Transcript - Remarks: Joe Biden and Jill Biden Visit Patients at Children's National Hospital - December 24, 2021 | Factba.se

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[Inaudible] A representative of what's some of the kids in the hospital have been doing. We try to really make sure that our patients get an opportunity to experience the holidays and do some of the things that they would normally do in the classroom or at home.

Jill Biden

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And so, they're going to talk a little bit about what they've done today.

Jill Biden

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So, of course --

Joe Biden

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People here have some of our escorts, and --

Jill Biden

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Yeah. All right. So, you want to tell us what you do? Oh, you, [Inaudible]

Joe Biden

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Jill Biden

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So, Danny, if you would share with us, tell us what yours is about?

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It's about Christmas, like, you [Inaudible] Christmas, to me, represents the -- what Jesus [Inaudible]

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[Inaudible] Christmas really do with a colorful light.

Joe Biden

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That's pretty cool.

Jill Biden

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And then, I have two things just, like, I wish for my cancer to be gone forever, and I hope that my family will be healthy too.

Joe Biden

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Jill Biden

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Joe Biden

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Jill Biden

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Isn't that a beautiful message?

Joe Biden

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Pretty cool, man.

Jill Biden

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We're hoping your cancer will be gone too.

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Victoria is one of your escorts. And I will -- and she wants to share a little bit.

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[Inaudible] my message to my granny.

Joe Biden

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Oh, what's that? That is really cool.

Jill Biden

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Joe Biden

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Oh, that is really cool. That's a great idea. [Inaudible]

Jill Biden

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Is purple your favorite color or pink?

Joe Biden

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What's your favorite color?

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Joe Biden

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Jill Biden

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Pink. You can't guess that, right? Well, they're beautiful. So, what are you going to fill those bags with, do you know?

Joe Biden

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Jill Biden

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Oh, candle, OK.

Joe Biden

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[Inaudible] candle.

Jill Biden

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Hey, Chloe, what do you have in your bag?

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Jill Biden

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A candle also. And what's yours? Snowman?

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[Inaudible] for making me feel better.

Joe Biden

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All right, [Inaudible]

Jill Biden

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For making you feel better. So, thank you to all the nurses and doctors who work here for making them feel better.

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Jill Biden

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Because that's what she [Inaudible] up here.

Joe Biden

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How old are you, [Inaudible], how old are you?

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Joe Biden

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Oh, God, buddy. You'll be out here. When you get out, you got to come and see me at the White House.

Jill Biden

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These are, like, luminaries, actually. So, they'll put a candle, a tea light inside.

Jill Biden

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Uh huh. Oh, yes, it lit --

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And then, in the dark. Yeah, or in their rooms. It will illuminate all or one of the things that --

Jill Biden

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Oh, that's great.

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They want folks in their homes --

Jill Biden

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You know what? In our house, where we live, in Wilmington, one of the things we do is we put those bags down the driveway, and we put candles in them so that when we come back from church, it's all lighted as we come down toward our house. So, where you see them in your room, they look so beautiful. And, Beau, what are you doing? Is it Beau? Yes, it's Beau.

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Joe Biden

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We have a son named Beau.

Jill Biden

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Joe Biden

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And I have a grandson named Beau.

Jill Biden

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Joe Biden

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Jill Biden

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Beau, you want to come forward to give that [Inaudible], your project? You made [Inaudible] the first day of spring.

Jill Biden

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You made a beautiful spring.

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Yeah. And [Inaudible]

Jill Biden

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A snowman. That's so great.

Joe Biden

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And look at the dog.

Jill Biden

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[Inaudible] a dog. I love the dog on there, Beau. What a great job you did.

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Great job, Beau.

Jill Biden

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Joe Biden

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That's really cool.

Jill Biden

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And how about you, Samuel? What did you make? Oh, this is his family. Look. See his family? How great that is. I love that.

Joe Biden

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You did a great job.

Jill Biden

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You have a lot of people in your family, do you? Yes? This is great. I love this.

Joe Biden

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[Inaudible] got a statue.

Jill Biden

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Oh, yeah, goldfish.

Joe Biden

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[Inaudible] steal one.

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You never know when you're going to get home [Inaudible]

Jill Biden

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Hello, how are you?

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Jill Biden

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Nice to see you. Merry Christmas. Happy holidays. What's in your bag? Or what -- what -- what's on your bag, I guess I should say.

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Jill Biden

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A Christmas tree.

Joe Biden

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Jill Biden

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Jill Biden

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And what's with all the people on this screen? I don't know whether they can see us.

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They can see you.

Jill Biden

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So, that's the way this -- oh, look, Joe, come here.

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These are kids in the hospital.

Jill Biden

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Hi, everybody. Great to see you. Merry Christmas.

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So, kids, do you want to hold up your projects so that everyone can see? Yay!

Jill Biden

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They're beautiful.

Joe Biden

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So, we have a census of -- of all the 300 kids. And so, all of the kids in the hospital have received a book. And they also have received a copy -- I mean, some of the art projects, so that they could be working up on them as well.

Jill Biden

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Wow. How about you guys?

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Jill Biden

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What have you -- what have you done here?

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Jill Biden

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You want to tell me about yours, CJ you got here? Tell me about your bag.

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[Inaudible] keep your hands [Inaudible]. Thank you, sir.

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[Inaudible] snow and this is our [Inaudible] family [Inaudible].

Jill Biden

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This is, this is represents Children's National --

Jill Biden

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Oh, that's beautiful.

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This is handful.

Jill Biden

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I love how you say that Children's National -- how you light that up, right? Because it has -- it's a good thing, it brings light to your life. That's really beautiful.

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Jill Biden

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You help what honey?

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It helped me when I was down.

Jill Biden

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It helped him when he was down. Well, it only helped with what your little bit of today.

Joe Biden

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You're bringing us some joy, pal.

Jill Biden

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Yeah, you're bringing us of joy for sure. How about you, Abdullah? What do you do? What is your what's your bag say?

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Well, basically, I read pictures and decors on it because this one is family and if you look up it. They're drinking of their hot coco.

Jill Biden

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Joe Biden

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Jill Biden

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Christmas trees and presents when I left down our home. Our home twice.

Joe Biden

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Oh, that's cool.

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And then it is our people that's what I've done on it.

Jill Biden

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Oh, I love that.

Joe Biden

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Jill Biden

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I love that. Wow, you guys are great artist.

Joe Biden

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Great, do we get to up here?

Jill Biden

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Oh, Liam tell us about you?

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These guys are buddies. Good buds.

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Well, this is about presents. I put one of my favorite game called "Laser Tag".

Joe Biden

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Oh, you all, you like Laser Tag.

Jill Biden

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Laser Tag, we know Laser Tag.

Joe Biden

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I love Laser Tag.

Jill Biden

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Yeah, our kids did Laser Tag.

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This is us. It's done that like family likes Puppeto.

Jill Biden

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Oh, Puppeto. We know Puppeto.

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Jill Biden

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Yes. Hey, do you know we just got our new dog?

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Jill Biden

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Joe Biden

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His name is, commander, and this morning he was eating my sleepers. And how about you, pal?

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Jill Biden

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Oh, you made snow. I love that. It's orange and red.

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Yeah, and I made on top [Inaudible]

Jill Biden

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And a house with snow. I knew, the inch have a little bit of snow for Christmas.

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Yeah, I put, it's like you got a weather for winter.

Jill Biden

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I know, I know.

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Dr. Biden, we have two more kids here. [Inaudible]

Jill Biden

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He's looking at the picture of the dog.

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OK. This is, Nel.

Jill Biden

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Joe Biden

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Show you the dog.

Jill Biden

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Can you see the dog?

Joe Biden

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Jill Biden

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Sure. Joey, show them the picture of our dog. Look, CJ.

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Jill Biden

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Isn't he adorable?

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He's 15 weeks old.

Jill Biden

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Yeah, he's just the baby and he's big.

Joe Biden

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And maybe in the summer camp, we'd be -- we'll be advised that well be home, but [Inaudible]

Jill Biden

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Yeah. So now tell us what you're doing?

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Joe Biden

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Because, I don't know, I locked out in days.

Joe Biden

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Oh, it's beautiful.

Jill Biden

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You did a beautiful job of it. Wow.

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And I just put like some words on there.

Jill Biden

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What words did you got?

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Joy guides you peace, together, laughter because they're like some based about this year [Inaudible] of your life. And then --

Jill Biden

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Do you want to talk to the press as well?

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Jill Biden

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Tell them the words that you put on your bag.

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Joy, laughter, together, belonging.

Jill Biden

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Yes, from the heart, right?

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And then I drew a little like blank box here for 2022, it's like having new stories for 2022.

Joe Biden

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Jill Biden

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A new story. Yes, we're hoping for a new story for 2022 for sure.

Joe Biden

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I need you to tell what's going in the White House.

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[Inaudible] to get back. This is [Inaudible].

Jill Biden

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So, I drew a Christmas tree because it's Christmas and I drew a [Inaudible] house, because I like --

Jill Biden

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So, I wanted to snow maybe, soon.

Jill Biden

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And I drew the picture of Children's National there because it was --Children's National, where I've been here for like [Inaudible]. So everyone was really nice to me, so --

Jill Biden

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[Inaudible] right? How long have you been here?

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A month and half.

Jill Biden

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A month and a half. So, this is why your home away from home, right? For the time being, yes, for the time being. And then I drew a Christmas balls then I drew what I want like --

Joe Biden

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Like when I want my family to draw what I draw, I draw video games because I like it.

Jill Biden

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You love video games. Is this your mom?

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Jill Biden

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So guess what she wants?

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Yes, I know it -- the Christmas gift.

Jill Biden

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She's telling you, and then she waits, right?

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Joe Biden

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Are you doing OK?

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And now, Dr. Biden, I think we're going to go have a seat.

Jill Biden

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And we're going to hear a Christmas story.

Jill Biden

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Joe Biden

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I guess I got to go take a seat, too.

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President Biden. All right, here we go.

Joe Biden

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All right. I'll sit over here.

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Jill wants you to sit.

Joe Biden

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I'm sure she does. She just said, "Hurry, sit."

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Jill Biden

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OK. So you -- oh, you don't have to [Inaudible]

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Jill Biden

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They don't -- they don't have to [Inaudible] OK, well, so how many of you know this? How many of you know Frozen, Olaf, and -- yes, probably, right? Most of you. All right, so this is "Olaf's Night Before Christmas." All right. Joe, have you read this before?

Joe Biden

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I read it before I go to bed every night.

Jill Biden

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He reads it along with his briefings. OK. All right. Now, most of this you probably already heard. It was the night before Christmas when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. Stockings were hung by the chimney but why have they gotten too wet? Were they left there to dry? All right, I know you guys know the answer. Why were the stockings there? Why?

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So Santa [Inaudible]

Jill Biden

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So Santa could fill them. Yes, we have our stockings hung already. Elsa was sleeping all snug in her bed while glittering northern lights dance overhead. Anna snored softly while I counted sheep, settling myself for a cozy night's sleep. Went out on that fjord there arose such a clatter. I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter. Away to the window, I tumbled and roll. I pushed out the shutters and brrrr was it cold. A full moon, it was out, and it lit up the night while snow flurries made the world sparkling and white. So that's what you all are wishing for the snow. Then grabbing an icicle, what did I spy? Eight little Svens, flying high in the skies. The Svens pulled a sleigh. There was something inside, could Sven and his Kristoff be out for a ride? This instance of the version that we usually know. Straight to the castle the flying sled came while the man was a Kristoff calls out some strange names. Now, Dasher. Now, Dancer. Now, Prancer and Vixen. On, Comet. On, Cupid. On, Dancer and Blitzen. To the top of the turret and over the wall, now dash away, dash away all. He sounded so funny. Who was this big guy? What was the turret and how could Sven fly? And then with the ringing, I heard on the roof the thumping and bumping of each little hoof. Then from behind me, there came a strange sound, and the whole chimney shook as two feet hit the ground. His boots were all black and his pants were all red. But where was the rest of him? Where was his head? So who is it? Who? Liam?

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Jill Biden

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Santa. That's right.

Joe Biden

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Jill Biden

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Then out of the fireplace, the man's face appeared. He had kind, crinkly eyes and a fluffy white beard. Kristoff he wasn't, this man smelled too nice. Like snowballs and cookies and Christmassy spice. He placed a large bag filled with gifts on the floor. Was a sale going on at old Oaken's big store? He brushed off his clothes, then began to unpack. Pausing for krumkake left out as a snack. So how many of you leave something out for Santa? OK, so what do you leave, what do you leave out for Santa?

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Jill Biden

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Cookies, OK. Liam, what do you leave out for Santa?

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Cookies, sandwich, and [Inaudible].

Jill Biden

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Joe Biden

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Oh, carrots. Because he share them with the reindeer, you think?

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Joe Biden

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Jill Biden

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Oh, that's a good idea, carrots, because we just -- Joe, we just leave out cookies and milk. We should leave out --

Joe Biden

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Well, Abdul had a good idea. What do you leave out?

Jill Biden

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Abdul, what do you leave out?

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I leave out the same thing.

Jill Biden

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The same thing? The cookies and the milk?

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Yeah, and some of the times I eat the chocolate cookies.

Jill Biden

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I think that's what everybody does, too, right, they -- they eat some of the cookies. All right. OK. This stranger had presents for Anna and Sven, for Kristoff, for Elsa, for all of my friends. I reach for his coat and gave two little tugs, and said, "My name is Olaf, and I like warm hugs." So, I'm sure we all like warm hugs, right? And we can't wait to get back to hugging one another. He turned with a start, let -- then let out such a giggle. I had to laugh, too, when I saw how he jiggle. He gave me a hug. Such a wonderful gift. Then he rose up the chimney, all lively and swift. OK. Come on, CJ. Come on up. You read the last couple of pages. Here, look. Here. Go ahead, turn towards them so you can -- here we go.

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And I heard him call out as he pull out of sight. Merry Christmas to all and to all [Inaudible]

Jill Biden

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Joe Biden

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Jill Biden

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Thank you. Thank you. Well, thank you all for being here for the -- for the Christmas story, and --

Joe Biden

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For letting us come.

Jill Biden

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And letting us come and visit you. So, we're hoping -- you know, we're wishing you all a merry Christmas and a happy holiday, but most of all, health, good health in the new year to all of you kids and to your parents and your families.

Joe Biden

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This time, you know, we spend a lot of time at Children's Hospital.

Jill Biden

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Joe Biden

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In Philadelphia, at the big Children's Hospital. And our little daughter, when she was born, she got to spend some time there, and they fixed her all up, and they did wonderful.

Jill Biden

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Joe Biden

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And then she moved back and she was riding a horse [Inaudible] and she got hurt, and they fixed her up again. [Inaudible] has create -- created the best doctors and nurses in the world.

Jill Biden

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Joe Biden

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Why don't we all give the nurses and doctors a hand?

Jill Biden

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Joe Biden

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I got one question for you all.

Jill Biden

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Joe Biden

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How many of you want to be a doctor?

Jill Biden

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Oh, Victoria does.

Joe Biden

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Victoria. How many of you want to be a nurse? Well, I tell you what, that's great.

Jill Biden

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And what are some of the others of you want to do? What do you want to be? Liam, what do you want to be?

Unidentified

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Jill Biden

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A chef. I love that.

Joe Biden

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A chef. All right. What do you want, Kael?

Unidentified

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I'll be a cooker.

Joe Biden

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Unidentified

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Joe Biden

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Unidentified

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Joe Biden

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All right. That's pretty [Inaudible]

Jill Biden

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A cooker, OK. What would you like to be?

Unidentified

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A police officer.

Jill Biden

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A police officer.

Joe Biden

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Jill Biden

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And our police officers have done so much to help during this pandemic, haven't they? They've been amazing and wonderful. Yes?

Unidentified

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I want to be an aerospace engineer.

Jill Biden

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Aerospace engineer.

Joe Biden

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All right, aerospace engineer. Well, I tell you what, that's wonderful, Annie.

Jill Biden

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Yeah. Yeah, that is wonderful. How about anybody else? What would you like to be? Nel?

Unidentified

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I want to be an author.

Jill Biden

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An author. I love that because, you know, I'm an English teacher.

Joe Biden

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And she teaches writing.

Jill Biden

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So, I love that. Yeah, I love that. CJ?

Unidentified

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A biomedical engineer.

Jill Biden

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A biomedical engineer.

Joe Biden

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Jill Biden

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Wow. I love -- I love these goals. Abdul?

Unidentified

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A doctor and a toymaker.

Joe Biden

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Abdul, a toymaker. All right [Inaudible]

Jill Biden

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You'll make a lot of people happy, right?

Unidentified

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Well, Dr. Biden and President Biden, thank you so much for being with us today. You know, this would have been -- or this is our 150th birthday.

Joe Biden

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Unidentified

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All that -- all of that time, all of the first lady visits we've had, we've never done it on Christmas Eve and we've never had a president come with the first lady. So, I think this is a new tradition, and we hope you'll come back next year.

Joe Biden

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Jill Biden

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Unidentified

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[Inaudible] next year.

Joe Biden

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I hope some of you guys come back when we come back next year as guests.

Jill Biden

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Unidentified

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Joe Biden

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We'll talk about how you were here and how you got fixed up and everything was OK.

Unidentified

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That's awesome. And the --

Unidentified

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Thank you. Charlie is in school [Inaudible]

Unidentified

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That's so awesome.

Unidentified

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Unidentified

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But I also want to thank you for bringing your optimism, your dedication, that [Inaudible] famous Biden [Inaudible]

Jill Biden

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Unidentified

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To all of our children, the ones that are here in the hospital and all the kids that we've take -- take care of all.