9/11: Modern America's Most Important Day
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What is Mark Halperin’s monologue about the significance of 9/11?
Everybody, welcome in. This is next up. I'm Mark Calperin. Thank you for joining us another week after the holiday weekend and some great shows this week coming up for you. Uh, commemorating two important anniversaries. I'm the editor in chief of two way. Your host here and glad to have you. Uh some of you might be expecting our eight for twenty-eight. Look at the top uh Democrat prospects for the presidential nomination. We usually do that at the beginning of each month. Uh because these two anniversaries, uh 9-11 and the death of Charlie Kirk, we're gonna unveil those next week. So we'll see on September 15th for eight for twenty-eight. Uh and uh appreciate everybody's interest in in that. But I think you'll like
this week shows. I think it's important to mark these two anniversaries. So that's what we're doing this week, eight for twenty eight next week. Guest today, uh two people with great insight into what uh September eleventh was all about and what it means now for the country. George Pataki. Who was the governor of New York during nine eleven and led brilliantly and has thought a lot and worked a lot on the issues fall of the fallout since then. And Victor Davis Hansen, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, host of Victor Davis Hansen in his own words, and a guest uh previously on the program. Uh both of them will join us in just a moment to talk about nine eleven. But first uh my reported monologue on it.
You know, I I I'm one of the few Americans who was in both Washington and New York on nine eleven, two thousand one because I flew at six AM. from New York before the attacks on uh the towers and on the Pentagon and and what ended up being a crash in Pennsylvania, uh, to Washington DC. Um, and while I don't minimize the impact of what happened in Pennsylvania, what happened at the Pentagon, uh, as a New Yorker, as someone who lives about four miles from ground zero, I've always thought about that day in the context of New York. And of course, um, in the context of politics, you can't ignore the reality that the debates over homeland security have raged now for a quarter century over the issues of
How both political parties have approached not just what happened on nine eleven, but homeland security, the border, and then the the the wars Afghanistan and Iraq and now Iran. That um are outgrowths of the need for America to be active around the world to try to keep us from being attacked at home, the need to secure our border. Um I have I have uh been so proud of the country in so many ways uh separate from the politics, uh although certainly the divisions in the country have sustained and sustained in the immediate aftermath of nine eleven and in the midterm elections that year. The annual uh uh solemn moment. On nine eleven in New York City. commemorating what happened, I consider to be really one of the great civic institutions, civic uh um moments every year as New York, the country and the world focus on the death of so many um innocent souls that day, uh people who were working in the towers and and many who tried uh and in some cases succeeded valiantly.
In rescuing them. Um, here's a bit of how um the day has been commemorated over the last twenty five years. This is uh S four, please.
Pray Ska Moonsen. Kazuhiro Ani. Caligso Anaya Junior. Joseph P. and Shundia. Kermit Charles Anderson. And my big brother, James Thomas Waters Junior, whose family s we all still miss you today. And my grandfather. Edward Joseph Papa.
So much good. Came out of that day. In the wake of so much sorrow. Um and while the political leadership, like George Bataki, is rightly celebrated for what they did in the immediate aftermath and the years after. Nine eleven. Um, so many New Yorkers did so much, some uh just civilians who did so much to try to rescue people and it did help rescue people out of the buildings. And then so many people, obviously the the firefighters, the cops, um, get a lot of attention. But take the folks at Con Edison, uh the power company there that did so much to deal with the crisis of of the explosions.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is Mark Halperin’s monologue about the significance of 9/11?
0:02–9:48
2
How does former Governor George Pataki describe his actions on September 11?
9:48–17:35
3
What was President Bush’s response at Ground Zero and why was it pivotal?
17:35–28:08
4
How did state and city leaders coordinate the emergency response after 9/11?
28:08–36:12
5
What does Victor Davis Hanson say about 9/11’s impact on America’s foreign policy?
36:12–44:53
6
How has 9/11 shaped the national psyche and what lessons should today’s youth learn?
44:53–55:51
7
What are the key takeaways from the 25‑year anniversary reflections?
55:51–1:06:22
8
How does the episode conclude with thoughts on remembrance and future challenges?
1:06:22–1:14:52
Speakers
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