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People more united than ever before. god bless the memories of those we lost and god bless these united states of america. [applause] bill: this is never an easy day he said and no, indeed it is not. civilians from 90 different countries, their lives taken on this day 11 years ago. ♪ .

The last row in front of me, 7th in from the far right. bill served as a marine in vietnam, flying helicopters. after the war he became a social studies teacher and joined the army national guard serving in the first gulf war as a medevac pilot. he was loved by his students. they were proud of his service and moved by his deep commitment to them and to our nation. one student said, he opened up my eyes and my heart to the world. many others inspired by his example became teachers, nurses, firefi...

To make attempts. so, ambassador bolton, we thank you very much for being with us today. good to have you, sir. >> thank you for having me. bill: were 2 1/2 minutes away from another moment of silence. that will be the time that we mark the collapse of the north tower. 102 minutes after it was struck. first one struck, last one to fall. outside of 7 world trade which was the tower that came down much later in the day, well past 5:00 in the evening after a fire just gutted that building. no one l...

Especially in those battleground states that are so heavily fought now. and to that extent politics has been set aside for about 24 hours. but we will quickly move back to that for tomorrow once this day is over. andy card, thank you for your time. >> thank you. bill: wonderful to get your thoughts and reflections and hear you talk and speak to our viewers as no one else can. thank you, sir. martha: thanks to andy card for the role that he played on that day, andy, thank you very much. so now, t...

Number is going to grow. the last number i heard for the new york city police department was 53 new york city police officers. so we have to remember that this terrible act, this terrible terrorist act is still killing us to this day. bill: there were statistics from 2010, tim, new york state department of health. nearly 350 first-responders had died of cancer at that time. that was nine years afterwards. >> yeah. i mean this number will continue to grow. i spoke with my friend denny mcdonough, ...

Afghanistan today. interesting to point out that some of the youngest marines and soldiers who are over there, the 18-year olds were just seven years old when 9/11 happened 11 years ago. martha? martha: jennifer, thank you. that is such an important point to make t changed the lives and paths of so many careers of people who decided they wanted to defend their country. bill: so true. martha: leave what they were doing and fight on battlefields in afghanistan and iraq. as jennifer points out, som...

First year in office so i think you see a tremendous amount of enthusiasm and people laid aside their substantive objections about the bill that have to do with lacking a government insurance plan and other things and say this is our moment and lets put this in the history books and that is what they want to show today, that this is that big. martha: republicans look at november and we know in political time is not far away. and theyve got work to do, if they want to keep their thoughts about al...

Debating the reconciliation package which will not fix all these things that democrats think it will. i believe that since there were 212 that voted no, we can have as many as 211, since there was one resignation since then, that can sign on to a repeal piece of legislation that can become a discharge petition. if we can get to 218 we can force nancy pelosi to bring a repeal to the floor for a vote. if the senate can do that, and i talked with jim dement yesterday, we have a chance to put a repe...

Clinton and netanyahu presenting duelling views over the new construction settlements in jerusalem and first, secretary clinton from last night. >> new construction in east jerusalem or the west bank undermines the mutual trust and endangers the proximity talks that are the first steps toward the full negotiations that both sides say they wants, and need. -- they want and need an exposes daylight between israel and the united states, others in the region hope to exploit. bill: that was her argum...

Target. acorn will go on trial in las vegas this summer for voter registration charges. bill: what are the critics say about this? >> critics arent buying this, the fact that acorn says its going out of business. here are incorporation papers from boston, for example, a new group, new england united for justice, matthew vadum of the capitol research center has studied this, he says the president of acorn is the head of this group, there are allegations it has reincorporated and rebranded other l...