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CNN CNN Newsroom With Jim Acosta September 12, 2024

That moment, 9 59 a. M. is the moment that the South Tower fell. This behind me is the South Tower memorial where we have seen families since early this morning coming to lay roses, flowers, flags and place them on the names of their Loved Ones. Lives lost 23 years ago today. 23,000 people here. Nearly 3000 victims. We saw Jd Vance standing next to Mike Bloomberg, the chairman of the 9 11 memorial. Still in attendance here , moments ago, standing next to Kamala Harris and President Biden to attend a brief moment of unity we can say, to mark this moment in our nations history. I know you are just a few feet away from the 9 11 Memorial Site and the waterfalls that go into the earth where the towers at one time stood. I remember being there covering the aftermath of 9 11 when the towers had collapsed. You would see the Pile And Everything going on at Ground Zero during the recovery process. To be there today, and every time i go, it takes my breath away to be there on site. It absolutely has. To put it one way, it is all the things. We are hearing the bagpipes and hearing the bustling wild city that is new York City come to silence when the first Moment Of Silence came about. It is so striking. You do feel the weight of it. You feel the weight of the moment with all the Security And Everyone i have come across. You do see it and you feel it and you hear it in the voices of the Family Members as they are reading their Loved Ones names out loud. John miller noted earlier today that if you could look up with me, it is a bluebird day in new York City. As john noted, that is exactly what it looks like on that day, on what was the beginning of a beautiful morning on september 11th, 23 years ago now, the day that changed everything. It is a sad place but it is an inspiring place. Of course, we remember the sacrifices and honor the people who sacrificed everything that day. Thank you so much. We will get back to you in a moment. First, i want to go to shanksville, pennsylvania to remind people of the tremendous herbalism and the sacrifice of united Airlines Flight 93. For those of us old enough to remember, we remember that 40 passengers and crew members died when the plane slammed into the field. Investigators believe the hijackers crashed the plane and that location after those On Board tried to regain control of the cockpit and of course they are remembering those sacrifices. Lets listen in. William joseph cashman. [ Bells Tolling ]. That is a live look at the flight 93 memorial at shanksville, pennsylvania. I have had the honor to cover ceremonies there as well. Unlike the fountains you see at Ground Zero in new york, you really just see an empty field there as well as the memorial that they put in place at that site. And it is equally breathtaking because it reminds you of this unbelievable act of bravery on the part of the passengers on that plane that day. Had they not help to crush that plane into that field, who knows what might have happened here in washington. Of course we honor what they did In Shanksville on that day. I want to go back to Ground Zero in new york. A number of the nations leaders have gathered there this morning and including the two people competing to become the next president. Kate, you were talking about this a few moments ago. It was remarkable to see the former President And Vice president , harris and President Biden all within a few feet of one another and it was just a very different scene there. Can you tell us about it . It really was. When you think of 12 hours ago, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump had never met facetoface. They meet on a Debate Stage for what was a hugely contentious and consequential moment when they faced off on the Debate Stage in the selection. Less than 12 hours later, they are standing sidebyside essentially for a second time, even closer then when they were on the Debate Stage. And in between them, Kamala Harris , Joe Biden, Mike Bloomberg and Donald Trump. It appeared as we watched it, you can see in the video that Mike Bloomberg really facilitated and brought about a moment that everyone, i would say Needed. Harris And Donald trump shaking hands. I would say coming into this this morning, there was a thought in my mind and probably yours as well, is knowing that if they came across Each Other, what that would look like, and a place that politics should be nowhere near and this is a place where it is about the families and remembering and seeing them take a moment to shake hands. It was a good thing. Albeit brief. A brief moment of unity. It was a good thing. Whenever we can have a moment of unity and perhaps it has been being there at Ground Zero. It shakes you to the core all these years later. I remember and we all remember President Bush when he stood there Ground Zero and called the country unified. It can still be that way again. Kate, thank you so much. We will come back to you for the next Moment Of Silence and about 20 minutes to mark the collapse of the North Tower and we will continue covererage. Stay with s after a short break. We will be right back. Welcome back. For the second time in less than 12 hours, Vice President , Harrison Former president Donald Trump crossed paths. This time it was in new york ahead of the 9 11 ceremony. A quick handshake after a stunning showdown in philadelphia at the debate. Will begin with a handshake ended with both sides claiming victory Last Night. The question remains, will it shake a race that has essentially been a tossup . Kamala harris. Have fun. Thank you. Donald trump was fired by 81 Million people. Lets be clear about that and clearly, he is having a very difficult time processing that. I have traveled the world as Vice President of the united states. World leaders are laughing at Donald Trump. I have talked with military leaders. Some of whom worked with you and they say that you are a disgrace. Let me tell you about World Leaders. The Prime Minister of hungary, they said, why is the whole world blowing up three years ago and it wasnt before. Wise blowing up . He said because you need trump back as president. They were afraid of him. One does not have to abandon their faith or deeply held beliefs to agree. The government and Donald Trump certainly should not be telling a woman what to do with her body. What i did was something for 52 years. They have been trying to get Roe V wade into the states. And through the Genius And Heart and strength of six Supreme Court justices, we were able to do that. I believe in the exceptions for rape, Incest And Life of the mother. Crime in this country is through the roof and we have a new form of crime called migrant crime and it is happening at levels that nobody thought possible. I think this is so rich coming from someone who has been prosecuted for national security crimes, economic crimes, election interference. Has been found liable for Sexual Assault and his next big Court Appearance is in november at his own criminal sentencing. She did Things Nobody would ever think of. Now she wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison. This is a radical left liberal. What they have done to our country by allowing these millions and millions of people to come into our country and look at what is happening to the towns. In springfield, they are eating the dogs. The people that came in are eating the cats. Eating the dogs. They are eating the pets of the people that live there. I will actually do something really unusual and i will invite you to attend one of Donald Trumps rallies. It is a really interesting thing to watch you will see during the course of his rallies, he talks about fictional characters like hannibal lecter. You will talk about windmills cause cancer and what you will also note is that people start leaving his rallies early out of exhaustion and boredom. She said people start leaving. People dont go to her rallies. There is no reason to go pick the people that do go, she is bussing them in and paying them to be there and then showing them in a different light. So she Cant Talk about that. People dont leave my rallies. They are destroying the economy. They have no idea what a good economy is. And remember this, she is biden. She is trying to get away from biden. I dont know the gentleman, she says. She is biden. Clearly, im not Joe Biden and im certainly not Donald Trump. What i do offer is a new generation of leadership for our country. This morning, the campaigns are offering their take on last Nights Debate. Vice president Kamala Harris calling the showdown a great day and saying that she is the underdog in the race. Last night, she neatly called for a second round. The debate with trump for his part, the president said he doesnt know if you want to face harris again. He is arguing without evidence at the debate was rigged. Lets discuss with our Senior Advisor for President Bidens 2020 campaign and the former deputy to Medication Director for the trump 2016 campaign. How did trump do Last Night, in your view . First of all, thank you for having me. I think the debate achieved a couple of things for President Trump. If you look at the polling data, the country is moving in the direction of believing, layers was an extreme liberal. I think the debate Last Night did nothing to move course from that. Clearly moving in a direction of people believing she is an extreme liberal from San Francisco which is dangerous for america. I think from that standpoint, he did very well. Establish that i think from the standpoint of not insulting. I think everybody was anticipating that he would be rated into being insulted. And they said they would call her nasty things. That did not happen as well. The debate i think was short on policy. I would have liked to have more of Donald Trump executing the case or prosecuting the case against, here is being this copilot in this horrible economy but we did not get to that. That is coming up short but we will continue to do that pick overall, looking at it from the trump campaign, you had the Trade Lines showing that, harris was leaning in the extreme liberal direction. I think this debate pushed her over. Specifically with his bizarre San Francisco liberal position where she wants six changes for illegal immigrants. That is not where the country is. She helped paint herself as an extreme liberal even further. Brian, what is that coming from . It is coming from her position. She took the position as the d. A. Of San Francisco where she demanded and pushed jails to offer transgender operations to prisoners there. That was the priority of her when she was a District Attorney of San Francisco. She sent letters to the jail saying this Needed to be done. When she became the attorney general, this became a signature issue. She wanted to bring transgender operations into the prisons that need to be taxpayerfunded. Brian, what about eating cats and dogs . Where did he get that from . I saw a friend of mine, jason, a colleague of mine on this morning that pointed to the federal society. I did what he asked. I look at the website. I saw the video. I think that is where it came from. They were talking about eating ducks and other birds. I dont know that it was dogs or cats. I think there is evidence and video. You are trying a little too hard here i think. I think at face value, when people go make a complaint, especially when Jd Vance is a senator and say, we have a problem with that, Jd Vance has a responsibility to bring it forward and it will be investigated and it looks like the City Manager has. I think you are barking up the wrong tree there. He will keep filibustering this with the same lies Donald Trump perpetuated Last Night. That is not true on the, harris d. A. Record and not true when it comes to what happened in ohio and they were fact checking that in realtime. The reality is that Vice President harris looked president ial Last Night and the moderators did a great job checking Donald Trump. And i dont think they are liberal policies when she is talking about the economy that would give firsttime homeowners a benefit in order to purchase their first home for a startup. Donald trump even brought up Student Loans and we did not even have a chance for her to get to that. One out of 10 barbers have had loans forgiven. I think Vice President harris did an amazing job and she obviously baited into a lot of this crazy rhetoric that brian is spewing as well about eating dogs and cats and this transgender alien sex change. These are not the things american people want from a president whether they are republican or democrat. She showed herself to be president ial Last Night and Donald Trump showed us who he is. This older man who was out of touch and not fit for the highest office in the land. One of the things i noticed Last Night and a lot of people picked up on, is the way she tried to command the stage from the first moment, walking up to trump and basically forcing him to shake hands and then throughout the debate, the microphones were muted at times and sometimes they were not. The facial expressions she was putting on display. Basically looking at him quizzically when he would say things about eating dogs and so on. She owned the debate. She showed she is unafraid of Donald Trump and it shows she is unafraid of World Leaders as they have threats to the american people. Also the facial expressions, im a Communications Professional at i do a lot of media training. The majority of your medication is nonverbal and we know that from being on television. She knew the american people were watching and she knew she had to react to his blatant lies with that two screen. This is not new for Kamala Harris. She is going to make sure that people know what he says is factually inaccurate and out there but she is not going to spend her time, and she did Last Night, responding to him. She was talking to the american people Last Night. The facial expressions said, this is crazy. He is lying. But i will talk about my policies i have for the american people. Brian, you talked about Donald Trump taking the bait Last Night. Here is one trap that he fell into. Lets listen to this. Im going to do something unusual and im going to invite you to attend one of Donald Trumps rallies. It is an interesting thing to watch. You will see during the course of his rallies, he talks about fictional characters like hannibal lecter. You will talk about windmills cause cancer. And what you will also notice is that people start leaving his rallies early out of exhaustion and boredom. And i will tell you that the one thing you will not hear him talk about is you. People dont go to her rallies. There is no reason to go. She Cant Talk about that. People dont leave my rallies. We have the most incredible rallies in the history of politics. Brian, this came after a question about immigration. That is an issue that he wants to talk about. And he gets caught up in the Crowd Size thing. He gets distracted. Everybody gets distracted. At the end of the day, when we left the debate Last Night, we left achieving one goal. The Tread Line was the american people thought Kamala Harris was an extreme liberal outside the mainstream of america and when they left the debate, they felt even further. She is amnesty and all these things. I dont think people care about the crown Crowd Size. At the end of the day, what is going to matter is peoples pockets and what will matter will be the southern border and these wars starting abroad. We talked about World Leaders holding Kamala Harris. With respect. Benjamin netanyahu does not hold them with respect. They have turned to President Trump for leadership and they are not turning to the biden harris administration. That is because they dont trust them on the world stage. There was another memorial where he said he wants to see ukraine win the war with russia. That sends shockwaves. He doesnt want american soldiers there. We will talk about this a bit more later in the hour. Stay with me. We will continue this conversation in a short time. We have to go back to new york in a few moments as our nation honors those who lost their lives 23 years ago today. Back to remembering 9 11 on this day 23 years ago. The airplanes hit the World Trade Center in new york. Kate baldwin is at the side of the memorial. Another time to remembrance is moments away. Absolutely. We are about to come up on 10 28 a. M. Final Moment Of Silence. The moment the North Tower of the World Trade Centers fell. [ Bells Tolling ] when i see boy scout, marines, Police Officers or firefighters, my thoughts go to you. That is the moment the North Tower fell. The sixth and Final Moment of silence that they honor and mark every year on this anniversary. 10 28 a. M. the moment the North Tower fell. More than one hour after the first hijacked plane struck the World Trade Center. And with the tower falling, it left the 16 acres of the World Trade Center site in ruins. As we discussed, changed the world forever. It really did, kate. And we should tell the viewers that they are just tuning in order dipping out of the coverage we are providing this morning, when you see the folks on screen with kate and i now, many times it is a daughter, sister, Wife Or Husband or a Loved One who lost somebody 23 years ago. I have been hearing a lot of grandchildren. That just shows that we are now 23 years later and grand

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