Never Forget

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25 years ago this morning, 19 terrorists turned four airplanes
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into weapons and murdered 2,977 innocent people on American soil. Mothers, fathers,
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firefighters who ran up the stairs while everyone else was
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running down, people who stood at a shattered window 1,000
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feet in the air and had to choose how they
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were going to die. We said that day two words,
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never forget. And here's where we are, a quarter century later,
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Roughly a third of the people in this country today
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were either too young to remember that morning or not
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even yet born. To a third of America, 9-11, it's
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not a wound, it's a paragraph in a history book.
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And for a long time, you know, I thought that
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was just the natural sort of sad drift of time.
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But I don't think that anymore. Because it's becoming clear
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that something else was being done to the memory of
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that day. It didn't fade. It was flipped. Think about
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the journey we've actually taken in 25 years. On September 11, 2001,
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there was no confusion in this country about who the
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villain was. Radical, Islamic, terrorists. They declared war on the U.S.
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And we knew it. Now look at where we've landed.
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Two years ago, a letter went viral. A real thing.
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It actually happened.
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So I just read A Letter to America. And I
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will never look at life the same. I will never
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look at this country the same. I will never. Please
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read it. And if you have read it, let me
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know if you are also going through an existential crisis
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in this very moment. Because in the last 20 minutes,
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my entire viewpoint on the entire life I have believed
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and I have lived has changed. Please read that entire letter.
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I need you to stop what you're doing and go
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read A Letter to America. It is literally the craziest
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thing I've read in a while. And while I can't
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say that I'm that surprised, I am pretty shocked. So
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go read it and tell me what you think, because
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I really also need to talk to other people about this.
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This was Osama bin Laden's letter to America. That's right.
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Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of 9-11. This was his
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letter to America, the manifesto in which he justified murdering 3,000
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of our people. Started racking up tens of millions of
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views on TikTok. And it was not young Americans recoiling
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in horror. It was young Americans nodding along, filming themselves,
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saying the words, he was right. My eyes has been opened.
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It got so bad so fast that TikTok had to
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scrub the hashtag. The generation was siding with the man
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who ordered the towers to fall, responsible for the deaths
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of all those Americans. How does that happen? How do
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you get from the ash and the heroism of that
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morning to kids praising the terrorists who caused it? It
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happens on purpose. It happens when you spend 20 years
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teaching a generation that the greatest sin a person can
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commit isn't terrorism. No, it's Islamophobia. Islamophobia. THAT TO EVEN
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NAME THE ENEMY, THE TERRORIST, WELL, THAT'S BIGOTRY. YOU RAISE
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A GENERATION TOO FRIGHTENED OF A WORD TO TELL THE
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TRUTH ABOUT A WAR AND YOU FUSE TWO THINGS THAT
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SHOULD HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH EACH OTHER? THIS IS
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THE PART MOST PEOPLE MISS. WHAT TOOK HOLD ON THE
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AMERICAN CAMPUS OVER THESE 25 YEARS IS A STRANGE AND
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DANGEROUS ALLIANCE. The marriage of the radical left and radical Islam,
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call it Islamo-Marxism on paper. They agree on nothing, but
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they share one enemy. And that enemy, it's us. It's America.
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It's the West. The whole idea of it. The Marxist
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sees an oppressor and a victim. And the Islamist was
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handed the perfect script, the perfect opportunity, America the colonizer,
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America the oppressor, the terrorist, reimagined as the freedom fighter.
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Marched them together under the same banners, same quads, and
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you get exactly what we have now. A movement that
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looks at the towers coming down and asks what we
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did to deserve it. You don't have to take my
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word for it. You don't have to take my word
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for how deep this goes. Just listen to the people
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your own side has sent to power.
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CARE was founded after 9-11 because they recognized that some
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people did something and that all of us were starting
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to lose access to our civil liberties.
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Sitting congresswoman waving away the murder of 3,000 people as
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THE DAY SOME PEOPLE DID SOMETHING. OH, BUT THAT'S NOT ALL.
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ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR LEFT-WING VOICES ONLINE, A FRIEND
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OF ZORAN MUNDANI, HASSAN PIKER, A MAN THAT ZORAN MUNDANI
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CALLS A FRIEND, HAS SAID FLAT OUT THAT AMERICA DESERVED 9-11.
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AMERICA DESERVED 9-11, DUDE. I'M SAYING IT. I'M SAYING IT.
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AND BANDANI ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE ATTACKS DIDN'T STAND
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UP TO MOURN THE DEAD. HE STOOD UP THROUGH TEARS
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TO TELL HIS STORY OF HIS POOR LITTLE AUNTY WHO
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HE SAID HAD TO STOP RIDING THE SUBWAY IN HER HIJAB.
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I WANT TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT A WOMAN WHO
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STOPPED TAKING THE SUBWAY AFTER SEPTEMBER 11th BECAUSE SHE DID
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NOT FEEL SAFE IN HER HIJAB. AND THE WAY PRESIDENT
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VANCE PUT IT, THE REAL VICTIM OF 9-11 WAS HIS
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AUNTY WHO GOT SOME BAD LOOKS. YOU KNOW, IT LATER
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CAME OUT THAT That same mayor was begged by 100,000
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New Yorkers, the families of the actual victims of 9-11,
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not his poor auntie who couldn't wear her job on
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the train. They begged him not to set foot at
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Ground Zero. You know what he did? He went anyway
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to mock them. And here is what he did when
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he got there. Ganesh K.
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Ladkut.
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THE VICTIM'S NAME IS JAMES PATRICK LADLEY. HE AND AOC
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SHARED A LAUGH WHEN THE VICTIM'S NAMES WERE BEING READ.
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THEY LAUGHED. WENT FROM THEY ATTACKED US TO WE HAD
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IT COMING TO THE REAL VICTIMS WERE US. They say
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this in the halls of Congress, in the mayor's office
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of the city that was attacked, and the conspiracy theories
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about that day, the endless theories shifting blame from the
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Islamic terrorists to dancing Israelis. When you've already decided America's
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the villain, the truth of that morning becomes negotiable. Arguing
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about who really did it is just one more way
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of forgetting who actually died. 2,977 people did not have
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it coming. They didn't deserve it. The death of the
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man with the red bandana was way better, was a
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victim than that fake auntie in a hijab. The passengers
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of flight 93 who charged THEY WERE THE BEST OF
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US AND THEY WERE MURDERED BY ISLAMIC TERRORISTS. THAT IS
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WHAT HAPPENED. THAT IS THE TRUTH. AND ON THIS DAY,
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25 YEARS LATER, REMEMBERING IT PLAINLY, So make that choice.
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Never forget what happened. Never forget who did it. And never,
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ever forget the ones we lost. 25 years ago, we
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made a promise. It's just as important today as it
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was 25 years ago. Possibly even more important now than ever.
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It's important that we keep it. Still ahead. A woman
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who was near the very top of the South Tower
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when the world went silent and lived to tell about it.
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Survivor Michaela Cruz comes on. And then a Green Beret
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who gave his own leg to the war on terror
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that followed the attacks. He joins me to answer the
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hardest question there is. After 20 years, did we win
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the war? And where does the fight go next? And
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the betrayal at Abbey Gate. 13 Americans dead in Joe
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Biden's disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal. Chad Caton's fired up about it.
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We got it all covered. Stay with us.
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BEGINNING OF THE SHOW, I TOLD YOU THE GREATEST DANGER
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25 YEARS ON IS THAT WE FORGET WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED
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THAT MORNING ON 9-11. THAT IT BECOMES AN ABSTRACTION, A DATE,
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JUST A PARAGRAPH. SO I'M GOING TO BE SURE IT
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DOESN'T BECAUSE THE BEST WAY TO REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED IS
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TO HEAR IT FROM SOMEONE WHO IS THERE. guest was
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at her desk on the 95th floor of the South Tower,
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Tower 2, on the morning of September 11, 2001. She
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was near the top of the world on a beautiful,
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clear morning. She heard the roar of a jet engine
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and a sound she would later say sounded like a bomb.
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The windows of her office blew in. The first plane
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had struck the North Tower right across from her. What
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she did in the next few minutes saved her life.
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She grabbed her things as much as she could, and
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she ran for the elevator. She made it. onto one
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of the very last elevators down and out of that
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building moments before the second plane tore into her tower.
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She walked 40 blocks to safety. And then she had
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to live with what so many survivors carry to this day,
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the knowledge that her colleagues and friends who didn't run
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for that elevator, they never got out. She turned that
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unbearable morning into a mission. bestselling book, and a life
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spent helping other people heal from their own darkest days.
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She joins me now on the solemn anniversary to tell
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you what that day was actually like. Michaela Cruz, thank
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you so much for being here. You know, tough day,
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25 years, but it's just as raw as it was
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25 years ago, right?
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Yes, there isn't a day, though, that goes by that
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I don't think about my friends. but it just seems
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to be so much more significant as the days approach today,
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every anniversary. Of course, this now is the milestone because
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it's a quarter of a century since this happened. And
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every moment now of today, I just think back on
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the times that we spent together and it's truly saddening,
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truly saddening.
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When you think, I mean, you've done a lot of
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good over the last 25 years to try to help
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a lot of people. When you look at where we
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are now, because those of us who remember or lived
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through 9-11, in your instance, we promise never to forget,
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and I've never forgotten. I honor this occasion every single year,
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but there's a whole generation that feels like it never,
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you know, it's Pearl Harbor to them. They're young. They
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didn't know. And then the version they learned in schools
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was vastly different than the version we lived. And then
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there's a lot of people who were around and they've
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sort of reprogrammed their memory to believe something else happened entirely.
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25 years later, looking back at where we are and
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what we've come to believe 9-11 is, I mean, what's
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your thoughts about where we are today on the 25th anniversary?
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Well, I think the fact that, like you said, a
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whole new generation has come forward, And now they're living
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in an era where they could literally feel like September
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11th was like Pearl Harbor, which many of us don't
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even know about to this day. And I think it
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gives us an opportunity to open their eyes to bringing
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this into history books. When this happened, I remember my
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brother telling me, you know, this is your story is
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going to be in history books. And I was hoping
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that that would be because it shows the resilience of
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not just New York, of my hometown, but the entire country,
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how we stood together in unison and wanted to make
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sure that justice was served. But I think that, like
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you said, there are ways that people are just kind
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of pushing it aside. They're forgetting the tragedy itself and
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how many people died and how many of our law enforcement, firefighters,
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first responders have died over the years from this tragedy.
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I just think it's really important that we open these
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kids' eyes and everybody else's eyes, especially those who don't
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believe that this is important enough to celebrate or honor
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every year.
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For those watching who may not have lived through it,
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who've only read about a paragraph of it in a
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distorted history book, what do you remember about that day?
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I remember how beautiful it was.
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I remember.
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just going into work thinking that if I did not
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have to come in early, which I had to that day,
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my hours were 9.15 to whenever I left the office.
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So coming in at 8.30 in the morning was a rarity,
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but I was asked to. And so the beautiful day
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that it was, I wanted to just walk out and
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go to the beach. That was the type of day
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it was. And as soon as I got into the
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office and I put my purse and briefcase down, When
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my ex-boyfriend called me, that I thought was just a
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normal day of him just trying to get back with me.
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And that call actually, it made the whole moment seem normal.
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That last space of normalcy before the first plane started
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to dive into the first tower.
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Did you realize what was happening when that first plane crashed?
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I mean, what was that moment like, seeing the plane crash?
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I mean, for all of us watching, we're like, oh,
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that was an accident. It wasn't until the second plane
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hit that we knew that there was an attack. What
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were you thinking when you saw that first plane hit?
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Did you think it was an accident, but we should
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probably get out of this building because there's a fire
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across the way and the window's broken? I mean, what
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were you thinking?
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When I was, I remember I was standing and I
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felt that vibration. And what I felt and what I
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heard was something that I never heard even that high up.
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You know, planes do not fly that low. And the
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sound of the engine is something that stays with me forever.
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Because when you hear an airplane engine that close and
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then you hear a crash, it just, it shook me
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to the point where I had no choice but to
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grab everything that I could and leave. But I knew
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that it was not our building.
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I knew it.
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I just knew it.
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If there's one takeaway that you want people to remember,
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we say we never forget. What is the one thing
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you want people not to forget about 9-11?
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How much our country stood by us in times of darkness, that.
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We were not alone.
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And we will not forget, but let's remember.
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Let's honor.
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Let's bring love back into this. And not just not forget,
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just remember. honor and cherish those lives that were so
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tragically lost that day.
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Important message. And we also remember the time we came
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together and we all stood for something and loved this nation.
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And we need to get back to that. Michaela, thank
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you so much for coming on and sharing your story
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and all the work you've done in the wake of 9-11.
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Thank you so much, David.
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Thank you. Coming up, he watched 9-11 unfold from airborne school,
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war that followed. Now he's lieutenant governor of Florida, and
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I WANT TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED IN
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NEW YORK 25 YEARS AGO. A GENERATION OF YOUNG AMERICANS
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WATCHED THOSE TOWERS COME DOWN IN NEW YORK AND THEY
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MADE A DECISION. THEY DIDN'T ASK WHAT THE COUNTRY WAS
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GOING TO DO FOR THEM. THEY WALKED INTO A RECRUITER'S OFFICE,
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THEY SIGNED UP TO GO FIGHT THE TERRORISTS. ONE OF
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THEM WAS A YOUNG MAN WHO WAS THAT VERY MORNING
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AT ARMY AIRBORNE SCHOOL. HE WATCHED 9-11 HAPPEN AND HE
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KNEW RIGHT THEN HE WAS GOING TO GO DO SOMETHING
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WITH HIS LIFE TO AVENGE THOSE ATTACKS ON 9-11. HE
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WAS GOING TO BECOME A GREEN BERET AND TAKE THE
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FIGHT TO THE ENEMY. AND HE DID. HE DEPLOYED TO AFGHANISTAN,
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TO IRAQ, AGAIN AND AGAIN. ON ONE OF THOSE DEPLOYMENTS
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HE WAS SHOT IN THE ARM AND KEPT FIGHTING. IN
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THE PAST, HE'S BEEN IN THE PAST, HE'S BEEN IN
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THE PAST, IN ANOTHER COMBAT, IT COST HIM HIS LEG.
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AND THAT'S THE PART THAT TELLS YOU EVERYTHING ABOUT THE
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MEN WE SENT. AFTER THEY AMPUTATED HIS LEG, HE PUT
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ON A PERSTATIC, REQUALIFIED AS A FULLY DEPLOYABLE GREEN BERET
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AND WENT BACK TO WAR FOR FIVE MORE YEARS. THAT'S
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THE MAN WHO IS NOW THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR OF THE
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STATE OF FLORIDA. It became the longest war in American history,
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20 years. And the price we paid for it is
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almost beyond comprehension. More than 7,000 American service members were
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killed in action fighting the war on terror. Tens of
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thousands more came home with wounds they'll carry for the
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rest of their lives. And then there's a toll almost
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no one has the courage to talk about. Since those
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wars began, it's estimated that we've lost more than 30,000
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of our post-9-11 troops and veterans, not on the battlefield,
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but to suicide here at home. That's roughly four times
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the number we lost in all of combat combined. Four times.
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So on this anniversary, we owe it to every one
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of them to ask the hardest question there is. After
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20 years, after all the bloodshed, all the sacrifice, did
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we win? We killed Osama bin Laden. We shattered al-Qaeda.
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And there hasn't been another 9-11 on American soil, thank God.
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But the Taliban? They're still running Afghanistan. Al-Qaeda still exists.
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My kids, they still get patted down at the airport.
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My hand sanitizer gets thrown in the trash before security.
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The government spies on us. And Islamo-Marxists are taking over
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the country. One of them's a mayor of New York.
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So do we end terror? Or do we just watch
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it become something new? Now, there's no one better to
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answer that question. The man who gave his leg, and
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a lot of his life to this fight. Joining me now,
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Lieutenant Governor of Florida, Jay Collins. Welcome back to David
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Pollak Primetime. First, let me say thank you for your service.
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Thank you for fighting for this country in the wake
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of the worst terror attack on American soil. Where are you?
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What's your mind today? I mean, 25 years since 9-11,
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you fought so hard against these terrorists. What are you
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feeling today?
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You know, the same thing I do every day. You know,
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On one hand, you have to deal with the reality
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of the world as it is, to your point. Look, socialism,
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communism never goes away. It comes back under a new name,
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new guise, and infects our universities, our schools, our families,
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and our communities.
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People want to take it for a test run.
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You have radical Islamic terrorists that attacked America on September 11, 2001.
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And you saw al-Mamdani and AOC joking while names of
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those gone too soon were being read. The fact that
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that happens in America, that a city like New York City,
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the city that never sleeps, the city that paid a
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steep price, that they had to learn a lesson for
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what leadership should be like, what the costs of taking
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our eyes off the prize and eyes off the ball are, guys,
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it's real. The enemy is not at the gates. The
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enemy has infiltrated the gates that are within our ranks
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and they want to decimate and destroy the American way.
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And we have to be equally committed to standing for
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American values, principles, and what's right. And I'm focused more
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today than I ever have been because I see what's possible.
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We in Florida do things a different way. We beat
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to our own drum. We fight for limited government for
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the things that are right. We need to have 49
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other states be a whole heck of a lot more
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like Florida and America would be in a lot better place,
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my friend.
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Now, Lieutenant Governor, and I'm going to be very careful
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the way I ask this question, because I think there
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is no greater sacrifice than serving this country. And you
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never want to dishonor those people who laid down their
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lives in defense of it by calling into question what
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they went and sacrificed their lives for. But 20 years
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after Afghanistan, when you look back and we talk about
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the things we're still fighting, did we win that war?
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And if we did, are we losing it now after
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we won it?
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You know, did we win the war? I don't know.
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I think it depends on how you look at winning it.
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First off, I would say the warriors, yes, we know
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how to win a war. Politicians got in the way.
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Politics got in the way. And we spent two years
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pushing the enemy out to the outer edges. You know,
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young men on horseback in a special forces tab pushed
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them out, worked with warlords, and had Afghanistan settled in,
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our enemy on their heels. And then politics happened. And
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we spent 18-plus years figuring out how to prolong this
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nation-building process. Our job is to find, fix, and finish.
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Kill the enemy, leave them where they lie, and then
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move on to the next target. Our job is to
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protect our people and our way of life, not the
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nation built. That should never be where we are. And
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I think what you see today is the fact that
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we got bogged down in Afghanistan for a long time.
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You know, if you're going to do that, you better
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be equally committed to the generations you're going to have
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to teach to do it. And the fact is, People
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didn't want to pay that price in America. So we
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need to go in, handle our business, and put a
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focus on the American people.
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And I think that's what you see people talking about.
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But my frustration, simply put, is we have to have
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politicians who have the spine, the courage, and the fidelity
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of action to stand and be equally strong, just like
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our men and women on the ground out there on
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the ragged edge of freedom. I'm so grateful for President
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Trump and his team because they do have the courage
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to do that.
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They're willing to act. They're willing to stand. They're willing
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to fight. Our enemies are real. They're out there.
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And we have to protect our people and our way
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of life from them every single day, ever vigilant.
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What a great point you make with respect to the
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warfighters versus the politicians that, you know, that pull the
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levers of war, because you're exactly right. I think the
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military showed its efficacy there. in pushing back the terrorists.
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I mean, we killed Osama bin Laden. We definitely beat
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al-Qaeda at the time, pushed out the Taliban at the time.
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We did our job. And you're right, the politics inserted itself.
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We got bogged down. Later on in the show, I'm
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talking about the disastrous withdrawal. And I remember my dad,
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he was in Vietnam, and he was on the ground
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in infantry, and he was responsible for clearing Highway 1,
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you know, that went through Vietnam. And I asked him
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about it all the time. I'm like, you know, he
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was drafted, and I was like, do you feel like
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we won that war? And what was your take on
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the war? He goes, he says, You know, he didn't
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talk about it a lot, but what he said is
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he says it was all political.
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It was the.
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Politicians back home. He says what we should have done
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is just bomb the hell out of Vietnam and got
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out of there. But instead, they put us on the
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ground every single day to get shot at while the
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politicians figured out what to do. And I kind of
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feel the same thing happened in the 20 years of
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the Afghan war, where we did our job and then
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the politicians just basically left our soldiers there as sitting
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ducks while they figured out the politics of it. And
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Abbey Gate is really the ugliest example of that, thanks
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to no thanks, I should say, to Joe Biden. And, man,
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20 years of war. Looking back on your time in
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service and looking at where you are now, what is
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the takeaway of the sacrifice? And what message do you
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have to other veterans who for 20 years fought this
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war and then came home? What do you want them
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to focus on now? What's the mission now?
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Well, look, what I'll say is this.
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If you fought, you served our nation abroad, you know
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what the price of freedom is. You know the cost
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that we have to pay to protect our people and
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our way of life.
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You know, when you leave service, when you get into
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the civilian.
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World, guys, we got to stop thinking that it's a
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magic switch and you have to become a civilian in
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every way, shape, or form. The battlefield changes, but the
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mission continues. You know, I think often our guys struggle with,
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you know, transition into what's next because we try to
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philosophically change who we are and what we stand for. Guys,
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I was willing to sign a contract to give up to,
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if necessary, the last full measure of devotion, that last
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breath in my chest to protect the nation that I
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believe in. It's the same exact way now. I just
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do my mission in a slightly different way. I serve
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our people, 23 and a half million people. Find a
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way to give back, give value. But what I'll tell
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you is if you're a veteran, You've served, you've sacrificed,
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you've done this. You've worked with people from all walks
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of life, every race, creed, color, gender, every ideology, rich people,
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poor people, people with great families and people who didn't
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know their families at all. And you've kicked ass and
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you've taken names. You've solved complex problems with bubble gum
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and duct tape, more than likely. And you've done this
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while people shoot at you abroad. What America needs right
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now is more grit, determination, the ability to overcome, and adapt,
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and solve problems. We need more of what veterans bring.
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Step in, lead, do what we do best, make a difference,
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give back to the community. And every single time our
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nations hit the skids, you know who's come to the rescue?
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It's not the politicians, it's not the bureaucrats, it's the
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working class and the warriors. the people who create jobs, opportunity,
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and those who put their neck on the line for
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everybody else.
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Nothing changes. The mission continues. Let's go.
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We need warriors now more than ever, and the fight continues,
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and I think the fight is more consequential coming up
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in 2026 and 2028, and I'm thankful. I thank God
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for warriors like you. Thank you for your service, both
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abroad and here at home. Lieutenant Governor, thank you so
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much for joining.
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David, I appreciate you, brother. God bless my friend.
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God bless you too, my friend. Well, the 20-year war,
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we all remember how it ended, right? It ended at
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a gate in Kabul with 13 flag-draped coffins thanks to
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Joe Biden's horrific withdrawal. We talk about that later. And remember,
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we killed Osama bin Laden. We shattered al-Qaeda. So why
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does it feel like we're losing a different war entirely,
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the spread of radical Islam across the West? We're going
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to talk about that later with Frank Gaffney. All that's
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still to come. Do not go anywhere.
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WE JUST TALKED ABOUT THE 20-YEAR WAR THAT ANSWERED 9-11.
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NOW LET'S TALK ABOUT HOW IT ENDED. BECAUSE IT ENDED
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PRETTY MUCH IN DISASTER THANKS TO JOE BIDEN. FIVE YEARS
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AGO THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION'S WITHDRAWAL FROM AFGHANISTAN COLLAPSED INTO ONE
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OF THE DARKEST, MOST SHAMEFUL CHAPTERS IN THE HISTORY OF
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AMERICA MILITARY. THE WORLD WATCHED IT LIVE. of the Taliban
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that they clung to the outside of departing planes falling
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from the sky. And in the middle of that chaos,
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a gate called Abbey. An ISIS-K suicide bomber detonated himself
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in a crowd and murdered 13 American service members, 11 Marines,
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one soldier, one sailor, 45 more wounded. One of them
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was a young Marine sniper named Tyler Vargas Andrews, who
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lost an arm and a leg that day. and endured
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more than 40 surgeries since. That's what he told Congress
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about it.
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Plain and simple, we were ignored. Our expertise was disregarded.
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No one was held accountable for our safety.
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That's the testimony of a man who gave two of
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his limbs at Abbey Gate. He told Congress through his
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pain that his team had warned their commanders about a
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suspected bomber. They never got answers. Or the authority they needed.
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Joe Biden chose to abandon Bagram Air Force Base WE
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HAD TO RUN EVERYTHING THROUGH THAT ONE EXPOSED AIRPORT. AND
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BY THE WAY, WHEN WE LEFT BAGRAM, WE HANDED THE
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TALIBAN TO PRISON BESIDE IT AND THEY THREW OPEN THE DOORS,
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RELEASING THE VERY ISIS-K TERRORISTS WHO WOULD BUILD THE ABBOT
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GATE BOMB 11 DAYS LATER. WE LEFT BEHIND $ 7 BILLION
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OF AMERICAN WEAPONS FOR THE TALIBAN TO PARADE THROUGH THE STREETS.
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And for the rest of his presidency, Joe Biden never
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once admitted that any of it was a mistake. Blame Trump.
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It was his plan. Thirteen families buried their sons and daughters.
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And until President Trump came back, not one single person
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in the administration was ever held accountable. Now, my next
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guest is a veteran who never stopped fighting for the
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men and women who serve. And he is fired up
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as always, probably more than ever. Joining me now, Chad Caton,
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former Navy Seabee. founder of Operation Free Nation. Chad, welcome back.
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Dave Pollack, primetime. Man, it is 9-11. We remember, we
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won't forget, but man, people are sick, aren't they, Chad?
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Well, they are, because essentially what I'm saying is people
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have forgot. We have a radical Muslim is the mayor
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of New York right now, but we're talking about Afghanistan.
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That's fine.
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And at the end of the day, we had Joe
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Biden that had a great way to try to make
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Trump look bad.
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Oh, I used your plan, Donald Trump. And I left $ 7.
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Billion worth of hardware, the best hardware in the world,
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and handed it right back over to radical Muslims. They're
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selling it on the black market to God knows who, Syria,
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you know, Hamas, Houthis, we have no idea. And they left,
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and we still have no real validity to what happened
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in Afghanistan. And after 20 years of American soldiers missing birthdays, anniversaries,
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getting divorced because of it, and worst of all, coming
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back in a box with a flag draped over it,
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and the 20,000 that were wounded and.
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Forever will carry those scars of war. They get no justice.
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They used our soldiers as pawns in a geopolitical game
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so that they could proverbially slap Trump. by saying, well,
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this was his plan. We were just trying to get
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it done. We all know it wasn't.
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This is sick.
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And on September 11th, the very action that made us
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end up in Afghanistan to hunt a guy who was
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never there or isn't there when we found him, it
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was Pakistan.
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Have we bombed Pakistan? Have we shot Pakistan? No, they
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got a nuclear arsenal.
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Our American sons and daughters went over there and traipsed
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around the country the mountains of Afghanistan, through the poppy
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fields of the heroin fields. And all we have 20,000
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and let's see, 1,926 dead in 20 years.
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We've got to do better.
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And our military needs to be in the front of
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that and be respected.
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They're not. Yeah.
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I mean, when you look at the 20 year war and,
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you know, I was talking to Lieutenant Governor of Florida,
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a Green Beret who fought in the war on terror,
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lost a leg, re-qualified, fought for five more years in
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the war on terror. You know, we talked about, you know,
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that war and where the fight goes, and it's the withdrawal.
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You know, it was really just... Because what Lieutenant Governor
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Collins said was that politics got in the way. He
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said the fighters, the war fighters did their job, and
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then politics got in the way, and that's why they
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messed everything up. And I think there's no better example
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of how politics... messed everyone up than that withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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There was a plan in place. There was a way
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to withdraw from Afghanistan to get our troops out. Trump
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had planned it. But this is where stolen elections have consequences,
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because instead of leaving in a way that made sense,
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Joe Biden just cut and run. And the aftermath was
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not only 13 dead warfighters and thousands of injured. It
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was also the Taliban reasserting control of Afghanistan. It was
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AL-QAEDA BEING ABLE TO FLOURISH, AND NOW WE'RE IN A
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WAR WITH IRAN AND THEIR TERROR PROXIES. BASICALLY, WE TOOK
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THAT 20-YEAR WAR, ALL THOSE LIVES SACRIFICED, ALL THAT TREASURE,
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AND WE JUST FLUSHED IT DOWN THE TOILET BECAUSE JOE
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BIDEN WAS INCOMPETENT, RIGHT?
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We go with incompetence, and we also go with I'm
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better than that kind of a situation. And the soldiers
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and sailors are always looked at as the whiny people
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that want to come home after being on the middle
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of a boat.
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For 265 days.
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And then when they do get a chance to get
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some fresh air, the press is over there trying to
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find out what bar they're drunk in.
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What are we doing?
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And again, we come back to where the American warfighter
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is the one that's dealing with it.
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I have a suggestion.
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Y'all want to do convention estates and you need to
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put term limits on.
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People, whatever.
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But how about if you want to serve in the
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federal government as an elected official, you serve your country first.
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How in the wide world of sports are you able
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to be in an empty suit and formally sold insurance
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and you can send hundreds, if not hundreds of thousands
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of young Americans to their death based off an ideology
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of a lobbyist? Maybe we should have those people in Congress.
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Could you imagine AOC doing drill? I can't either.
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We need to do better.
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And the good news is, and what America has ridden
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on forever, is that the 11 millions of veterans in
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our active duty military and national guard are the break glass,
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pull handle situation. We've always dug this country out of situations.
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Maybe we need to start figuring out the people that
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are senators to those terrible situations so we can actually
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do the right thing for once. Not saying I'm not
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about protecting our country and getting behind these geopolitical situations.
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But, dang, if we ain't doing.
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It the dumbest way possible because some guy in an
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empty suit who's never stood a post in his life
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could tell a four-star general that you're going to do.
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What I tell you.
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Why?
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Because he was appointed. That's not okay. No, that's the
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lesson of the Afghan war. It's the lesson of Abbey Gate.
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And it's why we don't forget. We don't forget what
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got us here. And certainly we remember, so we don't.
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repeat the mistakes of the past. Chad Caton, thank you
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for being fired up on this solemn day, and thank
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you for your service. Hurrah.
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Hurrah.
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Still ahead, we won the war of bombs and bullets,
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but there's another one we may be losing now. And
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they're not fighting with planes. They're fighting it with politics,
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the war for the West over Sharia law. More on
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to easily sign up for the news and conservative talk
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you can't get anywhere else.
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For 25 years, we have fought radical Islam as a
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military problem, a matter of terrorists and bombs and men
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hiding in caves on the other side of the world
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in some desert somewhere. And on that front, the front
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we just spent this hour talking about, we won, largely.
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We hunted down Osama bin Laden and we, well, we
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took him out. We shattered al-Qaeda. And we did what
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we set out to do. But here's the question. We
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really have been I WANT TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT
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SOMETHING THAT I'VE BEEN TOO FRIGHTENED TO TALK ABOUT OUT LOUD.
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FOR 25 YEARS WHILE WE WERE BUSY FIGHTING THE WAR
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ON TERROR, BOMBS AND BULLETS, WE'RE QUIETLY LOSING A DIFFERENT
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WAR ENTIRELY HERE AT HOME BECAUSE THE IDEOLOGY THOSE 19
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HIJACKERS KILLED FOR ON 9-11, RADICAL POLITICAL ISLAM, THE BELIEF
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THAT ISLAMIC LAW SHOULD RULE OVER THAT IDEOLOGY, IT DIDN'T
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DIE AT ABBEY GATE. IT DIDN'T DIE IN SOME MOUNTAIN
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IN KABUL. IT DIDN'T DIE IN THAT COMPOUND IN PAKISTAN.
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DIDN'T NEED A PLANE OR A BOMB. IT FOUND A QUIETER,
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MORE PATIENT WAY IN. LOOK AT EUROPE FIRST WHERE THE
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POLITICS OF RADICAL ISLAM IS NOW A RISING ELECTORAL FORCE
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RESHAPING THE CONTINENT COUNTRY BY COUNTRY. LOOK AT OUR OWN
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COLLEGE CAMPUSES IS NO LONGER A THREAT WHISPERED BY OUR ENEMIES.
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IT'S A SLOGAN CHANTED BY OUR OWN CHILDREN IN OUR
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OWN STREETS. LOOK AT THE WAY ANYONE WHO DARES TO
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NAME THIS THREAT IS INSTANTLY SHOUTED DOWN AS A BIGOT
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OR ISLAMOPHOBE IN SILENCE. THAT WAS ATTACKED 25 YEARS AGO.
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NOW RUN BY A MAYOR, THE FAMILIES OF THE MURDERED
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BEGGED TO STAY AWAY FROM GROUND ZERO. THOSE PLANES HAD
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A GOAL FAR BIGGER THAN ONE TERRIBLE MORNING. THEY WANTED
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TO BRING THE WEST TO ITS KNEES TO REPLACE OUR
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WAY OF LIFE WITH THEIRS. THEY FAILED TO DO IT
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WITH TERROR. SO THE REAL QUESTION 25 YEARS LATER IS
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WHETHER THAT SAME GOAL IS NOW BEING PURSUED A DIFFERENT WAY.
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NOT WITH VIOLENCE, NECESSARILY, BUT WITH DEMOGRAPHICS AND POLITICS AND PATIENCE.
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AND MY NEXT GUEST HAS SPENT HIS ENTIRE CAREER SOUNDING
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THE ALARM ABOUT PRECISELY THAT. HE'S TAKEN A GREAT DEAL
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OF HEAT FOR IT. JOINING ME NOW IS FRANK GAFFNEY,
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PRESIDENT OF THE INSTITUTE FOR of securing America.
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Mr.
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Frank Gaffney, welcome back to David Pollack Prime Time. This
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fight against Sharia and radical Islam is a fight that
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you have been very passionate about. That's how we met.
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You wear the Stop Sharia pin. Everywhere you go, you
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make sure people understand how dangerous this is to America.
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25 years after 9-11, cities in Texas want to enact
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Sharia law. Where do we go from here?
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We have a very important opportunity to learn the lessons
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of 9-11, which we have largely not learned, in a
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way that will provide a choice for the American people
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in this midterm election cycle between freedom and slavery. Freedom
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that the Republican Party has been associated with from its
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inception versus slavery, with which the Democratic Party has been
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associated from its inception. That choice comes down to, will
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you stand against those trying to supplant it, overthrow it,
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or bring down the government and country based upon it?
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The latter would include, in addition to the Sharia supremacists,
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which were the focus properly of your intro, but aided
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and abetted by their so-called Democratic Socialists of America allies, Marxists,
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who are envisioning a different end state. than the jihadists
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with their caliphate. This would be global communist rule under
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the Chinese Communist Party, probably. But they have a common purpose,
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and that is essentially the same as what bin Laden
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and his merry band had in mind, which is destroying
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the United States of America. So if we learn the
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lessons properly, which is this is about Sharia, or this
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is about Marxism, totalitarianism, whichever stripe. This is about conquest.
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This is not about accommodating or somehow living side by
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side with those who believe that it is either a
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law's will or, you know, the legacy of Karl Marx
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that they must defeat and destroy us, force us into submission,
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force us into enslavement. That is the core of the
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challenge we face at the moment. I was very heartened,
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I have to say. I was at the Republican convention
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in Dallas yesterday. There was some very, very compelling arguments made,
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briefings offered, the sort of insights that have really not
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been much in evidence since 9-11, frankly, that we have
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no choice. But to resist these threats. And I think
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the time has come when a mandate will be given
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to political leadership to do just that come November. I
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pray that's the case.
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And for the audience to understand, we did a whole
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hour special about this. And if the audience missed it,
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I'd encourage you to go back to OAN Live, find
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the episode that we did for an hour together talking
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about the threat. of radical Islam, about Sharia and the
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Islamo-Marxist sort of red-green alliance that's taking place in the
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United States and in Europe. But what's important for the
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audience to understand is we have this— Basically, through Marxism
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and through Marxist tactics, we have a coalition between Islamists
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and communists who are using the same tactics to overthrow
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the government, essentially. And they're—an enemy of my enemy is
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my friend. And they didn't learn their lesson in Iran.
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They're cozying up with the Islamic extremists, thinking that, yeah,
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everything's going to be hunky-dory when we overthrow the U.S.
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Government.
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We saw what happened in Iran. The Islamists got rid
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of all the communists. They'll do the same thing here.
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We're starting to see that. in the United States itself.
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Now is the time where the communists and the Islamists
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get together and sort of kumbaya so they can overthrow
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the government, take power, and then it becomes time to
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get rid of the communists, and then it becomes an
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Islamic— basically an Islamic state, a caliphate, as you said. That
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is the real risk, and people need to take it seriously.
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If you look at Plano, Texas, if you look to— what
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do they call it? What do they call that? Megacity?
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They had some weird name for it.
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Epic.
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Epic city. That's what, epic city. They wanted to.
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Islamic center.
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Yes.
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That was a Muslim only community where with Sharia law
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was going to be enacted. The state had to ban it.
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I mean, that's how serious it got. That's what they
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want to do here, right?
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Very much so. And it's not just in East Plano.
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This is happening in Katy. This is happening in Southern Texas.
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This is happening in other parts of the country where
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inexorably following a playbook that was laid out by the
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Muslim Brotherhood back in 1991, it's called the Explanatory Memorandum.
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It was introduced into evidence in the largest terrorism financing
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trial in U.S. history, the Holy Land Foundation trial back
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in 2008. And it helped convict five individuals who were
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raising funds for Hamas. using that Muslim Brotherhood playbook. What
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we know is over time, they will use the phenomenon
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of the Hidra, as they call it, immigration to spread
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the faith, to increase their numbers here. And people will say, well,
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you're talking about all Muslims. I'm not, I'm talking about
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Muslims who adhere to Sharia. I'm talking about those who
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believe that jihad is their way. They must conquer us,
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they must pursue our submission. There are Muslims who don't.
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Some of them are Muslims who came here to get
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away from Sharia. Unfortunately, the majority of those of the
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Muslim world follow the authoritative version. And they have a
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term for those that we would call good Muslims, the
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people that we may know, that we work with, maybe
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they're our doctors, what have you. They call them apostates.
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And that is a capital offense. And so consequently, it's
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very dangerous to exhibit their deviation. Therefore, we don't hear
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much from them. Therefore, they're not much help in this fight,
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which brings us back to the core.
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Of the matter.
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Those who are Sharia adherent are obliged to try to
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make a... global caliphate, if you will, a mechanism for
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imposing Sharia law everywhere. And yes, David, people might hear
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this and say, well, that can't possibly happen in the
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United States. First of all, you've pointed to examples of
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how this is built out. I call it frog boiling.
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You know, how do you boil a frog? Slowly, you
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turn up the heat. That's what they've been doing, these
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accommodations one after another, many of which seem innocuous at
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the time and consequently sometimes corrupt politicians, sometimes people who
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simply think, well, this isn't that big a deal. It
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ultimately results in that end state. And take, not my
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word for it, the example of what has been happening
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in Europe. You had some references to that in your clip.
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It's palpable. We are losing.
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Western civilization country by country as a result in part
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of that immigration, but also in part of the accommodations,
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the acquiescence, the submission, that we have seen other nations
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engage in, and we're in the process of doing it
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here as well.
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Frank Gaffney, 25 years after 9-11, the fight continues. Now
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it's at the ballot box, and it's incumbent on all
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of us to keep that fight going.
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To defeat— Election jihad.
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That's it. We have to defeat radical Islam in this country.
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Frank Gaffney, thank you so much for being here today.
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Thank you for attending to this matter.
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God bless you, David.
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You too.
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Well, that's our show for tonight on this 25th anniversary
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of the day that changed everything. We do the one
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thing our enemies never wanted us to do. We remember.
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We remember the 2,977 souls stolen from us that morning.
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We remember the firefighters who ran up while everyone else
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ran down. And we say it again, and this time
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we mean it, never forget God. As always, you can
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stay in touch with us on social media, David Pollak USA,
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or email us, davidpollakprimetime at olandn.com. We'll see you Monday,
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same time, same place. And until then, stay classy, America.
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Good night.
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