Remembering 9/11

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1:05Welcome to Inside Politics. I'm John King. In today for Dana Bass. You're looking right here at live pictures. That's ground zero. Family members reading the names of every single life lost when terror pierced a cloudless September sky 25 years ago today. 2 ,977 innocent people killed that day from Lower Manhattan to the Pentagon to Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Americans are gathering to mark a day that shattered our sense of security and changed the course of this nation forever. The Vice President, J.D. Vance, joining all former living former presidents to bear witness to where the Twin Towers once stood.

1:42While President Trump marked this solemn day at the Pentagon where he could address the nation. We were all New Yorkers that day, every one of us. We were all New Yorkers. But we were also all Americans. We were all family. We were all patriots. The enemy might destroy what American hands had built, but we could not touch the fight and the fire and the love in our great American hearts.

2:23And throughout the morning, we've heard six moments of silence, each of those moments marking a moment of horror on that morning, September 11th. But today, for the first time, a seventh will honor those who died in the years since from exposure to toxic ash and dust in the aftermath, of course, of the horrible attacks. And we will bring you that special moment live a bit later this hour. I'm joined at the table today by a fantastic group of reporters, no offense gentlemen, but among them an icon and a legend in our business, a friend and a former colleague, Ann Compton of ABC News. You were with the president that day.

2:55I was at the White House. The president was in Florida addressing schoolchildren, and you were in the classroom when he learned, and the nation learned by the look in his eyes once we did see that tape of what was happening. The expression on George Bush's face when his chief of staff came in and whispered, a second plane has hit the second tower. America is under attack. You could see the president beginning to connect the dots. He had been president for only seven months, but the CIA and the FBI for years had had Bin Laden units. They'd been tracking al-Qaeda. They'd had even notes a month, two months before this that maybe there were airplanes involved.

3:40And I think at that moment, President Bush realized he is a wartime president. I remember I was at the White House that morning coming into the building. I thought I could show up late that day because the president was in Florida. Coming into the building, thanks to one of our great producers who told me I better get there as soon as I can, as they were evacuating the White House. And I will never forget the female staffers running out of their shoes because the Secret Service was screaming, run. They thought the White House would be under attack, and you could see the stream of shoes on them.

4:10You walk through this gate all the time, Zola, now, covering the White House 25 years later. That path, when you go through the North Gate, was littered with shoes. How? It's a fascinating question for me as someone who was there that day. For a younger generation, how does 9-11, in your view, impact, A, where we are, and how we do our jobs? Yeah, I mean, it's, I mean, these are often obviously different experiences, right? I mean, I was very young when 9-11 happened, which meant that the anniversary and the organizations that came together to memorialize this event were even more important or were so important for someone my age because of the level of education, the level of actually witnessing in a way.

4:52That's the level of just the somberness of that kind of event, the families that are still impacted by this, the people that also suffered from the toxins during that day and later became ill that are still feeling the effects of it today. I mean, right now, 25 years later, there's an entire generation that doesn't have memory of that day, but are relying on the organizations like those putting together the event at Ground Zero today that are listening to public officials speak about the message of unity, and that's how they're really remembering that day. It's a fascinating point because history then creates history.

5:32And just yesterday, Mayor Mondani deciding to release these documents, becoming transparent, becoming honest about things that were kept from people at the time, about the known toxins in the air, about that would happen. So you're constantly learning from an event that happened 25 years ago. You could argue, Aaron, politically, Obama doesn't become president, at least not at that time, had the Iraq war not happened. You could argue, again, Trump does not become president, or at least the climate that created Donald Trump does not become president. If you don't get the more nativists, close the border, you know, not quite America first at the time, but isolationist mood that hit the country.

6:0725 years later, how much does that day shape where we are right now? I mean, I think all you have to do is look at how Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the President talked about the issue today. They're both invoking 9-11 to justify the Iran war. You could argue that is a continuation of this kind of progression of events since then. They're seeing a need to deal with a threat that comes from the same region that resulted in the 9-11 attack. And so it is a situation where it's interesting to think about what our political world would have looked like had that day not happened. How different would things be?

6:47And everything that has been happening since then, there are a number of things that you can trace back even decades later. To that point, one of the things, whether it was Obama after or Trump, was the idea that we would not get into foreign wars, the Iraq part, not the Afghanistan part, but the Iraq part, that that was misguided. Listen to the former president, George W. Bush, and this is yesterday, Wednesday, as he's talking about what he believes the legacy is and what he believes sometimes is the loss of focus is in the 25 years since. Our nation occasionally goes to isolationist periods where the attitude is we've got too many problems at home.

7:27Therefore, who cares what happens overseas, which really means to me they just don't pay attention to the lesson of 9-11. Because what happens overseas matter to our national security at home. The former president has said that many times since 9-11. And for the first 10 years of Donald Trump, you would say Donald Trump was listening to the degree of not getting into foreign wars. In fact, he called them stupid. Now he is in a war that has undermined his presidency and undermined his political support. So does that message ring the same way this year in the middle of this war that it might have if we were having this conversation on the 23rd or the 24th anniversary?

8:05You know, I think to the institutional government, which has been looking for and chasing the terrorist movement all these years, that they think the 9-11 commission came out and said, you missed connecting some of these dots. You were looking for something coming from overseas to hit us. These were people who had come to the United States to attack us. There are all sorts of deep crevices way into government planning. that must have changed dramatically since that day 25 years ago. One of the ways we know that we are 25 years away is that the first year, the second year, the third year, for a long time, I can't remember exactly when, we didn't talk politics on this day.

8:52We remembered, we paused, we were solemn. And I'll tell you, just tell it up front to everybody watching, I was conflicted when I was asked to fill in today because I knew I was going to have to talk about politics. And I'm somewhat uncomfortable doing it because of being at the White House that day and remembering how that day changed everything. Trying to find out where my kids were. My young kids were in school. Where are they? While I'm trying to do my job. But we are where we are. And we're just a few weeks away from a big midterm election. The Vice President of the United States last night at a midterm convention, an unprecedented event called by the President of the United States, brought up this day and this anniversary this way.

9:27The Democrats are the party of hatred. They're the party that despises America and the people who built it. They're the party that can find sympathy for the terrorists who perpetrated 9-11. But they say that people with names like James Vance are incapable of loving people with names like Usha. And they couldn't be more wrong. Help a dinosaur. The party that can find sympathy for the terrorists who perpetrated 9-11. Now, there are influencers. We'll talk about it more in the program as we go on, who have said horrible things. Democrats writ large do not sympathize with the people who brought us 9-11, but that's today's politics.

10:08It is a sign of today's politics, right? We talked about, I mean, I just remember growing up with, you know, being the speeches of unity at that time on this day. And that has given way to the more divisive politics of our nature that defines the politics of our time. We also talked about lessons learned. Bush was even saying it in those remarks that we played. I think like another lesson learned that even I'm aware of is, you know, he came out and said this is not going to be a war against Islam. Right. He was very specific about that. Went to a mosque and said that the terrorists had bastardized a great faith.

10:39And I think it is worth noting, right, that we are in a time right now where Islamophobia is being increasingly mainstreamed by the ranks of the GOP. That was once on the fringe of that party. And we are seeing that increasingly normalized. I'm thinking of Randy Fiennes, I'm thinking of Andy Ogles, and I'm thinking of the silence in the face of those remarks by top members of the White House. Not just silence, but at times stoking those flames as well, right? That once wasn't as normalized as it is today. And to that point, it is front and center in one of the most important Senate races in the country this year.

11:15Abdul El-Sayed is the Democratic candidate in Michigan. As I said before, he has associated himself, he had a campaign appearance with, he has not he said he disagrees with but he has not repudiated Hassan Piker who has said and then tried to clear up his remarks that America deserved it. Mike Rogers is Republican running against him. This is his take and the candidates response. I never imagined that 25 years after 9-11 I would be running against somebody that campaigns with Hassan Piker who thinks America deserved it. If he thinks that the issue is a streamer in California then he's got another thing coming because what I hear about is the fact that people can't afford their gas they can't afford their groceries.

12:00Mr. Al-Sayed is correct Aaron that the economy is issue number one two three four and five in this campaign but is it fair game that whether you're Mayor Mamdani or Abdul Al-Sayed that if you in today's world if you associate with somebody who says ridiculous reprehensible horrible things you're gonna be you have to answer for it. I think it is fair you know Al-Sayed when he made that decision to campaign with Hassan Piker. People like us looked at that, and I at least immediately knew that that was going to be an issue if he got to the general election. That was a primary play. You know, he was trying to win a very close primary, what became a very close primary.

12:34I will say, though, that after he won that primary, as Zolan noted, we did see a very kind of outwardly Islamophobic approach from Republicans. It wasn't just these House members who have said these kind of things over the course of the last several months. we had senators like Tommy Tuberville come out and explicitly call Abdul El-Sayed a terrorist. We had Republican senators repeatedly use his full name, Abdul Rahman, in a very suggestive way. So I do think that's an important thing here. There's a difference between saying you associated with somebody who said something that's very objectionable, and to some extent, if you associate with that person, you do own that.

13:15But then it's being taken to a whole other level by bringing in this kind of Islamophobic attacks. I want to come back where we began before I let you go. 25 years later, that day was so defining to our country, to the White House, to our job covering the presidency in those days. Do you look at it differently, 25 years removed, than you did in the heat of it? John, it feels heavier this year, in part because it's framed in the politics that we live in now. It feels heavier. But I was struck by thinking of George Bush when he finally got back to Washington. Ten-hour odyssey, wanted to get back to Washington, wanted to address...

13:55Louisiana to Nebraska to Washington. Yeah, and as he flew in the helicopter from Andrews to the White House, they flew very low because they didn't know what could be out there. And he saw the Pentagon and he turned to Andy Card, his chief of staff, and said, that's the face of war in the 21st century. We've come that far. We've come a day to change everything. And I'm grateful that you're here for us on this day. Up next, the president closed the Republican convention in Dallas, asked everyone there to raise their hands and make him a promise. We'll tell you what he was asking when we come back.

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15:36President Trump is not on the ballot. He knows he needs to drive huge turnout among his base if, if Republicans are to have a chance of holding onto Congress in the midterm elections. The president knows that. How do we know he knows that? Listen to this moment last night. This is the president addressing a crowd of mega diehards at the GOP convention in Dallas. Please raise your right hand. I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States.

16:11That loves us so much he can't even breathe.

16:18That I will go out with my family, my friends. I'll do it anyway. I don't care if I'm registered or not. I'm going to try and cheat like hell like they do. There's never been bigger cheaters that don't care. I am going to go out and I'm going to get my friends, my family, and we are going to vote on November 3rd. Our great reporter still with us. We're joined by Lauren Fox. Lauren, the president, I think, is trying to help a lot of the people you cover every day up on Capitol Hill, trying to get people to turn out. humility at the top, the greatest president in the history of the United States, then the cheaters part in the middle.

16:59What do Republicans who are in the battleground races, who have to deal with this dilemma, they need the Trump base to come out or they can't win, but Trump is an albatross in many ways in their races. What do they make of this? Did this convention help them? Do they know? Well, I think that that moment probably didn't help them. And it's also interesting because all the people who are attending a convention like this are going to turn out to vote, right? These are the most passionate voters. But for people who are in the middle and are watching that tape, does that make you want to vote for more Republicans?

17:30I think a lot of Republican lawmakers already have so many ways that they're trying to distance themselves in very small ways right now, in part because they do fear that the president is a drag on them. And moments like this that go viral when people are scrolling through their phones, That certainly doesn't help. And so he can give a big speech like that, and it does rally his base. And Republicans, they need them. They need them. They also need more than that if you're in a purple district or a tough state. But the morning after, these are the numbers. These are the numbers that are the problem for the president.

18:02Just this morning, we saw another inflation report that says inflation is persistent. Gas is up 29 cents just in the last month. We have 3.4 percent annual inflation. For the last five months, wage growth has trailed inflation. That's the math the president can't talk you out of. You know that every day when you go to the grocery store. And plus now we're weeks away. There comes a point where it's baked in. Does that tell you that the economic problems for the Republicans at this point is baked in? Yeah, right. It's the math and it's the feeling that he is trying to talk himself out of, which former presidents have failed to do, right?

18:38Like people, when they go to fill up the tank and they see that number, it's a scorecard on the economy almost for them, right? And we know that energy prices have surged as this war in Iran has been prolonged. So the calculation here, when you talk to people familiar with the president's political operation, is that by trying to put him on the ballot and send him out there. By the way, he hasn't traveled all that much and campaigned all that much. So this is he's going to, but he's going to. But we've heard that before. But the calculation is, OK, we're just going to double down on the MAGA voters that tend to turn out for presidential elections and try to get him out this November.

19:12But as you said, what does that mean for those independent voters that would also be crucial in some of these races? It's a risky calculation here. He's also trying to group it with this dividend promise of a promise for direct cash. We've seen that before. I was just going to say, I make the mistake sometimes of asking for intellectual consistency in politics, which is a mistake. The party that says the Democrats are socialists and communists and big government and big spending liberals, their president now says, I'm going to give you a$5 ,000 check from the government. Last night he was asked about this.

19:45Is it feasible? Does it work? Is it smart? He got a little testy. I didn't do it for turning out the vote. I'm doing it as a reward for people having to put up with five years and four years of horrible, horrible situation caused by Biden. It's almost a reward for the people having to put up with Biden's policy. You also offered checks during tariff refund checks. That's a constant look, but it's not a good look for the president to be leaning in and yelling at White House reporters, in this case another woman White House reporter and a very good one at that, about the idea that it's not to drive turnout.

20:26It's Biden. He's been president since, I believe, January 2025. Accurate. Yeah. First of all, the idea that this wasn't like a quid pro quo that he was proposing just doesn't match up with what he said. He said that this is something that he is going to give to people after the election if they give him what he wants. So if we win, I pay you money. It's pretty clear what what the bargain was here. But also, you know, this idea that he can simply say, you know, keep pointing backwards to Biden. It was Biden's fault. The reason we have inflation is because of Biden. Inflation was high after covid.

21:01You know, some of that could have been traced to legislation that passed during the Biden administration, the Inflation Reduction Act, which probably didn't reduce inflation. But a lot of it was due to COVID. And if you look at polling, people understand that to some degree. They didn't like the situation, but they understood it. If you look at polling, even before the Iran war started this year, even before Trump gave people more of a reason to attach inflation to him personally, people blamed Trump overwhelmingly more than Biden for inflation. The Reuters-Ipsos poll was more than 50 % blame Trump, 15 to 16 % blame Biden.

21:37I would wager if you asked that same question today, it would be even more lopsided. I don't think this, you know, that dog don't hunt. That argument is not really going to work. People remember, especially people who had voted for Biden and came back to Trump in 2024, remember he said he would lower prices on day one. He said he would lower them fast. Now, that's always, there's always a little hyperbole. But the interesting thing to me, though, is the dissent was in his own party. This convention is designed to bring the Republicans together to get unity, to try to drive up turnout. Look, no matter who's president, this is a huge problem in a midterm election.

22:04The president's party always suffers. It's more in a second term, even though he had a break in between, where you're considered a lame duck, right? After this election, no matter how you do, we're on to the next election. But listen to this, Lauren, from within his own party. I'm hugely in favor of winning the midterms and love much of this administration, but I'm strongly against bread and circus bribes. That's John Lonsdale, a big GOP donor. That will lead to more inflation. That will lead to more debt. The Florida governor, Ron DeSantis. The problem with sending people checks actually has a negative economic consequence.

22:32Stephen Moore, who's been an economic advisor to Trump, members of his own Republican family, loosely defined, were saying, bad idea, boss. Well, when I first saw the headlines, I had to sort of dig in because it sounded like the antithesis of a Republican idea in so many ways. And it's not that we haven't seen that with Donald Trump in the past, but this particularly struck me as so sensational at a moment when I know you're trying to turn out your base and I know you're trying to get voters excited to turn out to the polls. But a lot of Republicans just are not going to accept this idea. And I think that applies to some Republican voters as well.

23:09Well, to that point, the Babylon Bee, if you're not familiar, it's kind of like the onion of the right. The satire gets into mega themes. So here's what they thought about it. Trump pledges that if voters defeat socialism in November, they will each get an equal redistribution of wealth from the government. So he's being essentially mocked by his own wing right there. Coming up for us, back to this incredibly solemn day, a seventh moment of silence. For the first time, the nation will honor the thousands of people who died from 9-11, but not on 9-11. You ran for the bus in your usual way. You're back at the last sight.

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24:46For more than two decades now, America has marked September 11th with six moments of silence, retracing that horrifying morning from the first plane striking to the last tower falling. But today, for the first time, the nation will pause for a seventh time. That silence for those who breathed in the poison that lingered after September 11th and lost their lives in the months and years later to that exposure. Sonia Agron and her husband are among the tens of thousands of Americans currently living with diseases linked to the toxic air that blanketed lower Manhattan 25 years ago. My husband and I both have illnesses.

25:23He survived cancer but between the both of us we have about six different illnesses, autoimmune diseases, no cure, and we know how it's going to end. And the seventh bell is really going to hit us hard this year. Because one day it'll be ringing for us. I want to bring in CNN's Bryn Gingras and Gloria Pasmino, both on the ground force in New York on this solemn day. Bryn, to you first, just so you can hear it right there. This is going to be a very powerful moment for many people. Yeah, John, and I spoke to Sonia, and okay, so her husband, today's his birthday. He was here when those towers fell.

26:04He was a recovery. He was, I believe, a police officer. And he still, to this day, 25 years later, cannot bring himself to come to this location. And you know why? His wife says because he has guilt. Guilt that he didn't save more people that day. Can you imagine, 25 years later, still having that guilt while dying from an illness that you received for being here as a hero. I mean, just sit with that for a second. That's why that bell is so important later, really just in minutes when they're done reading the names of all the people who lost their lives 25 years ago. That is when we are going to hear that seventh bell and it will be so significant and so emotional for so many people, John, because now more people have died from 9-11 related illnesses than the people who died on the day itself.

26:56And so we've been hearing stories about that, about the survivors that live with this every single day, but also, of course, the survivors of those who did lose loved ones, you know, listening to the name. Sometimes you'll hear a name and they'll say, you know, Grandpa, I know you didn't know me, but I feel like I knew you and because I've heard so many stories about you or they read one woman's name afterwards, they said, and her unborn child. I mean, the impact of just a name has on this day is so significant, and it does remind you of what happened here. But there are moments of hope. Hopefully, this country coming together, I've heard that too many times over while being down here, John.

27:36But, yeah, it's been a rough, emotional day. I heard you actually talking to someone on your panel who said today feels very, very heavy, especially heavy, than maybe previous years. And I can tell you down here on the ground, outside these reflection pools, that has been said to me as well many times over. 25 that 25 feels heavy I guess that's part of it and Brynn please stay with us Gloria as Brynn just noted it's a sad thing to say but more people died from 9-11 than died on 9-11 and we learned a lot more about that this week why this week what warning signs there were this week when the mayor decided to release new information about what New York officials knew at the time but kept from the public about the air quality 25 years ago tell us more yeah John it It's just a staggering sentence, right, to hear that more people have died from 9-11-related illnesses than the amount of people who were killed that day.

28:34So the suffering and the pain of 9-11 has extended for generations and for thousands of more people who had to battle disease as a result of them being down there, many of them down there to help in the aftermath of 9-11. Now, we have known for years now that people were getting sick. We know about the Sudroga Act, which took so many years to pass. So this was not necessarily a secret. But what we did not know until this past Tuesday was that the city of New York at the time, under the Giuliani administration, actually had information in its possession that showed that the air quality and conditions near Ground Zero were not entirely safe.

29:19and Mayor Zora Mamdani moved to release many of those documents this week. It was part of a lawsuit that a 9-11 health advocacy organization had against the city to publish those documents and make them public. And he settled that lawsuit and as a result of that settlement, those documents are now public. And what we learned is that even as early as October, so less than a month after the attacks, They had data showing that the air quality was concerning, that there was toxicity in the air. But as you remember, John, there was such a rush to reopen the area in lower Manhattan, to sort of have this united front that we were going to come back and that we were coming back.

30:06And then, of course, there were the thousands of people who ran down to the area to help in the immediate aftermath, not just first responders, but just regular people who went to the pile with their bare hands to help remove rubble. So many of those people have been sick. And I asked the mayor earlier this week, you know, does this mean that many more people are going to be able to come forward and perhaps apply and be entitled to the victim compensation funds? And the mayor told me it was not a matter of if, but that it was a definite, that he believes many more people will be able to come forward.

30:44Remember, John, this was just not the World Trade Center. We're talking about lower Manhattan, home to many different neighborhoods, home to schools, children who continue to go to school down there, people who work down there and worked after the attacks. So just the magnitude of the impact is significant, and that the city all these years later is making this information public is remarkable. I have to say, we learned that the documents had actually been sitting in boxes, 68 boxes that were being housed in just a government office and had been, you know, lost to the pile of bureaucracy over the years.

31:27And now we can sift through those documents ourselves and see what was known at the time and who knew it. Gloria, stay with us. And as we wait for this seventh moment of silence in New York, I want to bring the conversation back to Washington for a second because Lauren Fox, you cover this issue on Capitol Hill. For years, we have seen first responders, other family members from New York, often with the help and assistance and the megaphone, if you will, of Jon Stewart, come to the Congress saying, please help us. Most of the time they've left frustrated. Where are we there? Yeah, I mean, certainly this is something that they had been fighting for for years.

32:06And it's a continuous fight because there's always additional information that we're finding out about people who were affected by this, about toxins that people didn't even realize existed or were making people sick. And I think there's always going to be this continuous fight for the formula, for how much people are getting, for how much different groups are getting. And I think that that is something, John, that we've seen over and over again. You know, on Capitol Hill, it feels like an easy answer, right? It feels like if someone answered the call to go down and help after 9-11, there should be assistance for those people.

32:43And yet it becomes an issue over and over again. And yet it should be a pretty clear cut issue. again captures that this is an incredibly solemn moment at a historic day, but our politics in the 25 years since sometimes get complicated in ridiculous ways. So we're going to take a very quick break as we wait again for a very important and new moment, a seventh moment of silence at Ground Zero. We'll be right back. James Patrick White. When you're building a company, you learn that trust is what closes deals. You may have the best product, But buyers won't sign without proof that your product is secure, especially if it has AI.

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34:43Yeah, you know, John, they have fought, these families, these survivors have fought for this moment, this recognition, if you will, as part of this ceremony, because, you know, I'm sure, John, if you think back to that day, you can tell an entire story about where you were, what you remember. Well, those people, they live with it every day. It's not just a memory. They are living with those illnesses and in some cases dying from those illnesses. And so, you know, being able to tell their story and to be recognized for what they are suffering from is so important, just as important, you know, in their opinion and they feel as the people who lost their lives.

35:24And so that's why I know one woman, that woman, Sonia, that I spoke to, she says she's going to be very emotional when that bell tolls. And we are expecting that to happen anytime soon, just after they finish reading the names of Lao Zhang. Let us listen in. Let us listen in and pay tribute. First, the final names of those killed on 9-11, and then a special tribute to those who died in the months and years after. Let's listen. Zeng. Mark Scott Zeppelin. Haiyao Justin Zhao. Yubang Zheng. Evelyn Ziminski. Michael Joseph Zinzi. Charles Allen Zion. Julie Lin Zipper. Salvatore J. Ziza. Procopios Paul Zoys Joseph J.

36:22Zuckella Andrew Stephen Zucker Igor Zuckelman and my brother John Fiorito It's hard to believe it's been 25 years When we grew up we lived in the same room and even after we had our own families we were never apart for more than 25 days never mind 25 years I know you are still smiling down on us from heaven and guiding our wonderful families. That is no more evident than how little John has grown up into a wonderful young man who you would be very proud of. We love you, we miss you, and may God bless you, and may God bless the United States of America.

37:11And my brother, Sal Edward Teary Jr. Sal was amazing, a hero, managing director for Marsha McLennan. He worked at the Uptown office. On that horrific day, he was assigned to report to the Trade Center for a meeting for a colleague that could not attend. Over 3 ,000 innocent victims were murdered on 9-11, and all these innocent victims were going to work to provide for their respective loving families. So many families with small children waiting for their loved ones to come home, and they never did. including my dear brother's family with two little sons, Jonathan and Austin, age seven and five.

38:10Jonathan has since passed. He's with his father and my dear brother. I searched for 10 days in this city, looking in every hospital imaginable, looking for my brother who was my best friend and rock. It has been a long, heart-wrenching 25 years since that catastrophic day.

38:39Please, dignitaries who are listening and are in attendance today, we, the family members and U.S. citizens who voted you into office in our strongest, in our strongest possible voice, we are demanding, pleading, insisting that the federal and local government agencies with their respective lawmakers designate, orchestrate, and finally implement, after a quarter of a century, heartbreaking years, mark this day, September 11th, as a day of atonement, recognition, remembrance, and reflection for all the souls lost.

39:39Thank you.

39:43God bless my dear brother, Sal. and all the innocent victims with their respective families. Ultimately, God bless America, and remember, always united we stand. Never forget.

40:05Thank you.

40:11Richard L. Allen. Scott Thomas Coleman. Steven D Jacoby. Ricknath Jogernot. Jake Dennis Jogoda. Lynn Irene Morris. James A Nelson. John M Paolio. Edward Joseph Papa. And my brother, Michael L Tinley. Mike, we are so glad that you are calling Suzanne, our sister that morning, to let her know that you were in New York on business. Otherwise, we would not have known that you were in the towers. You've missed out on your grandchildren. You have six little grandchildren between your two daughters. Mike, we love you and miss you, and we'll see you someday. And my father, Michael Mazzaroli. this is an unusual position being the last one to go here I got to admit I think the one parting thing I want to leave everyone with is that you do my dad's legacy and the legacy of all these victims no honor by using this tragedy to spread hate we have seen a medley of people come up today of all races, all religions, all creeds.

41:34And this tragedy is just that. It's a tragedy. And it shouldn't be... I've had to grow up and spend the past 25 years seeing people use it to hate on our Muslim brothers and sisters, to hate on people who don't look like them. And that's wrong. And that does no honor to the victims here. And I want to use the little platform I have to ask for that to please stop. I want to thank everyone who's come. I want to thank all the dignitaries that are here and the families that have stayed till the end because every one of these names matters And yeah, thank you all for coming

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43:06Thank you.

43:57H идеander Thank you.

44:53The silence speaking volumes, there are poignant moments as the ceremonies, the remembrance at Ground Zero wraps up on this 25th anniversary of the horror of 9-11, that final bell tolling, a new addition this year to pay tribute to the more victims who died from 9-11, from the toxic air, from other exposure than died on 9-11, moving tributes from the families there calling for continued unity on this day. You see the pictures of the New York skyline. We thank you for your time today on Inside Politics. CNN News Central starts after a quick break.

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