opportunity from that day. >> you two gentlemen personify what it means to be an american. especially, on this 20th anniversary. we cannot thank you enough william and jason. thank you so much. we will be thinking you tomorrow. >> thank you, guys. >> thank you. jillian: "fox & friends" has tipping coverage and it sta right now. todd: bye-bye. >> joe biden is mandating vaccines for 80 million sector workers. >> this is not a choice. >> you would expect words like that from the president of china. >> praising the taliban. >> professional intea tierier minister has been an fbi wanted poster. >> larry older responding to being thrown an egg by person in a gorilla mask. >> call a hate crime i don't like to play that game.

>> troops killed in kabul was vandalized. >> doesn't matter if you are the right or the left. these are for the 13 slain u.s. troops. and i think that's why it hits a cord. >> he is going to be remembered for a long time whether he makes this one or misses it. >> win it. ♪ with the stars and stripes ♪ and the eagle flies. ♪ there's a lady that stands in a harbor. brian: great shot of the freedom tower as we pan over to the left. you hear that song, not only appropriate because it was written and inspired by 9/11 and the attacks, aaron tippin wrote it, but little bit later on a.j. hall came up with this great idea and i was able to do some stand-ups and front the package. i don't deserve any of the credit. toby keith, aaron tippin, bret

michaels some of the artist on a package as they talk about songs that were written to inspire and reflect on 9/11. later in the show. that's one of them. steve: aaron tippin sang that song on this program and there has been a lot of music dedicated to what happened 20 years ago tomorrow and that is all about the world trade center. ainsley: you know, we all have visited with families that have lost loved ones in 9/11. janice has been at all of these memorial sites around the new york city area. and we are featuring brian's story today. >> flight 93. went to shanksville and talked to two of the family members who battled and forced that plane down and kept the house of representatives, the congress, the capitol building from being hit. steve: yeah. meanwhile, pete hegseth is live down at near the freedom tower and right behind you, i believe, in the darkness, the fountains

absolutely, steve, brian, ainsley good morning. we are at the imprint of where the south tower was that fell at 959 on that tuesday morning. guys, i'm so proud of all of you, of our producers, of our show because today and tomorrow we will do justice with the best we can with the time we have allotted to truly remember and another forget all the actions of the people, all the lives and sacrifice and heroism of 20 years ago right here at this location at the pentagon and over the says and the ground of pennsylvania. because, 20 years strikes you in a different way. this is one of the most special assignments, is the most special assignment that i have had for a number of years is coming down here to be a part of the remembrance. but 20 years is a generational turnover. 20 years are kids today in college who never lived those events but were affected by it in every way. just like my life was affected and all of yours and all of our viewers. this was not just a new york city thing. this was a kansas city thing.

this was every single corner of our nation generationally touched by an eel enemy that came to our shores that at a and inspired why the resilience and response of americans who stood up. what we're going to do today and tomorrow on the show, on "fox & friends," we will host the weekend show down here before we play back live the events of that morning as fox news channel does so well every day, is we are going to remember. we are going to remember the names and people. there is plenty of politics around this there there is absurdity of things happening across the globe. statements from the white house like businesslike and professional of our enemies that attacked us that day. put that side almost whether it comes to this location for the next couple of days. we will remember those souls and americans who were the first casualties of a war that lasted for over 20 years and hasn't ended because our enemies still wish to attack us if and when

they could. so, god bless our great first responders many we will this morning and the show, brian, you mentioned the tribute, which i don't think any show will do by better than this day. appreciate having me down here, guys. steve: we believe two hours from now there will be a wreath laying and we will look at that live. pete, thank you very much for joining us live. ainsley: we appreciate you being down there. we are all wearing our red, white, and blue today. steve: he was talking about the commemorations and for the channel to remember. tomorrow, we're going to run that 19-minute package story that we run only one time a year because there are certain images that happened on 9/11, 2001, that are so awful we only show them once a year. just to remind you of the evil that happened on that day. so that you never forget. ainsley: steve and brian were working that day. steve: yep.

ainsley: sitting on the curvey couch. i was a reporter in columbia, north carolina. i worked overnight. he said ainsley all hell has broken loose. i turned on the channel and i'm watching you guys with the coverage. steve: it was a terrible day. and we will never forget and we will be talking about that all day and tomorrow and sunday as well. in the meantime, we will talk about the news of the day. and we start in washington where president biden, i'm sure you saw, last night about 5:00, taking aim at millions of americans with new sweeping covid mandates. ainsley: he says getting vaccinated is not a personal choice and announced his plan to force large companies to get workers vaccinated or under go weekly testing. brian: where is this anger whether it comes to the taliban, the angers that has for the so-called unvaccinated? griff jenkins joins us live with a breakdown of the president's plan. hey, griff. griff: good morning, brian, ainsley and steve. gone are the carrots and the ben franklins, it's time for sticks calling it a pandemic of the unvaccinated. the president went much further than many expected forcing

people to get the shot. >> we need to do more. this is not about freedom or personal choice. it's about protecting yourself and those around you. griff: it's an about face what the president was saying about mandates back in december. >> will vaccines be mandatory. >> no, i don't think it should be mandatory. i wouldn't demand it to be mandatory. griff: among the president's far reaching new rules to be from the department of labor, you see here private businesses with more than 100 employees must be vaccinated or test weekly. that applies also to workers at health facilities that receive federal medicare or medicaid. and executive branch federal employees and federal contractors must be vaccinated with no option to test out. now, not among those mandated the roughly 30% of illegal immigrants in federal detention who refuse to get the shot. and when it comes to masks, the president is instructing the tsa to double the fines for

noncompliant travelers. now, later this morning, the president, first lady, and education secretary will tour a d.c. school here but it comes on the heels of the l.a. school district's board yesterday unanimously, 6-0. the mandate the vaccine for all students first district in the nation to do so and second largest school district in the country. brian, ainsley, steve? steve: all right, griff. thank you very much. going on out in l.a. it's interesting. apparently there was a carveout. all federal employees impacted except postal workers. and there are 600,000 letter carriers and administrative staff. after it hit the fan yesterday, there was a clarification. oh, you know what? what we're going to do is they can either get the vaccination or be tested once a week like a big company. ainsley: did they say why they excluded them because they work outside primarily? steve: no. you know, it's a union thing. the big question is regarding the company, that are going to

do the testing once a week. will the employee pay for that or will the employer? it's f. it is on the employee he might think you know what? i will probably get a shot. 100 bucks a week is a lot. ainsley: depends on who owns the business. the employers it's on you. you can decide either you pay for it or you make your employees pay for it. brian: it's pretty amazing that he would choose yesterday to go out of his way to prove that everything he says in his inaugural was not true. he was divisive, he was angry, he was polarizing. he was condescending and again, he is saying i once had 65% approval of my handling of the pandemic. now it's around 50. let's change the subject from the worst evacuation surrender in american history to covid-19 and see if i can show that i'm in charge by demeaning and diminishing those who are unvaccinated for whatever reason. but if you take in natural immunity and those who have gotten vaccinated around 70%.

what really is the story too is people that have break through that end up in the hospital like elite athletes like oscar dalla ohio a vaccinated months ago had to miss his fight because he said i can't get out of the hospital and i am fully vaccinated. the president does what he does best. he picks out popular republican governors answered takes them on. so democrats can go look, let's rally against ron desantis and what is happening in texas. listen to the president yesterday. >> school officials are trying to keep children safe in a pandemic while their governor picks a fight with them and even threatens their salaries or their jobs. talk about bullying in schools. these governors won't help us beat the pandemic. i will use my power as president to get them out of the way. the department of education has already begun to take legal action against states undermining protection that local school officials have ordered. any teacher or school official

whose pay is withheld for doing the right thing, we will have that pay restored by the federal government 100 percent. i promise you. you have we'll have your back. ainsley: this is about face. in december he wants everyone to get vaccinated but doesn't support vaccine mandates and jen psaki in july said a federal vaccine mandate was not the role of the federal government. here is the picture of all the governors, can we put that back up, please? here are the picture of the governors opposing the mandate and the president is declaring war against them. he is telling them get out of my way. steve: the president is in a pickle because the pandemic is terrible right now. you know, there are 150, 160,000 cases, largely the delta, new cases, 160,000 new cases each and every day. and at the same time, his poll numbers are going down. so, he has got to make sure that these democrats don't lose the midterms and when you look at mandates, according to the polls, 8 in 10 democrats support

mandates. but six in 10 republicans oppose. 100 percent of the republicans in this montage, their governors, and they think what the president is doing is probably unconstitutional. >> to put them out of work and send them, not let them earn a living because of this? i just think that that's fundamentally wrong. i do not believe that people should lose their jobs over this issue. and we will fight that. >> i will fight to protect my people. and to defend their freedoms, in fact, it was a shock to me that the president actually said in his speech today that this wasn't about freedom and personal choice at all. >> americans take responsibility for their own personal healthcare. this is not the job of the government. >> you would expect words like that from the president, maybe, of communist china or of north korea. but you don't expect words like that coming out of the mouth of the president of the united states. >> and by the way, it's just so obvious. he is not only doing stuff that's unconstitutional. is he doing stuff that he said

he wouldn't do. nancy pelosi said we cannot require someone to be vaccinated. rochelle walensky the cdc when she is in charge or not being political she is running things there will be no nationwide mandate. basically looking at that right now. ainsley: nancy said that a while ago. curious what she says right now. are. brian: pretty definitive. what changes in a year? ainsley: biden said the same thing. brian: saying she was right then and biden was right then. and if you don't believe they were right then they just were lying then. so now you have the american people. then you have the american people making decisions. we understand the facts. and now he wants to make an enemy of the unvaccinated and further alienate people. there is one goal getting through. he wanted to knock afghanistan and the compliant and the will grabbing way dealing with the taliban to go off being the number one story and at least for this show in this block, he got what he wanted. we aren't talking about his it horrendous decisions that

trapped thousands of americans in a terrorist nation. steve: we're going to talk about that in the next segment. but the worry is, regarding his broad mandates yesterday and, you know, there will be court challenges because a lot of companies go we don't know what to do and it's going to wind up being litigated. but the worry is, given the fact that you know, they do -- the government, through the osha requirements, he is using osha's emergency temporary standards code that allows it to enact a rule if people are in grave danger. the worry is, he is going to use that to have tsa say if you want to get on an airplane, not only do you need a mask, you need a little card that says you are fully vaccinated. ainsley: there was a congresswoman on "fox & friends first" earlier represents new york. she says she has two people who have called her office that said we were pregnant and our boss required vaccines and we got fired because our doctors told us not to get the vaccine until after we had the baby. you also have girls that are saying their monthly cycle is

being changed because they have -- after they got the vaccine. we're going to talk to dr. nicole saphier about that and find out what the truth is because you have these moms saying not sure i really want to vaccinate my my 12-year-old daughter. steve: a lot is not known. brian: that's too bad. they should not be seeing their doctor but their local politician for medical advice. ainsley: or school union. brian: new american way. steve: that's terrible i talked to my doctor and i got fired. brian: you want joe biden saying it has s. not an effect on you or not your doctor or needing people to give firsthand accounts how your body is reacting. mike pence is going to be with us. he has not talked much since he left office. think about what is he like. he was an a vice president who got an assignment and actually did it unlike the one we have now. steve: ben shapiro is going to join us 8:00 hour which is when we will probably see that wreath laying down at the ground zero area. ainsley: the biden administration's treatment much the taliban called into

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jillian: we are back now with your headlines. two more fallen heroes coming home after making the ultimate sacrifice in kabul last month.

the remains of marine corps patrol will alive in omaha, nebraska this afternoon. he will be laid to rest next week. remains of marine sergeant will arrive home in lawrence, massachusetts tomorrow. 20th anniversary of 9/11. all 13 of the fallen heros were posthumously awarded purple heart. a major drug bust in florida. deputies seizing enough fentanyl to kill nearly half a million people. they found 960 grams inside a palm coast home while exexecuting a search warrant. deputies say most of it was in a jar labeled protein powder. two men arrested during the search. they are both behind bars facing drug charges. the food and drug administration bans the sale of hundreds of thousands of vaping and electronic cigarette products. the agency faced a court deadline to make decisions on marketing applications for companies. it's part of a crack down to keep them away from kids. regulators, however, postponed their decision on leaving

company he juul. 9/11 taste attacks during tomorrow's game. this school releasing touching video of player roses in new york city. the team's uniforms will say never forget. helmets number 37. representing school alumni lost in the attacks. florida gators also unveiling their special commemorative uniforms for tomorrow's game. they will feature gators spelled in red, white, and blue in honor of first responders. i will send it back to you. brian: that's great. ainsley: beautiful. brian: instead of red, white and whether you stories instead of others getting out of the sport world. joe biden's speech yesterday unquestionably was to get the afghanistan departure and the americans trapped behind enemy lines off the front pages out of the lead story of responsible news organizations like our own. and i guess. ainsley: in two days before 9/11 decides to have a press

conference on covid. brian did he need to do that. ainsley: time something interesting. steve: this is all about polling and messaging. brian: yeah, just to finish up what we were saying yesterday we got word that there would be a flight coming from qatar where 200 americans would be invited to leave. i'm thinking to myself well, that's interesting. where are the 200 americans? i thought it was only going to be 100. well some green card holders. in the end 30 invites came out and in the end 10 u.s. citizens and 11 green card holders went out. some decided not to because afghanistan is beautiful in the fall and number two, they said they have medical issues. or their family wasn't allowed to go and that's why they chose to stay because they didn't want to see their family killed while they were allowed to leave. steve: apparently qatary diplomats contacted us a abunch of americans meet us at the hotel in kabul on this day, yesterday. and we are going to then drive you out to the airport.

there were 11 people on that particular flight 10 americans 11 u.s. green card holders and holders of other western passports. a lot of people invited and tried to get on the hotel mini bus driven by the qatary diplomats didn't get there on time. they will have another flight today. nonetheless tens of thousands of afghan auto lies, our white house put out a statement saying hey, the taliban, they are really great guys. they really helped us out. ains the taliban, they are saying we have a problem here in america. the messaging is horrible. we are facing 9/11. we want to change the script. if you help us clean up our mess, we will praise you and say you are business like. this is. steve: i hope that was not the negotiation. ainsley: the white house

national security council praises the are taliban's cooperation. the taliban have been cooperating and facilitating the departure of american citizens. they have shown flexibility and they have been business like and professional in our dealings with them in this effort. steve: unbelievable. ainsley: what we hear from people who live there and know what the taliban is like. they lived through it 40 years ago. then everything changed in afghanistan 20 years ago because of american troops. they all say the same thing. they don't believe the taliban will change because it's tough to change their ideology and their belief system. steve: who have we ever heard in the last 20 years described the taliban as professional and business like. yesterday for the first time in american his stray white house correspondent held up a wanted poster in the white house to make a point. watch this. >> you are saying the taliban is business like and professional. their interior minister has an fbi wanted poster. he has a $10 million bounty on his head. what's the business? >> we are here to celebrate the

return of american citizens who wanted to leave afghanistan of legal permanent residents of afghan who fought by our side to qatar on a qatary airlines flight. in order to get those people out, we had to work with some members of the taliban to press them and to work in a business like manner to get them out. that is what we were stating in the statement. steve: in that statement it says this is a positive first step. towards what. >> towards getting additional people out who want to leave afghanistan. brian: admitting got left behind. steve: it got cut away but peter is holding it up. brian: different story, we are increasingly worried about the growing number of incidents of harassment and intimidation of our national staff. we will continue to do everything possible to support our staff and keep them from harm's way. and these people called women who wanted a life and were given a glimpse of that, thanks to the american and nato forces over the last 20 years, and wanted job protesting in the streets,

and they were getting whipped and you will see that video in about five minutes. and then there is these journalists who wanted to carry, who actually wanted to cover the protest of these professional taliban government workers and then were able to experience this type of beating, evidently, these hand whips i wanted to warn you a little disturbing. but just to show you these professional talibaners. watch what they did to journalists. i'm pretty sure those weren't birth marks. i'm pretty sure they are red from the whip hitting through their clothes because they wanted to do their job. this is taliban 2.0. steve: professional and business like? i think not. brian: this is also something to keep in mind to wonder. how will we getting these people out? how many pallets of cash are we laying off to the cash starved taliban in order to get our people out? we already gave them 50 billion or $85 billion worth of our military hardware and our uniforms that they likely will wear in the u.s. embassy on

9/11, which is tomorrow, even though everyone is talking about booster shots at the white house. how much more are we giving them behind the scenes? will we ever find out? had will those answers combine to be answered by people really covering this story and real questions next week next week with antony blinken on capitol hill. ainsley: out in california recall election next week gavin newsom, larry elder is the frontrunner for the republican party. we showed you that video of larry going out to the homeless encampments in venice beach there he is. this lady dressed in black faced monkey outfit. steve: gorilla mask. ainsley: punching this guy trying to guard him and throwing eggs at him. so larry elder was on last night with tucker. and/or with jesse who is filling in for tucker and this is what he said. >> she might be one of the 20,000 people released early from our prisons, felons, many of home violent offenders under this governor.

if i were a democrat it would be called systemic racism, a hate crime. i don't like to play that game. there was a negative about me in the "new york times" never once mentioned that i'm black. never mentioned i would be the first black governor of california. i never made a big deal out about that. i don't want people to vote for or against me because i'm black. >> we have same page of the "new york times" big article about the quote first female governor of new york, closed quote. even though she didn't get elected she was basically elected because the over governor resigned. cared about first female democrat couldn't give a rip when it was the first black republican. steve: larry points out a double standard. brian: so out of control i just hope maybe the mainstream media would be embarrassed enough to start covering him honestly. they fear a guy come from south central l.a. who grew up in the inner city, who decided i looked at all the facts, and you have 30 years of track record. i'm a conservative. and you listen to him on the radio every single day. you know exactly where he

stands. if you were worried about maybe how he would govern, maybe that's a legitimate issue after governor schwartz nationer: is that going to help joe biden and his approval rating of 43% going to trot out to california to help gavin newsom. steve: tell you on wednesday. ainsley: larry said i welcome him come on over. brian: the more they remind him. ainsley: the navy seal who killed usama bin laden rahm o'neil is going to join us. brian: i it traveled down to the hallowed ground of pennsylvania. we will hear from the families of flight 93 who stopped the terrorists who it stopped from hitting our nation's capitol and possibly the white house.

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to regenerate in afghanistan. the nature of al-qaeda and isis-k is that you know, they will always attempt to find space to grow and regenerate whether it's there. whether it's in somalia, whether it's in any other ungoverned space. steve: our next guest knows all about taking on al-qaeda. he rob o'neill is the navy seal who killed usama bin laden and he joins us live. rob, good morning to you. >> good morning, steve. thanks for having me. steve: it's good to have you. you look at those images of those journalists in afghanistan and then at the same time, the white house is saying oh, you know, the taliban has been very business like and professional. >> well, what we're seeing here is an example of the taliban's only going to let us see what they want us to see. these are two journalists, a photographer and a journalist who were work for a reputable agency over there. they their filming of women's protest the taliban doesn't want

us to see that so they beat them and almost beat them to death. these guys thought they were daying, beating with whips and cables and anything they could find. they did it for a while, stepping on their faces and kicking them in the head. one of the taliban guys said you are luck i couldn't weren't beheaded. taliban is not business like. they are gross, evil, and brutal. and if you can believe this? they lie. steve: yeah, no kidding. rob, has been 20 years since 9/11. obviously all the commemorations are tomorrow and we are starting to observe it yesterday or rather today. you know, when we any where we all were 20 years ago, where were you? i mean, eventually, you would be the guy who pulled the trying tore kill bin laden. >> deployed out of virginia and we were overseas having worked in kosovo for quite a while. and the way we said it was the only game in town. we had gone back up to germany to navy special warfare unit 2 and getting our stuff ready. catching up on emails and stuff like that when we saw breaking

news and north tower on was on tower. there was a small plane that hit the building. and we were looking at it on tv and thinks that's a big building huge hole clear day that's not a small plain. we were talking 9:03 second plane hit the south tower. every navy seal in the room said al-qaeda. one of the guys did say the name usama bin laden. we knew our lives not just our lives but everyone in the world's lives had just changed. steve: of course, you know, for the longest time we did not know the identity of the navy seal who pulled the trigger. we heard that one time in fort campbell where i think the president said who did it and somebody said well, we all did, mr. president. eventually you revealed yourself after you took a trip to the 9/11 museum, you know, had was not publicized but you wanted to donate the uniform you were wearing that day. and you took along with you a journalist who you had met in

irish bar in the washington, d.c. you wanted -- you just wanted somebody to take pictures of it so you would remember. >> that's correct. i wanted to donate something that was there without my name on it the smiewsm chronological and i wanted it to be documented. that was fox news peter doocy with me. and we were filming it once i donated the shirt. we went into a room and there was about 35 family members this there and they all lost loved ones on 9/11. and watching their response to being able to put a face with a name that killed bin laden. they were saying there will never be closure the worst day in our lives but this will help with the healing process. it was at that moment i realized if i can help 35 people i can probably help thousands of people with this. i have dealt with evil before and i can handle it again this was definitely worth it i took a chance on that. yes. steve: that's right. and now we all know your

identity. and, you know, a grateful nation says thank you to rob o'neill and everybody who served. all the navy seals. everybody who has prosecuted the war on terror for the last 20 years, rob. >> we really appreciate it we would do it again. steve: i believe you are right. yes, sir. all right. thanks, rob. all right. meanwhile, moving on on this friday, the biden white house purging trump appointees from nonpartisan military boards. so what happened happened to unity and bipartisan? and the president new vaccine requirement for federal and private sector workers met with swift backlash. dr. nicole saphier says the work missed the mark and may end up fueling vaccine hesitancy. she is live next. ♪ ♪

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>> many of us are frustrated with the nearly 80 million americans who are still not vaccinated, even though the vaccine is safe, effective and free. this is not about freedom or personal choice. it's about protecting yourself and those around you. the people you work with, the people you care about. the people you love. ainsley: president biden's new plan to fight covid-19 now requiring all employers with 100 or more workers to fully vaccinate their workforces or show a negative test at least once a week. the severity also impacting hospitals, home healthcare facilities and all the executive

branch federal workers and even federal contractors. but our next guest says these mandates are missing the mark. fox news medical contributor dr. nicole saphier joins us now. good morning, dr. saphier. >> good morning, ainsley. ainsley: the executive branch don't have a choice. they have to get vaccinated. federal contractors have to get vaccinated. they don't have the option to test every week. i heard claudia cowan a congresswoman from new york say she had two constituency call her and say they were pregnant. their doctors told them not to get the vaccine until after the baby was born and they were fired. what do you say about this? >> well, i can tell you, ainsley, throughout the country right now we are starting to see shortages in staffing, whether it's nurses, technologists, and now i suspect you are going to see other staffing shortages coming from these new mandates. these are all man made shortages. there are a few things, ainsley, yesterday that i heard president biden say that i liked. he discussed increasing production of the monoclonal antibodies. that's great.

they are proven effective to keep people out of the hospital. he didn't go far enough to say he was going to expand access to outpatient centers and primary care doctors to give those monoclonal antibodies. it doesn't help that much. he said he is going to increase production antigen test to the defense production act. that's great. he didn't say rapid tests are going to be in lieu of children having to be kept home in quarantine because of close contacts or even employees. we need to move this mark forward to actually help people. we had to keep our children in school with these rapid tests. we need to keep people at work because we have so many people unnecessarily quarantining. again, he didn't go far enough. if you think his obvious disdain for the people who have not gotten vaccinated helps people like me convince the vaccine hesitant to get vaccinated. you are absolutely wrong. so moving forward, by saying that he wants to protect the vaccinated from the unvaccinated with these mandates he is just

further undermining the confidence in the vaccines. the message should be these vaccines are doing a great job at protecting people from severe illness and death. and he should encourage everyone to talk to their doctors. but, unfortunately, he continued with his group think are regarding vaccines which is completely wrong. they are far too black and white. they are not providing medical exemptions for some people who may have some sort of medical condition where their physician doesn't believe they should be vaccinated or maybe they have already recovered from covid-19 and have natural immunity. and likely don't need two doses. this group think is completely wrong and the biden administration continues to miss the mark by not following the science. ainsley: there are reports changes in monthly cycle. reports vaccine? >> the nih is putting forth $1.5 million to various institutions across the study because there have been reports about that. i don't want people to get concerned about that because you

have to know when it comes to menstrual cycles a lot of things can will alter that heavy exercising, stress, medications, and just daily life can alter your menstrual cycle. because of reports of it, they are going to look into it. it's possible the inflammation from the vaccine may have changed the cycle are a month or two. this doesn't translate into long-term fertility issues. ainsley: there is a professor suing over the vaccine mandate because he says he has natural immunity. is that something you should consider if you have natural immunity do you have to get the vaccine if there is a mandate? >> i think it is high time the cdc, other elite institutions and biden administration start acknowledging the ample data that shows there is protection from natural immunity. the cdc's website only discusses one small case control study out of kentucky that showed that there was a higher rate of reinfection following infection than vaccination. but that goes against all of

these other studies throughout the united states and throughout the world which are much larger studies that show there is great protection from natural immunity. there is also very good protection even better from one dose of the vaccine following infection. they don't necessarily need that second dose. why they cannot get past this black and white everyone needs the two doses really boggles the mind. the cdc acknowledges natural immunity with so many other viral infections. they are getting in their own way right now when it comes to acknowledging natural immunity. we need to focus on the people who have not vaccinated who have not recovered from covid-19. those people still remain the most vulnerable. ainsley: dr. saphier, thank you. >> thank you, ainsley. ainsley: you are welcome. up next, an incredible piece by brian who recently traveled to shanksville, pennsylvania. who connect with americans who lost loved ones aboard flight 9. >> the news is that it's been hijacked by tears. >> contact we are looking at 93.

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back now with your headlines, new york archbishop timothy cardinal dolan says 9/11 has become somewhat of a holiday for american americans. it's filled with powerful memories that bring resilience across the country. and mourners gather at the 9/11 waterfront norm connecticut honoring those who lost their lives. 156 people with ties to the state died in the attacks. another 60 tied in the wars in afghanistan and iraq. meanwhile, volunteers spreading more than 7,000 american flags across st. louis' forest park honoring every american service member and first responder who has died since 9/11. wow. powerful. send it to you. ainsley: so pretty. steve: thank you. on this 20 year milestone since september 11th, 2001. we are honoring all those we lost. ainsley: among them the 40 passengers and crew members of flight united 93. are. brian: yup, the heroic actions of those men and women voting to react as the plane turned towards washington, d.c. was depicted in a movie back in

2006. >> there is a lot of us. we have got to do something. do you see how low we are? >> is there a weapon? is there something we can use? brian brain they used scolding water while many of us may have seen the film. not many have been able to visit the incredible memorial in flight 93. in beautiful shanksville, pennsylvania. >> i had the chance to get a tour to speak to two of the family members who were kind enough to come out to meet us. here's a look. brian: you cannot talk about flight 93 on september 11th, 2001, and not talk about the other flights. it tells the complete story. 8:46, one world trade is hit. 16 minutes later, roughly, the second tower would be hit. at 9:37, the pentagon. but, up above at 10:03. 33 passengers and seven crew members would be in the flight r lives. older brother joey birth name is lewis but you called joey, when did you realize he was on flight

93. my wife called me got off the road with your dad he believes joey was on one of the flights. he was my older brother. he was my protector but he also was a great role model to me. and i had that honor and pleasure of walking in his footsteps. brian: lorain, your cousin, the senior flight attendant on that flight. tell me about lorain? both of you have a special connection. >> she was kind of the bigger sister that i didn't have. brian: you were working so hard to keep her name and legacy alive. >> i have two granddaughter and both carry on the reins. >> when you think about flight 93 so much was so vivid because so much recorded. two black boxes that were preserved. you had 35 air phone calls. you don't have to imagine the horror of their last moments. >> the news is that it's been hijacked by terrorists. >> contact we are looking at united flight 93. >> shouting.

>> united 93 may have a bomb on board. >> 29 minutes out of where? >> is he heading toward the washington area. >> something miraculous that these mostly strangers came together in such a short period of time and were able to not only make a decision, come up with a plan and put it into action. >> i truly believe today that if those 40 people didn't do that flight 93 would -- may have reached the -- >> what strikes me so much here in shanksville, everything seems to mean something. >> come into the park. you will see a structure that's 93-foot tall. that's called the tower of voices. >> the tower holds 40 wind chimes. >> chimes are different sizes. ditch lengths representing the ages and the different people of flight 93. >> before this was here, it was called the temporary memorial. nothing but like chain linked

fence and a huge parking lot. people from all across the country would come and leave tributes. we thought when we started planning this we wanted to have something like that so people could leave tributes behind. brian: a field one day a field of honor forever. because you are walking from the parking lot to here. it actually gives you a idea what they were faced with and how confined the space was. the field of vision was blocked by the large walls it simulates that direction looking out an airplane window. >> the walls of the height of the plane was as it approached the field. >> right now we are walking down the actual flight path. >> flight 93 took. >> if you look at the wall of names right through here, they are-mile-an-hour rowing the flight path. you think about looking back at this memorial, looking over our shoulders to the visitor's center is. >> they are actually making their assault. they are actually running up, you know, the aisle way towards the cockpit as it's coming this way. brian: look at this fence, it only gets open one time a year and that's on september 11th for

the families. >> as you look out to that field, i see a rock there. the rock actually shows you where the impact site is where the visitor is coming here. in front of the rock are three caskets that are buried. they were all the unidentifiable remains that were found here. this is their final resting place. brian: 20 years later, what a tribute. >> history isn't history if it's not recorded, if nobody remembers it because of this memorial, we hope that people will remember it forever. brian: it is just so amazing. and by the way this is the first ever. today is the first ever national flight 93 heroes award which will be given to someone who has incredible bravery just like those passengers and crew members did on flight 93. keep in mind, the plane can hold over 100. they had 40. they had 33 passengers, seven crew members. and you had a flight attendant grab boiling hot water. you had a black belt, a brown belt in karate, national rugby star, two wrestlers, a weight

lifter that was one of the guys that was able to storm up there. a field hockey player. and amateur pilot. in the back of their mind they said if we can get to the cockpit, we have a pilot here. we might be able to turn this around. whether it became clear that they busted through, he flipped the plane and the plane was upside down this guy zara and keep in mind this is the only flight with four hijackers. everybody else had five. they were really heroic in what they did. everyone asked themselves what would i have done in that moment and the family members say that's what everyone says when they get brian. ainsley: four hijackers two flying on board and two on board. brian: being the thugs the muscle. steve: dialogue in the back of that plane was todd beamer overheard on a phone call saying let's roll. brian: deanna burnett the wife of burnett was able to help take that they knew they were going to die but they were going to go fight. ainsley: front comp of the "new york post" today a thicker post

we normally get tribute to 9/11 20 years later. steve: it is september 10th, 2021. hour two of "fox & friends" starts right now. ♪ ♪ this is not about freedom or personal choice. >> president biden declaring sweeping new vaccine mandates. this group think is completely wrong and the biden administration continues to miss the mark by not following the science. >> for the first time since the u.s. withdrew 200 people including americans left afghanistan with the cooperation of the taliban. >> the taliban is not doing this out of the goodness of their heart. they're hoping to extract concessions. >> peter doocy confronts jen psaki after praising the taliban. >> so you think the taliban is business like and professional. their interior minister has an most wanted poster. >> keeps copies of our founding documents like the constitution now listing a harmful language alert. >> rutgers football releasing this touching video of a player laying roses at the world trade center memorial.

♪ ♪ ♪ compassion ♪ that washed through our nation ♪ as the smoke slowly cleared ♪ and remember the day steve as you look toward the west on the island manhattan we are about a block away from that right there and we listen to steven curtis chapman stinging remember that day. it's all about the day, and the day it is tomorrow, september the 11th, 2021. it was 20 years ago that song another one of the songs featured at the conclusion of today's telecast showing how so many songwriters and performers were so impacted by what happened to the world 20 years ago tomorrow wrote songs about

it. brian: alan jackson, toby keith, brent mights, will aaron tippin all featured at the end of the show all written and inspired by 9/11. ainsley: remember how united we were after 9/11 everyone had flags in their yard. steve: i miss that. brian: george w. bush had a lot to do with that. he knew a how to unite the country especially in light of that speech yesterday. steve: it was great on the evening of september 11th, all the members of congress went outside, went down the steps on the east front and sang god bless america. we were unite 20 years ago and it wasn't that long ago but now we seem to be so divided. we are united in remembering what happened. that is why pete hegseth is live at the 9/11 memorial. right now the sun is coming up. you can see the fountain behind you. pete: absolutely. good morning, guys. it is the footprint of the south

tower. it's absolutely stunning, hallowing here on these grounds. these hallowed grounds. and it's always a special assignment for me to be out here. and i think it's interesting that today because it's a friday on "fox & friends," it is 9/10. tomorrow is 9/11, "fox & friends" will be hosting live from here on the weekend paying full tribute but it got my mind thinking about the mindset we had as a country in 9/10. totally oblivious, for the most part, to threats like al-qaeda, to usama bin laden, to what was happening with the taliban. and that next day changed all of our lives forever. i don't care who you are, who is watching, what your background is, for two decades the trajectory of your life changed. this was not just a new york city thing or a pentagon thing or a shanksville thing. this was a new york city thing and a kansas city thing and an oklahoma city thing and every other small town in between and what makes 20 years so

significant is that the generational term. it's a generational turn of people today in college and i know we are going to talk about some of it in the program who never lived those events and learning about them in history books or not learning about them. that begs the question to me on 9/10 can we capture the heroism of 9/11 and find a way to live like it's 9/12 totally vigilant and eyes wide open about the world we live in and evil that still exists. we may not have troops in afghanistan right now. there is still an enemy, a radical islamic enemy who seeks the destruction of the west. that's a fact. the war is not over for them. if we don't remember, fittingly, like "fox & friends" is today, like the fox news channel does, our whole country goes back to a 9/10 mindset. we have a whole generation of kids who whether they fought the war or not, has the wrong conception of what it was all about, or what the nature of our enemy truly is. so those are the big questions you ponder on a day like this.

brian, what a great package you put together about flight 93. i still get tingles when i think about todd beamer and all those amazing americans saying let's roll and really the first counter attack in that long war we fought now for 20 years and will continue to fight. this day and tomorrow are about remembering, are about ensuring the proper story is told that the heroism and the sacrifice is remembered. thank you guys for doing that on "fox & friends" and for giving me this assignment. it is absolutely an honor and we will try to do justice by it. brian: to follow up what you just said, it was because they knew that the trade center was hit, the pentagon was on fire through the air phones. their family members were saying they are going to take this -- they are going to slam this into some building. you have got to do something. they knew he had they had to do something only because the news of what happened behind you got to them in pennsylvania. pete: could you imagine? i have put together a lot of plans in dangerous places, but

that is something i was trained and prepared to do. these are everyday americans getting instant information about an enemy and a threat they don't know could have been criminal cartels for all they know. they didn't know it was radical islamic jihadists involved in that. yet, they did what americans will always do. made a hasty plan, got aggressive, and saved lives. and they saved hundreds of lives and frankly, the future of our nation because of their actions. that's the fortitude i want my young boys and daughters to understand is that it takes action, and also an understanding that america is exceptional. that freedom has to be defended. that vigilance is required. remember those things. teach it to your kids. find your kids today and tomorrow, sit them down and give theme proper lesson of the impact of 9/11 and how it will still change their lives even if they didn't live it out. ainsley: pete also as adults we need to be row minded like you said on, you know, on the 10th

many -- all of them, they didn't know that that was going to be their last full day and they were going to die the next morning. so i am also learning to enjoy your life, do good to others, and teach that to your children as well. because you just never know. pete: amen. live worthy. that's what i have always tried to remind myself especially with guys we lost fighting wars as a result of that live worthy of their sacrifice. every day with what you do, whether it's loving your spouse and your kids and your church and your community or whatever your vocation is. do something purposeful. that understands the central it's of god and country. don't be get are it culture celebrates. today is the day to really remember what matters. steve: it pete, thank you very much. we will return there in about an hour for a wreath laying at the site where it all happened here in new york city.

ainsley: turning now to washington. president biden taking aim at millions of americans with new sweeping covid mandates. brian: yep, there is never enough time to gte be divisive. get workers vaccinated or undergo weekly testing. steve: mark meredith joins us live from the north lawn of the white house with a breakdown of what the president said yesterday, mark. and now american businesses today are waking up trying to figure out okay, how do we do that? >> steve, ainsley and brian good morning. there is a lot to unpack here. the president says his latest steps are meant to impact those 80 trillion americans or so still not vaccinated and trying to convince them now is the time to get the shot. you mentioned the rules, osha laying out a new rule soon impacting of employers 100 people or more required to get the vaccine or undergo weekly testing. people who work at medical facilities. they receive reimbursement from medicare or medicaid expect to

be vaccinated. increase in federal mandate for federal agencies, federal workers and contractors. the president is are large gainment venues to require proof of vaccination. already 157 million people in this country fully vaccinated. the white house says that's not enough to end this pandemic. the president doubling down this is the pandemic of the unvaccinated. >> we need to do more. this is not about freedom or personal choice. it's about protecting yourself and those around you. >> some people noted that there was no mention of requiring migrants crossing into the u.s. to get the jab, at least not yet. this as multiple potential 2024 candidates and current sitting governors are reacting to all of this, vowing to take on these new mandates. >> i don't think it actually helps to get more people to ultimately do it. but i do not believe that people should lose their jobs over this issue. and and we will fight that. >> so we see what they are doing

on the federal level. the white house is also urging the individual states to require that all school employees be vaccinated and just yesterday the los angeles school district, the second largest in the country is now going to require that all students over the age of 12 be vaccinated if they want to attend classes in person. steve, ainsley and brian, a lot going on here with this vaccine rollout. steve: no kidding. mark, thank you very much. it's interesting. he just said that migrants coming into the country are not required. federal employees are required to get the vaccine but migrants aren't. about 20% of them are testing positively for coronavirus when they're tested. but 30% of the migrants held why the feds are refusing because the federal government is giving the migrants the opportunity to refuse whereas the president is not giving federal employees any options. they have got to get the jab if they want the job. ainsley: and about 18% of those across the border recently have tested positive for covid.

brian: yeah. pretty amazing that the president really acts like he is being vigilant about this while keeping the border wide open and having people flood our border and refuse the vaccine. a lot of people in other parts of the world, would actually love to get the vaccine, they can't get it we are trying to give it to illegal immigrants sneaking into our country or turning themselves in because going to be released into the interior of our country. we are going to give it to them for free and they're rejecting it and that didn't make it into the speech. maybe someone deleted it out of the prompter which is always mysteriously way too far for the president to be able to read. what did a doctor think about looking at that speech yesterday? do you think that the president berating and demeaning you or an individual for not getting the vaccine, which let me add this. carnegie mellon did a study and they talked to 5,000 people about why they didn't get the vaccine and who they are. do you know two groups that didn't get the vaccine the most? high school graduates and

ph.d.s. they are about equal. what is it about ph.d.s and high school graduates and also minorities the number one minority that has not gotten vaccinated are african-americans. that didn't make it into the speech either. dr. nicole saphier on who benefited from yesterday's remarks. >> if you think his obvious disdain for the people who have not gotten vaccinated helps people like me convince the vaccine hesitant to get vaccinated, you are absolutely wrong. and so moving forward, why saying that he wants to protect the vaccinated from the unvaccinated with these mandates, he is just further undermining the confidence in the vaccines, the message should be these vaccines are doing a great job at protecting people from severe illness and death. and he should encourage everyone to talk to their doctors. but, unfortunately, he continued with his group think regarding vaccines which is completely wrong.

steve: and so, today, on this friday, there are a lot of american businesses that have more than 100 employees and they are saying okay, what are we going to do? how are we going to do this? there are already some big companies like united airlines, tyson food, walmart, mcdonald's, disney, a lot of hospital groups and colleges already require it. but going forward, i was reading in the "wall street journal" this morning there was a president of a company down in houston, and he said, you know, if we were to install vaccine mandates as a company, we would lose employees. he said but he likes the fact that the federal government is saying okay, now you are going to be required to because he says maybe that will take the heat off us. ainsley: what could you do if you are that pregnant woman whose doctor says i don't want you to take it right now until after and you work for one of these companies. either you get fired or you have to possibly pay for your test. steve: you told us earlier you talked to somebody whose doctor said don't get it and they got

fired. ainsley: claudia tenney a congresswoman in new york two im pregnant doctor told me not to get until after the baby is born. i followed the doctor's orders and i got fired. if you are one of these businesses and don't comply you are fined $1,000 per violation. brian: right, good job that really brings the country together, doesn't it? glen hammer is the president and ceo of the texas association of business says biden's announcement sets a frightening precedent that can be used to any manner of regulation on business. 100 percent correct. so the vice president mike pence. he had the job of going after the pandemic and making sure that we got a vaccine. he will be joining us live. ben shapiro will also be joining us. he moved his business from california to tennessee and he has over 100 employees and he is not doing this. steve: let's see what happens to his company. would that be one instance of

$14,000 fine? ainsley: it says per violation. brian: republicans suing. republican governors are suing. tell me how this brings the country together and moves us any closer. ainsley: it will end up in the courts because it's a mandate versus -- is it unconstitutional? brian: and he knew it when he did it. he is trying to distract us from afghanistan and he is trying to create a foil with republican governors so cnn has something to put on their show. ainsley: two days before 9/11. steve: the president did say last week that afghanistan getting out of it was messy. covid, messy, too. brines brian he a disaster and this was the biggest impairment in american military history. ainsley: jillian. steve: i was going to give the time. interest. jillian: 7:16. it. steve: jillian joins us now with the news. jillian: thank you. go ahead and begin headlines with the story we are following. a protester is forcefully remove from larry elder's town hall the recall candidate's latest agitator had to be escorted out

by security after you see right here interrupting the event. this comes a day after another protester hurled an egg at elder while wearing a gorilla mask. the republican blasted liberals silence after he says racial epitaphs were will during the incident. take a listen. >> very angry ugly scene. if i were a democrat, obviously, this would be called systemic racism. they would be calling it a hate crime. >> president biden set to campaign for california governor gavin newsom on monday. just one day before the recall election. flags along the freeway overpass honoring the 13 u.s. service members killed in kabul are found vandalized in california. riverside police say the flags were intentionally damaged. the department's police chief joined me earlier on "fox & friends first." take a listen. , it doesn't matter if you are the right or the left. these are for these 13 slain u.s. troops. and i think that's why it hates chord in our community in riverside because they want to

make sure that these families know that we care about them. jillian: that area by the way lost three of the 13 service members killed. police are still working to identify a suspect or suspects. president biden cracking down on travelers who refused to mask up. the white house directing tsa to increase fines amid a surge in mask-related disputes on flights starting today first time offenders could face 500 to $1,000 in fines. repeat offenders could pay 1,000 to $3,000. and turning now to the nfl kickoff. there was a high scoring showdown between the dallas cowboys and tampa bay bucks with tom brady leaving a last minute drive to set up a game winning field goal. >> brady looking that way and fires that way and going to be caught. got it. yep, that field goal right there giving the bucs the lead with two seconds left on the clock. tampa held out 31-29 win.

and the sunday is full of big matchups. you see them on the screen there be sure to tune in to fox. i will be watching at 1:00. brian: tom brady's first game in front of a packed house for tampa, too. like derek jeter things are finally braking his way. jillian: they broke his way like 20 years ago. >> brian said yesterday i really feel sorry for tom brady. jillian: terrible. brian: 44 looks like he is 20. ainsley: and a beautiful wife. a fun personality. brian: he has to spend the whole day with her today. ainsley: gronk is a friend. brian: always open. the white house purging trump appointees from the nonpartisan military boards. we're going to hear from retired four star general jack keane who is among those getting the boot. he says the president is taking a hand grenade to bipartisan. i have to agree. ♪

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what any president's objective is making sure have you nominees and people qualified to serve on them and who are aligned with your values. brian: wow, the white house now defending president biden's addition to remove a number of trump appointed officials from the military academy advisory boards. traditionally nonpartisan.

fox news senior strategic analyst retired four tar general jack keane on the list told to get out. general, does this bother you? >> well, yeah, it does. of course. it's petty, it's very partisan as you are identifying because the basis for removal is we were appointed by the previous president, president trump. and it's also wrong because is what has happened is presidents have always honored the appointees of their previous appointment who made them. when i joined the board the appointments from president obama were there and we never thought of ourselves as trump appointees or obama appointee the. we thought of ourselves as the board of visitors entrusted with oversight of something we really cared about. and we were honored to be able to support such an esteemed and beloved institution as west point whose remarkable history is synonymous with the history

of the country. we rolled up our sleeves and most everyone i saw at the board was committed to committing west point and that's kind of what the president putting us on there to do. brian: shows the inaugural speech he wrote together about come together not worth the paper it was printed on or prompter it was loaded in. i want to ask you about afghanistan and we could go on forever. if there is one area you want me to focus on it is the pentagon's decision to work with whom? >> yeah, well we outsourced certainly the evacuation of our american citizens. and our afghan partners to the taliban. i mean, it's pretty outrageous. i understand the practicality of it because they are in charge now when we are done with. the fateful choice that we made was not to extend the dead line, which our allies who have citizens there wanted us to do. and that way we entertainer teed we are going to get all of our people out including stipulates

and afghan partners. that's not happening. now we have major, major challenges because we are not there. the good news is general milley a couple days ago met with these veteran groups, some of the larger ones that are helping significant amounts of people and trying to put together a public-private partnership to work this. my problem is the state department is still in charge of it they don't deal with crisis management. you should have put the neng charge of it the white house made another mistake in not giving -- turning around and saying okay, pentagon, you take care of this and a state department is working for you got the lead on this. get something done. because they are used to crisis management, by the way, when you talk to these veterans groups. the number of people that they are working with who are american citizens and afghan partners far exceed anything that the creation is talking about. this business about maybe we have 100 or less than 100 citizens there.

there is individual groups that have names that are working with a couple of hundred of american citizens. and they are not just all in kabul. they are outside of kabul as we have pointed out many times right here on "fox & friends." this is a much bigger issue than the administration is owning up to. brian: unbelievable. the state department won't get out of the way. the pentagon is now working with outside groups in the state department won't get out of the way. lastly, on 9/11, 2001, i don't have to remind you where you were. you were in the pentagon. >> yeah. i mean, this is a day of remembrance and reflection certainly something i remember is the horror of it and also the heroism in the pentagon that we saw that day and certainly examine we witnessed in new york city and 20 years later is where my mind is we kept america safe by, what? by going to where the terrorists are and putting pressure on them. they were not able to reattack

us again for these last 20 years. the second biggest lesson i think we learned is al-qaeda after all had attacked us in '98. blew up two of our embassies in africa. the "u.s.s. cole" in 2,000 and they did all of that from a safe haven in afghanistan. we should have taken that safe haven down and would not have been a 9/11. but that was a major lesson learned that we cannot let safe havens form again and we have not been letting that happen. that's why we are in iraq, syria, east africa and also putting pressure continuously on the al-qaeda in yemen. that's why we have maintains this presence in afghanistan all these years. i have huge mixed feelings on this 9/11. why? because the very organization that enabled divid attack in america is now in charge of afghanistan. they will enable al-qaeda again for certain and other terrorist organizations like isis will

take refuge there as a result of it the risk is going up and danger is going up. so says the cia director of this current administration. significant risk if the taliban take over. that is the position we're in today. and that was all preventable i think it's shame of that we walked out and left our citizens there and our afghan partners. we have got to get fixed and remove that stain on our national honor. brian: as we watched that building burn, just know general keane was on the inside. and that's a guy that has seen a lot of action and he thought vietnam was a lot. never thought it would happen to the pentagon and it did and it could happen again if we take our eye off the ball and we seem intent on doing that of course the general is not one way or the other, according to this administration, of being on that advisory board. general jack keane, thanks so much. >> great talking to you, brian. brian: meanwhile the president's new vaccine requirement for federal and private sector workers met with swift backlash.

some calling it unconstitutional. former vice president mike pence is on deck to discuss that and so much more. ♪

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to keep children safe in a pandemic while their governor pick as fight with them and even threatens their salaries or their jobs, talk about bullying in schools. these governors won't help us beat the pandemic. i will use my power as president to get them out of the way'. ainsley: this morning republicans are firing back at joe biden threatens to use his power to overrule any governor challenging his sweeping vaccine mandates. steve: here now in his first exclusive tv interview in nearly a year, former vice president mike pence. mr. vice president, good morning, where have you been? >> well, good morning, all, and great to be with you from here in indiana, karen and i moved home a couple of months ago and we have been traveling the country but it's great to get started back with you all. brian: mr. vice president, what do you think of the president's approach yesterday of mandates,

requirements, belittling, berating? >> well, as you remember, brian, i led the white house coronavirus task force. and i couldn't be more proud of what the american people accomplished during our time of service. i mean, think about it, rereinvented testing from a standing start. we saw the delivery of billions of supplies. we provided businesses with support. and, against all odds, we developed two safe and effective vaccines within nine months and now we sit here today three quarters of the american public have received at least one vaccine shot. i mean it really is a medical miracle in operation warp speed. but i have to tell you the president's speech yesterday was unlike anything i had ever heard from an american president. i mean, to have the president of the united states say that he has been patient but his patience is wearing thin. that's not how the american people expect to be spoken to by our elected leaders. i mean, the president should

simply continue, as we have done, to lead by example, encourage people to take the vaccine as karen and i did on national television back in december. but, to say that it's not about freedom, that's exactly about freedom. america is about freedom and the ability to make the best decision for your family, for your business, and the approach this administration is taking now with this new surge of mandates and dictates from washington, d.c. and, also, with not respecting the leadership of the state level. that was central to the approach of the white house coronavirus task force. we got governs across the country, what they needed, whether they needed it, and we respected them to make the decisions best for their state. and now to have a president not just scolding the american people but scolding governors around the country it just is not the american way.

and i expect the response they are going to get across the country will prove that. steve: you know, mr. vice president, i was going to say, there are a lot of people who are vaccine hesitant as they refer to it now. is that surprising? i mean, last year when you were running against kamala harris and joe biden, they both said don't trust anything out of your administration regarding the rack seen but at the same time, and you said it at the time, the democrats were using coronavirus to try to get in the white house. and they got into the white house. >> steve, they spent the whole last year undermining public confidence in the vaccine. if you remember, my vice presidential debate, i called out kamala harris. i said you have got to stop playing politics with people's lives she said she wouldn't take a vaccine that president trump had created. and now we turn the page and we have gone-what have we gone here about 8 months, and they have given scant credit to president

trump and our administration for this vaccine. i mean, it took -- it took president biden about seven months even toe acknowledge operation warp speed. and so, look, you know, tomorrow we're going to remember a time of incredible unity in this country where we all came together and from the very beginning of this pandemic, when president trump tapped me to lead the task force, i said over and over again we're all in this together. we're going to get through it together. and, the truth is, that the biden administration with their tone, with their rhetoric, now with their mandates and with their unwillingness to give president trump and our administration the credit for operation warp speed has simply caused more division in the country. i think they should be leading by example, give the american people the best information about what's best for their healthcare, and we'll get through this. but we will get through this in freedom. that's the priority in america.

ainsley: i'm glad you mentioned tomorrow, because it's been 20 years and what happened 20 years ago sent our american troops into afghanistan. we have seen what happens in afghanistan. america pulling out. 13 american soldiers killed there with that suicide bombing, and we saw the lady being killed in the streets by the taliban for refusing to cover her head. we know what the taliban is capable of. yet, the white house is saying because the taliban allegedly allowed americans out to get on that plane, to leave qatar and head -- i mean, excuse me, kabul and today qatar, now the white house is calling them or at least the national security council is saying the taliban praising them for their cooperation. they say the taliban has been cooperative in facilitating the departure of american citizens. they have shown flexibility and business like and professional in our dealings with them in this effort. peter doocy, he pressed jen psaki on this. listen to this. >> said the taliban is business like and professional.

their interior minister has an fbi wanted poster. he has got a $10 million bounty on his head. what's the business? >> in order to get those people out, we had to work with some members of the taliban to press them and to work in a business like manner to get them out. that's what we were stating in the statement. >> in that statement it says this is a positive first step towards what? >> towards getting additional people out who want to leave afghanistan. ainsley: i think of the taliban i don't think businesslike, i don't think professional or cooperative. why would she say that? >> let's gyp from the beginning and the biden administration's disastrous withdrawal from afghanistan was a disgrace. it never had to happen. it dishonored the memory of all of those who served and sacrificed defending our freedom over the last 20 years. and it also set aside the deal that president trump and our administration had negotiated with the taliban. remember, we had gone from the

time that we made the deal with the taliban in february of 2020, we had gone 18 months without a single american casualty. i was in the oval office, ainsley, when the president spoke to mullah baradar right after we did the deal. he said to him we all want to end the violence but you are not going to harm americans. you are not going to become a haven for terrorists and you will work with the afghan government. the president said if you break the deal we will hit you harder than we have ever hit you before. you could tell from the tone on the other end of the call that he knew he meant business. a few weeks before that we had taken down kassem soleimani. four month before that we had taken down al-baghdadi. what was missing with the biden administration, continues to be missing, was a credible threat of the use of force. under our administration, the taliban knew the president meant business. americans were not going to be harmed. they were going to work with the

government. they were not going to work with terrorists. but now here we are effectively following a surrender to the taliban, a disgraceful withdrawal in the middle of night from bagram air force base without ever telling our allies. it just never should have happened. and all the happy talk by this administration isn't going to change that. that being said, i want everyone to know because i was on capitol hill on september the 11th. i watched now nearly 6 million americans step forward in the last 20 years to put on the uniform. i have stood at the graveside with family members whose loved ones defending our freedom. nothing of the catastrophic with drawl draw afghanistan over the last month takes away one iota from the extraordinary contributions of our servicemen and women. we are going to stand tomorrow here in indiana and all over the

country. we are going to remember 9/11. qui also need to reflect on the fact that we have now officially gone 20 years without a major terrorist attack on american soil. i will never forget tom ridge was the national security adviser, homeland adviser to president bush. he spoke to us on the afternoon of 9/11 and he told us the only thing we know about al-qaeda is they want to hit us again and they want to hit us worse. and the fact that firefighters and first responders rushed in that day when others are rushing out, that todd beamer and the heroes of flight 93 rushed forward, likely saving thousands of lives in the nation's capital and a whole generation of americans went forward, took the fight to the enemy, that's the reason why we will mark tomorrow and celebrate 20 years without a major terrorist attack. god's grace the courage of american servicemen and women

and first responders. and that's where our hearts and prayers will be. brian: you are going to focus on your podcast on 9/11. you have more than that, mike pence, the vice president has a podcast called american freedom. going to be the focus on 9/11. of course you went from congress and leadership level to a two term governor vice president of the united states. and i get the sense, mr. vice president, you are not done yet in politics. >> well, i'm not done speaking out on behalf of freedom. and we launched with young americans foundation, american freedom and tomorrow we'll talk to a couple young people whose lives were changed along with tens of thousands of others on 9/11. one who lost the father in the north tower. one whose father reenlisted to go back into the fight and fell in the war on terror. so i would be honored if people would check it out. we will never forget that day. i will never forget that day. but it's so important that we teach young americans.

we were attacked because we love freedom. we were attacked because of our ideals. and standing on those ideals every single day is the calling of my life. brian: back to radio roots. ainsley: started in radio and now doing the podcast. brian: thank you mr. vice president. >> thank you all. ainsley: look forward to hearing it. today is the first episode. steve: podcast is american freedom get it wherever you get your podcasts. ainsley: well, you are too young to even remember 9/11 but these college students raising eyebrows with their views about the lessons of that day. >> when talking about 9/11 what do you think we should avoid. >> i think we should, like, avoid a lot of more gruesome facts. avoid talking about its roots roots in islam because that was like extremist group. >> i think that, um, the 9/11 attacks should be taught in a way that doesn't really target, like, more like who did it but like more like how we can like

move forward. steve: all right. here with reaction as you can see screen right, "fox & friends weekend" co-host pete hegseth and will cain. good morning to both of you guys. >> good morning. steve: will, let's start with you. you have got children who were not alive at the time of 9/11 and so during their lives they are going to have to figure out and learn what happened. pete: yeah, they are, steve. i hope that's not on our american college campus the first time they hear or learn about it of course, that will probably be up to me not the american education system. in fact, everything you heard in that little clip is the opposite of what we should do with our young people, with our children. you should at some point when ready and appropriate, see every gruesome detail. you know, steve, i remember that was one of my first reactions. i was just beginning my career in media and there was this question whether or not we should show people jumping from the tops of those towers. whether or not we should show bodies falling my position then is the same as it is today you should absolutely see it you

should see it every year. because of we need to remember whether a it felt like that day. that's what's important. we need to understand it's not about, you know, whatever they are learning in college campuses about colonialism or extremism or nationalism. we should be nationalistic. we should care about the united states of america and should be clear eyed steely and realistic about the threats that faced us then and face us now. it's only by facing those truths that we will understand our reality. ainsley: pete, when you hear the reaction from the college students, what goes through your mind? >> i second everything will said. what goes through my mind is one of the students said we should avoid placing blame, there is blame being placed on america's campuses and guess where it is being pointed? it's the blame america first perspective. i even saw it when i was in college 20 years ago during 9/11 the instinct of higher education was to say what did america do to bring such a reaction from otherwise peace-loving people on the other side of the globe?

and it's only gotten worse to the point where here we are at the 20 year anniversary that we can't -- we don't want to talk about the motivations of the taliban or al-qaeda. of course it was islam. of course it was radical islam. of course it was manifestations of that and motivations of that. to not understand that, means you have a generation of kids who think some petty list of grievances led to 19 my jackers taking planes and turning them into weapons and you don't understand that the freedom that we have purchased by people willing to stand up and fight for it i'm looking at the freedom tower right here. it's built -- 1776 feet tall. the crowds that are teaching our kids would rather have it built 1619 feet tall. that's what we're up against. our american education system is poisoning the minds of kids, white washing our history, and we are more vulnerable as a result. and that kind of video shows it.

brian: what are we going to be doing tomorrow? what can we expect on "fox & friends." >> will, rachel and i are going to be down here ground zero. a really special morning. of course, our programming will be cut short a little bit because we will do the as live fox does the actual programming of that day showing the grusm reality of what happened and heroism of so many. we are going to have great guests who lived through that day. will remind us of it. of course, frank siller completing his never forget walk. is he walking right now. he will be walking through the tunnel tomorrow. we will be covering, lawrence jones will be covering every aspect of that rachel, will and i a really special 9/11 edition tomorrow morning. hope folk also check it out with us. ainsley: buy tickets for firefighters so they can get v.i.p. seating for con is that right frank siller and tunnel 2 towers is putting on. buy that at t 2 t were. brian: give them 20 challenge is

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steve: american corporate partners is saluting america's service members with the return of their give them 20 challenge. the contest re-launching this month honors the brave men and women who served during the 20 years since september 11 and as we take a look at them giving us 20 this morning we have 25 veterans, mentors and staff live here on fox square, good morning, ladies and gentlemen. >> good morning. >> [applause] steve: and we've got the guy who started it all, sid goodfriend is the america corporate partners founder. >> good morning thanks for having us. steve: its been great having you over the last six years. six years ago you launched this as what? >> we launched this as a challenge the following summer after the ice bucket challenge designed to ask americans to say thank you to all of the men and women who served since 9/11. now on the 20th anniversary of 9/11, we're here to do it again. steve: you know what? we were talking earlier about how 20 years ago, after the plane struck the towers and

flew into the field out in shanksville, we were you nighted as a country, and every time you would see somebody in a uniform you would always say, thank you. thanks for your service, but then we started to drift away and we started to stop doing that so this tribute to them really is to what they have done >> we have a lot of polarized views but one thing we can all agree on is that our military is really needs to be appreciated almost every day, and we're trying to do it again. steve: okay so tell us about the give them 20 challenge. >> we launched the challenge in the last couple days for the yankee fans out there, m asui led us off challenged aaron boone and some of the other colleagues. steve: could they do 20 push ups >> more than 20 trust me anyway , he was terrific and trying to make this into a national event this weekend so for any of your viewers in shape , if you can't do push ups or choose not to, sit up, chin ups. jumping jacks, whatever people feel inclined to do, we love to see them.

steve: all right, sokol even, where is colleen? all right, she's going to lead us, sid let's step out of the way. >> i'm going to join them too. steve: okay look at this. colleen, go ahead. >> all right let's give them 20 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20. steve: very nicely done! >> [applause] steve: did you know what for a guy in a suit with a neck tie on you did really well. >> it's years of practice. steve: practice in what way? >> you know, every day, we come to work, and this is a non-profit we have a great staff but every day we're working with so many really wonderful men and women who served our country and spouses as well and we have a

collection of volunteer mentors from all around. we try to say that fox and news corp. have been great partners for over a decade now its been terrific. steve: so who are the people behind us? >> well, part of our great staff and spouses and vets, some traveled a little bit of a distance to get here today. >> [applause] steve: and why is this so personal to you? >> well on the morning of 9/11, i was right downstairs when the second plane went into the south tower. i wasn't as impacted as a lot of other people were of course but as a born and raised new yorker, i just was certain that something like that was going to happen again and again and again and incredibly nothing has. i attribute a lot of that to the men and women who served this country and to the fbi and the cia and all of the other people who may not be in the same type of uniform. steve: it is a great program, folks who like more information

or to donate go to acp usa.org. >> thank you. steve: ladies and gentlemen, thank you. give yourselves a round of applause. >> [applause] steve: very nice. all right, coming up on 8:00 in the east. hour three of fox & friends starts right now. >> president biden taking aim at millions of americans with new sweeping covid mandates. >> this is not about freedom or personal choice. >> the president's speech is unlike anything i'd ever heard from an american president. to say that it's not about freedom, that's exactly about freedom. >> larry elder responding to the protester who hurled an egg while wearing a gorilla mask. >> if i war a democrat it be calling systemic racism and hate crime. steve: biden white house perging trump appointees from military boards. >> it's wrong, presidents have always honored the appointments of their previous president. >> after the attacks on 9/11,

the country looked for answers, for many they found it in music. >> ♪ >> those firefighters who ran into those buildings knowing they probably weren't going to come out, those are the heros. >> ♪ ainsley: that is the red, white and blue r wb members laying a breathe there down in lower manhattan, where the twin towers were. the founder was an army vet at west point during 9/11, and he wanted to start this and this is the first year they are going to have the old glory relay from memorial park it a 2,500-mile relay that starts today, and it

ends on veterans day. steve: and you're listening to the song "superman" by five for fighting that's one of the songs that helped us heal after 9/11, the conclusion of this particular hour of fox & friends, complete roundup of some of the songs that we've been singing for the last 20 years. like this one, one of my favorites. brian: tobey keith, fred michael, alan jackson on the request of george w. bush, they all put together songs in remembrance of and looking forward and some about afghanistan obviously with tobey keith regarding in five for fighting 9/11, and aj hall this great idea to put together the songs of 9/11, and you'll see that towards the end of this hour. ainsley: aj hall works with us he's so talented we're looking forward to that. brian: we're actually getting to see staff again as we come back to work but aj looks exactly the same he's actually wearing the same outfit he was i saw him 18 months ago. steve: when we were in quarantine at my house for four

months, aj was the only person who came into the house. he would come in, turn on the camera, and then he would go into the kitchen and make coffee ainsley: we all had those experiences. steve: yup. brian: right? and of course he never paid and that's a problem too. steve: he never paid. brian: never at all. ainsley: why would you have to, you have how many cookbooks? brian: this is true. meanwhile, two minutes after the top of the hour here we go. president biden taking aim, you can see this speech at the un vaccinated with new sweeping covid mandates he's yelling at you again. steve: part of the president's plan could put jobs on the line for millions of hard working americans who will not have a choice. ainsley: some say she can't get the vaccine their doctors are telling them they can't and mark meredith joins us live as republican lawmakers are fighting bag against the order. reporter: ainsley, steve and brian good morning. there is a lot of pushback you're right. the president did layout a lot last night saying that his latest plan is aimed to impact those 80 million americans or so that are not vaccinated yet, but if you look at the numbers right now more than 175 million people in this country are

already fully vaccinated. the president doubling down on his claims that this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated, but in his plan last night, there really was a lot to unpack including that osha is going to starting out a rule soon that will impact employers with more than 100 people they will have to be mandated to get a vaccine or undergo weekly testing. we know he's expanding the federal requirements for the vaccine mandate impacting a lot of agencies and federal contractors and people that work in medical facilities that receive reimbursement from medicare medicaid they are impacted by this , and the president is also encouraging those large entertainment venue, stadiums, concert halls to require people to prove they are vaccinated to gain entry. >> this is a pandemic of the un vaccinated. we've been patient, but our patience is wearing thin and your refusal has cost all of us. reporter: some people were not ing that in the speech last night there was no mention of requiring migrants crossing into the u.s. to get the jab and we're still trying to get a break down of exactly who will

be impacted on the government level and there's a lot of fall out there. this as multiple potential 2024 candidates people that maybe aiming for the white house jobs coming up vow to take on these new mandates. >> i think we have 14 different governors that have now said they will take some kind of action, as for south dakota all sites protect my people and defend their freedoms and it was shocked to me that the president said in his speech this wasn't about freedom and personal choice at all which i think is indicative of what's really in his heart and his agenda that he's got for this country. reporter: we'll see if the president has more to say to comments like that, if not just governors we've heard from members of congress who are also upset and the president also saying he's hoping that the different governors out there will require school employees be vaccinated, and we've already seen school districts start to take new steps overnight the los angeles county school district, the largest in, second largest in the country now mandating that students over the age of 12 be vaccinated if they want to go back to class in person. steve, ainsley and brian, a lot of people reacting including that interview with vice

president pence just a few moments ago had strong words there. steve: he did indeed what a good segway. ainsley: thank you for that. you must have known. brian: i think when mark does his hit for dana and bill, he's going to ask for rights for that sound bite and i will grant that to him. ainsley: i'm glad you brought that up, because the vice president, mike pence earlier it was his first interview in almost a year since october 202o come on our show and we're honor ed for that. this is what he said about president biden's approach with these covid mandates. he says it's not the american way. listen. >> the president says speech yesterday was unlike anything i'd ever heard from an american president. i mean, to have the president of the united states say that he's been patient but his patience is wearing thin. that's not how the american people expect to be spoken to by our elected leader. to say that it's not about freedom, it's exactly about freedom. america is about freedom and the

ability to make the best decision for your family, for your business, and now to have a president not just scolding the american people but scolding governors around the country, it's just not the american way. brian: you know what? joe biden used to know that because he said in 2020, i can't mandate this. that's not what we do. he changed his mind. speaker pelosi says so we cannot require someone to be vaccinated, evidently she changed her mind, the cdc director says there will be no nationwide mandate so they have a series of fines and demands and mask mandates and you can't do this , you can't do that, because even though we hit the threshold, if you look at natural immunity that everyone says we have, but even though we took a bow on july 4 and said we won, we've won the pandemic and now in comes this variant, and he waits three months to tell us how he's going to handle it, now he wants to blame us for the problems of handling the variant, which by the way, china started, and he also called china and said can we get

along better so i'll go to the taliban, give them their country, and then i'll call up china who poisoned the world, and say can we all get along? and then i'll berate the american people. i love his approach. steve: so on this friday morning after the president's speech last night at 5, a lot of american businesses are trying to figure out okay i've got more than 100 employees, what am i going to do? am i going to require the vaccine? let's talk to one business guy, ben shapiro is the host of the ben shapiro show and also the editor of the daily wire. ben? your company has got over 100 employees so what are you going to do? are you going to listen to the president, everybody rolling up their sleeves or are you going to take a different approach? >> of course not. we're going to use every method and resource at our disposal to defy the president's unconstitutional order and this is coming from somebody whose very pro-vaccine. i was vaccinated as soon as possible and i've encouraged everybody to get the vaccine or pretty much everybody to get the vaccine and the notion that the federal government has

the ability to force every business in america with over 100 employees by the way i'm not sure it's over 100 employees it should be every business in america. right, but every business in america with over 100 employees to either force its employees to vaccinated or force them to test every week or fire them, presumably, he said he came into office saying i'm not going to shutdown the economy, i'm not going to shutdown the country i'm going to shutdown the virus. ainsley: well, ben, they say he says joe biden's businesses who refuse will be fined $14,000 per violation. your ceo said that you will use legal actions to resist in a tweet. are you prepared for this? >> we are. i mean, we are staffing up right now on the legal side. we are already getting any lawsuit ready that needs to be gotten ready. we have the actual regulations and know the details but what we can tell you is that the provisions that joe biden is going to be citing under osha are wildly overbrought and frankly he's made a huge tactical legal blunder and

there's every possibility that something like this goes to the supreme court level and we see a complete rewriting of the administrative state because joe biden couldn't get his act in order so he decided to issue a authoritarian order here. brian: also you had an interesting tweet getting a lot of news when you said maybe if we tell joe biden that the taliban isn't vaccinated he will get just as mad at them. does it astound you that his anger is focused on the un vaccinated in america as small percentage as that is and not on the terrorist regime that has taken over our country and the embarrassment of our nation? >> we're not even a year into this presidency and this is a failed president and he's attempting redirect all of everything at his presidency at your fellow americans, you're supposed to be angry at your neighbor for unvaccinating.ectit to you instead joe biden wants you to be angry at that neighbor as opposed to here. him is the reality if you don't

like mandates look at the person whose attempting issue the lock down and the mandates the person attempting control american business top down whose attempting control every school in america, top down, maybe you should direct it at that person not the person living next door. steve: speaking of next door, you still live in california. you have since moved to a freer state than that, a lower tax state as well. i wanted you to weigh in on the fact that coming up next week they are going to have the recall election of gavin newsom in california. he very famously pretty much locked down all of california. larry elder is surging in the polls, but he was essentially accosted. let's see it would have been on wednesday, venice beach, where a woman, screen writes in a gorilla mask with a pink wig, tries to hit him in the head with an egg. watch this. brian: what's your reaction? steve: here is larry elder last night on tucker.

watch. >> she might be one of the 20,000 people that were released early from our prisons, many of whom were violent offenders under this governor. if i were a democrat obviously this be called systemic racism and calling it a hate crime. i don't like to play that game. i do know this there was a big article about me, a negative in the new york times, and never once mentioned that i'm black, never once mentioned that i be the first black governor of california. i never made a big deal about that. i don't want people to vote for or against me because i'm black but at the very same page of the new york times there's a big article about the first female governor of new york. even though she didn't get elected she was basically appointed because the other governor resigned so they cared about the first when it was a female democrat but couldn't give a rip about the first when it was a black republican. steve: ben, you know, there seem s to be a double standard in this country when it comes to this. >> of course, i mean, if larry elder were a democrat we know it would have been front page news there would have been talk about how this white woman throwing an egg at a black man was just evidence that nothing has changed over the past 150 years

but because larry is a republican and conservative, this means larry is the actual white supremacist according to op-ed writers for the los angeles times and the woman whose throwing eggs at him while wearing a gorilla mask is an anti-racism activist, very strange how none of this holds as soon as the target is a conservative. brian: if larry elder is leading amongst the 40-plus who are trying to be there, should he be recalled, are you amazed that 70 plus million dollars that poured in the president, the vice president coming into campaign, elizabeth warren, are they getting panicked? >> they are certainly scared. gavin newsom has poured 10 times the amount of money as larry has into this campaign to prevent himself from being recalled in a state that is entirely democratic. remember there is a super majority in the legislature for democrats and now gavin newsom is in danger of being recalled. it's just demonstrates how a guy whose widely perceived as a possible presidential nominee in

the future collapsed in like a dying star because he's such a poor governor of the state, the same stuff that drove me and my company out of the state is coming back to haunt the democrats. ainsley: ben there's a whistleblower inside google that's reportedly saying they are undergoing anti racism training, why supremacy training , and how to prevent being a white supremacist. it features you at the base of the pyramid called the white supremacy pyramid, features you at the base before it works its way up to different individuals. what is your reaction to this? >> it's pathetic, because google is the most powerful company on planet earth in terms of information dissemination. it's preventing information and lies to its own employees and just demonstrating the fact that corporations have gone woke because they are filled with cowards or are afraid of the radical left because there's nothing remotely, remotely related to reality in this presentation. i'm an orthodox jew, i've been extraordinarily outspoken against white supremacy to the point where the fbi had to arrest somebody two years ago for threatening my family,

google pushing this kind of stuff demonstrates what utter yellow belly could you afterreds they are. it's unbelievable. steve: that's what they are doing with their training of employees but when it comes to google the search engine, has their algorithm impacted you or your business? >> well it sort of depends on the timing so there have been problems with google in the past where the way their search algorithm works is that results that are unflattering to conservatives come up regularly or they had a google fact check that was specifically directed only against conservative outlet s not just mine but others , we do have to cope with this from time to time, and none of that is really surprise to anybody on the right side of the aisle. brian: ben, best of luck. we'll see how this goes and again, we're all vaccinated, you're vaccinated but finding people, demanding unvaccinated is unamerican and there's going to be legal action, ben sham thanks so much. >> thank you. ainsley: let's check in with pete hegseth. he's live at the 9/11 memorial

as team red white and blue is laying a wreath in honor of the fallen. hey, pete. pete: hey, good morning, guys. as i said its been an honor to be here, down here all morning long in the shadow of the freedom tower, and just reflecting, and remembering, and thinking about where we were, where you were on 9/10, today and of course leading into tomorrow, 9/11, and i'm joined now by lt. colonel mike erwin, the founder of team red, white and blue and we had a chance at the top of the hour to watch you lay this wreath. talk to us about why you're doing this and what kind of effort you're undertaking here on 9/11. >> absolutely, so, team red, white and blue we're a national non-profit organization today we're beginning our relay at 2,500-mile movement and so we're starting in new york city this year on this relay for this reason, to commemorate the 20th anniversary, not just all the lives who were lost but the ripple effect of that loss, but also to remember that we saw congressional medal of honor- type bravery here on american soil 20 years ago and to never forget the incredible

sacrifice, that bravery so many americans showed on that day. pete: you've been a part of that response and bravery for our nation. we've been talking before this segment. you were at west point about to go into your senior year as a cadet and you ended up doing three tours in iraq and afghanistan. what was it like? how did your world change as a cadet and reflect on that 20 years later. >> especially because it was just 40 miles up the hudson river, but things got really serious really quickly around west point. it was obviously for all of us, surreal to believe what was happening, but we knew very quickly that this is a terrorist attack and we knew that when we graduated 10 months later that life was very different for us than it was just that day before it was a very beautiful day on september 11. much like it is right now, and it's just in credible to think how quickly the mood on campus turned from hey it's fun, it's fall, it's football season, to we've got to get ready because we know what's going to be asked of us in the future. pete: and then you and so many

other cadets and so many people were involved in that response. when you reflect on that 20 years do you feel like we're remembering the way we need to as a nation? >> yeah, this is a big part of what we do at team red white and blue not only here with the old glory relay but in 200 chapters across the country tomorrow we're doing what we call the 9/11 moving tribute, where we're moving american flags throughout communities in part to help remind and to educate. think if you're 25 years or younger, you didn't experience this. you don't even have any memory of it and so it is part of our responsibility for those of us who were here and who, especially those of us who served to continue to remind people of what happened but also , in the past 20 years, all the sacrifice the men and women in the military have made for our country, and as we move forward to ensure the future generations know about everything that transpired on that day. pete: amen. the truth about it is important. if you don't learn from history, you're doomed to not be prepared for it the next time you have to confront it. mike erwin, thank you so much for your verse and what you're

still doing here, at this site. guys back to you as we continue to remember and look forward to tomorrow's 20 year anniversary. brian: all right thanks so much , pete. it wasn't too long ago we sat there and said when are they going to build something and now they did a great job. meanwhile the white house boasting about working in tandem with the taliban? >> the taliban is business-like and professional, their interior minister has an fbi wanted poster. >> we wanted to note that the taliban was cooperative. steve: geraldo rivera is going to weigh in on how professional the taliban is, coming up, next. ainsley: plus america united like never before, after 9/11 thanks to a wave of patriotic songs that still give us chills. talented artists behind some of the most touching melodies share their reflection, straight ahead >> ♪ the sunshine in your hair, i'm the shadow on the ground, i'mmu the wisper in the wind ♪

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>> the taliban is business-like and professional, their interior minister has an fbi wanted poster. he's got a $10 million bounty on his head. >> in order to get those people out, we had to work with some members of the taliban to press them and to work in a business- like manner to get them out. that is what we were standing in the statement. >> that statement says this is a positive first step. towards what the? >> towards getting additional people out who want to leave afghanistan. steve: well the biden administration raising eyebrows as it was defending its description of the taliban as cooperative and professional and business-like, in its dealings with the u.s.. here to react fox news correspondent at-large geraldo rivera.

geraldo good morning. geraldo: always so nice to watch him ask the key question. steve: well it was a good question and yesterday he had a visual aid. he had a prop, but it was appropriate because that guy whose their foreign minister has a $10 million bounty on his head , and he's being professional and business-like and cooperative? geraldo: well you know, in the administration's defense, you don't make peace with your friends you make peace with your enemies so hopefully, that process that's going on right now, if not peace at least a working arrangement where they are more or less sticking to the deal and as are we, and hopefully, when it's all said and done, no more americans will be dead. steve: you know, the administration is in a pickle though, because they pulled everybody out and it's like okay now what do we do? you've got to figure, if this was the plan, it was a bad plan, because effectively, we've had american heros and private operators go in and rescue

americans who were stranded there. i know the white house says nobody is stranded there but come on people are stranded there and it doesn't look like they had a very good plan. geraldo: the plan was an absolute bizarre disaster. even my mother-in-law suggests, you know, why didn't they evacuate first and then the gi 's. it was a very very badly thought out, very ad hoc kind of situation, but i believe that once it got going, we, in fairness, have to recognize the fact that it was a hell of an evacuation in terms of just shear numbers of people who were shipped out and i was particularly impressed that the qatar airplane took off yesterday from kabul airport, they got the airport open, and they are playing a pivotal role and still politics going on, still statesmanship. steve: they got 10 americans out

yesterday and sounds like they will have another flight because a bunch of people couldn't get to the airport and geraldo a majority of americans say in the polls we're glad we're out of afghanistan. a huge majority, a super majority, says the way this administration and it's all on joe biden, the way they did it, just not american. geraldo: you mean, getting -- steve: i mean leaving people behind is a tenant of american military. you never leave a man behind. geraldo: it was ad hoc, kind of improve, just trying to make the best it could of a bad bad situation but what was stunning to me is given the depth of experience in the biden administration, how terribly they let this thing go, closing bagram and so forth, everybody watching right now knows the strategic problems that were made but i have to emphasize the positive. i hate the taliban, especially every 9/11 --

they make my skin crawl. i just want to hurt them. i was excited when bin laden was finally killed but you've got to let things naturally happen. i believe the taliban has figured it's in its best interest to allow this thing to go through as peacefully as possible. steve: let's hope they let everybody out who wants to come out. geraldo: let them out, let my people go. steve: geraldo thanks very much have a good weekend. all right, last hour, right here on "fox & friends" former vice president mike pence shared his reflections on tomorrow, 20 years later. >> we'll never forget that day. i'll never forget that day, but it's so important that we teach young americans, we were attacked because we love freedom steve: well, our friend martha maccallum is going to join us next to discuss her thoughts on the 20th anniversary on the day that changed the world forever.

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>> we will never forget that day i'll never forget that day, but it's so important that we teach young americans, we were attacked because we love freedom

we were attacked because of our ideals and standing on those ideals every single day is the calling of my life. ainsley: former vice president mike pence reflecting on the lessons of september 11, as america readies for the 20th anniversary tomorrow. the story anchor, martha maccallum, is live near the freedom tower in lower manhattan and she joins us now. good morning to you, martha. reporter: good morning, ainsley. ainsley: good morning. you hear his message. what is your message this morning? reporter: you know, this is always a difficult time of year i think for all of us, i've been covering this story since the day that it happened, and, you know, i look at the faces of the people, i think of the family, ainsley, that you spoke to who lost their dad, and to me, that dad represents so many people, right? new york is a microcosm of america. we have people from all different backgrounds here, and we lost so many of them on that day, and, you know, when you look at the pain that has been

inflected and you look at where it came from, because i have a very close friend who lost her brother, and she said to me recently, you know, never forget is really important and we never want to forget the lives of the people we lost here, but she said i also want everyone to remember who did it, and i think that what we're going through right now, with what we're see ing in afghanistan, we now have an islamic emirate of afghanistan. that is the dream of the people who brought these buildings down behind me, and that dream is one step closer with what we watched happen in afghanistan over the past few weeks, so it's very potent and it's very painful and i think this year, there's going to be a lot of focus on what happens next. are we under a threat again? we know that al qaeda exists in many of the provinces of afghanistan and that they are patient, so there's a lot of very mixed feelings that i have and from everybody that i speak to in new york about this anniversary because it is remembering, but it's also being

weary of what maybe to come and what is rebuilding in the middle east. ainsley: you're right. we remember that iconic moment when president bush traveled to the site and he stood on the rubble with the mega phone and someone in the audience said "i can't hear you" and this was his message back. >> i can hear you, the rest of the world hears you, and the people -- >> [applause] >> and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon. ainsley: martha you have a special and it's called "i can hear you" president bush at ground zero. you interviewed a firefighter here is a clip of that. >> when he came, i never in a million years expected to even, you know, get a chance to shake his thought. my thought is it was like a five minute thing, i'm here for you, blah blah blah, get back in the car and leave, and three and a half hours later, he's still there, shaking hands and consol ing people. ainsley: that is chilling. it's available today on fox nation tell us about it, martha?

>> well that man's actually the son, he lost his father and he had, you know, he was in the moment of losing his dad, and when president bush came to new york, it was such an important moment, it was really the turning point, i think, from devastation to resolve, and that very, you know , human president bush moment when he stood there with bob beckwith, who i also spoke with which was an honor it was the beginning, ainsley, of the hope, right? that we would, that the people who knocked these buildings down , would hear all of us soon, and it was just, i can't listen to that moment without getting chills 20 years later and i think everyone's really going to love watching what he did when he came down here that day. it's a very very beautiful special, and hearing from bob be ckwith 20 years later was such an honor and such a treat to talk to him and his wife. ainsley: you're right. we can never forget. we were so united during that time. it be wonderful if we could all

coming together again, god bless you thank you for doing this martha. we can't wait to watch you. >> great to talk to you. we'll see you later. ainsley: yes, ma'am thank you. america's favorite pastime gave us some joy and eased the nation 's pain in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, and now, two rival teams are joining in unity to honduras r o the heros of that tragic day, award winning fox sports broadcaster tom renaldi on the healing power of baseball, next. >> ♪ your mission: stand up to moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis. and take. it. on... with rinvoq. rinvoq a once-daily pill can dramatically improve symptoms... rinvoq helps tame pain, stiffness, swelling. and for some, rinvoq can even significantly reduce ra fatigue.

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new york city's rival baseball teams will come together in unity to faceoff in what is sure to be an emotional game at city field and it kicks off to the heroic first responders and the two new york managers from 2001 season they will participate in the ceremony at first pitch. brian: bobby valentine and joe torre joining us now as fox sports reporter, a life, a choice, a legacy, tom renaldi, and there's nobody better to put together a story or tell a story than you, tom, what's going to be without giving too much away, what's going to be your package tomorrow? >> well, great to be with you guys this morning, such a powerful time in and around new york city and in this country, of course, for all of us who lived through 9/11. this is a story, guys, that harkens back to that scene for any mets fan and really any baseball fan, 10 days after 9/11 when baseball returned to new york city, the mets played the braves, and mike piazza down

a run in the eighth inning, really, the most beloved man at the time hit a home run that in some way still travels across time, and what a single hit meant to so many families and so many people in new york city, who were so deeply affected by what had happened. you know, we often wonder, why does something as simple as a game or a moment in time on a field, how can that take on such great meaning and i think the proof of that, guys is in how vivid the memory still is so we revisit that 20 years later we'll be out at citi field, it'll be a very powerful scene, as ainsley suggested very emotional for those who remember ainsley: you had a beautiful feature on espn and it's an extraordinary story of the man in the red bandanna, you also wrote the book the red ban dan a, a life, a choice, a legacy tell us about that story. >> this is a story which has continued to resonate. we're so grateful for it, as the legacy spreads.

one of the reasons why, guys, as you've evoked this morning, is we, in a way, we now move from history into memory, and an entire generation has passed of young people who didn't live through 9/11. the story of the red bandanna, the book we've been grateful, its found a place in homes and on school reading lists, really the story of one life lost and the lives that he saved, wells c rowder as he made his way down from the 104th floor of the south tower guiding not one, but two groups of people to safety. there's wells as an athlete at boston college, and the selflessness and sacrifice that he showed making his way down in the lobby and still not leaving, he had been a volunteer firefighter, trying to provide knowledge to the fdny at their mobile command post. this story and legacy has continued to spread as people understand through wells and so many others like him, the countless acts of heroism

and selflessness of courage and character that mark the day, perhaps just as much or even more than the terror that those against the country tried to inflict. we're so grateful that the story has continued to resonate and the book has continued to be read. steve: well it resonated with my daughter who went to boston college, she came after he did and they would wear the red bandanna to all of the home games, as homage to this former lacrosse player, who the way you setup the special, it's a 13 minute video, you can see it on youtube it's fantastic, is his mother did not know what happened to him until she read a line in the new york times where somebody said there was a guy with a red curtchief, and he took me out and saved a dozen lives that day. >> he did and it's when his mother allison, who is just a

really a force of nature and a wonder, where she noted that line, and she decided to send a photograph to the person who provided that quote and that survivor saw the photograph, ling young, who was so terribly burned and guided to safety by wells and in fact said, that's the man that guided me and others down the stairs, and what that gave the family, think about it, guys , to know, that in the final hour of his life what their son had done so selflessly. steve: after he died the new york city fire department actually made him a fireman. >> right. only the second time, to that point in history, of the fdny. brian: it's a big week for fox sports too of course football kicked off officially last night but on fox it'll be on the weekend and the game of the week features the green bay packers maybe the last year with their famous quarterback and the new orleans saints whose famous quarterback has a brand new hairline and a job on nbc,

drew brees, and this , of course unusual. they are in jacksonville because of the damage from hurricane ida >> they are. this is not the first time the franchise has evacuated and moved its operations elsewhere but as a result of ida, you're exactly right. nearly 300 players, family member, staff, have relocated to texas, the game will be in jacksonville. it's a fascinating setup, guys, between these two quarterbacks. aaron rogers who dominated the off season, will he return, will he come back to a franchise that he was disenfranchised with spent a little time hosting jeopardy, and james winston, who has the large shoes of drew brees to try to fill as the starter, somebody who did start you see him back in tampa bay, and we talked to him this week and he talked about how tough it was to see the buccaneers win the super bowl after he'd left, to be followed by tom brady. so tons of story lines, a great matchup, not in new orleans, but

in jacksonville. a home game for the saints. brian: you usually go visit stories, we visit you in your office, tom thanks for joining us and informing us on what's happening, how sports and life mix on 9/11. thank, tom. ainsley: thanks, tom. >> appreciate you guys thanks for having me. steve: speaking of fox, be sure to download the fox bet super 6 app and enter for a free chance to win $1 million of terry bradshaw's money. all you have to do is pick six outcomes from this sunday's games and watch and see how it all plays out it's free to play download the fox bet super 6 app now to get started. brian: at the end of last year he was totally broke. so again, that's why he was to do that reality show. meanwhile, straight ahead. after 9/11, when there were no words to express our pain, musicians stepped up and filled the void. artist whose wrote some of the most memorable songs share their stories only here. ainsley: but first let's check in with bill hemmer and dana perino for what's coming up. good morning. bill: hey guys. good morning to you.

couple miles south of you today at a place that we consider holy and sacred. dana: it's very big to be here today and quite an honor. we have senator tom cotton going to join us to talk about the two big stories of the day, the covid vaccine mandates from the president but also where we are today in the fight against terrorism. bill: a lot of reaction to, jerome adams former surgeon general will talk about what he heard yesterday and what you need to know at home today. >> larry elder as well and frank siller, our friend, here, walked across, you'll see a little bit of that at the end of the show today, don't miss it. bill: it was the day that frank went home, finally. see you at the top of the hour. your heart is at the heart of everything you do. and if you have heart failure, there's entresto. entresto helps improve your heart's ability to pump blood to the body. don't take entresto if pregnant; it can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. don't take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren, or if you've had angioedema with an ace or arb. the most serious side effects are angioedema,

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steve: at this very moment 20 years ago tomorrow, our country was about to change forever because of what had happened just about five minutes earlier. ainsley: we had no idea what was happening the next day. while we all looked for answers in the days following the 9/11 attacks, it was music that help ed us heal. brian: yup and out of a tragedy came a wave of patriotism, as september 11, 2001 inspired some of the most recognizable songs honoring america. watch.

>> ♪ have you forgotten, how it felt that day ♪ brian: after the attacks on 9/11, the country looked for answers in the wake of that horrible day. for many they found healing in music. artists put into songs what we all felt. >> ♪ even heros have the right to bleed ♪ we recognized our heros in " superman" the song became anthropology them for the first responders who answered the call to help others. >> we like to think heros are celebrities, sports athletes but those firefighters, emergency workers who ran into those buildings, knowing they probably weren't going to come out, those are the heros of america. >> just two days after the attacks, country star aaron tippon recorded where the stars and stripes and the eagle flies. he donated all of the song's proceeds to the red cross.

>> ♪ where the stars and stripes, and the eagle flies ♪ >> it's what i want to say to america when the going gets tough, hold ourselves up by the bootstraps. >> following 9/11, so many were grieving. so many still grieve, wishing for one more day, with those we lost, and that's what brett michaels sings about. >> ♪ for all the things i meant , to god to say, i hope you give me one more day ♪ >> when i wrote "one more day" it is probably one of the most get wrenching heart-felt songs i've ever written. this song is dedicated to the 9/11 community. >> as he drove into new york for the one year anniversary concert steven curtis chapman was inspired to write a song about how we came together as a country with "remember the

day." >> this song is something as a sense of we're in this together, and something so profound and powerful about that, something we so desperately need now, 20 years later. >> and ♪ and remember the day how we were shaken, and our hearts awakened to what matters most, and remember the day ♪ brian: we all remember that day in fact for most of us we can remember exactly where we were when we found out our country was under attack, for alan jackson, he would write a grammy award winning song in a single morning. "where were you when the world stopped turning." >> ♪ did you call up your mother, and tell her you loved her, did you dust off ♪ >> when i first wrote it i didn't think i'd record it and then i didn't think i'd ever want to release it and then it went on to be such an anthem for years, so it

can't help but make me feel very proud that something like that has helped people through that hard time. >> and then the war on terror entered our lives as our men and women in uniform went abroad to defend our freedom, lone star's tearful ballad "already there" resonated with our troop' families. >> ♪ you may be a thousand miles apart, but i'll be with you, wherever you are, i'm already there. ♪ >> the song "i'm already there" really took on such a bigger meaning after that tragic day, a song that has brought comfort. >> the u.s. military and the deployed soldiers over there that were gone for so long really adopted that song and made it part of their lives. >> ♪ you could see clearly

through our big black eyes, man, we lit up your world like the 4th of july ♪ brian: tobey keith's chart topping courtesy of the red, white and blue was written at 20 minutes at his gym emphasizing america's fighting spirit. >> it was a battle cry for our guys to go win and get back home safely and go do what americans really do, and that's kick butt and this song is bigger than i could have ever imagined. >> even as 9/11 drifted from the headlines, darryl worley emphatically reminded us of the significance of that day with his number one hit "have you gordon chang not en forgotten. >> the media withs pushing us to forget all of that and move on with our lives but there's a faction of people. i just had strong feelings about it. >> ♪ before you start your preaching, let me ask you this , my friend. have you forgotten, how it felt

that day ♪ brian: there was a conversation with president george w. bush that inspired michael w. smith's "soaring, there she stands." >> i just remember he looked at me and said hey, you need to write a song about that which i thought was impossible and then i started to think about all the heros who died for our freedom. i would not be standing on this piece of dirt if it hadn't been for their sacrifice. >> ♪ there she stands ♪ brian: we will never forget 9/11. the music helps us heal, helps us remember, and inspires us still. >> ♪ through it all, there she

stands ♪ ainsley: very powerful. brian: that was just great. steve: it's amazing as we watch that, and brian, good job putting that together with aj hall. so many of those entertainers debuted those songs on this program, and this program was on the air 20 years ago when the first plane hit the first tower. brian: you can watch the songs and the interviews, extended version on fox nation, it is streaming right now, now that the show has aired, so all those artists made themselves available to reflect personally and professionally about where they're at now and what they, why they did what they did. ainsley: today we reflect on where we're, you know the anniversary 20 years and all the people who died in those attacks but also, in that, we saw the soldiers coming home and the kids at school and they surprised them and they run into mommy or daddies arms and you forget. we thank them too, because they served our country for months at

a time, years at a time, leaving their families, their kids, missing out on all of their birthdays and all that for all of us to have our freedom. we are so grateful. brian: 20 years of war after 9/11. that's what we're witnessing and you're appreciated. steve: fox & friends coverage kicks off tomorrow at 6:00 a.m. eastern time, please tune in for the weekend crew, and we'll see you back here monday. ainsley: god bless america.