal of the American spirit. Our allies will find that America is
once again ready to lead.
(APPLAUSE)
I will not
allow the mistakes of recent decades past to define the course of our future.
For too
long, we've watched our middle class shrink as we've exported our jobs and
wealth to foreign countries. We've financed and built one global project after
another, but ignored the fates of our children in the inner cities of Chicago,
Baltimore, Detroit, and so many other places throughout our land.
We've
defended the borders of other nations, while leaving our own borders wide open,
for anyone to cross, and for drugs to pour in at a now unprecedented rate.
The time
for small thinking is over. The time for trivial fights is behind us. We just
need the courage to share the dreams that fill our hearts, the bravery to
express the hopes that stir our souls, and the confidence to turn those hopes
and those dreams into action.
From now
on, America will be empowered by our aspirations, not burdened by our fears,
inspired by the future, not bound by failures of the past.
I am
asking all members of Congress to join me in dreaming big, and bold, and daring
things for our country. I am asking everyone watching tonight to seize this moment.
Believe in yourselves. Believe in your future. And believe, once more, in
America.
Thank you,
God bless you, and God bless the United States.
(APPLAUSE)
(END VIDEO
CLIP)
AZUZ: OK,
that wasn't the only political speech of the night. Something else that's not
required by the Constitution, but it's been a tradition since the 1960s is the
opposing party's response to the president's annual message.
President
Trump is a Republican. So, after his address, a Democrat and former governor of
Kentucky, Steve Beshear, gave his party's response.
(BEGIN
VIDEO CLIP)
STEVEN
BESHEAR, FORMER KENTUCKY GOVERNOR: Real leaders don't spread derision and
division. Real leaders strengthen, they unify, they partner, and they offer
real solutions instead of ultimatums and blame.
Look, I
may be old-fashioned, but I still believe that dignity, compassion, honesty and
accountability are basic American values. And as a Democrat, I believe that if
you work hard, you deserve the opportunity to realize the American dream,
regardless of whether you're a coal miner in Kentucky, a teacher in Rhode
Island, an autoworker in Detroit or a software engineer in San Antonio.
Our
political system is broken. It's broken because too many of our leaders think
it's all about them. They need to remember that they work for us and helping us
is their work.
(END VIDEO
CLIP)
(BEGIN
VIDEO CLIP)
AZUZ
(voice-over): Ten-second trivia:
Where
would you find Grimaldi, Copernicus and the Sea of Clouds?
The
Sistine Chapel, the Circuit de Monaco, the Orion Nebula or the moon?
These are
all features of the moon, the Earth's natural satellite?
(END VIDEO
CLIP)
AZUZ: And
what better way to get a close up view than going there. You don't have to be a
NASA astronaut that. That's so 20th century.
The
private company SpaceX says it already has deposits from two people who want to
fly around the moon, though they wouldn't actually land on it. They'd travel on
spacecraft that hadn't been tested yet. They'd be the first people since 1972
to go beyond low earth orbit and this could happen by the end of next year,
though space launches often get delayed.
SpaceX CEO
Elon Musk says the trip around the moon would cost about the price of a trip to
the International Space Station or a little more. For comparison, that's tens
of millions of dollars.
Critics
are skeptical that this can actually be done on schedule and they're concerned
about the danger. SpaceX vehicles haven't yet flown people to low earth orbit,
let alone beyond it. But Musk says 2018 is going to be a big year for space
travel.
Another
topic making news in the subject of science, the Terraformer. It's a unique
wind tunnel at the University of Florida and it's designed to help researchers
understand the impact that hurricanes, for example, can have on manmade
structures. This is part of an investment of more than $60 million into
researching natural disasters.
It's said
to be able to replicate any sort of terrain. And the main purpose of the
Terraformer is to mimic extreme weather conditions.
So, how
extreme can it go? It reportedly can bring wind speeds of up to 230 miles per
hour and it would take 90 seconds to get going that fast. Those wind speeds are
well over the minimum of a category five hurricane and an EF5 tornado.
The wind
tunnel also helps engineers test the strength of a buildings design. For that,
they'd use scale models of homes and buildings that already exist. And watch
how with the help of the judge the Terraformer is used to test the strength of
building materials in extreme wind. It's amazing to look at.
Scientists
from around the country have access to this facility.
(END
VIDEOTAPE)
AZUZ:
Well, last week, we brought hounds a-hopping and hounds a-honking. Hitting a
perfect high note on "10 Out of 10" today is a hound a-howling.
This video
comes to us from YouTube. It's to music by the band Queen, lip syncing by Annie
and when they get to the chorus.
A solo by
Lola.
What we
don't know is whether she's howling because she loves it, or because she
doesn't. But either way, Lola's among the great canine crooners. Consider
Mariah Corgi, Katy Pomeranian, Miley Siberian, Airedale Lavigne, Alicia
Keyshound (ph), Adelmatian, Terrier Swift, Bichonce Frise (ph), and, of course,
the great Ellie Golden.
Thank your
taking 10 for CNN 10, with puns that make you howl or growl. I'm Carl Azuz.
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