Speaker 1: This is the seventy seven WABC Mini cast. These families
Speaker 1: in big numbers are asking for the mayor not to
Speaker 1: show up that day. The majority don't want him there.
Speaker 1: I either saw my ad Elizabeth Miller on the show.
Speaker 1: I've got other friends.
Speaker 2: I won't name them. Well, okay, we don't want him
Speaker 2: to get the spotlight so.
Speaker 1: He can come. No, no, no, no, silly at yelled
Speaker 1: these people. They're victims. But no, if he comes, he
Speaker 1: gets the spotlight. Why don't you understand that he doesn't
Speaker 1: belong there? Hang out with Hassan Piker. America deserved nine
Speaker 1: to eleven. You think I care that he took it back? Now,
Speaker 1: of course he took it back. He's out there. He's
Speaker 1: the base of the Democrat Party. He's campaigning for every
Speaker 1: one of these DSA candidates all across the country, from
Speaker 1: Denver to Michigan to New York. Of course he took
Speaker 1: it back, but that's how it was in his heart.
Speaker 1: In his heart is America of nine to eleven. He's
Speaker 1: a scumbag, just like the mayor is a complete scumbag.
Speaker 1: So these families don't want him there. I don't want
Speaker 1: him there. I know the President doesn't want him there.
Speaker 1: He hasn't said up, but I know he doesn't. So
Speaker 1: you know, they got this big thing in front of
Speaker 1: city Hall on the eighth, which I was coming to
Speaker 1: with Bruce Plateman. But it looks like I'll probably be
Speaker 1: in Dallas on behalf of the president of the Republican Party.
Speaker 1: But regardless, the petition is last I heard about eighty
Speaker 1: five thousand.
Speaker 2: Strong, and more and more New Yorkers.
Speaker 1: Again, including the majority of the families of the victims,
Speaker 1: don't want him there. So Mary from Brooklyn made me
Speaker 1: aware of this.
Speaker 2: Lady. Her name is Jeanette Pick.
Speaker 1: Her father was also murdered that day, died, and I
Speaker 1: know that she's nervous.
Speaker 2: But Jeannette, no reason to be nervous. You're talking to
Speaker 2: me like you talked to one of your friends in
Speaker 2: Brooklyn or Staten Island, So no reason. Good morning, speed,
Speaker 2: How are you?
Speaker 3: I said, how are you now?
Speaker 2: You sound great? You say you're fine, you sound great,
Speaker 2: You're okay this morning. What's going on?
Speaker 3: Nothing, I'm just here to talk about the petition and yeah,
Speaker 3: all right.
Speaker 2: Well tell me this.
Speaker 1: Okay, you've heard Giovanni GILLANTEI on this show you've heard
Speaker 1: Charles Wolpe on this show. I know you spoke to
Speaker 1: both of them, since two great men. And there are
Speaker 1: only two of about ninety thousand people, all right, folks,
Speaker 1: ninety thousand that have signed this petition that don't want
Speaker 1: the may or anyone near that sacred site. And not
Speaker 1: all of them are families of the victims like you are,
Speaker 1: or they're guys like me, just regular guys. Does that
Speaker 1: make your heart warm? Knowing that so many New Yorkers
Speaker 1: are on the same side as you.
Speaker 3: I just really appreciate all of you. Know, they say
Speaker 3: never forget, and I feel like with this petition, it
Speaker 3: truly shows that America hasn't forgotten, and that we have
Speaker 3: so much support behind us, and that you know, people
Speaker 3: keep stying it and it keeps growing every day.
Speaker 1: But don't you agree that when you vote in somebody
Speaker 1: like mom Donnie and I know a lot of the
Speaker 1: folks that voted for him weren't even alive on nine
Speaker 1: to eleven. They are a bunch of dopey young kids
Speaker 1: who drink Starbucks in Williamsburg and party all night Manhattan.
Speaker 1: They're dope so young kids. But for the folks that
Speaker 1: are older when we say never forget, havn't those people forgotten?
Speaker 3: I view it. I am not in this, you know. Politically,
Speaker 3: I'm politically neutral. I think there's pros and cons to
Speaker 3: both parties. My thing is is who he has associated
Speaker 3: with politically, professionally and personally is the reason I don't
Speaker 3: want him there.
Speaker 2: That's fair.
Speaker 1: I mentioned hasan piker, but he's just one of many.
Speaker 1: His wife and the co conspirators of the bombing of
Speaker 1: the ninety three will Trade Center bombing. I mean, I
Speaker 1: do not notice Janette and and I had the same
Speaker 1: conversation with Giovanni that a lot of you folks are
Speaker 1: really afraid to get into any political discussion because I
Speaker 1: guess to the backlash or the other families that are
Speaker 1: Democrats that actually are okay with this animal being there.
Speaker 2: But you can say he's not a good guy. You
Speaker 2: can say that I'm here.
Speaker 3: The reason I don't want to talk to politics is
Speaker 3: because I'm here to focus on the ceremony, you know
Speaker 3: what I mean. I feel like that would derail from
Speaker 3: any message that we had, Like, I just don't want
Speaker 3: him there because you know, he's smiling with an m
Speaker 3: mom In October of twenty twenty five, who was an
Speaker 3: unindicted co conspirator in the ninety three bombings, and he
Speaker 3: also appointed Ramsey Castim on July first, twenty twenty six,
Speaker 3: uh an ex might I add an ex El Qaeda
Speaker 3: defense lawyer to be his personal chief counsel. You know,
Speaker 3: I just don't understand. You know, we've asked him nicely
Speaker 3: not to come. We've had to go to the media.
Speaker 3: But if he can pick and choose events he doesn't
Speaker 3: want to go to, and he asked New Yorkers to
Speaker 3: respect his decision. He decided not to go to the MECCAP,
Speaker 3: he decided not to go to the Israeli Day Parade,
Speaker 3: and he said it was due to his personal and
Speaker 3: political beliefs, and he asked New Yorkers to respect that.
Speaker 3: I don't understand why he's not respecting our wishes for
Speaker 3: him not to come, because of his associations with those
Speaker 3: who have justified and minimized the murdering of our loved ones.
Speaker 1: Wow, you just hit a home run, Jannette. You know
Speaker 1: that somebody who I mean, you just nailed it. You're
Speaker 1: exactly right. He can skip this Ready Day parade, he
Speaker 1: can cancel the Puerto Rican Day Breakfast at day of
Speaker 1: the Puerto Rican Day Parade. He can talk all morning
Speaker 1: about Gaza and the Palestinians before Saint Patrick's Day.
Speaker 2: He can do all that stuff.
Speaker 1: Right, and he can he can give the Columbus statue
Speaker 1: the middle finger. Trust me, he'll be nowhere near the
Speaker 1: Columbus Day parade come October.
Speaker 2: He can do all that stuff right. But you guys
Speaker 2: can't have your own opinion about murdered loved ones. Man.
Speaker 2: You were just that wasright.
Speaker 3: My god, he was invited. It came out in the
Speaker 3: Post last week. He was invited by the family members
Speaker 3: of the nineteen ninety three, the February nineteen ninety three
Speaker 3: bombings where six people died, and he decided to skip it.
Speaker 3: And he was invited to that. You know, we haven't
Speaker 3: I know some people. You know he hasn't been invited
Speaker 3: to this, and yet he's just oncoming. So I just
Speaker 3: don't understand the hypocrisy. You go, you don't go where
Speaker 3: you're wanted, but you go where you're not wanted. I
Speaker 3: don't understand how that makes sense.
Speaker 2: It doesn't.
Speaker 1: Did you have any excuse why he didn't go to
Speaker 1: the nineteen ninety three remembrance.
Speaker 3: I believe he was meeting with Trump for something, right, Sure.
Speaker 2: He was Okay.
Speaker 1: By the way, if you were to call President Trump
Speaker 1: and said, listen, mister President, they're meeting today for the
Speaker 1: World Trade Center, what do you think the President would
Speaker 1: have said?
Speaker 3: Please, I don't know. I'm not Trump.
Speaker 2: I can tell you.
Speaker 1: I can tell you Trump would have said, you go
Speaker 1: do that, mister Mayer, we'll talk later. That's much more important.
Speaker 3: I can promise you some as a New Yorker, so.
Speaker 1: Exactly right, a great new Yorker on that, I'll say
Speaker 1: that you don't have to. So I do this with
Speaker 1: all the folks that come on, all you brave, courageous folks,
Speaker 1: and I love what you're doing here, Jeanette. I did
Speaker 1: the same thing with obviously with Giovanni and Charles, and
Speaker 1: that is I think it's important we get to know
Speaker 1: your loved ones, the people that you love that will
Speaker 1: motored that day, They deserve to be recognized and talked
Speaker 1: about twenty five years later. So, if I'm corrected, was
Speaker 1: your father Joseph who was killed that day?
Speaker 3: He was Joseph Pick. He worked for Fiduciary Trust. He
Speaker 3: was he worked on the ninety fourth four last seen
Speaker 3: on the seventy eighth. He was in the South Tower
Speaker 3: and he was also in the Air Force as well.
Speaker 2: Did you have a chance. How old are you when
Speaker 2: your dad?
Speaker 3: I was nine. I went to school in Hoboken and
Speaker 3: the first plane got hit at eight forty six, and
Speaker 3: the teacher came in the classroom and was like, the
Speaker 3: twin towers have just been bombed. And I jumped up
Speaker 3: and I said, my daddy works there, because I'm getting
Speaker 3: a look. So and they brought us into the kindergarten classroo,
Speaker 3: which was the biggest classroom, and I can actually see
Speaker 3: the skyline from outside the windows. So on TV and
Speaker 3: in front of me, I saw my dad's build and
Speaker 3: get hit.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, did you actually see your dad that morning?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 2: One was when was the last time you?
Speaker 3: Last time I saw my dad was September ninth, And
Speaker 3: the last thing we watched was I don't know if
Speaker 3: you're familiar with those with the program Adult Swim. Yes,
Speaker 3: the last thing it was the premiere of Aquatine Hunger Force,
Speaker 3: and that was that was thet He let me stay
Speaker 3: up late that night because he loves space goes Coast
Speaker 3: to Coast and Johnny Quest and they were on there
Speaker 3: old shows from the eighties. And the last thing we
Speaker 3: watched together because he let me watch because it was
Speaker 3: only a ten minute show. The last thing I watched
Speaker 3: with him was Aquatine, the premiere of Aquatine Hunger Force,
Speaker 3: and that was the last memory I had with him.
Speaker 1: I think Mike Tyson was on that show what at
Speaker 1: one point too with those So when did you guys,
Speaker 1: you and your mom and the rest of your family
Speaker 1: find out that he was not coming home.
Speaker 3: So my mom, you know, called all the local hospitals
Speaker 3: and you know, we put up missing posters and everything.
Speaker 3: And I actually had to give DNA the school nurse,
Speaker 3: and you know, my mom kind of made it a ruse, like, oh,
Speaker 3: you know, the nurse was like, oh, you know, everybody's
Speaker 3: you know, doing this, you know, swabbing the cheeks. And
Speaker 3: I saw my mom in the nurse's office and I
Speaker 3: was like, Mommy, why are you here? And she's like, oh,
Speaker 3: you know, you know some BS story because you know,
Speaker 3: I was a little kid and I'd watch watched Unsolved Mysteries,
Speaker 3: you know, do do do do do?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: And I said, are you taking DNA, and they were
Speaker 3: all like and then my mom's like, let's go get
Speaker 3: a happy meal, and I was like, okay. And then
Speaker 3: my dad's remains got identified in October twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1: Oh they did, fine remains. Wow, you're talking about thirteen
Speaker 1: months later?
Speaker 3: No? No, no, no, a month later?
Speaker 2: Oh no, I thought you said twenty twenty one, right, right, right, right, right?
Speaker 3: By excuse excuse me, one month, two thousand and one,
Speaker 3: right right. I know, I know that only forty percent
Speaker 3: of unfortunately, of the two nine hundred and seventy seven people's,
Speaker 3: only forty percent of the remains have been found.
Speaker 1: Are you an only child? Yes, okay, So give me
Speaker 1: one more story about your dad, because people tell me
Speaker 1: all the time, my dad died six years ago, and
Speaker 1: they tell me all the time, he listens every no,
Speaker 1: thank you, not nearly as tragic as your father passed away,
Speaker 1: but at any rate, they say, he still listens every day,
Speaker 1: and he's out there as your guardian angel. And all
Speaker 1: the success you've been having said it's a direct result
Speaker 1: of your father up in heaven. Give me a story
Speaker 1: about your father that you would share if you were
Speaker 1: going to speak about him tonight.
Speaker 3: I would just say how fun he was. He I'm
Speaker 3: trying to think of the story. Oh my god, sorry,
Speaker 3: I'm like blighting. Okay, So there was an Italian restaurant
Speaker 3: and Hoboken. He always took me to call the Ricos,
Speaker 3: and I remember we went there and he surprised me.
Speaker 3: I was obsessed with the Backstreet Boys when I was,
Speaker 3: and I remember I was sitting there and I kept talking.
Speaker 3: You know, I had a Vasti Boys t shirt and
Speaker 3: I just kept talking about them. He surprised me with
Speaker 3: tickets sixth row seats to their millennium concert for me
Speaker 3: and my cousin Julie and my aunt Grace, and I
Speaker 3: was It was one of the best memories ever