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see the family step up and read aloud. the power of saying the names people we will never see again from that day is part of that important remembers, guys. we will be talking to people here, first responders all morning long. >> sure, and frank got involved, when the 9/11 memorial museum announced. we will not be able to do the district to life, two beams of life that go straight up into the sky. because of covid we don't want to put people at risk. frank siller said are you dismigd we can do that got involved. essentially we have dueling commemorations today. pete: correct.

then the 9/11 memorial divided to do the lights which will be done tonight but they still deferred on the reading in -- recording of the names and the vice president will attend that briefly come and give remarks to the dhs secretary. a little bit different but just in the shadow of will 20 years no. less powerful as this city goes through city right now in a different context. ainsley: have you been working on a special called modern warriors. why do you call did modern warriors? >> it's called modern warriors because it's a series of conversations with the guys who have -- bear the brunt of the battle since 9/11 who brought let troy biewtion of a nation enemy against us. fox nation one hour ago. brand new. it's called modern warriors, the 9/11 generation. we talked to vets whose lives were changed because they deployed multiple, multiple time to defend.

faces you will recognize. bird man, navy seal. here is a portion of what he said in our special. >> i remember our teacher getting up and running and they turned it on i remember them saying this is a possible terrorist attack. and i had been toying around with the idea of joining the military. i stood up, i left his class and went right to the recruiter station hey, whatever it takes, i want to get in the program. i want to go in the navy and hopefully be a seal. pete: you left class that day? >> that minute. pete: guys like that that answered our nation's call. we filmed it right there in the shadow of the north tower. just around the corner from us. powerful, powerful stories. if you have a moment together go to face and check it out. it will air sunday night on the fox news channel, guys. all part of the proper remembrance our channel does so well and our show does so well also. brian: absolutely. check it out now after our show and then they can go to fox nation if you don't mind. stick with this broadcast.

and a quick thing, they did an unbelievable job at the 9/11 foundation building all -- building the actual museum and commemorating the footprints of the towers and pete will be showing us that this morning. meanwhile, today president trump and joe biden are taking a pause on the campaign trail to honor the 9/11 victims. steve: both candidates busy visiting battle ground states and very important one today, ainsley. ainsley: mark meredith joins us live from washington with the latest on the 2020 race. hey, mark. >> anxiously, good morning to you. president trump rallied thousands of his supporters last night at airport in northern michigan. the state is considered a toss-up in the 2020 race. the president used air force one as a back drop for his rally and for more than an hour, he criticized former vice president joe biden on the economy, trade, and presidential leadership. >> at no time before has there been a clearer choice between two parties, two visions. you have sleepy joe and you have

trump. if we win, america wins. that's what it is about. if we win, america wins. [cheers and applause] >> president appears ego torl highlight a comment biden made on the administration's u.s., mexico and canada trade deal. listen. >> doesn't he deserve some credit for that? it's better -- the usmca is better than nafta. >> it is better than nafta. tell you what we did do, we inherited the greatest recession shorts of a depression. >> last night the president accused biden of making a campaign gaffe by praising the administration's efforts to reform trade. >> i couldn't believe it. he said usmca. he made a mistake from his perspective, he made a mistake. because he doesn't know what's going on. even though he is right. >> this weekend the president is going to be campaigning out west. he is heading to nevada where the campaign is scrambling to adjust its plans due to the state's covid restrictions.

steve, ainsley and brian, back to you in new york. brian: thanks, brian. the hardest thing that joe biden has to do is convince people is he going to be tougher on china and he is going to be better on trade and bringing jobs home because he never has. when it came to the usmca and nafta well i supported nafta because i heard there was going to be a mechanism in there enforcement mechanism. that's what george bush told us, 41. it turns out it was bill clinton that passed it. you signed on to it and trumpeted it for 20 years. a lot of republicans supported nafta. it was a republican idea and taken and thought to be a good idea by bill clinton. you can't run from your past. and we will show you throughout the show that a lot of the things that joe biden has to defend, he has to defend having the support of the left, that's not been his track record. as well as what he has done in the past, which isn't too popular now. so, joe biden talked about, you know, he actually sat down with jake tapper who the president mentioned last night. nifers guy but doesn't like me that much. the president had raucous even.

if i'm on the biden campaign you might see the polls and think you have an advantage. if you watch the president and see those crowds how quick they come together, the passion which they show, it's got to intimidate you. here is joe biden on. steve: on monday he was at an event at afl-cio hall where he was answering questions. and to a lot of people when he says move it up here, people read into is he reading from a teleprompter? you be the judge. >> i would like to know, what will your administration do to help them give them that chance? thank you. >> move it up here. you know, there used to be a basic bargain in this country, workers shared in the wealth their work helped create. steve: it is curious, because it is believed that usually at

these kind of events he actually knows who is going to be asking the next question and generally know what they are going to ask. so did somebody put something in the teleprompter? earlier this month, he started a response to a question about foreign policy by saying in part, look, venezuela top line message is president trump's policy is an abject failure. he wasn't supposed to mention top line failure. anyway. bret baier sat down and asked what's going on with the prompter, if any. >> has joe biden ever used a teleprompter during local interviews or to answer q and a with supporters? >> brett, we are not going -- this is straight from the trump campaign. bret: yeah, they are using it. >> what it does, brett is, trying to distract the american people. bret: they use it. they talk about it every day yes or no. >> they talk about it every day because they don't have coherent strategy. bret: answer "yes" or "no." >> brett, they talk about it

every day because they don't have coherent argument why donald trump deserves re-election and four more years. we know he has lied to the american people and not shown leadership during this crisis. they are desperate to throw anything they can against the wall to you distract from that event. bret: i understand. but you can't answer the question? steve: so easy. yes or no. ainsley: before they go on all these interviews, then they have to prepare for them. they knew that was going to be one of the questions, right? i guests they decided as a group look, don't answer to the question, stick to your talking points, try to skirt your way through this and push brett to ask the next question. and then we can check that box. but brett continue uselessly pushed and pushed and pushed and said to his credit, to brett's credit, he said we jewels wanted to know is there a teleprompter? he wouldn't answer that question. then when brett asked him about the travel ban, he said president trump he enacted this travel ban in january. and joe biden is calling it

xenophobia, racism. this press secretary said was for the travel ban. brett said he was for the travel ban and brett pressed him a few times on that. he continue uselessly said joe biden walls for the travel babble. a lot of back and forth and dodging. brian: brett was just as the trump mur to have who came after that. that's the only way to get progress if you allow people to continue to say things that make no sense. meanwhile, carly shimkus is here to tell us what's happening in the news. carley: that's right. we're going to start here with a first alert. at least 10 people are dead in a mooive wildfire in bute county, california. making it the state's deadliest wildfire this year. 16 people still missing. firefighters say more than today

the four former minneapolis officers charged in george floyd's death will appear together in court for the first time. chauvin. king, -- all face the judge. first time he will appear in person. he dolls remain behind bars. other exofficers are free on bail. protests are expected outside the courthouse today as the judge weighs moving the trial out of minneapolis. will decide whether the former officers should be tried separately or as a group. senator lindsey graham hypotheticalling at the release of more bombshell information related to the russia probe. graham sharing the revelations after newly released doj records show members of the russia probe accidentally wind at least 15 phones of information when the inspector general asked for them

to be handed over. >> if you can't imagine your own phone why should we trust to you investigate a crime. do you think you are mad about the phones being wiped? stay tuned. we'll talk in 10 or 12 days and see if there is something else you could get mad about. carley: graham adding he has asked werer comey and mccabe and peter strzok to testify before the committee as part of the durham investigation. the nfl is back and the reigning super bowl champs picked up right where they left off and steve is very happy about it. >> defensive line, second down and 3. big poll. edwards will take it to the end zone. >> the kansas city chiefs beating the houston texans 34-20. in the first game of the nfl. iof course, since the pandemic started. super bowl mvp patrick mahomess throwing three touch downs. before the game okafor lone

player to take a knee during the national anthem as the texans chose to stay in the locker room. that's how that game shaped up from start to finish, guys. steve: and with the sound as the big plays were made it sounded if you didn't see the empty it sundayed just like it used to. brian: i will say this. they booed. people were booing in kansas city when when both teams came out and locked arms. email i got from four days of football interviews some people so angry about the activism in the sports. ainsley: i thought of you when they won, congratulations, kansas city. steve: go team. ainsley: 15 minutes after the top of the hour. joe biden unveils his make it in america plan and slams president trump for so-called broken promises. next guest operates his own american clothing company and says the president's policies has helped him directly. we are going to talk to him next. and, steve, what's next? steve: take a look, ainsley,

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>> president trump has broken about every promise made to american works. kit jobs and billions of dollars in tax breaks. we're going to impose a tax penalty on companies that avoid paying u.s. taxes by offshoring jobs and manufacturing. i'm not looking to punish american business.

but there is a better way. brian: and i will raise corporate taxes, too. go figure. joe biden unveiling new make it in america plan in michigan this week taking a few shots at president trump along the way. the next guest started his own american made clothing company. he did it back in 2016. and says he has enjoyed success under the administration's america first initiatives. here with his story founder and vice president love of country. guy served as air force medic. joe nogin. welcome. >> good morning, sir. how are you? brian: you decide you are going to make this american product and going to make everything herhere by american workers and american manufacturing. i guess you are pleased with joe biden doing the same thing president trump wants to do. >> it's unnecessary. we have already got the plan in place. love of country clothe something made exclusively 100 percent in the united states. our cotton is grown to our

country. and ships to another facility who puts everything together another facility in the country where we assemble our clothes and print on long island, new york. president trump put in there build, create and grow more product using american labor, american goods and american grit. that's what we are doing. and since we launched in 2016 under president trump. we ventricle joyed a lot of success. it's been fantastic. we have already got it in place. follow through and need stability. that's what we have right now. and love the success and love love of country clothing stands for. brian: for your service we thank you especially on a day like this. i was shocked to see when you decide to make t-shirts and apparel in america, you had very few choices. we're doing very lintel here, correct? >> that is correct. there is only a handful of actual manufacturers that are 100 percent u.s.a. made. there are more that claim to be, however, for us and when we say 100 percent exclusive made in the united states, like i said,

that's starlight to finish. that's products that are grown here. goods that are grown here and produced here. that's what we do. we tried four companies in america. and we ended up with one that actually had a very high quality product, which is what we are about. we want a premium line, 100 percent made in the united states. we took about a year. started in 2015, about a year at r and d to try to figure out where are we going to get our quality usa products from. it was very difficult. brian: you launched this company and go around with trailers to big events. but we haven't had any events. things have been tough for guys like you and families like yours. but, what i found amazing is it would have been cheaper for you. you would have got more profit to go and give the contract to a chinese company. have them make it there, ship it here. you could make more money, but you are going out of your way to make it here. and i wish that wasn't the case but that's the reality of business in america today.

it's true. we were actually advised. talking to friends and family. why don't you get what everybody else does. get the inexpensive shirt i could pay pennies on the multiple dollars on the shirts that cost us. that's not what we believe. in i'm a medic in the new york national guard serving active duty role full time with that it's not what we believe. in we want 100% u.s. made. took a step back business on hold with mobile store and instead of going throughout the country because of precautions we still do the grind. it's going to build our country and our economy. brian: it's not a theory or words on the page. this is life when you want to make something in america and which is pretty cool for fox viewers. if you want love of country stuff. i'm sure you do. offering fox viewers a 10% discount, right? >> absolutely. so fox 10. go to love of country clothing.com. all of our love of country. we are going to put out a 9/11

shirt working with a company not for profit. put it on the website. working close with you guys and talked earlier about it. that will be coming soon. i appreciate you doing everything you do to support our president and our country and we love your loyalty followers. thank you some for the opportunity. brian: america first, thanks joe and thanks for what you are doing for the family. 9/11 terror attacks, thousands of lives lost. many would sign up to join the war on terror. how many would do that one gold star father whose army ranger son was killed in iraq in 2007. has a new mission to help others to make sure they never forget our elite fighters. he joins us live next. here is a look at memorial as we remember 9/11 19 years later. ♪

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today americans nationwide reflect on the 3,000 lives alost september 11th terrorist attack 19 years ago. jim regan watched as the first plane hit the world trade center and six years later the fallout

from that day would touch him and his family personally his son army ranger sergeant james regan gave his life in iraq in 2007. defending the freedom on 9/11 that his dad witnessed. jim somebody 00 mission to support the elite just like his son. jim regan is the founder of the army ranger lead the way fund and i joins us now. hey, jim, thanks for being with us. >> ainsley, wonderful to be here and thank you for giving mee the opportunity. ainsley: absolutely. so many parts to this story. start from the beginning. 9/11, where were you? what did you see? >> 9/11, unbelievable day. working at fidelity and the world financial center after the first plane went in at 8:46. they evacuated the building. so my team and myself, we went down, we were out by the west side highway at liberty street right across from maybe your viewers remember the old trade ships bar that was there by the

marriott. we were right across the street from there. at 9:03, above our heads, we hear this roaring sound of a plane working its way through the streets of new york, so to speakenned slamming into the 77th floor of the tower. fireball overhead people don't realize this but the world trade center was covered in stainless steel about a 16th of an inch and the shrapnel from that was unbelievable. it fell down, it hit people. slamming into cars, slamming into the streets utter chaos. that way we worked our way up to the marina area the world financial center fast pace we didn't know if there was going to be another plane come in. worked our way up to the high school, where i waited about, i would say about 10 to 15 minutes to be able to get myself on a pay phone and call home poke to

my wife. everyone was very concerned, obviously. especially my daughter and son who were away at college. jimmy was down at duke and mary beth was down at georgetown. told her that we were fine things were chaotic. mentioned a couple folks that were with me to try to contact their folks to tell them that they were safe. and i said, i'm going to work my bay up to penn station to see what goes on. give myself portable radio. one of the stores. to be able to monitor what was happening. and we ended up at sky light diner having coffee waiting for what was going to happen next. ainsley: did you go home by the grace of god to your family. so many others didn't. your son decides to become an army ranger. what happened to him in iraq. your namesake. jimmy jimmy? >> i will tell you, we didn't realize it at that time, but the world trade center incident killing 3500 americans changed the course of the regan family,

obviously. 19 years ago, you know, jimmy watched planes going in from duke. what his dad was up to. whether he was there or not. and six years later jimmy gave his life to his country army ranger. 9/11 affected the direction of our life for the rest of our lives. ainsley: some people lost their lives from your area out on long island for folks at home 'it's about 30 minutes outside of the city and a lot of men and women commute into the city to go to work and bring a paycheck home to their families. did you so much to raise a wonderful family. your friend went to unbelievable school hard to get into. lacrosse player. played lacrosse on duke. offered huge job on wall street to follow your steps. he decided to fight for our country and elite special ops

team. he was engaged to a woman. we have basic your son buried at arlington and his fiancee is right there at his grave site. i know she is working with your organization. tell us about lead the way fund? >> active duty casualty organization established in jimmy's honor to build his legacy. we started it in 2008 and we have over a decade of service to the 75th ranger regiment. we have touched the lives of roughly 40,000 rangers and their families we assist them with recovery support. we build homes our severely wounded rangers. right now building a home in wesley chapel with another patriotic fund. jared allen. and you know, our mission is not complete. we are not going to leave any ranger behind. essentially, we're focused. that's my mission, and it's now the mission and it has been the

mission of army ranger lead the way fund. so, i love for everyone to jump on lead the way fund site and find out more about us. but we will not leave any army ranger behind in the field of battle. ainsley: i can't imagine what you have gone through. no greater loss than to lose your child especially your only son. wish your family well. and listen we have the most generous viewers. your son has sacrificed and everything. for this amazing country we live. in generous viewers, i'm sure would want to donate to your fund. there is the organization's website lead the way fund.org. heroes serving all around the world. thank you so much. >> jim, i appreciate it. give your betts to your wife and girls and to his fiancee. >> thank you very much, ainsley. anksd i appreciate the opportunity. ainsley: you are welcome. god bless you. they conducted the greatest rescue mission in the history of the united states. and today we honor those brave first responders 19 years since

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stanford firefighter who died last year from 9/11 related injuries. and in the middle, 343 red flags are arranged to look like the twin towers and represent each firefighter who died during 9/11 rescue efforts. joining us right now is our panel of 9/11 first responders, they were here in new york 19 years ago. the president of the uniform firefighters association former new york city police department lieutenant. >> good morning. steve: good morning, sir. dr. darrin porcher. >> good morning, steve. steve: uniform fire officer's association jake la honda. former detective oscar odom. thank you for joining us. andy, let's start with you. 19 years ago, after the planes flew into the towers, you were in the vista hotel between the south and the north towers when

the towers collapsed, you are considered a survivor. you were one of the few who made it out alive. 343 lost that day from the fire department. yes, i was with 58 engine from harlem. assigned to the going to the tower. lobby of the vista hotel. we made it into the lobby about 10 minutes before the south tower came down and landed. my lt. was trapped with crew chiefs from the 12 battalion and half the guys made it outside. i was one of the guys that made it outside. and other guys had managed to find lieutenant and spend the next 45 minutes trying to dig lieutenant chief out. when the north tower came down, the guys started of working on digging them out made a run for it and miraculously survived. the crew chiefs and my

lieutenant bobby nagel were never recovered. steve: terrible. dr. porcher, back then you were a sergeant and after the second plane hit, it was clear it was not an accident. where did they send you? >> >> well, i actually went down to the area of the world trade center because i was working in manhattan, manhattan south to be specific. and so there was a contingent of officers and supervisors deployed to the world chase center complex. it's both nostalgic but at the same token tragic. when we look at it, i clearly didn't understand how immense the damage was. when you saw that smoke cloud go up. you clearly knew this was a real issue. i lost one of my co-workers glen petit as a result of responding to this location. and, you know, is he someone that was a great guy, phenomenal. he selflessly put himself out there to rescue people that didn't have the ability to protect themselves. i just look back at it and i'm

happy to speak to you about this. but it was the worst terrorist attack on u.s. soil in history. and we can kind of -- it unified us in many ways. we look to where we are right now in terms of the divisiveness and the divided nature of the country now. it really reflects on how we could get to a better place. steve: we certainly were united. you are absolutely right. jake, you had the day off. but you were one of those people who ran toward the towers rather than away from it. >> yeah. it was my day off. and i had just dropped my two little girls off at school. and i remember just thinking what a magnificent, beautiful day it was. steve: it was. >> it was almost perfect. and then all of a sudden my phone started ringing, radio broadcast, breaking news. i went home and i actually

turned on the tv and i saw the second plane hit the second tower. and immediately i knew this was no accident. like every other firefighter and fire officer, i just squared away my house and i headed into the city to get my gear and then down to the trade center. pete: that's right. and at that point we didn't even know about the two other planes. dr. odom, you were in the sheriff's department. you were over in brooklyn. but you are one of those people, rather than going out of manhattan, into brooklyn, you were going from brooklyn into mantle to go to work. >> yes. i actually was off that day and my wife and i were going to have our annual checkup and i heard it on the radio what had happened. i lived downtown brooklyn. so immediately i put my wife and my son at home.

steve: yeah. >> over the bridge and just went there to provide assistance and then make connections with the people from the sheriff's department, my officers to make sure that everything was squared away and just was down there helping out and just watching bodies all over the place. you know, like i said, i commend the people that did this with me. you know, selfless acts and also to those who we lost and those who are continuing to suffer throughout this day. steve: dr. odom, thank you for that stand by, guys. this is something we watch every year the pentagon is unfurling one of the beautiful great big flags down the side of the pentagon. remember it was pentagon -- it was american airlines flight 77 when 115 pentagon employees were killed when it crashed into the side. 10 were contractors. 53 passengers and crew on american airlines flight 77 and famously defense secretary donald rumsfeld was in the building. he felt the shake and ran toward the chaos.

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ainsley: it's a somber tradition on 9/11 for families to read the names of their loved ones during

a memorial ceremony. this year it almost didn't happen. until tunnel 2 towers steps, in brian. brian: this morning vice president mike pence will be there to help pay tribute. steve: meanwhile our own pete hegseth is down at that memorial. he joins us right now along with ceo of tunnel 2 towers foundation frank siller and, pete is frank's brother. and what he did 19 years ago that gave that organization its name. pete: amen. him and men like him, frank siller is a living testament to what his brother steven did on that day and so many others. he joins me now. the ceo and chairman of tunnel 2 towers. frank, our viewers know and love you and appreciate the work you do every single day. never more significant than on this day on 9/11. as lights come on. as the sunrises here in the city. what are you reflecting on? >> well, i'm reflecting on what my brother did that day. and the 9:59 we are going to have a moment of silence.

that's when the south tower fell. and that's when i lost my brother. that's when i turned to my mother-in-law said nancy i think i lost my brother 19 years ago. i remember where i was. i remember gathering with my brothers and sisters afterwards. i remember going to my sister-in-law's house. i will never forget that day. we didn't know how steven got there at that point but we knew he would find a wait a minute like some of our first responders did that day and some people -- some acts of heroism on that day. pete: absolutely. of course we now know that he loaded up 60 pounds of gear and ran through that tunnel ultimately sacrificing his life for so many others. tunnel 2 towers where have you come in 19 years. here we are standing in fronts of a stage. the vice president will be here today reading part of the names. your mission continues a little bit different this year though in your role. talk to us how it came about that tunnel 2 towers is doing this here. when the 9/11 memorial and museum decided not to read the

names outloud. 9/11 families and myself included we were appalled it that they didn't. kept sacred. one thing we have to do on this day read those names out loud in person. so we said if you are not going to do it. we are. and here we are doing it and we are proud to take on that responsibility. you know, pete, we built especially adapted smart homes for our countries' most catastrophically injured. we give homes gold star families and first responder families that died in the line of duty. we do all of that our first responsibility is on this day every single year to make sure that we always remember and we never forget the sacrifice that was made 19 years ago by some great men and women. pete: we mind you right now mental and women joining our military today weren't even alive on 9/11. reflect on the legacy of where we are 19aving learned so much and gone through so much. you live it in a different way more than most.

>> yes. and you are 100 percent right. that's why days like today are important to remember those who pass before us. we want to learn from our history. we don't want to tear down our history. we want to make sure that we understand that we don't want to get attacked again. if you keep on putting zeros on the end of 2977 the terrorists would have been happier killing poor people. we don't want that to happen. lost 700,000 men and women who protected our country ever since 9/11 and we want to always remember that. today is significant day. we always must remember and i will tell you what, ones who are joining the service today, they are as great as the ones who served 19 years ago. pete: real quick the vice president will be up on stage. what does it mean to have him here today. >> i think it speaks how important it is this day. he knew we were reading the names out loud. they contacted us. we are very proud that he is coming and joining us on our event. it means a lot to us. pete: absolutely.

frank siller god bless you for the work you do. our viewers know and love that work. especially on this day. we will be joining you following this all morning long on fox and friends. thank you very much, frank, appreciate it. brian, steve, ainsley, back to you. we will have more on the ground later in the program. brian: thanks so much, pete. great job. by the way, all these charities are taking a beating because of this year they can't do any events. can't do the run. go to tunnel 2 towers you will not regret giving anything you can meanwhile he became america's mayor on 9/11. leading a city under attack. rudy giuliani joins us live to reflect back 19 years later. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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news brought to my mind, steve, the fact is, you know, we rallied around the president why weren't talking about what went wrong report. months down the line. maybe a year. that's a little different than the pandemic. first hit, everyone was pointing fingers today. back then, no one was saying that's a republican president. i wonder if is he going to get blamed. >> yeah. a lot has changed in the country. and once again, we are doing another special, three hour program of fox and friends. we appreciate you joining us and we thank you as well. pete hegseth is down at lower manhattan, and, pete, it is a different kind of year as brian said with covid. and that's why, you know, the city has been locked down and they tried to lock down the memorial today but that did not happen. pete: no, you can't lock down frank siller and tunnel 2 towers. the minute that decision was made he said we will read the

names aaloud live from the stage. they are doing it arranged the corner is ground zero and vice president will be here portion of those reading of the names aloud. you mentioned the unit of that t moment. i reflect on watching george w. bush on that rubble pile saying don't worry. they will hear all of us now with that mega phone inspiring a nation to come together and today, guys, i get a chance to do a lot of unique things for this show. nothing to me more sacred and special than standing on this hallowed ground on this morning as the lights come on in the city. and it's the same kind of morning you might recall that 19 years ago. we are going to remember right here. we're going to bring tunnel 2 towers ceremony to you and it's an honor to do so, guys. ainsley: pete, we all know that you served our country and so grateful to you and some heros that have fought for our country after 9/11 and before 9/11 as well. thank you. we will be czeching in with you all morning long. pete: thank you.

ainsley: you are welcome. today president trump and joe biden are going to take a break from the campaign trail to remember all the lives lost in shanksville, pennsylvania. brian: both will be there. mark meredith live as the president and joe biden will honorable passengers and crew on flight 93. mark, i'm wondering are they going to de-conflict or how are they doing this? >> we were just looking at the schedules. right now. we don't believe that they are going to be there at the same time. vice president biden's schedule says it will be in the afternoon. the president will be in a pennsylvania for most of the morning. is he actually scheduled to leaf washington here within the next 15 or 20 minutes or. so he and the first lady are going to be motorcading tout joint base andrews for that short flight up to shanksville, pennsylvania. as they will be there to honor those killed on united flight 93. the president has been up this morning saying we will never forget what has happened. as can you imagine, this is a day that will see both of the campaigns take a break from politics. this is an issue that transcends that they will be there will as you see there in shanksville, pennsylvania. the site of the united 93 after

it crashed on september 11th, 2001. as you also mentioned, vice president biden, former vice president biden and his wife, they are going to make trips up to new york city. they are going to be attending the 9/11 memorial and museum's 19th anniversary commemoration ceremony. and then in the afternoon, they are going to be making their way to shanksville, pennsylvania. hills running mate, california senator kamala harris, she is going to be attending an event here in the d.c. area, in virginia, marking those that were lost at the pentagon. obviously, both candidates realizing this is a moment that is not about politics but something americans will never forget and also realize still the impact that is still with us all these years later. steve, ainsley, brian? steve: indeed, mark, thank you very much. keep in mind, it was flight 93 the battle in the sky over pennsylvania. that's the plane that turned around toward washington. ksm later said to interrogators that it was headed for the u.s. capitol. and they had them both on board and they said we are going to try to take over the cockpit. the people on board said.

and famously there was a phone open and todd beamer said let's roll. let's bring in rudy giuliani. he was mayor 19 years ago. is he also personal attorney for president trump. and the host of rudie's common sense on youtube. rudy, good morning to you. >> good morning. how are you? steve: we're doing okay. trying to put it all in perspective during an election year. >> sure. steve: mark was just talking about the politics going on. but, 19 years ago. was primary election day for the mayor here in new york city. >> it was, that's right. it had to be postponed because of the tragedy at the same time, after the smoke cleared, it was very clear that the country was united. and that was a great thing. fast forward to today, the country could not be more divided. >> maybe the difference beginning of presidential term.

election years always bring out the worst in everybody, i think. >> frankly we weren't quite as partisan and weren't quite as divided into two camps as we are today. so it was a little bit easier for us to come together and there was more of a feeling of general patriotism then. the we didn't have people taking a knee to the national anthem and burning the flags that had been in the 1970s and 1980s. we were long past that pretty easy to sum up patriotism. you weren't having this kind of hate america movement going on countering. if i remember driving along with president bush the day that he made that speech that i think pete just mentioned he said you will hear from us. right after it was over. we got into car. we drove up the west end of manhattan and all these people were cheering from him.

we love you, george. we love you, i leaned over to him, governor pataki and i said, you know, none of these people voted for us. not a single one. these are all democrats the west side of manhattan is solid democrats. but they love you now. they did that lasted for some time. tended too. maybe six months later. we got through those six months with the kind of unity we needed. so that we defeated. we defeated the terrorists. i mean, they killed 2,790 or so people that day. and then more after. they wanted to defeat and defeat america. the firefighters and i emphasize the police officers saved us by being so brave that the next day's story was as much about their bravery as about the evil of the slack extremist terrorists. they prevailed. the slack extremist terrorists did not achieve what they wanted to achieve, which was to break the spirit of america and

destroy our way of life. in fact, it was reinforced and i believe the thing that turned that around was the bravery of those uniformed officers. ainsley: rudy, you mentioned the story about governor pataki and being with president bush. tell us about that day when you found out that morning and walk us through the timeline because we are seeing some video. we have been seeing video throughout your interview of you down there. >> well, i was at a breakfast at the peninsula hotel. supposed to be an easy day because it was primary day. we weren't going to have any work until the afternoon when they started complaining about cheating. somebody always will, right? so i was having a kind of political breakfast with bill simon, who was running for governor of california one of my close friend denny young counsel forever and a rock that day. i was told twin engine plane hit the north tower. i walked out and saw a beautiful day and said it can't be an accident. when the second plane hit bernie

kerik called me. i was a minute away. saw an explosion. bernie is on the phone he said boss, this is an attack. and we knew who it was. i mean, we knew it was slack terrorists weessments knew exactly who it was, actually. we had been threatened with attacks and had attacks that the we towarded. had an attack in 3. we thwarted two or three in between. we almost canceled the 2,000 celebration because of terrorist threats from bin laden we immediately knew who it was bin laden. we knew we were at war. george bush was president. we knew he was not going to take this kind of smile and bomb a field somewhere. brian: there is so much you just said that is so applicable to today. number one, you heard about an attack and you didn't call a press conference to panic people. what, did you lie to them? i don't think so. number two, george bush, we weren't even thinking about al qaeda. gore and bush were debating three times. it never came up. blind sided. almost like the pandemic came

out of left field, you could say that number three, governor pataki was secure enough to say okay, rudy's city, i'm the governor. he wasn't saying give me a press conference. i want the spotlight. rudy, how can i help? yet, technically he is in charge. he saw you were in charge of the city and he put his ego to the side. what a difference it is from today. >> i got to tell you george is -- i love george. we were close but not that close from then on like brothers. we lived together for two months. we this h. all our staffer -- we did something really extraordinary. i would have a staff meeting every morning in new york and he would have one in albany. he brought his staff meeting in albany down to new york. every day we put our staff together and we did it for a very simple reason. we knew we could make decisions quickly and in the best interest. but then, look, our staff are going to fight. they always do. so george and i said our staff are going to be together. we are going to walk out of the room with one decision.

and frankly, the reason george said he did defer to me did, was because the mayor knows the city much better than the governor. the governor knows the whole state. but he can't know exactly the resources we have in staten island or the upper part of the bronx. he wouldn't have known the 135 major targets. and, also, i particularly had a background as a prosecutor of terrorism. and, bernie kerik had a background as investigator of terrorism. we were an area of strength as opposed to something like the pandemic where nobody knew anything about this virus. it was a big surprise. it was a big shock. it was the most shocking experience of my life. but it was an experience i was prepared for. i would say almost all my life. and so was bernie. by the things we did in the past. steve: mr. mayor, you talk about the heroism of the new york city police department and fire department who lost 34319 years ago today when the towers collapsed. but, in addition, think about

the heroism of everyday americans who washed what happened. >> . >> and then walked into recruiting stations. and they said, you know what? i got to help. and, you know, they left their safe places all around the united states of america and went into danger, to try to save the country. >> well, you know, i don't mean to leave them out. emphasizing the police officers today because of what they have been through. the civilians really amazed me. i heard so many stories of people i'm never going to know. you know, a man, an older man who four groups of people get on an elevator and there was an elevator and it was no more room and he said, you know, i'm 73. i have already lived my life. you guys go down. i will be okay. and, of course, he wasn't okay. there is director of security of morgan stanley who saved -- hundreds of lives. hundreds of lives. so, i mean, there are many, many stories of people. some we know. some we don't know.

the firefighters the police officers, represent that. but the other thing they represent is those people did it like that. and that's remarkable. those men do it every day. those men and women do it every day, every night. and when one of them dies, every single one of them throughout the country, only 100,000 people say to themselves it can happen to me. they deserve special respect. bernie said to me that night, you know, it's a shame we have to go through this so they learn what we do. well, please remember what they do. please. brian: that's my point. we remember people wearing those hats. tourists coming in to get nypd or fdny hat it. seemed like yesterday. now, it's just the opposite. people -- these men and women in blue don't even wear their uniforms to work. they have got a billion dollars cut out of their budget. they are told they are counter crime unit, they are anticrime unit should not exist. and this 19 years later, it

seems like a different country. >> i mean, don't they realize that the slack extremist terrorists are still around. brian: yes. >> in great force. the slack republic of iran gives them hundreds of millions of dollars a year. some of that was money that came from, i'm sorry, usama bin laden. and they want to attack us again. and they feed off weakness. they can smell weakness. brian: this the is time. >> can you imagine the weakness we are showing them now? can you imagine? defunding the police department that has the best antiterrorism unit in the world that was built my successor bloomberg and kelly. i started it but they quadrupled it. ainsley: some lives were changed. all of ours lives were. you talk about the story of that 73-year-old man. that's how old my dad is i think about he didn't get to see his grandkids grow up his kids were just having grand kids. lives were owe-those terrorists they took away so much from

dinner tables at christmas and easter celebrations and every holiday and it's just changed all of our lives. our thoughts and prayers with are those families today heros that fought for our country and for you, mr. mayor, thank you for everything have you done for this city. i know you are going to be posting a special 9/11 message on rudy sense.com. that's going to happen today. thanks, mr. mayor. 19 years after september 11th, thousands of soldiers set to return home from iraq as president trump vows to pull out of endless wars. retired four star general jack keane who was working in the pentagon that day will join us. ♪ ♪ ta-da!

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pretty much out of syria and pretty much out of iraq and down to the smallest force that we have had in will be very shortly down to that number in afghanistan. united states we are playing an important role in bringing the parties together to end a decades long war. going on going on almost 20 years. brian: trump making promise to bring troops only latest withdraw thousands from iraq and soon to be announced afghanistan. let's bring in fox news strategic analyst knows this region as well as anybody. retired four star general jack keane. i want to get your account on 9/11. first i want to bring you to

here and now. pulling troops out of iraq and worried about the message to iran. >> well, yes. i am concerned about that. any time we wholeheartedly pull significant amount of troops out, we only have about 5200 there. we are going to drop that down to 3,000. to almost half of it. it sends a message to iraq, and i don't want them to get the wrong message that the united states is heading for the exits. and, therefore, they are going to be able to own this country so to speak. something that they have always wanted to do. but, i know now after talking to people who are close to the station that was made here that the prime minister from iraq welcomed some slight withdrawal of troops to help them politically in the country. this prime minister is the first of the three that has been elected by the people that have had the courage to stand up to the iranians. and he is pushing back. so we need to reinforce him

politically and one of the ways to help him politically is to keep a small military force there that is also assisting the iraqi security forces. and they don't want us to leave because they have isis threat that's still there it's a modest investment with a long-term payoff for the united states and the security of the american people. >> i don't think people know that the prime minister wanted us out yet they still want the alliance that is important note. frank mackenzie the general in star says this reduced footprint allows to us continue advising and assisting our iraqi partners and rooting out the remnants of isis. let's move on. i know afghanistan is next. we are pulling troops out and the taliban and afghan government are speaking what's your greatest concern? >> well, first, you can't trust the taliban. and the afghan people know that 85% in every single poll taken ever since 9/11. they have absolutely rejected the taliban. why is that? because they ran the country for almost 10 years. and they are bar barbarians.

they want no part of them. if we're going to have a political solution. and everybody wants one and i'm certainly a supporter of that. we cannot destroy the constitution of afghanistan. they have had four open elections. challenged elections to be sure. but, nonetheless, this is a fledgely democracy moving in the right way that's that respects the people's civil rights and respects human rights and female rights and they have made some significant progress in that. it doesn't get any publicity. we can't up hinge that to appease the taliban is my concern. >> especially china. russia would love to see us out. not looking to dominate. looking to leave something behind that allows them to grow. let's move on and talk about why we are in afghanistan, that's 9/11. where was general jack keane in the pentagon when you -- when the planes hit? >> yeah. i was in my office. i got alerted by one of my staff that something had happened in new york. she turned the television on, like anybody, i'm a born and

raised new yorker, blue sky day. i certainly knew that was a terrorist attack. they tried to blot world trade center up in '93, that was vivid in my mind i asked my operation center, the army operation center to come up to full manning. we did that we were in conversation about that the second world trade center had taken place. we reached full manning and the operations general in charge we had a conversation when the pentagon got hit he didn't feel it. we did. we got smoke in the office. i told my people to call home, , evacuate. we wept down to try to assist with the evacuation. we did that and then moved to the operation center to take control of the army. we let the army know that we still had command and control because our operation center who

are risk day visited the hospital. saw the pain on their face. saw the fear of the people evacuating the building to be sure i will snefer forget the next molecular. pentagon occupied by mostly civilians, 25,000 to be exact. most all of them came to work the next morning. army hit the hardest there we lost 85 teammates that workforce was there. shaken to be sure. concerned about the teammates who were not there to be sure so much so i asked the surgeon general to bring other twin to work with our people. their resolve that day. they knew they were at war. they knew they were a part of it and involved in something much larger than themselves and their own fear. here they were standing there, willing to make that kind of conviction. never will forget it. it is horrific day to be sure. we had an award ceremony a few

weeks later that i will never ever forget. standing at that awards ceremony represented all the people in the pentagon. what am i talking about? there were men and women there. there were soldiers and civilians. they were young. they were old. they represented people who were black, brown, white, they were different religions there. they were different shapes and sizes. we had people in good physical condition. we had people who were not and some who were in awful physical condition. but it, reminded me of something that courage, raw, physical courage where you are willing to give up your life for somebody else that doesn't have a race religion or size. it doesn't have a shape. what it is all about heart and character. will to save your life for

others. true honor. most unusual and unique and largest award ceremony i have ever participated in my life. i was so proud to be among them just as we have been talking about the first responders and heroes at the world trade center on 9/11 and what took place in shanksville in pennsylvania with those marvelous heroes on that airplane. >> and what we're going to talk about at a different time is the battle plan that put together in that building to take this loosely aligned organization apart find out what they are and how to change. shaped the battlefield, changed your approach and what you did to take apart al qaeda is just extraordinary. you were very much a part of that. thanks so much, general, and thanks for your account and i'm so bad you are with us. >> good talking to you, brian. brian: coming up. paying contribute to the extraordinary lives we lost 19 years ago. donald robinson jr. a 35-year-old father of four was

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>> 35-year-old donald robinson jr., a father of four. there is his picture right there, he was working in the north tower of the world trade center, when he died on the morning of september 11th, 2011. here we are 19 years later, his sister continues to keep his memory alive. and will read his name during the tunnel to towers foundation ceremony here in new york city later this morning. her name is cathy cunningham and she joins us live from lower manhattan near ground zero. good morning, cathy. >> hey, good morning. ainsley. thank you for having me here today. >> you are welcome. tell us, -- walk us through that day. how 9/11 changed your family's life. >> well, we suffered an incredible loss as did almost 3,000 other families. my brother was a 35-year-old father of four. and worked fitzgerald on the

105th floor for the -- division. he left with a whole huge in our heart. determines to keep his memory alive. that's why we are here reading names and keeping all of those 2977 souls in our memory today. ainsley: holding up a child. tell us about your brother. personal life, just more about him. >> my brother was larger than life. the life of the party. lit up the room. he was the guy that called the cab if you needed a cab. paid your bill. quietly paid a debt for a family member. he was large but quiet at the same time with his kindness. and when he left us we had no other than to keep memory alive. working to the tunnel to towers foundation that has given me a platform to honor him and do him

proud, i hope. i know you are a board member on tunnel 2 towers on their board and you just mentioned the team tunnel 2 towers always have this one every year frank always comes on to talk about it. tell us what your family does i know it's the largest team and why you named it team green on the shamrock team i started out as a single fundraiser here as a foundation. it grew and grew and grew and i knew i needed to ramp it up a bit. in honor of donnie we created team shamrock. my brother had a shamrock tattoo on his hip which he loved to show everyone. that's how team shamrock came to be. we have over 500 run or walkers every year with our new york city event. and we raise a lot of money. and you know what we do with the money that we raise. great, great stuff. we make a difference in our military, in our first responders, in our gold star families. that's our obligation.

ainsley: i know he never got to go to ireland. that was dream. you are carrying out some other dreams for families because you are doing so much for this great organization. what was your reaction when you heard the memorial decided this year because of code we want to stay safe. we are not going to allow family members to read the names. >> right. well, i can't lie. i was exceedingly disappointed. i come here every year. this is hallowed ground. this is sacred ground. this is all we have. those of us, i mean, we never recovered my brother. so, when i come here and i read his name. it is cathartic it. is healing. and i love to be around the other families as well would all share that same hole? our heart. when i heard the names weren't being read. disappointed. i didn't understand it. because i have to give kudos to the memorial and the mayor and everybody that put on a good show, mayor bloomberg. they put on a good show every year over at the memorial.

it was seamless. they had a great blueprint. when they eliminated that i was really disappointed and when frank siller he does it all. frank he is amazing. when he picked up the ball and ran with that i was so proud to be a party of this. ainsley: we remember your brother donald w. robertson jr. today. we will hear his name being read out loud now because of tunnel 2 towers. thank you so much, cathy, for keeping his legacy alive and being on with us this morning. >> thank you some, ainsley, god bless you all and god bless america. ainsley: still ahead geraldo is going to reflect it on the 19th anniversary of 9/11. stay with us. ♪

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♪ ♪ steve: that is one world trade also known as the freedom tower lower manhattan as we remember and honor the thousands of lives we lost 19 years ago today. let's bring in geraldo rivera, fox news correspondent at large who came to fox news after september 11th to become a war correspondent. you know, geraldo. >> good morning, everyone. >> 19 years ago at this time. we didn't realize that within an hour, airliners were going to start flying out of the sky and killing thousands of people. and it changed millions of lives around the world. and you profoundly. >> they changed all of our lives, steve. for the worst. i was frustratingly on the other

side of the country in malibu. i had just gotten a divorce. my ex-wife cece was in new york with my -- with our two children, 6 years old and 8 years old. they were living uptown new york. and were terrorized that day and my terror was i couldn't reach them. it was extremely frustrating. it took me four days to get home to them. when i got home, i found them rattled. and also, we had just left mom moth county new jersey where we owned the newspaper. and our community, your previous guest, the robertson family came from the fitzgerald company the big finance company that lost 600 of their 900 employees on the two top floors of the north tower. many of them lived in our community and monmouth county. we had the highest per capita casualty rate that day of any community. we lost six dads and the children's old elementary school. a school where jon bon jovi and

bruce springsteen also had their children it. rattled us in a very, very personal way. simone who was just six years old that day was later the same child who was in paris in 2015 when the terrorist hit there. so, terrorism kind of book-ended her entire childhood and it scarred us. i was so furious, so outraged so moved passionately by the fact that some of our friends and neighbors had died that i begged my current employer, nbc, to let me go to war to get my hands on the neck of the sob that had done this to us. they said no, you can't leave, you are a talk show host and show doing well here. highest rated show. you can't leave. then i quit and took a job half pay at fox news as war correspondent. before you know it, my brother craig, greg hart and i were on our way to afghanistan where over the next 11, 12 years

assignment there's 11 more in iraq and around the world every hot spot that day, nerve was a day forged in pain and suffering and the strength and character and resilience of the city came to the forewith police commissioner kerik and mayor giuliani. it was, you know, we rose to the challenge but i will never forget that profoundly painful attack that it was a brilliant military move on the part of the terrorist. they hit us in a way that was awful, took us years and years to recover. set the world off on war. a war that's now only winding down 19 years later. but it is something that i will never forget, obviously it's branded on my consciousness. my soul and all of us. ainsley: geraldo, we have all been doing this for years and been covering different stories and have you had such a wonderful enriched career.

steve: 50 years. ainsley: congratulations on that by the way. was this one of the stories and this has to be one of the top two or three that really stands out for you that really changed you as a person. >> beside from the willow brook story earlier in my career that affected me that very different way, this was the defining event of my middle age of my middle age and now my older years it effected everyone. whether you lived up town or out of town. this started the era of terrorism for everybody everybody at airport goes through ssa because of the 9/11. acutely of the islamo terrorists that still want to destroy us, bus we also now are acutely aware that a small irrelevant force can create havoc, can

create huge, mass casualty events, given the proper planning harley harbor of this generation. something we will never get over. resolved it will never happen again. we are vigilant. i also covered the 1993 bombing, i did my show down at the world trade center when that truck blew up back in 1993. so it wasn't like we didn't know this was possible but the awesome events of 19 years ago something that is a deep scar on the american psyche and on all of our souls, ainsley. >> do you know what's interesting, geraldo, so many different things you brought up that parallel to today. so here it is. new york is attacked. america is under siege. we don't know where the president is for a short time. we don't know how we are going to respond to this. not even sure quite who did it even though we thought it was bin laden. at the same time, new york kept

moving. stock market was open. people still getting into subways. people still went to work at the same time keeping ear to the news to find out what's next as we would mobilize in a matter of months and kill almost every single person that was involved in this the first generation of al qaeda. that's what's different now. this, we stopped and america looked around and go what do we do? we knew hot enemy was then. here we have this invisible virus that the chinese are responsible for it but doesn't look like that's an attack. talk about the different mindset then as opposed to now. >> as a correspondent i had covered in my around the world trip i had covered the 1998 african-american embassy bombings which were per a perped by bin laden and which resulted in a very feeble american response by president bill clinton. he let's them hawkeye missiles go in sudan and car tomb where we thought bin laden lived, but

they ended up hitting a shoe factory or something like that. he was long gone. one of the great joys of my life i have to add is i happened by shear chance to be in washington having my show live on may 1st, 2011. when we could report and break the news to the world that bin laden had been killed by our seals, by our special forces in afghanistan. and i love the story that rob o'neill tells of you who he was in i didn't la bob international airport afghanistan with bin laden's dead body at his feet hearing me break the news that the seals had just killed bin laden. it's almost like the incident has been book-ended in my mind. now, to answer your question about security. and that what has happened now. we have to be eternally vigilant. the world has changed. the world has witnessed the fact that a small and determined group can cause untold terror

and horror and pain and i think that we all are all affected and now as we make our selection. brian: gotcha. >> make our selection we have to decide which president is ready to defend us. i think that's very, very important. steve: geraldo rivera, we thank you very much for remembering what happened 19 years ago. brian: i'm pretty sure i have decided. steve: meanwhile straight ahead, the nfl kicking off what will be one of the most unique seasons in history. former nfl head coach and fox news analyst breaking down last night's game. you are looking live at the pentagon as we remember 19 years since september 11th 2001. ♪ roll up those sleeves. and help heal your skin from within with dupixent. dupixent is the first treatment of its kind that continuously treats moderate-to-severe eczema, or atopic dermatitis, even between flare ups.

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steve: nfl's 101st season after the most unorthodox. reigning super bowl champs the kansas city chiefs pulling out first win of the 2020 season against the houston texans. joining us now with analysis. fox news analyst former nfl head coach and super bowl winning defensive coordinator dave. good morning to you. >> good morning. how are you? steve: i'm doing okay. but not as well as patrick

mahomes the qb of kc he was dazzling. >> he was. you know, it's really surprised me, both teams, obviously, kansas city, but even on the other side, you know, with deshaun watson in houston, both offense were able to score points. without any preseason, with limited work in the off season. obviously. just everything being virtual. for them to go out and be able to function like they did. kind of surprised me a little bit. i thought it would be more of a defensive game. steve: sure. i also saw that a lot of people on twitter were talking about hey, andy reed has got that face shield and it's fogged up a lot. such as being a head coach during covid. fox has got a whole bunch of games, i think six in all. coming up on sunday that is to say. >> they do. we kick it off. our show, the nfl kickoff show, we start 11:00 a.m. eastern time. we're the first show to get fox football going.

and, yeah. we have got the packers if you are interested in that we have got big one everyone is talking about tampa bay tom brady plays drew brees the new orleans saints. that will be the marquee came for us this sunday. steve: dave, have you got a pick as we look at the menu of games for sunday. drew brees, tom brady, who wins? >> i'm going to go with new orleans, even though i love everything about tampa. i think tampa is going to be a play off team this year. but when you have a new quarterback with new players, which tom brady is, even with his experience. there is a learning curve and continuity that has to happen and, again, without the preseason, i think they are going to be playing a little bit of catch-up. >> you know, watching the game last night. even though it's mostly empty arrowhead was, the way the producers piped in the crowd effects, the sound effects, it seemed like everybody was there.

real quick answer. >> yeah. i will be real curious to see. i haven't seen one of our games yet. but i know eric shanks our president they have been spending months on this. as far as the noise, when it a team scores. it doesn't. home away, there is a lot to to. and it's going to bics sighting, trust me. the players are going to make it go and the fans willed a to it. steve: i misspoke the roar of the crowd was actually the crowd. brian, there were 22,000, right? >> and there were booze. steve: there was some booing. that's something else. dave, thank you very much for joining us. good luck this weekend. >> thank you. steve: all right. you bet. of course today is september the 11th and once again, we're going to spend one more hour remembering what happened 19 years ago today. ♪ ♪

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taking amiodarone with epclusa may cause a serious slowing of your heart rate. common side effects include headache and tiredness. ask your doctor today, if epclusa is your kind of cure. brian: everyone has their own personal memory of 9/11 and if you were not quite born yet you hear the stories you study it in school, i hope, anyway, and we also spend a lot of our time on this day, 19 years later, in three separate spots, in washington d.c., where the pentagon hit, the pentagon got hit in new york, what you're looking at right now where the world trade center both towers once stood, and other buildings were destroyed as well as shanksville, pennsylvania where flight 93 crashed where we'll see the former vice president today, as well as the president

of the united states, steve. steve: that's right brian and very shortly we understand that air force one will be taking off from joint base andrews heading to shanksville for the commemoration there, ainsley. ainsley: we don't always get to see the president or joe biden with their wives but today is a day to reflect, to remember, and both of them will be taking their wives to pennsylvania. the president will be speaking there and laying a wreath and joe biden will be going there this afternoon. let's check in with pete hegseth he is downtown manhattan where tunnel to towers foundation is reading the names or allowing family members of victims to read the names of their loved ones, pete? pete: good morning, guys as you said just behind me in less than an hour, they will begin the reading of those names but i'll tell you, it's such an honor to be here, to get a chance to do it for "fox & friends" the last couple of years and it's a very real weight you start to feel the gravity of the moment, hour by hour, minute by minute, as

you're down here as the moment approaches of that first bell ringing at 8:46 which is a reminder when the first plane hit the north tower and then the south tower and then the pentagon and the south tower went down, and then the heros of flight 93 in shanksville and of course the north tower going down, that two and a half hours that changed our nation, and they will do it right down here because of tunnel to towers and the vice president will be speaking and you can feel it in the city and you look up into the sky, it's a cloudy day today and you think back on the clear sky day that was 19 years ago, and how you almost knew right away there's no way that was an accident, america is under attack, of course george w. bourbon the rubble pile a few days later saying i hear you, america hears you, and soon enough the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon and i get chills just thinking about that, and hearing from guys i'll toss it back to you, hearing from guys i

served with this morning the sense is even the further we get away from 9/11 the even more you feel the resonance of how it changed our nation and changed a generation of lives. rudy giuliani was on "fox & friends" earlier and he talked about the heroism of this place. here is a portion of what the mayor said. >> they wanted to defeat us, they wanted to defeat america, and the firefighters and i emphasize the police officers saved us by being so brave that the next day's story was as much about their bravery about the evil of the islamic extremist terrorists. they prevailed. they did not achieve what they wanted to achieve which was to break the spirit of america and destroy our way of life. in fact it was reinforced and i believe the thing that turned that around was the bravery of those uniformed officers. pete: shear sacrifice, shear heroism may we always live by the motto of the first counter

attack of that day heros of flight 93, todd beamer, let's roll, may we never forget that in this day and they're doing it here. steve: all day long pete thank you very much and the names start in about 40 minutes. meanwhile, you are looking live down in the corner of your picture right there, here comes the president of the united states. brian: wow. steve: coming into joint base andrews the president and first lady will head to united 93 memorial near shanksville, pennsylvania this morning, of course in pennsylvania, you know , that was where the plane turned around in the skies over pennsylvania, and kaleed mohammed told investigators that the target of that plane, united flight 93 was going to be the u.s. capitol and it was that plane where the people held a vote and decided they were going to rush the cockpit and fight the hijackers, and we know that because over an open phone line, you could hear todd beamer say "

let's roll." ultimately, united flight 93 the airplane flipped as the plane nose dived into a field at 500 miles per hour, ainsley. ainsley: we will continue to watch this. he's going to get on air force one and head there to pennsylvania to shanksville and then later this afternoon, present the medal of honor to army sargent thomas payne, and then a moment of silence the white house staff will hold on the white house south lawn at it looks like 8:46. steve: uh-huh. brian: yeah, the vice president of the united states is going to be in new york meanwhile kristin fisher is in washington and she joins us live with all of today 's shanksville, i should say and she joins us live with all of today's events and proceedings. reporter: good morning, brian, ainsley and steve. well the ceremony here today is going to be a little bit different than what we've seen in years past. the ceremony closed to the public, only family members of the victims are going to be

allowed to be here, due to the pandemic and the ceremony has also really been shortened to what's being described as a moment of remembrance, but some critical features are going to be remaining the same. the names of all 40 passengers and crew members of united flight 93 are still going to be read allowed along with those bells of remembrance. this year only one person is going to be reading the 40 names instead of multiple family members as has been done in years past. the other similarity, the president of the united states is going to be here to honor the victims of united flight 93. president trump was last year two years ago in 2018 and he is going to be delivering remarks while here today. now, his 2020 rival joe biden is also going to be here, but not during the ceremony. he's going to be coming here a little bit later this afternoon. if the two of them had been here at the same time, it would have been the first time that president trump and joe biden shared the same stage in this

election cycle and there's really no way it would not have been a pretty big distraction especially since we are in battleground pennsylvania, just a few months before election day , so instead, the two sides have decided to keep their visit spaced apart and really allow the focus to remain on the 40 heros who fought back against those hijackers 19 years ago today. brian, ainsley and steve? brian: kristin i remember it was just an open field but they really have done great things to memorialize those passengers who were so heroic and lost their lives kristin fisher, thanks meanwhile let's bring in judge jeanine pirro, who sat down with the president, you have an exclusive interview this weekend but first tell me where you were on 9/11 and what you remember, judge. >> you know, brian, i remember it was an absolutely beautiful day. i remember how blue the skies were, and i was in new york city and i was the da at the time with a couple of my investigator

s and i was going from one meeting to another and they said boss, um, get in the car we're going back to westchester and i remember saying no we're not i have another meeting and they said boss, get in the car. and when they talk to me like that, they were pretty serious. we'd heard that a plane had hit one of the towers but you just kind of assumed it was a small plane, and that there was some pilot, you know, who didn't know what he was doing. steve: accident. >> but they had an instinct about it and then when we went back to westchester, what started to unfold the reality of it, first of all, my daughter was a student visiting the pentagon that day and i remember the head master of the school calling and saying, you know, jeanine, can you find out if the kids are okay? the parents are going crazy. it took me hours to find out, but who did i call? i called police commissioner bernie karik and within several hours he was able to confirm that the kids were okay even though they were at the pentagon that day. you got to understand, people

like police commissioner bernie karik, mayor rudy giuliani they are the heros of that day and what a lot of people don't understand is how their strength, their resolve, their determination carried us through. one of the things that is so compelling that i remember are the cars at train stations in westchester county. we are called the bedroom community to new york city and so many of the people worked at cantor fitzgerald who take the train into the city and the cars were there day after day and you knew that the owner of that car wasn't coming back and we had to give the order to have the cars removed. i setup a grievance center in the da's office so that people could have grief counselors and then we found out that so many of the spouses had no idea of the finances, where to access the money and then getting to surrogates court. we tried to make that an easier

to facilitate and move through surrogates court, but the one hope that everyone had was that their loved one was coming home. we didn't realize at the time that they weren't coming home, and so i remember being with governor pataki, another great from that day and governor pataki we were walking around the rubbles and people had pictures of their loved ones. they were going to hospitals thinking well my loved one who worked at the world trade center , they must be in a hospital, and as time went on we realized they weren't coming back. it was just a very very painful time in new york and when i think about that compared to today, and what's going on in america, and i was with president trump yesterday, you realize what a strong determined man we have in the white house right now, how you need that kind of confidence in a leader who is going to carry a nation

through something as terrible, god forbid, were anything like this ever to happen again. steve: you know, judge, what a lot of people don't remember is and we were actually here 19 years ago, is the fact that when both the planes crashed into the towers, and then the towers collapsed, the early estimates were the death toll could have been 50,000 because on average, about 25,000 people worked in each of the towers, so they did not know. luckily, you know, as it turned out, had it happened an hour or two later, the death toll would have been so much higher, but you're talking about president trump, and that's framed by the fact we're in the midst of a presidential election, and, you know, 19 years ago, after the smoke cleared we were you nighted as a country. we were going to find whoever did that and bring them to justice. 19 years later we are so divided as a country it's hard to talk to anybody about anything, slightly political. >> well, you know, and that's

the sad commentary on us, because we are in this country because, i think, we believe in america, at least i do. i believe in what this country stands for and the freedom to say what we want to say, in the constitution, in all those things that our founding fathers guaranteed us and the division right now is not really about politics. it's about people who don't love america. it's about people who don't think that you should be able to say what you want to say, that they're triggered if you dare say something. it's about people who want to change capitalism to socialism. look, americans are joined together. there are outliers who want to change this country and i get that we need to change. we need to evolve as we see problems. there's no question about that, but this country, and the more you go through it and, you know, i have a book coming out in a couple weeks, you go through america.

people believe in this country. they believe in that flag that's right behind me. those people who want to tear it down, they don't reflect what most americans think, and when this election is over, you're going to see the silent americans, you're going to see the forgotten americans, you're going to see those people who live in cities that are being, where there are riots and burning and looting. those people don't want to live in those cities. they are going to be voting and you're going to hear from them and this is what we've got to make sure and that's why elections are so important, to make sure that america is a country of the free, where we can say and do what we want and people around the world hiatus for who we are and what we do. that was evidenced on 9/11 and for anyone who doesn't appreciate the freedoms that we have in this country, as far as i'm concerned, they're simply

naive. ainsley: judge on our screen we're looking at air force one. the president and first lady are inside heading to shanksville, pennsylvania to remember the folks who died on another plane there, that plane that went down, and i know that you had a chance to sit down with the president i was on instagram earlier this morning on my way to work and i saw just a picture of you, and the president, and it was saying everyone watch your show, 9:00 on saturday for the full interview but we have a little clip of that sit- down with the president, here he is talking about violence in american cities. listen. >> what are you going to do, let's say there are threats, they say that they're going to threaten riots if they lose on election night, assuming we get a winner on election night. what are you going to do? president trump: we'll put them down very quickly if they do that. we have the right to do that and we have the power to do that if we want. look it's called insurrection. we send it in and we do it very easy. i'd rather not do that because there's no reason for it but if we had to we'd do that and put

it down within minutes. ainsley: judge tell us more about that interview. >> well you know, in speaking with the president yesterday, you realize that he's a man with an incredible schedule. i mean, there are people waiting for him at every angle and i walked into the oval shortly after the interview and they were almost lined up outside the door to talk to him. this man has the energy and he has the ability to have eight or 10 balls in the air at one-time and deal with every one of them with certainty, with swiftness, and with determination. this is the kind of leader that we need in the white house, not someone who just kind of shuffle s along and can't finish his sentence. we are living in dangerous times in this world. there are people who hate america, who hiatus for what we are, for the freedoms that we have. i mean, if this anniversary isn't a testament to that i don't know what is but this is a man who can do, yes?

brian: just curious if the sit down with bob woodward came up at all as the president of the united states, air force one now takes off en route to shanksville, pennsylvania, i'm just wondering if that came up and if you were under the belief that the president should not have sat down with him like karl rove or do you think it was a good move like senator lindsey graham? >> look, do you know what? i know the president and i've known him for 30 years. no one is going to tell him what to do, should he have, should he not have, he's going to speak to whomever he wants to speak to and there's nothing that he said that created any kind of problem , and the fact that seven months after that february 7 statement where the president acknowledges the dangerousness of this virus where they were all saying let's go to celebrate and where they were calling him, you know, a racist for stopping the travel ban from china, you know, i think the problem is

woodward. i mean, woodward is trying to make money on a book. if it was so dangerous why didn't he just say in february, this is dangerous, everybody. brian: because dr. fauci was telling them it wasn't dangerous fauci says it wasn't dangerous why should bob woodward tell the country it wasn't dangerous. >> because the president said it was dangerous and the president reflected it and the fact he issued a travel ban made it very clear he thought it was dangerous. travel ban from china and then europe and putting together birx and fauci and the committee he brought before the american public. how many presidents would bring an expert before the press and say have at it ask him whatever you want. he's been the most transparent president we've ever seen in american history as far as i'm concerned. steve: well we're watching your interview. >> you'll see the whole interview tomorrow night. steve: 9:00 eastern time with judge jeanine. president trump sits down with the judge thank you very much.

meanwhile, let's take another look at lower manhattan where a moment of silence is about to begin as you look at one world trade also known as the freedom tower. that moment of silence to observe the time the first plane struck the north tower as we remember the september 11 attacks on america, and in just a moment, we only play it once a year, as it happened from 19 years ago. >> ♪ ♪

ainsley: this morning as we all reflect 19 years later the tunnel to towers foundation is honoring those who lost their lives on 9/11 and their loved ones with a special name reading ceremony, steve. steve: pete hegseth is down there joining us from lower manhattan. pete? pete: good morning, guys. you're right in just a few moments right behind me they will be ringing the bell noting 8:46 when the first tower was struck soon with a moment of silence, soon thereafter, they will begin the live reading of the names something that is not happening at the actual memorial site where this normally happens and i'll tell you, guys, it's an overwhelming sense of reveren

ce surrounded by people who have been approached by multiple multiple people who lost people on that morning, 19 years ago and will be reading names themselves carrying pictures and patches from the fire trucks that their heros rode into that fire to try to save other people on overwhelmingly they are grateful to tunnel to towers for the opportunity to do that live reading of the names to say the name of their loved one, in the purpose of truly never forgetting those people, those sacrifices, those moments that shaped and changed a nation , and so they'll be taking to that stage all morning long, including the vice president of the united states who we're told is at the other memorial, will be headed over here shortly to address this crowd. they said they couldn't do it, there, safely in this environment and i think frank siller and tunnel to tower s is demonstrating that you can be cautious and responsible but part of what's been said to

me as well is the heros that we lost on that day would want it this way. they would want us to forge ahead and read those names no matter the circumstance, and the last thing i would say to viewers is if you have a young person in high school, in junior high, who doesn't remember the events of that day because they weren't even born yet, take this day to remind them of what happened, who that enemy is and how special this great country is and the resolve we showed in the minutes in response to that, with the heroism, but then in the days and weeks and now years 19 years later in response to the attacks of september 11, 2001 its been an honor to be with you here all morning long and i love how "fox & friends" soon will be playing back live what happened on that morning. god bless you guys from near ground zero this morning and god bless america. steve: indeed. you know, what happened 19 years ago, we will never forget, and that is why once a year, we show

some images that are so graphic, we only show them one time a year for obvious reasons you're about to see it and so we always try to show it at this time on every anniversary of 9/11. we're going to take you back to 19 years ago, this hour, as it happened. >> [exploding sounds]

>> we have a very tragic alert for you right now, and an incredible plane crashed into the world trade center here at the lower tip of manhattan. >> it's believed the 737 crashed into this speculation at this point but at least three floors taken out, joining us right now one of the producers with fox, on the scene, owen, what do you know, what do you see , where are you? >> brian i'm on the roof of my building which is about five blocks to the south of the world trade center and i'm looking right now at the world trade center and there's a massive gaping hole on the second tower, it's about 15 stories from the roof. it's just unbelievable to look at. you can just see it right now. you can see emergency vehicles carrying from the west side highway heading towards the scene, there are tons of people in the streets, there are papers, things coming out and i can't see any evidence of what

it was that could have crashed, all i can see is this massive gaping hole with tons of black smoke falling out of the building. >> all we can do is stare aga sp at these pictures you're looking at the north building of the twin tower s of the world trade center in manhattan. these are coming to you live now , debris raining down from 110 floors up, as you can see , this is a clear blue sky day in manhattan. if this was an accident, it be a needle in a haystack kind of accident. >> [bell tolling] >> there was another one, we just saw, we just saw another one. we just saw another one, apparently go, another plane just flew into the second tower.

this raises, this has to be deliberate, folks. we just saw on live television as a second plane flew into the second tower of the world trade center. now, given what has been going on around the world, some of the key suspects come to mind, osama bin laden, who knows what. eric shawn is with us, eric, i know you have a lot of sources at the fbi and other agencies like that. what can you tell us? >> at first i apologize for being out of breath because i was walking down fifth avenue close to our studios and i heard a jet, perhaps a 737 or a small airbus flying low and usually low over fifth avenue making a right. i'm not going to say, i don't have any reports on what type of plane hit the world trade center but people looked up and it made a right toward the building.

>> [sirens and radio traffic] >> it is a tragedy, it is abhorent, it is disgusting, but you know, i'm wondering are these pilots terrorists themselves or are there terrorists in the cockpit holding guns to a pilot's head? >> i can't imagine. >> you can speculate completely about how this happens, because obviously, it takes a lot of training and expertise to fly a complicated sophisticated aircraft whether it's a boeing 737 or a smaller airbus, these are not little cessnas and little pipers so you have to wonder and raise what possibility there is with the type of scenario that was going on in the cockpit. >> our wendell goaler is at the

white house traveling with the president, what's the reaction from the president? >> john, the president is here promoting a reading initiative on the second day of a two-day trip to florida and he just finished reading to some children at the booker elementary school and was asked about the incident, he said he was aware of it and that he would have something to say about it later. >> [ambulances] >> let's bring in david lee miller, our correspondent, he has an eye witness with him, david lee what can you tell us? >> good morning, john a few blocks from the world trade center as you would expect all of the roadways are cutoff and the only way to get near the buildings is on foot. the scene is absolutely a horrific one you have people streaming out of the area, you have people literally in tears in shock, people that just

worked in the nearby buildings that could not believe what has happened still many of them remember the terrorist attack years ago on the world trade center and many of them this is just an ugly reminder although the details of what happened are not certain. as i was walking downtown in lower manhattan making my way to the world trade center i stopped to speak to sylvia fuentes, she works in lower manhattan and she used to work in the trade center and i'm going to hand her the telephone and she's going to describe for us what she saw this morning, as she was arriving at work. sylvia? >> i heard a loud rumbling and when i walked out of the deli on to fulton street i looked up in the air and there was an airplane actually going into the world trade center and flames were coming out and smoke was just billowing in the air, and tons of people were running down fulton street, running each other over and i made my way back to my office on water street and when i got upstairs i looked out my window to see what was going on and the second world trade center just went

into flames, just from one minute to the next. >> sylvia thanks for that eye witness report. when we saw that second plane slam into the second tower, intentionally, quite clearly, you gotta believe this is a terrorist attack. >> harvey kushner is on the line with us a frequent guest of ours and a terrorism expert. harvey is it too early to speculate about suspects? >> one thinks only this could be the most horrifically-planned incident with terrorism against the united states. think about it. you look outside, the fox studio s look how clear it is. how could you miss the trade towers? not just one, but two planes? >> well and it brings to mind, you know, everybody hates those metal detectors at airports and everybody makes passing through them almost a joke these days, but clearly, it seems that something is going to

change if you can make this kind of statement and kill as many people as are likely to be dead in this kind of scenario. >> john we're talking about terrorism no matter how this turns out this is going to be a day that's going to live in infany, and is going to cause changes if it turns out to terrorism in terms of security like this country has never seen before. >> president bush is about to speak. he's in florida at what was supposed to be a joyous event at an elementary school but listen in. >> today, we've had a national tragedy. two airplanes have crashed into the world trade center in an apparent terrorist attack on our country. i have spoken to the vice president, to the governor of new york, to the director of the fbi, and i've ordered that the full resources of the

federal government go to help the victims and their families and to conduct a full scale investigation to hunt down and to find those folks who committed this act. terrorism against our nation stand. and now if you join me in a moment of silence. may god bless the victims, their families, and america. thank you very much. >> [sirens sounding] >> we are going to be looking at an enormous death toll, 50,000 people work in those two buildings. >> [sirens sounding] >> john from the wall street journal is on the phone with us, john, were you in the area when the planes hit? >> i was across the street in my office building. >> what did you see , what did you hear? >> i heard an incredible sonic

boom and looked up and there was already much smoke and flames pouring out of the building and about 15 minutes later of course the second sonic boom which of course would have been the second tower and the second plane. >> what about injury, john? >> the most terrible thing about this is about 15 minutes ago, bodies started dropping from the top floors of the tower closest to the highway. about at least five or six, and it was, it was absolutely terrible. obviously, they had two choices, to be burned in flames or to leap and end it all. it was quite tragic. >> let me bring into the conversation david asman, my colleague. david: want to give you late breaking information perhaps one of the things that is of greatest fear is that there is yet another terrorist attack since those two plane crashes happened within 20 minutes of each other, while all of manhattan has been sealed off

this is probably unprecedented of course, all of this is unprecedented in this occasion but manhattan has been sealed off, the hudson river bridges and the tunnels have been sealed , clearly, there is an attempt right now to thwart any further act of terrorism, act of violence against the people of manhattan, so manhattan is in a lockdown. [bell tolling] david: we are hearing, right now, another explosion has taken place at the pentagon. >> [sirens] david: we have the heart of the financial district of america being attacked, now we understand that there is an explosion, there has been an

explosion in the pentagon, the heart of the military command center of the united states of america, john. it can't get much worse than this let's hope. >> you gotta believe that it has happened again, another large airliner, perhaps hijacked , perhaps part of some widespread plan, apparently slam ming into at least the area around the pentagon. they have not struck at america, they have struck at some individual places in america, but this country will go on. want to go to our washington managing editor britt humme, who has the outlook from the nations capitol. this raises all kinds of questions about america's response and i guess that response is not going to be immediate, is it? >> well whether it is immediate or not the one thing i think we are seeing, john, is this series of evacuations from various buildings around washington, and i think it's important to say

that we don't know and have no reason to believe that the white house, for example, was facing any immediate or imminent threat the same is true on capitol hill where it appears that we'll be evacuating the building up here soon. nothing has happened at either of those places, this of course, though, john, i think this is one of these days where we can say that things will not again be the same in the united states of america. this is the kind of terrorist attack that is the nightmare that experts and others have warned about, but some of us may have thought really could not happen on such a scale. this is quite remarkable. >> [bell tolling] >> as we watch these pictures, the world trade center, 110 stories, literally starting to fall.

>> it's gone! the whole tower. it's gone. holy crap. it knocked the whole fricking thing down. >> i hope i live. i hope i live. it's coming down on me. there it comes. i'm getting behind a car. i had to go find some people who need help, so i don't think i'm one of them. are you okay, sir? >> yeah. >> okay. >> can i just -- you were inside the world trade center, doing what? >> getting ready to go upstairs and the floor gave way. the whole building collapsed on us. >> how did you get out? >> just struggled our way through. >> walk towards the light. that's all we did. >> david lee what can you tell us? >> john, the scene is horrific. one of the two towers literally collapsed. i was making my way to the foot of the world trade center. suddenly while talking to an officer, questioning me, we

heard a very loud explosion and we looked up and the building literally began to collapse before us and there was debris falling, i'd say at least three- quarters the height of the building and people and the entire perimeter began literally, including myself, which is why i'm out of breath, to run for our lives. >> those steel girders, strong as they are, had a lot of weight to support and apparently, i'm just, i'm not a structural engineer but i'm just guessing now that they gave way. the loss of life here is going to be enormous. >> may god help those who are there and the victims and their families, and all of the souls that are lost today. >> [sirens] >> can you tell me what you saw what you heard? are you all right? >> look at the sky.

unbelievable. unbelievable. this poor woman. wow. >> united 93, cleveland, do you still hear? united 93, do you still hear, cleveland? united 93, united 93, do you hear cleveland? >> 80 miles southwest of pittsburgh this united airlines flight 93 crashed. >> from the size of the impact crater it would appear as the angle of attack had to be nearly straight in. >> i think the pilot downed the plane in a remote area because there wasn't many houses where it went down and i don't know, the whole thing is just unbelievable. >> this is clearly a national catastrophe. there will be some response from the white house. let's go to wendell goaler traveling with the president in

sarasota, florida and find out the latest there. >> john the president left sarasota florida, air force one took off just a short while ago and convened a meeting of his national security advisors including the vice president, the heads of the cia, national security agency and the fbi and also new york governor pataki, after the two attacks on the twin towers in new york, he was briefed by his national security advisor, condoleeza rice who phoned him after the first attack, mr. bush was actually reading to some children when the second attack occurred, and chief of staff interrupted him, told him about the attack, it was clear at that point we were dealing with terrorists. >> i want to bring into the conversation general al hagu e, the former secretary of state and general, at a time like this , what, how does america respond prudently, with the proper amount of caution, and yet, with whatever force needs to be applied? >> well, first we have to know

the full limits of this tragedy and it's unprecedented of course but we have to stay above all united and calm, and ready to take resolute action which sometimes we have failed to do in the recent past, when the perpetrators are uncovered and we have many many indicators of precisely who they are, this was too broadly-based a terrorist act to be just a few crazies. this is a terrorist movement and we know where they are located today, and obviously, as a nation, we're going to have to take action against them. >> oh, there it goes there it goes there it goes! >> we do need to put it down now i think we need to put it down now, here we go.

>> [sirens] >> america, offer a prayer. >> [bell tolling] >> [bells chiming] ainsley: you just watched as it happened, and this is happening right now, in new york city. this is down where the twin towers stood. steve: that's right. we're going to be over the next few moments, first let's let her finish off the song. >> ♪ ore the land of the free, and the home of the brave ♪

steve: beautiful. let us explain what you're going to see over the next 15 minutes. we have got live images from the memorial pools on the lower tip of manhattan, and there, we have governor cuomo, jill and joe biden are there, you're also going to be looking at a moment of silence at the white house, and it all starts in 45 seconds, brian, at the moment, the first plane struck the south tower. brian: so much has changed since we got this announcement a month ago that we're going to be able to do this the families were so upset and they said we can't read the names this is the year i was supposed to read the names for my family it matters so much to the country and matters so much to them and they said not only are we not putting up the beams in the sky to commemorate the twin towers we won't let you read the names and that's when frank siller got in with unt els to towers and he said you'll do it, do it with me

, everybody all the families report they are going to be socially distanced and responsible but also remember their loved ones. ainsley: brian on the right hand side of the screen the white house staff will hold a moment of silence and that will happen at 8:46. steve: which is right now. >> [moment of silence]

>> [reciting names] >> 19 years ago today, my uncle shawn had just gotten off his night tour when he heard the news. he quickly turned around, with a sense of pride and purpose. on this day, he made the supreme sacrifice, like many others. my uncle shawn's smile was contagious. he always lit up the room. his sense of humor and charm is something i've always admired. he always put his family first. my two grade grandfathers and my grandfathers and my two uncles proudly served on the fdny, and i feel it is an honor and a privilege for me to serve with new york's bravest. i carry on the hanley legacy. uncle shawn i know you're looking down on us, we love and

miss you, and lastly, to all my fdny brothers and sisters that risk their lives every day to keep new york safe, god's speed. >> [applause] >> michael a. asiak. michael edward asher. janice marie ashley. thomas j. ashton. manuel asambe. greg a.atlas, joe thomas atwood. james odefred. lewis f. aversano jr.. esra avilas. sandy ayalla. >> [reciting names]

>> brett t. bailey. garnet ace bailey. tatiana skaya. michael s. batch. sharon m. balcome. michael andrew bayne. katherine bantis, and my nephew, thomas edward jergens, who died on 9/11 in the south tower, of the world trade center rescuing people in danger. he lived a life of service. he was a new york state officer, a volunteer firemen, and a combat-trained army medic. he lived as he served, he died

as he lived, helping others, rest in peace. >> [applause] >> it is an honor and privilege to be given the opportunity to recite the names of those lost on september 11, . >> [reciting names] >> matthew barns. melissa rose barns. sheila patricia barns.

evan j. barron. renee barret ar ju. arthur barry. dianne g. barry. maurice vincent barry. scott d. thort. carlton w. bartell. guy barsey. ina b. basina. alyssa christine burton bashamani. kenneth william busnicki. steven joseph bates. and my husband, of 30 year, fdny chief gerard a. barbara, a member of the fd for 31 years and as a young man served in the u.s. navy. jerry would have been beaming with pride at the achievements

of his children, karen and paul, and overjoyed with his five grandchildren, alexis, luke, thomas, elana, and kate. unfortunately they never knew the world and love he would have shared with them. the september 11 memorial and ceremonies are always milestones to our families, and the 9/11 community. we especially want to commend the tunnel to tower foundation for providing us a venue during covid-19. in these times of the pandemic -- >> [applause] >> in these times of the pandemic, may we respect and be thankful for our pd, fd, emt, first responders, hospital personnel, and our military past and present, and those who continue to suffer from the

aftermath of september 11. >> [applause] >> [cheers] >> may we never forget september 11 and god bless america. >> [applause] >> paul james bataglia. w. david bower. ivan lewis carpir baltista. marlin batista. mark lawrence beavis. jasper baxter. lorraine g. bay. michelle biehl. todd m. beamer. paul frederick batini. james s. bidi.

alan anthony beavin. lawrence ira beck. manette marie beckles. carl john badesian. michael earnest beakman. marie a. bear. max j. belky. nina patrice bell. debbie s. bellows. steven elliott bellson. paul m. benedetti. and my cousin, michael biehl. although i was only five years old when you passed your memory still lives on and our family has not for goat forgotten you. we miss you we love you and you are always in our hearts. >> [applause] >> brian craig bennett.

eric l. bennett. oliver bennett. margaret l. benson. dominic j. berardi. james patrick burger. steven howard burger. john p. burgeon. daniel david bergstein. graham andrew berkeley. michael j. berkeley. donna m. bernard. david w. bernard. william h bernstein. david m. baray. david shelby barry. joseph john barry.

william reid beskay. timothy d. bergoly. carol bioge. edward frank baya. paul michael bayers. and firefighter, michael carlow who passed away september 11 sus brother rob, who lives his legacy and does so much for the communities in remembrance of his brother, and just to remember, all the persons out there that are still suffering from the effects of 9/11, god bless to all of you >> [applause]

aneel taram barabni. bella j. buchanan. peter alexander bielfield. william g. begart. brian eugene bilcher. mark bingham. carl vincent binny. terry eugene bird. joshua david burnbaum. george john bishop.

chris romeo fishendot. jeffrey donald bittner. >> good morning. i'd like to say it is truly an honor for the tunnel to tower s foundation to host this sacred ceremony. >> [applause] >> we knew that it was of the

ut-most importance that we read had allowed the names of all 2,977 souls who parished 19 years ago today. >> [applause] >> as well as the names of the six lives lost in the 1993 attack on the world trade center. think of people like gene raggio , a port authority supervisor known as the mayor of the twin towers, who survived the 1993 attack, and ended up sacrificing his life, helping those on 9/11. his name must be read outloud. >> [applause] and nypd officer maurice smith who was in the south tower helping people evacuate, repeating over and over "don't look, keep moving, keep moving" how many people did she save? her name must be read outloud.

>> [applause] >> or the man in the red banda na, wills crother, who saved countless lives. he wasn't a firefighter. he wasn't a police officer, but like so many that day, he made the ultimate sacrifice for the sake of others. his name must be read outloud. >> [applause] >> what about todd beamer and the other passengers on flight 93 who fought the hijackers before they crashed in shanksville.