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The Latest: Obama says citizens must protect way of life

President Barack Obama speaks at McCormick Place in Chicago, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017, giving his presidential farewell address. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
President Barack Obama speaks at McCormick Place in Chicago, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017, giving his presidential farewell address. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast) President Barack Obama speaks at McCormick Place in Chicago, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017, giving his presidential farewell address. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

CHICAGO (AP) – The Latest on President Barack Obama’s farewell speech (all times CST):

8:40 p.m.

President Barack Obama says in his farewell address that protecting the nation’s way of life is the job of citizens as well as the military.

Obama says in Chicago that “democracy can buckle when we give in to fear.”

He is also making a reference to President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign calls for a temporary ban on Muslim immigration to the United States.