programmed. it's the ai vice presidency. hemming and hawing shows she is not ready to take over for joe biden if she were to step down or otherwise. not plan b but plan z. >> todd: abortion is their ticket to a 2024 win. you think the haven't campaigning would have a answer on that. >> the cowboys just scored again. ♪ ♪ [national anthem] ♪ [national anthem] ♪ [national anthem]

♪ [national anthem] ♪ [national anthem] ♪ [national anthem] ♪ [national anthem] ♪ [national anthem] ♪ [national anthem] >> ainsley: our national anthem especially important on this morning as we are marking 22 years since september 11th, a very somber day for everyone across our country.

>> brian: vice president biden is heading to alaska to commemorate 9/11 from military base in anchorage in a break from tradition as in no one ever thought they would ever do something like that. >> ainsley: no president ever done this. >> pete: yep, like a second hand thing it. comes as he wraps up his trip to vietnam where some of his comments are getting a little bit of attention this morning. >> ainsley: peter doocy joins us now with more. peter? >> peter: you guys, of the whole reason president biden was here in hanoi, missing 9/11 events back home, is because he and his staff were telling us it's so important strategically important to come here to vietnam to counter china's influence in the region, in south asia. well, when asked, he didn't have anything but nice things to say about china. >> and so really what this trip was about -- it was less about containing china -- i don't want to contain china. i'm not -- we're not looking to hurt china.

>> peter: he did say china is having some economic problems that they have got to figure out, and that was the talking point. white house officials only called on five total reporters all the questions were variations of the same thing. president biden is usually curious to hear what his press corps wants to ask about. buff he seemed very, very concerned with deviating from a plan drawn up by his staff. >> the staff, anybody haven't spoken. [calling] >> i'm not calling on you, five questions. i don't know about you, but i'm going to go bed. thank you. >> pete: this is a white house that is confronted with poll after poll after poll of americans worrying that he might be too old for a second term and then he comes to vietnam and announces that he is going to bed. it's unclear how that is going to ease concerns that people have back home that he might be

too old for a second term. back to you. >> brian: so, peter, the main thing is, he had to make a decision between being home for 9/11 and going to vietnam. is that what the staff is saying? >> yeah. basically. and i have asked around about this. they think it's just that important. it's unclear though why it had to be scheduled right now. why he couldn't have come to vietnam before he went to the g-20. they added it on because he was going to be at the g-20 in india anyway and in the same part of the world. why couldn't they do it before? we don't have answers to that. it's not like there was a big summit here. he was coming to mean the communist leaders of this country. so, it could have really been done at any time. but they said it's just so important and something that i heard from the white house official that i asked about this, they told me well, 22 years after pearl harbor u.s.

presidents weren't still going to hawaii to commemorate things. so i think. >> ainsley: wow. >> brian: wow. >> peter: eagerness to walk and chew gum at the same time. they think they're able to commemorate september 11th in the u.s. later on this afternoon. i believe this sleent is going to be in the 4:00 p.m. eastern hour. that's about as late as we have ever seen. that's the latest we have ever seen a u.s. president on september 11th since 2001. but they just think it's that important to have come here, first. >> ainsley: isn't it important to show the families of 9/11 here in america that he cares about them? >> peter: and they think that they are doing that and something else that i was told is that these folks up in alaska who served the armed forces, they are like on the front lines looking for threats that are going to come to the homeland from alaska and they don't get a ton of attention. they haven't gotten a the ton of attention in the wars that followed.

so it's a different look. but they think that they are doing it all. >> pete: peter, real quick, what is the white house position on china if we don't want to hurt them or contain them, any clarity? >> that if china does well, everybody does well. and so, they want china to play by the rules of the road. but, they're not necessarily doing anything new to try to pressure them to do that. it's just kind of saying, hey, china, we're here, we're just visiting the communist leaders in vietnam. don't worry about it. just do your best to get your economy back on track because that's good for everybody. >> pete: and go to bed. >> peter: and maybe we will talk to xi at some point. he hasn't talked to president biden since november. >> ainsley: did they address the issue that xi jinping was not there but sent his premier there. microsoft network has a great article this is a significant

snub. he is snub the g-20 he is sending premier instead. china is done with established world order? >> they kind of addressed it. but, all that we're hearing from the president himself is well, i'll talk to him at some point. president biden keeps talking including yesterday at this press conference all five questions worth, he mentioned again that he has traveled with xi more than any world leader, ever. he keeps mentioning the history but it's unclear what that means for the future because if you can't go to the well of goodwill from all those miles traveled together, i don't know what you're getting. >> brian: peter, great point, i know it's frustrating traveling that you will way and not get the questions off. great job. not a cold war. not a hot war. i understand part of diplomacy

your actions should define how you feel. now, what are his actions? he goes to the g-20 and trying to lace up relations. prior to that with australia. with south korea and japan. he brings them over to camp david. set up alliance between india and the middle east and saudi arabia. he talks about that. then he says you know what? i think it's time to drop all pretenses about the vietnam war. we now have the highest level of communication and alliance with vietnam, which kind of worries me because they are very tight with russia. how do we know the things that we share with them they are not going to share with russia, and we know about their human rights record. i understand vietnam is very concerned about china, too. the question is, if you know that you're enemy only respects strength, why show them subtly. they are now doing military exercises, 60 miles off the coast of taiwan. they buzzed our planes, they cut off our destroyers. they hacked our officials,

including raimondo, cabinet secretary raimondo, and she still goes and visits them. and the reaction is and their response is always don't worry about it. not -- we want them to do good. they have got their challenges. just confront them, besides your actions with your words. >> ainsley: they're positioning their country as a full-on opponent of the west. examples of how they are developing alternative institutions that beijing can control, that the west won't be able to control. >> brian: like brics. >> ainsley: asian infrastructure that rivals washington's world bank. forums like the shanghai cooperation organization. guess whose members are included in that russia and iran. >> pete: at this point i'm really confused about what our policy is vis-a-vis china. strategic ambiguity when it came to taiwan. what is it now? it's ambiguously unambiguous. >> brian: the president says we're going to fight to defend them and his staff walked that

back. >> pete: every single time. we don't want to contain china. i wonder if you are in bay village, does it create an opportunity in this confusion to do something about it? well, there is somebody -- one of the republican candidates is speaking much more clearly about china, nikki haley was on cnn. here's what she had to say. >> china has been practically preparing for war with us for years. yes, i view china as an enemy. how much more has to happen for biden to realize you don't send cabinet members over to china to appease them. you start getting serious with china and say we're not going to put up with it. they keep sending different cabinet officials over and it's embarrassing. >> pete: it's not not always that we want to talk but what we want to talk about climate change. something china doesn't care about at all. multiple times brought up yesterday. china do you think gives one no way. they laugh at it. >> brian: how great it is to sit around the table and all our nations talk about climate change? that's what he was lauding. that's the president's focus.

that's what you rear electing if you choose to reelect it. you are looking at the deletion of our strategic oil reserve. our lack of our own domestic protection. more reliance on russia, and saudi arabia when it comes to oil and gas. and a pivot that we're not ready for nor as innovation and science brought us there to renewables as well as any type of green technology. we're rejecting the electric car. >> ainsley: meanwhile kamala harris is making news this morning because she was on with margaret brennan on face the station, meet the press? >> pete: face the nation. >> ainsley: she was asked about several questions are you prepared to be the president because. >> brian: do you know how old the president is. >> ainsley: yes i am, if necessary but the president is going to be fine. also asked about how many beakss when it came to abortion she had her talking point ready put into law protections under roe v. wade. margaret pressed her again put

into law. >> brian: how many weeks? >> ainsley: never answered the question. they don't want to give the weeks. then she was asked if she is taking president trump seriously if he could. >> brian: the threat. >> ainsley: the threat of president trump seriously. listen to this. >> are you taking the threat of a second trump presidency seriously enough? >> i don't understand the question. >> you were dismissive of some of the republican criticism of you and the president. when you look at current polling, the frontrunner for the republican nomination is the former president, the 45th president. >> we will win the election. we will win -- we will win re-election. there is too much at stake and the american people know it. >> brian: that's a good philosophy. >> ainsley: we will win. >> pete: like a quarterback pregame press conference. read it more okay newsily the

ways that others have spoken which is there is too much at stake. people know it die the cast. we will win re-election. too much is at stake. and that's, i think, the creeping sense that some republicans have through these indictments and everything else, covid 2.0. 3.0. what tricks will they pull out of their bag to make sure they save democracy. >> ainsley: we watch the interview what comes to mind. she seemed a little bit calmer, she wasn't the cackling, the laughing. it just seemed like she was more just like milk toast. >> brian: here she is at a major conference mysteriously asked and the president didn't want to go at this summit, which was really important to malaysian and indonesia nations concerned about china's influence and they want to know that americans have got their back. of the president says i have an idea. let's send my vice president. i'm a little busy. i have got to go to the beach and come back to the beach and go back to the beach again. he has to rest up to this trip

which brings up his age. but i don't think she is conversant and familiar with any issues. i think she is so scripted and rehearsed and the fact is that you would walk into a interview like that and not have any answer from the collapse of our border. margaret brennen to her immense credit. the border is collapsed. you said you would go to the origins of where the problem is. >> pete: the root causes. >> we have. we have gotten. -you can't say it's gotten better. not anymore. it's gone up again. do you see yourself as somebody who is responsible for? we're getting better. we're getting to the bottom of it. it's a global migration. this is just the last symptom of it. >> ainsley: she walked in with talking points. >> brian: my goodness, if you want to be president in the united states and you are in your 50's and you want to reassure the people that the democratic ticket does have a future and you are it, those are not the answers you give. i'm mir miraculously let down by what we got other nations.

your view on the border let's hear it. i can tell you what trump's views are on the border. every republican candidate has been to the border. i can tell you how they would do it. watch trump put tariffs on mexico i will do it unless you act. he went down to every major central american and south american country and said you are losing your aid until further notice you control your population. you might not like that. a lot of people dent like that. but you knew what the policy is. and you knew what the goal was. now, every major american city is overrun with their broken border and their ineptness and she has no reaction. >> pete: you assume she has another gear. like mee vikings fan assuming kurt cousins has another gear and i watched game one yesterday and we ross. you have these exceptions you build it up she's is going to get better no, that's who she is. >> brian: that's the answer to the question. was she better, yeah? she was calm. she did not laugh.

>> ainsley: i think she gets a little nervous. i don't think she -- i don't think she -- i think they give her talking points. all of her answers sound like talking points to me. like when they asked about the weeks. instead of addressing that issue. she goes a different direction and talks about roe v. wade. and putting protections in order. and then margaret asks her again and she repeats the same answer. >> brian: if you get up in the morning and you are studying the threat assessment and doing the things you need to be done. briefed, two and a half years in, this should be second nature. and then the debate would be about the quality of her programs and answers not the does she even know what she is talking about? >> ainsley: it might be because it's not hers to answer. she is not the president. maybe she doesn't want to step on the toes of the administration or what they have given her as talking points. it's not her own. >> brian: i don't know how. >> pete: or you are just not good at your job. >> ainsley: 16 minutes after the top of the hour. governor youngkin pardons the father arrested that the school

board meeting after he stood up for his daughter who was sexually assaulted at the school. why the governor says he had to act. >> brian: our coverage marking 22 years since the 9/11 lesson attacks continues will be happening all morning long. coming up, we will talk to a man who was at ground zero that day and out the acts of courage he witnessed then drove him to take care of military families today. stay with us. ♪ trying vapes to quit smoking might feel like progress, but with 3x more nicotine than a pack of cigarettes - vapes increase cravings - trapping you in an endless craving loop. nicorette reduces cravings until they're gone for good. oh, oh, oh...i'll be the judge of that. oh, that's nice...

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♪ >> carley: we start with a fox news alert. south korean media reporting kim jong un may be traveling to russia right now. the outlet says he could be meeting with russian president vladimir putin as early as tomorrow. u.s. officials learned earlier this month they had plans to meet so putin could focus on securing more supplies from north korea for their war on ukraine. a fox weather alert. hurricane lee has regained strength, is restrengthening into a major hurricane as it churns over the atlantic ocean. it's path remains uncertain buff the storm is expected to high

surf and strong winds towards the east coast over the coming days. for more on the story download the fox weather app. or stream fox weather on any connected tv device. and to the nfl we go and the dallas cowboys opening their season a dominating fashion beating the new york giants 4 42-0. cap the los angeles charges. >> touchdown. touchdown! >> carley: and in new england, tom brady making his much anticipated return to gillette stadium as the team honored him before the game. that's where the celebrations would end for patriots fans as the philadelphia eagles and the game final score of 25-20. that's how the first week of sunday football wrapped up, guys. >> brian: a lot of sad giants fans here. >> carley: oh boy that's quite

the score. >> pete: 40-0. >> brian: i would be surprised if they lost by a field goal week one. coach of the year. they had a lot of talent. and as carley will break down later, i get her a telestrator over the weekend. she will break down. >> carley: x's and o's. >> ainsley: did anyone watch the u.s. open. coco won yesterday. she was pray guilty. >> brian: we have new american super star. she is going to be the number one endorser. 19 years old. >> ainsley: they are so sweet. even the loser says you are so wonderful coco, coco tells her you sore wonderful. number one ranking in the world. compliment one another. >> brian: very similar to mac enrow. >> ainsley: which we did in the commercial break last week. funny to watch those.

>> pete: 80's basketball in the u.s.a. a livery different. scott smith, you will remember, he was the dad at a school board in loudoun county at the time we didn't know that his daughter had been sexually assaulted by someone who had -- a boy put on women's clothes and gone into the bathroom. she was protesting the policies going on at that school and this altercation happened where he was around it has not been since resolved until governor glenn youngkin pardoned scott smith and announced it on "fox news sunday" yesterday. here's the governor. >> we righted a wrong. he should have never been prosecuted here. mr. smith did what any father would do, what any parent would do is stand up for their child. and even worse, what then happened was the perpetrator was moved to another school and sexually assaulted another young woman. this was a gross miscarriage of justice. >> brian: the judge is upupset.

we should be able to run through this process ourselves and, you know, i think the governor is wrong to get involved. but for scott smith, he said i have no faith in the system. i had to accept this pardon. listen. >> this has been a long battle, a battle that should have never happened in the first place mile. constitutional rights were violated. i had to accept this pardon from governor youngkin because i couldn't trust the justice system. and that's really scary. that should scare every american. >> ainsley: isn't that sad that you have to accept the pardon because you don't trust that you are going to have justice in the courtroom? he was convicted of obstruction of justice and disorderly conduct back in 2021. the obstruction of justice conviction was dismissed on appeal. but the disorderly conduct conviction was reportedly set to go to trial later this month. what is he doing is standing up for parents. parents who want to say we want to know if our child decides to transition. you don't push that on my child.

let the child come home and let's have that discussion at home. teachers in come districts in new jersey, some districts and you left new jersey for many reasons but this was one of them. some of the districts there are saying no, we don't have to tell the parents. the parents are fuming about it. same thing happening in california. >> pete: that's the statewide policy in new jersey. >> ainsley: parents want to go to school board meetings and protest if there is someone that is born a male and this little boy put on a skirt allegedly, not allegedly but according to the conviction and went into the girl's room and assaulted his daughter. >> pete: twice. >> ainsley: swept under the rug and no one knew about it. >> pete: the dad gets in trouble at the school board meeting after the kid who did it and no one at the school gets in troubled and they covered up the sexual assault of his daughter couldn't imagine that outrage. >> ainsley: goes to another school and does it to another child. imagine how those parents feel. y'all knew about this and you still let this kid stay in our district? >> brian: part of the reason why glenn youngkin won and terry

mcauliffe said let the teachers do it. the parents don't know. >> parent don't have any of say so or shouldn't be in the glasm shouldn't be in the classroom. that's part of the reason why glenn youngkin won. will he start sciewghts educational reform in a way that's going to get him a national platform and maybe he decides to jump in this race. you could almost guarantee he is in 2028. so i guarantee he wants to be -- is he one term and out but the president is does he get n november. >> pete: smart money jumping in 2024 hasn't improved prospects for 2028. >> brian: we don't know. >> pete: do you think did glenn youngkin jumps in right now he is going to gather a bunch of momentum against donald trump and win? of course not. zero chance. he would be smart to do a good job midterm election. big elections going here and one of those guys 2028 let's go. >> brian: i think you are right, that's not why he is in yet. i will say a lot of donors who don't like trump are saying to

youngkin, get in. i have money. i'll back you. >> ainsley: that's true. >> pete: there is a trail of tears of a lot candidates who heard from donors. >> ainsley: if you jump in now, it's just like a ron desantis thing. when he jumped, in a lot of people love ron desantis in florida he was so confident because everyone loved him in florida. then he jumps in against trump and trump helped him get over the finish line, many say, including trump. so then you risk like oh my gosh dierks make a mistake? should i have waited four years and waited my turn? >> brian: $40 million of attack ads on you before you get in. >> ainsley: still ahead another remarkable 9/11 story that you have probably never heard. meet the fighter pilot who was going to ram her f-16 into united flight 93 to stop it from hitting its target. heather penny is going to join us next. >> brian: janice dean on the fire boat mcceenel who served the fdny for 58 years including responding it to the attack in new york city on september 11th.

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van. one of the world's most active volcanos erupts in hawaii nearly two months after last activity. the growing lava from kilauea seen here spewing out on the big island officials raising the alert level but the lava is believed to be from a safe distance from people and structures. the volume cabe ne-yo runted for weeks in june but also did not threaten any nearby communities. those are your headlines, pete. over to you. >> pete: thank you, carley. this week 22 ago our next guest took to the skies at the direction of vice president dick cheney and was going to ram her f-16 into united flight 93 to try to stop it from hitting the intended target. all while having no idea if her father then a united airlines pilot was actually piloting that very flight. but thanks to the bravery of the passengers on united 93, she did not have to. heather penny a form are fighter

pilot with the d.c. air national guard two tours in iraq aerospace studies joins us now. heather, thank you for being here. thank you for your courage, your willingness that day 22 years ago, you were almost fresh out of training. so your unit gets the call. why weren't you able to arm those aircraft, meaning with weapons that could shoot it down and you had to possibly ram it down? >> well, first of all, thank you so much for having me on today. it's really a privilege to be able to share my experience, my story. and my message with your audience. first of all, what i was willing to do that day and what my flight lead was willing to do that day really isn't anything special. any one of us having seen the video, having known that our nation was attacked would have been willing to sacrifice our lives the same way that mark and i were willing to do so, and importantly, the same way that the passengers of flight 93 were willing to do. our jets were not armed because after the fall of the soviet

union, our nation wanted the peace dividend. they cut our military in half and our unit, which had once sat alert, no longer had that mission. and so for training every day sorties that we flew and as a matter of fact we had three ship airborne that morning, luke campbell, eric hagueson and billy hutchinson, their jets did not have any order nance, any missiles, any live bombs on board. this is not unusual or abnormal. the situation that our nation faced that morning was. >> pete: absolutely. heather, was intercept ago civilian airliner by ramming in to it with your jet, is that something you had trained for? you don't normally think a one way kamikaze mission for our pilots. >> no. because our nation values our service members. we are highly trained. it takes a long time to train us

to that point where we are really the best military in the world suicide missions is not something we typically do. that was really the only option that mark and i had that morning because we had to protect and defend our nation our capitol, d.c. where we were already at. we already saw the pentagon get hit we had to assume there were more. when we discovered there were additional aircraft inbound, at the time we thought there might have been up though three. but we knew that flight 93 had descended, had turned back towards the nation's capitol, so that's when we got the call from vice president cheney and the incredible air traffic controllers at the poo cammack were invaluable in helping us assist to fly that direction to help find the aircraft. of course, the passengers had already chosen to sacrifice their lice to protect our nation.

>> pete: amazing. must give you such an even deeper appreciation for those folks on flight 93 the courage that it took and to consider whether you didn't know your father was piloting that flight. a nation at war. you get a call from the vice president. i cannot imagine. heather penney, one of the best of the best. we appreciate your time this morning. thank you. >> thank you. >> pete: you got it. all right. coming up, our corc of the 9/11 attacks continue. joe biden set to visit alaska instead much one of the attack sites. becoming the first president to do so in 22 years. congressman mike gallagher joins us next with his reaction. and, we are awaiting the unfurling of the american flag down the side of the pelc in honor of the 184 people killed there on 9/11. we will bring it to you live after the break. ♪ ♪

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♪ >> brian: you are looking live at the pentagon where the american flag in a matter of moments will be unfurled it happens at 6:46. 40 seconds. followed by the national anthem. we will take that the plane hit that building at 9:37, airlines

flight 77. it crashed right into the pentagon, killing 189 people. it is now tradition for service members to unfurl a huge flag at sunrise off the building where the plane hit. similar to the gainer son flag third infantry soldier day after the attacks 22 years ago. first lady jill biden will visit the 9/11 memorial to lay a wreath and lloyd austin general at the time, officer of the military when this happened will also be in attendance. i want to brings in congressman mike gallagher who spent years in the marines now with the house armed service committee. house intelligence committee, and house select committee on the strategic competition for u.s. and china. gratuitous for us to have you here at this moment. you have been in that building so many times before, fought. you joined the military because of 9/11. what does this day mean to the people to work there? >> well, i think it's a solemn day, obviously. it's something that we need to

recognize every year and if nothing else it's a reminder of two things. one, the bravery that some americans displayed on that day and then how we responded as a country and came together in the days and weeks after 9/11. as well as an enduring reminder that america does have enemies out there. we have countries. we have terrorist groups that would like to attack us and take us down. and so we can never let our guard down. if you want to pass on this amazes gift that we have been given which is to be american citizens. citizens of the greatest country in the history of the world, we have to defend our freedoms. we ask brave men and women. >> brian: right. >> every generation to step up and defend us from evil and today is a reminder of that basic fact. >> brian: the president will not be in country. he will eventually get to alaska and alaska has great patriotic people. they have wonderful men and women serving in the base. i know a couple people in my neighborhood actually in the coast guard there. and they talk about how patriotic it is. it is interesting that the president is comfortable with being in alaska on a day like this and not downtown new york city and not the pentagon.

and now you are are w watching e flag drop. right after it's fully unfurled. you will hear the national anthem. >> we're waiting for the anthem to start >> brian: i believe you can hear something down there ♪ the ramparts we watched ♪ were so gallantly streaming ♪ >> brian: we will try to bring up the sound. we can hear it faintly in the background. ♪ and the red rockets red glare ♪ the bombs bursting in air ♪ gave proof through the night ♪ that our flag was still there ♪ o say does that star-spangled

banner yet wave. >> brian: having trouble hearing that. >> brian: but we understand what it means for the people there and for obviously everyone watching at home. congressman mike gallagher, as you talk about enemies, al-qaeda is still an enemy, isis still an enemy. we are not in afghanistan anymore. we have no idea what our enemies were up to the over the horizon capacity does not make people feel good. we left $4 billion worth of military equipment left behind. >> the broader signal that our inept surrender to terrorists in afghanistan sent around the world. i believe it undermined our entire deterrent posture. vladimir putin decided to invade ukraine in part because of the weakness he witnessed on display in afghanistan. it's imperative that we not make the same mistakes. particularly as we confront a rising china. a china under xi jinping dictatorial rule is threatening taiwan and threatening war. war with taiwan has potential to

make war in ukraine look constrained compared to previous. why we brought to today and tomorrow financial complications of a war with china over taiwan. >> brian: bipartisan. >> going down to ground zero to have bipartisan participation in the 9/11 ceremony. >> i understand there is tactics and diplomacy and play as role. nobody wants war. with this enemy they only understand strength. if you are going to go around and make partnerships and friendships between south korea and japan, laudable. if you are going to go out and say australia, philippines, japan, india, we have a problem and it's called china. that's commendable. we got say hey, saudi arabia and india, start talking to each other. let's start understanding the real threat out there, i get it. but then when the president is asked what we are doing with china, this is what he says. >> really what this trip was about, was less about containing china -- i don't want -- i don't want to contain china.

we're not -- we're not looking to hurt china. >> brian: your reaction? >> well, from the start, from when the president campaigned in the last election, he has sent mixed signals at best from china. what we have seen from the administration in recent months is a full-throated revival of diplomatic and economic engagement with china as a foundation of their foreign policy, despite the fact then engagement as a strategy has failed for 20 years. i think when you are dealing with a marxist leninist regime like that. they respect strength and find mixed signals provocative. think of the signals it sends to wall street here. that's my concern and part of the reason we are doing this trip emerging consensus in the 23450ur9 community that china is our greatest geopolitical adversary. too many people on wall street still think of china as a business partner or a friend. that has extreme systemic risks four our financial system. >> brian: i'm going to get these two governments together. china loves elon musk.

they love jamie dimon. they feel as though they could talk some sense into our crazy american government whether it's trump or biden or bush or obama. congressman, i think it's important to know and you know this 60 miles off the coast of taiwan yesterday they are doing military exercises to sends a message. we know they hacked into our -- the cabinet secretary's president biden. we know they have cut off and buzzed our -- they cut off our destroyers and buzzed our planes. why not put that in a speech and say because of that, we're taking people concerned about your growth and belligerence and we're forming a union against people that want a -- want freedom and peace. >> well, that's the primary concern, in order to even sit down at the table with the chinese communist party leadership and get a photo op., we shoveled key defensive action we should have taken months ago, whether it's ending licensing exemptions for huawei, whether it's finalizing the october 7th export control rule and closing a lot of loopholes surrounding that. whether it's sanctions on ccp

officials or basic transparency surrounding the spy balloon incident or origins of covid. we sheffield all of that because of our fear of provoking the ccp, but the fear itself in our reluctance is itself provocative they get more and aggressive the more rerelax the pressure. >> brian: heighten relations with vietnam get it rare great. i worry about vietnam being so tight with russia are we going to be sharing secrets with vietnam knowing they are so tight with russia is, that a concern of yours? >> vietnam is not a treaty ally but they're a critical partner going forward. and i do believe that in order to constrain china's worst imeggs pulls going forward. >> brian: it's worth the risk. >> worth the risk. need a closer relationship with india, philippines. build anti-communist coalition. >> brian: even the communists are concerned. >> exactly. >> brian: always great seeing you doing fantastic work and a lot of democrats shrewd salute you too. great to see you, mike

gallagher. during the 9/11 attaches help came from all over the country including the hudson remember. marine company one and the mckean fire boat responded to the attacks and now part of the national registry of historic places. fox news senior meteorologist and great reporter in her own right janice dean joins us from the fire boat in stoney point, new york along with the president of the fire boat mckean preservation project stacey wanamaker. take it away, janice. >> janice: what a wonderful, historic place to be on 9/11. tracy, tell me about this boat. >> this is the retired john d. mckean. it served the fdny for 554 years as marine one. and it went into service on 9/11, performeddible heroic actions that day. the people on board saved people from the sea wall in lower manhattan, transported them to new jersey and went back to pump water onto the pile. >> janice: for many days. >> many days three days straight and on and off after that. there was no infrastructure

under the pile and the only water for the thousands of wires if a burned came from this boat pumping. >> janice: your father was a lieutenant on this boat on that day. tell me about him. >> yes. he was a 38 year member of the fdny and he finished out his career serving on marine one. on the morning of 9/11, he was actually home but, when he saw the first plane hit the tower, called and said goodbye to each of us and his family and didn't know when he would come home again but said he had to respond. and he came down and he was one of the -- one of the officers of marine one working. >> janice: and a hero. >> thank you. thank you. >> janice: and he tragically died from 9/11 related illness which is what is happening now today. people are still sick and still dying? >> yes. it's devastating. and that's part of the reason i do this work is to honor him. but, also, all the other people who are sick and suffering or in fear that they will get sick one day. we still don't know how far this

will go and how many years it will continue. >> janice: give me a show look see here. this is the hose? >> sure. this is the pumping system where all the hose connections are. on 9/11 there was a whole tangle of hose pumping water aggressively to reach the pile. and it was pumping right through the engines of the mckean and out through the hoses attached here. >> janice: what does it mean to have this as a historical point? >> well, for me. honestly, my father loved this boat, took us to visit it when it was down at the battery, even when i was a small child. and he -- it's just so important to carry on the memory and to honor the bravery of everyone who served aboard. >> janice: how can people find out more. >> visit our website www fire boat mckean.org. we would love support. we rely on fundraising and volunteers. >> janice: thank you so much for having us today and thank you for your father's service and to

all those who are still with us today. we still have people that are sick and dying of 9/11 related illness and that's why it's important to remember this day 22 years ago. over to you, ainsley. >> ainsley: we pledge we will never forget. great job. thank you, janice. said good friend was at ground zero on 9/11. he witnessed incredible acts of courage and gained appreciation for our freedom. in 2008 started american corporate partners to help our heroes transition from the armed forces by providing career counseling and networking possibilities. over 15 years ago. acp has helped -- it started 15 years ago, but it's helped nearly 30,000 veterans and military spouses. acp chairman good friend joins us now. you are a good friend. you have been a great friend to our veterans you didn't forget. tell us first of all.

>> it was unbelievable. when the first plane hit many of us thought it was an accident. i got out of the taxi and walking down the west side highway where i bumped into the second choo colleagues. all of a sudden we saw the second plane go in. all we saw is the building explode above our heads. >> ainsley: you walked across the streets in the financial building. >> yes. in the world financial center. >> ainsley: you ran up the highway. >> white guys in suits carrying briefcases running up the west side highway. it was incredible day. and then minutes later i'm in a taxicab going up north and i heard the taxy driver saying oh god, turned around and looked through the back window and there was the south tower collapsing. >> ainsley: after you retired you told your wife i want to do something for our veterans. >> i have been very, very lucky. i have been an investment banker at the right time. my wife was on wall street at the rate time. i wanted to do something service related. i wasn't going to run for public office. it's just not for me.

at the time the country was at war in iraq. we were undergoing the surge and i realized what are we going to do for all these men and women when the surge is over? and i realized that the biggest challenge they were going to have was to find a new career after they served in the military. that's why i started acp. >> ainsley: you didn't go to college. you served in the military for 22 years or 20 years. you want to get out now. where do you go? they call you and what do you do? >> we will talk to them first and sign assign a corporate mentor. we ask individuals to volunteer. it's a year-long program hour a month nowadays they are on zoom sand teams. understand the different pluses and minuses of different jobs and careers ideally help them get interviews and help them convince their employer the skills or artillery or armor or jumping out of helicopters translates into great career at

a major corporation. >> ainsley: what do most of your veterans, what is their interest. >> a lot of people have interest in healthcare. they might start off in media, but media is a lot tougher some people really do well. some people maybe not do as well. healthcare is one of the areas people find they are probably not going to get laid off as much as perhaps if they were in finance. >> ainsley: 22 years old n. or probably 40 years old at this point you could still find a job in healthcare, right? >> we can get a job for anybody. >> ainsley: i know rupert murdaugh, the ceo of our company, the owner, the founder of fox news has actually done this. so you have people at the highest level, people at the lowest level mentoring our veterans, right? if someone watching wants to be a mentor how do they find out the information? >> our website is available to anybody. it's acp hyphen u.s.a.org. people can sign up to be a mentor. we are also looking for financial support for those people who have an interest and wanting to contribut