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Speaker 1: President from blaming the Rascal level.
Speaker 4: What happened to the pass, well, look, the bottom line
is this is a time that all Americans should come
together and feel and mourn what happened. Violence, which affects
so many different people of so many different political persuasions,
is an affliction of America and coming together is what
we ought to be doing, not pointing fingers of blame.
Speaker 8: This moment requires leadership that brings the American people together
as opposed to trying to further divide us. Political violence
in any form against any American is unacceptable, should be
denounced by everyone, and moving forward, we have to figure
out a better way to come together, not as Democrats
or Republicans, but as Americans.
Speaker 3: James Goldman, my friends, welcome nine to eleven. Twenty four
years ago, on this date, my friend, America was attacked
by terrorists, the worst attack on American soil, almost three
thousand human beings murdered in horrific fashion by ideological terrorists.
A little over twenty four hours ago, America was attacked again,
this time from within by someone presumably with an ideological perspective,
submerged and embraced in evil. During the time that has
followed from the past twenty four hours, the unchecked hatred
that inhabits the bodies and minds of some of the
creatures on this planet posing as human beings have been
on full display on social media sites that go world wide.
We have some of those I'm still debating if I
want to even play them. Some of them are so vile.
And it's been an emotional roller coaster, one that started
down and then went down further, still searching somehow through
all this despair and downness for a light of optimism,
through these heavy clouds, thinking what is becoming of this nation?
Yet somewhere out there, I do think that there is optimism,
optimism to reflect on the big picture. Now, none of us,
not one of us, comes on to this Earth as
a place that will be our permanent home. In the
vast expanse of all that is of infinity, the vast
expanse of space time, our lives here on this planet
Earth are at best incredibly short, even if you just
measure it against not even infinity, but just against what
science tells us the lifetime is of this Earth so
far over four billion years. The time that we each
of us will spend on this Earth seems like mere
seconds in comparison. And we are not in a position intellectually,
we're not in a position more importantly than that spiritually,
to really see the big picture of this creation. But
this country that we have so much invested in is
still in its infancy, not even a Toddler among the
civilizations that have come and appeared on this earth, and
in some cases have perished already. For all of the heartaches,
and yesterday was a day full of heartaches, and some
of those heartaches continue today when you look and you
see what some people in this country are saying and
what they're doing, and the celebrations that are taking place
in some quarters. For all the heartaches over the evil,
there's also an enduring legacy of good that still thrives,
that still grows. Charlie Kirk, thirty one years old, didn't
finish college himself, but he spent more time educating people
on college campuses around his country than many esteemed professors
will do in their entire lifetimes. Was he perfect? No,
there were some things I disagreed with Charlie about, particularly
some of the things he said about Martin Luther King Junior.
I found them profoundly to me misinformed. But it wasn't perfect.
But was he good? Yes? He was, he said decent.
He had a talent that was unique to his being,
and he lived his life full of purpose until the
very moment that life was snatched so viciously away from him.
He was living his life full of purpose. He created
an organization that didn't just reach thousands, they reached millions.
And here's a note of optimism, a light. The light
is going to be passed on to what ends. I
don't know what will turning Point look like in the
years come, don't know, but we can be hopeful that
many of the things that Charlie talked about advocated for
the love that he had of this nation, which there's
no doubt about that. His openness and wanting to debate issues.
And when you enter a debate, you don't just talk
at people, you also listen, and he did both. He
was able to defend his beliefs, and all of that,
beyond the hateful chatter from some of these voices on
social media, will go on. All of us, folks, all
of us have to go. So I said, we don't
come here making Earth our permanent home. It's not our
permanent home. This is a stop along the way our
coming and going. Many of us believe was decided upon
the moment that we came, the moment that we will go,
before we even took birth in this human form, in
this world of duality, this world of good evil, this
world of light, darkness, what some people call the yen,
the yang, all of that, but we all will go.
What is it from our lives that will stay? The
impact that this thirty one year old had will stay,
perhaps and resonate beyond his own brief lifetime. How do
we know that's possible. We know it's possible because we
know about the all to brief voice and life of
a thirty three year old that still resonates over two
thousand years after he was murdered. It's possible that because
of the efforts, the willingness to debate, the willingness to
engage people, that this country can return to a better place.
Also possible because the hopes, the prayers, the actions of
people will not let these values that we hold be
stolen from our society by demonic forces. Charlie Kirk spent
his lifetime on earth with courage, conviction and with purpose,
and above all, I hope, ladies and gentlemen, that he
is remembered for that. James Golden both Snarley will be
back in a moment.
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the Tunnel to Towers Foundation remembers nine to eleven. Twenty
four years later with me is Rudy Washington, who was
Commissioner of New York City's Department of Business Services and
then Deputy Mayor for Community Development and Business Services until
two thousand and one. And Rudy, you spent a lot
of time on the ground following those horrific attacks on
America some twenty four years ago. Does it seem like
yesterday or does it now seem like a long time ago?
Speaker 9: Rudy, No, it seems like yesterday and both. Thanks for
having me. Yeah. Yeah. I was the first went in
when the building first came down. I was the first
went in. I did the first search and rescue. I
have a background in heavy construction, so I did the
bringing in all the equipment that you saw coming down
FDR and through Manhattan and positioning everything because we had
collapsed train tunnels, and I was worried that, you know,
putting heavy equipment on the street, not knowing where the
train tunnels were. We have collapse of roadways. So it
was horrific morning and then night and days that followed,
to the point that it put me in intensive fear. Afterwards,
you did. And by the way, I'm literally bo I'm
sitting in a doctor's office right now.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 9: And this could not be more you know, poetic. I
can count the years that they didn't take something out
of me in terms of operating on me because of
what's running around in my body still from nine to eleven.
So nine eleven is close to me. It's part of
my life now, you know my survival period.
Speaker 3: You said the first one in the first one in
these buildings, tell us for a moment.
Speaker 9: What you saw. Well, I came up out of the
new Town Tunnel and the police radio started going off,
and my driver had to calm the person down, said
what are you saying? And he's saying a plane went
into the building, and I'm thinking a small plane and
get up on their pr coming down. I was going
to aboard meeting coming down, and I could see the
World Trade Center and I could see the big hole
and the smoke coming out, and I knew it wasn't
a small plane. So we turned on the license, Sirrene.
We got down there and I got to the gate
and I said, Whiz Whiz is the mayor And they
said he's down there. And so I started pushing my
way through a wall of people that was coming out
of Lower Man coming up Broadway, and I'm pushing my
way through them, and they yelling the plane went into
the building. That's what they were yelling to me, not
realizing they were talking about a second plane. And when
I got down there, by trying to the Saint Paul's ample,
you know, our pause for a second, it felt it
felt like an eternity, but the reality was it was
two three seconds where I said, you go down there,
you may not come out in might you know, I
might die. And I made the decision to go anyway.
And when I got down there, you know, I saw
a commissioner. She was standing out there wearing heels, holding
a police helmet, and I asked, where's Rudy and she
pointed to the door and went to go in. She
grabbed me and I said to her, Rosemary, which smalling
was Samanna, and she just pointed up. Hindsight, I realized
she was in shock, but she was trying to tell me.
People would jumping out the window. And as I was
going into the building, look up to make sure I
don't get hit by somebody.
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 9: And as I started to go into the building, the
firemen and policeman started running out. And both you see
firemen and policeman running towards you, you don't ask what's
going on. You just joined the run. They shot past me.
I started running an then I realized we ran past
Rosemary my driving, and we went back and got her
and put her into a police vehicle and they all
took off. We didn't know why it was Right now
in hindsight, I realized they hurt that building breaking uh.
And they got out of that lobby, and just as
I pushed her in the car and she took off,
the buildings started coming down. And I was right there
before Broadway, you know, and I got caught in the
plume and I hit a column at full steve running.
I dropped to the ground like Mike Tyson hit me.
Got back up and not realizing all the damage I
did to my body. You know, I damaged my server
CLA and that shit my knee, my leg. I've had
surgeries on both, and I kept going, you know, And
when I got back in, I went back in. As
soon as the flood beginning to clear, I went back in.
I climbed up on the debris and I realized I
was standing on top of a firesuck or ambulance. I
could see the lights below me turning, and I knew
as I was approaching the first time people on the
sidewalk getting care who were the glass and stuff had
come out of the building and hit people on the ground,
so I knew I was standing on top of people.
It was. It was horrible, and you know, later on
you go in and you see body parts and you
see this, and the only thing you could say to
yourself to keep going. You got a compartmentalize and put
this someplace, because if you feel it, you're not going
to be able to function. So it was. It was
a rough It was a rough few months, and we
didn't take a date off. I didn't take a date
off until I was hospitalized. Intensive care came up.
Speaker 3: Yes, we have to cut it right here, but I'm
just going to tell you. You have a remarkable story,
and I want to invite you back on if we
can maybe Saturday, to talk about this and more, if
you're open to it, can we do that?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 9: You know I'm captured. You know I can't move around,
so yeah, I'll be available.
Speaker 3: Okay, we will talk further on Saturday. Rudy. These are
memories of September eleventh, twenty four years ago. This is
just amazing, folks. Rudy Washington. He'll be back with us
this Saturday. Thank you. Stay right here, folks, don't go away.
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Speaker 11: They got him in the net, They got him in
the neck whip sim good news, Good news everyone, Good news.
Speaker 12: Ding dong.
Speaker 9: The witches dead.
Speaker 12: To everyone's saying that it was such a senseless, violent act.
I want you to remind yourself that it was God's plan.
I mean, really, it was actually his fault, because like
he should have been wearing like a bulletproof neck brace
or something like. I cannot believe he walked out the
house without it. I mean, really, you have to be
aware of what you're wearing in public so that people
don't target you and you don't become a victim. So
I guess this is just another example of God's plan
and action was not a senseless act of violence. This
was God's plan. Happy hump day, y'all.
Speaker 5: Some be very clear about this so that you know
exactly where I stand. And I will say this with
my whole entire chest. There are some people on this
app that are sitting there saying, oh, you shouldn't wish
death upon any person, no matter what side they're on.
That Charlie Kirk was a Nazi. He was a Nazi,
And you know what kind of nazis the that's Nazi
a dead one. Thank God, that stain of a person
is no longer in this world. And may his hell
be being confronted by every single marginalized person that he hurt.
Speaker 10: That is what is wrong you.
Speaker 5: That does not make me a bad person for thinking
that bad people should not be in this world. So
that Nazi and have a great day.
Speaker 8: So, in light of this beautiful news, I would like
to propose that we turned Charlie Kirk into a verb.
Speaker 2: For example, I think that Stephen Miller needs to be kirked.
It's time for a radio royalty with James Golden and
America's Princess of Policy, Princess Die.
Speaker 3: Your highness. I don't know what that is going on
in this country. I have I excuse me. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 10: Hi, I'm with you, James. I have to say that
this has been a very difficult twenty four hours about
and you know, the horrendous news that we got yesterday
that Charlie had been assassinated has been compounded by the
reaction overnight that some of which you've played, that is
so disslating and discouraging, and it is so awful. And
I just have look for a place to land with
all of that, and it is I got a quote
from C. F. Lewis which I think applies, and he said,
my prayer is that when I die, all of Hell
rejoices that I am out of a fight. And I
think that's what we have seen, is that all of Hell,
the demons that walk this earth, are rejoicing because Charlie
Kirk they think is out of the fight. And so
in my view, which is a biblical view, they do
not have the last word. They do not win. But
in the meantime our eyes are open. We see the
Bible is true. We wrestle not against flesh and blood,
but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the
darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
And I think that oftentimes in America we are involved
in the political back and forth, and we are, you know,
fighting those fights and having those debates. But the real battle,
the real enemy, has been revealed. In the aftermath of
Charlie's death, Hell had no other alternative. They had to
shut him up because he was both in his face.
And one of the last interviews he had was an
interviewer who asked him, how do you want to be remembered,
And he said, if I die, I want to be
remembered for courage, for my faith. That would be the
most important thing to me. And another interview he had,
I'm sure you've seen a student ask him, I have
thirty seconds left to live. I'm dying from a gunshot wound.
What would you actually want to tell me if I
have thirty seconds left to live? And Charlie said, in
thirty seconds, you're about to meet eternal judgment. And so
you've got a few seconds left. You're dying from a
gunshot wound, and there's only one way you can get
bailed out of that. It's not all the good things
you did or the moral scorecard. It's whether or not
you have Jesus Christ as your Lord and savior. That's
the only thing that's going to matter. And Charlie proclaimed boldly,
without apology, the word of the Lord. And that is
why the enemy hated him, because he told the truth
with power and with confidence, and he had done his
research and due diligence. He could answer every question as
best as he could, and he did it very well.
And it was an effective witness for the truth, not
only on the greatness of America and the point of
view he had politically conservatism, but on the Word of
God and the Bible. And he found an amazing receptive
audience because, as he told Rush and thanks for sending
me the Limbo letter interview in the February twenty nineteenth issue,
he told Rush that what he found was students had
never ever heard these arguments and these points of view.
They had been so called and frightened by the lies
told to them in their whole high school and college experience.
They had never been presented with the other side of
any issue, and so they were hungry for the truth.
And that is why he was so effective, because he
had the patience. And if you know, if you've ever
seen him, and I'm sure you have in to him,
he never ever lost his temper. Did you ever see
him in a debate with one of these angry college
students who would basically interrupt him and yell at him.
He never lost his temper, He never swore. He just
engaged with good cheer. And he credited Rush for that,
the ability to answer and debate with good cheer. And
so however, he never pulled his punches and he always
told the truth. And so that is what I want
to do from now on. I want to be bold.
I want to be courageous. I don't want I want
to speak up when I'm in a social situation. In
the past, people don't want to make waves. You don't
want to have a problem in a social situation. I
want to be gelect Charlie. I want to tell the truth.
I want to lay it out with good cheer and
firmness and with power, and to basically defend the faith,
and so I just want to lay him there because
that is what the power of the Lord is.
Speaker 3: You know, I this has been a tough twenty four hours.
I gotta tell you I couldn't yesterday. I think I
was numb. I did not have an emotional reaction to
almost anything. Was just numb. And it's starting to seep
in today. It's what is so difficult, I think, more
than anything else, is this fear that somehow or another,
it might be too late for America. And I say
that not believing it's true. But there's a fear because
when you hear and Diana, I have tons of these
sound bites from these deranged people. I didn't even I
could do this the rest of the show, the rest
of the show tomorrow, the rest of the show Saturday.
It is astounding how many of these individuals just feel
comfortable with spewing hatred and spewing this vile.
Speaker 9: Now.
Speaker 3: Also, Diana, you and I are old enough to remember
certain things. I remember when John Kennedy was killed, President
Kennedy was assassinated, I remember when doctor King was assassinated
that Thursday night. I remember almost a month to the
day when Robert Kennedy was assassinated. I remember when for me,
Malcolm X's assassination was a big deal. I remember, of course,
we all remember where we were when nine to eleven
took place, and twenty four years ago today. Throughout all
of that, we saw a few voices here and there,
there would be a few voices on the really, really
fringe of society that might speak up and say something
that was just ridiculously absurd and inappropriate. But I had
someone ask me on social media last night after I
posted about that very thing. Was it always like this?
This was a youngster? Was it always like this in America? After?
And what's your answer to the young people, Princess di
who weren't even who don't remember any of these things,
even nine to eleven because they weren't born yet or
they were children.
Speaker 10: No, it wasn't like this.
Speaker 9: This is new.
Speaker 10: This is an unleashed and I, as I said to me,
it's a spiritual warfare. It is a demonic activity, and
the masks are off and the demons are basically speaking
boldly because they think they have won. And that's the
thing that we have to remember. We have the truth,
and that's what they hated. Charlie for our side sometimes
gets impatient and says, what good are words? What good
is it? Debating and trying and persuasion. That is what
Rush did. It was persuasion. And so our side is
right now going through, as you mentioned, emotional roller coasters.
But I want us to land in the same place
that Charlie was and to speak the truth with boldness
now at the same time. At the same time, our
law enforcement, federal and state and local, has got to
basically take action. And I cannot do that. So what
I can do is I can credit the Lord, I
can look to the Lord, I can trust the Lord,
and I can say it out loud. That's what I
can do, and I want to do it because that's
what Charlie did and his life was so inspiring and
it's so meaningful that you know, to me, it's going
to be that generation that is going to take Charlie's message.
And if you have ever seen that, statistics about the
American men aged eighteen to twenty nine in twenty twenty three,
there were twenty six points higher Democrats than Republicans in
that age group. In twenty twenty five, there were eighteen
points higher Republicans. Two years forty four point swing due
to Charlie Kirk and his persuasion and his telling the
truth and his telling the story of the Lord God
Almighty in every single one of his rallies, and people
heard it and people were changed, And that is unspoken
now in all a lot of the memorials about Charlie,
they're talking about his political positions, but he also preached.
Speaker 3: You know, I yes he did, and I don't know. Well,
I've gone to some of the Turning Point events that
have been held, In fact that I've spoken at a
few of the Turning Points earlier on. And I'll tell
you one thing, and I think I mentioned this yesterday.
It was a cross section of American youth. It wasn't
as it's being portrayed in some places. There was literally
a cross section all walks of life in that audience
of his And as you said, good spirit. And these kids,
these young people, not kids, young adults also have fun,
but they will also engage. And what do you see
happening with the entire Turning Point USA movement now that
Charlie has been murdered so viciously.
Speaker 10: I think that that is the right term for the
country right now. He had the initial group turning point USA.
I think that USA is at a turning point, and
he also has the other group turning point Action, and
so that is what his movement is going to be.
It's going to be all of us we are I'm
sure there will be more leadership that comes up through
that Groupie's been training a lot of young people himself.
But I also think we need to reach out and
support that organization and take Charlie's inspiration and be bold
in every action interaction we have with everybody and tell
the truth.
Speaker 3: Do you will? This is a good place where you
talk about landing. I continue, in spite of this roller
coaster that I've been on, I continue to feel optimistic
about America. And I just want to play you one thing,
Princess Diana, and have you react to this and cut
eighteen Carlos please.
Speaker 6: This was the day that I decided I'm never voting
Democrat again. I cannot stand with you people anymore. Although
there's a lot of people on the right that I
disagree with. Looking at your comments, Gross, I don't want
anything to do with you. Find christ.
Speaker 10: Amen, what do you think well? I want to quote
from an interview he did two hours before he was killed.
He said one of my favorite verses is Romans eight
twenty eight, which says that God works all things for
good for those who love him. It's a very freeing
and liberating person for those of us that are Christians,
because we believe that when things can be really bad,
God is working, it's for his good. And that brings
me to our national motto, and that is where we
land ultimately in God.
Speaker 9: We trust.
Speaker 3: Amen to that, Princess Diana. I'm looking forward to speaking
with you on Saturday. I'm going to continue to play
some of these things. I'm going to continue I really
had to think about whether I wanted to play some
of this filth yep. But I think it's necessary for
people that are not in the social media world to
hear what I wish they could see these people, because
that's also a part of the story too, And why
is it a games?
Speaker 10: Also, they are going to deny it a year from now,
They're going to claim that never happened, they never celebrated
the assassination of Charlie Cook and Kirk, and so therefore
I think it's important that we keep it on the
record so our eyes are open and we know the
spiritual warfare that we're fighting.
Speaker 3: Absolutely well. Princess die thank you so much. I do
appreciate it. We will catch up with you on Saturday.
By the way, before you leave, we got I gotta
take a break. But on Saturday, I want to talk
about nine to eleven two, because here we are, we're
going to be coming up on a quarter century afterwards.
So maybe on Saturday we can just spend just a
few moments talking about that as well.
Speaker 10: I would love especially talking about Falling Man, that photo
that they have tried to squelch for twenty four years.
Speaker 3: Wow, Princess Diana, Thank you. James Golden snurd lead here,
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this day, September eleventh, the twenty fourth anniversary of the
terrorist attack that changed our lives many of us. May
God blessed protect each and every single one of you,
your families, your loved ones. Love and gratitude for your
being here with me and allowing me to be with you.
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