Bannon's War Room - Episode 5647： Remembering Those Who Sacrificed Their Lives In 9⧸11

00:00:00.000 The central question that is the issue here, as with so many things that this president has done,

00:00:06.400 is the issue of executive overreach. Can you go into that a little bit more and

00:00:11.480 why the Supreme Court has allowed this to become the central issue time and time again?

00:00:19.000 Well, Jackie, I think that's hitting the nail right on the head in as much as we're seeing

00:00:23.960 a tug of war of power between the executive branch and the states here.

00:00:29.260 And I think that it goes back all the way to, you know, if we want to go back to seventh

00:00:33.580 grade civics class to Hamiltonian versus Jeffersonian politics.

00:00:37.520 And as much as Donald Trump has continued to push the limits of executive power into

00:00:42.980 spaces that the Constitution specifically enumerates for the states.

00:00:47.880 And in this example is elections.

00:00:49.980 The Constitution allows states to make pretty broad determinations about how they choose to run their elections.

00:00:57.340 And in this case, what Donald Trump is attempting to do is relegated to the states by the Constitution.

00:01:03.840 And so why the Supreme Court has allowed it thus far without saying it's illegal or legal is beyond me.

00:01:10.180 But what these states' attorneys general are saying in this lawsuit that has moved forward in Boston at this point is that they cannot, that the president cannot do these things.

00:01:20.960 And so it is a fight between the states and the president and the executive branch.

00:01:25.660 And it will be interesting to see how the Supreme Court rules on this, because if they give Donald Trump even an inch or a modicum of leeway here, we're going to see a drastic change to how our elections occur nationally.

00:01:40.180 What is often with the president, when he sees this kind of pressure coming back from Canada, he wants to fight back.

00:01:46.000 And that's why you saw the president yesterday lay out, as you mentioned, Sarah,

00:01:49.860 this threat to ban the sale of Canadian Bombardier jets if they are not built in the United States.

00:01:55.800 That threat came just hours before we saw Canada move forward with their retaliatory tariffs on the United States,

00:02:02.600 really seeing this feud escalate to a much bigger trade war between the United States

00:02:07.500 and one of its closest allies and trading partners.

00:02:11.760 Now, Canada, as you mentioned, Sarah, put in their retaliatory tariffs of 50% of tariffs on $20 billion worth of U.S. imports.

00:02:21.100 That came into effect just after midnight.

00:02:23.060 The new levies include a doubling of taxes charged on American aluminum and steel to 50% matching with the U.S. charges on metals from imports from Canada.

00:02:32.600 Paper products, construction materials, dairy, plastics, home appliances and agricultural products, all of them also facing new levies.

00:02:40.900 Now, the move that Canada with these imposing these 50 percent tariffs and retaliation come as response to what we saw the U.S. issue on Canada, also 50 percent on roughly 20 billion dollars worth of goods back in August.

00:02:55.120 And we've heard the Prime Minister, Mark Carney, really not back away from this feud with the president,

00:03:01.680 saying that he's going to go dollar for dollar against the tariffs that the U.S. imposes on them

00:03:07.240 and saying that he sees no reason to move away from this.

00:03:10.520 Now, all of this comes, of course, as we know that discussions between Canada and the U.S. really fell apart last month.

00:03:16.920 We had seen that perhaps there was going to be some sort of deal to come together to avoid a lot of this trade war.

00:03:22.800 But when those talks fell apart, we saw this feud begin to escalate.

00:03:26.560 Now we're seeing Canada hit back with their own tariffs.

00:03:29.520 I do want to read for you, though, what we heard from the president himself,

00:03:32.200 who's really been upping the rhetoric and aggression against Canada.

00:03:36.080 Yesterday in this post, he wrote, quote, if they want our market, they must build here and stop treating America like a piggy bank.

00:03:42.120 He went on to say buy American fly on American airliners, enjoy American liquor and beverages, sail on Lake America, America first.

00:03:50.800 first. He's also the president now threatened as well an additional 50 percent tariffs on autos

00:03:57.280 starting on January 1st. So we'll have to see where this is lead. But for now,

00:04:00.820 from all the conversations I'm having with Trump administration officials, Sarah, it doesn't look

00:04:05.040 like real negotiations, substantial talks to try and find an off ramp to this are happening.

00:04:10.000 Instead, we have to see what the impact of these tariffs are like and whether or not that can spur

00:04:15.000 them back to the table in a meaningful way. The point that mail and ballots have gone out,

00:04:18.940 And I think you were right to point out in your lead in that Donald Trump himself, the president, is someone who uses mail-in ballots.

00:04:25.920 And so questioning the integrity of this system, particularly at a time that's right before midterms, is really something that draws a lot of concern from a number of people.

00:04:36.100 Because what it seems like is that this is just an attempt to control something that is a solution looking for a problem.

00:04:44.240 We have not seen the type of election integrity problems that warrant this level of control or change from the executive branch, yet it seems to be something that the president continues to be fixated on.

00:04:57.100 And so when we're talking about what will happen to the mail-in ballots that are already out in a system that seems to already have a significant amount of integrity as is, that is among the things that will confuse everyone involved, which is bad for elections in this country as a whole.

00:05:14.240 it is tuesday 8 september euro for lord 2026 so welcome back after the labor day holiday i guess

00:05:22.280 it is now officially back to work um we're absolutely jammed this week we've got uh we're

00:05:29.540 on the eve of the um convention of course real america's voice war room wall-to-wall coverage

00:05:34.860 of uh of everything there and with grassroots all of it so we have a huge team down in dallas

00:05:41.040 also we have the first anniversary of the assassination of charlie kirk that's on

00:05:46.540 thursday uh i want to thank all the kind words that we got uh from yesterday from the charlie

00:05:51.720 kirk special we did on his work ethic we're going to figure out how to replay that more this week

00:05:57.520 then we have 9-11 on friday the 25th anniversary of the uh terrorist attack the islamist terrorist

00:06:06.580 attack in new york and uh also we have the storm summit in vegas so we got a lot going on we're

00:06:12.960 going to kind of start in reverse today because neil mccabe's at the ellipse we're going to start

00:06:18.800 with a the president's going to have an address about 10 30 10 40 maybe 10 45 about 9 11 i believe

00:06:26.600 this is the some of the remarks he wanted to make you remember he canceled going to new york because

00:06:30.840 they would not allow him to speak or there's some controversy about all of that i'm gonna go to

00:06:36.520 neil mccabe in a moment we'll also have matt meck from the storm summit john solomon we're

00:06:41.500 pretty packed this morning and we're going to take uh the president's remarks as soon as he

00:06:45.540 makes his way to the ellipse let's go live to neil mccabe right there at neil mccabe set the stage

00:06:50.440 what what's going on why are we at the ellipse what is the evolution of this event that we're

00:06:56.140 going to have sir yeah good morning steve uh today at the ellipse uh the president is going to speak

00:07:04.640 at a Tunnel to Towers event, and what they're going to do is they're going to celebrate and

00:07:11.760 commemorate the lives that were lost on 9-11, and central to that is a 21-foot steel beam

00:07:19.940 from the World Trade Center. It's about 16,000 pounds. It will be here on the White House grounds

00:07:28.940 here at the Ellipse, and then it will travel on 9-11 to the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel, and then the

00:07:34.980 final sort of presentation of this beam will be at the Giants-Cowboys game on Sunday. But here

00:07:42.600 we're surrounded by sort of the survivors, family, firefighters, first responders, military. There's

00:07:50.860 a lot of people here who haven't seen each other in a while, and so it's sort of, it's part wake,

00:07:56.980 part reunion. There are people showing off children. There's a lot of people here who are

00:08:02.700 sort of taking it very quietly. There's a lot of back slapping because it's kind of like a

00:08:08.420 corner of D.C. has been taken over by New York City, Steve. But there are a lot of people who

00:08:14.640 are very sort of solitary. I saw a young woman. I would just sort of guess by her age that she's

00:08:21.880 the daughter of someone who was killed on 9-11, she came in, she was dressed in black,

00:08:28.060 she sat for about 15, 20 minutes, and then she just got up and left. And I can only imagine

00:08:34.180 that this is something she just said, all right, I can't do this. And so there's a lot of that

00:08:37.840 going on here too, Steve. Walk us through, you know, Tunisia Towers is one of the most prominent

00:08:45.980 of these uh groups that that formed after 9-11 not just to commemorate but to help the uh help

00:08:51.680 the survivors raheem kassam was obviously very very involved with that for years talk to us

00:08:56.460 about the beam what what what is it about the beam why is it special i take it they've toured

00:09:01.020 the country it's in dc today the president's going to speak here momentarily then it actually

00:09:06.420 goes up to new york city what what is tanarsal towers why are they special and and why the

00:09:11.560 pilgrimage of the beam well i think most importantly for a lot of people uh they had

00:09:20.580 some kind of concept of 9-11 they they saw it on tv that day or they were told stories about it

00:09:26.560 but this is a tactile remembrance of what actually happened there there are 441 first responders

00:09:35.160 who were killed that day. 343 were firefighters, but there are more than 9,000 first responders

00:09:44.740 who have been killed with diseases and illnesses related to the contamination from Ground Zero.

00:09:53.000 And this organization has worked to be their advocate to support them and to keep the memory

00:09:59.040 of this alive. We're coming up to the 25th anniversary. And for a lot of people that say,

00:10:03.440 wow has it been 25 years already but soon it'll be 50 and soon it'll be 100 and so people have

00:10:09.880 to remember what happened that day and the people who were affected not just not just the people

00:10:15.180 who were killed in the tower obviously the world trade center towers but also these guys who who

00:10:21.480 ran into the fire like a lot of people were running out of that building these are the guys who are

00:10:26.080 running into the building and we're surrounded with the photographs of these first responders

00:10:31.520 you know and so many of them were so young and you know they had no idea the next 20 25 years

00:10:38.160 later their families their businesses their lives went on and and their lives ended that day and so

00:10:44.340 people are just trying to sort of catch that moment and and hold on to it steve you know um

00:10:53.760 rudy the great mayor of new york gave a pretty controversial interview over the weekend i think

00:11:00.240 over at Newsmax where he said that he doesn't believe Ma'am Donnie should even attend or host

00:11:06.860 or do anything with a commemoration at all, being that Rudy's been to everyone. It was obviously the

00:11:12.480 mayor at the time and became America's mayor and a legendary figure along with our great friend

00:11:18.740 here at the War Room, the late Bernie Carrick. Is that why this looks like something special

00:11:26.080 that New York has taken over a section of Washington, D.C.,

00:11:29.700 that New York has taken over a section of the White House grounds

00:11:32.960 because there's some concern about the appropriate commemoration on the 25th

00:11:38.040 given the controversy over the Ugandan Marxist jihadist

00:11:44.020 that is now mayor of New York City, sir?

00:11:47.920 I think a lot of people are offended that New York City Hall has become a victory mosque

00:11:53.180 and there's just a general hostility towards, you know, the people who died that day

00:12:01.980 and the people who, you know, who tried to save lives.

00:12:06.080 I mean, this was an attack by Islamic radicals and this is being sort of poo-pooed or played down

00:12:14.160 and it's kind of ridiculous for the people who are there, but then it's been 25 years

00:12:19.460 And so 25 years later, people have to be shown the steel beam, Steve.

00:12:24.820 And now we have the national anthem.

00:12:27.840 Okay, let's go ahead and cut to the national anthem.

00:12:40.740 Okay, take it back to me until we get there.

00:12:42.500 Do we have the feed?

00:12:46.160 Okay, I'll take it and then we'll go back to Neil.

00:12:48.720 thank you very much we'll go back to neil when we show the national anthem uh it's going to be a

00:12:53.600 we'll pick up the feed here in a second this week is a obviously we're jammed wall to wall

00:12:58.740 on war room and rural america's voice okay we're going let's go to the national anthem right now

00:13:03.220 at D-Lips.

00:13:33.220 And bright stars through the perilous fight O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming

00:13:52.020 And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,

00:14:01.400 Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.

00:14:11.820 Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave

00:14:25.640 O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave

00:14:42.400 Thank you, Danny.

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00:16:21.280 Okay, John Solomon's going to address. We're going to go back to the event,

00:16:26.480 tunnels to tower this commemoration about 9 11 the president's going to address the nation here

00:16:33.140 momentarily also they're going to we're going to uh it's there to show the pilgrimage of the 21

00:16:39.240 foot beam from the world trade center which is going to make its way up to new york city it'll

00:16:45.100 be i guess at the game the national football league game with the cowboys and the giants

00:16:49.280 the new york football giants and um then it's going to have a place of be put in a place of

00:16:54.760 honor john solomon want to start off our great friend the mayor america's mayor rudy giuliani

00:17:00.620 really went both barrels over the weekend over at newsmax uh saying that hey under no circumstances

00:17:07.400 should mandani uh the current mayor of new york the ugandan marxist jihadist should he host any

00:17:15.480 commemoration of the 25th anniversary of 9-11 your thoughts on that sir well listen just think of the

00:17:22.720 things he's done in the last couple of weeks. When he signed an executive order commemorating

00:17:27.880 September 11th as a permanent day of remembrance and service, he decided to give the pen to his

00:17:36.620 general counsel, who was a lawyer for one of the Al-Qaeda operatives convicted of terrorism and who

00:17:42.880 was a brother of one of the, excuse me, brother-in-law of one of the 9-11 hijackers. You

00:17:48.180 couldn't make a more offensive statement to the memory of the 9-11 victims than that.

00:17:53.220 But that's not the only thing. In his interviews with the New York Times, the socialist mayor

00:17:58.940 was very clear that he thought 9-11's biggest problem was that it unleashed a wave of Islamophobia

00:18:06.900 in America. Not able to see the Al-Qaeda terrorism, but rather to see the impact on

00:18:12.540 Muslims in America. He has catered to extreme elements many times. And I think a lot of people

00:18:18.740 found Rudy's comments this weekend resonated with them. There were members of the city council mad

00:18:24.400 at Mamdami. The New York Post was all over this story. It's not the sort of thing that a man

00:18:30.840 leading a city that was struck by the worst terrorist attack in American history should be

00:18:35.960 saying and doing, but that's who he is. And I think a lot of people are beginning to come to grips with

00:18:41.500 the fact that he seems to be sympathetic to extremist elements in both Islam and Marxism

00:18:46.860 and socialism. And that's what I think the debate will be all this week. And that's exactly what

00:18:52.200 Bob Downey wants. He would love the debate to be about himself rather than the 3,000 souls that

00:18:58.040 were lost that day. Being that you're just the news and you're always on top of things, signal,

00:19:05.660 not noise. I'm going to go through a punch list. We did 9-11. We're going to talk about Charlie

00:19:11.420 Kirk, the first anniversary of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, and we're going to talk about

00:19:15.380 your thoughts. You're about to head down to Dallas to be part of our coverage of this convention.

00:19:21.780 Let's go to Charlie Kirk first. You've got a very special announcement right now, sir.

00:19:26.100 We do. Our first ever book under the Just the Books label, Just the News label,

00:19:31.820 is out this morning, The Intellect of Charlie Kirk. It's a fascinating book. It's written by

00:19:36.220 one of his co-writers, Brent Hamachek, and it reads a lot like Tuesdays with Maury. You get

00:19:41.680 this extraordinary relationship and bond between co-writers. Brent Shadow wrote and co-wrote a lot

00:19:47.180 of Charlie Sings, including one of his successful books, many of his columns and speeches.

00:19:51.380 And you get an insight into the evolution of this extraordinary intellect, this extraordinary leader.

00:19:56.300 everything from how he flipped from Cruz to Trump to his relationship with Trump to the evolution of

00:20:03.340 his thinking and to realizing that the best way to fight censorship was to have debates on college

00:20:08.360 campuses it just gives you an extraordinary insight on this the one-year anniversary week

00:20:13.360 of him being robbed from us we're very proud of it the book went on sale this morning the easiest

00:20:18.040 place to get it jtnmarketplace.com we got a link right at the top of the page you click on that

00:20:23.120 and uh you'll have the book sent to you within the next 24 48 hours very exciting

00:20:26.980 can we get i think we get the the cover of the book and and we are going to interview

00:20:33.620 uh the writer of this over the weekend on monday we did a special about the uh the the work ethic

00:20:40.460 of charlie kirk a lot of that dealt with intellectually i mean charlie didn't go to

00:20:45.420 college right he was he always had a thirst for knowledge talk to me about that because charlie

00:20:49.560 Kirk, rolled his sleeves up, and became, it was a self-educated young man, was he not, sir?

00:20:56.400 He was, and I've covered a lot of people in politics and in academia in my 40 years in

00:21:03.540 journalism. I never saw someone with a faster, sharper intellect. He could respond in real time.

00:21:09.680 He had all of this information in his head, and he could organize it succinctly and quickly and

00:21:13.820 powerfully, whether he was at Cambridge or on a college campus or on the television or on his

00:21:18.620 own show. I hadn't witnessed very few people with the level of intellect and smarts and grasp of

00:21:25.820 knowledge and data that he had. He could always find something relevant to say. And I look at the

00:21:30.840 moment where he entered into this world. America was under attack. Freedom was under attack.

00:21:37.220 He wanted to have a debate about that. When he saw evil, he answered it with goodness.

00:21:41.960 He was relentless in his pursuit of the American dream, stood by the president and put together

00:21:48.320 the incredible coalition that put President Donald Trump back into office in 2024. He's

00:21:53.960 sorely missed. But this book is designed to remind anyone, wherever you are, at any point in the

00:21:59.860 future, where you see your freedom, your identity, your values being attacked. Charlie Kirk never,

00:22:06.540 ever shuddered. He always jumped into the void. He wasn't afraid to have a debate. And I think

00:22:12.340 that's one of the lessons we all need to learn. If you're a young kid on a college campus,

00:22:15.660 say, get this book or we'll maybe buy it and send it to you. We want people to have the same courage

00:22:21.060 that Charlie did because all of us have the same mission to save this country. My last time with

00:22:27.960 Charlie was two weeks before his death. We were in Colorado and I said to him, hey, we got a country

00:22:32.220 to save. And he looked at me and said, I think you're thinking too small. We got Western

00:22:35.760 civilization to save. I have never forgotten that moment. He understood the gravity of the moment

00:22:41.960 were you in in a way that uh very few people could so speaking of the gravity of the moment

00:22:48.740 you're you're heading down and obviously going to be part of the great coverage we're going to do

00:22:52.680 at real america's voice war room just the news uh of the convention and we're so excited that now

00:22:59.000 finally they've woken up to the fact that president trump is is the driver of this movement and if

00:23:04.200 you want it the democrats have already put him on the ticket so you can't run in high from him you

00:23:07.900 got to put him front and center uh particularly these tough districts however if if you took a

00:23:14.080 uh if we took a survey of the war room audience right now they would say hey look really what

00:23:19.840 we want is john solomon up there for an hour on stage talking about the task force clicking

00:23:26.620 no i'm serious clicking live to to the white house site which has amazing information but

00:23:31.640 not enough people are going there and right when john solomon finishes he tosses the baton

00:23:36.120 to the commander in chief and the president walks out i just don't feel i know the audience feels

00:23:41.580 that we're not getting enough official push in back of the task force and the findings and part

00:23:47.760 of that is you know a national security memorandum about uh executive or about the elections and or

00:23:53.840 at least something not just a messaging discussion about the save america act which is not going to

00:23:58.680 happen you you guys have been doing nothing short of historic work at the task force john solomon

00:24:05.860 Why are you not taking an hour tonight on opening night on national television to walk through the findings of the task force and then have President Trump come out and give his speech, sir?

00:24:17.300 Well, it didn't work out this way by design, but I believe on the morning of the start of the convention, we'll have another bombshell to release that shows just how bad the weaponization was, how bad the cheating was to get Donald Trump.

00:24:30.160 the judicial system cheated to try to create criminality where there was none. And I think

00:24:36.580 tomorrow morning we'll have a really important and powerful story. It actually shocks me that

00:24:40.760 we found certain documents long hidden from the American public. I'm pretty excited about that.

00:24:46.360 Listen, I do think these stories are beginning to resonate. I'm beginning to hear from lots of

00:24:50.400 members of Congress. I'm beginning to hear from lawyers. I think the most important statement

00:24:55.340 President Trump and his team can make is by bringing an act of accountability.

00:24:59.800 I'm not going to be nearly as exciting on the stage of the convention

00:25:03.100 than if something happened down at the grand jury in Florida

00:25:08.200 or if one of Fauci's deputies was brought to justice

00:25:11.960 like the one that was brought a couple weeks ago.

00:25:14.160 More than words, more than information right now,

00:25:16.960 people are craving accountability.

00:25:18.540 I think President Trump and his team are working on some pretty big things.

00:25:22.340 There are some major cooperating witnesses that have now flipped to the state, to working with Joe DiGenova.

00:25:28.500 That's going to accelerate the ability to bring accountability.

00:25:32.460 And I think what people really want is someone to go to prison or someone to get handcuffs put on them.

00:25:37.160 There is a significant process going on.

00:25:39.380 On the election front, significant changes to election law have been made in just the last few weeks.

00:25:44.620 The mandatory 5% paper ballot audit is unprecedented in American history.

00:25:50.380 that was just imposed by Mark Wayne Mullen. More to come. I wouldn't be surprised if the

00:25:55.120 Commerce Department did something in the next few weeks to further our election integrity ahead of

00:26:00.160 November. And then I think the last piece of the puzzle is, as we continue to get more information,

00:26:07.160 as we continue to get more details, the government is beginning to create long-term solutions that

00:26:13.660 prevent the FBI, should another Democrat president come along in the future, from being able to be

00:26:19.120 weaponized the way it was under Barack Obama and Joe Biden. And I think that those are the

00:26:23.860 most meaningful things that could happen for this Trump administration. And then the last thing is

00:26:27.980 for President Trump. Remember what he did in 2024. He realized the Democrats had only one message,

00:26:33.220 get Donald Trump. The Democrats still have only one message, maybe two now, because we like

00:26:38.080 socialists and we want to get Donald Trump. He's going to come back with another round of ideas.

00:26:42.600 He wowed the country with no tax on tips, no tax on Social Security, all the big ideas he put on

00:26:48.740 the table to confront an idealist Democratic Party. I think he's going to open up the fall

00:26:54.980 election with big ideas and big policy solutions that can be delivered, starting with an idea that

00:27:00.940 J.D. Vance has been working on to have stay-at-home mothers make a certain stipend from the United

00:27:06.480 States government. I wouldn't be surprised if there's some new ideas to help young people get

00:27:10.720 into the housing market before they're 42 years old, which is way too late. Donald Trump's going

00:27:15.620 to turn this election on its head with big ideas in the last 60 days and all the democrats are

00:27:21.140 still going to have is we don't like the trump we don't like we don't like donald trump we want

00:27:25.140 to impeach him but we do like socialism where where do we go i got a big idea i got a big idea

00:27:32.780 guarantees victory put john solomon up for an hour beforehand and let him go through the task

00:27:37.500 but hey i'm just a voice in the wilderness solomon where do where do we go to get your

00:27:41.840 content brother yeah justinnews.com is the location jay solomon reports the social media

00:27:47.420 handle for all the platforms and i'm lucky enough to follow you every night at six o'clock here on

00:27:52.160 real america's voice with the justinnews no noise television show thanks for all you've done steve

00:27:56.680 to illuminate and uh and help people understand the significance i think tomorrow morning is

00:28:01.820 going to be a big morning next week another big morning good all i got the easiest job in the

00:28:08.220 world. I just put you on every day at 10. As President Trump continues to fight for this

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00:29:08.700 this $2.7 million, $2.7 trillion in American resources that President Trump is creating a

00:29:17.000 massive opportunity. Go check it out today, RickardsWarRoom.com. Iconic places like Mount

00:29:23.060 Rushmore, the M.E. Booker School where Bush was on that day. And how fitting it is that the

00:29:30.140 Steele's last public stop is right here at the White House.

00:29:35.540 I would also take a moment to acknowledge the Tunnel to Towers program recipients in attendance with us today.

00:29:43.100 Our recipients are the heartbeat of our foundation.

00:29:45.920 We are honored to have Smart Home recipients, Gold Star families, and our fallen first responder families join us today.

00:29:53.260 Please join me in giving them a big round of applause.

00:30:00.140 At Tunnel to Towers, we couldn't do the good work we do every day without the American

00:30:09.060 people, the support of the individual, the support of our corporations, our national

00:30:15.060 sponsors and donors who join us today with a promise to do good and to take care of America's

00:30:21.780 heroes and their families who have taken such good care of us.

00:30:26.120 Thank you to all those who made today possible.

00:30:29.440 President Trump, his dedicated staff, United States Secret Service, the support agencies of the White House, his cabinet, the executive branch, and the National Park Service.

00:30:42.280 We thank you so much for all you do for our heroes.

00:30:46.760 And now please join me in welcoming the Tunnel to Towers Foundation Chairman and CEO, Frank Siller.

00:30:55.480 Thank you, Brad.

00:31:15.360 Thank you, everyone, for coming here today.

00:31:17.700 It's a beautiful day.

00:31:20.320 It certainly reminds me of the type of day that I was looking forward to 25 years ago.

00:31:25.480 When my brother Stephen, my brother George, my brother Russ and myself were supposed to play golf 25 years ago,

00:31:32.140 but life changed forever for the Silla family and for so many other families.

00:31:37.980 Now, 25 years ago, on September 11, 2001, our nation experienced the largest terrorist attack on American soil.

00:31:46.600 Across the country, people watched as the World Trade Center crumbled.

00:31:50.480 A flight to Washington, D.C. was hijacked and flown into the Pentagon not far from here.

00:31:57.760 And 40 innocent people perished in a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

00:32:03.120 In total, 2,977 human beings were lost and perished in the hands of hatred.

00:32:10.920 And one of those being my brother, firefighter Stephen Siller.

00:32:14.300 To this day, many are still haunted by the tragedy of 9-11.

00:32:18.140 in the lives of those who are suffering from 9-11 post illnesses

00:32:22.080 and the more than 7,000 military families

00:32:25.540 who have lost loved ones fighting the global war on terror.

00:32:31.200 And families like mine, whose loved ones answered the call

00:32:35.080 as first responders on that fateful day.

00:32:39.820 To understand what Stephen did that day, one has to know who Stephen was.

00:32:44.640 when steven was born he was the youngest of seven of us i was the closest in age i was 14 years

00:32:54.260 older than him my oldest brother russ was 24 years older than god rest for us his soul

00:32:59.100 he was our very gift he was our little miracle our gift from god he became the very core

00:33:05.460 of our family steven's growing up when he's eight and a half years old our dad died

00:33:10.880 and i remember him obviously being terribly upset and he was saying to my mother

00:33:16.140 mom you're going to be okay though right you're going to be okay and of course like any mother

00:33:22.700 she assured us she'll be there but little did she know that a year and a half later that she would

00:33:27.400 die of cancer and at 10 years old stephen was orphaned but he was blessed and he was blessed

00:33:34.720 that he had six older siblings and the six older siblings made a promise to him when he was almost

00:33:44.640 11 years old i spent a day with him it was right after we lost our parents and he questioned his

00:33:50.420 very existence he said he said to me frankie why did mommy and daddy have to die i wish i was never

00:33:58.820 born i said stephen don't say that mommy daddy loved you so much they brought you into this

00:34:05.720 world and your brothers and sisters we will always be there for you and we will never let you down

00:34:11.060 and i don't know why mommy and daddy had to die but i know god put you on this earth for a reason

00:34:18.040 and one day you would do something very special well i think he did something very special he

00:34:24.000 grew up. He came, lived with me when he was 18 years old, got reacquainted with the little girl

00:34:30.160 he used to walk to school with every single day when he was eight, nine years old. They fall in

00:34:38.580 love. They get married. They have their first kid. They have their second kid. They have a house. He

00:34:45.520 becomes a firefighter. They have their third kid, their fourth kid, their fifth kid. He's on top of

00:34:50.640 the world. He has everything he ever wanted. He's married. The love of his life, five beautiful

00:34:59.100 children, the love of his siblings and nephews and nieces, the brotherhood, the brotherhood

00:35:06.100 of the fire department meant the world to him. He was on top of the world. He had everything

00:35:13.700 he ever wanted he was the happiest he ever was in his life and he works his night shift

00:35:21.200 on september 10th on september 11th on the way home to play golf with us he had a call to duty

00:35:30.960 just like so many out here would have a call to duty in one second like that you would put

00:35:37.180 your life on the line he went back to his firehouse he got his gear

00:35:41.660 he drove to the mouth of the brooklyn battery tunnel it was closed for security reasons he

00:35:49.500 strapped 60 pounds of gear on his back and he ran through that tunnel which is almost two miles long

00:35:55.760 he came out went up west street grabs a hook off a fire truck and they say silla put that back he

00:36:01.860 laughs he runs with it he was on a mission he goes into south tower he's running up those stairs

00:36:08.660 and like so many heroes that day while saving others he gave up his life at 9 59 a.m i was

00:36:20.040 sitting in my living room with my mother-in-law and i turned to her when the south tower fell

00:36:24.860 down and I said, Nancy, I think I just lost my brother. I went to so many different firehouses

00:36:31.860 trying to find out where was Stephen, where was Stephen. I was calling, where was Stephen. Finally,

00:36:36.780 we brought my whole family together at my house. And in the afternoon, I got a call from Richie

00:36:41.860 Obermeyer, a firefighter that lived a few doors for my brother, Stephen. He said to me, Frank,

00:36:48.420 it's really, he's down at ground zero. He says, Frank, Stephen's on a list of missing firefighters

00:36:52.380 and it's really bad down here says yes i know rich we're all looking we're in my living room

00:36:57.360 we're all looking and he goes no it's really bad down here says rich i could see he goes no frank

00:37:01.800 you don't understand nobody's coming home i had to go in and tell my siblings that that little boy

00:37:11.880 that little boy who lost his father at eight and a half his mother at 10 is now his kids his five

00:37:20.500 kids their father is gone our brother is gone we fell to our knees overcome with emotion but then

00:37:32.500 we got up we went over to my sister-in-law's house and made a vow that we will never forget

00:37:39.760 and always be there for her. We decided to do good in Stephen's name. I want to quote the book

00:37:51.440 so Corinthians would explain what we felt like. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed,

00:37:57.880 perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not abandoned, struck down, but not destroyed.

00:38:04.400 This steel beam represents the best of our country, 21 feet and length, 17,000 pounds.

00:38:13.260 It is how we honor the sacrifice that was made.

00:38:17.680 It's important to recognize that the heroism that was exhibited that fateful day was nothing short of incredible.

00:38:24.840 As we reflect on 25 years that have passed since September 11, 2001, we must remember the extraordinary sacrifices made by everyday and ordinary people, and in doing so, became heroes.

00:38:41.820 We must remember Wells Crowther, the man in the red bandana who saved countless lives that day, and you will hear more about that later.

00:38:51.720 we must remember captain billy burke captain billy burke was on the 27th floor of the north tower

00:38:58.500 the south tower had already fell he was with his company he ordered his company out he stayed with

00:39:04.520 somebody who was an invalid and could not get down in a wheelchair he knew that building was going to

00:39:10.900 collapse he stayed there he gave up his life to comfort somebody in their final moments who does

00:39:19.220 that who does that so many did that day remember todd beamer in flight 93

00:39:28.200 when they took when we went to i see steve clark clark here was superintendent

00:39:36.600 of shanksville pennsylvania memorial

00:39:39.120 and when that plane was flying and they knew they were in the plane

00:39:44.500 I don't know if any has ever been to the memorial down at 9-11. If you go, listen to the recordings

00:39:53.080 on Flight 93. Listen to them. They knew they were going to die. And they made a choice.

00:40:01.840 And their choice was, we're going to take this plane back over. We're not going to let them

00:40:06.420 fly it into maybe the Capitol or the White House. For sure, they wanted to kill as many people as

00:40:14.240 possible and they took that plane over and they fought and they got in the cockpit

00:40:18.520 and they were fighting with the terrorists and the plane turned over over a schoolyard

00:40:26.120 missed the schoolyard and landed in a field in shanksville pennsylvania that's what that

00:40:32.940 still represents it represents those 40 heroes it represents the 2,977 lives that died

00:40:42.060 it represents oriel palmer who made it up to the 78th floor battalion chief 78th floor the impact

00:40:49.300 zone of the south tower where the plane flew in the south tower 78th floor he went up there

00:40:55.780 he radios down he says there's civilians alive here of course he says there's those that have

00:41:00.340 perished already i need two companies he's talking on the phone he's talking on the phone to his

00:41:07.360 brothers to come up. And as he's talking, the building collapse as he's speaking. The South

00:41:15.060 Tower comes down. Could you imagine his wife listening to that? She says it herself in those

00:41:20.300 recordings. I want to say, Oriel, get out, get out. The sacrifice is incredible.

00:41:29.800 this deal has the soul of not just my brother but of so many others every day we give every

00:41:39.440 ounce of our energy to ensure that those who lost their lives on 9-11 are not forgotten

00:41:46.720 the men and women who have lost their lives fighting for freedom every day since and those

00:41:52.480 who suffered from 9-11 related illness are going to be immortalized for what we do it's our

00:41:58.760 responsibility to ensure that their names are never forgotten and that their memories live on

00:42:04.320 through the work that we do. We remember those who were on the pile every single day, searching for

00:42:10.860 my brother, searching for their brothers. The heroes who worked at Ground Zero for so long,

00:42:15.940 who witnessed their rescue mission evolve into a recovery mission, are suffering still.

00:42:22.480 They developed illnesses related to exposure to toxins, just like so many of our military have,

00:42:27.500 which continues to affect thousands of people every day. These brave men and women willingly

00:42:34.660 ran towards the fire, crawled through bent steel and rubble, and fought for our freedoms overseas.

00:42:43.400 And for that, we will make sure that their legacies are never forgotten. The Book of James

00:42:50.420 says and tells us, faith without works is dead. We should pray. We should all pray. Pray for the

00:42:58.540 lives of these heroes. Pray for their families. Pray for this country. But prayer is good,

00:43:05.180 but it's better when we put that prayer to action. Through the guidance of the prayer of

00:43:12.820 St. Francis of Assisi when he knelt before his crucifix and said, most high glorious God,

00:43:21.180 enlighten the darkness of my heart. Give me right faith, sure hope, and perfect charity.

00:43:28.080 Fill me with the understanding and knowledge that I may fulfill your command. This is what we are

00:43:36.840 doing at the Tunnel to Towers Foundation. We are fulfilling his command to take care of all these

00:43:44.200 families that die for us every single day or give their bodies for us every single day.

00:43:52.300 I'll close with this. Most everybody has seen the movie Saving Private Ryan.

00:44:00.940 him and at the end of the movie after they lose people saving him and captain miller is dying

00:44:08.380 he pulls private ryan in and what does he say

00:44:14.140 earn this earn this well i'd challenge everybody out there but most certainly myself

00:44:23.280 we have to earn the sacrifice that those who died on flight 93 the 7 000 men and women who have given

00:44:32.520 their lives ever since for those who died in the pentagon for those who died at ground zero we have

00:44:39.620 to die we have to earn their sacrifice we can't go a long life like nothing happens like this

00:44:47.940 We have to earn this. You know why? Because freedom isn't free. And all those families know

00:44:56.340 that. All those families have paid a big price for your freedom, for my freedom. And we have to

00:45:04.080 earn the life that they gave us. St. Francis of Assisi said, brothers and sisters, while we have

00:45:12.780 time, let us do good. And I will say what we are doing is good. It is our responsibility.

00:45:22.800 It is our honor. And it is our promise that we will never forget. God bless you.

00:45:31.360 And God bless America. And thank you, President Trump, for having us here.

00:45:37.580 Thank you.

00:45:42.780 okay um let's keep it right there let's have the music they're going to put the presidential seal

00:45:58.440 momentarily on the podium and that means we're just a few minutes away from the president of

00:46:04.500 the united states coming there we go right there um there will be an introduction brad blakeman

00:46:10.820 who i believe was a staff member at the white house in the bush administration uh brad is

00:46:17.100 going to introduce the president that'll be momentarily the white house staff i'm told by

00:46:21.300 neil mccabe has uh has taken their seats so we're just moments away from the uh president uh do i

00:46:27.720 have neil or um very frank uh siller the chairman of tunnels the tower very moving very moving about

00:46:36.340 his uh about his uh his brother one of the firemen that came uh so many that off duty that

00:46:43.840 day but came back and when he saw the the tunnel itself was blocked took his gear out of his car

00:46:51.100 and then ran through that two miles if you've ever been through the brooklyn tunnel you know it's a

00:46:55.180 it's a slog took it and then went to uh the south tower and was um and was one of the firemen one

00:47:02.740 the heroes the responders that went up trying to save people when it collapsed here we go

00:47:09.220 right here let's go back to the podium and we asked the president if we'll be able to do this

00:47:13.280 here and the meaning of it and it was so important in two minutes he said yes so i can't uh thank you

00:47:19.760 enough mr president also we have a special gift for you we have a piece uh an american flag here

00:47:26.580 And in that flag, it has 9-11 steel in it from the South Tower.

00:47:32.520 And we're going to give this to the president when he comes up.

00:47:36.880 So, ladies and gentlemen, the 45th and 47th president of the United States, Donald J. Trump.

00:47:44.760 Thank you. God bless you.

00:47:56.580 Thank you.

00:48:26.580 Well, thank you very much.

00:48:50.940 It's a great honor.

00:48:51.760 Frank has been something very special.

00:48:55.140 you know he's very persistent when he wants something he gets it and i figured i shouldn't

00:49:00.660 wait i should just approve it all immediately because it's much easier that way but he's done

00:49:06.960 some job and i want to thank you all for being here in the heart of our nation's capital which

00:49:12.920 is right now one of the safest cities anywhere in the country it was one of the most unsafe

00:49:17.960 cities in the country just almost two years ago. We've cleaned it up in a lot of ways,

00:49:25.380 including crime, but we've also cleaned it physically. It looks so beautiful now.

00:49:30.040 We did 81 monuments, statues, and fountains. All they're back in shape. Some of them haven't

00:49:37.060 worked in 45 years. But the nation's capital, it marks 25 years since a day that was etched

00:49:45.060 forever into the memories of Americans. On 9-11, nearly 3,000 precious souls were stolen from us,

00:49:52.700 killed by evil terrorists at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and on Flight 93.

00:50:00.860 All of these years later, we gather on another Tuesday morning in September to reaffirm the

00:50:06.460 sacred vow we made a quarter of a century ago. We will never forget, we say it and we mean it,

00:50:14.160 We will never forget those we lost.

00:50:17.440 And we will never forget the immortal heroes of September 11th, 2001.

00:50:24.480 And I will tell you, we're right now fighting because we have a certain nation that wanted a nuclear weapon.

00:50:35.060 They were very close to getting it.

00:50:37.080 And now they have no chance at getting it.

00:50:39.400 They will never have a nuclear weapon.

00:50:42.200 and Iran will not have a nuclear weapon.

00:50:52.380 And they've been punished greatly.

00:50:54.720 As you know, we've really taken it to them.

00:50:58.480 I want to compliment our military.

00:51:00.120 The job they do is unbelievable.

00:51:02.260 The blockade has been so powerful, so effective.

00:51:06.960 Nobody thought it could go so well.

00:51:09.800 I want to just thank our military.

00:51:11.420 I want to also thank the man who I just said hello,

00:51:15.700 who introduced me. He's a special guy.

00:51:17.420 He really is, who's done so much to help the families

00:51:20.420 of 9-11, first responders, and our great veterans.

00:51:24.400 And that's Frank Seller. He really is.

00:51:25.960 He's a fantastic man, and he's a great friend.

00:51:32.000 Now, we all know the story of his wonderful brother, Steven.

00:51:36.680 And we know it well, how brave he was going into the center,

00:51:40.320 probably knowing that it was coming down.

00:51:44.260 He didn't care. It was an amazing act of bravery.

00:51:46.860 I also want to recognize Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick,

00:51:50.800 who lost his brother and 658 employees.

00:51:56.060 He was the head of Cantor Fitzgerald,

00:51:58.080 one of the most successful firms on Wall Street.

00:52:00.200 They were the top three floors of the World Trade Center.

00:52:03.440 It's an amazing story.

00:52:04.820 You know, Howard was always there at 6 o'clock in the morning,

00:52:09.180 always, without fail, because in that business,

00:52:11.400 you get there nice and early, the financial business.

00:52:13.560 He was one of the biggest anywhere in the world at finance.

00:52:18.180 Cantor Fitzgerald was one of the hottest firms,

00:52:20.500 and for years, he'd be there at six in the morning,

00:52:23.560 but he had a child, and his wife would always be screaming at him,

00:52:27.760 you never have taken our child to school.

00:52:30.520 You've got to take, someday, you've got to take,

00:52:32.660 and this went on for years.

00:52:34.860 After four years, he said, all right, I'll take him to school.

00:52:38.660 I'm going to bring him to school myself.

00:52:41.160 He wasn't so happy about it.

00:52:43.300 He brought that beautiful boy, who's now a grown person,

00:52:46.740 brought him to school.

00:52:47.800 And he arrived at the school at 8.30,

00:52:51.640 and he was on the West Side Highway at 8.45.

00:52:55.540 And he watched that whole thing.

00:52:58.020 This was the first time in years

00:52:59.780 that he wasn't there early in the morning.

00:53:02.420 So you could say he owes a lot to his son

00:53:05.380 and he owes a lot to his wife.

00:53:07.480 But he brought his son to school, and because of that,

00:53:11.020 he got to see it from the West Side Highway.

00:53:14.360 He saw the planes go into the towers, and he said,

00:53:16.760 oh, my God, my people, my people.

00:53:19.920 And he's done an amazing job.

00:53:21.360 He's rebuilt Camp to Fitzgerald,

00:53:23.760 and he's given much of the profit to some of the families

00:53:27.300 or the families of the people who perished.

00:53:31.340 They all died. 658 employees.

00:53:33.800 He started the firm all over again.

00:53:35.840 So Howard's here someplace, I think. Howard, it's,

00:53:42.300 where are you, Howard? You deserve to stand up, Howard.

00:53:50.080 He's got some faults, but overall, he's excellent.

00:53:54.260 He's a great guy. I know he went through a lot, didn't he?

00:53:56.840 He had to build. Who could do that?

00:53:58.720 And now the firm is bigger, stronger,

00:54:00.460 better than it was even at the beginning.

00:54:02.420 The job he did, he's Secretary of Commerce.

00:54:04.840 He's been fantastic.

00:54:06.940 Thanks as well to Attorney General Todd Blanche,

00:54:09.640 who's doing a phenomenal job, wherever you may be.

00:54:12.280 Hi, Todd.

00:54:13.660 And Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Doug Collins,

00:54:16.880 92 percent approval.

00:54:18.800 You have a 92 percent approval rating, Doug.

00:54:21.780 Stand up, you two guys.

00:54:23.880 I want to make sure that Todd gets a 95 percent approval.

00:54:27.960 Maybe 100. How about 100 percent?

00:54:31.160 Secretary of Homeland Security, Mark Wayne Mullen,

00:54:33.900 who's really taken over and done a job that's been great thank you very much mark one of our

00:54:41.580 real superstars epa administrator lee zelden he gets it approved and he gets it approved

00:54:47.220 they like you lee done great an mvp a omb director russ vaught who is watching the costs and he's

00:54:58.660 watching them better than anybody knows he knows more about that than anybody along with

00:55:03.140 Representatives Mike Lawler.

00:55:05.340 They call him Mr. Salt.

00:55:07.140 Mike Lawler said, stand up, Mike.

00:55:09.940 Dan Muser.

00:55:11.420 And we have other congressmen and senators.

00:55:13.460 I just want to thank you all for being here.

00:55:15.260 Too many to mention, but thank you.

00:55:17.560 These two guys have been very special.

00:55:20.260 In the course of history, there are a few moments

00:55:22.320 that divide time into really what came before.

00:55:27.660 When you look at what took place that day,

00:55:31.200 Nobody will ever even think of such a thing

00:55:36.240 being able to happen again,

00:55:37.380 and we're going to do everything in our power

00:55:38.940 to make sure it doesn't.

00:55:40.500 That was a day like no other.

00:55:44.220 September 11th was one of those moments in time

00:55:48.180 where you always, everybody knows exactly where they were.

00:55:50.620 I know exactly where I was.

00:55:51.960 I was watching and looking,

00:55:54.520 and it was a beautiful, beautiful morning.

00:55:58.320 And I looked out, and then all of a sudden,

00:56:00.320 I saw an alert on television.

00:56:02.520 I looked out my window, and I saw things

00:56:04.400 that I never want to see again.

00:56:05.660 We're never going to see them again.

00:56:07.960 But in just over 100 minutes,

00:56:09.800 175,000 tons of steel and concrete were reduced to ruin,

00:56:14.860 and 3,000 lives were extinguished,

00:56:17.300 immediately extinguished.

00:56:19.500 The world we knew and the nation that we loved

00:56:22.280 had changed. I said it to myself.

00:56:25.580 And I looked, and I said,

00:56:27.280 wow, the world has changed forever.

00:56:30.520 So many things have changed because of that day.

00:56:32.820 Yet, this battered piece of steel here today on the ellipse

00:56:37.100 is a reminder that America is blessed with a strength

00:56:40.020 no fire can consume, no evil can conquer,

00:56:43.200 and no terror can destroy.

00:56:45.700 For three months after September 11th,

00:56:47.700 the flames raged in the rubble of Ground Zero.

00:56:51.580 For nine months, rescue and recovery crews

00:56:54.000 worked day and night on the site.

00:56:57.280 I want to just thank my people.

00:56:58.940 I took a lot of my, I was building a big building in New York

00:57:02.600 and I took the whole crew down there right after this happened.

00:57:05.840 And they were, they had no hesitation.

00:57:08.620 Everybody went down with me.

00:57:09.980 We went down as a big group of people.

00:57:12.320 Wasn't too much we could do.

00:57:13.640 I'll be honest.

00:57:14.220 It was, it was raw.

00:57:16.240 Nobody's seen anything like it ever.

00:57:18.940 We had other buildings.

00:57:20.240 The United States Steel Building was creaking, really creaking.

00:57:23.940 And we thought it was going to fall down.

00:57:25.680 The truth is it creaked a lot.

00:57:27.100 it creaked. There's still creaks. But it never came down. And I'll never forget two firemen.

00:57:36.020 We thought it was coming down on top of us and two firemen, big, strong guys. And I'm not the

00:57:41.020 smallest guy in the world. They grabbed me under the arm and said, got to get out of here. And

00:57:45.760 they literally lifted me up. This is not easy to do. I'm big. They lifted me up and they started

00:57:52.800 running with me i said fellas i can run myself but they were amazing but they thought it was

00:57:58.060 coming down it didn't come down u.s steel the 16 000 pound beam lifted from the records of the

00:58:05.180 south tower will forever testify to the courage and resilience and spirit of a city and a nation

00:58:11.820 that saw our homeland struck our towers knocked down and stood back up stronger more determined

00:58:18.040 and more united than ever before and i'll tell you i have to give new york a whole lot of praise

00:58:24.540 because they started that you call it demolition the demolition had taken place but you call it

00:58:30.740 demolition they had the best demolition contractors anywhere in the world i know all of them

00:58:35.440 from being in the business and i've never seen such an unbelievable mass of steel and unfortunately

00:58:42.680 bodies and everything you can imagine. The job they did on cleaning up the site, they wanted to

00:58:49.660 do it fast. They wanted to get it done. And I don't think there's any other place in the world

00:58:55.700 that could have done the job that was done by the people, the construction workers, demolition

00:59:00.360 experts, the police, the military. Nobody could have done the job that was done on getting it

00:59:07.160 started. And the first thing to get it started, they had to clean it up. And this was a, it looked

00:59:12.140 like it was a mile high.

00:59:14.480 The rubble looked like it was a mile high.

00:59:17.620 That's a piece of it.

00:59:19.440 When we see this deal, we're reminded

00:59:21.220 that no matter what threat or challenge comes our way,

00:59:24.520 America will fight, America will endure,

00:59:26.720 and America will prevail.

00:59:28.900 And nothing can keep our country down

00:59:31.320 and our country stronger today than it's ever been before.

00:59:34.960 We have the highest stock market that we've ever had.

00:59:37.300 We have the most people working that we've ever had.

00:59:39.500 We've never had employment like it is right now.

00:59:42.260 We have the most people working today that we ever had.

00:59:45.440 And when you looked at something like it took place

00:59:47.800 on September 11th, you'd say,

00:59:50.020 I wonder if we could ever get back to a level of greatness.

00:59:53.420 Well, we've done it.

00:59:55.220 For the past few months, Tunnels to Towers

00:59:57.420 has taken the steel across the nation

00:59:59.360 to remind Americans of what we overcame that day

01:00:02.860 and what our heroes did.

01:00:05.420 And on September 11th, 23 members

01:00:07.760 of the New York Police Department,

01:00:09.260 37 members of the Port Authority Police,

01:00:12.160 three court officers, and 343 members

01:00:16.000 of the New York Fire Department made the ultimate sacrifice.

01:00:20.280 And they knew what they were getting into.

01:00:22.640 They saw it. They knew what was going to happen.

01:00:25.000 They were running up those stairs,

01:00:26.380 and they knew what was going to happen.

01:00:28.880 There wasn't one of them that thought otherwise.

01:00:31.420 The bravery is really incredible.

01:00:35.180 But their photos are all around us today

01:00:38.180 of these incredible people, men and women,

01:00:41.260 but just incredible, brave people.

01:00:43.880 You never know about bravery until you really test it.

01:00:46.460 You don't know.

01:00:48.400 We're deeply honored to be joined this morning

01:00:50.260 by more than 150 first responders from New York,

01:00:54.400 along with dozens more from Washington, D.C.,

01:00:57.340 Arlington, and Pennsylvania,

01:00:59.740 who carry on the mission of their fallen comrades.

01:01:02.700 I've been to all three.

01:01:03.980 I speak to all three on every we pick one or sometimes two and we speak on that very special day

01:01:12.240 and we're also joined by more than 200 proud members of the United States military who were

01:01:18.380 there and some were not there and some are here just because they want to honor the people that

01:01:22.600 were would would you all stand up please everybody please stand up that's great anybody that was

01:01:31.420 there great thank you very much thank you very much but these are the men and women who lifted our

01:01:41.020 country from the rubble every day they go to work knowing that they might not come home think of it

01:01:47.500 for 25 years since 9 11 and they've kept us safe and free and we thank you and we salute you our

01:01:54.620 law enforcement is so incredible our law enforcement holds our country together in light of

01:02:00.140 some threats. We have some very real threats right now. We have people that want to go a different

01:02:04.860 way. They want to go a communistic way. Well, that's not going to work. Number one, we're not

01:02:09.560 going to let it happen, but that's not going to work. One New York firefighter at ground zero was

01:02:15.020 Jeffrey Palazzo, a member of the elite rescue squad five from Staten Island, a place I love

01:02:21.180 Staten Island, and a U.S. Coast Guard reservist. Before September 11th, he had already saved many

01:02:29.520 lives. That day, he had 10 other members of the Rescue Squad. That's what he did. He rescued

01:02:35.780 people. And he was a legend before September 11th. But him and the other members of Rescue Squad 5

01:02:44.600 died at the World Trade Center while fighting to rescue fellow New Yorkers. And today,

01:02:50.240 I'm proud to announce that this weekend in New York, the Coast Guard will commission a brand

01:02:56.520 new beautiful i bought it myself i've negotiated the price it was very expensive i didn't want to

01:03:03.000 negotiate too hard in honor of him but uh brand new coast guard will they're going to commission a

01:03:10.600 beautiful brand new fast it's called fast response cutter the most uh incredible kind of ship you'll

01:03:18.280 ever see it can go through anything they go out into waves that are five times bigger than it

01:03:23.400 and they come back.

01:03:25.560 I don't know how they do it, but they come back.

01:03:28.240 But this is the U.S. Coast Guard cutter, Jeffrey Palazzo.

01:03:33.220 So we honor him with this very important tribute to me.

01:03:37.640 Very important.

01:03:38.320 Where is the family?

01:03:39.280 The family?

01:03:40.780 The Palazzo family is here.

01:03:45.380 Thank you.

01:03:47.100 Thank you very much.

01:03:49.100 Incredible.

01:03:49.780 Today, we also remember another hero of 9-11.

01:03:54.620 After the plane hit the South Tower, a group of people on the 78th floor were trapped with

01:04:00.420 broken bones, charred skin, and eyes and lungs filled with black smoke.

01:04:05.800 Death was all about them.

01:04:07.220 It was certain.

01:04:08.160 They were sure they were going to die.

01:04:10.360 Then suddenly, a rescuer appeared.

01:04:12.800 They call him the man in the red bandana.

01:04:16.340 Have you heard that term?

01:04:17.320 The man in the red bandana has become more famous than me.

01:04:20.160 I don't like it.

01:04:22.500 Very unhappy, but he's become much more famous than me.

01:04:26.760 No, he's the man in the red bandana.

01:04:28.660 He had found the only stairwell that barely survived.

01:04:33.000 The stairwells were all knocked down.

01:04:35.800 You couldn't get by impassable.

01:04:38.500 He found an opening in one of the stairwells.

01:04:41.680 And the impact was so great, there was no other way down.

01:04:45.540 but this one little opening, this one little hole,

01:04:48.840 and traveled down from the 104th floor

01:04:51.080 to look for those trapped and dying.

01:04:54.400 When he heard cries for help on the 78th floor,

01:04:57.600 he began extinguishing the fires, blocking the exit,

01:05:01.460 directing survivors who could walk,

01:05:03.960 of which there weren't that many.

01:05:05.420 He helped some out physically.

01:05:07.160 They literally pulled them out

01:05:08.860 toward the only working stairwell

01:05:11.160 and carried those who couldn't walk.

01:05:13.020 and he just did things that people said were not even imaginable because they knew they were dead.

01:05:19.660 They said, we're goners. One guy was screaming, we're goners, we're goners. He didn't know that

01:05:25.780 those he helped and nor who would have known, but he willingly made all of these trips up and down,

01:05:33.840 up and down, up and down, over and over again, saving life after life. That rescuer was a 24-year-old

01:05:41.280 equities trader and volunteer firefighter from Rockland County named Wells Crowther and Wells's

01:05:49.420 father also a firefighter great firefighter had given him that bandana is a very special

01:05:55.520 tribute when he was a boy probably knew something about his son when asked why he always kept it

01:06:03.060 Wells replied with this red bandana I'm going to change the world I'm going to change the world

01:06:09.320 with this bandana. Little did he know, on September 11th, Wells saved many, many people

01:06:15.440 before losing his own life in the South Tower lobby when the building came down. He was in the

01:06:21.900 lobby, and that building came down thousands of tons of steel. Today, in honor of his incredible

01:06:29.660 bravery and all of the other countless unknown acts of heroism that day, it is my privilege to

01:06:35.680 award the very special, the highest honor that we give, highest civilian honor, the Presidential

01:06:43.760 Medal of Freedom. We want to award that to Wells and Wells' family. Wells is up there looking down

01:06:53.500 at his mom and his sister's family. So I would ask his mother, Allison, and sister, Paige.

01:07:00.280 Paige and Allison came up.

01:07:03.520 We will present them with not only the medal,

01:07:06.540 but we'll also present them with a very important designation.

01:07:10.620 Very, very important.

01:07:12.520 Please.

01:07:30.280 Thank you.

01:08:00.280 Thank you.

01:08:30.280 Thank you so very much, Mr. President, for this enormous honor that you've bestowed upon my son,

01:08:39.860 Wells, in remembrance of his selfless actions on September 11th. This means the world to me,

01:08:46.200 my daughter's page, and honor, and our entire family. This will be treasured for generations

01:08:51.380 to come. Over the years, we have been blessed by the love and support of family and friends,

01:08:57.320 many of whom are with us this morning. I would also like to thank Rachel Ducci,

01:09:04.060 whose concept it was to prepare a proposal to bring to the president for this honor,

01:09:11.400 and for Congressman Mike Lawler, who did so much to keep the energy going and bring it to the

01:09:18.400 attention of the president. Really, thank you. Walking into this site and seeing all the faces

01:09:29.580 of the firefighters lost is really just so powerful and moving. The work that the Siller

01:09:38.400 Institute does through Tunnel to Towers is so important to keep knowledge going of what

01:09:45.480 happened on september 11th so we really we salute you frank and your organization for this great

01:09:51.360 work um wells is that wells's light still shines brilliantly today even after 25 years is testament

01:09:59.760 to his legacy of courage compassion and love for humanity that continues to inspire and uplift

01:10:06.880 others wells however would not have been able to do what he did as effectively on 9-11 if it had

01:10:13.700 not been for the training and experience he gained as a member of Empire Hook and Ladder

01:10:18.240 Company No. 1 of Upper Nyack. Empire is a volunteer company, and the members are fully

01:10:24.320 trained firefighters. They have other jobs and responsibilities, businesses to run, and

01:10:30.920 their own families. But when the alarm goes off at any time, day or night, they respond

01:10:36.100 to the call to save life and property. This is a calling, and Wells, following in the footsteps of

01:10:44.120 his father, Jefferson, joined Empire at the age of 16. He was no longer an equities trader on 9-11.

01:10:52.200 He was a firefighter. Members of Empire Hook and Ladder Company have joined us today, and I would

01:10:57.620 like to recognize and thank them. If you would please stand where you are. There they are.

01:11:02.220 Wonderful. Thank you, gentlemen. Such a support. My family has grown over the years, not only my

01:11:13.520 own family, but the family of friends. Wells grew up with Boston College friends and the

01:11:20.000 fire department. We're all like one big family, and it's such a beautiful thing.

01:11:25.380 Wells continued his spiritual growth in service at Boston College, whose motto is men and women

01:11:30.400 for others. In the months that followed 9-11, we established the Wells Remy Crowther Charitable Trust

01:11:36.220 and continue with our work today, both charitable and educational.

01:11:42.160 Over 10 years working with a team of distinguished educators led by Vernoy Paolini,

01:11:47.620 the Red Bandana Project was created. Social and emotional learning lessons on leadership,

01:11:53.520 Caring for Others, Team, The Power of One, Bridging Divides, Forgiveness, and Carpe Diem were the

01:12:01.580 subjects for elementary through high school students. This year, the Red Bandana Project

01:12:07.320 has been updated and digitized by Dr. Kevin Holbrook, who is here today as well. Thank you,

01:12:13.360 Dr. Holbrook. These lessons are available for downloading free of charge on our website,

01:12:22.440 wellscrowthertrust.org. As I travel around the United States speaking at schools, I see firsthand

01:12:29.620 how young people are impacted and inspired by Wells, his example and legacy, to be better,

01:12:36.880 kinder, and more caring of others. 25 years after September 11th, his life continues to remind us

01:12:43.720 of something very simple. In moments when others need us, each of us has the power to choose

01:12:49.860 courage compassion and service that's the real meaning of the red bandana to be courageous to

01:12:59.140 find the good to be the good again thank you mr president we are profoundly grateful for your

01:13:05.780 very special honor of Wells thank you very much so a while ago years

01:13:35.780 I promised mom and sister that Wells was going to get the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

01:13:45.220 And we didn't forget. So we didn't forget. We never forget. So it's good. And really deserves it.

01:13:52.420 Again, this has been an honor to be involved with Frank and the whole group that does such

01:13:56.740 an incredible job of helping so many people. And it's very special. On the ellipse, very few things

01:14:02.660 Things are allowed to be touched.

01:14:04.000 I don't know if you know, this is very important soil.

01:14:06.860 They don't allow things like this to happen

01:14:09.200 except for very special events.

01:14:10.700 And this is a, to me, this is a very special event, Frank.

01:14:14.640 And the job you've done is great.

01:14:16.940 The job your people have done is amazing.

01:14:18.780 And even the proficiency, they were saying

01:14:21.940 how well everything was run, and it has been.

01:14:24.380 And you even worked out great weather.

01:14:26.380 I think Wells gave us the weather, right?

01:14:28.120 Wells is looking down, he gave us the weather.

01:14:30.820 So I just want to end by saying God bless you.

01:14:32.980 Our country is bigger, better, stronger than ever before.

01:14:37.460 We have a great country. We're going to keep it that way.

01:14:40.360 And we appreciate it. It's my honor to be with you.

01:14:43.560 And we'll see you again soon. Congratulations.

01:14:46.600 Thank you very much, everybody.

01:15:00.820 Thank you.

01:15:30.820 Thank you.

01:16:00.820 OK, President Trump kicking off a historic week, the 25th anniversary commemoration of the terrorist attack.

01:16:08.640 We're going to go right to Neil McCabe live from the ellipse.

01:16:11.300 Also, we got the convention. We have the first anniversary of Charlie Kirk's assassination, the commemoration of that,

01:16:17.620 then to New York City on Friday for the commemoration of the 25th.

01:16:24.420 Huge conference out in Las Vegas. This is going to be a very packed and well week.

01:16:29.160 Let's go to Neil McCabe. Neil, very moving. And I think it works out well to kind of frame the entire week and to start off.

01:16:37.600 I mean, Frank Siller was amazing talking to the chairman of Tunnels and Towers, talking about his talking about his brother, but teed it up perfectly for the president.

01:16:48.180 Walk me through your your thoughts on the president's remarks.

01:16:51.460 i think we really saw today was uh president trump and his statesman persona this was really

01:17:02.280 had all of the feeling and the mood of a state event he came out to hail to the chief he left

01:17:08.920 with stars and stripes forever so this was not this was not a campaign rally it was barely any

01:17:16.600 politics, maybe some incidental remarks about DC crime, but he was amazingly focused on that day

01:17:22.700 because it obviously had personal, personal effect on him. He talked about how he saw it on TV and

01:17:31.200 how the first strike and that in a hundred minutes, right, the whole world had changed.

01:17:38.140 And, you know, he said that he came down with a crew himself to ground zero. So, you know,

01:17:43.520 his construction, obviously he was a real estate developer in construction. He came down with his

01:17:47.700 guys to help out at ground zero and there was nothing to be done. And it, and it's just that,

01:17:53.460 that strange thing. I mean, personally, I was in the army reserve at that time. I knew people in

01:17:58.840 the army reserve who responded. I knew an officer who lined up 2000 ambulances from every, every

01:18:05.940 ambulance from every hospital and the tri-state area. And this captain lined them all up. And then

01:18:12.500 And he looked at me and said, and Sergeant, none of them were needed because there was no one to be treated.

01:18:18.460 It was like the craziest thing.

01:18:20.500 And everybody's got everyone has stories like that.

01:18:23.660 And it's interesting, too, how the president, he talks about he talks about people and he talks about buildings.

01:18:29.920 And he has a very strong touch for people.

01:18:33.240 He awarded the Medal of Honor to to Wells Grother, who is, you know, the man in the red bandana.

01:18:40.180 He talked about the Coast Guard cutter being named for Vincent Dance, who is one of the rescue leading or special rescue team on 9-11 who never came out.

01:18:51.740 You know, when he talked about that, very it's very personal.

01:18:54.280 We talked about being near the U.S. Steel Building and he could feel the building start to creak.

01:19:00.680 And he said some firefighters actually picked him up and took him away.

01:19:05.120 But the way he talks about buildings is the way he talks about, you know, some people talk about ships and he's got that feel for it.

01:19:12.760 And, you know, it's just, you know, it's just amazing.

01:19:15.600 You know, he talked about the beam being so very, very important.

01:19:19.300 He talked about his love for for solar.

01:19:22.520 I mean, the guy is actually he's such a New Yorker.

01:19:25.440 And like I said before, you know, this little patch of Washington, D.C. has been taken over by New York City.

01:19:33.220 And it's and it's great.

01:19:35.120 It's great for my Boston ears.

01:19:37.240 Picking up all that New York accent is kind of fun too, Steve.

01:19:44.200 I think it just worked out that it was absolutely perfect today to start the week.

01:19:48.540 People are back from Labor Day.

01:19:50.900 I know we're very thankful to start the week and do this commemoration of 9-11 because I do think it's not as in sharp focus as it has been.

01:20:00.400 And then Rudy gave very necessary remarks over the weekend about Mandami.

01:20:05.120 hosting this i know i don't think the president's going up to new york i think he's going to go to

01:20:09.020 the pentagon after he gets back from the uh the convention but i thought it was great today kick

01:20:13.580 off and you're right you told new yorker i put up on getter uh somebody had posted over the weekend

01:20:18.860 president trump's at the time citizen trump just donald trump the builder going down to

01:20:23.420 9-11 i think the day after after he had sent a couple hundred of his guys down there to help

01:20:28.060 and you just see right there right in the moment what a patriot he was neil we're going to play a

01:20:33.900 very special song here in a moment can you give me your uh give me your closing thoughts i am

01:20:38.060 gonna ask you to stick around we got ed martin here dan schultz but i want to come back to you

01:20:42.300 in a moment give me your closing thoughts on this we got a very special uh commemoration

01:20:47.000 of some music that i want to play uh any closing thoughts now

01:20:50.440 you know it's hard for me personally because uh you know you want to say something conceptual

01:20:58.660 or patriotic or abstract. But it was extremely personal for me. Guys from my unit were killed.

01:21:06.820 I was actually in New York City that day. And for me, it's still a very personal event.

01:21:12.920 And you wonder if it was, you know, when you're in the middle of it, you wonder,

01:21:16.840 is this something that will, you know, will people remember it? Will it be significant?

01:21:21.160 Or will it just go away like so many other events? And I'm just so thrilled that 25 years later,

01:21:26.960 the president of the United States, held this event here, and to actually see the steel beam

01:21:32.620 myself. And just God love all of the people who responded and all the people we lost, Steve.

01:21:41.060 Neil, I'm going to ask you to stick around. We've also got

01:21:43.740 the Eagle. Ed Martin is going to join us momentarily, and Dan Schultz. I want to go to

01:21:50.020 very special today, launching from Real America's Music, which has obviously been on quite a roll.

01:21:55.640 This is Never Forget by Chad Prather.

01:21:59.280 Let's listen to Never Forget from Chad Prather.

01:22:02.000 I'll be back, and we'll take us a break.

01:22:04.000 Let's go ahead and listen to this new song in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attack on New York City and the United States of America 25 years ago on this coming Friday.

01:22:17.840 I can hear you.

01:22:19.540 The rest of the world hears you.

01:22:21.480 And the people who knocked these buildings down.

01:22:25.640 Well, here are all of us, sir.

01:22:40.240 I remember where I was that day.

01:22:43.640 Blue September turned to gray.

01:22:46.780 Smoke rolled out across the sky.

01:22:49.960 We held each other while a nation cried.

01:22:52.580 Oh, glory waved on every porch in town

01:22:55.840 Church doors opened, knees went down

01:22:59.180 Didn't matter where you came from then

01:23:02.460 We were all American

01:23:04.840 They told us never forget

01:23:10.060 Oh, but look at us now

01:23:16.620 Never forget, that's what we say

01:23:21.060 The names, the towers, the missing and dead

01:23:24.200 Heroes running where angels fear

01:23:27.480 The sound of it all ringing in our ears

01:23:30.620 Now we fight each other, truth gets bought

01:23:33.780 We lost the lessons we were taught

01:23:36.900 Twenty-five years down the road

01:23:40.740 We've forgotten what we swore

01:23:43.180 We'd never forget

01:23:44.640 We used to know what freedom costs

01:23:52.720 Now we're too divided to count what's lost

01:23:55.980 Trade a conviction for a glowing screen

01:23:59.100 Lost our faith somewhere between

01:24:02.060 Some say leave that past alone

01:24:06.940 I'm not ready to move on

01:24:14.620 Never forget, that's what we say

01:24:17.900 The names, the towers, the missing and dead

01:24:21.060 Heroes running where angels fear

01:24:24.340 The sound of it all ringing in our ears

01:24:27.420 Now we fight each other, truth gets bugged

01:24:30.720 We lost the lessons we were taught

01:24:33.780 25 years down the road

01:24:37.560 We've forgotten what we swore

01:24:40.000 We'd never forget

01:24:41.660 Remember the lives, remember the planes

01:24:55.880 Remember the phone calls, remember the names

01:24:59.120 Remember the willows, the daughters and sons

01:25:02.380 Remember the day we remembered we were one

01:25:06.060 So never forget

01:25:08.420 Don't just say the words

01:25:12.960 Never forget

01:25:14.960 Remember love, freedom's really worth

01:25:19.480 Raise up the flag, get down and pray

01:25:22.600 Tell your kids what happened that day

01:25:25.980 Never forget

01:25:27.620 Never forget

01:25:38.420 That's incredible.

01:25:41.820 I really want to thank Rob Sieg and the entire team.

01:25:46.380 Real America's Music Makes Us Proud.

01:25:48.100 That's another fantastic song.

01:25:49.520 That is Never Forget by Chad Prather.

01:25:52.180 It's in honor of the 25th commemoration of the terrorist attack in New York.

01:25:59.000 Okay, here's what we're going to do.

01:26:00.380 We're going to go to a short break.

01:26:02.220 When we return, Eagle Ed Martin joins us before he heads down to Dallas

01:26:07.860 for the convention. Also

01:26:09.700 Dan Schultz. All

01:26:11.660 next in the War Room.

01:26:13.540 I remember where I was that day

01:26:15.520 Blue September turned

01:26:17.800 and gray. Smoke rolled

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01:28:04.240 I think we'll do fine.

01:28:06.120 Donald, what do you think about all this?

01:28:07.500 You're a developer.

01:28:08.260 You've built buildings all your life.

01:28:10.120 Well, there's never been anything like this.

01:28:11.800 It's disgraceful.

01:28:13.160 And I hope we attack fast.

01:28:14.600 I hope we find out who it is and go fast.

01:28:17.040 Okay.

01:28:17.820 Why do you want to come down here today?

01:28:19.340 I have about 100 men working down here.

01:28:21.060 So just to spur them on.

01:28:22.140 Hi, folks.

01:28:23.720 Hi, folks.

01:28:26.200 I have over 100 men.

01:28:27.580 and I hear doing an amazing job,

01:28:31.540 so I just want to give them some support.

01:28:33.380 These are men from here in the development?

01:28:34.680 Yeah, men from my company.

01:28:36.100 We have another 100 coming in a little while.

01:28:38.100 And how long have they been down here?

01:28:39.480 They've been down here for about a day and a half.

01:28:42.640 Have you talked to other developers?

01:28:44.300 Are they donating their time, their men's work?

01:28:46.460 Well, I hope they are.

01:28:47.300 I haven't really focused on that,

01:28:48.580 but we have a lot of people coming down here

01:28:50.440 and a lot of people down here now,

01:28:51.900 and they're brave guys.

01:28:53.460 A couple of them got hurt,

01:28:54.940 But we're I'm just want to spur him on a little bit.

01:28:57.960 What did you think when you heard about this?

01:28:59.680 I was just down to ground zero.

01:29:01.220 Ground zero is a disaster.

01:29:03.580 I've never seen anything like this.

01:29:05.180 I hope we act very quickly.

01:29:06.420 I hope we find out who did it and act accordingly and quickly.

01:29:10.160 Do you have any plans to donate money to the Widows and Children's Fund for the fallen fly?

01:29:14.420 I've done it over the years and it certainly sounds like a good idea.

01:29:20.360 Right there.

01:29:21.460 Did you see a president of the United States?

01:29:22.800 That was 25 years ago.

01:29:24.400 Ed Martin, one of the close advisors to the president, Ed, your observations right there

01:29:30.660 on Donald Trump in action the day after. And I mean, you know, your thoughts about Phyllis

01:29:37.760 Schaffley yourself, where were you? Go ahead. Well, you know, when I look at the president

01:29:42.420 there, I'd always think to myself that he he hasn't changed. You know, he he's always been

01:29:47.700 the same kind of here. He'll attack him fast. Listen, this week brings back a lot of memories

01:29:53.100 for me. I was in St. Louis at the time of the attacks. That's where I was living. But I grew

01:29:57.680 up in New Jersey and I went to high school in Jersey City, Steve. I used to stand on the corner

01:30:02.620 of Grand and Warren, two streets in Jersey City. You could look down one street and see the Twin

01:30:09.040 Towers and down the other and see the Statue of Liberty. It was right in Jersey City. It's a

01:30:14.060 little school called St. Peter's Prep. And so when they fell, besides the fact that we had,

01:30:19.520 I don't know, 20 or 30 guys from my high school and 30 more from Holy Cross where I went to

01:30:24.160 college. It was devastating. But I do remember how crazy it felt, how surreal it felt. And all

01:30:30.420 these years later, I can still get that feeling when I saw, especially when the buildings fell.

01:30:36.460 But Steve, you mentioned Phyllis Schlafly. And when I visited with the president just 10 days

01:30:40.480 ago when I was leaving government service, we talked about Phyllis. He loved Phyllis and she

01:30:45.340 loved him but you know she gave a talk Steve two and a half weeks after 9-11 at Eagle Council and

01:30:51.720 you if I sent you the audio and you can listen to it she said two things this was an immigration

01:30:58.320 failure she said these people shouldn't have been in here what the reports were this is two weeks

01:31:03.540 after and she said a failure of an immigration system and she said secondarily don't let them

01:31:09.800 use this as an opportunity for the government to intrude on our rights because they failed on an

01:31:16.300 immigration issue on on controlling immigration and of course she was right as usual on both those

01:31:22.460 counts she's right on most things uh and uh and she was uh uh you know proven right over these

01:31:28.080 decades but it's a it's a hard week uh for me uh it all comes back and uh and i'm glad we're

01:31:34.500 starting the week like you said with uh by the way i don't like never forget i like the phrase

01:31:39.480 we remember. It's a positive way. We remember. To me, it has a sort of biblical overture. We

01:31:45.540 remember. And we certainly will never forget, too, but we remember this week.

01:31:51.620 Ed, you're going to be at Dallas at the convention. You're going to join us for our

01:31:55.720 coverage. Look forward to having you down. But I want to, it's like these issues, you just said,

01:32:02.100 Phyllis said, hey, it was an immigration problem. And don't take away our rights. We had John

01:32:07.480 solomon on before the president came about more uh more uh releases from the task force and i said

01:32:16.000 look i've looked at the schedule and what i would really want is uh john solomon up there for an

01:32:20.840 hour before the president comes on talking about the deep state and the task force this agenda is

01:32:25.120 just i'd also like eagle ed martin on the main stage talking to us about all his work your

01:32:30.840 thoughts right now it seems to me on some of the issues that not simply are we winning on

01:32:36.260 but issues that drive the urgency, as you know, because you're a grassroots leader of the MAGA

01:32:42.020 movement, they're trying to tap dance around it. Your thoughts about all this?

01:32:46.820 Well, I don't, you know, Steve, I come out of the Phyllis Schlafly School. I control the things I

01:32:51.220 can control. And the other things I, as you mentioned, I work around. I know this, there's

01:32:55.360 going to be tens of thousands of people there gathered that are the doers. There are people

01:32:58.860 that are in the trenches at home. They care enough to come. And there's going to be other

01:33:02.900 people that are paying attention. And just what you said, I'll say this. I left government service

01:33:07.320 now and I loved working for Donald Trump. I love being a part of what he's doing every day. I can

01:33:12.100 tell you stories until the end of time about the deep state battling. It's like being in the French

01:33:17.980 resistance, like being a Jedberg, Steve, being back in there at times. And it's unbelievable.

01:33:22.920 We could talk all the time, but I left because of this. You better get your enthusiasm up for

01:33:27.940 what's at stake. If you're paying attention to this program or if you're paying attention,

01:33:32.860 there's not a milquetoast choice. And so I'm going because I'm going to be talking to these

01:33:39.140 delegates and others about these key issues. Second Amendment, I'm going to talk about the

01:33:43.260 key issues of sovereignty. Look, I looked into the belly of the beast. I looked into Jack Smith's

01:33:49.380 inbox. I saw Lisa Monaco's emails. These people aren't debating whether they think you should

01:33:55.520 have mauve colored uh you know uh you know kind of wall coverings or whether you should have blue

01:34:01.080 they want to destroy america and frankly they want to target our individuals our citizens and

01:34:07.460 i will never ever forget the hellscape that was the gulag where they intentionally lied and put

01:34:13.860 american citizens after january 6th and you know last week the president pardoned some folks that

01:34:18.860 were in jail for one guy's in jail for 20 years on you can drive you can run over your grandma

01:34:25.720 with your car and back up they won't give you 20 years they gave this guy 20 years because he had

01:34:30.520 gun parts and so the president pardoned those guys look that's what's at stake steve uh conventions

01:34:36.300 are great i think it'll be fine uh but what you have to know is the fellas used to teach uh the

01:34:41.660 there's the lord is busy with a lot of things he's not gonna fix the ballot box we got to go vote

01:34:46.840 vote vote and uh and that's what we're going to do and we got to bring the energy to it

01:34:50.600 because there's more at stake than there's ever been what do you tell the grassroots from a

01:34:56.460 tactical basis you're 100 correct we're going to have degrasse and caroline wren join us uh in in

01:35:02.220 dallas uh posovic mike davis uh ed martin others but right now this is going to come down to the

01:35:09.280 way i look at it this is going to come down to about 15 or 20 seats half of house seats half of

01:35:15.800 which President Trump won, we got to focus on that because we have to hold the House. Senate,

01:35:20.320 you know, is another thing. The governorships are all important, but the House is all important.

01:35:25.160 You have dedicated your life to being a motivator and a leader of the grassroots movements.

01:35:30.100 What do you say specifically, particularly people are saying, hey, look, Ed Martin ain't there.

01:35:35.440 John Solomon's not being not being put up on stage to talk about what we're interested in.

01:35:40.060 Anything that we're interested in is not really being covered by a lot of this convention. Some

01:35:43.660 is but a lot's not uh what do you say to the grassroots they're saying hey ed in my district

01:35:49.440 there's a lack of urgency particularly among the lower propensity trump voters and the democrats

01:35:55.320 have put trump on the on the ticket this is why i'm so proud that the president finally said hey

01:36:00.040 heck with all this other stuff i am on the ticket here i gotta drive this these are my policies

01:36:05.720 what do you say to grassroots leaders when you're going to meet with them behind closed doors about

01:36:09.760 this issue of urgency and getting out and canvassing and doing the hard pick and shovel

01:36:14.600 work that nobody gets complimented for that is necessary to hold about 40 percent of those

01:36:21.320 house seats in play? Ed Martin. Yeah, well, look, first thing I say, Steve, is they took over our

01:36:26.720 institutions over 50 years. You know this. You've taught about it for years. They did it for 50

01:36:31.540 years. They marched through the institution. It's well known. It's well documented. And so we're not

01:36:36.580 getting it back in one term or even two terms. But I'll tell you this, if we lose the House,

01:36:41.420 for example, they will defund my effort, what we put in place with Donald Trump champion,

01:36:46.900 to give back your Second Amendment rights. That's what they're going to do the next day.

01:36:50.780 I mean, there's a lot more at stake and we've got to make progress. If they get the House,

01:36:55.120 they will do oversight that will destroy the Trump presidency. It will make it all he's got

01:36:59.360 to focus on is defending impeachment, defending people around him. It gets messy. It gets ugly

01:37:05.380 and people get scared it's just not what we need in this country and frankly we have to continue

01:37:11.200 to win the argument i don't care what the moderates or the rhinos say i'm going out to

01:37:16.680 people that believe in frankly in the baby jesus and in the second amendment and in pro-life and

01:37:23.180 if you are going to go go hard to know what's at stake forget about the window dressing by the way

01:37:29.020 steve can i say the pollsters are lying again and we've got to deal with these people they come

01:37:33.860 every time every two years they say oh the sky is falling and then they adjust their polls at the

01:37:39.020 end as you pointed out there's 20 seats house maybe three or four in the set in the senate

01:37:44.620 that's what's at stake they're all close and here's the thing if the good guys and gals vote

01:37:50.820 if you go vote and we vote at 90 we win everything if we vote at 80 we lose everything so it's you

01:37:58.240 you're in the 10 you want to be the 10 the moments come to you you got the moment it's a 10 percent

01:38:03.540 go find your friends and neighbors, get out and vote. And look, it's glorious. This is the

01:38:08.320 greatest time in the history of the world because the greatest republic ever is hanging in the

01:38:13.780 balance. You either stop these mad, wild communist socialists or you don't. And I think people are

01:38:20.480 going to step up and do it. And look, we're going to break now with 60 days. You're going to see

01:38:24.720 the energy come up on our side. It's going to run through the tape. Trump's going to do it with his

01:38:28.800 rallies and we'll save things. And then we got to do more hard work. Look, we got to still

01:38:33.480 fight amongst ourselves, but that's a winning play. That's not hunting down guys like you and me.

01:38:41.720 No, and I realize it's not about persuasion. One more time, just give me a minute on that

01:38:46.540 brain analysis that, hey, if we show up at 90%, we run the tables. If you show up at 80%,

01:38:52.100 we won't hold serve, particularly in the House. Give me that again one more time for the

01:38:58.400 grassroots leaders. Well, you go into one of these districts, you go into a House district

01:39:02.920 that's going to be super close, and the media and the Chamber of Commerce and all these people

01:39:08.060 are beating down and they're saying this and that and the other thing, you just stop. If you're pro

01:39:13.540 life, if you believe in the Second Amendment, the Constitution, if you don't want them to come for

01:39:18.100 your kids and make it so your kids have to deal with the indoctrination all the time, if you want

01:39:23.940 to stop that, it's just simple math. If our people vote 90%, we win everything. We don't even need

01:39:30.240 100 percent 10 percent could stay home but 90 percent we win everything we vote 80 percent we

01:39:35.340 lose everything so it's just a simple math problem and people our side we you know our people know

01:39:40.860 they can understand the logic of this and then you just got to go grind you got to go get your

01:39:45.580 neighbors you got to go get your friends you got to take grandma to the polls and you just again

01:39:50.160 there's only 23 25 house districts if you're not in one of those go help in another one go help in

01:39:56.700 a state that matters, that's what's at stake. And again, our people are going to see it,

01:40:01.440 they understand it, and we'll get it done. Ed Martin, we're going to see you down at the

01:40:07.760 convention. Look forward to coming by the Real America's Voice studios and being part of our

01:40:12.440 coverage. We really appreciate you. Where do people go on social media to keep up with the

01:40:16.680 Eagle? Well, you know, at Eagle, Ed Martin is on next, but I don't want to bury the lead. You know,

01:40:20.280 today they announced our old friend Russ Vogt has put me up. I'm going to be part of my job is going

01:40:25.300 to be over at the Center for Renewing America, as they call me, a senior fellow or something,

01:40:30.360 but mostly bringing the fight from here. Great group of people, great entity that

01:40:34.640 Russ started, and we're going to fight, fight, fight. And that's what I love about it. Russ is

01:40:39.360 a fighter. Also, he's a quiet killer. He does stuff that nobody sees with the budget and with

01:40:45.040 other things. You got to be smart in this moment in history. And so I'm really excited about that

01:40:49.300 today steve and and honored that they would uh ask me to do that no they're one of the best

01:40:55.480 institutions out there and they punch way above their weight ed martin uh one more time what's

01:41:00.860 your social media where do people go and track you down sir at eagle ed martin on x and i'm a

01:41:05.940 wild man so my dms are open so come on down and and uh let me hear what's going on and eagle ed

01:41:11.900 martin and uh fight fight fight steve you are a wild man that that i can concur with ed is so great

01:41:20.740 look forward to you joining us in uh in uh in dallas thank you sir thanks steve coverage wall

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01:44:11.960 The father, the chief architect, the founder of the entire concept of the precinct strategy,

01:44:19.200 Dan Schultz, we're on the eve of a convention, sir, and we're, what, 50-some days away from a very important, maybe all-important midterm election.

01:44:28.940 Your words of wisdom and guidance to the grassroots leaders about what needs to happen, sir, Dan Schultz, the floor is yours.

01:44:38.680 Thanks, Steve. I appreciate it. Thanks for having me.

01:44:41.720 First, we can learn from the Germans. The alternative for Deutschland election in Saxony on halt, their turnout, and the reason they did so well, is the turnout in that election was 76.5% of eligible voters.

01:45:02.620 I looked it up yesterday. And our average turnout in a midterm election of Republicans is about 60%. And we've got to do better than that, obviously. And hopefully the upcoming convention will hammer that home day after day after day.

01:45:20.200 There's a place to go at GOP.com to sign up for MAGAmajorityforce.com.

01:45:29.300 That's the get out the vote effort.

01:45:31.340 Protectthevote.com, that's the sign up to be a poll worker or poll observer.

01:45:37.680 We never have enough volunteers.

01:45:40.560 And the bottom line is we've got to have local grassroots precinct committeemen and other

01:45:48.220 volunteers boosting the turnout way beyond that 60 percent if we're going to prevail in this

01:45:54.560 upcoming midterm general election on november 3rd and the way to do that is hey dan hang up

01:46:04.000 hang up one second before we go back to the pitch we're going to have actually people from

01:46:08.760 alternative for deutschland people know we've worked with these guys for years on the six o'clock

01:46:13.240 show tonight. Just hit it one more time for the audience, because it's quite brilliant,

01:46:18.480 but the lessons learned from Alternative for Deutschland and this overwhelming victory they

01:46:22.860 just won Sunday, sir. Yeah, and they did it. The media over there calls them far right and far

01:46:31.900 right. And they're not far right. They're common sense. And what they did is they did what the

01:46:38.320 precinct strategy and what I advocate. They built their party apparatus down at the local level and

01:46:46.240 got out the vote of every person that had common sense. They told him, you got to go vote. You got

01:46:54.000 to go vote. You got to go vote. And that's what we've got to do, just like Ed Martin said. But

01:46:59.460 we've got to do it in a coordinated way. And the best way to do it is with the party, with the

01:47:06.360 party. You know, there's a phrase, local action creates national impact. That's way too vague.

01:47:11.860 I say local political party action creates local and national election successes.

01:47:22.220 The way to get involved is locally, and you can do that by signing up at

01:47:26.400 magamajorityforce.com or go to gop.com, and then that is there. Protect the Vote is there.

01:47:36.360 and also swamp the vote where you can check to make sure that you're registered to vote

01:47:43.100 and you're going to be able to vote on election day.

01:47:46.420 We've got to do this locally.

01:47:48.340 The best thing to do is to build your local party.

01:47:51.280 We don't have enough precinct committee men.

01:47:53.180 We have less than 50% of the slots filled.

01:47:56.920 And of course, that's my broken record approach to life, so to speak.

01:48:01.280 I'm trying to save the republic. And the vehicle to do that is a political party. Conservatives don't run the Republican Party yet, but they could. And that's what we've got to do. And that's what conservatives did in Germany with the Alternative for Deutschland party, Alternative for Germany. They got it done and we can learn from them.

01:48:27.120 And so that's my message. We've got to get out the vote like never before in this midterm election. And the way to do that is with the party in each state. MAGAmajorityForce.com is a great effort. And then when you get involved with them, then seek out your local Republican Party committee and say, I want to volunteer and I want to join. And so that's my message.

01:48:55.380 uh what is your the urgency we had to add on here of course at the convention they're going to cover

01:49:03.240 some of this they're not going to cover others but you know some of the things that drive people

01:49:07.200 out and get them motivated we're going out now and we got about two minutes we're going to go

01:49:11.560 out now and you've got to get that kind of lower propensity trump voter president trump has stepped

01:49:16.600 in the middle here and said hey all this stuff that other consultants were working on about

01:49:20.120 you know uh independence or persuasion that's all passes this is a turnout election what would you

01:49:26.800 recommend to people do to make sure that we can maximize the turnout particularly of lower

01:49:32.740 propensity voters the people that don't watch war room or don't go to your podcast we got about

01:49:38.060 90 seconds ed your thoughts about that i mean uh dan your thoughts about that yeah well i've got a

01:49:45.340 video at my website, precinctstrategy.com. You go to the videos page, and then you go to the how-to

01:49:50.700 videos. And the fifth video is a narrated PowerPoint. It's only 15 minutes that I did

01:49:56.560 years ago. And it explains exactly how to do what you described. Using the software that the party

01:50:04.580 gives you as a precinct committeeman, you can create a call and a walk sheet in your precinct

01:50:10.620 for those lower information, lower propensity voters, that 40% that isn't going to probably

01:50:18.020 go vote, unfortunately, unless they get a personalized touch of some type, a phone call,

01:50:26.540 drop off a flyer at their door. You can identify those households. Those are the people we need to

01:50:32.920 go vote. They're good, decent Republicans, but they don't live and breathe politics like the

01:50:37.880 war room posse. They, they're just not all that interested. They don't even know that November

01:50:43.760 3rd is the upcoming election day yet. They don't know that yet. So you got to reach them personally

01:50:51.100 and you tell them I'm a precinct committeeman or another volunteer. I'm a Republican volunteer.

01:50:56.620 Please go vote. This is a very important election. You can really make a difference. That's how you

01:51:02.420 do it and so i recommend people go watch that video okay we'll send everybody over there dan

01:51:09.700 thank you so much we'll get you on that coverage from the convention i want to hear your update

01:51:14.020 on thursday and friday dan schultz the father of the precinct strategy changed the direction of

01:51:20.020 this country in 22 and 24 he'll do it again in 26. i'm gonna be live on the charlie kirk show

01:51:25.620 We're going to do a handoff in just a moment.

01:51:27.460 Stick around.

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