00:00On 9-11, nearly 3,000 precious souls were stolen from us,
00:04killed by evil terrorists at the World Trade Center,
00:08the Pentagon, and on Flight 93.
00:12All of these years later, we gather on another Tuesday
00:15morning in September to reaffirm the sacred vow
00:18we made a quarter of a century ago.
00:21We will never forget.
00:23We say it and we mean it.
00:25We will never forget those we lost,
00:28and we will never forget the immortal heroes
00:31of September 11th, 2001.
00:35And I will tell you, we're right now fighting
00:39because we have a certain nation that wanted a nuclear weapon.
00:46They were very close to getting it,
00:48and now they have no chance at getting it.
00:50They will never have a nuclear weapon.
00:53Iran will not have a nuclear weapon.
01:03And they've been punished greatly.
01:06As you know, we've really taken it to them.
01:10I want to compliment our military.
01:11The job they do is unbelievable.
01:13The blockade has been so powerful, so effective.
01:18Nobody thought it could go so well.
01:21I want to just thank our military.
01:23I want to also thank the man who I just said hello,
01:27who introduced me.
01:28He's a special guy.
01:29He really is, who's done so much to help the families
01:31of 9-11, first responders, and our great veterans.
01:35And that's Frank Siller.
01:36He really is.
01:37He's a fantastic man, and he's a great friend.
01:43And we all know the story of his wonderful brother, Steven.
01:48And we know it well, how brave he was going into the center,
01:52probably knowing that it was coming down.
01:55He didn't care.
01:56It was an amazing act of bravery.
01:58I also want to recognize Secretary of Commerce Howard
02:01Lutnick, who lost his brother and 658 employees.
02:07He was the head of Cantor Fitzgerald,
02:09one of the most successful firms on Wall Street.
02:11They were the top three floors of the World Trade Center.
02:14It's an amazing story.
02:16You know, Howard was always there at 6 o'clock in the morning,
02:20always, without fail, because in that business,
02:23you get there nice and early, the financial business.
02:25He was one of the biggest anywhere in the world.
02:28at finance.
02:29Cantor Fitzgerald was one of the hottest firms.
02:32And for years, he'd be there at 6 in the morning.
02:35But he had a child, and his wife would always be screaming at him,
02:39you never have taken our child to school.
02:41You've got to take — someday, you've got to take —
02:44and this went on for years.
02:46After four years, he said, all right, I'll take him to school.
02:50I'm going to bring him to school myself.
02:52He wasn't so happy about it.
02:54He brought that beautiful boy, who's now a grown person,
02:58brought him to school.
02:59And he arrived at the school at 8.30,
03:03and he was on the West Side Highway at 8.45.
03:07And he watched that whole thing.
03:09This was the first time in years
03:11that he wasn't there early in the morning.
03:14So you could say he owes a lot to his son,
03:16and he owes a lot to his wife.
03:18But he brought his son to school, and because of that,
03:22he got to see it from the West Side Highway.
03:26He saw the planes go into the towers, and he said,
03:28oh, my God, my people, my people.
03:31And he's done an amazing job.
03:32He's rebuilt Cantor Fitzgerald,
03:35and he's given much of the profit to some of the families,
03:38or the families of the people who perished.
03:42They all died.
03:44658 employees.
03:45He started the firm all over again.
03:47And so Howard's here someplace, I think, Howard.
03:53Where are you, Howard?
03:54You deserve to stand up, Howard.
