scoring points and making the game attractive to the eye, but also making the game safe. because they have to go hand in hand. or else we will have no game. >> last season, the number of game-time concussions actually went up after two seasons of trending down. the nfl claims those higher rates are due in part to better detection and concussion evaluations on the field. thanks for watching. i'll see you next sunday. [vehicle revving] [john] do i have a green light or you can have a red one right there? that makes no sense. who does that? in washington. it's my 278th trip to washington, dc. that's 278 times.

that's 600 miles round trip. do i have a green right? you have a red one right there. >> this is my 278th trip to washington, d.c. that's 278 times. that's 600 miles round trip. that's enough to circumnavigate the earth three times. yeah. that's why i'm cranky. that's why i'm mad. >> this sucks. >> this country was based on volunteerism. [john] we've had to fight, overcome every obstacle, every hurdle for almost 18 years. i'm, like, i've been vacillating from like being incredibly sad to, like, incredibly mad, to being nervous, -to being, you know... -why? why are you nervous? i don't wanna f*** this up for everybody, you know. could've called it quits and go get a beer. [jon] it's insane, right? we're gonna testify in front of the house judiciary committee to hopefully give some insight into congress as to why 9/11 survivors and victims are dying.

[man] because i know you left your business, your talk show and stuff to come to this -and it's so important now. -yeah. how do you feel, like you made the right move? oh, listen, i mean we're... -he's fighting... -...we're gonna keep fighting until we don't have to fight anymore. he's fighting for people that are sick and dying, of course, he made the right move. for people who say democracy is working, it works for some. it should work for everybody. [dramatic music playing] [kenny] i pretty much know when i got sick i was here. i believe it was the third day after the incident, they put me and another police officer next to a hole in the ground, that was probably about 15 feet across. and in that hole was a fire. you would see the heat waves coming about three or four feet out of the hole.

and then it was like a birthday cake, they were different layers of cloud. it was white and gray and then it ended in black. and at the top of the cloud that was probably five feet high, it was actually snowing ash out of cloud. and we will be in covered with ash and i was breathing in in that stuff i believe is... from that day forward, i had what they later deemed... excuse me, i have problems with my... catching my breath, they later deemed the world trade center cough. i coughed from that day for the next five years, every day, all the time even in my sleep, i would cough. [dr. luft] oh, on 9/11, you had a true disaster that was almost incomprehensible. it was a tremendous amount of toxins in that environment. there were mutagens and carcinogens, things that could cause nerve damage. there's a variety of other toxins that were there. [michael] my legs were blown up two times the size of it overnight. i had like these blisters all over my legs, didn't know what that was from. i had a high fever.

before we knew, i was in a hospital bed getting ready to be cut open and they were gonna biopsy one of the lymph nodes in my chest. and some pulmonologist happened to walk in and pulled the sheet of my legs and he said something that's called sarcoidosis. [cindy] your skin is the largest organ on your body and dermal exposure is our largest root right now, but we're swallowing it. we're literally inhaling it. and our protective equipment is not made to protect us from the carcinogens. it's made to protect us from the heat of fire. [richard] the pundits at the time, the medical experts that told us that possibly we might find cancers ten to 20 years down the road and we started finding them almost immediately within two years, which is unprecedented. [ray] you know, one toxin over time will give you cancer. but 2500 different chemicals mixed together, we were lab rats. [dr. wilkenfeld] think about a halogen light bulb, right, with the trace of mercury in it, okay? you break a light bulb, you're not worried that you're gonna get mercury poisoning. you break 2,000,000 light bulbs, okay, it's a lot of mercury. [cindy] we've heard some stories of folks

that were identified by carrying other person's dna or traces of other person's body fluids. this is something we've never seen before and hopefully we never will again. [kenny] do we know we were gonna get sick? we joked about it. the fires burned for three months. we were putting fires out for three months. [ray] the responders, they were digging on the pile without sleeping, 24 hours a day for days. so you're talking about a long-term massive exposure, versus a much shorter term, much lower exposure. [dr. luft] in the way that these toxins act, because they don't act necessarily, immediately. they can get into our bodies, they can get into our tissues, they can get into our dna, and those things can only manifest themselves later on in life. [stephen] my son, robert c. grossman, a police officer, went up here on the first time on this wall when we built the park. he remembers he was shaving and he started feeling on his face and felt funny, wound up, going to a doctor who told him he had this brain tumor.

the night he died, i leaned down and said, "robert, i love you with my heart and soul. and it's okay. you can go. it's okay. you fought the fight. [cries] and it's okay." and he left. ♪ ♪

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[dr. luft] john feal is an extraordinary person. go that way. [dr. luft] i think that people don't fully understand or comprehend how important he is. [indistinct chatter] [dr. luft] john really put the whole idea of advocacy, patient advocacy on its head. [dr. wilkenfeld] his advocacy and his dedication has helped tens of thousands of people to get medical care and survive. so he... he's actually responsible for saving a lot of lives. [dr. luft] they went from being heroes to being victims. and what john feal did is that he said, "no. you are heroes." and the world needs to recognize what your condition is. [john] i've had people call me a cop, fire fighter, that's just not the case. hey, yeah, a lot of people call me a first responder, too, but i wind up correcting them. i was... i responded to 9/11. i was hired and i went to ground zero to delegate orders, but i wound up working because, how can you not get involved?

it was about 5:30, had about half an hour left in my shift and i went back to trucks and as close as i could to the pile to load debris on the trucks. there was a piece of steel on its side that was being torched to fit the next truck, the truck was backing up. the person on the other side wasn't taller than the piece of steel that he was cutting on its side. that steel tipped over that truck was coming this way, i jumped out of the way because i thought i was gonna be a truck steel sandwich and it got my foot. they did two emergency surgeries that night, they're called debridements. nine days later, i got gangrene and the doctor's like, you know, "you could die because you're septic, your organs will shut down." and then it was, "you're gonna lose your leg." and then it was the next week, "you're gonna lose your leg below your knee." and then eventually, "it was like you will lose your foot. let us take part of it now." and, you know, i was never that close to death.

[dramatic music playing] [john] i was denied the first vcf because i didn't fit the timeframe, you know, anybody hurt after 96 hours, i got hurt at, like, 120-something hours. all the benefits that i paid into, i was... i was like, "why am i having to fight for workman's comp?" all three companies, because i was subbed out to a company who subbed me out to a company, who subbed me out to a company. they fought on who was gonna pay me in court. meanwhile, i'm losing everything. [chris] during that period, i've seen him fight from nothing. i mean trying to live day to day with no... not being able to work, waiting for, you know, worker's comp, waiting, you know, just some type of help. [dramatic music playing] [john] and, you know, my parents raised me,

always fight for what you believe in. be respectful, but fight. and i fought. but then at the time, i was going to therapy physically and mentally. and in the process, i started going to support groups and, you know... you know the old saying, you always meet somebody worse off than you, and i see these guys married with kids and they're losing their houses, their health. [chris] that's what, you know, led that fire inside him to really, you know, step up and help these people. that people shouldn't be going through this when they tried to do the right thing. [john] but the whole process started, i started helping others. you know, i... when i was going to support groups, everybody was like, "hey, i heard you were that guy that got... you know, i heard you were that guy." and then i was just be like, whoa, all's you gotta do is this. and then, you know, one thing lead to another, like, "well, start a foundation," and i was like, "what? how do you spell foundation?" you know. but again, i surrounded myself with good people and, yeah, that's how it all started.

[dramatic music playing] [john] ray pfeifer. -[door knocks] -[ray] come on in. -coming in. -[ray] i got the gate. hey, doggies. -[dog barking] -hey, hey, hey. hey. -i shaved for this event. -i was thinking about it, but i don't know if i'm going to. when i'm in uniform, i don't like to be... because it's not in our dress code. [john] tomorrow we'll be doing the reading of the names, so the park that we built, called the 9/11 responders remembered park is a park dedicated to those who died since 9/11 from their illnesses. tomorrow we'll add 61 names to the wall. those names will be read followed by the ringing of a bell. at our events, we give the flag that flew over the park to an honoree, and tomorrow's recipient will be ray phifer, ray's had stage four cancer since 2009. hopefully, it will be a moving tribute

to a living legend in the 9/11 community. -so, how do you feel? -me? i got cancer. well, how the hell do you think i feel? what'd the doctor say? doctor says i'm gonna die, just doesn't know when. [john] how's your leg? [ray] well, it's all good. no big deal. who can complain? you could, but not me. -i complain all the time. -[laughs] [john] are you ready for tomorrow? i am ready. not about me, but i'm ready. [dramatic music playing] [indistinct chatter] [jon] somebody smells like a hero, somebody smells like a beautiful... [ray] oh, there he is. how are you? -oh, my god. -good. -what's up with you? -last week, i found out that the tumor shrunk. now, this is... -hey. -...you know, so it shrunk and now i'm on steroids. once i get off the steroids, then i'm gonna be able to walk because, it's in... it's on the brain stem. oh he's juicing. i knew he was juicing.

-[ray laughing] -with steroids. if you saw me, i looked like... -i looked like... -hey. -[jon laughs] -[ray] i got a cankles. [john] dude, his diet is steroids -and johnny walker black. -there you go. -two fingers every day. -two fingers. please. you should have four... you earned four, for god's sake. -i'm the luckiest. -please. and i would say it all the time, i'm the luckiest guy out there, i really am. yeah, you know? this is gonna be some day, though, this is nice. yeah. [jon] sergeant james betso, nypd. [bell dings] [jon] joseph t. callahan, fdny. [bell dings] keith m. loughlin, fdny. [bell dings] [jon] charles s. szoke, fdny. [bell dings] [ray] this event was over the top. i've been to several. but like i said, any time you get to tell a story, it's a good day.

anybody who wants to get a selfie or jon stewart autograph? please wait till the meeting finishes. anybody who wants to have their park or lawn designed and manicured by john feal also come up. he will design. he does tremendous work. topiary, engraving, truly reasonable prices, john feal. all right. [cheers and applause] colbert was my first choice. [laughter] why do you get to be in the middle? -because i got a wheelchair. -what? but what happens if we went like this? well, it'd be off balance. [jon] yeah, it doesn't work. -it doesn't work. -why? so why can't you be all balance? why is everything have to be balanced? come on, you design the park. you know. and i would say i think that...

i think that one is sinking. can i borrow some money? [jon] i hope you someday take the time to step back and see what you've done. -one day, not now. -all right. -but thank you. -all right. i could say that to you though. -i love you. -i love you more. -good man. -thank you, sir. bye-bye. [indistinct chatter] [dramatic music playing] introducing new buttermilk biscuits in sweet and savory flavors. so, everyone can have their perfect biscuit. ♪ or add one on the side. get a breakfast biscuit sandwich with a side for just seven dollars for a limited time.

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[dramatic music playing] [dog barking] [bird chirping] [ken] i met john at suffolk community college. honey, i'm home. talking about the healthcare, trying to get the healthcare going, and john was up on stage. john said that with his half of foot he was gonna stick it up some congressman's...

butt, you know. and that's how i met john and we've been friends ever since. -found a dollar. -oh, jeez. [laughing] -i worked for new york city... -okay. ...highway department for 20 years. on september 11, 2001 i was called down to assist with search and rescue. [john] why weren't you there saturday? i was sick as a dog. -i lost one teeth. -yeah, uh-huh. [ken] 2006, i got so sick that they forced me to retire. so the only thing you basically worrying about is your family, you know, because you know your life is cut short. you know it's just a matter of time. because i never got so sick and john has seen it from one thing to another, you know, from having a 9/11 cough to a heart attack in '05, to the lung diseases, to the ptsd, to my bones deteriorating, to my teeth popping out, it's just, like, one thing after another.

and, you know... and nobody understands it unless you are there, or you have someone like john to explain it you, like, one lady said to me you have to forget about 9/11. i got to take 32 pills a day. i never took pills in my life until i got sick. [ken coughs] so i take a cocktail, like, john says, i put them in a... basically a shot glass and i just do a quick hit, you know. i take four xanax, this i take four tabs, four of these, i got my heart, ptsd, lungs, the cough, the stomach, the gastro reflux... i take five for the heart, this ambien help me sleep. if i turn that, the aspirin, the avapro, the plavix, six for the ptsd, cough syrup, and all the asthma medications with the inhalant and nebulizer. i got to use this when nobody's around, because it's embarrassing, like, i was telling john.

you know, put it on. and i have a button and then this hooks up with my belt. -why is it embarrassing? -you know, i... what do you mean it's embarrassing? you have no reason to be embarrassed. that's... ridunculous, stop. [marc] a simple medicine like a respiratory medicine could cost $300 a month, and that could be one medicine. a lot of people are on multiple medicines. um, you talk about medicines for cancer, you're talking about thousands of dollars. um, you talk about psychiatric medicine it's also very, very expensive. uh, one of the first bills i got would... uh, $200,000, like, looking at this thing is, like, how the heck am i... and i had a good insurance... i had good insurance from my job but it doesn't pay for everything. insurance doesn't pay for your medications. insurance doesn't pay for your co-payments. when a doctor tells you get a mri, which is $3,000 here in new york, i'm covered, but then he wants another one, it's not covered.

you're only allowed one a year. so then he wants bloodwork, you're allowed, like, four a year, he wanted twelve. so now it's snowballing. i've seen patients that they were cutting their pills in half. you give someone three months' worth of medicine, right, and they come back and they see you in six months and you say, "do you need refills?" and then they say, "no, i have enough." so you start thinking, "how could they have enough?" and then when you talk to them, you find out they didn't fill the first one because they don't have enough money. [ken] this is $100 a bottle. i need nine of them, its $900. because i got sick they put me in... -what was it, medicare? -[john] yeah. no other stuff is covered. people that do not receive coverage may not be receiving the best medical treatment possible and their health may suffer. just don't forget, most of our patients don't only have medical problems. they have ptsd, depression and other, uh, other, um, disorders. to me, posttraumatic will be the number one killer of 9-11 responders. posttraumatic is stress and stress does not allow your immune system to fight the illnesses

that you have at full capacity. i had a tough time coming back. i was... i was gone for a year. i wasn't here. i spent time on the pile, stayed at the firehouse. i never came home. at one point, i had an 11-year-old ask me, uh, "are we ever gonna find my dad?" you know, so what do you say to this kid? you know, you make the attempt, you know, so you go down there and you do what you got to do, day in and day out. and, you know, a good day was to find a tooth, or a finger, you know, that was closure. and i guess i had posttraumatic stress but i never believed it. [john] i applied for social security disability, um, i was denied. and then i re-applied and i appealed, and i won. but when i won, uh, my physical injuries were secondary on my... it was my posttraumatic that won me, you know, which, you know, i was told i was crazy, disruptive, uh,

wouldn't be good in a workforce... maybe they're right, i don't know. um, but like everybody else, i have my days. you know, posttraumatic is, uh, you know, it's tough. [michael m] i know that he had gone through a miserable bureaucratic experience trying to deal with his crushed foot and i know he started connecting with people and trying to help other people who had gone through this miserable circumstance. but it seemed to me, like, it's the same kind of impulse. it's, like, "man, someone has to do something to help these people." so him going through that whole process is what led him to become an activist. [solemn music playing] [michael] well, james zadroga was a detective at the nypd and he's one of many cops who went down to ground zero and he got sick, and not that many years later. and he died from all the things that he inhaled down there.

it was sort of a sensation because the city at the time was not willing to admit that 9/11 had made all of these police officers and other people very sick. he died in new jersey and because he was so young they did an autopsy to make sure there was no foul play. well, when they looked at his lungs under a microscope they found ground glass, chromium, lead, benzene, pcbs... that was the evidence that the medical community needed to link all these horrible diseases to the toxins that people were exposed to. that sort of woke everybody up. everybody opened their eyes to the fact that the poisons that people were inhaling were in fact, deadly, and that's why it's all named after him. a reader's digest synopsis of the zadroga bill is... it's two things. it's the healthcare for the 90,000 people who were either caught in the dust plume or who came back to live or work downtown or participated in the rescue and recovery operation, and it's also compensation

for those who got sick and/or lost their careers. the bill is started primarily by carolyn maloney's office. the time to pass the james zadroga 9/11 health and compensation act is now. it is bi-partisan. it is patriotic and it is overwhelmingly supported by americans across this country. [michael m] but the bill really did come from guys like ben chevat and, uh, the folks in congress. i was working with congressman maloney. we were working... um, mrs. maloney was really pushing to try to get help for it with congressman nadler, congressman peter king, um, with the new york delegation, with senator schumer, uh, and then, afterwards senator gillibrand to try to push the congress to have a better response to it. john brings the organizational, sort of, you know, heft from the grassroots so to speak, or from the people who are affected. john started coming down here, we started working together

coordinating the efforts of, um, lobbying uh, to try to get people to pay attention. [kirsten] i think the first time i met john feal was when he came to washington. he organized all the first responders, all the families who were affected, anybody who was willing to fight for this cause, and he'd bring them to washington. month after month, week after week, year after year, and bringing them directly to senators, the senators' staff, uh, to members of congress, to tell their stories. [richard] he formed the fealgood foundation and then, we had, like, a core team of lobbyists that was going to washington, and really we basically bring the walking wounded down. if you looked at us on video and if you looked at us in and pictures of us in dc or a press conference. we might not look like we were the most organized people going to dc, whereas lobbyists would come up there in suits. but we were more than prepared and more than organized. so there's three buildings in congress, uh, cannon, rayburn,

and longworth and there's three buildings in the center. dirksen, hart, and, uh, russell. i would have three teams. and sometimes i would have, uh, four or five or six teams, depending on how many meetings we got, but they all had a different colorful... they all had the, uh... the building that they were going to be in all day or if they had to leave another building, they'd get that colored folder. sometimes those teams met at an office that might be an issue. so, uh, it's intimidating, when instead of four or five guys you might see ten guys or 15 guys, sometimes you saw 30 guys, and sometimes you saw 45 people. and then, they'd have a computer printout of the time who they were meeting with, the staffer's name or the individual congressman or senator, uh, and it was a breakdown. [man] a lot of folks were, like, uh, "this is some new york thing." right? they didn't realize that 433 or 434 congressional districts out of 435 have people in them who went to ground zero who responded to it. [michael] and of course, what did they do? they went back to where they came from

and they went back with their illnesses that were in their dormancy. [richard] when we were running into problems with the elected representatives in any part of the country rather than bring people from new york, we brought people from other parts of the country to come to lobby their own, uh, senator or their own congressman, and that was incredibly powerful. but we got so many other senators and congressman thanks to john's efforts. john's, uh... he's a pit-bull. you know, he was the guy that was throwing bombs and shooting bullets and when they saw him coming, they were scared. if you're a politician on the wrong side of the issue, you fear and you respect him because he's on the side of right. if there's anything that you guys want to point out at us, because i know you've been working at every... [john] well, yeah, yeah, i wanna... i wanna point out something at you. all of these people are sick and dying from 9/11. [suspense music playing] the morgan stanley client experience? listening more than talking, and a personalized plan

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[suspense music playing] [john] the way a bill, uh, becomes law normally is a law maker has an idea and, um, they propose a bill. it goes to a committee, the committee will have a hearing, send it on to the house, uh, floor or the us senate floor. and then, they'll move it on to the, uh... to the white house. [kirsten] when i was first asked to lead the 9/11 health bill for the senate, people around me pretty much thought it was an impossible thing to pass. and they believe that because it had never been introduced in the senate, it had languished in the house for seven years. [john] there was a lot of resistance in congress. the costs really was a sticking point in the senate. [kirsten] the house passed a $7.4 billion version of the bill in september but the senate version has been held up by a republican filibuster. [richard] the republicans didn't really like the zadroga bill and every republican in the us senate voted against it.

i mean, there usually isn't enough time in a calendar to bring a bill back and to get it passed. that was really just about it for the zadroga bill. it really almost died right there. [jon] before we go, i want to talk one last time about something called the zadroga bill. this bill would provide $7 billion in medical and financial benefits for ground zero workers and they're gonna pay for it by closing a corporate tax loophole. it's a win, win, win just [bleep] do it. we were watching with horror as uh, the congress was about to go on a holiday break and not deal with this health and compensation act called the zadroga bill. and so we reached out to john to try to get him on the show 'cause we had heard about his lobbying efforts. [john] jon's assistant called me back in 2010 when we were trying to get the bill passed, and she's like, "mr. feal, can mr. stewart talk to you?" and i was, like, "yeah, yeah, yeah. hell, yeah." you know, and it was like, "john feal, check this out, you're gonna come on my show tomorrow, we're gonna get the bill passed. we're gonna make fun of republicans." and i said, "that's all great, sir,

but i can't come on your show." [jon] john being john he was like, "i can't leave. i can't leave." i'm down at congress, right now. you know, i'm in this guy's office. i'm putting my boot in his ass. i'm down... he says, "i'll get you some guys." so he brought up kenny specht and john devlin and those guys. [kenny] and then i got a phone call and john feal... said, "is this something that... are you in town and is this something that you can pull off?" and i said, "yeah, i'm in town. i have my uniform i'll get it done." we're joined by four men who can perhaps best sympathize with what the senate is going through. please welcome kenny specht from the fdny, chris bowman, nypd, ken george, dot, and john devlin, operating engineer, heavy equipment. all 9/11 first responders. [jon] and we ended up doing, uh, a program devoted to their battle to get that done. now you see the, uh, senate is filibustering, uh, the bill, what's going through your mind as you're watching this process go down? uh, we're... uh, we're disgusted. we're disappointed.

and unfortunately, we're hurt. and, uh, john feal... asked what it is that i was going to do on the show. and i told john feel i was gonna light it up. it just goes to show the, uh... the disconnect between those we elect to represent us, and those that get out there and do the work. because i'm here to say that you won't find a single new york city firefighter who considers it a sign of disrespect to work in a new york city firehouse on christmas eve or christmas day. [crowd cheers] [woman] new york senators chuck schumer and kirsten gillibrand announced a revised bill last week that reduced the cost to $6.2 billion over ten years. they hope to have enough votes to bring the measure to a vote in the senate today, republican senator tom coburn of oklahoma said he'll likely block the measure again. [tom] this is a bill that's been drawn up and forced through congress at the end of the year. so what we're going to do is we got... we're gonna pass a bill and then we're gonna have to come back and fix it. and we're gonna waste a whole bunch more money. i was fortunate enough to be part of the negotiation

between senator schumer and gillibrand from new york and the republican leadership. that bill was originally $10 billion and change, then it was cut to eight, to seven, and then we walked away with five and change. it had all these restrictions placed on it because tom coburn was very concerned with fraud and abuse, you know, put his thumb on it. and they finally did it, it was the last thing they went through for the year. and, you know, it had less money than they really wanted. passage of the bill as amended. all those in favor say, "yea." all those who oppose, "no." the yeas have it, appear to have it, and the yeas do have it. the bill as amended is passed. [woman] a major victory for 9/11 first responders as congress passed the zadroga act, ending a decade-long fight to provide permanent government-funded healthcare and financial benefits to thousands of 9/11 first responders. [john] when the bill got passed in 2010, everybody was hugging, crying.

the first words out of my mouth was, uh, "we got more work to do. and we got five years to get this right." [charles] the main difference is instead of a ten-year bill, it's a five-year bill. you can be damn sure that we're gonna be here, uh, fighting to extend it when the time expires. the bill is not perfect. i can't give it a ten because nothing's perfect. i couldn't give it an eight because there was no cancer in the bill, so i'll give it a six. but we went back to new york with a six. because if we didn't get the bill passed that day, we were going back to new york with a zero. [dramatic music playing]

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good morning america. mmm-hmm. that's paul, kidney guy. the end of 2006, beginning of 2007, a man named paul emailed me and he's like, "i think what you're doing to help 9/11 responders is great but i have a personal story and i was wondering if you could put it on your website." i said, "well, what's your story?" so he told me he needed a kidney. i said, "paul, that's touching, and, uh, i can't put you on my website but i will do is give you my kidney if we're a match." a couple days later, hospital contacted me and they're like, "look, you're a match with paul but you're not a hundred percent match, meaning it might work, it might not work." so a few weeks went by, maybe a month, and the hospital contacted me and they're like, "look, john, if you give your kidney to somebody else because you already said you'd donate a kidney, we'll make sure paul gets a better one, and we'll do a two-person swap, two recipients, two donors." i said, "all right. that sounds good to me. i get to help two people." you know? maybe a month or two go by and the hospital calls me up

and like, "john, if you give your kidney to somebody, uh, and then paul gets a kidney, and then somebody else... it would be a six-person swap, three recipients, three donors all done simultaneously." and so in essence i got to help three people. on august 30th, 2007, i donated my kidney to a young lady in, uh, connecticut. she's living a healthy life. sadly, paul passed away, about a year and a half ago, he had a stroke. uh, but he was doing great for those seven or eight years with his kidney. but i would do it all over again, you know? [dramatic music playing] [ray] when we first got here, joe, myself, and everybody, we were over on west street when we first came in. the towers had been down already. you could not see, the fires were burning. it was pure chaos. everybody's coming at different directions

trying to get in, trying to figure if we're gonna rescue somebody. so every day that we're here, you would see the smoke coming up and it... we would walk around saying, "oh, we don't wanna get cancer today. we'll go... we'll go over this side and we'll go over this side. [john] ray had himself a little crowd there telling everybody about his story, so i don't know how many people spoke english but he was... he was blabbering. [ray] at the time i was a delegate and i said, "let's work on this." because our guys are gonna get sick. i wasn't sick at the time. i was passionate about it because i had... a lot of friends of mine were getting sick from thyroid cancers and the earlier cancers, the lung diseases. and we weren't really being taken care of and we weren't really being taken serious. so, a couple years go by, two, three years i guess go by, and i'm still out there with my union thinking that, you know, they're gonna help me. never happened. kenny specht, my friend, says to me, "hey, ray, you got to check this guy out, john feal." i get sick, i meet john.

[john] back in 2009 when i met ray. how... myself and others, we did a large fundraiser for ray and ray really wasn't a part of us yet, we were all going to washington, dc. [ray] i said i got to put all my efforts into helping with this guy, you know, because he's the only guy that's got direction and he's the only guy that out there with all these hundreds of people think they're doing stuff, but they're not talking to congress. they're not talking to senators, not the way... not the way john was doing it. so i said i got to get involved. [john] the james zadroga health and compensation act that was passed in 2010 was, had to get renewed in 2015. [ray] it was a great bill. people were getting taken care of. it was like a litmus test, do five years and then come back to us in five years and we'll extend this permanent.

we proved not only was there no abusive spending, but there was actually money left over. and we proved that there was no fraud. to me, when you first did it that was a leap of faith. you passed this thing. now we proved it's good. why don't you go for this? i guess i thought it was a no-brainer. john had actually called me and said, "you know, we have to go back down for the re-authorization." and he thought that it was probably gonna be more difficult the second time around which is kind of surprising to me, and then it was like deja vu all over again. when i created my team in january of 2015, only half of them were from 2010 prior. rey became part of that team but i took old guys from my old team and new guys, cops, firefighters, construction workers, union workers, and i blended them together. and in the beginning it was rough. he put me on a team right away and i was, like, shocked with stewart and everybody else. i was like, "really? you got that much confidence in me to go talk to these people." [man] you guys probably remember

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♪ ♪ [indistinct chatter] [michael] uh, i actually reached out to john's team just via email, basically saying that i'm a retired firefighter at home taking care of my children. they met me and said that i'd probably be an asset to them, to come down, being that i was probably one of the youngest firemen to actually get sick and be put off the job, have to retire. so, uh... within one trip, uh, i was part of them. by the next trip, i was, uh, ray's roommate. and, uh, if you don't know ray pfeifer, he's probably one of the greatest human beings i've ever met in my life. [man] oh, yeah, come on. [john] i think when ray went from the cane to the wheelchair, it put everything in perspective.

with the cart here, i caught a couple of them beforehand. -i chased them down. -mmm-hmm. said, "congressman, or senator, you know, can... you got a minute?" -deb fischer from nebraska. -[ray] deb fischer. jon stewart chased her down the hallway. senator fischer. senator. [ray] who was down at the end of the hallway is abc nightly news with their cameras. they get her. she's got no place to go, jon's all over her. down here, i'm trying to get people up onto this approach. read that book. give it to your staffer, ma'am. -all right. -it's everything on the bill. now they wheel me up, you know, and i'm like, you know, i felt bad for her. [john] it was like john wayne riding in on a horse, you know? he was, you know, it's so sad to see, but yet so awesome to see because he became the face of a movement with that scooter. [ray] but, not so bad that i didn't call her the next day. just listen to my story, give me ten minutes. [jon] now it's your turn, you could be a hero. [ray] and i guess that afternoon you got a phone call, or somebody called and said she'd be willing to co-sponsor.

thank you so much. thank you, thank you very much. [jon] let's go. we got to go. [jon] being with john, and ray, and kenny, and keith, and those guys down there was baffling. what are we doing for this round? [jon] oh, geez. can you show her those? [man] so, what are we looking at here? where are these cards from? these cards are his friends. all the guys that were killed, and the firemen that i went to their services. when you go to a service, you would have a card of, you know, of the guy that was killed. so these come with me wherever i go, those guys. [jon] it's the most obvious cause you could ever possibly imagine, it should be a straight line, one of those where they go, "oh, god. don't... not only do you not have to come down here and lobby, we'll come up there and what kind of soda do you like? we'll buy you a soda or whatever it is you need and we'll help you."

so it was baffling to see them down there but wonderful to watch john minecraft, just work, like, just chop away at things. we have... we have 66 co-sponsors now and 260 in the house. the fact that we're being held up with politics is... you guys don't get 66 on anything. -no. that's rare. -on anything? very unusual. no, i... [man] it was a bill that had a majority of the house members and a majority of the senate supporting, so you think, okay, it already has a majority, they're already signed on. let's just bring it to the floor and we'll have a vote on some amendments and we'll pass it. but they didn't wanna do that. you know, we were gathering up co-sponsors left and right like they were jellybeans, and you would just think. and then, you know, mcconnell and ryan, they... they were dicks and they kept holding it up. [ray] both majority leader and mitch mcconnell and the house speaker paul ryan

had much larger things that they wanted to get passed, so the folks who were trying to pass the 9/11 bill were trying to hitch a ride on one of those things. because it was a health bill, it just went on the floor for a straight up and down vote. they would've added amendments and weighed it down with crap and the best bet for us was to get attached to a larger bill. and the first chance was the transportation bill which mitch mcconnell literally obstructed because he didn't get what he wanted on an oil deal. [man] they wanted to export oil from the united states for the first time in 30 or 40 years, so let's attach an oil, you know, export bill, and that way we'll get democrats to vote for the transportation bill with oil in it. democrats say majority leader mitch mcconnell is singlehandedly blocking the bill from moving forward. [man] but it all fell apart between the sort of negotiating back and forth amongst republicans over the transportation bill and what would be in it. and paul ryan couldn't everything he wanted, and mitch mcconnell couldn't get everything he wanted,

so the 9/11 bill went by the wayside. well, we were supposed to be on the transportation bill, but the omnibus bill was the last bill left. [man] ultimately, it wound up, you know, shoehorned into this great big spending bill that was called an omnibus because it had so many different spending programs all rolled up into one, and they just slapped the 9/11 bill into there so that... so that it could pass. mitch mcconnell decided he was gonna meet with four of us, and we went into his office, and he basically told us he backed our bill which we know was not the truth. and john put him on the spot and let him know, "if you backed our bill, we would've been on the transportation bill." [jon] sen. mitch mcconnell can rectify this immediately. and i would just ask the people here who are reporters because i cannot bring heroism or integrity to this process. i can only bring cameras and hopefully a sense of public shame. [trevor] hey, it's jon stewart. oh. [cheers and applause] [john] it was the second time that trevor noah had taken over the show

and then this was jon's first appearance back on his old show, again putting his equity into something that he cared about, something that he followed for five years. [jon] i actually have this issue. i care about it very deeply and i was wondering, you know, i wanna get some attention paid to it, but i was realizing that i don't have a show and nobody gives a [bleep] anymore. we tried to reconstitute that panel. because devlin had died, two of the guys are too sick, and kenny was the only one who was... who was left. when we did the show five and a half years ago... [jon] right. ...four men sat here. it's you and i. [john] i thought it was really powerful when jon had them back on when we're trying to get the bill passed again. to sit in the audience and watch that, i got choked up, you know? it was powerful. how about this, #worstresponders. everybody get online and you tell mitch mcconnell and paul ryan, and congress, do the right thing. pass this zadroga reauthorization act. [john] that show, it helped us get across the finish line.

it's the combination of that show, the boots on the ground, and the elected officials finally doing what they were supposed to be doing, what they were paid for. [man] leaders in the house and senate agreed to permanently renew the zadroga act, by including it in a spending bill that congress will approve. [man] there it was down to the wire again on the very last, you know, day of the session, having the 9/11 bill attached to a funding bill where there were still some doubt about it. but eventually it did pass. [man] lawmakers settled on a 75-year renewal of the zadroga act program providing medical treatment for first responders and a five-year renewal of the fund that pays families of people killed on 9/11. [john] most americans don't think they have the right to go to washington dc and call out a member of congress because they don't think it's legal. they don't think that they're gonna get anywhere. they don't think that it's gonna make a difference, but yet, if you're passionate about something,

you can march your fat lazy ass to dc and get in someone's grille. and listen, it's not about special interests and money. it's about human life.

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[band music playing] [joe] the folks on stage tonight are doing a wonderful thing, which is donating very special artifacts that we will have on display by this anniversary of 9/11 just a couple months from now. [ray] i was given the key to the city of new york.

[bill] and the key to the city of new york. [ray] to recognize the effort that we did down in washington, dc as a team but i don't... i don't deserve the key. it's not mine. i didn't do any more than anybody else did. probably a lot less, because i was sick, but the key belongs to... note to self, my blackberry records. bullshit. [ray] so where do i put the key? keep it here? no. i'm gonna give it to the museum. john donated his jacket. he's had it nine years going back and forth to washington dc. to me, when i see john in that jacket, it's like his uniform. we wore our uniform. i wore my new york city uniform, some guys wore their police uniform, some guys wore their correction uniforms. when we went down to dc, we were just a bunch of blue-collar workers going down and guerilla-lobbying. [man] this isn't about ray pfeifer, it's not john feal and his jacket. it's about the accomplishment and what we, as a team did

and went down there and fought for. these guys giving that stuff, again, it's just a true testament of who they are and that they are giving human beings and they're putting something where it belongs. [john] i don't think america knows what these men and women did for a fractured city and a lost nation at that time. [john] and if my red jacket which i wore for 11 or 12 years in washington, dc can shine some light on that body of work done by tens of thousands of people, then i'm humbled because i am that small compared to those men and women. [man speaking] no, man. no. thank you. [marzena] it's each time, oh, it's over. you know, in 2010, oh, it's over. we done, we helped them. you know, everything is in place but it's never over. even now, they, uh... there are still so many questions about how this bill, like, how it's going to work and, uh... and there are new people coming to the program so there is always work for somebody.

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matic music playing] [jon] i don't miss that jacket at all. he tried to get me to wear it once. i wouldn't wear it. i actually got to earn it. excuse me, where's the restroom? [laughter] [ray] since the last time we talked, i wound up getting diagnosed with brain cancer on top of all the other things i have. uh, it's progressing, the cancer's starting take a toll on me now. doctors really can't do anything for me anymore. um, i'm on, uh, a lot of painkillers now

so i thank god for, uh, modern drugs. that's what i'm on now. so that's why i'm here. i feel it's very important to be here today. [jon] everybody, my name is jon stewart. you're on facebook right now and on facebook live. this is our program... [man] today was an outreach, uh, using social media with jon stewart to help remind people that the health program's available, the compensation program is available. [man] we've determined that there's probably over 30,000, uh, first responders and other people that were exposed that day, so social media is clearly the way to reach these people because we've tried every other sort of outreach and it's just, you know, we're at a dead end right now. [ray] it's good to be around my friends that, uh, we worked so hard to get this thing done and, uh, it's been a long, long way, long travels. [man] right shoulder, halt.

[ray] up the hill? [john] ray has a bucket list. um, we've crossing this one off. if a friend asks you for a favor, you do it. that's the bottom line. [john] you're not nervous yet? -[ray] no. why am i nervous? -i don't know. [john] i'm nervous that you're not nervous. i crawled down hallways for a living. today, this is something i wanted to do on my own a long time ago. um, especially right after 9/11. a lot of these kids joined the military and to go fight, um, because of 9/11, and i wanted to give back, to go the tomb of the unknown soldier and lay a wreath is pretty powerful, and it's an honor to do.

[man] present arms. [ray] this is the good that came out of it and that's why we continue to give people hope. -thank you. -god bless you. [jon] this was something that, john told me ray was really looking forward to doing and i wanted to be here, be a part of it. it's very meaningful for all of us to be down here, especially together. [john] how many people in their lifetime can say that they helped pass a bill twice in congress, then got a key to new york city, and then laid a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier, so. so i get to share that experience and, um... yeah. stop. the accolades aren't enough for these men.

a beloved fdny hero has lost his battle with cancer. ray pfeifer was one of the thousands of firefighters who worked for months on the toxic piles at ground zero. [jon] ray pfeifer died in the line of duty but more importantly, ray pfeifer lived in the line of duty. i remember at the end of our lobbying efforts down in dc, i was... i felt beaten and all i was getting was business cards. ray said i'm okay. he patted his chest and he reached in... and he pulled out prayer cards, hundreds. he said i got all the cards that i need. and now i...

i got one and it's gonna teach me how to do right. [bell dings] firefighter raymond j. pfeifer fdny... this bell will never ring again. the new bell that goes up will be now known as the firefighter raymond j. pfeifer memorial bell. [dramatic music playing] [dramatic music playing]

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[dramatic music playing] [john] you know, you caught me in a bad mood, and, uh, no other reason that i'm back here in dc and i just do not like being here. they should be on the second and third floor somewhere. we're here again, um, demanding that the vcf, the victims compensation fund be renewed and refunded. [woman] the 9/11 victims compensation fund, running out of money. survivors and responders learned that thousands of claims would be cut by up to 70%. [john] in 2010, we got this bill passed the first time. five years of healthcare, five years of compensation. five years later, when it expired, we got 75 years of healthcare

and five years of compensation. the compensation expires december 18, 2020. we're not gonna make it to that. it's gonna run out of money. hence, the 50-70% cuts. [woman] a group of bi-partisan lawmakers set to introduce the never forget the heroes bill, calling for a quick yes vote. [man] they want to make the compensation portion equal to the health portion and make it last the same amount of time. so they're trying to sort of fix that gap. [john] after 12 trips to dc over the last several months, after 300-plus meetings, our bill now sits in the committee and that committee has the ability to move our bill a house floor vote, or kill it. [dramatic music playing] [john] everybody, listen up for a second. we'll do this quick and we're gonna do it again in the morning. this is not one of our normal trips. our normal trips consist of us

having separate meetings with individuals of congress or the senate, begging them to co-sponsor our bill. this is a hearing. we're going to a hearing. [man] what's gonna happen tomorrow is essentially a bunch of folks affected by 9/11 are gonna testify to the judiciary committee which is the one that has jurisdiction over compensation. there'll be a lot of cameras tomorrow because jon stewart's coming. there's gonna be cameras all over us, so everybody's on their best behavior. just keep yourself. we're here on a mission. we're helping 9/11 responders, volunteers, and survivors, we care about extending the vcf. [dramatic music playing] [john] i don't really need the box. we just give him the coat and, uh, what do you think? [man] yup, take the box out, you can't carry this thing around. [john] when we get to the parking lot, we'll start signing it. we got some time to kill. all right.

i'm dragging these guys. some of them with cancer, some of them with pulmonary fibrosis, wheelchairs, oxygen tanks. it makes no sense that luis alvarez who had chemo yesterday and he's gonna testify in congress to say pass the vcf and extend it and refund it. that's amazing. -you'll do good today. -i hope so. yeah. no pressure man, just the weight of the 9/11 community on your shoulders, -right? -yeah. no pressure. -take your bat and clean up. -right. we'll need a big hit, bottom of the ninth, three and two count, you know? you got this man. [dramatic music playing]

[indistinct chatter] [john] listen. really quick. we're gonna take a group photo, okay? then they take a group photo with those who are testifying so luis alvarez, michael o'connell, young lady. michael was handpicked today. um, i fought to make sure that mike and luis alvarez were the ones to testify. [woman] perfect. it's, in the grand scheme of things, it's a little nerve-racking to see who you're going up against, but they're human beings just like me, you know, we have to convince them to get this passed, but the people behind me are a lot more important and that's who i'm fighting for. [john] thank you for your service. -[michael] thank you, sir. -[john] much appreciated. hundred and first airborne, thank you. awesome. thank you, sir. [jon] can i show you what i got and you tell me if there's anything that...

[john] that's, uh, everybody. right. i mean, how crazy is this? that was the, uh, how they voted on the three bills. right. that's just a little motivation. [sirens wailing from a distance] [jon] don't make me cry. that's great. -[john] did i make you cry? -[jon] yes. god, i cried all morning. i just don't want to do that when i'm there. -i just want to f***ing say... -dude, i, uh... i think it's better if you do. so, we'll be all right. it'll be all right. -all right. -yeah. let's get it done. [man] i believe everybody here today in this hallway has learned brotherhood and camaraderie because we all have one mission. john made it his mission to outbid three other people yesterday and see to it that jon steward had

ray pfeifer's fire department bunker coat. we appreciate your help, jon, and, uh, this comes from jon and this comes from everybody in this hallway. [audience applauding] [sentimental music playing] [john] jon has been with us for a decade now. he's never... he's never bailed on us, he never neglected us, he never said he couldn't do this for us. and he's been through the thick and thin with us. we're gonna do it today, not just for ray, but for all you guys and all the people that he was fighting for. this is beautiful. thank you. [john] in public, we might joke around but, um, we're serious today.

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i mean, if something like this, which is so obviously urgent and so obviously right takes this long and is this hard, something's wrong with that system. [man] do you swear affirm under penalty of perjury that the testimony you're about to give is true and correct to the best of your knowledge information and belief? so help you, god. [michael] long time ago when i was sick, i was sitting there thinking, you know, there's people that i don't know that are down here fighting for me. so, it's really not about me. it's about the people and the community that we're here to fight for. lieutenant o'connell, you've already received your award from the vcf. why are you here to testify today about this? [michael] i'm here because i did receive my award, and i've seen people fall sick and die right in front of me that haven't. we have to sit there in front of them, somebody who actually has a wife and three children at home, knowing that they're taken care of. and i'm looking at somebody else's wife and children, and they don't know where their future lies.

and that's why i'm here. [luis] less than 24 hours from now, i will be starting my 69th round of chemotherapy. i should not be here with you, but you made me come. this fund, it is there to provide for our families when we can't. nothing more. you all said you would never forget. well, i'm here to make sure that you don't. [jon] as i sit here today, i can't help but think what an incredible metaphor this room is for the entire process, that getting healthcare benefits for 9/11 first responders has come to. behind me, a filled room of 9/11 first responders and in front of me, a nearly empty congress.

your indifference cost these men and women their most valuable commodity, time. and the idea that you can only give them five more years of the vcf because you're not quite sure what's gonna happen five years from now. well, i can tell you, i'm pretty sure what's gonna happen five years from now. more of these men and women are gonna get sick and they are going to die. why this bill isn't unanimous consent is beyond my comprehension. it'll get stuck in some transportation bill or some appropriations bill and get sent over to the senate where a certain someone from the senate will use it as a political football to get themselves maybe another new import tax on petroleum. because that's what happened to us in 2015 and we won't allow it to happen again. thank god for people like john feal, thank god for people like ray pfeifer, thank god for all of these people

who will not let it happen. they did their jobs. eighteen years later, do yours. thank you. [crowd applauding] [dramatic music playing] [john] you know, my plan worked today, to give jon a letter this morning to make him cry, that worked. then, to give john that jacket to make him cry, that worked. and then, to take his speech away from him and make him wing it, it worked. everything i wanted worked. and, um, we got to see a brilliant mind articulate our pain and frustration. [michael] i think it went great. i love jon's testimony and how he came at them. i mean, we had a little bit of balance of little good cop, bad cop as what, you know, ray and... -ray and jon always did, so... -yeah. yeah.

i was always bad cop for some reason, i don't know why. today was a minor victory on the battlefield. [woman] though the house panel passed the bill this morning without opposition, it still has to face a full vote on the house floor. [man] it looks pretty promising in the house. the wildcards gonna be the senate which is still, uh, controlled by mitch mcconnell as it was last time. so, we'll have to see where all that goes. [man] in an escalating war of words, comedian, jon stewart, this weekend singling out senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell. [man] are you ready to name names? the... what... who controls the senate? [man] well, the first thing that john feal and jon stewart did after that testimony was to go on television. uh, he has always held out until the very last minute. [man] they were both all over the place on tv, calling out mitch mcconnell very, very directly. we've never failed to address this issue and we will address it again. i don't know why he's all bent out of shape. [man] that war got heated very quickly

and he felt that pressure. [jon] you could pass this thing as a standalone bill tomorrow. meet with them. i beg of you, meet with them. [man] in spite of calling him names, the pressure was so great that mcconnell agreed. [john] well, we had a great meeting with mitch mcconnell. it was productive. mitch mcconnell made a commitment to the 9/11 community and my team leaders that he's going to help us get a piece of legislation that was... that's gonna be passing the house in july for an august vote in the senate. and that's way ahead of schedule. [suspenseful music playing] [man] on this vote, the yeas are 402, the nays are 12. the bill is passed and without objection, the title is amended. [woman] the house has overwhelmingly passed the bill that extends funding for the 9/11 victim compensation fund. [man] democratic and republicans in the house passing this.

now, it's up to the senate. [sen. gillibrand] mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the bill be considered read a third time, and passed, and the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. [man] they had senator kirsten gillibrand go out on the floor and ask for unanimous consent to pass the bill. that would have sent it right to the president's desk, you know, if nobody objected, and that would have been the whole ballgame. -[sen. paul] mr. president. -senator from kentucky. [sen. paul] i will be offering up an amendment if the bill should come to the floor, but until then i will object. [man] um, but there were some objections. there was, um, mike lee, uh, from utah and rand paul from kentucky, both had issues. so, we had to have a, uh, yet one more vote. [whimsical music playing]

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[indistinct chatter] [john] i don't know what to think yet. i honestly don't know how i feel. i'm mad. i don't think that feeling's going away anytime soon, but i think i'm more proud of the people that i brought here. uh, i haven't decompressed yet. i haven't had that moment to just let it all out. raise your hand for the passage for the gallery. just be professional for about another hour, and then we can tell congress to suck it, all right? everybody, just be on your best behavior for the next hour, except for me. [mitch] in just a few hours, the senate will attend to an important subject that we've never failed to address and that is the september the 11th

victims compensation fund. [man] because of the rules in the senate, if one senator objects to anything, they can tie up a bill for a very long time. today, i will offer an amendment to pay for this spending in this bill. [man] rand paul, he wanted a vote that would have cut all these other programs in order to pay for the 9/11 bill. on this vote, the yeas are 22, the nays are 77. the amendment is not agreed to. [man] we also had mike lee objecting. this is how we make government programs work. we fund things for a period of time, and for an amount of money that we believe is sufficient. [man] mike lee wanted to put caps on the bill and that was a real problem for responders, because, you know, in five, or six, or seven years, they'd be doing the whole thing all over again. so, they really didn't wanna have those amendments passed. [john] i think, uh, rand paul and mike lee are opportunists.

they're bottom-feeders. this is the lower rung of senate leadership. um... on this vote, the yeas are 32, the nays are 66. the amendment is not agreed to. we beat rand paul and mike lee, and not only did we beat them, we bitch-slapped them. madam president, after this vote, the people in the gallery above us will not have to come here again. it should never have taken this long to pass this bill and make it permanent. but now, finally, we have the chance to get this job done for our 9/11 heroes once and for all. the question occurs on passage of the bill. [john] let the 9/11 community celebrate the work that they did. we used to be that little engine that could with that big engine that did. and you're going to see a lot of raw emotion. yeas are 97, the nays are two,

the bill is passed. [crowds applauding] moments ago, the senate approved a bill ensuring the september 11th victims fund never runs out of money. [woman] us senate has voted overwhelmingly 97-2 to pass the september 11th victim compensation fund. [man] a victory for the first responders who risked their lives on september 11, cheering from above the senate floor. [woman] expression of approval is not permitted in the gallery. [dramatic music playing] [sen. gillibrand] the combination of john feal and jon stewart was pure magic, because they both had something to bring to the table that complemented each other. and they were strong for each other, and they, um, inspired each other. and i think that mattered. [man] this lobbying, i do think it's probably unique. i hadn't seen anything like this before the 9/11 efforts.

i think it's, kind of, a model that other folks can use, honestly. [michael] with john feal as the number one 9/11 advocate in the world, nobody's ever gonna be close to what he's meant to the 9/11 community. without him, things don't get done, and i tell people that all the time, he's our rock. [crowd applauding] [john] to me, this is the final chapter. to me, this is it. in 2004, uh, i had no idea, but now i know. and, um, i'm not gonna play in the nba, i'm not gonna become a doctor. and i guess i'm gonna have to do what i'm good at and that's going there and doing what i do best and disrupting what they do for a living. i'm good at it. [sentimental music playing] [jon] i'm hopeful that today begins

the process of being able to heal without the burden of having to advocate. and i will follow you whatever your next adventure shall be. [laughter] [crowd applauding] [sentimental music playing] [woman] yeah, that's water. -[man] thank you. -[woman] okay. [indistinct chatter] [dramatic music playing] [john] so, let's get this one thing clear now, get it out of the way. we're gonna get a piece of legislation passed this year. that's a guarantee. [jon] listen, i'll say this again, i'm never the smartest man in the room, i'm just never gonna take no for an answer when people's lives are at stake. if you believe in something, then go out there and fight. don't let anybody tell you can't do it. [dramatic music playing]

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