>> tonight/, as americans remember victims of 9/11 authorities warn of another threat targeting new york and washington. >> we are doing everything we can to prevent it. >> reporter: n.y.p.d. commissioner ray kelly on the

steps being taken to keep americans safe. and... terrorist hijackers crashed flight 77 into the pentagon. >> collapsed to the floor, waited to die. >> reporter: engulfed in flames, he lived to tell his story, brian birdwell in a huckabee exclusive, plus he worked tirelessly in the rubble of the world trade center. meet one of the unsung heros of ground zero. search and rescue dog... [applause]. >> governor huckabee: thanks and welcome to a special edition of huckabee as we remember 9/11, ten years after the attacks on america. in the aftermath of major acts of horror like 9/11, more recently the shooting of gabrielle giffords and innocent by standards in tucson, we usually have a season of civility and kindness that comes from people from all over the ideological spectrum who promise to foster a kinder and gentler

society and you know it usually doesn't last long and a new rhetorical tool to the left, branded hate speech anything liberals disagree with. whether a christian who espouses the notion to marriage actually means what it always has, a union of a man and woman, or the notion that life begins at conception and, personhood for all people born or unborn is an affirmation of human worth and this past week, one of the most glaring examples of the advocacy and glorification of violence has merged with the glaring example of hate speech in the form of a silly and really not so original videogame, in which the player brutally murders conservatives. look, that is my on the left along with newt gingrich and rick and storm and i'll be honest i was flattered to be included in the game along with my fox colleagues, bill o'reilly and sean hannity and, as lincoln

said when he was run out of town, if it weren't for the honor of it i would just as soon pass and frankly after 20 years in politics i have had worses in this said about me, or done to me than simply being whacked by a videogamer. i even respect that in america, people have the right to produce and sell things that are tasteless and stupid, or even just plain mean-spirited and hate-filled and i don't think the youngs creator of the game ought to be arrested or banned and certainly shouldn't meet the same fate as he wishes upon me and others who happen to believe in things that he hates. i hope he doesn't claim to be for diversity, since he deals with it by killing off that which is diverse. my question for the fine, well educated snobs on the left who strip down their snippy noses at conservatives for daring to use language like targeting voters and trying to kill a piece of legislation, shooting down a bad proposal, would be this:

where is their outrage, not for a mitt forecastal language meta applied to paper but bombing real people like me with a name and family and former for the game maker a sense of humor. i'm sure the kid's game will be a big hit and some of the righteous elites will buy it without a twinge of guilt, promoting murder and mayhem and mutilation of other human beings but as a good free market conservative i don't begrudge his trying to make a living and am sure he'll joyfully pay all the taxes on the profits but, no doubt being into fairness, and sharing, i'm sure will gladly send generous checks from the sale of his gory game to those of us whose likeness and names empower him to profit. i'll be sure to look for the check, in the mail. that's my view, and i welcome yours. fell free to contact me, at

mikehuckabee.com and go to the fox feedback section and you can join my facebook page or follow me on twitter. tomorrow marks ten years since the biggest terrorist attack in our nation's history. americans will gather in downtown manhattan at the pentagon in a field in shanksville, pennsylvania as well as in homes all over america. to honor and to mourn the nearly 3,000 people who were lost on september 11th, 2001. now law enforcement officials are on guard again in response to a new credible and specific terrorist threat. targeting new york city and washington. it is believed terrorists are plotting to set off a car bomb, now, this is what you will see if you are walking around new york this weekend. two patrol cars on either side of an avenue, officers stops and checking vehicles for anything suspicious, or dangerous. a short time ago i had the opportunity to speak to new york

police commissioner ray kelly. >> governor huckabee: commissioner we have learned there is a credible, unconfirmed threat specifically for new york city. what can you tell us about how serious, how credible, how much potential this has to create havoc for new york? >> well, the federal government says it is credible. we accept it as being credible. and we are concerned about all threats to new york city. i can't tell you much more about it but we have to act accordingly and take it seriously and we're working with our federal partners, to get as much information as we can, hopefully, there will be a stream of information that will be forthcoming and we have ployed additional police officers in key locations, throughout the city and have held our tours so we get an

extra four hours from police officers tour of duty, we have increased assignments at sensitive locations, we do things such as bag searches in our subway system, we increase those searches, we have detectors that we use and have bomb-sniffing dogs we use. we can't limit ourselves to, you know, one specific type of threat. you know, the nature of the threat could change quickly. >> governor huckabee: you have been in the job nearly ten years now and have enacted the most sophisticated counterterrorism measures for a city, more than most countries but it hayes not been without controversy, like anything that is bold and strong initiative it has had its share of critics. this is one of those weekends, do you feel like you could sort of be vindicated because you have said, look we have taken on tough things and we'res why. we don't want another incident

like this? >> yes. that is true. you notice the... i can feel the criticism declining rapidly when you have a weekend like this. i mean, we have to do it. we are a city that has been attacked successfully twice an almost 3,000 people killed here and 13 plots against new york since september 11th and through a combination of good federal work, good work by our police officers, and, look, we have been able to thwart those attempts and so we have to supplement what the federal government can give us. it is obvious that this is where they want to go. >> governor huckabee: one thing you have done is to involve a very diverse police force, you have actively recruited people, who were... people with language skills, beyond english so they could speak, whether arabic or farsi or all types of languages.

no police force in the world has made such an effort. how has that changed your ability to fight the threat of terrorism? >> well it certainly helped us we say that we have more speakers of the sensitive languages th any police agency that -- certainly than i'm aware of and enables us, also, to police the city more effectively and efficiently. this is the most diversity in the world. the most diverse police force i'm aware of, our officer rank is now majority minority. and, it strengths es us, to work in the very complex, demanding world, that we have... >> governor huckabee: 35,000 members of the police force. >> there are 50,000 when you include the civilian employees. >> governor huckabee: 35,000, that is more than most cities have as a population in the country, and i want to ask you, what gives you that wake-up in the night with a cold sweat

fear? >> well, obviously we have to start at the top, the least probable and most consequential would be a nuclear detonation, or following that, a dirty bomb, radiological material combined with explosives and those things give us a lot of concern but there are many other things we have to worry about, conventional, a bomb, vehicle-borne bomb, shooter in a mall, with an ak-47 gun, the most ubiquitous gun in the world, easy to get in the united stat states, biological, chemical weapons, chemical weapons in the subway. we have the second biggest subway system in the world next to moscow and 5 million people a day travel on the system. it is an open system, has 468 stops, or stations.

so, we have a couple thousand police officers assigned to police it but, it's a system that obviously can be vulnerable at times and, in certain location. >> governor huckabee: commissioner, i don't think there is anybody in new york city that will have a busier weekend than you but i hope it is a busy weekend that turns out to be calm. and i think the efforts of your remarkable police force will give us all the assurances of that. thank you very much. we appreciate it. [applause]. >> governor huckabee: he says god couldn't be bothered to stop the muslim terrorists or prevent 3,000 people from being killed in his name and only cared enough to bestow upon us rubble that resembles a cross. i'll be taking on the president of the american atheists. you will not want to miss this. stick around. [applause] thanks to the venture card from capital one, we get double miles on every purchase, so me and my lads earned arip to san francisco twice as fast we get double miles every time we use our card... i'll take these two...

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>> governor huckabee: days after the attacks americans needed hope and comfort and for the workers at ground zero that comfort came where they least expected. just before dawn on september 13th, 2001, as workers searched through the ruins of the world trade center, a 20 foot high section of steel beams shaped like the cross was found. throughout the recovery effort at ground zero, amid grueling conditions and unbearable heart break it became a source of hope and faith. workers began to write on the cross, the names of the dead. and, weekly, masses were held at the cross's base. >> this is a cross for all people. not just for christians. but for all people who gather here to pray. in god's love. >> reporter: and this summer was moved from a catholic church back to ground zero, to the 9/11 memorial museum. but, soon after the very cross that had given so much comfort to so many had become the focus of a lawsuit. a group called american atheists

is suing to stop the display of the cross, claiming it causes them mental pain and anguish, from the knowledge that they are made to feel officially excluded. the suit sparked outrage across the country including that slap from jon stewart. >> atheists, why do you give a [bleeped]? [laughter]. >> if it really bothers you, why not just think of it as a metsal key shaped thingy? >> governor huckabee: shortly after the suit was filed a rasmussen poll showed 72% of americans favored the inclusion in the museum and atheist president david silverman doesn't see it that way, saying, quote: "the world trade center cross has become a christian icon and it has been blessed by so-called holy men and presented as a reminder that their god, who couldn't be bothered to stop the muslim rrorists, or prevent 3,000 people from being killed in his enemy, cared only enough to bestow upon us rubble that resembles a cross."

dave silverman joins me now. >> thanks for having me on the show. >> governor huckabee: if it is just a piebl of rubble why are you so worked up about it. >> it's not equality, when we look at the pile of rubble, to us it is that but it is a christian icon and it was pulled out of the rubble and it was trimmed and modified and made into a christian icon and placed in the memorial as a sole representative of the christian community. >> governor huckabee: but... naturally formed -- no, no, no, that is why they found it arresting, i have friends who were there and one specific friend who was there on the day it was found and he talked to me about what an incredible moment it was, and how for those who were working there, by the way, he is dying of cancer, right now, largely because of his work there and for beam like that, it doesn't mean anything to you but it does to them. why deny them that. >> it means something to us the constitution be protected and

the atheists... >> governor huckabee: what part of the constitution is violated. >> 1st and 14th amendment guarantee equality among religious theologist. >> governor huckabee: let me read it. >> hold on a second. >> governor huckabee: you hold on, it is my show, congress shall make no law prohibiting the free exercise of religion and basically, two things, congress can't prefer a religion and cannot prohibited a religion. that is it. otherwise, government is to stay out of it and let people decide what it means to them. >> you and i both know the supreme court interprets the constitution and has interpreted that and reinforced over and over again the concept that equality reigns supreme up the separation of church and state and we can't have a christian icon in public places, and not allow other people to have their icons... >> governor huckabee: would you like an icon. >> yes. >> governor huckabee: what would be the icon. >> something physical, atheists are about physical things, one hand helping another, hands

helping each other, something that would say, representative of the six or 5 hers atheists who died on 9/11. all we're demanding here is equal representation... >> governor huckabee: you would be okay if the cross stays if you can put hands up there? >> i would be okay if it stayed and we were allowed equal representation, as a memorial. i don't care what it was. >> governor huckabee: i have no problem with that but i have a problem with a lawsuit that says mental anguish, can you explain to me what mental anguish and pain that you have because... >> 9/11. >> governor huckabee: because two pieces of metal formed by the heat of the... >> it's not about the cross but exclusion and only allowing the christians in and excluding the other people... >> governor huckabee: but to you it is rubble. >> and also representative of the christian community. they are going to have a christian icon in the public memorial, paid with public money, we're going to have one, too, that is the law and what we're demanding. >> governor huckabee: the hol cows in washington, d.c., clearly was paid for largely by

public money and do you have a problem it is primarily a testament to jewish people. >> the holocaust museum is about and events that happened to the jews, 9/11 did not... >> governor huckabee: 9/11 didn't happen to people. >> it happened to everybody, governor and christians and atheists and... the state of new york. >> governor huckabee: you have something down there, hands, calling -- i wish god had put two hands together and formed that in nettle. it would have been a lot easier but even if you have to build it, since he didn't... >> god didn't do much. >> governor huckabee: he did a lot. he did a lot, because the comfort he brought through the people including the priests you sued and deny the ministry to be able to touch the people, is not... >> not denying anyone, we are not being bad, demanding equal representation, this is what we do. >> governor huckabee: you are okay if you get a symbol down there. >> equal side... equality, yes. >> governor huckabee: and, in the lawsuit, just get...

>> end it tomorrow, equal representation, end it tomorrow. >> governor huckabee: that is all. >> that's all we want. >> governor huckabee: time is up. i have to tell you, i every time i got mental anguish over the fact people attacked me as a christian i'd be in court all the time but a blow it off and accept, it is mark and people can believe different things. >> and so can you. >> governor huckabee: and i do. i hope someday you will come to know that god even loves the atheist even if the atheists don't love guys like me, i get it. i appreciate it. thank you very much. the plane that hit the pentagon came close to my next guest, i wanted to you look at this. you see the dotted circle on the bottom is where the plane struck and the solid circle above it was the office of lieutenant colonel brian birdwell and he didn't expect to live after the attack but now, a texas state senator, he's here to tell us how he survived, coming up next.

included 30 operations, he recovered from the attack, and was awarded a purple heart for his wounds. brian birdwell has since founded face the fire ministries and it helps burn victims and now he's a state start frenator from texi i spoke with him earlier. >> thanks for joining me. i wanted to go back to the morning of september 11th. tell me, what you remember from that day. >> key things. when i stepped out of the men's restroom, telling sandy and cheryl i would be back momentarily, knowing later those would eventually be the last words i would speak to them, the struggle to survive inside the hallway, permanency and finality of death and how violent it occurred and third, the volume of the sound was instantly deafening and military career, you are around a lot of loud

things but nothing as loud that's plane making impact with the building and heroism of bill, roy, chuck and john and picking me up and carrying me out of the danger area to where i received my first medical care and, just a number of things from that day i'll remember that had incredible gravity to the pain and emotionaling a nanny of what our nation and we were experiencing in a personal way. >> governor huckabee: when you were first picked up by the friends of yours, trying to rescue you, i heard you tell and it is graphic, but powerful, what happened when they reached for you, and in essence, each grabbing one of your extremities to carry you out of the danger zone. >> yes, sir, with the massiveness of my burns, 60% total body burn, and i collapsed in front of bill, roy, chuck and john as i was staggering down the hallway, roy was the first one to the of one of the near rer ring doors, to come into the -- interior ring doors, because

it was not a place to wait to get medical care to me and, the fire in the area i left and worked my way out of, they in their haste to move me as quickly as they could grabbed a limb and give the first exertion to pick me up and doing so, i didn't come with me and they pulled chunks of my flesh off because of the damage done and this, you know, when you lose the water out of your body, evaporates with the burns, the flesh comes off. and that is my first in sight into the pain thresholds ahead of me when they pulled the flesh off i began yelling to leave me alone and leave me there and i knew in my heart and mind, left me there to die and they comrades in arms didn't do that and he put his arms beneath my back and they shook hands with each other without grasping me and shake hands with my body weight resting on their arms carried me into the a-ring and down a hallway to where i

received the medical care from the great air force doctor, john baxter. >> governor huckabee: you are not supposed to survive what you did, burns over 60% of your body, most 3rd degree. at what point did you say, this is it, i'm not going to make it and, did you ever have that moment, when you gave up? >> yes, sir. inside the hallway, in struggling to survive, when you are set ablaze and cannot escape the source of the death you know you are dying and darkness around, when you go from a well-lit hallway to the blackness of not only the black smoke pouring out of building and damage to the lighting systems, the panic of the darkness as you are dying that death and cannot escape to -- don't know which way is to safety and which to danger, those moments seemed an eternity i came to the realization it wasn't a struggle to survive, it

was the way home to go to eternity and i said i got it and waited to die and surrendered, we in the military are not trained to do and the second time, having lived through the emotion and agony inside the building, getting to georgetown university hospital, and emergency room and dr. williams is about to anesthetize me knowing i may not awake and thinking about what were my last words going to be and said good-bye to my wife and son, with the symbolism of the wedding ring taken off my finger which was painful but i wasn't thinking about that. thinking about the finality, this is the last chance to have a communication with mel before i'm sedated. and the third time would be, after matt visits me and having that opportunity to say good-bye to my son a few days after the attack i was having -- my "it is finished moment" and i was ready for the lord to end the agony, calling me home into eternity. but the lord saw fit to other

things and keep me alive and carry us through the difficult challenges of recovering and lengthy hospitalization, what it is like to live in a burn center months on end. >> governor huckabee: do you ever have moments of bitterness and anger toward the people who did this? how do you cope with that and surely you must have had those moments in the months and months of hospitalization. >> absolutely. we come from the scriptural, biblical perspective, my duty is forgiveness, the five men who crashed flight 77 into the building repented from the belief system that caused them to think it rational to fly into a building and kill hundreds of people came and said, ryan, forgive us, i could do so but forgiveness is my responsibility. and not my government's responsibility. my government's duty is to protect me and my liberties and life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, romans 13 tells us, government bears the sword against those who will do evil and forgiveness is my duty and my government's duty to protect me and preserve my rights and

secure the nation and that is how i view it. i'm not prepared to forgive the culture, whether bin laden or others, that believe it rational to fly planes into buildings, i want my nation and government to go after those folks and continue to protect us. but forgiveness is my responsibility. not theirs. [applause]. >> governor huckabee: i thank the senator, for joining us today. when we come back, he says the president is too concerned about offending muslims and that that is hurting america's war on terror. continue continue senator joe

weeks of rain, i'm harris faulkener, now back to huckabee. ♪ >> governor huckabee: here's one of the toughest voices on radical islamic extremism and is also the chairman of the homeland security and government mental affairs committee, the author of a brand new book "the gift of rest" and earlier, i spoke to connecticut senator joe lieberman and asked where he was the morning of september 11th. >> i was here on capitol hill,

one of those mornings, i had three different events early and i came out of the first one and got a call or heard on the radio a plane had flown into one of the twin towers and thought to myself, i had been concerned about terrorism quite a while, is that a terrorist attack or an accident? i thought maybe an accident, that happened sometimes, and the second meeting was a chamber of congress group for north carolina and on the way out, someone said a second plane flew and then i knew we were under attack and went back to my office and heard about the plane flying into the pentagon and we cleared out of the office and i'll tell you this, by way of metaphor, capitol hill was not ready. since then, we are totally prepared and, if anything like that happens again, and, sin then or country has been

tremendously well prepared and defended and is part of the reason why, as no one would predicted on september 12th, 2001 we have not had a major successful terror attack on the u.s. >> governor huckabee: let's talk about how did that events change you? how did it change your philosophy, your world view and then, most significantly change you, in terms of being a united states senator and understanding your role and responsibility dealing with terrorism in the days ahead? >> well, that is a really great question and i'll tell you the me that was there on that morning, september 11th, '01, was somebody who had views about the world that america had a responsibility, a mission that we were given by our founders, and declaration of independence which was a universal declaration of human rights. and wherever we could, had to stand in defense of those rights. secondly, there were enemies in the world, and that the most

significant way to remain not only secure but free as americans was for us to stay strong. on that day, it became clear to me, and a lot of others that we had been drawn by thettacks of 9/11 into a war, and became a nation at war, with a... extremist ideology, violent islamist terrorism and we had to defend our country against the unconventional enemy and we had to carry the fight to them in the world and ten years later, though we made mistakes along the way as happens in a war, i don't think our enemy secured any victories, i think we have become, our military and intelligence, the most powerful and effective counterterrorism force in history and thank god we haven't had a major terror

attack on the u.s., i want to talk about the enemy. you made bold and i would consider provocative statements recently that are very important for us. you said that to call our enemy violent extremism is so general and vague that it ultimately has no meaning. do you think that this current administration, the president has been a little reticent in calling islamic jihadists out by name and being really honest with us and saying, these are our enemies? >> yeah. i don't get that one the administration has really been good at carrying forward the homeland security policies of the bush administration and some of the foreign policies but i don't get that one. and i constantly am embattled with people in the administration. back to the great ancient chinese philosopher, sun sui, he said you have to know your enemy, i'm paraphrasing and it is pretty clear that our enemy

here is an ideology, just like our enemies in the last century, fascism and communism and i violent extreme i.t. ideology, it's not islam. it is a political perversion of islam, and, if you are not willing to call it what it is how will you fight it successfully? in fact my sense of it is people in the obama administration think if they call it violent islamist extremism or jihadism they will offend mainstream nonviolent muslims but, frankly, i think we are insulting them by not being willing to call it what it is, which is not what they are. and i'll keep hammering away at this as long as i can, if you call it violent extremism, there are other violent extremism and there are white supremacist extremists and ecoterrorists and

even animal rights extremists but that is not who we are fighting, who attacked us on 9/11, and not who we are fighting around the world and who tried repeatedly to attack us again, it is violent islamist extremism and until we call it what it is, i don't think we're ultimately going to vanquish the enemy. >> governor huckabee: skillful workers and loyal companions in the aftermath of the attacks, a decade later a few of these heros are still around, kaiser, the search and rescue dog and [ male announcer ] you never know when, but thieves can steal your identity. turning your life upside down in a matter of seconds. hi. hi. you know i can save you 15% today if you open up a charge card account with us. you just read my mind. [ male announcer ] just one little piece of information and they can open bogus accounts, stealing your credit, your money, and ruining your reputation. that's why you need lifelock. lifelock is the leader in identity theft protection.

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[applause]. >> governor huckabee: in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 rescue workers from across the country traveled to ground zero, where they would help the unprecedented recovery effort. but, for many of these remarkable men and women, there was an unsung hero, right by their side. ♪ >> governor huckabee: the search and rescue dogs of 9/11 served a vital role in the days and weeks after the attack. these brave dogs ventured into the aftermath, testing the unsteady terrain ahead of their owners, often injuring themselves, in the mounds of mangled rubble, burning steel and broken glass. working long and tiring shifts. these dogs continued searching for potential survivors. and, like their human

counterparts, they mourned for the loss of life, that surrounded them. >> after a long period of time, you keep on finding cadaver after cadaver after cadaver, no victims, dogs get down on themselves and i come out here and let the people play with her. >> reporter: it served as relief for the workers as well, a break from the hill they were living and remainder of the small comforts in life that seem so far away. these dogs offered their intelligence, their strength and their courage when it was needed the most. but, what they offered best, was what a dog always offers best... unconditional love. >> we give them a lot of love and they give it back. >> reporter: ten years later only a dozen search and rescue dogs are still alive from the hundreds that served in the aftermath. but, their contribution to the show and its people should not be forgotten. kaiser, one of the search and rescue dogs and his owner, tony, join me now. [applause].

>> governor huckabee: hello, tony. >> hi. >> governor huckabee: hi! how are you doing, kaiser? a good looking dog. >> thank you. >> governor huckabee: a pleasure to have him and you here. tony, i want to begin by going back to the day on that very day, september 11th you got the call, less than 24 hours after the events, you were at ground zero with kaiser. tell me what you first saw when you got there. >> well, they loaded 3 of outs in the back of a military truck we traveled with and, the roads weren't cleared close to the pile and we had to walk the last four blocks and passed old cemeteries and the powder and the debris started to get thicker and thicker and we began towing our equipment over top of it and it was surreal. there was smoke, powder, there was big lights, big equipment,

and all of that sort of thing going on, and, just didn't seem real at first. >> governor huckabee: i want to ask you about the site itself. kaiser got hurt the second day he was on the job. what happened? >> well, we had worked the night of the 12th and the morning of the 13th they called us after a couple of hours and said they needed more dogs and we got on our horse and got out there and, we were working in building 7 and he went in at one point and, my called him back out, he said, okay now what and you are bleeding, let's look after that first. and, kind of a cut off the pad, split off a piece of steel and hook it. >> governor huckabee: people don't understand the tough conditions, these dogs are going through rubble no human has yet been abl to get around and go in before the humans to make sure things don't collapse and fall. >> they are remarkable, and have remarkable agility and he was trained as a puppy for this and learned to money naanipulate an

careful and watch what he was doing and had very much the... that type of thing, wording into him as he went and they distribute their weight and move lightly and quickly and we have to be careful when we follow them because they go across something and you are falling through where they went across. >> governor huckabee: kaiser now is 13 years old and one of only a dozen of the original 9/11 search and rescue dogs that are still around. and, you have to just think back these ten years, i want to ask you something. what is the memory that just, even after ten years, still, just gets to you, when you think about it? >> well, it is funny, this morning is the first time i have been back here and started thinking about the events, a little differently. because i was back in indianapolis all of this time, and, you know, you think back originally, think about here i am, 16 acres of devastation and there were times particularly at night when you were completely vourned by devastation and fire

and smoke and thinking, wow i have to be careful i could get lost out here and no one would know where to find me and this morning i started remembering the pain that you felt thinking about all of these guys that you were working with who lost people that were near and dear them. and the fact that you see the policemen and firemen in town and see the ambulances go by and remembering that always -- these people are trying hard to suck it up and make it happen and at the same time were dealing with a lot of pain. >> governor huckabee: i think a lot of us understand all the human endeavors, we sometimes forget the extraordinary role these dogs played, looking for hopefully survivors and didn't really find them but found a lot of really, body parts that helped eventually be identified. we have never identified all of the nearly 3,000 people who have died. but had it not been for the dogs like kaiser, the task would have been more difficult and even the therapy that they provided to the workers to give them some

semblance of hope and companionship made a huge difference. thank you very much for sharing your story and, more importantly, sharing kaiser's heroic story. >> thanks for having us. >> governor huckabee: thank you. [applause]. >> governor huckabee: i'll be back in a moment with closing comments. please, stay with us.

>> governor huckabee: tomorrow americans will engage in solemn reminders in my generation's version of pearl harbor, except where pictures were days and weeks getting to most americans the full color images of the horrors of 9/11 were played out before us, live and in real-time from every angle. and we actually sat dumbfounded

knowing our nation was being attacked... later we would identify these agents of satan as radical muslim jihadists who believe it is perfectly acceptable to randomly murder innocent men, women and children. and, who even believed that they would be rewarded by their god for doing it. it would be a really deranged deity who would reward the slaughter of innocents and thanks to the diligent work of our police an intelligence services we have not had a widespread attack on our soil since 9/11 and, let's not naively believe we're immune from it happening even yet again. the demonic forces that carried out this deadly attack ten years ago have not disappeared. nor even diminished. and, neither should our resolve to defeat them. my own father was a firefighter, in my small home town and until 9/11 i never thought people really appreciated what he did. after that day, i felt that people better understood the kind of courage that it takes to

rush into the very danger that other people are rushing away from. i only wish my father had lived long enough to see that, but in a way, i'm glad he didn't live so long as to see the horrors of that day. nearly 3,000 of our fellow americans were murdered that day and we owe to it them and their families to respect, to remember, and vow never to repeat it. from new york, this is mike huckabee, good night, and may god bless america.