solemn duty to honor their legacy, their memory, to honor them, not just today, but every day. the horrific acts of terrorism on that days were meant to disrupt our way of life and destroy the idea that is america. that idea is simple. yet incredibly powerful. the idea that terrorists hate and fear, the idea that all of us, men and women, black and white, asian and indian, no matter what the color of our skin, no matter if we are catholic, a protestant, muslim or jew, or we choose not to believe at all, the idea is that each and every one of us is created free and equal, the idea that we will rise or fall based on america. the idea of a free press, free
terrify us. but their murderous intent was never realized. instead of sowing fear individually we gathered in new york and pennsylvania and right here at the pentagon and we came together as a nation, with acts of heroism, unity, and perseverance. many conducted by you in the audience today. while we grieve for our fallen, we celebrate the life they led. their legacy lives on. and the idea that as america, that no terrorist, anywhere on earth, can ever destroy that idea. since that dark day, 20 years ago, the men and women of the united states military have fought tirelessly to defeat terrorists in afghanistan and around the world, both at home and abroad, their talent and their efforts and their courage, their personal valor has carried this fight day and night.
. present time i stop holding people hostage. crisis must real than the government. of the last time can there be any winners in this battle where i don t want to get what you want is i just call for congress was take the question straight come to be any winners in this remarkably breathtakingly ugly battle i m not sure who is going to be the winner but there are going to be obviously a lot of casualties namely the hundreds of thousands of federal workers are going without pay as long as the shutdown continues not to mention all of the contractors who work for the government who are also out of work at the most interesting that you say that because obviously those people many of those eight hundred thousand people will be on very tight budgets indeed and they ll be very hard pushed to this point in time trump was of course in large measure voted into office initially by
ann colter tweets that she doesn t like it and he backs down. the way to proceed is to open the government. stop holding 800,000 people hostage. comprehensive immigration reform is wildly complicated rk, very tough to do. this is not the way to negotiate it. it s not only daca and asylum seekers and border protection. it s not where is the fence needed. it s so many things that are intertwined. to hold 800,000 people hostage just for the wall is just unreasonable. open up the government and let s have a real conversation about how to get comprehensive immigration reform done. to be fair, because you have the president and nancy pelosi digging their heels in on their positions. the democrats position is we will negotiate but you got to open the government first.
the house-passed bills to the floor because those bills represent a compromise already, those that the senate passed last year. we could end the shutdown right now if mitch mcconnell would do the job as a leader of an independent branch of government and pass those bills and end this shutdown. it is mitch mcconnell who i am looking to because the president is so locked into his position and as i said, he s a hostage taker. he s taken over 800,000 people hostage. his word is not good because he s supposed to be okaying they don t shut the government down bills that the senate passed and the house we thought would pass it, at the last minute, watching fox news apparently, i don t know who s running this country, but all of a sudden he changed his mind. any kind of meetings with the president he can say one thing, hours later, the tuesday,