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america remembering 19 years since the
september 11th attacks and the nearly 3
000 lives lost
sombra memorials held at the pentagon
and in new york city where joe biden and
mike pence cross paths in a rare
face-to-face meeting
while attending a ceremony there and
president trump and joe biden taken a
pause in campaigning to pay
tribute to flight 93 heroes in
shanksville pennsylvania
passengers and crew on board tried to
take back control of the plane
from hijackers and saved countless lives
by giving their own
president trump remembering them earlier
no matter the danger no matter the
threat
no matter the odds america will always
rise up
stand tall and fight back the only thing
that stood between the enemy
and a deadly strike at the heart of
american democracy was the courage and
resolve
of 40 men and women the amazing
passengers
and crew of flight 93 our sacred task
our righteous duty and our solemn pledge
is to carry forward the noble legacy of
the brave souls
who gave their lives for us 19 years ago
greg gutfeld i've always appreciated
your take on flight 93 and i was
thinking earlier today about how
they were really the first americans to
take the fight to the enemy
yeah i mean you know they went
they didn't go down without a fight and
and uh
you know i i can't really think think
about that experience
without getting emotional about it and
um yeah
all of us i think were i i was in new
york
uh when this happened it it and it
creates a context for your problems
whatever problems you had that
day or that month they kind of evaporate
uh if you had a fight
with your spouse or you had
disagreements with co-workers these
things just kind of disappear
because of this abject horror puts
everything
in a weird kind of order a priority
the words don't matter it's the deeds
um we've said never forget and we
haven't forgotten
the dead but we have forgotten the role
of the living we've forgotten the role
of the living first responder
the first responder is defined by
getting there
first they get there first so you don't
have to
and when they get there they never know
what they're gonna get whether it's a
terror attack or
a bank robbery or a domestic abuse call
they never know what's going to happen
they could end up dead
they could end up heroes they could end
up vilified by
by a mistake uh so in this short time it
it it it saddens me that we've gone it's
19 years from
reverence and respect to demonization
and
maybe that's just what happens with time
but
we said we wouldn't forget but we have
we've forgotten something really
important
and it's it's tragic
jesse i've always thought about how the
passengers on that flight did something
that was just so american
not only of course being brave and
taking the fight to the enemy but
before they rushed the cockpit they took
a vote
and they gave everybody a chance to to
you know
have their say and then they called
loved ones before
they tried to rush the cockpit and you
know their intention was to try to
basically get the hostage takers
out of the cockpit and try to land the
plane of course we know that's not what
happened but their intention
was to try to live that day and they
voted to try to
basically take over a plane that had a
very little chance of them succeeding
let's roll i think those were the words
and we hear those words all the time
whether it's in sports whether it's a
parent telling someone to get in the car
whether it's police on a raid about to
go in and serve a warrant
those are beautiful words and i think
we'll always remember that i try not to
think a lot about the pain and suffering
that people felt
on 9 11 the people jumping out of the
towers to avoid
suffocating or to avoid burning up in
the flames
i try to think about some of the
positive moments and i really
saw a positive moment today when mike
pence and joe biden
touched elbows like that when they were
in shanksville i think
always about george bush's first pitch
at yankee stadium i watched that twice
when i woke up this morning you think
about w and the rubble
standing there warning everybody we're
about
to come and get vengeance and justice
you know you think about what we did in
afghanistan you know we missed him in
tora bora but years later barack obama
and the seals took him out and that was
a great moment of unity
for the country i remember being a
producer here during the iraq war
and watching the video of the iraqis
topple the statue of saddam hussein
the feeling that we saw when that rope
was wrapped around saddam hussein's neck
before he was hung those were very
powerful moments a lot of the times as
as you guys have already mentioned
people try to politicize it you hear
about
the comparison between kovid and the 911
death count i dismiss that i don't even
think about that i try to
cherish these fleeting moments that we
have as a country
those weeks or months after 9 11 you
know that that month
after covid really hit hard in late
march
early april you know those moments when
there's a natural disaster the hurricane
in texas when everybody
comes together those are those are few
and far between
but if you cherish those moments and
think about the heroes
i think that's that's enough for us to
sustain
that fire within us that that lights
this beacon on a hill
and degan i was thinking today about how
there was also economic devastation
and new york city had to pull back from
that as well
and you think about what's happening
today i not to make a comparison i'm not
necessarily but
my point was to say you've seen it
several times
that the americans pulled together in a
crisis
and that includes our entrepreneurs our
small business people
you know the banks that pull it together
to try to keep this thing afloat
i've never seen anything like a country
coming together not just
all 50 states but certainly in new york
city i was here
that day and to borrow a word from greg
it was the
the feeling of horror and terror and
fear and shock
it comes flooding back at this time
every year much quicker than i would
think
and in fact because the united all the
people of the us
came together we came out of a recession
in november of that year because we
collectively
lifted up not just one another in the
nation but the economy as well
i think today of course about the
families who
grieve deeply and daily because they
lost loved ones on 9 11 i also think
about their survivors
a colleague of ours told me this morning
that a very close friend of hez
survived the collapse of the towers
but lost all of her colleagues and she
came back to new york
city today today for the first time
in 19 years to hear the names being read
out loud
and i also look around me even in the
streets of new york city even here
in the halls of fox news and think about
just the
the brave among us people are capable
regular folks capable of
extraordinary acts of bravery and
courage
and heroism and true selflessness i read
those stories today
juan williams we should have you uh
maybe reflect on washington dc we've
talked about shanksville
and new york city and of course there
was the plane that hit the pentagon
and so many died there as well we
shouldn't
we should just take a moment to reflect
on washington dc
and how it's feeling today 19 years on
you know dana in 19 years and in some
cases that's a long time i mean memories
can fade but for me
as a kid who grew up in new york city
and loves that city and now lives in
washington dc
uh the memory does not fade in fact it
feels
very real to me on this 19th year you
can't separate it in my mind from the
fact that we're going through
very difficult waters right now in
america in terms of the pandemic
uh in terms of the economic upheaval in
terms of
you know trying to come to terms with
some of the race racial tensions in the
society
so i think there's you know we're very
vulnerable right now and i think the
memory of that tragic day
is just searing and it just it feels
reopened to me very real at this moment
very close
you talk about washington i mean that
was so scary i mean just you know where
are your kids in that moment you know
the cell phones went down or the kids
okay
and you get them from school all that
your spouse
your friends you know it's just like you
feel like what is going on are we okay
and there are so many rumors you know
the state department is under attack the
capital is next more planes are coming
and the bravery then that we learned
about in terms of shanksville
pretty amazing and i you know i too was
touched by the idea of so many
politicians today getting out
uh and and going to those places i
i was surprised that the president
didn't go to his hometown he's a
lifelong new yorker but he didn't go
there today i think it you know
i just was surprised well i think
shanksville is a good place to be
as well and here's the thing we um are
okay and we will be
okay we've shown that we can do it over
and over again