1.1. Worth

Worth
Calidad
Velocidad

  • Looking right now, I don't see anything.

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  • I mean…

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  • -Are you sure? -Are you okay?

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  • -Did you see the news? -Watch out.

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  • By now I guess you've heard about the mess in New York.

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  • The shock from the attacks in New York and DC

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  • reverberates across the entire nation.

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  • What we're facing is a national emergency.

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  • We are proposing a treasury fund

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  • offering compensation to the victims.

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  • Ken will have to negotiate all settlements.

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  • The victims and their families will be compensated

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  • based on economic value lost.

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  • That's where the formula comes in. Eighty percent.

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  • Any fewer come aboard,

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  • the lawsuits that result could crater the economy.

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  • Why isn't it equal payment for everybody?

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  • My daughter's worth just as much as anybody in a corner office.

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  • My wife died that day,

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  • and everything about this formula offends me.

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  • Sorry to hear that.

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  • But we can't bend the rules for every case.

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  • Why not? Congress gives you broad discretion.

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  • But when 7,000 citizens

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  • ask you not to be treated like some numbers on a spreadsheet,

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  • you act like that law came down from Sinai.

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  • I know the rules.

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  • State law says we were nothing to each other.

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  • But I'm the one he called.

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  • Before the end.

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  • I have to be the man that he was.

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  • -She called the tower on the radio. -Mommy's not coming home.

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  • He called me when they were trapped.

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  • -It takes a parent to know. -My beautiful boy.

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  • Will you make sure that they get what they need?

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  • This is the latest? It's not enough.

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  • Throw out your formula.

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  • -Because it's not perfect? -No.

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  • Because it's not just.

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  • We have to fight for the left behind.

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  • We can't bring them back, but we can help their loved ones.

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  • You're not a rabbi or a priest. You're a lawyer.

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  • That's exactly what these people need right now.

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  • What would your life be worth?

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  • What would your life be worth?

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