The Glenn Beck Program - 18 Years After 9⧸11： We Must UNITE Again ｜ Guests： Bob Beckwith, Brad Meltzer, & Garrett M. Graff ｜ 9⧸11⧸19

00:00:00.000 I woke up, remember it being a beautiful day, and normally I had to get up early so I slept in.

00:00:08.000 And I just remember thinking, it's a really nice day out, I can just be with her.

00:00:12.000 I was actually deployed with the United States Marine Corps at the time, and we had pulled in.

00:00:18.000 Sitting in my boss's office installing a software update.

00:00:21.000 So I went up to the library.

00:00:22.000 September 11th changed my life entirely.

00:00:28.000 Hi, my name is Glenn Beck. I was born just outside of Seattle, Washington.

00:00:31.000 I'm Rich Hudson from Lake Forest, Illinois.

00:00:33.000 My name is Jared Rue. I'm from Dallas, Texas.

00:00:35.000 My name is Ashanti. I'm from Omaha, Nebraska.

00:00:38.000 And this is what I remember.

00:00:39.000 I'm from the small west Texas town of Abilene, Texas.

00:00:42.000 My name is Velma. I'm from Plano, Texas. And this is what I remember.

00:00:46.000 My name is Sean and I'm from Brooklyn, New York. And this is what I remember about 9-11.

00:00:50.000 Miles and miles of sunshine. Other than that, it's kind of quiet around the country. We like quiet.

00:00:55.000 It is beautiful outside. Perfect September day with lots of sunshine.

00:00:59.000 Oh, would you look at Washington, huh?

00:01:01.000 I'm going outside today.

00:01:02.000 It's Tuesday, September 11th, 2001.

00:01:04.000 Morning, 64 degrees at 840 on this Tuesday, September 11th.

00:01:08.000 Thousands of New Yorkers will head to the polls today to cast ballots for mayor and a host of other city offices on primary day.

00:01:14.000 American 11th.

00:01:16.000 American 11th. Respond to me now.

00:01:18.000 I am monitoring the hall in which flight 11. The flight attendant is advising our reps that the pilot, everyone's been stabbed.

00:01:25.000 Nobody move. Everything is okay.

00:01:27.000 In fact, there's someone in the cockpit that's taken over.

00:01:29.000 You have no idea where he's going?

00:01:31.000 I'm number three on flight 11.

00:01:33.000 The plane's in a rapid descent.

00:01:34.000 The hijackers are in the cockpit.

00:01:36.000 I think we might have lost her.

00:01:38.000 You will see your face again, baby. I love you.

00:01:41.000 Bye.

00:01:42.000 Bye.

00:01:44.000 Oh, .

00:01:45.000 Kennedy Tower reports that there was fire at the World Trade Center.

00:01:50.000 I understand that there has been a plane crash on the southern tip of Manhattan.

00:01:54.000 A plane has crashed into the World Trade Center in New York, 852.

00:01:59.000 Lots of thick black smoke coming from the top of the World Trade Center.

00:02:03.000 It looks like the plane struck about three quarters of the way up, maybe a little higher.

00:02:08.000 Yeah.

00:02:09.000 I can't.

00:02:10.000 It's unbelievable.

00:02:11.000 I've never seen anything like this in my life.

00:02:15.000 I was on the job about five months.

00:02:17.000 I'm a firefighter for a local city.

00:02:19.000 And I just heard on the radio going to another station that an airplane ran into a plane.

00:02:26.000 And I was getting ready.

00:02:27.000 And my mom ran into her bathroom. 1.00

00:02:29.000 She said, Sean, a plane hit the building.

00:02:31.000 My father looking up.

00:02:32.000 He said, hey, get out here.

00:02:33.000 There's something on the news.

00:02:34.000 And we're sitting there going through our lessons for the day.

00:02:39.000 She goes, a plane just flew through the World Trade Center.

00:02:43.000 They turned on the televisions and it was all over the news.

00:02:45.000 I remember looking up on the screen as soon as I walked in the door and seeing the smoking buildings.

00:02:50.000 It appeared to be an accident to me.

00:02:52.000 I was supposed to be on the 82nd floor for 9 o'clock meeting.

00:02:55.000 Those images always make my heart hurt.

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00:03:09.000 And here's Glenn and Stu with the start of our show.

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00:04:52.180 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:04:56.340 This is a very different day and a different year.

00:05:00.340 I'm approaching this moment, this day of commemoration of 9-11 differently than I ever have.

00:05:12.000 It feels different to me.

00:05:14.680 And we'll talk about that a bit today.

00:05:17.940 We have a show you do not want to miss.

00:05:21.520 I wanted to begin with something I hadn't heard in 18 years.

00:05:30.320 They were the first words that I spoke publicly on radio as I started my show 18 years ago today.

00:05:43.680 Here it is.

00:05:46.000 As I came in this morning, I don't know about you, but it all seemed so surreal.

00:05:51.160 How even this morning, I was on the phone with Stu at about 8.30.

00:06:07.300 As we were getting ready to go over what we were going to do on the show today.

00:06:10.520 And I said, the biggest thing that's happening is probably the economy.

00:06:22.640 And George W. Bush being in town screwing up our highways.

00:06:28.360 I was shaving as I heard Jack, Ted, and Sharon say that a plane had hit the World Trade Center.

00:06:48.380 I was shaving as I heard Jack, Ted, and Sharon say that a plane had hit the World Trade Center.

00:06:58.360 And at first I thought it would be just a small Cessna.

00:07:04.500 And when I saw the size of the hole, and heard speculation that it was an airliner,

00:07:15.320 I had a gnawing feeling at the bottom of my stomach.

00:07:28.360 It was a beautiful day in New York.

00:07:40.880 Clear blue sky.

00:07:45.320 There's no way a plane could miss seeing the World Trade Center.

00:07:58.360 Stu called me.

00:08:03.140 He said, did you see the news?

00:08:09.020 As we were on the phone, we both watched in horror

00:08:12.720 as a second plane hit the World Trade Center.

00:08:28.360 I said, at that time, we're under attack.

00:08:40.140 They're going for icons.

00:08:42.300 They want to take down the World Trade Center.

00:08:47.780 Minutes later, the Pentagon.

00:08:53.000 It's been 18 years since that day.

00:08:54.760 And I think it's time to look back up into the sky.

00:09:00.440 I think it is time for us to look back up and say,

00:09:03.500 what have we done with our time?

00:09:07.080 What path are we on?

00:09:09.400 Have we made things better or worse

00:09:11.780 by the decisions that each of us have made since that day?

00:09:15.320 Because we promised each other on that day

00:09:17.840 that we would.

00:09:19.880 That we would hold together.

00:09:22.260 That we would work together.

00:09:23.800 That we would find our way back

00:09:27.160 out of the rubble and the dust and the blood.

00:09:34.340 We've done a pretty lousy job.

00:09:40.100 This year is the year that we must answer the question,

00:09:44.040 who are we?

00:09:45.400 The only way we can figure this out

00:09:52.180 is to look at where we've been.

00:09:56.860 I continue in one minute.

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00:11:58.940 They're setting up

00:11:59.620 to make him check out

00:12:00.620 fairly little sports.

00:12:02.260 Go to sanit who are without 1.00

00:12:04.000 go line.

00:12:04.880 Stay Likewise.

00:12:07.480 Say again?

00:12:09.460 Evangelion 9-56,

00:12:11.120 did you understand that transmission?

00:12:13.020 Yeah, that transmission

00:12:13.720 he said was unreasonable.

00:12:14.840 It sounded like someone said

00:12:15.720 they have a bomb on board.

00:12:16.780 Do they have a bomb on board?

00:12:17.780 Sir, did you hear it besides this where the aircraft just said he had a bomb on board?

00:12:20.780 Affirmative, he said there was a bomb on board.

00:12:23.780 That's what we thought, we just didn't get it clear.

00:12:27.780 That aircraft he can't get a hold of, has he turned to the east now?

00:12:30.780 He just turned to the east also.

00:12:32.780 956, we had a visual on him, just stand by.

00:12:35.780 Do you have a visual on him now?

00:12:36.780 We did, but we lost him at the turn.

00:12:38.780 If you can make a turn back to a 220 heading, let me know if you can see him.

00:12:41.780 They were making a turn at 956.

00:12:43.780 Okay, American 106 and Executive 956, we just lost a target on that aircraft.

00:12:56.780 Man, Z100 852, something weird is going on.

00:13:00.780 Yeah.

00:13:01.780 The World Trade Center is on fire.

00:13:03.780 Oh my goodness.

00:13:04.780 Seriously, the top of the building, we're trying to get information.

00:13:06.780 Deadly.

00:13:07.780 Top level of one of the...

00:13:09.780 ...news to unfold from New York City.

00:13:11.780 A plane crashed into it.

00:13:12.780 A plane crashed.

00:13:13.780 Just...

00:13:14.780 My sister's in that building. 0.74

00:13:15.780 Okay.

00:13:16.780 And I hope she's okay, and I gotta run through New York.

00:13:18.780 Oh my God, complete pandemic.

00:13:20.780 First of all, calm down.

00:13:21.780 There's raining papers and ashes and...

00:13:23.780 Everything.

00:13:24.780 It's raging.

00:13:26.780 That a force CIA blows right here.

00:13:40.780 God that was a huge explosion.

00:13:43.780 Forget about Benfunk!

00:13:45.780 People are jumping out the windows!

00:13:47.780 Or they're jumping out the windows!

00:13:49.780 A second plane has now flown in.

00:13:53.680 Wait, explosion at the Pentagon?

00:13:54.820 A third location.

00:13:56.800 I don't have words to describe what I'm witnessing right now.

00:14:01.560 Effective immediately until further notice.

00:14:03.960 Flight operations in the national airspace system by United States civil aircraft and foreign civil and military aircraft are prohibited.

00:14:12.520 Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward.

00:14:16.380 And freedom will be defended.

00:14:19.780 Oh, God. Oh, my God.

00:14:21.940 One of the World Trade Towers has collapsed and fallen.

00:14:43.460 I've never seen anything like this.

00:14:49.780 I've got five patients.

00:14:54.360 We've got an ambulance full of cops and, uh, pedestrians.

00:14:57.460 We've got another child that just came down 10-13.

00:15:03.400 Get me out! 0.99

00:15:04.060 Get all the cops away from the building.

00:15:08.020 You've got to see my officer down there.

00:15:11.840 Where are you now, King?

00:15:13.720 Where are you, King?

00:15:18.300 Where are you?

00:15:23.580 We're not going to be stopped.

00:15:25.640 We're not going to be deterred.

00:15:27.560 We're not going to stay at home.

00:15:29.220 We're not going to be frightened.

00:15:30.720 We're going to live our lives as Americans.

00:15:33.160 Let's see.

00:15:34.360 Who has to leave in, in the black towards the United States. 0.98

00:15:37.560 We're all regardless.

00:15:39.500 We've all got to stick together.

00:15:41.740 One nation ofamis. 0.79

00:15:50.500 Look at the skyline without the towers.

00:15:52.680 It is Tuesday, September 11th, 2001.

00:16:04.100 This is Glenn Beck.

00:16:08.000 Dateline, New York.

00:16:10.860 In one of the most audacious attacks ever, terrorists hijacked two airliners,

00:16:16.540 crashed them into the World Trade Center in a coordinated series of blows today

00:16:23.520 that brought down the twin 110-story towers.

00:16:30.000 Thousands may be dead.

00:16:32.360 58,000 people work at the World Trade Center.

00:16:46.540 One plane, United Flight 93, crashed north of Somerset County Airport,

00:16:59.220 a small airport 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.

00:17:03.660 United said that flight.

00:17:06.680 Boeing 757 left Newark at 8.01.

00:17:11.920 And in present, Francisco with 38.

00:17:13.560 There's another day, we'll prevail.

00:17:16.780 Everything we have to fear, we will not turn.

00:17:20.700 It is as old as the scriptures.

00:17:21.920 We will not falter.

00:17:23.100 And it is clear.

00:17:24.000 And we will not fail.

00:17:25.140 In the American Constitution.

00:17:26.300 Let's roll, let's roll, let's roll.

00:17:27.220 That is the news of this day.

00:17:36.040 September 11th, 2001.

00:17:39.540 United 93.

00:17:42.400 Was that United 93?

00:17:44.320 United 93.

00:17:48.640 United 93.

00:17:51.700 United 93.

00:17:55.220 United 93.

00:17:56.720 United 93.

00:18:06.000 United 93.

00:18:06.080 United 93.

00:18:06.940 United 93.

00:18:08.000 The Glenn Beck Program

00:18:32.340 I know we don't see everything in the same way

00:18:42.860 But I know we won't be really free if we don't stay united

00:18:54.480 Cause divided we will fall for anything it's true

00:19:02.920 So I have decided

00:19:06.960 I will stand for you and I will

00:19:12.880 I will make us stand

00:19:15.600 I will raise my voice

00:19:18.140 I will hold your hand

00:19:20.800 Cause we are one

00:19:23.060 I will beat my trump

00:19:25.540 I have made my choice

00:19:28.080 We will overcome

00:19:30.100 Cause we are one

00:19:34.240 That was the thing that brought us together

00:19:50.160 E Pluribus Unum

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00:19:54.520 One

00:19:55.960 We've lost our one

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00:20:00.800 Our Unum

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00:21:50.460 We started going back

00:22:07.680 And listening

00:22:08.600 To what we did

00:22:11.040 On September 11th

00:22:12.040 18 years ago

00:22:13.000 And I remember doing one thing

00:22:21.380 I haven't heard it since

00:22:22.900 Could you please play the last cut

00:22:26.920 GB's prayer

00:22:29.700 I

00:22:30.800 I have not heard this

00:22:33.060 Since I did it

00:22:34.400 And I remember

00:22:35.400 The moment

00:22:37.300 Go ahead

00:22:39.520 I think it is appropriate

00:22:40.500 As we end our business day today

00:22:43.960 That we together

00:22:49.440 Ask for her blessing

00:22:54.580 On this great nation

00:22:56.660 So I ask you to pull over your car

00:23:03.040 Stop what you're doing

00:23:09.360 Hush your surroundings

00:23:13.600 And take a moment with me

00:23:17.700 As we speak to our Father

00:23:28.300 Who gave us life

00:23:29.260 Our most gracious Heavenly Father

00:23:42.640 We ask

00:23:43.320 You today

00:23:45.160 To watch over us

00:23:47.760 Your children are

00:23:50.620 Confused and frightened

00:23:52.540 We are saddened

00:24:00.140 By the loss

00:24:00.720 Of our

00:24:01.100 Brothers

00:24:01.780 And saddened

00:24:03.860 By the

00:24:04.300 Violence

00:24:04.900 That our other brothers

00:24:06.080 Have brought upon us

00:24:08.700 We ask for your

00:24:12.760 Warm embrace

00:24:13.820 We ask for your

00:24:15.780 We beg

00:24:17.080 For your guidance

00:24:18.280 Now

00:24:18.740 We ask for the guidance

00:24:23.140 Of our leaders

00:24:24.060 That they may

00:24:27.940 Put aside all hatred

00:24:29.800 And have a clear

00:24:35.520 View

00:24:36.500 As to the truth

00:24:38.940 And what must be done

00:24:40.320 I remember

00:24:45.720 Giving this prayer

00:24:47.460 And I remember

00:24:50.480 Looking up at Stu

00:24:51.680 Early on

00:24:52.960 And he

00:24:53.660 Was

00:24:54.220 We had never done anything

00:24:55.540 It was a different world

00:24:56.680 We had never done anything

00:24:57.980 Like that before

00:24:58.840 And I looked up

00:25:00.800 And he looked at me like

00:25:01.940 You're going to pray

00:25:03.480 Do you remember that Stu?

00:25:06.960 Sounds like something

00:25:07.800 I would do

00:25:08.180 Yeah

00:25:08.380 And

00:25:09.900 I wanted to play that

00:25:14.420 Because when

00:25:17.260 When was the last time

00:25:19.680 We actually reached out

00:25:23.600 Like that

00:25:24.920 To him

00:25:26.100 When was the last time

00:25:30.860 We had that

00:25:32.440 That much of a heartfelt

00:25:34.740 Collective

00:25:35.720 We're in trouble

00:25:37.740 Please help us

00:25:40.200 Perhaps

00:25:43.160 That's why we

00:25:44.580 Are struggling

00:25:47.600 As much as we are

00:25:48.780 You're listening

00:25:51.340 To Glenn Beck

00:25:52.980 You've heard the old saying

00:25:55.060 How an armed society

00:25:55.920 Is a polite society

00:25:57.240 And it's basically true

00:25:58.560 I mean

00:25:59.440 I mean unless

00:26:01.100 You're in the wild west

00:26:02.220 Or you know

00:26:03.000 Unfortunately in Chicago

00:26:04.260 In America

00:26:05.800 We have the right

00:26:07.160 To protect ourself

00:26:08.200 And the duty

00:26:09.160 To protect those

00:26:10.180 That we love

00:26:10.840 From the harms

00:26:12.000 That sometimes

00:26:12.480 Can come out

00:26:13.240 Of a really dark

00:26:14.000 And twisted world

00:26:15.040 It isn't a joke

00:26:16.420 Or some flight of fantasy

00:26:17.600 It is a solemn testament

00:26:19.080 Between the balance

00:26:21.000 Of freedom

00:26:22.020 And responsibility

00:26:23.340 The USCCA

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00:26:26.740 Concealed Carry Association

00:26:28.160 Exists

00:26:29.140 To provide

00:26:29.900 Self-defense

00:26:30.560 Education

00:26:31.040 Training

00:26:31.380 And legal protection

00:26:32.520 To over 300,000

00:26:34.420 Responsibly armed Americans 0.83

00:26:35.740 Like you and me

00:26:36.500 We are going to need

00:26:38.200 Legal protection

00:26:39.180 Please

00:26:40.320 I would urge you

00:26:41.380 To join

00:26:42.560 Like I have

00:26:43.520 The USCCA

00:26:44.760 Now

00:26:45.480 To introduce themselves

00:26:47.040 To you

00:26:47.500 They're giving away

00:26:48.020 A thousand dollars

00:26:48.940 To 19 winners

00:26:50.180 This month

00:26:50.900 You can use that money

00:26:52.320 To buy a SIG

00:26:53.020 Or a Glock

00:26:53.480 Or anything else

00:26:54.100 Just text the word

00:26:55.660 BECK

00:26:56.120 To the number

00:26:56.600 87222

00:26:57.840 That's the name

00:26:58.920 BECK

00:26:59.560 To the number

00:27:00.460 87222

00:27:01.900 To protect

00:27:02.700 Yourself

00:27:03.400 And the

00:27:03.880 Second Amendment

00:27:04.460 The picture seared

00:27:17.380 In the nation's memory

00:27:18.640 President Bush

00:27:19.660 At ground zero

00:27:21.080 Three days

00:27:22.000 After the attacks

00:27:23.220 A bullhorn

00:27:24.240 In one hand

00:27:24.980 The other

00:27:25.400 Draped around

00:27:26.040 Firefighter

00:27:26.800 Bob Beckwith

00:27:27.000 That firefighter

00:27:27.880 With President Bush

00:27:28.960 Was Bob Beckwith

00:27:29.840 Bob Beckwith

00:27:31.340 Stood shoulder

00:27:32.000 To shoulder

00:27:32.360 With President Bush

00:27:33.020 Bob Beckwith

00:27:33.800 A firefighter

00:27:34.780 From Queens

00:27:35.480 New York

00:27:36.060 In his mid-60s

00:27:37.280 That day

00:27:38.080 He stood

00:27:38.960 Alongside the

00:27:39.780 President

00:27:40.160 And stepped

00:27:40.780 On to the

00:27:41.680 National

00:27:42.640 Patriotic stage

00:27:44.300 Bob

00:27:47.000 Bob are you there

00:27:47.520 Yes

00:27:49.500 Hi Bob

00:27:50.280 How are you

00:27:50.880 Very good

00:27:51.840 And yourself

00:27:52.280 I'm very good

00:27:53.220 Sir

00:27:53.520 Very good

00:27:54.780 I just wanted

00:27:56.320 To touch base

00:27:57.200 With you

00:27:57.700 Your experiences

00:28:00.040 With 9-11

00:28:00.980 Because I

00:28:01.800 I painted

00:28:02.740 A painting

00:28:03.500 Of you

00:28:04.700 A couple of

00:28:05.500 Weeks ago

00:28:05.880 For an auction

00:28:06.680 And as I was

00:28:08.440 Painting you

00:28:09.220 I thought

00:28:09.920 You know

00:28:11.560 I know this

00:28:12.260 Man's story

00:28:12.980 But not

00:28:13.480 Really

00:28:14.320 And now

00:28:15.120 That you've

00:28:15.520 Had you know

00:28:16.820 Almost 20 years

00:28:17.740 To digest it

00:28:18.820 I'd love to hear

00:28:20.280 First of all

00:28:21.500 Where were you

00:28:22.500 On 9-11

00:28:23.880 When it happened

00:28:24.860 When it happened

00:28:26.700 My daughter

00:28:28.220 Had called me

00:28:29.300 That my grandson

00:28:30.720 Going to school

00:28:32.520 On his bicycle

00:28:33.440 Was hit by a car

00:28:34.720 About two blocks

00:28:36.240 Away from me

00:28:36.940 And I ran over there

00:28:38.960 To see

00:28:39.780 What was happening

00:28:40.920 And I saw him

00:28:42.700 On the ground

00:28:43.320 But he was moving

00:28:44.300 So I

00:28:44.900 That was a plus

00:28:46.640 And I found out

00:28:48.280 From the ambulance

00:28:49.560 Driver

00:28:50.100 What hospital

00:28:51.080 They were taking him to

00:28:52.240 And I came home

00:28:54.260 To get my car

00:28:55.240 I listened on the radio

00:28:57.120 And I heard a guy say

00:28:58.900 That a plane

00:28:59.760 Has crashed

00:29:00.980 Into the World Trade Center

00:29:02.040 We don't know anything

00:29:02.800 And so I came inside

00:29:04.360 And my wife

00:29:05.220 Had it on the television

00:29:06.440 Already

00:29:06.840 And they had cameras there

00:29:08.480 I was looking

00:29:10.280 And I said

00:29:11.280 That's a little bit

00:29:11.960 Bigger than a small plane

00:29:13.220 Yeah

00:29:13.600 I figured

00:29:14.880 I got a bad day going

00:29:16.040 My grandson

00:29:16.760 Gets hit by a car

00:29:17.740 And now a plane

00:29:18.860 Goes in

00:29:19.460 Where were you living

00:29:20.740 At the time Bob?

00:29:21.840 I was living right here

00:29:22.740 In Baldwin

00:29:23.480 New York

00:29:24.340 When did the phone call

00:29:25.840 Come in

00:29:26.400 That you had to go

00:29:27.800 Were you

00:29:28.760 With your grandson

00:29:30.240 In the hospital

00:29:31.500 Or when did you

00:29:33.180 I went to the hospital

00:29:34.320 To be with him

00:29:36.220 Everybody was watching

00:29:37.440 Television at the hospital

00:29:38.740 And I saw

00:29:40.620 The South Tower

00:29:42.300 Come down

00:29:42.900 Oh my god

00:29:43.840 One World Trade Center

00:29:46.060 Has collapsed

00:29:46.740 In its entirety

00:29:47.960 One World Trade Center

00:29:49.120 Is gone

00:29:49.680 And then

00:29:50.660 A few minutes later

00:29:52.300 The North Tower

00:29:54.560 Came down

00:29:55.300 The North Tower

00:29:56.200 Has collapsed

00:29:57.000 Ready to collapse

00:29:57.900 Ready to collapse

00:29:58.100 And I knew

00:29:58.440 There was guys

00:29:59.160 In the building

00:29:59.800 You know

00:30:00.220 Because the firemen

00:30:01.540 Were in there

00:30:02.180 You know

00:30:02.920 What goes through

00:30:03.460 Your head

00:30:03.920 When

00:30:04.180 It just hits you

00:30:06.360 Pretty hard

00:30:07.040 Bob did you

00:30:08.020 Did you have

00:30:09.140 Any inkling

00:30:11.380 That those towers

00:30:12.560 Might come down

00:30:14.220 When you saw

00:30:14.880 Never thought

00:30:15.540 It would

00:30:15.940 I really

00:30:17.060 Honestly

00:30:17.820 Never thought

00:30:18.760 That they were

00:30:19.340 Coming down

00:30:20.060 Boy

00:30:21.200 Was I shocked

00:30:22.060 When that happened

00:30:23.480 So when

00:30:25.040 Did you first

00:30:26.760 Arrive at Ground Zero

00:30:27.980 What happened

00:30:29.860 Was

00:30:30.280 I came home

00:30:31.820 From the hospital

00:30:33.560 Later that day

00:30:34.560 And I told my wife

00:30:37.160 And my kids

00:30:37.940 That I'm going

00:30:38.540 Down to Ground Zero

00:30:39.640 And they said

00:30:40.300 Don't go down

00:30:41.160 You're too

00:30:41.500 I was 69 years old

00:30:43.480 And they thought

00:30:45.720 I was an old man

00:30:46.600 There and I'm

00:30:47.540 Going to get

00:30:47.880 In the way

00:30:48.380 So just don't

00:30:49.760 Go down there

00:30:50.500 The next day

00:30:52.060 I find out

00:30:53.180 That Jimmy Boyle

00:30:54.780 Now Jimmy Boyle

00:30:55.580 Was the president

00:30:57.220 Of the UFA

00:30:58.260 The Uniformed

00:30:59.080 Firefighters Association

00:31:00.300 And I was one

00:31:01.740 Of his delegates

00:31:02.580 And when I found

00:31:03.980 Out his son

00:31:04.560 Is missing

00:31:05.020 I said

00:31:05.500 That's it

00:31:05.920 I'm out of here

00:31:06.580 And I suited up

00:31:08.740 The next morning

00:31:09.440 And I got to go

00:31:10.380 Down to Ground Zero

00:31:11.440 So I'm driving

00:31:13.160 Down there

00:31:13.820 I'm on a BQE

00:31:15.000 The Brooklyn Queens

00:31:15.740 Expressway

00:31:16.440 And I'm going

00:31:16.980 Towards the

00:31:17.920 Williamsburg Bridge

00:31:18.940 Guess what

00:31:21.480 The bridges are closed

00:31:22.760 And I saw

00:31:23.760 A cop's car

00:31:24.800 Going over the bridge

00:31:26.620 With two vans

00:31:28.260 Behind it

00:31:28.840 And I said

00:31:29.200 I'm going to

00:31:29.600 Give it a shot

00:31:30.200 And I drove

00:31:30.900 Between the cones

00:31:31.820 And I went

00:31:32.640 On the bridge

00:31:33.280 But when I got

00:31:34.860 Over to the other side

00:31:35.680 There was nobody

00:31:36.620 Nobody was there

00:31:37.940 Everything was gray

00:31:39.780 And I went over

00:31:41.180 To the house

00:31:41.860 Watch

00:31:42.280 At 55 engine

00:31:43.720 And I told him

00:31:44.680 I'm going down

00:31:45.380 To Ground Zero

00:31:46.340 And I said

00:31:47.700 Well good luck

00:31:48.640 I said

00:31:49.700 What the heck

00:31:50.100 Is that good luck

00:31:50.900 About

00:31:51.320 Anyway

00:31:52.320 The police department

00:31:53.500 They lined up

00:31:55.440 On the perimeter

00:31:56.100 All around

00:31:56.880 Ground Zero

00:31:57.800 I said

00:31:58.920 I got to get in there

00:31:59.820 You know

00:32:00.260 And I showed them

00:32:01.680 My badge

00:32:02.320 And they let me in

00:32:03.740 And then the guy

00:32:04.760 Said to me

00:32:05.140 Good luck

00:32:05.680 So I went down

00:32:07.000 About a block or two

00:32:08.240 And then I see

00:32:09.440 The National Guard

00:32:10.840 They were on the perimeter

00:32:12.060 Also

00:32:12.640 And I said

00:32:14.100 We don't care

00:32:14.840 That you're a fireman

00:32:15.620 But you're not getting in

00:32:17.400 So I had to think fast

00:32:18.640 And I talked my way in

00:32:20.260 You know

00:32:22.100 I was at that perimeter

00:32:23.540 I don't know

00:32:24.740 How anyone

00:32:25.260 Could have talked

00:32:25.880 Themselves through that line

00:32:27.420 How did you do it?

00:32:28.920 I told a little fib

00:32:30.820 I told them

00:32:31.620 I missed the rig

00:32:33.000 And I was going

00:32:34.220 To get in trouble

00:32:34.760 If I didn't

00:32:35.500 Get in there

00:32:36.280 And they bought it

00:32:37.720 Wow

00:32:38.120 Wow

00:32:39.100 Okay

00:32:39.600 So you're

00:32:40.640 So you're there

00:32:41.700 You snuck across

00:32:42.920 The bridge

00:32:43.580 On the island

00:32:44.820 Then you

00:32:45.440 You

00:32:46.040 You sneak across

00:32:47.900 The barrier

00:32:48.860 With National Guard

00:32:50.120 Right

00:32:50.900 And then what happens?

00:32:52.560 And then I came

00:32:53.280 Into ground zero

00:32:54.460 And I tell you

00:32:55.580 It was a shark

00:32:56.800 You can see the people

00:32:57.720 Running

00:32:58.060 As these buildings

00:32:59.140 Begin to grow

00:32:59.640 Running

00:33:00.520 Racing for their lives

00:33:01.620 One of the buildings

00:33:02.620 Is partially collapsed

00:33:04.220 Means that as yet

00:33:05.900 Unidentified survivors

00:33:07.140 Will be found

00:33:08.020 In underground

00:33:08.860 The first thing

00:33:09.640 That came to my mind

00:33:10.500 Was

00:33:10.760 Just as how it

00:33:12.220 Probably looked

00:33:12.980 In the blitz

00:33:13.980 When

00:33:14.320 Yeah

00:33:14.720 Wow

00:33:15.680 You know what happened?

00:33:17.340 I worked down there

00:33:18.720 All that day

00:33:19.580 And I was on

00:33:21.600 The bucket brigade

00:33:22.580 And I found a shovel

00:33:23.900 And I started digging

00:33:24.900 With the guys

00:33:25.740 And we were

00:33:26.420 And we found

00:33:27.400 A pumper

00:33:28.820 A pumper

00:33:29.300 Is a fire engine

00:33:30.200 In the rubble

00:33:31.200 And we told the crane operator

00:33:33.500 To put the

00:33:34.300 D-rig 0.99

00:33:35.520 Out

00:33:35.980 On the

00:33:36.460 In the street

00:33:37.200 Which he did

00:33:38.880 Some guy comes over

00:33:40.580 And he says

00:33:42.260 The president is here

00:33:43.960 And I saw the guys

00:33:45.640 Put their shovel down

00:33:46.680 And I put mine down

00:33:47.820 And I walked out

00:33:49.020 To the street

00:33:49.600 And there's that pumper

00:33:51.220 We just dug out

00:33:52.460 Of the rubble

00:33:53.160 I jumped up on it

00:33:55.360 And right across the street

00:33:56.880 Was a command post

00:33:59.020 A tent

00:33:59.760 With all microphones

00:34:01.020 In front of it

00:34:01.680 I figured

00:34:02.300 Oh

00:34:02.620 That's where the president

00:34:03.520 Is going to talk

00:34:04.320 This secret service man

00:34:06.940 Came over to me

00:34:08.280 And he said

00:34:08.960 Is this safe

00:34:09.880 I said yeah

00:34:10.620 And he said

00:34:11.820 We'll jump up

00:34:12.380 And down on it

00:34:12.960 For me

00:34:13.300 So I jumped up

00:34:14.260 And down on it

00:34:14.840 For him

00:34:15.220 And he said

00:34:16.300 Okay

00:34:16.620 He said

00:34:17.360 Somebody important

00:34:18.660 Is coming over here

00:34:19.720 And when they come here

00:34:22.460 You help them up

00:34:23.300 And then you get down

00:34:24.300 I said okay

00:34:25.240 Because you do

00:34:25.980 What the secret service

00:34:27.200 Guy tells you to do

00:34:28.160 The president comes around

00:34:30.380 And he does a hard right

00:34:32.180 And he comes right

00:34:32.880 In front of me

00:34:33.420 And he puts his arm up

00:34:34.500 So I pull him up

00:34:36.300 And I turn him around

00:34:38.020 And I said to him

00:34:39.180 Are you okay Mr. President

00:34:40.400 And he said yeah

00:34:41.180 And I start to get down

00:34:43.440 He said where you going

00:34:44.200 I said I was told

00:34:45.700 To get down

00:34:46.180 He said no no

00:34:46.740 You stay right here

00:34:47.560 And he put his arm around me

00:34:48.940 And that's my story

00:34:50.900 That's unbelievable

00:34:53.380 It is

00:34:54.380 I didn't know

00:34:55.040 I didn't know

00:34:56.020 Any of those things

00:34:57.440 What did the president

00:34:59.200 Say to you

00:35:00.120 At one point

00:35:01.260 Do you even remember

00:35:02.120 When he turned to you

00:35:03.420 In the middle of the speech

00:35:04.620 And he said some things to you

00:35:06.180 Do you remember

00:35:06.720 No

00:35:07.500 We couldn't hear

00:35:08.620 We couldn't hear each other

00:35:09.940 We did speak to each other

00:35:11.280 But we didn't hear each other

00:35:12.520 It was too loud

00:35:14.560 The guys

00:35:15.440 They were yelling

00:35:16.680 I didn't remember him

00:35:18.240 Having that megaphone

00:35:19.820 The bullhorn

00:35:21.100 Really

00:35:21.460 And then he started to speak

00:35:23.360 And he's speaking to the right

00:35:24.620 And the guys on the left

00:35:26.860 They're yelling

00:35:27.580 We can't hear you

00:35:29.400 And then he turned to the left

00:35:31.960 With the bullhorn

00:35:33.560 And he said

00:35:34.000 I can hear you

00:35:35.260 And the whole world hears you

00:35:38.120 And the people

00:35:39.100 Who knocked these buildings down

00:35:41.000 Will hear all of us soon

00:35:43.180 They went crazy

00:35:45.160 They went nuts

00:35:47.260 They started chanting

00:35:48.920 USA

00:35:49.700 USA

00:35:50.640 USA

00:35:51.560 And it was

00:35:53.820 He said everything

00:35:55.080 In those three sentences

00:35:56.800 So Bob

00:35:58.180 You were given a

00:36:00.580 A flag

00:36:02.000 Right after his visit

00:36:03.560 Right?

00:36:04.600 Yes

00:36:04.920 When I was helping him

00:36:06.340 Get down from the rig

00:36:07.580 Somebody handed him

00:36:10.060 The flag

00:36:10.860 And he puts his arm up

00:36:13.220 And he waves the flag

00:36:14.520 I saw Governor Pataki

00:36:16.800 Standing there

00:36:18.220 So I tapped him on his shoulder

00:36:19.620 And he turns around

00:36:21.240 And he grabs my legs

00:36:22.900 And he picks me up

00:36:23.760 And he puts me out

00:36:24.460 In the street

00:36:24.760 I said

00:36:25.040 You're going to hurt yourself

00:36:25.840 He said I'm a big guy

00:36:26.960 I said okay

00:36:27.760 I'm walking back

00:36:29.500 To go back to work

00:36:30.660 And this

00:36:32.720 Secret service guy

00:36:34.260 Taps me on his shoulder

00:36:35.820 And he said

00:36:36.400 The president's been

00:36:37.560 Looking for you

00:36:38.140 I said oh

00:36:38.780 Now what did I do

00:36:39.600 And he said

00:36:41.880 He wants you to have

00:36:42.500 This flag

00:36:43.140 I said oh

00:36:44.060 Very nice

00:36:44.680 Thank you

00:36:45.200 And I stuck it

00:36:46.020 In my pocket

00:36:46.680 And I'm going back

00:36:47.500 To work

00:36:48.000 Anyway

00:36:49.100 Glenn

00:36:49.820 The secret service guy

00:36:51.480 That told me

00:36:52.340 When the politician

00:36:53.480 Comes over there

00:36:54.280 And takes my spot

00:36:55.420 To get down

00:36:56.660 When I went on television

00:36:58.780 I would tell them

00:36:59.920 My story

00:37:00.640 And I got a letter

00:37:02.040 From the White House

00:37:03.100 I'm the guy

00:37:04.900 That told you

00:37:05.660 What to do

00:37:06.800 Thank you for calling me

00:37:08.300 A secret service guy

00:37:09.480 But

00:37:09.840 And he signs it

00:37:11.260 Carl Rove

00:37:12.600 Senior advisor

00:37:13.840 To the president

00:37:14.500 Oh my gosh

00:37:15.280 Oh my gosh

00:37:16.160 Exactly

00:37:16.960 That's what I said

00:37:18.260 So let me ask you this

00:37:19.440 Because

00:37:19.800 The day before

00:37:21.540 Your family was saying

00:37:23.680 You're just going to

00:37:24.640 Get in the way

00:37:25.420 When you got home

00:37:27.580 After sneaking

00:37:29.240 Across the bridge

00:37:30.380 Sneaking past

00:37:32.040 The National Guard

00:37:33.920 Working

00:37:34.540 Then the president

00:37:36.020 Is giving

00:37:37.380 One of the most

00:37:38.700 Memorable speeches

00:37:39.560 Probably since

00:37:40.760 The day of infamy

00:37:41.900 What did your family say?

00:37:44.940 I drove over

00:37:46.720 And I said

00:37:47.220 Who's going to believe

00:37:48.040 That I was with

00:37:48.780 The president

00:37:49.360 There were no cameras

00:37:50.840 Down there Glenn

00:37:51.600 No cameras

00:37:52.940 At all

00:37:53.480 That I saw

00:37:54.260 Anyway

00:37:55.280 I pull up

00:37:55.840 In front of my house

00:37:56.660 And people are coming out

00:37:58.020 My neighbors

00:37:58.640 And they're all

00:37:59.460 Carrying candles

00:38:00.500 That was the day

00:38:01.440 They had candles

00:38:02.820 And they came

00:38:04.100 Into my driveway

00:38:05.060 And this

00:38:05.800 And this police officer

00:38:07.280 Across the street

00:38:08.060 From me

00:38:08.500 A city cop

00:38:09.560 And he said to me

00:38:10.920 Beck

00:38:11.140 You're on television

00:38:13.200 I said get out of here 0.96

00:38:14.200 There were no cameras

00:38:15.680 Down there

00:38:16.180 So I came in the house

00:38:17.680 And my granddaughter

00:38:18.420 Was sitting on a couch

00:38:19.540 And she says

00:38:20.080 Grandpa

00:38:20.440 You're on television

00:38:22.260 And they were showing it

00:38:24.500 Over and over

00:38:25.260 I said wow

00:38:26.660 I was surprised

00:38:28.440 That they had me

00:38:30.440 And the president

00:38:31.220 Who was the most

00:38:32.160 Important thing

00:38:32.980 Yeah

00:38:34.700 You stayed in touch

00:38:36.380 With the president?

00:38:37.760 We did

00:38:38.440 We still keep in touch

00:38:40.240 Myself

00:38:41.760 And my wife

00:38:42.420 And a couple of my kids

00:38:44.400 We were invited

00:38:45.940 To the Oval Office

00:38:47.000 And it was very nice

00:38:49.060 Everybody was there

00:38:50.700 You know

00:38:51.020 Governor Pataki

00:38:52.120 Karl Rove was there

00:38:54.180 Mayor Giuliani

00:38:55.280 Tommy Van Essen

00:38:56.600 The commissioner

00:38:57.260 Chuck Schumer

00:38:58.240 You've had some

00:39:00.380 Special experiences

00:39:01.320 Because of that picture

00:39:02.820 Yes

00:39:03.940 We were called

00:39:05.040 Into

00:39:05.580 Excuse me

00:39:06.600 Germany

00:39:07.860 Three times

00:39:09.000 And then twice

00:39:10.600 In Cologne

00:39:11.480 And

00:39:13.100 Really treated

00:39:14.700 Top shelf

00:39:15.820 So Bob

00:39:16.660 When you look

00:39:18.000 Back at this now

00:39:19.200 What is it

00:39:21.160 That you take away?

00:39:22.620 What is it

00:39:23.120 That we should

00:39:24.020 As a people

00:39:25.100 Take away

00:39:25.840 From that moment

00:39:27.720 On the fire truck

00:39:29.540 You know what Glenn?

00:39:31.760 We fought two wars

00:39:33.140 We fought the Japanese

00:39:35.060 And we fought the Germans 0.58

00:39:36.380 And we stuck together

00:39:37.720 And that's the same thing

00:39:39.020 That happened

00:39:39.940 At

00:39:40.580 9-11

00:39:41.980 People came in

00:39:43.620 From every state

00:39:44.400 To help us

00:39:45.140 Search and rescue

00:39:46.320 And

00:39:46.700 Rescue right

00:39:47.680 And the food

00:39:48.660 I was

00:39:49.040 I was there

00:39:50.220 Bob

00:39:50.720 And

00:39:51.020 I saw people

00:39:52.380 Come from all over

00:39:53.240 The country

00:39:53.680 To feed you guys

00:39:54.680 And my

00:39:54.940 My wife and I

00:39:56.140 Went

00:39:56.540 These firemen

00:39:58.000 Were coming out

00:39:59.000 After a long day

00:40:00.160 And

00:40:00.700 Both of us

00:40:02.200 Just started to

00:40:03.120 Applaud

00:40:03.820 Like

00:40:04.220 I don't know

00:40:05.460 It was just

00:40:06.260 It was

00:40:06.840 Everything

00:40:07.600 Was upside down

00:40:09.140 And

00:40:09.580 The enormity

00:40:10.820 Of it

00:40:11.280 Was just

00:40:12.300 Remarkable

00:40:13.180 Yes

00:40:14.680 It really was

00:40:16.800 But we

00:40:17.740 Stuck together

00:40:18.460 And

00:40:19.180 We

00:40:20.440 We received

00:40:21.360 Rigs

00:40:22.200 That we lost

00:40:23.040 In it

00:40:23.640 And

00:40:23.940 Other states

00:40:24.960 Helped

00:40:25.300 They built

00:40:25.980 The rigs

00:40:26.600 And sent them

00:40:27.400 To us

00:40:27.940 You know

00:40:29.440 This is America

00:40:30.220 And the people

00:40:30.920 Are great

00:40:31.480 They really are

00:40:32.880 Bob

00:40:34.860 It's a

00:40:35.320 It's an honor

00:40:36.020 To talk to you

00:40:36.920 It really is

00:40:38.380 I made a

00:40:40.080 I made a painting

00:40:41.280 For charity

00:40:42.440 And I was

00:40:42.940 I was wondering

00:40:43.840 If you would be

00:40:44.460 Willing to sign it

00:40:45.320 If I sent it up

00:40:46.080 To you

00:40:46.360 Would you be

00:40:46.720 Willing to sign it

00:40:47.540 Of course

00:40:48.400 That would be great

00:40:49.520 That would be great

00:40:50.620 Bob thank you so much

00:40:52.520 God bless you

00:40:53.260 God bless you

00:40:54.500 Glenn

00:40:54.820 Thank you

00:40:55.480 Bye bye

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00:41:56.360 Beck

00:41:56.840 This is the

00:41:58.400 Glenn Beck program

00:41:59.320 There are two new books

00:42:06.420 That are out today

00:42:07.260 That are remarkable

00:42:08.600 One is by Brad Meltzer

00:42:10.260 He's one of our

00:42:10.920 Favorite guests

00:42:11.600 And he is the guy

00:42:12.440 Who found the

00:42:13.300 9-11 flag

00:42:14.440 We'll talk to him

00:42:15.640 About that

00:42:16.120 He's in studio

00:42:16.780 Is he not?

00:42:18.460 Maybe not

00:42:18.960 Maybe not

00:42:19.380 But he'll be

00:42:19.900 He'll be with us

00:42:20.520 Here in a few minutes

00:42:21.160 And then the other book

00:42:22.320 That has come out

00:42:22.940 The Only Plane in the Sky

00:42:24.580 An Oral History of 9-11

00:42:26.720 I've never read a book

00:42:28.380 Like this before

00:42:29.380 It is riveting

00:42:31.360 From cover to cover

00:42:32.840 Started reading it

00:42:34.680 And I thought I would

00:42:35.240 Just browse through it

00:42:36.240 I couldn't put it down

00:42:38.780 It is

00:42:40.540 I don't even know

00:42:41.580 How this author

00:42:42.440 Wrote this

00:42:43.140 How he gathered

00:42:43.860 This information

00:42:44.640 He talked to people

00:42:46.100 Who were up with

00:42:46.760 Counter

00:42:47.040 Cantor Fitzgerald

00:42:48.520 I mean I thought

00:42:49.740 All of them died

00:42:50.640 This is a

00:42:52.640 Remarkable

00:42:54.020 History

00:42:54.820 Of 9-11

00:42:56.280 And it's not told

00:42:57.580 By him

00:42:58.080 It's all of the people

00:42:59.860 In chronological order

00:43:01.360 That were affected

00:43:03.280 At different points

00:43:04.360 And what was going on

00:43:05.380 From start to finish

00:43:06.300 It's incredible

00:43:07.860 He's going to be with us

00:43:09.520 His name is Garrett Graff

00:43:10.760 He's going to be with us

00:43:11.540 In hour number three

00:43:12.600 This is a show

00:43:13.380 You don't want to miss

00:43:14.520 A second of

00:43:15.740 As we remember

00:43:17.720 9-11

00:43:19.340 Perhaps we should

00:43:21.200 Honor our promises

00:43:24.060 That we all made

00:43:25.340 To each other

00:43:25.740 We wouldn't forget

00:43:26.460 We wouldn't

00:43:27.120 We wouldn't break ranks

00:43:28.560 With one another

00:43:29.200 And boy have we ever

00:43:30.420 And

00:43:31.800 Really a lot of our

00:43:34.160 Problems

00:43:34.880 That we have right now

00:43:36.140 The issues that we're

00:43:37.300 Dealing with right now

00:43:38.500 Were made 0.98

00:43:40.020 I think

00:43:41.220 You know

00:43:42.120 With good reason

00:43:43.400 At the time

00:43:44.020 And good faith

00:43:44.740 At the time

00:43:45.300 And we should

00:43:47.100 Re-evaluate

00:43:48.820 Those things

00:43:49.440 And what we

00:43:49.880 Originally said

00:43:50.800 We would do

00:43:51.580 All on today's

00:43:52.820 Broadcast

00:43:53.680 You're listening

00:44:01.540 To Glenn Beck

00:44:03.180 Gosh for those of us

00:44:17.720 Who were old enough

00:44:19.000 To really be

00:44:20.240 You know

00:44:20.660 Parents at the time

00:44:21.760 This is a

00:44:22.620 Bizarre

00:44:23.860 Day

00:44:24.900 I want to

00:44:27.100 Talk to you about

00:44:27.940 Our cruise through history

00:44:28.760 We're gonna

00:44:29.420 How do we put the pieces

00:44:30.540 Back together

00:44:31.440 How do we come back

00:44:32.780 Together as a nation

00:44:33.760 I mean we have now

00:44:34.680 Been on a

00:44:36.000 A course

00:44:37.200 That is just a

00:44:38.560 Collision course

00:44:39.360 Now for about

00:44:39.980 20 years

00:44:40.600 And tearing ourselves

00:44:41.620 Apart

00:44:41.920 How do we do it

00:44:42.820 Well

00:44:44.460 That's one of the

00:44:45.820 Things that we're

00:44:46.320 Going to talk about

00:44:47.540 And is gonna play

00:44:48.740 A big role

00:44:49.300 In 2020

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00:45:09.580 It's

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00:45:46.500 The fusion

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00:45:48.820 And enlightenment

00:45:50.160 There is a famous

00:45:51.980 Picture from 9-11

00:45:53.800 That happened 18 years ago

00:45:55.440 That is almost

00:45:56.860 My generation's

00:45:59.420 Version of the

00:46:00.540 Raising of the flag

00:46:01.440 At Iwo Jima

00:46:02.100 But that flag

00:46:04.420 Was lost

00:46:05.600 People thought

00:46:06.780 They had the flag

00:46:07.500 And it wasn't the flag

00:46:08.480 It wasn't the right flag

00:46:09.620 The guy who found it

00:46:12.160 His search

00:46:14.000 Is incredible

00:46:15.440 A good friend of ours

00:46:17.420 Who has a new book out

00:46:18.960 Starting today

00:46:20.080 Brad Meltzer

00:46:21.180 He joins us

00:46:22.500 In just one minute

00:46:24.080 This is the

00:46:25.980 Glenn Beck Program

00:46:26.860 As a conservative

00:46:31.120 Living in today's America

00:46:32.300 I am well aware

00:46:33.760 It just wouldn't be

00:46:35.000 Possible for me

00:46:36.160 To transact

00:46:36.600 Every act of business

00:46:37.760 That I do

00:46:38.400 With only businesses

00:46:39.840 That contribute

00:46:40.520 To conservative causes

00:46:41.840 I just don't want to

00:46:43.280 I just don't want to

00:46:44.100 Put money into

00:46:44.820 Into people's pockets

00:46:46.200 That are actively

00:46:47.320 Working against

00:46:48.560 The things that are

00:46:49.440 Really important to me

00:46:50.580 For instance

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00:46:51.500 I don't want to do

00:46:52.680 Business with people

00:46:53.420 Who are giving

00:46:54.080 You know

00:46:54.480 A lot of money

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00:46:56.240 Why would I give

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00:48:01.700 Slash Beck

00:48:02.400 Switch today

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00:48:05.100 Slash Beck

00:48:06.040 I have

00:48:23.880 I have never gone back

00:48:27.160 And listened to my own archives

00:48:28.860 On

00:48:29.700 For the week of 9-11

00:48:31.360 And

00:48:33.420 I just

00:48:33.960 It is

00:48:34.940 It's been something

00:48:36.580 That I just

00:48:37.600 Haven't wanted to do

00:48:39.660 At all

00:48:41.900 I

00:48:42.100 Don't go back

00:48:43.300 And listen to my old shows

00:48:44.440 And

00:48:44.920 And

00:48:46.360 9-11

00:48:47.140 That week was

00:48:48.320 Extraordinarily

00:48:49.540 Painful

00:48:50.640 But my staff

00:48:52.960 Has gone back

00:48:53.680 And they've brought

00:48:54.160 A couple of things

00:48:55.060 To me

00:48:56.180 That I had

00:48:56.920 Forgotten about

00:48:58.080 That kind of

00:48:58.560 Put the day

00:48:59.060 Into perspective

00:48:59.800 And

00:49:00.180 Can we just

00:49:04.300 Before we go to Brad

00:49:05.180 Can we just play

00:49:06.100 The clip

00:49:06.800 Of

00:49:07.220 Of what I said

00:49:08.720 During the show

00:49:09.460 Everything that was

00:49:10.680 Closed on this day

00:49:11.680 To give you some

00:49:12.400 Perspective

00:49:13.400 Of

00:49:14.420 Of what this day

00:49:16.480 Was like

00:49:17.120 18 years ago

00:49:18.140 The White House

00:49:19.760 The Capitol

00:49:20.320 The United Nations

00:49:21.200 Have been evacuated

00:49:22.460 For the first time

00:49:24.140 Ever

00:49:24.500 In the history

00:49:26.040 Of our country

00:49:26.740 We have stopped

00:49:28.000 All aircraft

00:49:28.920 All flights

00:49:30.640 Nationwide

00:49:31.360 Stopped

00:49:32.280 At their departure

00:49:33.120 Airports

00:49:33.800 All international

00:49:35.420 Flights

00:49:35.940 Were diverted

00:49:36.600 To Canada

00:49:37.380 Fighter jets

00:49:38.960 Are now circling

00:49:40.020 Washington D.C.

00:49:41.260 And New York City

00:49:42.360 Only medical personnel

00:49:44.440 Are allowed to use

00:49:45.520 The streets

00:49:46.020 In Washington

00:49:46.800 Israel has evacuated 0.87

00:49:49.200 Their embassies

00:49:50.320 Chicago

00:49:51.900 Sears Tower

00:49:52.940 Has been evacuated

00:49:54.080 The Centers

00:49:55.940 For Disease Control

00:49:57.020 Atlanta

00:49:58.740 Evacuated

00:50:00.740 CDC at this hour

00:50:03.760 Is preparing

00:50:04.500 Bioterrorism teams

00:50:06.320 Sixteen

00:50:08.600 Fighter jets

00:50:09.800 Scrambled over

00:50:11.280 Washington D.C.

00:50:12.360 Shopping centers

00:50:14.440 Across the country

00:50:15.400 Have been closed

00:50:16.720 Kennedy Space Center

00:50:18.160 LAX

00:50:19.020 Disney

00:50:20.820 Closed

00:50:22.400 World markets

00:50:24.580 Today down

00:50:25.240 Dramatically

00:50:25.860 U.S.

00:50:27.580 Mexico border

00:50:28.360 Closed

00:50:29.940 And that was all

00:50:32.220 For six inches

00:50:33.020 Of snow

00:50:33.580 And you know

00:50:34.600 No

00:50:34.860 It was

00:50:36.380 It was a

00:50:38.100 Bizarre day

00:50:38.700 That you

00:50:39.040 Completely

00:50:39.800 Forget

00:50:41.520 What that

00:50:43.900 Day was like

00:50:44.600 Even if you

00:50:45.120 Were there

00:50:45.600 Brad Meltzer

00:50:47.560 Is a good

00:50:48.060 Friend of mine

00:50:48.840 We became

00:50:49.880 Friends after

00:50:50.540 9-11

00:50:51.280 A few years

00:50:51.940 After that

00:50:52.480 And we

00:50:53.840 Have connected

00:50:54.580 On history

00:50:55.360 And Brad

00:50:56.500 Is with us

00:50:57.020 He has a

00:50:57.360 New book

00:50:57.700 Out today

00:50:58.240 It's about

00:50:59.420 Walt Disney

00:50:59.980 And I want

00:51:01.060 To talk to

00:51:01.480 Him about

00:51:01.800 It

00:51:01.940 It's a

00:51:02.380 Great

00:51:02.700 Children's

00:51:03.200 Book

00:51:03.360 I am

00:51:03.680 Walt

00:51:03.900 Disney

00:51:04.180 But I

00:51:04.980 Also wanted

00:51:05.340 To talk to

00:51:05.760 Him about

00:51:05.960 9-11

00:51:06.400 Where were

00:51:06.960 You Brad

00:51:07.540 When the

00:51:08.640 Towers

00:51:08.920 Came down

00:51:09.400 I was

00:51:11.240 In Washington

00:51:11.780 D.C.

00:51:12.340 Of all

00:51:12.660 Places

00:51:13.100 And this

00:51:14.760 Is you

00:51:15.280 Know we

00:51:15.760 Lost our

00:51:16.180 Friend

00:51:16.460 Michelle

00:51:16.800 Heidenberger

00:51:17.360 Was a

00:51:17.680 Flight

00:51:17.900 Attendant

00:51:18.300 On the

00:51:18.500 Pentagon

00:51:18.740 Flight

00:51:19.160 And my

00:51:20.580 Wife

00:51:21.120 This is

00:51:22.740 Why it

00:51:23.000 Hits me

00:51:23.300 Today

00:51:23.560 Not because

00:51:24.080 Of the

00:51:24.340 Finding

00:51:24.620 Of the

00:51:24.880 Flag

00:51:25.220 Which

00:51:25.460 Obviously

00:51:25.820 Was an

00:51:26.180 Honor

00:51:26.480 But it

00:51:27.000 Was the

00:51:27.280 Personal

00:51:27.640 Side

00:51:28.040 As we

00:51:28.360 All know

00:51:28.680 We

00:51:28.800 All have

00:51:29.100 Our

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00:54:04.100 In

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00:54:54.260 Michelle

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00:55:44.960 Moments

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00:56:32.740 Anyone

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00:56:35.740 Washington

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00:56:37.540 Everett

00:56:37.920 Washington

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00:56:40.580 He

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00:56:41.520 Flag

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00:56:42.160 Saw

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00:57:02.220 It

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00:57:24.120 His

00:57:24.320 Specialty

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00:57:25.280 Flags

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00:57:26.860 He

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00:57:27.840 It

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00:57:30.580 Ground

00:57:30.840 Zero

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00:57:32.940 Know

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00:57:33.600 Gave

00:57:34.020 That

00:57:34.320 Flag

00:57:34.900 To

00:57:35.800 That

00:57:36.160 Person

00:57:36.600 Who

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00:57:37.740 And

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00:57:38.700 At

00:57:38.940 That

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00:57:39.380 In

00:57:39.580 Time

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00:57:41.020 Famous

00:57:41.340 Flag

00:57:41.740 It

00:57:42.000 Was

00:57:42.160 A

00:57:42.440 Flag

00:57:42.940 That

00:57:43.200 Had

00:57:43.340 Been

00:57:43.540 Lifted

00:57:43.960 It

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00:57:46.060 Ran

00:57:46.260 On

00:57:46.380 The

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00:57:50.380 To

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00:57:50.660 This

00:57:50.840 Flag

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00:57:51.340 It

00:57:51.420 Away

00:57:51.680 It

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00:57:52.280 Famous

00:57:52.640 Then

00:57:52.800 No

00:57:52.940 One

00:57:53.060 Knew

00:57:53.160 What

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00:57:53.380 Was

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00:57:54.100 Flag

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00:57:56.940 It

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00:57:57.160 And

00:57:57.720 Said

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00:57:58.840 He

00:57:59.300 Saw

00:57:59.560 The

00:57:59.740 Show

00:58:00.060 And

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00:58:25.760 Out

00:58:25.960 To

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00:58:26.760 Stadium

00:58:27.200 And

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00:58:29.480 Flag

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00:58:31.740 Figured

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00:58:32.200 That

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00:58:32.960 How

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00:58:33.740 Did

00:58:33.860 That

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00:58:36.200 And

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00:58:36.820 Signed

00:58:37.500 The

00:58:37.660 Flag

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00:58:38.200 Yankee

00:58:38.440 Stadium

00:58:38.700 Had

00:58:38.900 This

00:58:39.060 Big

00:58:39.320 Homecoming

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00:58:40.520 Brought 0.80

00:58:40.980 The

00:58:41.140 Flag

00:58:41.360 Out

00:58:41.520 Everyone

00:58:41.760 Cheered

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00:58:43.140 They

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00:58:45.200 Owners

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00:58:45.740 The

00:58:45.860 Flag

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00:58:47.060 A

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00:58:48.580 At

00:58:49.040 Ground

00:58:49.380 Zero

00:58:49.740 Was

00:58:50.440 This

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00:58:50.860 Couple 0.60

00:58:51.200 And

00:58:51.540 The

00:58:51.660 Greek

00:58:51.820 Couple 0.60

00:58:52.080 Said

00:58:52.340 Hey

00:58:52.480 That's

00:58:52.760 Our

00:58:52.880 Flag

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00:58:53.200 Everyone

00:58:53.340 Knew

00:58:53.520 It

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00:58:54.060 Boat

00:58:54.300 They

00:58:54.440 Knew

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00:58:54.840 Came

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00:58:55.840 Said

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00:58:56.780 The

00:58:56.900 Flag

00:58:57.220 At

00:58:57.360 A

00:58:57.500 Charity

00:58:57.820 Benefit

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00:58:58.580 Doing

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00:58:59.320 Benefit

00:58:59.700 We'd

00:58:59.900 Love

00:59:00.000 To

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00:59:00.260 The

00:59:00.380 Flag

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00:59:00.860 And

00:59:00.980 The

00:59:01.300 City

00:59:01.480 Said

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00:59:02.680 The

00:59:02.840 Flag

00:59:03.100 To

00:59:03.260 The

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00:59:03.660 Unfurls

00:59:05.500 The

00:59:05.660 Flag

00:59:05.940 At

00:59:06.080 The

00:59:06.180 Event

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00:59:07.880 This

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00:59:08.440 Gigantic

00:59:08.940 Their

00:59:09.180 Flag

00:59:09.420 Was

00:59:09.600 Small

00:59:09.880 They're

00:59:10.060 Like

00:59:10.260 Someone

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00:59:10.840 The

00:59:10.980 Flag

00:59:11.260 They

00:59:11.480 Lost

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00:59:14.120 Flag

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00:59:16.800 It

00:59:16.900 Was

00:59:17.020 Missing

00:59:17.420 And

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00:59:20.740 Out

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00:59:25.380 A

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00:59:25.660 Question

00:59:26.120 That

00:59:27.080 Is 0.88

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00:59:29.980 To

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00:59:31.960 Am

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00:59:32.840 At

00:59:33.560 Last

00:59:34.640 Hour

00:59:34.880 I

00:59:35.040 Played

00:59:35.320 Something

00:59:35.620 That

00:59:35.860 I

00:59:35.960 Haven't

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00:59:36.380 In

00:59:36.560 18

00:59:36.920 Years

00:59:37.360 I

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00:59:38.740 The

00:59:38.860 Air

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00:59:39.760 It

00:59:40.040 Was

00:59:40.180 The

00:59:40.400 End

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00:59:40.820 The

00:59:40.940 Broadcast

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00:59:42.300 I

00:59:42.520 Think

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00:59:42.940 Had

00:59:43.060 Been

00:59:43.200 On

00:59:43.320 The

00:59:43.420 Air

00:59:43.540 For

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00:59:43.860 Eight

00:59:44.040 Hours

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00:59:45.280 I

00:59:45.440 Said

00:59:45.720 I

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00:59:46.220 You

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00:59:46.400 Pull

00:59:46.540 Your

00:59:46.720 Car

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00:59:49.060 I

00:59:49.260 Think

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00:59:51.980 That

00:59:52.220 It

00:59:52.440 Was

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00:59:57.000 Kind

00:59:57.620 Of

00:59:57.880 Help

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00:59:58.680 Lord

00:59:59.020 Kind

00:59:59.380 Of

00:59:59.500 Prayer

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01:00:01.180 I

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01:00:06.360 That

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01:00:08.880 The

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01:00:09.780 As

01:00:09.920 A

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01:00:12.800 Said

01:00:13.380 Help

01:00:14.020 Us

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01:00:16.860 I

01:00:17.220 I

01:00:17.520 Think

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01:00:18.440 I

01:00:18.860 We

01:00:19.280 I

01:00:19.740 Say

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01:00:20.400 Prayer

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01:00:21.080 Say

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01:00:21.620 Every

01:00:21.840 Day

01:00:22.000 Every

01:00:22.200 Night

01:00:22.420 Right

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01:00:28.320 Prayer

01:00:28.660 That

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01:00:29.860 I

01:00:30.860 Just

01:00:31.840 Read

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01:00:32.260 Article

01:00:32.660 That

01:00:33.460 All

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01:00:34.120 Responders

01:00:34.880 Right

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01:00:36.800 18

01:00:37.700 Years

01:00:38.020 Ago

01:00:38.400 How

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01:00:39.840 Kids

01:00:40.500 Who

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01:00:43.240 Up

01:00:43.460 To

01:00:43.600 Be

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01:00:44.460 Fire

01:00:44.660 Fighters

01:00:45.780 And

01:00:45.920 Police

01:00:46.220 Officers

01:00:46.840 That

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01:00:47.580 In

01:00:47.740 This

01:00:47.920 Incoming

01:00:48.340 Class

01:00:48.960 They

01:00:49.940 Know

01:00:50.200 Exactly

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01:00:51.620 Is 0.88

01:00:51.760 At

01:00:51.940 Risk

01:00:52.300 They

01:00:52.920 Know

01:00:53.080 Exactly

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01:00:54.480 This

01:00:54.660 Job

01:00:55.280 18

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01:00:56.160 Ago

01:00:56.380 They

01:00:56.560 Lost

01:00:56.920 Their

01:00:57.160 Dad

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01:00:57.780 Moms

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01:00:59.280 My

01:00:59.680 Gosh

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01:01:00.260 We

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01:01:00.800 Them

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01:01:01.120 Our

01:01:01.240 Prayers

01:01:01.540 To

01:01:01.700 As

01:01:01.840 A

01:01:01.960 Thankful

01:01:02.400 Like

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01:01:02.800 These

01:01:03.060 People

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01:01:03.460 Out

01:01:03.600 There

01:01:03.840 Hang

01:01:04.380 On

01:01:04.560 I

01:01:04.680 Want

01:01:04.840 To

01:01:04.920 Ask

01:01:05.220 You

01:01:05.380 A

01:01:05.540 Different

01:01:06.040 Question

01:01:06.580 In

01:01:07.200 One

01:01:07.420 Minute

01:01:07.680 Brad

01:01:08.680 Meltzer

01:01:09.020 Who's

01:01:09.260 Got

01:01:09.400 A

01:01:09.540 New

01:01:09.700 Book

01:01:09.920 Out

01:01:10.140 It's

01:01:10.460 Fantastic

01:01:11.140 And

01:01:12.100 I

01:01:12.240 Am

01:01:12.420 A

01:01:12.640 Disney

01:01:13.420 File

01:01:13.880 It's

01:01:15.460 Called

01:01:22.300 More

01:01:22.760 Than

01:01:23.000 One

01:01:23.240 Percent

01:01:23.620 Since

01:01:24.040 Late

01:01:24.500 2018

01:01:25.200 And

01:01:26.000 Maybe

01:01:26.160 That

01:01:26.360 Doesn't

01:01:26.640 Sound

01:01:26.860 Like

01:01:27.060 Much

01:01:27.320 But

01:01:27.500 If

01:01:27.620 You

01:01:27.720 Were

01:01:27.820 Looking

01:01:28.060 For

01:01:28.520 A

01:01:28.660 $300,000

01:01:29.480 Mortgage

01:01:30.180 Last

01:01:30.620 Year

01:01:30.940 And

01:01:31.720 You

01:01:31.900 Got

01:01:32.200 One

01:01:32.540 You'll

01:01:33.700 Pay

01:01:33.880 $240

01:01:34.660 More

01:01:35.320 Per

01:01:35.600 Month

01:01:35.980 Than

01:01:36.120 You

01:01:36.240 Would

01:01:36.400 Right

01:01:36.660 Now

01:01:37.000 I

01:01:37.680 Mean

01:01:37.800 250

01:01:38.260 Bucks

01:01:38.640 A

01:01:38.780 Month

01:01:39.000 That

01:01:39.300 Is 0.88

01:01:39.540 Well

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01:02:33.820 So, Brad, we are now paying for the consequences of our actions, the war in Afghanistan, the war in Iraq, the Patriot Act, all of these different things.

01:02:59.720 Um, uh, what is the, what is the lesson?

01:03:05.300 And, and you might even want to come back tomorrow and answer this.

01:03:08.420 What is the thing that we have done in the last 18 years that we should now look back and go, that was a mistake.

01:03:15.740 We probably shouldn't have done that.

01:03:17.380 And we should talk about it and correct this mistake.

01:03:23.140 Listen, um, I think when we look back on history, and obviously be happy to come and talk tomorrow, because I know, you know, you know,

01:03:29.220 there's just two big issues to talk about today and we have to, but I, you know, I think the thing that haunts me is, um, that misinformation that took us to war as if we were, you know, we were so rightfully, you know, looking for someone to get, right?

01:03:46.020 We were attacked personally.

01:03:47.780 Yeah.

01:03:48.220 And I do think that, um, you know, and I, and, and I was at President Bush's funeral.

01:03:53.580 Uh, I saw W was at dinner with him months ago.

01:03:56.600 Right.

01:03:56.700 Um, but that is haunting that we had the wrong information and went to war on the wrong information that in Iraq, that, that is, is forever haunting because, you know, I've done books on Dover Air Force Base and the men and women who take care of our fallen soldiers.

01:04:11.080 Yeah.

01:04:11.580 And how many fallen troops have gone through Dover for truly what I can only say is the wrong reason.

01:04:21.120 And not just because it's wrong that anyone should die, right?

01:04:24.480 We don't want any one of our troops to pay the ultimate price, but, you know, sent to battle for what, you know, and that's what, you know, you have to, at the end of the day, we see war.

01:04:35.380 And that's a big word, but we forget that, you know, when you enlist in the military, they will tell you, um, as the spouse of a, of someone who is sending their spouse into battle, that if two people show up at your front door, it means your loved one's dead.

01:04:53.480 And if one shows up at your door, they're just injured.

01:04:56.720 And those are real things that happen.

01:04:59.640 Those were real funerals that happened.

01:05:02.220 Um, thousands of, of, you know, men and women buried because of this.

01:05:05.840 They told me, you know, at Dover that at the height of Iraq and Afghanistan, there were so many bodies coming through there that they literally had to, you know, find another cooler to stack them up on.

01:05:18.260 They were coming so big, so many so fast.

01:05:21.200 And that's, that's the thing that I look back on and say, that's what, you know, one of the places where we went so, so wrong.

01:05:29.460 Brad, let me switch to your book.

01:05:31.340 Um, I am Walt Disney.

01:05:32.660 You, uh, you know how much of a fan I am of Walt Disney.

01:05:36.420 I did not know about the tar painting on the back of his house.

01:05:40.040 How good?

01:05:40.700 So listen, uh, again, oh, and you know, we're talking about heroes.

01:05:44.900 So let's actually talk about the positive side of this, right?

01:05:47.240 I mean, the reason why we're so moved today, I still believe is our culture is, you know, I started this book series and in many ways, you know, almost in a similar vein.

01:05:57.580 I was tired of my kids looking at people who are famous for being famous, famous for the wrong reasons.

01:06:02.360 I wanted to give my kids heroes like these 9-11 heroes, but heroes of character, heroes of kindness and compassion and hard work and perseverance.

01:06:11.640 And, and we did, I am Amelia Earhart and I am Abraham Lincoln and I am George Washington.

01:06:15.080 But our number one requested hero is the one that comes out today.

01:06:18.540 I am Walt Disney.

01:06:19.840 Number one request?

01:06:21.600 Number one request is I am Walt Disney.

01:06:23.600 We had to do the book.

01:06:24.480 And kids, when they come to my book signs, they don't make requests.

01:06:26.720 They make demands.

01:06:29.520 When you're, when you're really old or really young, you can get away with that.

01:06:34.840 Hang on just a sec, Brad.

01:06:35.740 I gotta, I gotta take a quick break back with Brad Meltzer, um, who is gracious enough to be with us, uh, today and talk about 9-11, but also heroes.

01:06:45.120 And I want to talk about heroes when we come back because the world is in need of heroes and you're starting to see them.

01:06:51.820 You're starting to see them.

01:06:53.220 And what would the world be like without some of these heroes?

01:06:57.740 And I put Walt Disney into that category.

01:07:00.580 More with Brad Meltzer here in just a second.

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01:08:27.160 You know, I think it's appropriate to, uh, take a break from the mainstream media that's,

01:08:32.340 uh, you know, just talking about Donald Trump and a tweet or the Taliban or whatever.

01:08:37.080 And just all the politics around that.

01:08:39.840 And then the other side, you know, talking about how the New York times said that airplanes

01:08:43.800 targeted the twin towers, instead of saying that it was terrorists that are shut up, shut

01:08:49.300 up.

01:08:49.620 I'm telling you, Stu, I want the Glenn Beck radio program.

01:08:53.640 Shut up. 0.95

01:08:54.420 T-shirt.

01:08:55.680 I need a t-shirt that that's all it says.

01:08:58.340 Shut up. 0.95

01:08:59.620 And I thought maybe, you know, maybe we could talk about, you know, what did we learn in

01:09:06.780 the last 18 years?

01:09:08.660 And one of those things is we got it from flight 93, uh, heroes.

01:09:16.100 We got heroes and there are a lot of heroes.

01:09:19.780 Brad Meltzer is with us.

01:09:20.900 He writes a series of books about heroes and he's got a new one out, uh, today called I

01:09:25.560 am Walt Disney, who is truly one of my heroes.

01:09:29.380 Uh, I have to ask you, you are also one of my heroes because somehow or another, you got

01:09:34.420 the rights to include all the images of Disney, Mickey mouse, and all of the characters in

01:09:40.040 your book.

01:09:40.660 How did you do that?

01:09:43.280 Uh, we're going to have to talk about this for sure tomorrow because I got to run in

01:09:46.260 one minute, but I will tell you this, um, they just look two things at once.

01:09:50.240 Uh, let's save it for tomorrow because it's a crazy story.

01:09:53.140 It's gotta be.

01:09:53.800 I had to get, I had to give away a child to get Mickey, but it might be worth it.

01:09:58.400 Okay.

01:09:58.880 All right.

01:09:59.280 We'll, we'll have you back.

01:10:00.200 Thank you so much, Brad.

01:10:01.360 Gosh, I didn't.

01:10:02.260 Yeah.

01:10:02.980 Yeah.

01:10:04.180 Uh, Brad is, is always fascinating.

01:10:07.080 He is the guy who we got to know each other real well because he called me up and he said,

01:10:11.020 you love history.

01:10:12.240 I said, yeah.

01:10:12.760 And he said, you know that they're tearing, tearing down the Superman house.

01:10:15.660 I'm like, you know, Superman is a comic, right?

01:10:19.040 And he said, no, the two brothers that came up with Superman and the one brother did on

01:10:27.020 the wallpaper right behind the wallpaper of this house, you have the original sketches

01:10:31.580 of Superman and they were tearing it down.

01:10:34.640 It was in Ohio and we raised money to, to save the house.

01:10:37.420 We've been good friends ever since he is a real lover of, uh, of history.

01:10:42.860 Let me ask you, Stu.

01:10:43.900 I think it's the Patriot Act for me.

01:10:46.780 What is the one thing that we walk away after 18 years and go, shouldn't have done that or

01:10:55.000 should have done this?

01:10:58.880 Wow.

01:10:59.480 That's a, that's an interesting on the spot question.

01:11:01.820 I don't know that I have an instant answer to it.

01:11:03.660 I mean, the Patriot Act, I think is a, is a, is an interesting example because it was something

01:11:09.460 that at least for me helped me understand that even when, uh, you know, something has

01:11:15.520 a good intentions, right?

01:11:17.460 I think it did largely.

01:11:19.240 And B, I think it was actually written in a way that, that, that safeguarded against many

01:11:26.500 of the ways it was misused.

01:11:27.980 I mean, it was actually, a lot of the things that were in the Patriot Act were written to

01:11:33.920 guard against the way it was actually used and still the government misused it.

01:11:38.700 I mean, it shows you, you can't have too little faith in the federal government.

01:11:42.620 You can't have too little faith in this type of, uh, situation, even in those most desperate

01:11:48.260 moments.

01:11:49.080 And I, and I come back to thinking about 9-11 and the Patriot Act, the Patriot Act often

01:11:53.260 when we, when we have these, you know, terrible mass shootings and terrible events like that,

01:11:58.020 where afterwards the media not only doesn't learn the lesson of, of that particular part

01:12:05.280 of 9-11, where if you rush to try to do things in a, in a, in a big hurry and implement

01:12:11.820 them, it has long lasting consequences.

01:12:14.460 They cheer it on.

01:12:15.900 They say, how can we not act?

01:12:18.720 Look at what New Zealand did.

01:12:19.920 They had a mass shooting and they just changed all of their laws.

01:12:23.040 And they, they say that as if it's something to praise, something to, to chase after as

01:12:29.800 a country.

01:12:30.240 And it's like, that's the exact opposite.

01:12:31.640 If you, if you would have learned the lesson, I mean, it's a, it's an important lesson to

01:12:34.760 learn, I think from, from a lot of the stuff that we did after 9-11, which is even

01:12:39.680 though completely good intentions were there and, and a real serious situation.

01:12:44.960 And we probably did actually, in, in, when it comes to the Patriot Act, probably did prevent

01:12:49.440 terrorist attacks or at least may have.

01:12:53.040 And even with all that, I mean, we've, we've basically shredded the fourth and fifth amendments.

01:12:59.420 We've given up incredible amounts of our liberty.

01:13:02.160 We've, we've given up the, I mean, there's really no party now that's pushing back against

01:13:06.620 mass surveillance in, in ways that we never could have imagined, even after the Patriot

01:13:10.780 Act was, was implemented.

01:13:12.200 I mean, the guy who wrote it said afterwards, none of this stuff was allowed by what I wrote.

01:13:17.920 I mean, that is a, you just realize that no matter when or how you increase the power

01:13:26.420 of the government, eventually they will take it further.

01:13:29.100 And that's why sometimes we hold, I, I, I get really iffy about holding lines on stuff

01:13:34.120 that, that I, you know, you were talking, you were talking yesterday about guns and you

01:13:38.600 said, I can't, we got off the air and you said, I can't believe the guy who is more on,

01:13:44.840 you know, surveillance and, and new technology.

01:13:49.520 I can't believe that you are saying, well, okay, if we're going to have, you know, a gun

01:13:56.760 check and then we have to check it, you know, against selling guns to strangers, don't have

01:14:02.100 a problem.

01:14:02.540 And I have to tell you, uh, I retract that.

01:14:05.280 I retract that.

01:14:07.080 Uh, and think it bothered me all day yesterday, bothered me all day yesterday.

01:14:11.160 Um, and because I do want to do things that are sensible, but you know what?

01:14:17.560 Um, having the government involved in background checks and having, uh, it becomes very easily

01:14:28.700 as we're talking about the Patriot Act, none of this was in there.

01:14:32.160 Okay.

01:14:32.880 Same thing that becomes a registry for guns.

01:14:36.880 And, uh, we already have enough on the, on, on, on these things.

01:14:43.180 This guns are not, uh, for sporting.

01:14:47.820 It is not for hunting food.

01:14:51.320 Uh, it is for protection and not even protection of yourself.

01:14:57.060 It is for protection against the government.

01:15:01.100 And if we really want to take the second amendment seriously, it is a protection against an out 1.00

01:15:09.160 of control government and anything, our government is already out of control and we all know

01:15:16.040 it.

01:15:16.380 Both sides know it.

01:15:18.680 And yet both sides seem that think that their style of government will correct it.

01:15:24.720 It won't.

01:15:26.420 And, you know, with what's happening in China and how we, how close we are with, with the

01:15:32.840 government and Google right now, they are already in bed with each other and it's only going

01:15:37.620 to get worse.

01:15:39.620 Uh, no, no, I retract what I said.

01:15:45.140 Nothing.

01:15:46.340 You get nothing.

01:15:48.460 Guns are weapons of war and guns are weapons of war against any out of control government

01:15:55.880 anywhere in the world that is, that is holding their people captive and violating the rights

01:16:03.380 of man, the rights of man.

01:16:06.660 I have a right to be free and we are quickly closing that door and anything that gives the

01:16:13.660 government more power over the only real power we have.

01:16:18.840 The only reason why these doors have not closed on us sooner is because we are an armed society.

01:16:24.020 They, they, they must be afraid of a educated, a well-educated, well, um, uh, armed and responsible

01:16:36.420 citizenry.

01:16:38.120 Yeah.

01:16:38.700 I mean, I, I always think of the second amendment as, um, not, it's not that we have guns and

01:16:44.000 it's going to like, it's not necessarily even to defend yourself in a war or, or, or some

01:16:51.420 terrible government crackdown.

01:16:53.060 God forbid, Adolf Hitler gets elected. 0.83

01:16:55.140 It's, it's because no one would ever try it.

01:16:59.160 It's to prevent it from ever occurring.

01:17:01.340 That's why they're, that's why they're all saying, we're not going to confiscate your

01:17:04.080 guns.

01:17:04.500 Of course you're not.

01:17:05.440 Of course you're not.

01:17:06.580 You will lose.

01:17:08.440 And people say, you're going to fight against the U S army.

01:17:10.960 Yeah.

01:17:11.280 How long have we been fighting the Taliban?

01:17:13.860 People would be throwing rocks at us.

01:17:15.500 It's really hard.

01:17:16.260 Uh, I think that, I think that's pretty darn effective.

01:17:18.720 I think it's pretty darn effective.

01:17:20.440 It's not that you're going to wipe out.

01:17:21.720 It's going to be a simple war, but you don't lose your freedoms and it's not your freedom

01:17:26.860 that you're protecting.

01:17:27.600 We have to look at the first amendment. 1.00

01:17:29.100 I did a lot of thinking about this yesterday.

01:17:30.620 We have to look at the first amendment as, Hey, I have a right to question you, to gather,

01:17:36.000 to be in a group.

01:17:37.380 I have a right to say, what are you doing?

01:17:39.860 Stop it.

01:17:40.960 I have a right to expose you in the press.

01:17:43.940 I have a right to do all of that to the government.

01:17:47.760 All of that is to the government.

01:17:50.120 Remember your first amendment is not for, you know, what you can say in a movie theater.

01:17:53.700 It's what you can say about the government.

01:17:56.600 So the first amendment is I can say whatever I want.

01:17:59.920 Well, that doesn't mean anything.

01:18:01.680 If they have a militia or a military, unless you have another counterpiece, if you've ever

01:18:09.200 played chess, you know, you don't make a move.

01:18:12.240 If you know, they can make a move and hurt you just as bad.

01:18:17.980 That that's what the second amendment is.

01:18:20.160 I can say whatever I want about you in the government.

01:18:22.940 I can question you.

01:18:24.200 I can gather together in groups to question you.

01:18:26.740 I can print anything I want against you because I might think that you're corrupt, might think

01:18:34.240 that you're corrupt. 0.76

01:18:35.640 And the second amendment says, and you know what?

01:18:40.400 I have the steam to back it up.

01:18:44.060 I don't want to, but it keeps them at bay.

01:18:48.020 It keeps them in check.

01:18:49.420 That is the critical part.

01:18:52.920 And that is the thing that we are forgetting right now.

01:18:55.360 And every time we have done something in the last 18 years for security and it's common

01:19:02.100 sense and we should do this.

01:19:04.100 And well, that's just, I mean, we should just, it doesn't work out that well.

01:19:08.600 I mean, look at the TSA.

01:19:10.400 I don't mean to drag down the TSA because there are a lot of good people.

01:19:16.360 There was a guy here in Dallas who I think was the best TSA guy I've ever seen.

01:19:20.440 And we, you know, I have to take off your belt and your shoes and everything else.

01:19:23.440 And he's like, don't touch that.

01:19:25.520 Don't touch.

01:19:26.600 He was, he was an Indian guy.

01:19:28.000 He's like, don't touch.

01:19:28.600 No, no, no, no, no, don't touch.

01:19:30.360 And he was running that line, but he was effective and he was good and he wasn't doing it because

01:19:36.480 he was some overlord.

01:19:37.540 He did it with a sense of humor.

01:19:38.840 We're all in this together, but I know how to make this line work fast.

01:19:42.160 I loved the guy, loved the guy.

01:19:45.320 There was another woman who was in another airport. 0.97

01:19:48.820 I think this was in Los Angeles.

01:19:50.320 And she said, you have tickets.

01:19:54.420 That's, that's how she, you have tickets. 0.90

01:19:57.500 And I said, um, yes.

01:20:00.200 And I was headed toward the place where you show them the tickets.

01:20:03.120 And I said, yes.

01:20:04.320 And I showed them and she just, she just looked at me and it wasn't because she even knew

01:20:08.480 me.

01:20:09.040 She just looked at me and she gave me the dirtiest look. 1.00

01:20:12.160 All right.

01:20:13.480 And I'm like that.

01:20:15.080 Well, what is this?

01:20:17.300 This is a government official.

01:20:19.040 That's what that is.

01:20:19.960 When you put the government in charge, you want to do TSA.

01:20:23.980 Good.

01:20:24.280 Do it, do it, uh, privately.

01:20:27.120 And those airports, they have a choice.

01:20:29.500 Those airports that are doing it privately.

01:20:31.780 They're the ones.

01:20:32.740 Every time we do a check on the TSA.

01:20:35.060 Those are the airports that catch something wrong.

01:20:40.000 Every time we get the government involved, every time it ends up poorly.

01:20:45.080 No, sorry, you get no more, none.

01:20:53.460 You're not responsible.

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01:22:37.800 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:22:39.740 Welcome to the program.

01:22:52.020 We're so glad that you're here.

01:22:53.420 We have a guest on next.

01:22:56.160 He wrote the book, The Only Plane in the Sky.

01:22:59.380 And I picked it up.

01:23:00.620 I thought it would be good to talk to the author.

01:23:04.200 Um, uh, but I didn't think it would be a book that I would like to read cover to cover.

01:23:10.100 Um, and it's called, it's just an oral history of 9-11.

01:23:13.840 And this is the most fascinating history book I have ever read.

01:23:20.140 There is no opinion from the author because it's all firsthand accounts and it is all in order.

01:23:29.620 So he like interviewed somebody maybe for an hour.

01:23:32.060 And then he's like, okay, well, so what happened first?

01:23:35.220 What happened?

01:23:35.560 And then he took them and, and pieced everybody's together in chronological order.

01:23:41.200 So they're all telling the story in real time, but you're seeing it from, you know, 10 different perspectives.

01:23:48.180 The same moment from 10 different perspectives with no stringing together of anything, just their words.

01:23:56.660 I'm telling you, I started reading this last night and I could not put this book down.

01:24:01.160 It is, it's the way history books should be written.

01:24:05.280 I can't even imagine like the undertaking that is to put together because they have quotes from everybody in the room.

01:24:11.040 Everybody.

01:24:12.040 Yeah.

01:24:12.280 I mean, it's everybody.

01:24:13.560 Yeah.

01:24:13.940 He's got people.

01:24:14.780 I thought they were dead.

01:24:15.980 He has people that were way up in the World Trade Center that you're, I have no idea.

01:24:24.220 I had no idea that all of these people were even alive, let alone, he's just talking to, you know, just regular people that were in the building, you know, regular police office.

01:24:36.760 I can't imagine the research and the amount of time it took to write this book.

01:24:42.720 And it is the best history book I think I've ever read because it's, there's no opinion.

01:24:48.020 There's no opinion.

01:24:49.340 It's just the words of the people who experienced it.

01:24:52.400 It's called The Only Plane in the Sky.

01:24:55.020 It is out this week.

01:24:56.420 It was written by Garrett Graff, an oral history of 9-11.

01:25:01.420 I can't recommend this book highly enough.

01:25:05.480 Truly remarkable work.

01:25:07.400 He's going to be going through it and, and, and we're just going to go through some of the most riveting parts of this book right after the top of this next hour.

01:25:18.600 Stand by.

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01:25:22.860 This hour is going to be absolutely riveting.

01:25:35.620 This new book that is out, Garrett Graff, is going to be joining us.

01:25:39.500 It is, it's one of the best books I've read in a long time.

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01:27:06.660 I have to tell you.

01:27:07.980 A new book has come out, and I was not interested really in reading it because of the format, I think.

01:27:17.840 And I thought I had read everything about 9-11.

01:27:21.220 And then last night I took this book home, and I have not been able to put it down.

01:27:26.420 I think this is the best history book I have read in a very long time.

01:27:32.540 And you know I love history.

01:27:33.540 And you know I love history.

01:27:35.180 This is an oral history.

01:27:37.440 I don't know how this guy did it.

01:27:40.900 This is the most comprehensive look at any event I have ever seen in American or world history.

01:27:50.680 This is the future, I think, of history books, and it is riveting, absolutely riveting.

01:27:58.120 I can't recommend it highly enough.

01:28:00.340 The only plane in the sky, an oral history of 9-11.

01:28:04.560 It has just come out.

01:28:06.080 We have the author on with us today, and I will show you why it is so riveting in 60 seconds.

01:28:13.340 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

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01:29:31.760 The name of the book is The Only Plane in the Sky, An Oral History of 9-11.

01:29:40.180 Garrett Graff is the author.

01:29:42.820 Garrett, welcome to the program.

01:29:45.400 Thanks so much for having me on this day.

01:29:46.880 It's an honor to have you.

01:29:49.640 I have to tell you, your book, you are going to sell, I hope, millions of copies.

01:29:58.500 This is a hard topic to get people to look at, and I don't really want to live through

01:30:05.700 another rehash of 9-11, and I don't want somebody's opinion on 9-11.

01:30:10.300 I just want to know what happened.

01:30:13.240 How long did it take you to put this book together?

01:30:18.000 It was three years start to finish, trying to pull together ultimately what are the 480

01:30:24.400 voices that I follow across America, coast to coast, morning to night, that day.

01:30:31.620 I mean, it is incredible the number of people that you have in, and your voice is not one

01:30:39.040 of them, which I so appreciate.

01:30:41.320 It is just, did you interview everyone about that day and then cut them up minute by minute

01:30:49.320 to place them?

01:30:51.600 Yeah, so the book is a mix of my original interviews, several hundred stories that I collected myself,

01:30:58.800 and then some incredible work by institutions like the 9-11 Museum in New York, the Flight

01:31:04.640 93 National Memorial, the Pentagon historian, people who recognized after 9-11 the importance

01:31:11.260 of capturing these stories.

01:31:13.640 And we started the book with about 2,000 of those archived primary source oral histories

01:31:20.840 that I ultimately spent months and years boiling down to this story minute by minute.

01:31:27.780 And I think that to me, the reason that I wanted to tell this story, and I think that

01:31:32.820 the reason you're feeling that it's so powerful, is that when we say never forget, what we generally

01:31:41.180 mean on 9-11 now are the facts of the day, you know, the four planes, the Twin Towers, the

01:31:48.000 Pentagon, Shanksville.

01:31:49.180 And what we are losing as we celebrate, you know, this 18th anniversary now this year is

01:31:55.140 what that day was like to experience, what it was like to live through.

01:32:01.240 Because the story that we now tell ourselves of 9-11 is so much neater and cleaner than

01:32:08.660 this, the day that we lived as Americans that day, that, you know, we now know the attacks

01:32:15.160 were 102 minutes long, from the first crash at 8.46 to the collapse of the second tower

01:32:21.820 at 10.29.

01:32:24.280 We didn't know that on 9-11.

01:32:26.660 And when you go back and you tell that story through the voices of the people who were living

01:32:31.240 it, what you come away with is the fear and the confusion that we felt that day, you know,

01:32:39.060 well into the afternoon, worrying about follow-on attacks, worried about more hijacked

01:32:45.080 planes in the skies.

01:32:46.960 I mean, Disney closed that day.

01:32:49.820 You know, Disney feared an attack on itself that day.

01:32:53.960 The Sears Tower in Chicago was evacuated.

01:32:56.960 You know, schools closed coast to coast.

01:33:00.360 And everyone that day, you know, no matter how far you were from the Twin Towers, from the

01:33:05.780 Pentagon, from Shanksville, you felt that visceral fear that we now, I think, have lost as we

01:33:12.500 sort of forget just what that day was like to live.

01:33:15.360 And let me, if I may, just, I just want to read a couple of things from this, and I'm

01:33:20.180 going to kind of jump around a bit.

01:33:21.580 But this is how this book is written.

01:33:23.580 Roger, Robert Letter, executive of SMW Trading Company, North Tower.

01:33:29.660 I was on the 85th floor.

01:33:30.840 I was looking out the window facing the Empire State Building when I saw the plane come into

01:33:35.180 the building.

01:33:36.100 There was such a dramatic change of atmospheric pressure.

01:33:39.180 The building swayed from the impact, and it nearly knocked me off my chair.

01:33:43.280 Our ceiling imploded.

01:33:44.600 Some of the walls began to explode.

01:33:47.720 Harry Waitzer, tax counsel, Cantor Fitzgerald, North Tower.

01:33:52.180 I was in the elevator at 846 in the North Tower when the first jet hit the Trade Center.

01:33:57.100 My office was on the 104th floor.

01:33:58.840 I had gone up to the Sky Lobby on 78, and I had made the transition over to the local

01:34:03.120 area, local elevators.

01:34:05.240 I was somewhere between 78 and 104.

01:34:07.860 Gene Potter, Bank of America, North Tower, 81st floor.

01:34:10.940 I was thrown out of my chair, like thrown.

01:34:13.220 It was a horrible, loud explosion.

01:34:15.000 The building started to rock back and forth.

01:34:17.180 Smoke filled the air immediately.

01:34:19.060 We were fortunately right by the staircase because our floor was fully involved with fire.

01:34:25.380 Maybe I heard four or five survivors from above us.

01:34:28.540 Vanessa Lawrence, artist, North Tower, 91st.

01:34:31.640 I had literally put one foot out of the elevator onto the 91st and was thrown to the side.

01:34:36.300 Smoke and debris blasted down our corridor, and the building shook.

01:34:40.740 Richard Eichen.

01:34:42.040 I saw on my left shoulder an Asian man coming towards me.

01:34:45.200 He was on the 90th floor.

01:34:47.120 He looked like he had been deep fried.

01:34:49.200 He had his arms out.

01:34:50.320 His skin was hanging like seaweed. 1.00

01:34:52.200 He was begging me to help him.

01:34:53.680 He said, help me, help me.

01:34:55.160 And then he did a face plant right between my legs. 1.00

01:34:57.780 He died there.

01:34:59.120 I looked down, and that's when I saw my shirt was full of blood.

01:35:02.320 I didn't know that I was hurt.

01:35:04.720 You go into the accounts of the people in the elevator that had burst into flames.

01:35:09.880 I didn't know any of these people survived.

01:35:14.980 Yeah, and those stories are so harrowing to hear, in part because, and this was one of the things that just really came across to me in doing this research and telling these stories,

01:35:28.560 is what the sensory experience of 9-11 was like, that we remember the facts of the day, but none of us actually really know what 9-11 tasted like, what it smelled like, what it sounded like, what it felt like.

01:35:48.180 And so, you know, I was amazed as I was going through and writing this and compiling this, is, you know, what this, you know, the people talking about the smell of the plane crash of Flight 93 in Shanksville as those volunteer firefighters arrived on the scene.

01:36:06.080 You know, the people like Harry Weiser and Richard Eichen talking about what that heat felt like.

01:36:12.020 You know, they get down then through those stairwells.

01:36:15.520 The stairwells have the fire sprinklers going.

01:36:19.900 And so they're coming out the bottom of the Twin Towers, soaking wet, that water pooling at the base of the stairwells.

01:36:27.900 And, you know, the idea that these people in their final moments before they walk out to freedom, they are wading through knee-deep water in the stairwells of the Twin Towers as it's pooling at the bottom.

01:36:42.040 I mean, what the dust of the collapse tasted like in your mouth, what it was like to step in it, you know, just the sounds of that day.

01:36:54.300 I mean, it was just so amazing to sort of understand that sensory experience.

01:36:59.680 The chapter at Emma Booker Elementary School is also fascinating to me.

01:37:10.080 The way that Rudy Giuliani, when he first heard, you know, he was at a hotel and he was like, hang on, I gotta go to the bathroom because I'll probably be out for a long time.

01:37:20.420 But he had no idea the gravity of it.

01:37:23.240 He thought it was a small Cessna.

01:37:25.960 Let me just read this part.

01:37:27.760 A thousand times a day, this is Andy Carr, the guy who told the president at the elementary school.

01:37:34.260 Dave Wilkinson said, we're beginning to get the motorcade up and running, getting the motorcycle cops back.

01:37:39.040 We're ready to evacuate at a moment's notice.

01:37:40.940 And all of a sudden it hits me.

01:37:42.400 The president is the only one who doesn't know that this plane has hit the second building.

01:37:46.840 It was a discomfort to all of us that the president didn't know.

01:37:49.800 The event was dragging on and that's when Andy Carr came out.

01:37:52.700 Andy, a thousand times a day, a chief of staff has to ask, does the president need to know?

01:37:57.600 This was an easy pass to test.

01:38:00.040 My job that day was to be cool, calm, and collected.

01:38:02.460 Not the same magnitude, of course, but I knew my job on 9-11 was cool, calm, and collected.

01:38:08.400 Carl Rove.

01:38:09.040 I remember Andy Carr pausing at the door before he went into the classroom.

01:38:12.440 It seemed like forever, but it was probably just a couple of heartbeats.

01:38:15.180 I never understood why, but he told me years later that he needed to spend a moment formulating the words he wanted to use.

01:38:20.860 Andy, I knew I was delivering a message that no president would want to hear.

01:38:24.640 I decided to pass on two facts as an editorial comment and an editorial comment.

01:38:29.120 I didn't want to invite a conversation because the president was sitting in front of the classroom.

01:38:33.540 The teacher had asked the students to take out their books, and I took that opportunity to approach the president.

01:38:37.900 I whispered in his ear, a second plane has hit the second tower.

01:38:41.180 America is under attack.

01:38:42.920 I took a couple of steps back so he couldn't ask any questions.

01:38:47.320 Then you quote a couple of the students that remember his face and how it changed.

01:38:51.440 Andy, I was pleased how the president reacted.

01:38:53.660 He didn't do anything to create fear.

01:38:55.760 Then he walked out, Karl Rove said, when the president walked back into the staff hold, he said, we're at war.

01:39:03.060 Give me the FBI director and the vice president.

01:39:06.540 I mean, just by using the dialogue, it's almost a movie script, the whole thing.

01:39:14.800 And it's riveting, absolutely riveting.

01:39:18.960 Let me take a one-minute break, and then we'll come back with Garrett Graff.

01:39:21.940 I cannot recommend this book highly enough.

01:39:25.540 If you want to have a real history book on what actually happened, The Only Plane in the Sky, an oral history of 9-11.

01:39:34.980 It is absolutely fantastic.

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01:41:07.120 Talking to Garrett Graff, the author of The Only Plane in the Sky.

01:41:29.080 Garrett, what was the thing that, there had to be more than one, that jumped out at you as you were going through this, that you thought, oh my gosh, I've never read this, I haven't heard this, this is incredible to me.

01:41:45.440 Well, I'll tell you one of the, you know, so many of these stories I felt, you know, just very lucky to be able to help tell and share with America about that day.

01:42:00.680 But one that really stood out to me was I spoke to Commander Anthony Barnes, the Navy officer in the bunker with Vice President Cheney under the White House that day.

01:42:11.740 He's never spoken publicly before.

01:42:14.260 And he told me for the first time the story of what it was like asking Dick Cheney, the vice president, for shoot-down authority of the hijacked airliners.

01:42:25.800 You know, he was a naval aviator himself.

01:42:28.520 He was the person that morning running sort of liaison between the Pentagon and the White House.

01:42:35.380 And as they feared that more hijacked planes were coming towards Washington, towards the White House, towards the Capitol, he told, you know, he went to Vice President Cheney and asked for military authority to shoot down hijacked airliners.

01:42:53.320 You know, a decision that no one had ever contemplated before.

01:42:58.320 And Vice President Cheney immediately said yes.

01:43:01.980 And Commander Barnes went back a second time and asked again.

01:43:06.780 And then he went back and he asked a third time because he knew just what an order he was asking, sort of just how unprecedented.

01:43:15.960 And he wanted to make sure that there was no confusion about what was transpiring, what the authority he was asking for.

01:43:23.540 And finally, Dick Cheney got fed up and basically said, yes, I know what I'm doing.

01:43:28.920 We need to shoot down any hijacked airliners that's heading towards a population center if we can't get them to change course.

01:43:38.520 You know, just an incredible moment of that day that, you know, America had would have been unimaginable, you know, even 90 minutes earlier.

01:43:48.840 How did you get a sense at all?

01:43:52.000 I haven't read that part yet.

01:43:53.080 Do you get a sense at all about how Dick came to that?

01:43:56.900 Is it just years and years of experience or how did he get any sense of that?

01:44:04.280 Yeah. And that's really exactly what had happened was, you know, sort of one of the things that we forget about Dick Cheney's career was, you know, he had been secretary of defense.

01:44:17.900 He had been White House chief of staff before.

01:44:20.980 And so he had been part of these government training exercises for, you know, emergency operations, for continuity of government exercises for years.

01:44:32.680 And so, you know, in some ways, one of the quotes that really stands out for me in the book was Dick Cheney saying, you know, as terrible as 9-11 was, we have actually trained for worse.

01:44:47.180 And so I had this set of instincts from my decades of government service to fall back upon that day.

01:44:55.860 Where was Bush at the time?

01:44:59.860 So this was, you know, Bush was just being hustled out of the Emma Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, rushed aboard Air Force One.

01:45:09.860 And Bush, you know, was really torn that day between and, you know, you're a student of American history, so you understand this tension, the role between being head of state, the person who is sort of supposed to be reassuring the country and the person who is commander in chief, the person who is supposed to lead the military and to preserve the office of the president.

01:45:32.800 And so he's rushed aboard Air Force One, Air Force One takes off, flies over the southeastern United States, goes first to Barksdale Air Force Base, and then eventually to Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha, Nebraska.

01:45:47.020 And through that whole day, President Bush is pushing to come back to Washington.

01:45:51.460 You know, he's, you know, shouting at the pilot of Air Force One, shouting at his, you know, chief of staff, Andy Card, and the Secret Service agents, who effectively say, you know, Mr. President, this isn't your decision.

01:46:07.340 This is ours.

01:46:08.280 Our legal duty today is to protect the office of the presidency, and we can't let you go back to Washington until we're sure that it's safe.

01:46:17.740 They land at Barksdale Air Force Base sort of late morning, and it's this incredible visceral reaction that they have, the passengers, as they're getting off the plane.

01:46:29.900 They land surrounded by armored vehicles, Humvees with .50 caliber machine guns, men in flak jackets with M16s, and they sort of realize that they had taken off in peacetime from Sarasota,

01:46:45.140 and that they have landed now in Barksdale, and America is at war.

01:46:52.580 Garrett, I, this is, you've done a remarkable job.

01:46:58.660 Did you, did you, was there a reason you selected this style?

01:47:03.060 Yeah, so to me, it's very much, you know, the, the goal of telling the book this way was to capture the way that America lived the day.

01:47:17.100 You know, that we, we know the facts, and, you know, there are, there are some great books that have been written about it in a narrative sense.

01:47:24.620 You know, the 9-11 Commission spent years and millions of dollars, you know, compiling the world's most accurate second-by-second TikTok of that day.

01:47:36.000 And yet what we are, I think, sort of in danger of forgetting is what the day was like to live, what the day was like to experience.

01:47:47.940 And so my goal for this was they are, that they are trying to capture, you know, the voices of 9-11 as America lived it, and not get bogged down in the facts of the day.

01:48:03.900 Really, truly amazing. Garrett, thank you so much for your book. I cannot recommend it highly enough.

01:48:11.440 It is The Only Plane in the Sky, An Oral History of 9-11. It is fantastic. Get it now.

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01:49:47.540 The only plane in the sky in oral history of 9-11 is the name of this book that has just come out.

01:49:55.640 Stu and I have been both reading it, and it's just absolutely riveting.

01:50:00.940 Things you'll never have heard before.

01:50:03.840 This one, this is a ticket agent at Portland International Jetport.

01:50:13.840 Mike Toohey, ticket agent.

01:50:15.600 Everyone was in a good mood.

01:50:17.340 It was a gorgeous day, and things looked like they were going like clockwork.

01:50:21.000 Von Alex, ticket agent, Washington, D.C., International Airport, Virginia.

01:50:25.040 These two guys came running in the front door looking around and didn't know which way to go.

01:50:29.180 Mike.

01:50:29.960 I saw these two fellows standing there looking around.

01:50:32.080 I looked at the tickets, and I go, whoa, first-class tickets.

01:50:34.380 You don't see a $2,400 ticket anymore.

01:50:37.180 They were less than 30 minutes prior to the flight when they arrived.

01:50:40.040 The younger fellow was standing off to the right.

01:50:41.940 I was asking the standard questions, has anybody given you anything to carry on board the plane?

01:50:46.200 Have your bags been out of your control since you packed them?

01:50:48.340 He was shaking his head, smiling at me, so it was okay.

01:50:51.320 Alex Vaughn.

01:50:52.200 We had just finished the morning check-in, and the counter was clear.

01:50:56.080 I said to the other agent, here are the passengers that are running late, but I think we can get them on.

01:51:01.680 Mike Toohey.

01:51:02.380 I said, Mr. Otta, if you don't go now, you're going to miss your plane.

01:51:14.320 Wow.

01:51:15.140 Yeah.

01:51:16.380 That was amazing.

01:51:17.880 Now, you have in the book, there's another piece of a woman who was in first class with one of those phones, you know, that you could use your credit card with. 1.00

01:51:29.180 Yeah, the air phone.

01:51:30.060 Actually, she was a flight attendant. 0.54

01:51:31.640 A flight attendant.

01:51:32.520 Yes, and she is in contact and talking about how they believe they've been hijacked, and it goes through, you know, it's minute-by-minute transcript of all of these calls.

01:51:44.400 And, you know, we've heard pieces of some of these, but, I mean, the detail is ridiculous.

01:51:49.260 Let me give you this.

01:51:49.740 This is from, actually, Madeline Sweeney.

01:51:51.700 She was an American Airlines flight 11 flight attendant.

01:51:55.360 She's in the middle of all this going on.

01:51:57.240 It's 8.44 a.m.

01:51:59.320 So, right, I mean, 8.46 was when the plane hits the building.

01:52:04.000 She calls her service, her friend, Michael Woodward, who's a services manager and a friend of hers.

01:52:09.540 She says, the flight has been hijacked.

01:52:11.460 This is flight 11 from Boston to L.A.

01:52:13.260 The plane is a 767.

01:52:15.260 I'm in the back with Betty Ong, AA flight attendant.

01:52:17.960 A man in the business class has had his throat slashed and is presumably dead.

01:52:23.240 Number one flight attendant has been stabbed, and number five flight attendant has been stabbed.

01:52:27.940 There is a bomb in the cockpit.

01:52:29.800 I can't make contact with the cockpit.

01:52:31.660 Can you do it?

01:52:32.780 We have a page for a doctor or a nurse for the flight attendants.

01:52:36.660 The coach passengers don't know what's happening.

01:52:39.340 The hijackers are of Middle Eastern descent.

01:52:42.040 One spoke a good English, and one didn't.

01:52:44.420 It is a rapid descent.

01:52:46.040 Something is wrong.

01:52:46.880 I don't think the captain is in control.

01:52:49.000 I see water.

01:52:50.340 I see buildings.

01:52:51.780 We're flying low.

01:52:53.240 We're flying very, very low.

01:52:55.160 Oh my God.

01:52:55.960 We're flying way too low.

01:52:58.360 That's the transcript.

01:53:00.660 From this, from a, I mean, I make, I mean, it's page.

01:53:04.540 Every single page has stuff like that on it.

01:53:08.700 I'd forgotten too that Muhammad Atta, when he was trying to page the plane and tell them,

01:53:14.440 he said, we have some planes, just stay quiet and we'll be okay.

01:53:18.880 We're returning to the airport.

01:53:20.140 Nobody move.

01:53:20.820 Everything will be okay.

01:53:21.920 If you try to make any moves, you will just injure yourself in the airplane.

01:53:24.740 Please stay quiet.

01:53:26.540 Nobody move, please.

01:53:27.560 We are going back to the airport.

01:53:28.760 Don't try to make any stupid moves.

01:53:30.160 He thought he was talking to the actual airplane, the passengers, and he had called back to air

01:53:35.200 traffic control by mistake.

01:53:36.680 So they have all of that.

01:53:39.680 I mean, can you imagine being on the other end of that call?

01:53:42.540 No.

01:53:42.660 So it goes through, I mean, it really is incredible.

01:53:45.960 So somewhere over the planes, Major Scott Hooter Krog, F-16 pilot with the fighter squadron,

01:53:53.720 Houston.

01:53:54.340 We started following Air Force One north.

01:53:57.360 They had just taken off from Sarasota and they were on each wingtip.

01:54:01.500 At some point, I was expecting them to turn east and head to Washington.

01:54:05.360 The longer we were heading north, the more I realized something was unsettled.

01:54:09.700 They still don't feel safe returning to Washington.

01:54:11.960 I asked for a tanker to come and meet up.

01:54:15.240 After I hooked up, I asked him for every radio channel between here and Canada.

01:54:23.400 Ann Compton, reporter ABC News.

01:54:25.520 In each cabin on board the Air Force One, three digital clocks stare out from the bulkhead.

01:54:30.220 The LED numerals show the time in Washington, the time in the current location, and the time

01:54:34.660 of the plane's destination.

01:54:36.360 All three clocks read 1.36 p.m.

01:54:39.040 Eastern Daylight Time until the destination clock snapped to Central Time, 12.36.

01:54:45.960 That was our only stunning confirmation that Air Force One was headed west, away from Washington.

01:54:52.000 Andy Card, also on the plane, Chief of Staff.

01:54:54.240 There were lots of tears.

01:54:55.900 There were lots of quiet moments staring at a TV screen.

01:54:58.740 No conversation.

01:55:00.080 There were prayers and fear.

01:55:01.800 It was a roller coaster because we were just in the—it wasn't a roller coaster because

01:55:06.300 we were in the pits.

01:55:07.840 Oh, my God, this is terrible.

01:55:09.260 And that's worse.

01:55:10.080 And that's even worse.

01:55:11.580 Major Scott Hooter Krog.

01:55:12.820 It was an eerily silence on the radio.

01:55:15.420 There was no one in the air.

01:55:17.300 We were talking among ourselves, the fighter pilots, on our radios.

01:55:21.000 I wonder if we're going to Canada.

01:55:22.880 A lot of, man, this is effed up.

01:55:25.220 I also was talking the guys through what happens if we have to shoot someone down.

01:55:30.100 The world is watching.

01:55:31.660 Let's fly by the book and let's do everything we can to protect the president.

01:55:35.480 We know this is a plum target, but we also figure no one would expect Air Force One right

01:55:41.880 now to be flying over North Kansas.

01:55:44.240 Ari Fleischer on Air Force One, listen to this.

01:55:48.060 There was no live television.

01:55:50.780 It put us in a different spot than most Americans that day.

01:55:54.620 People around the world were riveted to their television sets.

01:55:58.080 We had intermittent television on Air Force One.

01:56:01.260 We had it in Barksdale at the base commander's office.

01:56:04.720 But there was no email even on Air Force One at the time.

01:56:09.680 You're in the air.

01:56:11.160 You're completely cut off.

01:56:13.420 Eric Draper, presidential photographer.

01:56:15.620 Everyone was starving for information.

01:56:17.800 We couldn't hear anything unless the plane was flying over a major city.

01:56:21.440 Ellen Eckert, stenographer.

01:56:23.200 The plane was like in this twilight zone.

01:56:25.360 There was no one aboard anywhere.

01:56:27.740 The staff cabin was empty.

01:56:29.180 The guest cabin was empty.

01:56:30.760 That's when it all came falling apart for me.

01:56:33.120 I saw one of the agents standing in the hallway and I went up to him and I said,

01:56:36.760 so this is the safest place to be, right?

01:56:39.320 This is Air Force One.

01:56:40.700 He said, ma'am, we might as well have a big red X on the bottom of this plane.

01:56:44.820 We're the only plane in the sky.

01:56:47.160 That was scary.

01:56:48.280 It didn't help.

01:56:49.460 I went to the bathroom and used one of those Air Force One notepads to write a letter to my family.

01:56:54.560 Six siblings and two parents.

01:56:56.540 They're never going to see this.

01:56:57.980 I'm going to burn up in a fiery inferno.

01:56:59.860 One of the flight attendants opened the door and comforted me and gave me a washcloth.

01:57:04.880 We've got this.

01:57:06.000 We have this.

01:57:06.800 We're all together.

01:57:08.220 Major Scott Krog on the wingtip of Air Force One.

01:57:11.440 Fifteen minutes after we tanked up, we saw Air Force One begin to descend.

01:57:15.920 I did the math and figured out we were probably headed to Offit.

01:57:19.180 Now we had a full tank of gas.

01:57:21.500 You can't land like that in a small plane, let alone Air Force One.

01:57:25.840 So we were doing afterburner 360s at 7,000 feet to burn off enough gas to land.

01:57:32.980 Mike Morrell, president, briefer, Central Intelligence Agency.

01:57:36.800 On the way from Barksdale to Offit, the president asked to see me alone.

01:57:40.800 It was just me, him, and Andy Carr.

01:57:43.620 He asked, Michael, who did this?

01:57:46.460 I explained that I didn't have any intelligence, so what you're going to get is my best guess.

01:57:50.480 He was very focused.

01:57:51.780 He said, I understand that.

01:57:52.900 Get on with it.

01:57:53.600 I said there were only two countries capable of carrying out an attack like this, and that was Iran and Iraq. 0.55

01:57:59.120 But I believe both would have everything to lose and nothing to gain from the attack.

01:58:04.160 When all is said and done, the trail would lead to Osama bin Laden. 0.54

01:58:07.800 I told him, I'd bet my children's future on that.

01:58:14.740 They talk about how Dick Cheney was picked up.

01:58:19.460 They have pictures of him in the office of the White House.

01:58:21.800 How long before the plane hit the Pentagon?

01:58:25.560 Like a minute?

01:58:28.740 Yes, it was one minute.

01:58:29.940 So they went to, I mean, the Secret Service came in and picked him up.

01:58:34.180 And I think the way they described it was that he, his feet only sometimes touched the ground as they carried him into the bunker.

01:58:40.640 And it was one minute later that the plane hit the Pentagon.

01:58:45.560 Now, obviously, they at that point believed it may very well be coming to the White House.

01:58:50.200 And that is, that's got to be a weird moment.

01:58:52.080 I mean, think about this.

01:58:52.780 You're Dick Cheney.

01:58:53.540 You're one of the, you know, most powerful men in the world.

01:58:57.080 You, people do what you tell them to do in an everyday life.

01:59:00.840 And here's a moment where physically you're being taken over by other people and told, basically, no, we're not listening to you right now.

01:59:08.460 We're going to do what we're doing.

01:59:09.360 And I have been in that situation, not like on 9-11, but been in that situation before with my protective detail when we've had a threat.

01:59:18.920 It is the weirdest thing ever because you don't, they're not talking to you.

01:59:25.340 They're not talking to you.

01:59:26.400 They just come in, pick you up by your belt, and you're lucky if your feet hit the floor.

01:59:31.980 I mean, I'm a big guy, and I have been picked up and removed and thrown into a car.

01:59:37.220 It's bizarre.

01:59:39.900 It's bizarre.

01:59:40.860 And it was just a thump.

01:59:41.500 And all they're saying is, go, go, go, go, go, go, go.

01:59:44.640 No explanations.

01:59:45.400 No explanation.

01:59:46.360 No detail.

01:59:47.180 The only thing I heard was, go, go, go.

01:59:49.260 Watch your head.

01:59:50.360 As they threw me into the car.

01:59:52.480 And then the door was closed.

01:59:54.820 They hit it on the top.

01:59:56.240 Go.

01:59:57.320 And the car went away.

01:59:58.800 It was, it's incredible.

02:00:01.600 But if you think you're Dick Cheney, you know, or the president on the plane,

02:00:06.660 and he's like, he's shouting at them, turn the plane.

02:00:10.020 Sorry, sir.

02:00:10.660 You are not in control here.

02:00:13.500 You don't have anything to say.

02:00:15.020 When you are in that situation, you're the president.

02:00:17.640 They make the decision.

02:00:19.020 You don't.

02:00:20.040 Because you are no longer, you're their property now. 0.75

02:00:24.120 You're the office of the president.

02:00:27.440 You are not, you're not a person anymore.

02:00:30.280 You're the entire office.

02:00:31.760 I don't care, Mr. President.

02:00:33.040 I don't care.

02:00:33.900 We're here to protect the office of the president.

02:00:36.540 Shut up. 0.95

02:00:37.800 Here's where we're going.

02:00:39.560 That's, that's, for the most powerful man in the world, that has got to be a bizarre thing.

02:00:44.580 And we saw that in the recent documentary, Angel Has Fallen, where thousands of little tiny drones come along when they're fishing and attack.

02:00:54.380 Wow.

02:00:55.380 Just another tragedy that we'll remember in 18 years as well.

02:00:58.860 It's not a documentary.

02:01:00.540 All right.

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02:03:30.560 You know, I, I think I may be one of the only ones that, um, am, am disappointed that John Bolton is leaving the white house and not for the reasons I, you know, I used to be a hawk.

02:03:48.980 I'm not a hawk anymore.

02:03:50.400 Stay home.

02:03:51.360 Stop it.

02:03:52.280 But I liked the idea that you had somebody balancing the president who is not a hawk.

02:03:58.060 And I liked that.

02:03:59.240 Yeah.

02:03:59.560 You know, I, I'd like the two strongest voices in the room being a hawk and a guy who's not a hawk with the guy who's not a hawk having the final say, you know what I mean?

02:04:11.560 Right.

02:04:11.740 If the best voice in the room, who's a hawk cannot convince him, that's great.

02:04:16.820 I want that strong voice there.

02:04:19.420 Uh, and I thought it was a great balance myself.

02:04:21.760 I really, I really liked it.

02:04:23.380 I'm, I'm bummed that he's gone.

02:04:25.300 I don't care at all who quit, who fired.

02:04:28.160 I don't care.

02:04:28.960 I believe John Bolton, but it doesn't matter.

02:04:30.800 Why are we arguing about this?

02:04:32.360 None of that matters.

02:04:33.120 I mean, you know, look, he was never a good ideological fit with the president.

02:04:37.980 I mean, the president does not want to go to war, does not want to be involved in these things.

02:04:41.740 And John Bolton is very aggressive, um, on those, on those terms, but I like it too.

02:04:46.420 I mean, the, the sort of team of rivals situation is good, is a good thing.

02:04:49.900 And, you know, uh, he's done that several times in a lot of these different arenas where he has real strong opinions.

02:04:56.320 I mean, I think that's one of the things he really believes strongly, right?

02:04:59.220 Kudlow.

02:04:59.800 Yeah.

02:05:00.320 Kudlow is not a guy in trade.

02:05:02.180 He's not a guy who's, who's with, excuse me, with the president on, on trade, but he's in there and he's advising.

02:05:08.960 And I think that's great.

02:05:10.120 I mean, I, I'm for more voices, you know, president doesn't ever need to be triggered and he's not, he's a, he's a big boy.

02:05:17.440 He can handle it.

02:05:18.620 Give him the, give him something that he doesn't agree with so he can reason it out himself and go, well, that's the best case.

02:05:26.600 I don't agree.

02:05:27.000 And, and those things work usually for a time.

02:05:29.580 Like there's usually an expiration date on relationships like that.

02:05:32.360 When you have people who are going at each other that aggressively, I mean, Bolton really disagreed.

02:05:38.320 I mean, the thing that apparently had set him off more than anything was inviting the Taliban to Camp David on the week of 9-11. 0.80

02:05:45.100 Couldn't be worse optics.

02:05:46.500 I mean, yeah, that's, you know, I, that's not something that I support.

02:05:49.440 And ultimately the president didn't support it either as, as he wound up canceling it.

02:05:53.820 But, you know, I think the, the media leaks were an issue or at least an alleged issue with Bolton in which he wanted everyone to make sure they knew that he was not into this idea of a meeting with the Taliban at, at Camp David.

02:06:08.740 And, and, you know, the president, eventually those, those relationships, when you disagree, they can be fruitful for a while, but eventually you hit a wall where, okay, well, you're just sticking to your side.

02:06:20.040 I'm sticking to my side and we're not getting anything out of this anymore.

02:06:22.640 I just hope he, and I hope he replaces John Bolton again with somebody who doesn't necessarily always agree with him.

02:06:31.300 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

02:06:38.740 Thank you.

The Glenn Beck Program - September 11, 2019

18 Years After 9⧸11： We Must UNITE Again ｜ Guests： Bob Beckwith, Brad Meltzer, & Garrett M. Graff ｜ 9⧸11⧸19

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