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Brian, what a great package you put together about flight 93. i still get tingles when i think about todd beamer and all those amazing americans saying lets roll and really the first counter attack in that long war we fought now for 20 years and will continue to fight. this day and tomorrow are about remembering, are about ensuring the proper story is told that the heroism and the sacrifice is remembered. thank you guys for doing that on "fox & friends" and for giving me this assignment. it is a...

93. my wife called me got off the road with your dad he believes joey was on one of the flights. he was my older brother. he was my protector but he also was a great role model to me. and i had that honor and pleasure of walking in his footsteps. brian: lorain, your cousin, the senior flight attendant on that flight. tell me about lorain? both of you have a special connection. >> she was kind of the bigger sister that i didnt have. brian: you were working so hard to keep her name and legacy aliv...

>> he said, "mr. vice president, we have a plane coming down through pennsylvania, down the potomac direction. its a hijacked plane. we need your authorization tomai take it down." and he said, "is it a confirmed hijack?" and the officer said, "yes, sir, it is." and he just said, "okay, take it down." >> reporter: flight 93 was not shot down. it crashed after the passengers and crew fought back against the hijackers. norah. >> odonnell: incredible to hear all that history 20 years later. jeff pe...

Father was there and susan rice, national security advisor, called him an american hero. the taliban said in order for us to give you this one guy, your god, we would like five enemy combatants from gitmo. to give you this one guy, your guy, we would like to get five enemy combatants from gitmo. they said no its going to have to worry about these guys. weve got it taken care of. here we are, this was going to happen on saturday. we mark the 20th anniversary of al qaeda knocking down the building...

Of other former presidents in attendance. and no they finance the details of that as well. then he will be traveling to pennsylvania where he will be laying a wreath to remember and commemorate the families who lost loved ones on the flight o that day, on flight 93. then he will be traveling to th defense department where he wil also lay a wreath to commemorat lives lost that day. the president felt it was important to especially on the 20th anniversary to remember al three places that had signi...

Time. meet a lot of the family members of flight 93, but youre right, the stories are familiar to this president. what was fleeting but historic was the sense of patriotism and unity after 9/11. i wonder if you think this president is inclined to call on that echo, that memory, at this moment? >> i think so. i think in an hour like this, an american president in tune with what lincoln called better angels of our nature knows what to say. what you say is we were hit. evil attempted to shape and c...

20th anniversary, like this, is to commemorate the deaths of the innocence, who died because they went to work. or got on a plane. and were going about their lives. i think always, as im sure you, do about that remarkable story of flight 93, in the skies over pennsylvania. when those passengers lived out, the gospel injunction, greater love have no man in, this than to lay down his life for his friends. they struck back. knowing that they would die. and i think that all of that, is blessedly and...

At the time. that to meet a lot of the family, members of flight 93, but youre right, the stories are from under this president. and what was fleeting, but historic, was some sense of patriotism. of unity after 9/11. and i wonder if you think this president is inclined to call on that echo. that memory, at this moment? >> i think so. i think that in an hour like this, an american president, into new with whats lincoln called, the better angels of our nature. knows what to say. which you say, is ...

For him to go to pennsylvania where the first american counter attack where the heroes of flight 93 happened is a disgrace. the president who let 13 americans die because he put the security of our troops in the hands of terrorists go to the pentagon and lay a wreath is a shambles and for a president who left americans behind enemy lines to go to ground zero. >> bill: he is hitting all three places this weekend. mark milley is traveling in germany. jennifer griffin left her post at the pentagon ...

Work of 20th anniversary like this is to first and chiefly commemorate the deaths of innocents who died because they went to work or got on a plane, were going about their lives. i think always, im sure you do, about that remarkable story of flight 93 in the skies over pennsylvania, when those passengers lived out the gospel injunction that greater love has no man than this, lay down his life for a friend. they struck back, knowing they would die. all of that is blessedly and wonderfully a part ...