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On the C-SPAN networks. | |
| Welcome back to Washington Journal. | ||
| This is a two-hour Washington Journal. | ||
| The House is going to be gaveling in at 9 a.m. Eastern and what you're seeing is the memorial there at New York City. | ||
| That's Ground Zero. | ||
| We also have shots to show you of the Pentagon and there and then finally the memorial at Shanksville, Pennsylvania. | ||
| And we have several events going on across the C-SPAN network. | ||
| So here on C-SPAN, as I mentioned, the House will be coming in at 9 a.m. | ||
| At 8.30 over on C-SPAN 3, we will have coverage of the New York City events. | ||
| They'll be gathering at the original site of the World Trade Center for a reading of the names of the nearly 3,000 people who died. | ||
| Vice President Vance will be in attendance for the ceremony. | ||
| That live coverage starts at 8.30. | ||
| Then at 9 a.m. over on C-SPAN 2 at the Pentagon, President Trump, along with defense officials, will take part in a ceremony to remember the lives lost from the hijacked American Airlines plane that crashed into the Pentagon, killing all 64 people on board and 125 people on the ground. | ||
| Live coverage of that is at 9 a.m. Eastern over on C-SPAN 2. | ||
| We also have Shanksville, Pennsylvania. | ||
| They host a remembrance ceremony at the Flight 93 National Memorial, honoring the 40 passengers and crew members who lost their lives that day after crashing their plane to thwart a terrorist attack bound for Washington, D.C. | ||
| That ceremony is live at 9.45 a.m. Eastern. | ||
| It's on C-SPAN Now, which is our app and online at c-span.org. | ||
| We are taking your calls this morning on the two topics, which is the death of conservative activist Charlie Cook, his killing yesterday, and the 24th anniversary of 9-11. | ||
| About 9-11, let's take a look at a portion of then President George W. Bush's address to the nation following the attacks on September 11th. | ||
| Today, our fellow citizens, our way of life, our very freedom came under attack in a series of deliberate and deadly terrorist acts. | ||
| The victims were in airplanes or in their offices. | ||
| Secretaries, businessmen and women, military and federal workers, moms and dads, friends and neighbors. | ||
| Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. | ||
| The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness, and a quiet, unyielding anger. | ||
| These acts of mass murder were intended to frighten our nation into chaos and retreat. | ||
| But they have failed. | ||
| Our country is strong. | ||
| A great people has been moved to defend a great nation. | ||
| Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. | ||
| These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve. | ||
| America was targeted for attack because we're the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world. | ||
| And no one will keep that light from shining. | ||
| That is ground zero. | ||
| And that was former President Bush speaking 24 years ago today. | ||
| The 9-11 attacks happened this morning, 24 years ago. | ||
| And we are taking your calls and getting your reaction to that as well. | ||
| Here's Bernard Dundalk, Maryland, Republican. | ||
| Good morning, Bernard. | ||
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Yeah, good morning. | |
| Yes, go right ahead. | ||
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What's that? | |
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Okay. | |
| I just want to say my condolences to the family of Charlie Kirk. | ||
| I've been watching him or my, I got an iPad, and I've been watching Chowey Kirk for, I guess, about six, eight months, and always picked up on what he said. | ||
| There was one guy that said he always told the truth, and that seems like the way it's happened. | ||
| As far as the 9-11, I was holding when we watched the planes hit the tires or work state. | ||
| I'm a little older than most of the callers because I can remember the bottom of Pearl Harbor. | ||
| I was alive dead. | ||
| I can remember when Kennedy was shot. | ||
| I remember where I was. | ||
| There's a lot of these that I will remember when Cheek Kirk was shot. | ||
| This was a bad time for the nation. | ||
| And this is Vicki calling from Lincoln, Nebraska, Democrat. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
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Yes, good morning, Mimi. | |
| I have a lot to address, so I'm going to talk as fast as I can possibly talk. | ||
| On 9-11, I'm 64 now, but I remember I was working and I was just waiting on people. | ||
| I was working at a local little grocery store, and a lady came through my line, and she was telling me what was happening. | ||
| She saw it on television, and the naive, sweet girl I was then, I said, oh my God, what a horrible accident. | ||
| And she said, no, this was done on purpose. | ||
| And we just all just went numb and froze. | ||
| And from then on, I always said that I was going to have love in my heart. | ||
| And I'm a Democrat to the other Nebraska lady that called in and asked a Democrat to explain. | ||
| Ma'am, I have love in my heart. | ||
| I talk to God every day. | ||
| And real quickly, is that love what Trump has been doing? | ||
| Is that love? | ||
| Is that the kind of love that you think is all right? | ||
| Enough of that. | ||
| On the Charlie thing, I prayed last night for his family, and I'm so sorry that happened to him. | ||
| I'm not totally surprised because there's so much division, and there's so many people are hurting because they're afraid they're going to lose their Medicare or their Social Security. | ||
| I have a wonderful husband that I'm not worried about it, but there's so many people that are worried about it. | ||
| And also, I would like to say you get a lot of compliments on how nice you look. | ||
| Well, you're my very favorite, and I like you because of your intelligence. | ||
| Thank you very much, Vicki. | ||
| And we will continue taking your calls on the death of activist Charlie Kirk and the 24th anniversary of 9-11. | ||
| But we will pause our calls just for a few minutes to talk to Representative Mike Bost. | ||
| He is a Republican from Illinois' 12th District. | ||
| He's also chair of the Veterans Affairs Committee. | ||
| Congressman Bost, welcome to the program. | ||
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Thank you for having me on. | |
| I'll just start with your reaction to the killing of Charlie Kirk. | ||
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You know, it's very upsetting, you know, for a time when free speech is our nation's pride as part of our Constitution. | |
| And for someone to be brutally assassinated for actually free speech is a real problem. | ||
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You didn't have to agree with Charlie, but Charlie actually, I think it was a strong Christian. | |
| I know was a strong Christian man. | ||
| We are all, whether Republican or Democrat, praying for his family, praying for two small children that have lost their father, for our lovely young wife that is now left to raise those children on her own, all because of an assassin's bullet. | ||
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You know, I think that the movement of the conservative millennials will now probably rise because of the frustration that they feel. | |
| You can continue watching this online at c-span.org. | ||
| We take you live now to the United Nations Security Council as it meets to discuss the recent Israeli airstrike on Hamas in Qatar. |