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And we re back, president obama departing tucson tonight after speaking to a capacity crowd on the university of arizona campus. it was really part memorial service, part kind of pep rally, remembering the victims of saturday s shooting, calling on the country to live up to our better angels. we re going to talk to the panel momentarily but want to play you an extend portion from selected portions from the president s speech tonight in case you missed it. here it is. there is nothing i can say that will fill the sudden hole torn in your hearts. but know this, the hopes of a nation are here tonight. we mourn with you for the fallen. we join you in your grief. and we add our faith to yours, that representative gabrielle giffords and the other living ....
i think you can see by those who are in the program and by the many dignitaries and elected officials in the audience, how deeply our country was affected by the terrible events last saturday. we are truly honored to have the leader of our great nation with us here tonight. [ applause ] we are obviously saddened by the circumstances that have brought president and mrs. obama to tucson but we are comforted by their compassion and inspired by their determination to reach out and help. ....
So i am incredibly lucky. yeah. well, incredibly brave. i mean just amazing you saved your daughter s life. briefly, mary, what was it like being there tonight? from the president s remarks, did you hear what you wanted to hear anderson, i was overwhelmed with seeing the woman that was standing behind me that actually grabbed the magazine out of the gunman s hand. i loved what president obama said in that we have to be civil to each other. we have to make our children proud of us. we need to honor our the 9-year-old girls and boys in this world and do the right thing. and so for that, i was very grateful. it was a gracious speech. my 13-year-old even stayed awake through the whole speech, so it had to be very, very inspirational, but i was ....
Those things that will help, for us, we feel like the country won t forget her. john, you just came from a meeting with president obama. what did the president say to you? he expressed that there are no words, and to stay strong and believe in our country. and we ve one thing we promised him is we would do that. we did take our family to christina and dallas and roxanna and i went to d.c. right after he got elected and we had such a wonderful time in washington, d.c., and, you know, we re going to we re going to go back. and michelle invited us. invited us, invited dallas to come in and see everybody. so i think he was excited about that, and we would be proud to be a part of that. i know christina, you know, her that s something she would have loved to do. ....
[ applause ] president obama, a rousing speech in front of a capacity crowd. everyone telling everyone to live up to the best and the fallen, the heroes and ourselves. joining us now david gergen, douglas briskly nk brinkley. what did you think? when he said gabby opened her eyes, he carried that throughout a lot of the speech, i was like david gergen earlier, a little put off by the atmospherics, 14,000 cheering people, but the president i think worked his way into that atmosphere. so by the end of it, you could almost feel people hugging in the excitement and love and warmth in the arena. so tucson, it really was a ....