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09/12/2026

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U.S. Marine Corps veteran and podcast host Travis Partington discusses the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, AP's Christopher Rugaber discusses the economy, and Future Caucus' Layla Zaidane discusses efforts to elect younger lawmakers.

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Joan Marie Aylward, the lieutenant governor of Newfoundland and Labrador, on Friday spoke about how the town of Gander and surrounding Canadian communities took in nearly 7,000 stranded airline passengers and crew from 38 diverted international flights on Sept. 11, 2001.

"Within a span of a few hours, the population almost doubled," she said at a 25th anniversary remembrance ceremony. "You opened your hearts to the thousands of people who arrived as frightened strangers, but departed days later, many as loved friends and family of the heart."

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09/11/2026

C-SPAN's "Ceasefire" — Former Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) and former Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) discuss the bipartisan work of Congress in the aftermath of 9/11.

"It really was a 7/24 effort right after 9/11 to get together, Republicans and Democrats sitting around a table, and crafted the piece of legislation that we now call the Patriot Act," Mr. Chambliss said. "It was a bipartisan action because, as Jane said, we were operating as Americans, not as Republicans and Democrats."

"I agree with that, but even before that, within a few days, we crafted the authorization to use military force, which authorized the action we took against those who attacked us," Ms. Harman added.

Both Ms. Harman and Mr. Chambliss were members of the House Intelligence Committee at the time of the attacks.

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09/11/2026

C-SPAN's "Ceasefire" — Former Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) and former Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) discussed the current state of the Homeland Security Department and how it has changed over the years.

"I think the threats against us are bigger and more complex than they were on 9/11," Ms. Harman said. "In order to stay on top of this and stay ahead of it and not blow it, we really need our best people and I'm not sure we have them."

"We created DHS, and immediately, we threw all of these employees on there, and it became, if not the number one employment agency, it was pretty close," Mr. Chambliss said.

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Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin spoke Friday about the Homeland Security Department's "zero-fail" mission and how the agency was born out of "failures."

"The Department of Homeland Security, we were stood up because of failures, honestly," he said at a 9/11 remembrance ceremony. "From Osama bin Ladin and the warning shots, literally, he had for years leading up to that. To even the student-pilots that went to Norman, Oklahoma, to learn, not how to land, but how to fly commercial airliners. There was failures along the way."

Secretary Mullin praised the "patriots" at DHS whose job it is to prevent such a terror attack from ever happening again.

"Our mission is to make sure it never happens again, meaning that we will always connect the dots," he said. "We can't afford to miss one opportunity to prevent it from happening again."

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09/11/2026

U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D-MI) held a moment of silence while speaking at Michigan State University on the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

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09/11/2026

President Trump paid tribute Friday to service members and first responders on the 25th anniversary of 9/11, including those currently fighting in the Iran war.

"For 25 years, our best and bravest have kept America safe. And today, we salute every member of the United States military who served in the war on terror. It is a war on sick, horrible terror," he said.

"We salute our first responders and law enforcement. We love them. And we salute the service members working right now to ensure the world's number one sponsor of terror, the Islamic Republic of Iran, will never, ever have a nuclear weapon."

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) were seen together during the reading of the names at Ground Zero on the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on Friday.

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09/11/2026

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth paid tribute to those who responded to the 9/11 terrorist attacks and portrayed the Iran war as a continuation of the war on terror.

"Warriors and civilians alike, they stared death in the eye and they did not blink," he said at a Pentagon 25th anniversary remembrance ceremony. "Sept. 11, 2001, was one of the darkest days in American history, but evil did not get the last word. It never has and it never will. 25 years later, America is stronger than ever before, tall and proud."

The defense secretary said the "struggle" against terrorism continues, including seeking to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.

"Over the past six months, we have laid waste to the world's most prolific state-sponsor of terrorism. Our warriors have fought an Islamic theocracy that has wished us death for nearly half a century, that cheered on 9/11," he said. "We're still sending terrorists where they belong, to hell."

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