Also, counterterrorism analyst washington Thomas Anderson talks about the evolving threats facing the u. S. Since the september 11 terrorist attacks. Washington journal is next. Host it is the washington journal for september 11. Todays show will focus on the 19th anniversary of the 9 11 attacks. You can see planned events at the pentagon which you are watching at ground zero in new york. On cspan, cspan2 and cspan3. You can check the website for specific channel and time information. Follow along on the radio app. We will take your calls on this remembrance day. Here is how you can call us. The eastern00 for and central time zones. 202 7488001 for the mountain and pacific times. If you want to text us, do so at 202 7488003. Post on our cspan feed. On this day, several papers across the United States devoted. Heir editorial page here is the tribute out of johnstown, pennsylvania. On the 19th anniversary, our nation is distracted by politics. We are obligated to pause on this september 11 and patriot to the many who lost their lives including the 40 heroes who perished in united flight 93 which crashed in somerset county. Pause ateryone to 10 03 a. M. , think about the sacrifice of those who fought back against the terrorists on that plane, paying for their courage with their own lives and saving untold thousands. This is the tribune star. As america confronts an enemy in the coronavirus that has swept over the world, the type of unity it takes to encounter a National PublicHealth Threat is not match the resolve america demonstrated after 9 11. The collective spirit it takes to prevail over a pandemic has been lacking. These are troubled times. As we pause to remember those who died on 9 11, we would be wise to reflect on what we were. That crisis was met with collective resolve and american spirit that did not wane. A different approach from the virginian pilot. Commenting on the change in government, particularly as the department of out of the department of Homeland Security. Allowedt george w. Bush his administration to stroke of commerce to the side. Barack obama further expanded them. Republican donald trump has gone further. While those men share some of the blame, congressman shirked its responsibility. Overcome partisan infighting and restore structure analogy instruction functionality and dignity. If you want to call and give your emergence remembrance of 9 11, you can call us at 202 7488000. For the eastern and central time zones. 202 7488001 for the mountain and pacific time zones. Ext us at 202 7488003 post on our twitter feed or post on our facebook page. Has beenrk today, as every year, a 9 11 ceremony takes place. We will talk about that ceremony ,nd some of the differences joining us is larry. Thank you for joining us this morning. Guest thank you for having me. Host we have seen ceremonies come year after year. What is different this year . Guest the pandemic is different this year. Controversy even before we got to 9 11 over the tribute in light. There is going to be no life the 2753 victims. They will play recordings. The Fire Department has warned firefighters in new york, groups that lost 343 brothers that day that they should not attend the ceremony because of fears of covid19. The pandemic has done a lot of things to make a whole bunch of things different. Host so we see people gather at ground zero ceremony sites. People will not be allowed at that site . Guest know, the family members will be allowed in beginning at 8 00 this morning. The ceremony will start at 8 30. Their voices, the family members will not get up and read the lists of those killed on 911, 11, which was,9 to me, one of the more emotional things in the ceremony. Occasionally a speaker michael off on a political tangent. That is something that was might go off on april little tangent. That was something that was scrapped. Families getetting up there and have the chance to recite the names of their loved ones. Host as far as officials you have heard in the past, will there be any officials today, whether from new yorks government or the federal government . Guest Governor Cuomo will be there. Bill de blasio will be there. At the lastminute last night, joe biden announced he would stop in on his way to shanksville, where he and President Trump will both appear. Coming. Sident pence is he will go to both events. 9 11 museum event and the second event that was by the tunnel group, which is a 9 11 charity group. They will be a few blocks away. At their ceremony, they will have people read the names out loud. Host you talked about those beams of light that have become part of the ceremony. Remind people how that got resolved. Guest yeah. Mikeally, i think bloomberg stepped in and matrix were done. Bloomberg was the mayor when they make sure things were done. Bloomberg was the mayor. There was a pretty large cry when they announced they were going to postpone it or cancel it. I had a chance to speak with one of the guys who was on the organizing committee that started the tower of lights. And he was saying this week that he immediately got on the phone when he heard they were not going to do it. I think there was a huge outpouring of support for it. It is such a beautiful, moving and unique tribute. Has a Significant Impact to see it, even 19 years later. Later,early 20 years does it reverberate with residents in new york city . With the First Responders who were there or know people who responded . I think it reverberates with anyone who was in and around the city. I remember everything in detail. I went to work. It is interesting. There is starting to be a new generation. We have a story from the paper se uncle about a guy who died on 9 11 and he has followed him into the nypd, he works at the precinct of the west village of manhattan. He literally followed in his uncles footsteps. He changes into his uniform every day in a locker room right alongside the locker of his late uncle. Host larry who reports for the New York Daily News talking about these events in new york city, which you can see on cspan. Thank you for giving us perspective on what is going to go on today. Guest take care. Host as far as events as you can see them for this Anniversary Day, new york city, as our guest mentioned, 8 30 a. M. , you can follow on cspan two, cspan. Org and our radio app at the pentagon. Those events will take place at 9 00 this morning. You can see that on cspan3. Our main channel will carry a little45 and go early. Around 9 45, that event that you heard Larry Mcshane reference, joe biden is expected to visit in the afternoon. Follow along on the channel at cspan. Org and our radio app. Tampa,pa florida florida starts us off. Go ahead. Pedro. Good morning, a very sad day. I am sad that they are not reading the names. It looks like a Beautiful Day in new york. I am a new yorker. After theer forget towers came down. It is a very sad day. We played for all of the victims of the 9 11 attacks. That is it. Host where were you in proximity of the towers . Guest i was in huntington, long island. A day later, a friend in for somegoing and i surgery and stuff was down in huntington. I could smell the gas. I will never forget it. Host that is lou in tampa, florida. This is joe from san antonio, texas. Go ahead, you are. Good morning. Caller good morning. Say today is ao day of sorrow and member ands remembrance of everything that happened. It is hard for me not to feel bitter about the situation we are in right now and all that we are dealing with and the perks of the of debts we have had. It feels so deaths we have had. Sense ofr a general togetherness when the attacks happened. I was younger at the time. The towers on tv while i was in school as a kid and i remember not knowing what was going on. Just that there was a general sense of support by everybody in the community. I realized there has been a lot of support for the First Responders, at least initially. Over time, it sort of waned a little bit in terms of the support we had. I know jon stewart is a big proponent for pushing for first actual responders who have succumbed to certain illnesses due to the toxicity of that were actually emitted from the site of the new york area. I just wanted to hope and pray right now that dealing with the coronavirus that we dont run into that same situation where there is such a Huge National support from what is going on ,ight now for everything everybody is trying to make things better and that over time that we dont let the people who are helping the most be forgotten over time like business owners. Host that is joe in san antonio, texas. Facebook adding may they all rest in peace. We will never forget. Ray in elizabeth, new york, saying with the pictures you have seen many times over the to it wastion with North Carolina, saying with the pictures you have seen many times in relation. President trump saying from his twitter feed we will never date and never forget. Wendy in michigan, in roseville, good morning. Caller good morning, pedro. How are you doing . Host i am well. Caller today is a day of remembrance and sadness. I remember where i was. I was at work. My parents were home, watching the today show and they were watching the thing unfold. Plane butd the first they saw the second one. They were just watching that and it bothered them. I came home from work and there was a late addition of the usa hitting thehe plane World Trade Center. I bought that. When i came home, my folks and i went to a service that we had at our church for all of us to just sit and talk about what happened just ahad prayers and what happened. To see all of that happening in my country that day was awful. But you felt so proud of the guys on flight 93 who overtook those horrible people. And they lost their lives but they took the terrorists. That was the biggest thing i thought of. I had a friend whose brother worked at the pentagon. He was at the pentagon. He passed away. That hit home for me, my friends brother. Host wendy in michigan from district heights, maryland. , we will hear from john. Caller i am a retired police officer. I was working at the department of justice and i was watching nbc and i saw the first plane, the second plane, the whole thing fall. What upsets me is the medical people never got any reasons why that happened other than, from what our media told us. There was a reason why that happened. The American People do not know why, bin laden never should have been killed. Number two, i am extremely upset because we were lied to. I am looking at tv every day and all those guys went to iraq and they came back blown to pieces. Once again, we are in this pandemic, over 190,000 americans have died because of Donald Trumps lying. When our American People going to wake up and understand we have to Pay Attention to what our government is doing, giving us lies on one side and propaganda on the other with nationalism. The American People are trying to understand why this stuff is happening to us over and over again. Host that is john in district heights, maryland. You may remember those who have followed along since 9 11 that there was Commission Form to take a look at the 9 11 attacks and the issues behind them. You can find the final report of that if you go to the website and search. It gives executive summaries of some of the details of the 9 11 commission. If you want to revisit those visually, go to our website. We have recorded those, followed that and covered those hearings. You can go to our website at workn. Org, looking up the of the 9 11 commission. Jim is in highland park, new jersey. Go ahead. Thank you for taking my phone call. Whattinctly remember happened on that day. I would like to say that on that to, i was called in in newute for a teacher school. N the high the firstto school, the first tower was hit. All right . Periods. For two , ias coming back from school believe it was the first one that went down, which was the second one that was hit. I heard it way off in the away from newiles distanceeard in the this roar. The first one that went down. Cary, northn carolina. Good morning. Caller good morning, pedro. How are you . Host i am well. Colorado but in am in North Carolina now. Today is notbout only what happened and we remember it. That is to be expected. Things like this in this country and people around the world. What is terribly sad to me is the phrase that we associate with this event and not only with this event but with the holocaust and so on and so forth. Never forget. I am looking around the landscape of my country and of we have and it appears too many people in this country now and this is not political. This is an observation. Or not going to call names parties or anything but we have what seems like a lot of people who, today, 19 years later, are more than happy more than happy to finish the job that al qaeda started. The same guys, maybe not the exact same but their colleagues. Uncles thatals ran toward those buildings 19 years ago, that ran into the buildings. I cannot remember how Many Police Officers lost their life. North of 400 and five people. They are now under attack across the country. Fire people. They are now under attack across the country. Not only are they under attack but our culture, our history, our faith. Everything that we have built up over the last 230 odd years and yes, we are flawed. We are human beings, sinners, gods creatures. We have made mistakes we are always striving to be better. We are. Lineu are looking at the from when this country was founded to where we are today, we are a better nation, a more equitable and fairer nation then we were at the time of our founding. Like i said, there are too many out there now who want to disregard this. Is mike in cary, North Carolina. If you want to give your thoughts on this 9 11 forversary, 202 7488000 the eastern and central time zones. 202 7488001 for the mountain and pacific time zones. There is a shot of the pentagon. One of the events you can see on cspan. We will go to events looking at those in new york as well as in shanksville pennsylvania shanksville, pennsylvania. The president is expected to appear in the morning, joe biden will appear later in the afternoon. On can find more information cspan. Org, our radio app available too. Our next call is from anthony in miller place, new york. We will show you headlines on this day. On the middle of long island, just near the long island sound. Maybe 60 miles from where this 9 11. Ed on i would like to draw the moderators attention to a New York Times article that was printed on may 7, 2004 by a staff writer named matthew l w. It says the tape of 9 11 was destroyed several months after the events. If you go further down in the article, you will read where a supervisor that destroyed the tapes, he was a Quality Assurance manager but he was the supervisor. He shredded the tapes and dispersed them throughout the air Traffic Controller center. He burned some of them. Some he flushed down the toilet and he scattered the rest of it throughout different receptacles. This was eight months after. They were told not to destroy any evidence pertaining to this event. I just wonder why would somebody do such an act if you are not covering something up . I know what was on the tapes. I can tell you if the American People knew what were on those tapes, they would be incensed and i think there needs to be an into those events. Bywere lied into a war a group of people who rode off into the sunset. Lets go to kathleen in pittsburgh, pennsylvania. I remember when it happened, i turned on the tv thinking the price is right was going to be on. I saw this and said what is bruce willis doing . They announced it and i could not believe it. The thing i want to say most, the magnificent hair was some of the police and firefighters, how brave they were, how wonderful they were. For all the people in america, 99. 9 of the police are wonderful people. We have to respect them. Please, lets show some more respect for our policeman. Another thing i want to say, i remember after 9 11, i could remember we were wondering every day, week and month when the next terrorist attack was going to take place. Thanks to donald trump who got rid of isis, almost, we are not worrying about the terror attacks of isis on the United States. Knight god for donald trump and thank god for our policeman and our fireman, the bravest human beings on earth. Charlie in new york, good morning. Caller good morning. My sister lives in brooklyn. After the attack, she told me cars and streets in her neighborhood were completely covered with the dust and paperwork from the collapsed towers. Host ok. What is the signet gets . Significance . Caller the towers are in Lower Manhattan and she lives in brooklyn and her neighborhood was covered in the dust from the collapsed towers. Host ok. Tony in district heights, maryland. You are next. Good morning. Good morning. I lost four comrades at the pentagon on 9 11. I did not work at the pentagon but i worked at an agency and we had a small office at the pinna gone. I remember pentagon. I remember it like it was yesterday. I also want to say this. A lot of people dont believe the official story about 9 11. Irrefuse to believe that the needs specialized equipment but somehow he can do it. He is Walking Around with his own electric grid and keeps on making these videos. That gentleman was onto something before you cut him off. A lot of people dont believe the official story. Host why do you not believe what he said . Caller there is too much evidence that refutes the official stories. The way the buildings came down. Whatever went down in theksville, whatever hit pentagon which i dont believe was flight 77. There is too much evidence that refuted it. The people in power on that day had a paper specifying that this country needed another pearl harbor in order