facts to be declassified and released. and justice to be served. so much of september 11th involved pain, loss, and terror. our lives were never to be the same. and, yet, from the ashes of the day, stories of heroism and extraordinary courage emerged, providing hope to a world adrift in fear and confusion. first responders running into burning buildings with little regard for their own safety, while citizens inside those buildings refused to run from danger so that they could offer assistance and comfort to those less able. surely knowing that their decision would cost them all but their honor. and here in the skies over southwestern pennsylvania, a group of 40 individuals, mostly strangers, when becoming aware
it was brutal. and the criticism was always there. but i always thought, the important thing was not to do it quickly, but to do it right. and now 20 years later, i look back and i think, we did it right. neil: you did it right indeed. governor, thank you, very very much. an interesting little footnote on the freedom tower and you ve heard a great deal about it, it is now new york s tallest building. remember the world trade center was known, both towers were the tallest before that, for a brief while the empire state building held that honor and since slipped down with the skyscrapers at midtown and freedom tower 1,776 feet tall. what does it sound like to you. 1776. all right. and i want to go to peter doocy right now at the white house. the president has already been here in downtown new york and he s going to the pentagon and also going out to shanksville, pennsylvania, but he s not
that is interesting, we have heard from the secretary of defense. we heard from the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. we have not heard today from president biden, though he put out a video. obviously, he s the president. he could have chosen to speak if he wanted to. he opted in and out to. president clinton opted not to. president obama opted not to. president george w. bush is going to speak in shanksville, pennsylvania. he, of course, was the president on that day. in a way, and i have no idea what kind of conversations went on behind closed doors, but just based on the end result, president biden, i think graciously, is ceding the day in terms of public speaking to the president 20 years ago. yeah. i think we re seeing that this was a day for history. you know, there are days before and after this to debate everything that s gone right and wrong over the last 20 years, but today is a day to remember the attacks, remember the sacrifices, remember the heroism. one of the thin
saying anything on these visits. he had a pre-recorded remarks last night, but i believe he s leaving it at that, peter? yes, neil. right now the president is aboard air force one from new york heading to commemoration in shanksville, pennsylvania. that s going to be the next place that we see him. he moves on to the pentagon afterwards and he is not expected to deliver any formal remarks at any point today. this is the first time he has attended three events of any kind in three different states on the same day since he became the president, and he is someone who often talks at solemn events about his own personal loss as a way to try to connect with people who are hurting, who are feeling grief, but today we re not going to hear that. he did put out that six-plus video last night where he spoke about september 11th and he called for national unity, but the white house wants to leave
south tower, 9:37 flight 77 when it struck the pentagon, 9:59 when the south tower fell and then at a little after 10:03 when flight 93 crashed near shanksville, pennsylvania, the last observance with the fall of the north tower at 10:28 a.m. remembering what few of us can ever forget. welcome, everybody, i m neil cavuto and continuing the fox coverage of the horror of that day and what they are making of this day. we ll be monitoring all developments here about you we ve got you covered with some of the names that made that day such a unique one and led us through it. we ve got george pataki here, the governor of new york when the towers went down. where was he then at the moment? because we certainly know what he did afterwards. we ll ask him, he s here. we ll also talk to jim gilmore,