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Folks, I really can't believe it's been 25 years. And when I say I can't believe it, I say that because I really can't believe it. It's hard for me to process that it's been 25 years since 9-11. And these two events are going to be forever tied together in my mind, not just because obviously the dates, our good friend Charlie being murdered on 9-10 last year. But I was headed to the 9-11 ceremony as your FBI Deputy Director to recognize the sacrifices made by so many American heroes and patriots who died on that day and others who died later as well. I was headed there when obviously the day prior, I'm sitting there in my office watching on screen, you know, it was Sandra Smith at Fox as this one down, put her head in her hand and no one could believe it. It's just these events are forever going to be tied together for me, even though they happen, you know, two decades plus apart. It was just horrifying. And the vivid snapshots from that day, I think everyone who was alive and sent the, when that happened, even if you were a little kid, six or seven, but you, you know, your childhood amnesia was over and you remember, you just, it was pre 9-11 and post 9-11, like nothing was the same, nothing.

And they're not, the memories are so vivid and tattooed on my brain that when I think about it, I remember, you know, like even the, the smells in the air as you drove into New York is, because we were out in Long Island on that day, I was a young agent with the Secret Service. I've got Captain Seth Cashell coming on later. I'm going to talk about that. I've also got a powerful tribute outside the White House that the tunnel that the towers put on, which I can't thank them enough, because we can never forget this. You know, I've heard people say over and over, you know, the farther we get from 9-11, the closer we get to like a 9-10 type thinking before 9-11 happened. And that was the week I met Paula too. It's just like the event was just so jarring and scarring in my life with many of you. I've got that, I've got a lot more. And also what it's like when a commander in chief doesn't act, because Donald Trump has acted, and you may not like it in the Republic, you have the freedom and the liberty to disagree with the commander in chief does with your vote. When you put him in power, that's your right. But I just want you to remember that history remembers quite poorly, presidents and commanders in chief, commanders in chief who failed to act that led to things like 9-11.

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