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whether saudi officials were complicit in the attacks. in shanksville, pennsylvania, former president george w. bush equated the terrorists behind the 9/11 behind 9/11 to the domestic terrorists driving the news today. there is little cultural overlap between violent extremists abroad and violent extremists at home. but then there is disdain for pluralism and their disregard for human life, and their determination to defile national symbols. they are children of the same foul spirit. meanwhile, donald trump did not attend any officials memorials, but he did stop by n.y.p.d. and f.d.n.y. precincts close to trump tower where he decided to honor the 9/11 victims by bashing his political rivals, namely joe biden, who this week announced his new six-prong plan to defeat covid-19 once and for all. on friday the president struck a fiery tone when he announced a sweeping vaccine mandate requiring all executive branch federal employees to be vaccinated as well as ordering ....
that does it for me. thanks for watching. i ll see you back here next weekend at 5:00 p.m. eastern. my colleague, alicia menendez, picks up our news coverage now. thank you so much. hello, everyone. i m alicia menendez. we begin this sunday with the future of the president s build back better agenda. because this week, expect movement in the senate. committees expected to wrap the final drafts of a budget reconciliation package that would expand medicare, kield care, and paid leave among other democratic priorities. the washington post frames the stakes, writing, quote, strategists in both parties believe democrats are likely to lose the house and possibly the senate next year. so this could be the party s only chance in years to enact an expansive domestic agenda. the finished product will become the clearest picture of what today s democrats stand for. supplanting the countless speeches, platforms, and ten-point plans they delivered when out of power. but the legi ....
[ applause ] [ bell ringing ] a moment of silence for when flight 93 crashed in shanksville. you ve been listening to the 9/11 ceremony in new york. before that, the pentagon, where the leaders of the military spoke, including the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general mark milley, and the secretary of defense, lloyd austin. secretary austin will join us live in a moment. first, let s bring back gerad and jalia. i want to talk about the heroism of the staff. and the crew. important distinction for the families. and the passengers. it is almost such an amazing story that people almost express disbelief, that it s become a myth. no, it s real. it really did happen. there were all these heros, including the crew, as you note, that saved how many thousands of lives, we don t know, by forcing that plane down. tell us more. yeah. this is one of the things that you sort of see throughout that day. these little moments that end up making a big differen ....
at the pentagon when it was attacked on this day 20 years ago. he s now a fox news senior strategic analyst. general, welcome. good to see you as usual. so looking 20 years back, and having experience so intensely of that day and reflecting on it, what are the lessons you draw for american national security from that day s attacks and our response? yeah, they are pretty profound, and certainly the 9/11 commission as a result of that tragic day helped us too to bring some of these things into focus, most notably is our intelligence system failed us miserably, and we know now that the cia and the fbi really weren t talking to each other the way they should be because there were plenty of signs that an attack was imminent. they also had some chatter to that, but the specificity that they were hearing in the country certainly and preparing themselves for that attack slipped through. that was tragic. the other thing is that really the principle of taking the fight to them ....
a time when the country needed it most. today marks the 20th anniversary of the deadly september 11 terror attack that changed the lives of so many americans. much of our country has been redefined by what happened on that day. with each passing year we are reminded of the brave police officers, firefighters and first responders and everyday americans who made the ultimate sacrifice trying to save the lives of as many people as they could. we have a lot of these shows together, and here we are on the 0th anniversary. your thoughts today? greg: everybody wants a hot take or original take on something like this. especially on social media. i want my thoughts to be as mundane as possible. because when i think about this, i think about how time has flown. i can remember every moment of that day and how surreal it was. to be in the middle of something so evil. i can remember that. and i can remember thinking about what will it be like 10 years from now or 0 years from now. ....