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Clip: 2010 Radio and Television Correspondents Dinner

Clipped from:2010 Radio and Television Correspondents Dinner
Mar 17, 2010

Clip: 2010 Radio and Television Correspondents Dinner

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00:00:15 OUR SISTER CHRISTINE COULD NOT BE HERE TONIGHT BECAUSE SHE HAS MANDATORY CAMP FOR HER HIGH SCHOOL TEAM, SO TONIGHT I GET TO TALK.
00:00:25 [LAUGHTER] ALMOST SEVEN YEARS AGO MY SISTERS AND I FOUND OUT THAT OUR FATHER HAD PASSED AWAY WHILE COVERING THE WAR IN IRAQ.
00:00:33 AT THE AGE OF THREE, IT WAS HARD FOR ME TO UNDERSTAND HE WOULD NEVER COME HOME AND I WAS LEFT WITH FEW MEMORIES OF MY DAD.
00:00:41 ONE MEMORY I DO HAVE IS WATCHING HIM ON TV EVERY MORNING AND RUNNING UP TO THE SCREEN WHEN HE CAME ON.
00:00:49 WHENEVER I SAW HIM ON THE NEWS I JUST SAW HIM, NOT WHERE HE WAS OR WHAT HE WAS DOING.
00:00:56 NOW I REALIZE WHAT DANGEROUS PLACES HE WAS IN AND THAT HE WAS RISKING HIS LIFE TO SPREAD NEWS TO THE WORLD.
00:01:10 [APPLAUSE] >> THE WINNER OF THE DAVID BLOOM AWARD SHOWS ARE A VERY ON-THE-JOB AND WE ARE HONORED TONIGHT TO PRESENT THIS YEAR'S AWARD TO THE BBC WORLD NEWS AMERICA.
00:01:37 [APPLAUSE] THE JUDGES SAID THAT HER PIECE TOOK A DIFFERENT LOOK AT THAT PART OF AFGHANISTAN THAT IS RARELY SEEN.
00:01:43 FOR WOMEN IN OUR REMARK NORTHEASTERN AFGHANISTAN IT IS NOT JUST BULLETS IN IED'S THAT POSE A CHALLENGE ON A DAILY BASIS.
00:01:50 IT IS ALSO THE SIMPLE ACT OF GIVING LIFE.
00:02:03 (music)(music) >> FARAWAY, SAUDIA HAS DELIVERED HER BABY.
00:02:09 THE BABY IS DEAD.
00:02:10 IT IS HER SECOND CHILD TO DIE OF THE SAME BIRTH DEFECT.
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