September 11, 2025 • 32 mins
Sean Hannity opens with deep emotion, addressing the shocking assassination of Charlie Kirk on a Utah college campus, describing Kirk as a beloved, patriotic leader and a man of faith whose loss unites many in grief. The show then transitions to the 24th anniversary of 9/11, featuring a poignant interview with Frank Siller of the Tunnel to Towers Foundation, who lost his firefighter brother Stephen on that day and continues to honor hero families, provide mortgage-free homes, and ensure the nation never forgets. Sean frames these stories through themes of sacrifice, heroism, and national unity, underscoring both personal pain and America's enduring spirit. Guest highlights include Siller's firsthand account, his foundation's life-changing work, and a focus on the crucial support of small donors. The episode matters as a call to remember, act with compassion, and remain vigilant in defending American freedom and values amid ongoing challenges.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well we have coming.
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I come along and filled with grief and anger at
the heinous assassination of Charlie kirk Or a college campus
in Utah. Charlie inspired millions, and all who knew him
and loved him are united in shock and horror. Charlie
was a patriot. Charlie was also a man of deep,
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deep faith, and we take comfort in the knowledge that
he is now at peace with God and Heaven.
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A plane has crashed into the World Trade Center.
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Was another apparently a plane.
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Seems an airplane has crashed into the World Trade Center.
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Almost there appears to be a gaping hole.
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There goes there goes there goes there, it goes.
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Side has collapsed, little flass she still two airplanes kept
crashed into the World Trade Center.
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If we're not afraid of ful the freedom loving nations
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You're proud to be a part of this country.
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The freedom itself was attacked, and freedom will be defended.
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You still here.
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The fun resist.
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All of our great nation is being tested.
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I've read there he did third the water United say
from dogree, if I would courage, it's fair my nation
find the writing or prity the fro.
Speaker 9 (03:19):
We will not forget the twenty eight hundred people.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Please and fire not only were heroes at the beginning,
but they're still heroes. Un We're going to come out
of this emotionally stronger.
Speaker 10 (03:34):
Where's the due.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
And the commitment of our fathers? Is now the calling
of our time?
Speaker 11 (03:38):
Oh those guys, Senior, anyone ever expected of mystery?
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They messed with the wrong city, They messed with the
wrong station.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
All right, Michael W.
Speaker 6 (03:56):
Smith, It is the twenty fourth anniversary, nine eleven one
we will never forget because of that day, a hero
was born a friend of this program, our friend Frank Siller,
and sadly, his brother, Steven, lost his life that day.
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His story is incredible. I'm gonna let Frank tell it
himself because he had just gotten off a shift as
a as a fire FDNY fire uh fireman, and and
he went back and how he got back is even
more inspiring. Our friends at the Tunnel to Towers Foundation,
they are on a mission to do good and when
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it started out. I did a whole podcast with Frank
recently and it's on Fox Nation dot com. I urge
all of you to watch it, and it talks all
about his brother and talks about his life and talks
about you know, so much that that I'm sure most
of you don't know. We'll try to get to some
of it today.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
They did put out a press release earlier. It says,
in solemn observance of the twenty fourth anniversary of September eleventh,
two thousand and one and the terrorist attacks, the Tunnel
to Towers Foundation has delivered mortgage free homes to twenty
one families of fallen first responders across the country, including
six families who lost their loved ones to nine to
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eleven related illnesses. And that is a real problem that
exists to this day. It has been twenty four years
since the cowardly attacks on America September eleventh oh one.
On that day, first responders like my brother FDNY firefighter
Steven Siller, ran towards danger and gave their lives to
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save others. That Frank Siller, chairman CEO of the Tunnel
to Towers Foundations, and he said, well, decades have passed
since that tragic day, families of our heroes continue to
feel the impact as our great nation continues to lose
heroes to nine eleven related illnesses. Today we remember the
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lives law at the World Trade Center the Pentagon near
Shanksville in Pennsylvania, and we stand with those who are
still being directly impacted by the attacks. The Tunnel to
Towers Fall and First Responder Home Program pays off the
mortgages for families of law enforcement officers firefighters killed in
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the line of duty or pass away from nine to
eleven related illnesses and leave young children behind. And they
have a list of I have the list in front
of me of all the people that they are helping
and have announced on this very day, Frank Siller Tunnel
to Towers by the way, their website, and he told
me in this podcast the real foundation of the success
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of this program is people that donate eleven dollars a
month and you just go to their website if you
can afford it, maybe that's one or two lunches, you
know a month that you would forego. The letter T,
the number two, the LETTERT dot org. The letter T,
the number two, the letter T dot org for the
Tunnel to Terrorist Foundation. Frank, my friend, welcome back to
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the program, su.
Speaker 12 (07:08):
And thank you for having me on this day. It's
said said for a lot of people, said for America,
everybody remembers where they were twenty four years ago, that
were old enough where they were. It changed many people's
lives changed. America changed the country. But for you know,
for those for twenty nine hundred and seventy seven of us,
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it changed our lives differently than others. And when I
lost my brother twenty four years ago, I didn't I
couldn't believe it. I said, oh my god, how that Stephen,
not my little brother who lost his parents at such
a young age. I mean, my brother was often at
ten years old, and you know, it's just the story Sean,
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that just breaks my heart. It just breaks my heart.
I'd like to bring everybody back to a little bit
about what happened to my family twenty four years ago
after the South Tower fell at nine to twenty nine,
and I remember turning towards my mother in law and saying, Nancy,
I think I just lost my brother, not knowing how
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he got there, that he drove through the Brooklyn Battery
tunnel with his you know, ran through the tunnel with
his fire gear on his back.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
No the tunnel.
Speaker 6 (08:21):
Just so you know, your brother had just finished a
full shift and he was going to meet his buddies
and I think you and your brothers and play golf.
And then he had his wife call you and tell
you he wasn't coming. And he gets to the Brooklyn
Battery tunnel, he can't drive his car through because it's closed.
And what did he do pick it up from there?
Speaker 12 (08:43):
He shopped sixty five gear on his back and runs that.
You know, I was there this morning. I walked this
this morning at four thirty this morning. And as I'm
walking through the I'm saying my god, twenty four years ago,
my brother was running through here with his fire gear
on to save people, to save Americans, and he, you know,
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get through one up West Street into.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
The South Tower.
Speaker 12 (09:09):
I believe he was in the South Tower because that's
where other Squad one members. And you know, he was
a member of Squad one, and you'd want to fight
this fire and have this rescue with other people that
you trained with every day, and and and he gave
up his life. But at nine point fifty nine, I
started to am twenty four years ago. I started to
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get terribly upset, and I knew something terribly, something terrible happened.
And I started to ask my siblings come over my house,
come over the house please, let's all get together, you know,
let's find out about Stephen. I you know, this is
not good. And so finally two hours later, I get
a call from a firefighter who was a few lived
a few doors away from my brother Stephen, and he's
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Richie Openmia and he says to me, Frank, I'm down
here to ground zero and it's really bad. I said, oh, Richie,
my heartbreaks for you guys. Firefighters. I'm watching. I'm with
my family, we're all watching. He goes, now, I just
want to let you know how bad it is. And
here I said, I know, Richie, I could see it,
but I knew he wanted to tell me something else.
And he kept on saying, no, it's real bad. Frank,
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I said, rich I know, he goes, no, you don't
understand nobody's coming home. And my heart drop. I had
to go back in and tell my siblings that that
little kid that lost his parents, that's such a.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Lost your parents, right, yeah, ten years.
Speaker 12 (10:38):
Old, that that now that his kids, who the oldest
was just turning ten, is now not going to have
their father, is now not going to have their father.
This wonderful human being that was outrageous and many and
many many ways, but just giving and obviously gave it all,
and uh, it just you know, And that's what I
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think about. That's right. I think about daylight today, and
there's a lot of families to think along those same ways.
Because some people just went to work that day and
didn't come home. Other's work was to save people and
they didn't come home, and we got to honor them
and we can never forget. And I think a lot
of people, most certainly on this day do not forget,
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but we try to make sure people don't forget ever.
Speaker 6 (11:23):
You know, when we were together, we went over all
of the different programs you have in the line of
duty programs providing mortgage free homes to our nation's catastrophically
injured vets and first responders. Your smart home program, you know, build,
you build them and especially adapt them. Mortgage free homes
for the most catastrophically injured vets first responders so they
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can reclaim their day to day independence. Fall in the
First Responder Home program, paying off the mortgages for families
of law enforcement, firefighters, first responders killed in the line
of duty or from nine to eleven related ill illness
is not a gold Star family program that you have.
It does the same honoring the legacy of those who
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made the ultimate sacrifice fighting for freedom and the post
nine to eleven world. And you have educational efforts too,
so the country never forgets k through twelve full curriculum programs.
You have a big mobile tractor trailer with nine to
eleven artifacts that you bring, you know, all that you
move all around the country and and people tell real
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life stories and you know, I think back, I told
you this. My daughter was thirteen days old at the time.
Now she just turned twenty four, and it's it's she's
very aware of nine to eleven though, and I made
sure of that. But what you're doing is God's work.
Thank God for you and the foundation and what you're doing.
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I think the important thing is. And because we don't
have a lot of time, I just explained to people
how important it is if they can especially join, you know,
and commit to eleven dollars a month. You told me
that is the magic of the program. And you do
have big donors, you have corporate sponsors, but the eleven
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dollars a month commitment makes it happen.
Speaker 12 (13:16):
It is Sean and I don't talk about money on
nine to eleven, but you did, and I thank you
for that. But think of this, you know, massa.
Speaker 13 (13:25):
Peak lest year, little over a year ago, Jonathan Dilla
police officer that get shot and killed, right and we
tunneled to Dallas. A couple of days later, I call
up his widow, Stephanie, and I say, Stephanie, this is
Frank Soil tunnel to Dallas. You know, you know, if
I pay my condolences first and foremost, so let her
know that she's not alone. People care, people pray.
Speaker 12 (13:47):
President wenton the President United States.
Speaker 13 (13:49):
President Trump was.
Speaker 12 (13:50):
At to her, had her at her week. I met
him there that day and he was so hot help
and gave such gave some hope to this grievance family.
And I said, Stephanie, We're going to pay off your mortgage.
We're going to pay off your mortgage so you could
stay in the house that you and Jonathan had bought
and that you had your dreams, and that you're that
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your son Ryan, uh, you know, could grow up in
a place with some safety in the roof over the
head and comfort. And she got very emotional, and I
got emotional with her. And then and then at the
Patriot Awards, you give this award to Stephen Silla, my
brother's awards. You give it out, you know, from from
the Scilla Foundation, from the step you know, from through
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through a Fox to Stephanie Dilla, handed to by my
my my brother's son, Stephen Scilla Junior, who was the
same age as Ryan as Stephanie's son nine months old
on nine to eleven. Ryan was nine months old when
he lost his dad. And she said profoundly, she says
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it gives me such great hope that seeing that Stephen
was at the same age as my son Ryan is
now standing up here, this fine young man who is
doing good, that my son could have a good life.
That's the answer. We need to do good in this world.
We're here a very short time. San Francis of the
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Seas has said, brothers and sisters, while we are here,
let us do good. And that's what the Tunnel to
Talents Foundation is all about. The best way to honor
my brother, the best way to honor all these heroes
is to do good.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
Frank, You're truly a hero. God bless you, God bless
your work. And again the website, the letter T, the
number two, the LETTERT dot org. Frank, we do appreciate
your time with thinking about your brother and all that
lost loved ones on that day and since from nine
to eleven related illnesses and the wars that were fought thereafter.
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We appreciate your time, my friend.
Speaker 12 (15:51):
Thank you, God bless you, God bless you too.
Speaker 6 (15:55):
All right, when we come back, well check in with
Dakota Meyers, sniper American Metal of on a recipient. We'll
discuss the murder assassination political assassination of Charlie Kirk on
this day, twenty four years nine to eleven oh one.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
As we continue our coverage.
Speaker 7 (16:12):
Americans do not yet have the distance of history, but
our responsibility to history is already clear to answer these
attacks and rid the world of evil.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
I hear people say we don't need this war, this war,
and it's not a war.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Actually, I say, there's some things worth fighting for.
Speaker 14 (16:36):
We are very grateful and thankful that we live in
a country with this freedom of speech, that people who
are either for or against a war can speak out.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
What about our freed everything is?
Speaker 6 (16:46):
When black and this piece of ground, everything came down.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
We didn't get to keep about back and down.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
Glass, stop parking. If people got hurt.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
You say, don't realize the mess we're getting.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Oh, there goes, there goes, here goes. Will you start
your preaching. Let me ask you this, my friend. Have
you forgotten?
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Oh my god?
Speaker 5 (17:11):
Oh the next building is another Oh my.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
God, another plane just through it.
Speaker 12 (17:19):
Is adible?
Speaker 8 (17:20):
Have you forgot?
Speaker 15 (17:22):
I saw this plane come out of nowhere and just
bream right into the side of this windshow, exploding through
the other side.
Speaker 7 (17:28):
There's been an active war declared upon America, my terrorists,
you forgotten.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
I can hear you. You ripped the wall.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Hear you and the people who knocked.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Me feeling down here.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
You've forgotten.
Speaker 9 (17:52):
No, no, no, no, no no, I'm gonna die, says.
Speaker 13 (17:59):
I pretty.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
There dozens of residents that are sitting on the hill
behind the pedagon, almost like they're waiting for the Fourth
of July fireworks, but instead they're staring dumbfounded at what
looks like a war zone. I mean, you see bodies
flying out of the sky and you gave you nothing
about it.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
You tell me there's no words to describe what's going
on on it.
Speaker 12 (18:26):
Have you got?
Speaker 7 (18:27):
America is a nation full of good fortune, so much
to be grateful for, but we are not spared from suffering.
And every generation the world has produced enemies of human freedom.
They have attacked America because we are freedom's home and defender.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Have you forgot?
Speaker 1 (18:45):
And the commitment of our fathers is now the calling
of our time? All right? That's Stara Warley. Have have
we forgotten?
Speaker 6 (18:57):
I think after yesterday everybody now remembers there is evil
in this world.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
It does exist.
Speaker 6 (19:04):
Let me play for you and update you on the
investigation as it goes on into the assassination political assassination
of Charlie Kirk. Robert Boll, FBI special Agent in charge
of Charlie Kirk's assassination, says they recovered the rifle used
to kill Kirk, as well as you know the palm
and footprints found near the weapon.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
They are getting close.
Speaker 6 (19:28):
We've run down a list of everything that they have
been able to achieve within the last twenty four hours,
and let me play what he said.
Speaker 15 (19:37):
FBI agents have been working around the clock in coordination
with our law enforcement partners.
Speaker 14 (19:44):
We are and will.
Speaker 15 (19:45):
Continue to work NonStop until we find the person that
is committed this heinous crime and find out why they
did it. This morning, I can tell you that we
have recovered what we believe is the weapon to be
that was used yesterday's shooting. It is a high powered
bolt action rifle. That rifle was recovered in a wooded
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area where the shooter had fled, So the FBI laboratory
will be analyzing this weapon. Investigators have also collected footwear impression,
a palm print, and forearm imprints for analysis. Now, I
understand there are a lot of questions about motive.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
I assure you that all.
Speaker 15 (20:29):
Leads, tips and tips are being fully investigated. As of
this morning, we receive more than one hundred and thirty tips.
We thank the community for that. The FBI has brought
every resource to bear and we will continue to do
so throughout the course of this investigation.
Speaker 6 (20:46):
Well, we have been making progress, as we've been covering
all day here on this program, and we will continue
to cover and any new developments. Obviously, we'll have on
Hannity tonight nine eastern on the FOG News Channel. All right,
Joining us now is Dakota Meyer, and he's a sniper
American Hero Medal of Honor recipient here to discuss the
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latest in this political assassination of Charlie Kirk, the state
of our country, the rhetoric of the radical left, I mean,
what we're living through are unbelievable times. Let me give
you one example. I'll give you two examples of how
you know people have responded to this. You know, let's
start with Alexandrio Cassio. Cortes really one of the leading
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voices now of the radical left Democratic Party Republicans voting
against gun control as if guns fired themselves.
Speaker 16 (21:43):
Listen, people can fingerpoint all they want look at the record.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Look at the actions of what we are doing.
Speaker 16 (21:51):
I don't think a single person who has dedicated their
entire career to preventing gun safety legislation from getting passed
in this House has any right to blame anybody else
but themselves for what is happening.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
It just is so sick, just like MSDNC predictably being
you know, so sick and politicizing and actually blaming Charlie
Kirk himself for being assassinated.
Speaker 14 (22:19):
Listen, Charlie Kirk is a divisive figure, polarizing, lightning, raw,
or whatever term you want to use.
Speaker 9 (22:25):
We don't know any of the details of this that
we don't know if this was a supporter or shooting
their gun off in celebration or so.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
We have no idea about this.
Speaker 9 (22:32):
He's been one of the most divisive, especially divisive younger
figures in this who is constantly sort of pushing this
sort of hate speech or sort of aimed at certain groups.
And I always go back to, hateful thoughts lead to
hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions. You can't
stop with these sort of awful thoughts you have and
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then saying these awful words and not expect awful actions
to take place, and that's the unfortunate environment we're in.
Speaker 14 (23:02):
After one of the DOGE employees was allegedly attacked in Washington,
d C. That's what Donald Trump used as a justification
to send in federal troops into Washington, d C. To
get things under control the carjacking situation. He used that,
And I know it's hard to predict the future mark,
but you can imagine the administration using this as a
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justification for something.
Speaker 10 (23:27):
I know we were just talking about the federal takeover
in Washington that began after a member of the DOGE
team was allegedly assaulted in Washington. So it's going to
be interesting to be what conservative leaders want to do
there after this episode.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
What happened with policing.
Speaker 6 (23:41):
Lives have been saved, a lot of them, and the
violent crime has gone down dramatically. It works more politicizing
of this. You know that idiot governor of Illinois, JB.
Pritzker actually blaming Donald Trump.
Speaker 17 (23:57):
Political violence, unfortunately, has been ratcheting up in this country.
We saw the shootings, the killings in Minnesota. We've seen
other political violence occur in other states, and I would
just say it's got to stop. And I think there
are people who are fomenting it in this country. I
think the president's rhetoric often foments it. We've seen the
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January sixth rioters who clearly you have tripped a new
era of political violence.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
And the president what did he do? He pardoned them.
Speaker 17 (24:35):
I mean, what kind of signal does that send to
people who want to perpetrate political violence?
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Not a good one.
Speaker 6 (24:42):
And this is another one of these morons that supported
that soon to be Vice president Kamala Harris. After the
summer of twenty twenty, this summer of love, the summer
of you know, Chaz Chop, spaghetti pot, Lugg dinner zones
where we lost you know, a few dozen Americans. We
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had thousands of injured cops and billions of property damage,
five hundred and seventy four riots. He didn't open his
mouth once in the last two weekends, and his state
in the city of Chicago, about eighty people shot and
about twenty dead. He's going to lecture anybody anyway, It's
pretty remarkable, and.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
But sadly it's the worst part is is it's predictable.
That is the worst part.
Speaker 6 (25:33):
Anyway, we pleased to have on the program The Code
of Meyer Sniper American Medal of Honor recipient.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Thanks for being here, sir, Thank you, sir. You were
friends with Charlie, were you not.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
I knew Charlie, right, I mean I met him a
couple of times. I spoke to him. I was watched
and followed all this stuff. I mean the way that
he spoke, in the way that he talked, and the
way that he explained, in the way that he put
things was I mean a second to no right. I mean,
I always learned and got better and like by watching
his ability to take stances and to be able to
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talk the way that he did with people, and it
was it was truly a conversation. You know, a lot
of these ideas and beliefs these days, they are they're
they're in a form of statements. And what I respected
the most about Charlie was he wasn't just willing to
do it from his platform where it was safe in
his own isolation or his own you know, his own
I call it your your social tunnel, where you can
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control it what you hear and what you receive back.
He was willing to take his ideas and beliefs out
and let people challenge them without it being scripted, without
him knowing what was coming. And I think that was
an example that we should all be willing to do.
Is is to lay our ideas or beliefs on the
table every single day and allow them to be challenged,
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to make sure that we're still dialed in.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
You actually put up on X a post that got
my interest. You said, the First Amendment is not Republican
or democrat. It belongs to every American. Until leaders on
the left condemned this violence and hold their own accountable,
nothing will change. And beliefs are never a reason to
kill one another. You know, we didn't even know it
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at the point that those comments were made on MSDNC
basically blaming Charlie Kirk himself. He was not a divisive figure,
divisive inasmuch as he was conservative. He is like, proved
me wrong, I'll debate all comers, And he debated with
a smile. And he knew he was going into it often,
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he was going into a hostile environment, these liberal and
doctrination centers known as universities.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Yeah, I mean, look, and that's what he did. He's
going to lay it out there and look as somebody
who thought for this country. As somebody who believes in
I like to call myself a peopleist. You know, being
safe in the United States of America shouldn't be just
if you're a publican or a Democrat. It should be
for everyone. Ideas, your First Amendment rights, your your idea
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to believe, and to be able to speak what you
think and to be able to do those things should
absolutely be a right that everyone gets to exercise. And
and we can't allow violence to be conditional upon if
we agree with each other. And that's what we've gotten to,
and it's been fused, it's been fueled, and it's been
put out there. And I think the biggest concern to
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me is is when you watch you watch these these
media publications, you watch these news networks, you watch the
people that are that are really being trusted to, you know,
pass on information and get to get things out there.
I mean, did you watch where like T and Z
found out that Charlie Kirk had died and everyone in
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their cheers, like, at what point have we got to
as human beings to where if this does I.
Speaker 6 (28:52):
Do know Harvey Levin personally, and I know him to
be a very honest guy, and he went on the
air and he explained, and I do believe him because
I've known him for so many years. So and he
said that the laughter that people heard had was separate
and apart from what was actually going on on the air,
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and it shouldn't have happened, and he rightly apologized. I
believe him because I know him, but I just want
to defend him on that point. If I didn't know him,
I would think the same thing everyone else thought. But
he was very, very passionate and clear about it, and
I definitely give him the benefit of the doubt. You said,
the worst part is the violence we once fought overseas
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is now here at home. It must add no belief,
no ideology is worth more than a human life.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
That's profound.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
None of it is. None of it is. And the
same things that we've seen the countries that we went
to fight is the same thing that we're seeing here.
But I think that we all have some responsibility in this.
I'll start with myself. Is is that we set back
for too long and we've allowed other people to stand
up for us. You know, we've got into this idea
or this concept of hey be the bigger person take
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the high road. You know, we've done that, and I
understand what it's there for. But we also have to
stand for what's right, and we have to make statements
and can't walk past what we know is wrong because
that's what we've got into. Hey, that's not my issue.
This isn't my problem.
Speaker 15 (30:23):
You know.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
We don't do that, you know, but we have to
if we want to take keep our country, if we
want to you know, get this back on track. I mean,
you just watched a woman get murdered on a train
and nobody did anything. Nobody did anything. We have the
unbelievable the value of another human life, and if.
Speaker 6 (30:45):
You dared to criticize, then you got to call the racist.
I mean unbelievable. It was an assassination on a train
on videotape, and and people are angry about Americans that
are outraged and shocked by it.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
That's insane.
Speaker 6 (31:00):
Dakota Meyer Medal of Honor recipient, Sniper Great American. We
appreciate you, and we appreciate your insight and your time today.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (31:09):
Eight hundred nine four one, Shawn is a number if
you want to be a part of the program right
that's going To wrap things up for today, we have
Don Junior on tonight, very very close friends Charlie deeply
admired Don. He will join us tonight. We'll get reaction
from him, the latest on the manhunt. We will have
heard from the FBI director Cash Bettel by then, Nicole Parker,
(31:31):
Maureen O'Connell retired FBI, the media insanity. Joe Concha weighs
in on that the psychology behind this Doctor Drew Pinsky.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Lauren Newton will join us.
Speaker 6 (31:42):
You know this young girl in Charlotte that was murdered
on this train, the spokesperson for the family for the
first time, we'll speak out. That's coming up nine Eastern.
Say you DVR Hannity on Fox. We'll have any breaking
developments of news as it warrants. See you tonight. Back
here tomorrow. Thank you for making the show possible.
Well we have coming.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Listen to your.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
Get sing you a conscious, willow be telling and if
you want a little banging a yuini.
Speaker 4 (00:16):
I come along and filled with grief and anger at
the heinous assassination of Charlie kirk Or a college campus
in Utah. Charlie inspired millions, and all who knew him
and loved him are united in shock and horror. Charlie
was a patriot. Charlie was also a man of deep,
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deep faith, and we take comfort in the knowledge that
he is now at peace with God and Heaven.
Speaker 5 (00:44):
Freedom is back in style. Welcome to the revolution that
we have.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Coming to your city.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Way I get saying you a conscious.
Speaker 6 (01:00):
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Speaker 5 (01:10):
Stay right here for our final news round up and
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Speaker 1 (01:16):
This just into our newsroom.
Speaker 6 (01:18):
A plane has crashed into the World Trade Center.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Was another apparently a plane.
Speaker 7 (01:25):
Seems an airplane has crashed into the World Trade Center.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Almost there appears to be a gaping hole.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
There goes there goes there goes there, it goes.
Speaker 7 (01:44):
Side has collapsed, little flass she still two airplanes kept
crashed into the World Trade Center.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
This We're not going to be cowered by it.
Speaker 6 (02:07):
If we're not afraid of ful the freedom loving nations
in the world stand by ourselves.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Shim stuff us.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
You proud to have the red, white and Blue withstood.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
We will not lad soon way.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
You're proud to be a part of this country.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Kill me. I think about the families, children to the pity.
Speaker 7 (02:36):
The freedom itself was attacked, and freedom will be defended.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
You still here.
Speaker 8 (02:45):
In my beild, f.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
The fun resist.
Speaker 7 (03:01):
All of our great nation is being tested.
Speaker 8 (03:07):
I've read there he did third the water United say
from dogree, if I would courage, it's fair my nation
find the writing or prity the fro.
Speaker 9 (03:19):
We will not forget the twenty eight hundred people.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Please and fire not only were heroes at the beginning,
but they're still heroes. Un We're going to come out
of this emotionally stronger.
Speaker 10 (03:34):
Where's the due.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
And the commitment of our fathers? Is now the calling
of our time?
Speaker 11 (03:38):
Oh those guys, Senior, anyone ever expected of mystery?
Speaker 5 (03:49):
They messed with the wrong city, They messed with the
wrong station.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
All right, Michael W.
Speaker 6 (03:56):
Smith, It is the twenty fourth anniversary, nine eleven one
we will never forget because of that day, a hero
was born a friend of this program, our friend Frank Siller,
and sadly, his brother, Steven, lost his life that day.
(04:16):
His story is incredible. I'm gonna let Frank tell it
himself because he had just gotten off a shift as
a as a fire FDNY fire uh fireman, and and
he went back and how he got back is even
more inspiring. Our friends at the Tunnel to Towers Foundation,
they are on a mission to do good and when
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it started out. I did a whole podcast with Frank
recently and it's on Fox Nation dot com. I urge
all of you to watch it, and it talks all
about his brother and talks about his life and talks
about you know, so much that that I'm sure most
of you don't know. We'll try to get to some
of it today.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
They did put out a press release earlier. It says,
in solemn observance of the twenty fourth anniversary of September eleventh,
two thousand and one and the terrorist attacks, the Tunnel
to Towers Foundation has delivered mortgage free homes to twenty
one families of fallen first responders across the country, including
six families who lost their loved ones to nine to
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eleven related illnesses. And that is a real problem that
exists to this day. It has been twenty four years
since the cowardly attacks on America September eleventh oh one.
On that day, first responders like my brother FDNY firefighter
Steven Siller, ran towards danger and gave their lives to
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save others. That Frank Siller, chairman CEO of the Tunnel
to Towers Foundations, and he said, well, decades have passed
since that tragic day, families of our heroes continue to
feel the impact as our great nation continues to lose
heroes to nine eleven related illnesses. Today we remember the
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lives law at the World Trade Center the Pentagon near
Shanksville in Pennsylvania, and we stand with those who are
still being directly impacted by the attacks. The Tunnel to
Towers Fall and First Responder Home Program pays off the
mortgages for families of law enforcement officers firefighters killed in
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the line of duty or pass away from nine to
eleven related illnesses and leave young children behind. And they
have a list of I have the list in front
of me of all the people that they are helping
and have announced on this very day, Frank Siller Tunnel
to Towers by the way, their website, and he told
me in this podcast the real foundation of the success
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of this program is people that donate eleven dollars a
month and you just go to their website if you
can afford it, maybe that's one or two lunches, you
know a month that you would forego. The letter T,
the number two, the LETTERT dot org. The letter T,
the number two, the letter T dot org for the
Tunnel to Terrorist Foundation. Frank, my friend, welcome back to
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the program, su.
Speaker 12 (07:08):
And thank you for having me on this day. It's
said said for a lot of people, said for America,
everybody remembers where they were twenty four years ago, that
were old enough where they were. It changed many people's
lives changed. America changed the country. But for you know,
for those for twenty nine hundred and seventy seven of us,
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it changed our lives differently than others. And when I
lost my brother twenty four years ago, I didn't I
couldn't believe it. I said, oh my god, how that Stephen,
not my little brother who lost his parents at such
a young age. I mean, my brother was often at
ten years old, and you know, it's just the story Sean,
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that just breaks my heart. It just breaks my heart.
I'd like to bring everybody back to a little bit
about what happened to my family twenty four years ago
after the South Tower fell at nine to twenty nine,
and I remember turning towards my mother in law and saying, Nancy,
I think I just lost my brother, not knowing how
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he got there, that he drove through the Brooklyn Battery
tunnel with his you know, ran through the tunnel with
his fire gear on his back.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
No the tunnel.
Speaker 6 (08:21):
Just so you know, your brother had just finished a
full shift and he was going to meet his buddies
and I think you and your brothers and play golf.
And then he had his wife call you and tell
you he wasn't coming. And he gets to the Brooklyn
Battery tunnel, he can't drive his car through because it's closed.
And what did he do pick it up from there?
Speaker 12 (08:43):
He shopped sixty five gear on his back and runs that.
You know, I was there this morning. I walked this
this morning at four thirty this morning. And as I'm
walking through the I'm saying my god, twenty four years ago,
my brother was running through here with his fire gear
on to save people, to save Americans, and he, you know,
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get through one up West Street into.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
The South Tower.
Speaker 12 (09:09):
I believe he was in the South Tower because that's
where other Squad one members. And you know, he was
a member of Squad one, and you'd want to fight
this fire and have this rescue with other people that
you trained with every day, and and and he gave
up his life. But at nine point fifty nine, I
started to am twenty four years ago. I started to
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get terribly upset, and I knew something terribly, something terrible happened.
And I started to ask my siblings come over my house,
come over the house please, let's all get together, you know,
let's find out about Stephen. I you know, this is
not good. And so finally two hours later, I get
a call from a firefighter who was a few lived
a few doors away from my brother Stephen, and he's
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Richie Openmia and he says to me, Frank, I'm down
here to ground zero and it's really bad. I said, oh, Richie,
my heartbreaks for you guys. Firefighters. I'm watching. I'm with
my family, we're all watching. He goes, now, I just
want to let you know how bad it is. And
here I said, I know, Richie, I could see it,
but I knew he wanted to tell me something else.
And he kept on saying, no, it's real bad. Frank,
(10:16):
I said, rich I know, he goes, no, you don't
understand nobody's coming home. And my heart drop. I had
to go back in and tell my siblings that that
little kid that lost his parents, that's such a.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Lost your parents, right, yeah, ten years.
Speaker 12 (10:38):
Old, that that now that his kids, who the oldest
was just turning ten, is now not going to have
their father, is now not going to have their father.
This wonderful human being that was outrageous and many and
many many ways, but just giving and obviously gave it all,
and uh, it just you know, And that's what I
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think about. That's right. I think about daylight today, and
there's a lot of families to think along those same ways.
Because some people just went to work that day and
didn't come home. Other's work was to save people and
they didn't come home, and we got to honor them
and we can never forget. And I think a lot
of people, most certainly on this day do not forget,
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but we try to make sure people don't forget ever.
Speaker 6 (11:23):
You know, when we were together, we went over all
of the different programs you have in the line of
duty programs providing mortgage free homes to our nation's catastrophically
injured vets and first responders. Your smart home program, you know, build,
you build them and especially adapt them. Mortgage free homes
for the most catastrophically injured vets first responders so they
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can reclaim their day to day independence. Fall in the
First Responder Home program, paying off the mortgages for families
of law enforcement, firefighters, first responders killed in the line
of duty or from nine to eleven related ill illness
is not a gold Star family program that you have.
It does the same honoring the legacy of those who
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made the ultimate sacrifice fighting for freedom and the post
nine to eleven world. And you have educational efforts too,
so the country never forgets k through twelve full curriculum programs.
You have a big mobile tractor trailer with nine to
eleven artifacts that you bring, you know, all that you
move all around the country and and people tell real
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life stories and you know, I think back, I told
you this. My daughter was thirteen days old at the time.
Now she just turned twenty four, and it's it's she's
very aware of nine to eleven though, and I made
sure of that. But what you're doing is God's work.
Thank God for you and the foundation and what you're doing.
(12:52):
I think the important thing is. And because we don't
have a lot of time, I just explained to people
how important it is if they can especially join, you know,
and commit to eleven dollars a month. You told me
that is the magic of the program. And you do
have big donors, you have corporate sponsors, but the eleven
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dollars a month commitment makes it happen.
Speaker 12 (13:16):
It is Sean and I don't talk about money on
nine to eleven, but you did, and I thank you
for that. But think of this, you know, massa.
Speaker 13 (13:25):
Peak lest year, little over a year ago, Jonathan Dilla
police officer that get shot and killed, right and we
tunneled to Dallas. A couple of days later, I call
up his widow, Stephanie, and I say, Stephanie, this is
Frank Soil tunnel to Dallas. You know, you know, if
I pay my condolences first and foremost, so let her
know that she's not alone. People care, people pray.
Speaker 12 (13:47):
President wenton the President United States.
Speaker 13 (13:49):
President Trump was.
Speaker 12 (13:50):
At to her, had her at her week. I met
him there that day and he was so hot help
and gave such gave some hope to this grievance family.
And I said, Stephanie, We're going to pay off your mortgage.
We're going to pay off your mortgage so you could
stay in the house that you and Jonathan had bought
and that you had your dreams, and that you're that
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your son Ryan, uh, you know, could grow up in
a place with some safety in the roof over the
head and comfort. And she got very emotional, and I
got emotional with her. And then and then at the
Patriot Awards, you give this award to Stephen Silla, my
brother's awards. You give it out, you know, from from
the Scilla Foundation, from the step you know, from through
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through a Fox to Stephanie Dilla, handed to by my
my my brother's son, Stephen Scilla Junior, who was the
same age as Ryan as Stephanie's son nine months old
on nine to eleven. Ryan was nine months old when
he lost his dad. And she said profoundly, she says
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it gives me such great hope that seeing that Stephen
was at the same age as my son Ryan is
now standing up here, this fine young man who is
doing good, that my son could have a good life.
That's the answer. We need to do good in this world.
We're here a very short time. San Francis of the
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Seas has said, brothers and sisters, while we are here,
let us do good. And that's what the Tunnel to
Talents Foundation is all about. The best way to honor
my brother, the best way to honor all these heroes
is to do good.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
Frank, You're truly a hero. God bless you, God bless
your work. And again the website, the letter T, the
number two, the LETTERT dot org. Frank, we do appreciate
your time with thinking about your brother and all that
lost loved ones on that day and since from nine
to eleven related illnesses and the wars that were fought thereafter.
(15:49):
We appreciate your time, my friend.
Speaker 12 (15:51):
Thank you, God bless you, God bless you too.
Speaker 6 (15:55):
All right, when we come back, well check in with
Dakota Meyers, sniper American Metal of on a recipient. We'll
discuss the murder assassination political assassination of Charlie Kirk on
this day, twenty four years nine to eleven oh one.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
As we continue our coverage.
Speaker 7 (16:12):
Americans do not yet have the distance of history, but
our responsibility to history is already clear to answer these
attacks and rid the world of evil.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
I hear people say we don't need this war, this war,
and it's not a war.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Actually, I say, there's some things worth fighting for.
Speaker 14 (16:36):
We are very grateful and thankful that we live in
a country with this freedom of speech, that people who
are either for or against a war can speak out.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
What about our freed everything is?
Speaker 6 (16:46):
When black and this piece of ground, everything came down.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
We didn't get to keep about back and down.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
Glass, stop parking. If people got hurt.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
You say, don't realize the mess we're getting.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Oh, there goes, there goes, here goes. Will you start
your preaching. Let me ask you this, my friend. Have
you forgotten?
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Oh my god?
Speaker 5 (17:11):
Oh the next building is another Oh my.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
God, another plane just through it.
Speaker 12 (17:19):
Is adible?
Speaker 8 (17:20):
Have you forgot?
Speaker 15 (17:22):
I saw this plane come out of nowhere and just
bream right into the side of this windshow, exploding through
the other side.
Speaker 7 (17:28):
There's been an active war declared upon America, my terrorists,
you forgotten.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
I can hear you. You ripped the wall.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Hear you and the people who knocked.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Me feeling down here.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
You've forgotten.
Speaker 9 (17:52):
No, no, no, no, no no, I'm gonna die, says.
Speaker 13 (17:59):
I pretty.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
There dozens of residents that are sitting on the hill
behind the pedagon, almost like they're waiting for the Fourth
of July fireworks, but instead they're staring dumbfounded at what
looks like a war zone. I mean, you see bodies
flying out of the sky and you gave you nothing
about it.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
You tell me there's no words to describe what's going
on on it.
Speaker 12 (18:26):
Have you got?
Speaker 7 (18:27):
America is a nation full of good fortune, so much
to be grateful for, but we are not spared from suffering.
And every generation the world has produced enemies of human freedom.
They have attacked America because we are freedom's home and defender.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Have you forgot?
Speaker 1 (18:45):
And the commitment of our fathers is now the calling
of our time? All right? That's Stara Warley. Have have
we forgotten?
Speaker 6 (18:57):
I think after yesterday everybody now remembers there is evil
in this world.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
It does exist.
Speaker 6 (19:04):
Let me play for you and update you on the
investigation as it goes on into the assassination political assassination
of Charlie Kirk. Robert Boll, FBI special Agent in charge
of Charlie Kirk's assassination, says they recovered the rifle used
to kill Kirk, as well as you know the palm
and footprints found near the weapon.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
They are getting close.
Speaker 6 (19:28):
We've run down a list of everything that they have
been able to achieve within the last twenty four hours,
and let me play what he said.
Speaker 15 (19:37):
FBI agents have been working around the clock in coordination
with our law enforcement partners.
Speaker 14 (19:44):
We are and will.
Speaker 15 (19:45):
Continue to work NonStop until we find the person that
is committed this heinous crime and find out why they
did it. This morning, I can tell you that we
have recovered what we believe is the weapon to be
that was used yesterday's shooting. It is a high powered
bolt action rifle. That rifle was recovered in a wooded
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area where the shooter had fled, So the FBI laboratory
will be analyzing this weapon. Investigators have also collected footwear impression,
a palm print, and forearm imprints for analysis. Now, I
understand there are a lot of questions about motive.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
I assure you that all.
Speaker 15 (20:29):
Leads, tips and tips are being fully investigated. As of
this morning, we receive more than one hundred and thirty tips.
We thank the community for that. The FBI has brought
every resource to bear and we will continue to do
so throughout the course of this investigation.
Speaker 6 (20:46):
Well, we have been making progress, as we've been covering
all day here on this program, and we will continue
to cover and any new developments. Obviously, we'll have on
Hannity tonight nine eastern on the FOG News Channel. All right,
Joining us now is Dakota Meyer, and he's a sniper
American Hero Medal of Honor recipient here to discuss the
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latest in this political assassination of Charlie Kirk, the state
of our country, the rhetoric of the radical left, I mean,
what we're living through are unbelievable times. Let me give
you one example. I'll give you two examples of how
you know people have responded to this. You know, let's
start with Alexandrio Cassio. Cortes really one of the leading
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voices now of the radical left Democratic Party Republicans voting
against gun control as if guns fired themselves.
Speaker 16 (21:43):
Listen, people can fingerpoint all they want look at the record.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Look at the actions of what we are doing.
Speaker 16 (21:51):
I don't think a single person who has dedicated their
entire career to preventing gun safety legislation from getting passed
in this House has any right to blame anybody else
but themselves for what is happening.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
It just is so sick, just like MSDNC predictably being
you know, so sick and politicizing and actually blaming Charlie
Kirk himself for being assassinated.
Speaker 14 (22:19):
Listen, Charlie Kirk is a divisive figure, polarizing, lightning, raw,
or whatever term you want to use.
Speaker 9 (22:25):
We don't know any of the details of this that
we don't know if this was a supporter or shooting
their gun off in celebration or so.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
We have no idea about this.
Speaker 9 (22:32):
He's been one of the most divisive, especially divisive younger
figures in this who is constantly sort of pushing this
sort of hate speech or sort of aimed at certain groups.
And I always go back to, hateful thoughts lead to
hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions. You can't
stop with these sort of awful thoughts you have and
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then saying these awful words and not expect awful actions
to take place, and that's the unfortunate environment we're in.
Speaker 14 (23:02):
After one of the DOGE employees was allegedly attacked in Washington,
d C. That's what Donald Trump used as a justification
to send in federal troops into Washington, d C. To
get things under control the carjacking situation. He used that,
And I know it's hard to predict the future mark,
but you can imagine the administration using this as a
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justification for something.
Speaker 10 (23:27):
I know we were just talking about the federal takeover
in Washington that began after a member of the DOGE
team was allegedly assaulted in Washington. So it's going to
be interesting to be what conservative leaders want to do
there after this episode.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
What happened with policing.
Speaker 6 (23:41):
Lives have been saved, a lot of them, and the
violent crime has gone down dramatically. It works more politicizing
of this. You know that idiot governor of Illinois, JB.
Pritzker actually blaming Donald Trump.
Speaker 17 (23:57):
Political violence, unfortunately, has been ratcheting up in this country.
We saw the shootings, the killings in Minnesota. We've seen
other political violence occur in other states, and I would
just say it's got to stop. And I think there
are people who are fomenting it in this country. I
think the president's rhetoric often foments it. We've seen the
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January sixth rioters who clearly you have tripped a new
era of political violence.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
And the president what did he do? He pardoned them.
Speaker 17 (24:35):
I mean, what kind of signal does that send to
people who want to perpetrate political violence?
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Not a good one.
Speaker 6 (24:42):
And this is another one of these morons that supported
that soon to be Vice president Kamala Harris. After the
summer of twenty twenty, this summer of love, the summer
of you know, Chaz Chop, spaghetti pot, Lugg dinner zones
where we lost you know, a few dozen Americans. We
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had thousands of injured cops and billions of property damage,
five hundred and seventy four riots. He didn't open his
mouth once in the last two weekends, and his state
in the city of Chicago, about eighty people shot and
about twenty dead. He's going to lecture anybody anyway, It's
pretty remarkable, and.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
But sadly it's the worst part is is it's predictable.
That is the worst part.
Speaker 6 (25:33):
Anyway, we pleased to have on the program The Code
of Meyer Sniper American Medal of Honor recipient.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Thanks for being here, sir, Thank you, sir. You were
friends with Charlie, were you not.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
I knew Charlie, right, I mean I met him a
couple of times. I spoke to him. I was watched
and followed all this stuff. I mean the way that
he spoke, in the way that he talked, and the
way that he explained, in the way that he put
things was I mean a second to no right. I mean,
I always learned and got better and like by watching
his ability to take stances and to be able to
(26:08):
talk the way that he did with people, and it
was it was truly a conversation. You know, a lot
of these ideas and beliefs these days, they are they're
they're in a form of statements. And what I respected
the most about Charlie was he wasn't just willing to
do it from his platform where it was safe in
his own isolation or his own you know, his own
I call it your your social tunnel, where you can
(26:30):
control it what you hear and what you receive back.
He was willing to take his ideas and beliefs out
and let people challenge them without it being scripted, without
him knowing what was coming. And I think that was
an example that we should all be willing to do.
Is is to lay our ideas or beliefs on the
table every single day and allow them to be challenged,
(26:51):
to make sure that we're still dialed in.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
You actually put up on X a post that got
my interest. You said, the First Amendment is not Republican
or democrat. It belongs to every American. Until leaders on
the left condemned this violence and hold their own accountable,
nothing will change. And beliefs are never a reason to
kill one another. You know, we didn't even know it
(27:15):
at the point that those comments were made on MSDNC
basically blaming Charlie Kirk himself. He was not a divisive figure,
divisive inasmuch as he was conservative. He is like, proved
me wrong, I'll debate all comers, And he debated with
a smile. And he knew he was going into it often,
(27:36):
he was going into a hostile environment, these liberal and
doctrination centers known as universities.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Yeah, I mean, look, and that's what he did. He's
going to lay it out there and look as somebody
who thought for this country. As somebody who believes in
I like to call myself a peopleist. You know, being
safe in the United States of America shouldn't be just
if you're a publican or a Democrat. It should be
for everyone. Ideas, your First Amendment rights, your your idea
(28:02):
to believe, and to be able to speak what you
think and to be able to do those things should
absolutely be a right that everyone gets to exercise. And
and we can't allow violence to be conditional upon if
we agree with each other. And that's what we've gotten to,
and it's been fused, it's been fueled, and it's been
put out there. And I think the biggest concern to
(28:23):
me is is when you watch you watch these these
media publications, you watch these news networks, you watch the
people that are that are really being trusted to, you know,
pass on information and get to get things out there.
I mean, did you watch where like T and Z
found out that Charlie Kirk had died and everyone in
(28:46):
their cheers, like, at what point have we got to
as human beings to where if this does I.
Speaker 6 (28:52):
Do know Harvey Levin personally, and I know him to
be a very honest guy, and he went on the
air and he explained, and I do believe him because
I've known him for so many years. So and he
said that the laughter that people heard had was separate
and apart from what was actually going on on the air,
(29:13):
and it shouldn't have happened, and he rightly apologized. I
believe him because I know him, but I just want
to defend him on that point. If I didn't know him,
I would think the same thing everyone else thought. But
he was very, very passionate and clear about it, and
I definitely give him the benefit of the doubt. You said,
the worst part is the violence we once fought overseas
(29:36):
is now here at home. It must add no belief,
no ideology is worth more than a human life.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
That's profound.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
None of it is. None of it is. And the
same things that we've seen the countries that we went
to fight is the same thing that we're seeing here.
But I think that we all have some responsibility in this.
I'll start with myself. Is is that we set back
for too long and we've allowed other people to stand
up for us. You know, we've got into this idea
or this concept of hey be the bigger person take
(30:06):
the high road. You know, we've done that, and I
understand what it's there for. But we also have to
stand for what's right, and we have to make statements
and can't walk past what we know is wrong because
that's what we've got into. Hey, that's not my issue.
This isn't my problem.
Speaker 15 (30:23):
You know.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
We don't do that, you know, but we have to
if we want to take keep our country, if we
want to you know, get this back on track. I mean,
you just watched a woman get murdered on a train
and nobody did anything. Nobody did anything. We have the
unbelievable the value of another human life, and if.
Speaker 6 (30:45):
You dared to criticize, then you got to call the racist.
I mean unbelievable. It was an assassination on a train
on videotape, and and people are angry about Americans that
are outraged and shocked by it.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
That's insane.
Speaker 6 (31:00):
Dakota Meyer Medal of Honor recipient, Sniper Great American. We
appreciate you, and we appreciate your insight and your time today.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (31:09):
Eight hundred nine four one, Shawn is a number if
you want to be a part of the program right
that's going To wrap things up for today, we have
Don Junior on tonight, very very close friends Charlie deeply
admired Don. He will join us tonight. We'll get reaction
from him, the latest on the manhunt. We will have
heard from the FBI director Cash Bettel by then, Nicole Parker,
(31:31):
Maureen O'Connell retired FBI, the media insanity. Joe Concha weighs
in on that the psychology behind this Doctor Drew Pinsky.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Lauren Newton will join us.
Speaker 6 (31:42):
You know this young girl in Charlotte that was murdered
on this train, the spokesperson for the family for the
first time, we'll speak out. That's coming up nine Eastern.
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