Andrew weissmann is going to be joining us tonight with some trump news, but first i'm going to tell you the most hopeful story i know. It is a story about the place where joe biden went today. The place where joe biden was applauded by grateful people from around the world. It is a dangerous place. That is the title of daniel patrick moynihan's book about his service as ambassador to the united nations in the 1970s before new york voters elected him to four terms in the senate, where i went to work for him in the 1990s. The title, a dangerous place, referred to the world and the place where the world began together after world war ii to prevent another world war, the united nations. Ambassador moynahan served at the height of the cold where when the united states and soviet union had missiles aimed at each other and ready to launch in seconds. It did not soften the language about the imperialistic dictatorship. Many years later, he discovered the power of those harsh words. It was actually my first time visiting the news division in the building where i now work. I was staffing senator moynihan for an appearance on the today show. It was not long after the collapse of the soviet union, something no one in the cia or american government had predicted except senator moynihan. In 1979, senator moynihan said the soviet union was unsustainable. It could blow up, he said. A dozen years later it did. Across the large green room full of breakfast snacks and coffee at the today show was the new russian delegation to the united nations. The postsoviet delegation. The russian ambassador was scheduled to appear on the today show after the senator. What happened in that room that morning changed my understanding of the possible. It changed my understanding of the world and it changed the way i listen to president biden's final words. To the united nations today. In our corner of that room, senator moynihan was whispering to me about the russians he recognized from almost 20 years ago. He was pointing out the ones he thought were maybe kgb agents. A producer entered to lead the senator to the set, but senator moynihan took his first step out of the room with me trailing him in the doorway. A rough oyster russian man who was one of the suspected former kgb agents came rushing up behind me, saying something that sounded like russian over my soul my shoulder to the senator. He said it again. It was not russian, it was heavily accented english. We still did not understand it. It was the middle of the third time he said it that i noticed how big his smile was. How admiringly he was looking up at senator moynihan, who towered over both of us. Suddenly the heavily accented words made sense to both of us and the senator's face broke into the biggest smile i had ever seen on him. The russian, possibly former kgb guy was saying we were listening. Senator moynihan looked near tears of joy. I had never seen him so thrilled or even slightly thrilled for that matter. We both said thank you to the russian a couple of times. He beamed one more we are listening and the senator than had to fly onto the today show set. We are listening, meaning when you stood up in what seemed like the most hopeless and ineffectual protests against what the soviet union was doing, the soviet union was listening. Some of us were listening. We were listening. It was a validation of daniel patrick moynihan's lifework first as a teacher, a harvard professor trying to import important knowledge without ever really knowing if those kids were ever really listening. Then as ambassador to india before becoming ambassador to the united nations and then as a senator. We were listening to what he was hoping for. That's the first thing. The necessary thing. Listening, because if they are listening maybe we can solve this problem. Maybe we can solve the biggest problem. Maybe we can end wars. Maybe we can save lives. Maybe we can make a dangerous place less dangerous. The soviet union existed for daniel patrick moynihan's entire lifetime before it collapsed. The berlin wall existed for my entire lifetime before it collapsed. People were shot dead in their tracks for almost 50 years for trying to cross the berlin wall and escape the soviet control dictatorship of east germany. People got executed on the spot trying to climb that wall because that wall coming down was unimaginable. No one dared to hope that wall would come down. People died trying to climb that wall because they believed it would never come down. The berlin wall was permanent and u. N. Ambassadors would protested, but nothing would happen. Something was happening. They were listening. No one knew they were listening. Unfortunately you usually have to be old to know that things can change. To know that the hopeless can turn hopeful. The world war ii generation knew this. The vietnam generation learned this. So when we look at our most hopeless problems in the world today, the ones where it feels like we are making absolutely no progress, month after month, sometimes year after year, we should know that those problems aren't more hopeless than the berlin wall was. They aren't more hopeless than the vietnam war was. So now when you listen to an old man who has seen it all give his last speech today to the united nations, you might want to try listening to him the way i did. With an understanding of how he learned to be hopeful. I listened to him today with the hope that i earned, in that green room at the today show 30 years ago, the hope, just the hope that they are listening. The hope that people on opposite sides of the issues at the united nations and elsewhere are listening and that someday they will find each other. And maybe, just maybe because they were listening, they will find a way to end wars. To save lives. My fellow leaders, today is the fourth time i have had the great honor speaking to this assembly as the president of the united states. It will be my last. I have seen a remarkable sweep of history. I was first elected as u. S. Senator in 1972 and i know i look like i am only 40, i know that. I was 29 years old. Back then we were living through an inflection point. A moment of tension and uncertainty. The world was divided by a cold war. The world was headed to war. America was at war in vietnam. At that point the longest war in american history. The country was divided and angry and there were questions about our staying power and our future. But even then, i entered public life. Not out of despair, but out of optimism. The united states and the world got through that moment. It was not easy or simple without significant setbacks, but we would go on to reduce the threat of nuclear weapons through armscontrol and then go on to bring the cold war itself to an end. Israel and asia went to war and then forged a historic piece. We entered the war in vietnam. The last year i met with vietnamese leadership. We elevated our partnership to the highest level. It is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and capacity for reconciliation. Today the united states and vietnam are partners and friends and proof that even with the horrors of war there is a way forward. Things can get better. We should never forget that. I've seen that throughout my career. In the 1980s i spoke out against apartheid in south africa and then i watched the racist regime fall. Afghanistan had replaced vietnam as america's longest war. I was determined to end it and i did. It was a hard decision, but the right decision. Four american presidents had faced that decision, but i was determined not to leave it to the fifth. It was accompanied by tragedy. 13 brave americans lost their lives along with hundreds of afghans in a suicide bomb. I think of them every day. I think of all the u. S. Military deaths over a long 20 years of war. 20,744 serviceman wounded in action. I think of their service and sacrifice and heroism. I know many look at the world today and see difficulties and react with despair, but i do not. I won't. As leaders we don't have the luxury. I recognize the challenges from ukraine to gaza and beyond. War, hunger, terrorism, brutality. Record displacement of people. The climate crisis. Democracy at risk. The promise of artificial intelligence and significant risk. This goes on. All i've seen and all we have done together over the decades, i have hope. I know there is a way forward. There will always be forces the polar countries apart and the world apart. Extremism, chaos and cynicism. Desire to retreat from the world and go it alone. Each one in this body has made a commitment to the principles of the u. N. Charter. Stand up against aggression. When russia invaded ukraine we could've stood by and merely protested, but vice president harris and i understood that that was an assault on everything this institution was supposed to stand for. We cannot grow weary. We cannot look away and we will not let up on our support for ukraine, not until ukraine wins a just and endurable peace. Thousands of armed hamas terrorists invaded a sovereign state, slaughtering and massacring more than 1200 people including 46 americans in their homes and at a music festival. Despicable acts of sexual violence. 250 innocents taken hostage. I met with the families of those hostages. I have grieved with them. They are going through hell. Innocent civilians in gaza are also going through hell. Thousands killed including aid workers. Too many families dislocated, crowding into tents and facing a dire situation. They did not ask for this war that hamas started. I put forward a ceasefire and hostage deal. It has been endorsed by the security council. Now is the time for the parties to finalize terms. Bring the hostages home and secure security for israel and gaza free of the hamas script, end this war. On october 7 as we look ahead we must also address the rise of violence on the west bank. Set the conditions for a better future including a two state solution, where israel enjoys security and peace with normalized relations with all its neighbors. Selfdetermination and estate of their own. Gaza is not the only conflict that deserves outrage. In sudan the bloody civil war unleashed one of the world's worst humanitarian crises. 8 million, 8 million on the brink of famine. Hundreds of thousands are already there. United states has led the world in providing humanitarian aid to sedan and with our partners we lead diplomatic talks to try to silence the guns and avert famine. The world needs to stop arming the generals. Speak with one voice and tell them stop tearing your country apart. Stop blocking aid to the sudanese people. In this war, now. The u. N. Needs to adapt and bring new voices and new perspectives. That is why we support reforming and expanding the membership of the u. N. Security council. We the people, these are the first words of our constitution. The very idea of america. They inspired the opening words of the u. N. Charter. I made the preservation of democracy the central cause of my presidency. This summer i faced a decision whether to seek a second term as president. It was a difficult decision. Being president has been the honor of my life. There is so much more i want to get done. As much as i love the job, i love the country more. I decided after 50 years of public service it is time for a new generation of leadership to take my nation forward. My fellow leaders, let us never forget, some things are more important than staying in power. It is your people. It's your people that matter the most. That is the soul of democracy. It does not belong to any one country. 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