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2001 Interview Shows Trump Praising Courage Of Rescue Workers, Promising To Rebuild

By Jack Davis

Lower Manhattan was still bleeding smoke and ashes in a cloud that turned the sun’s rays into a glaring haze when a man walking through the rubble of Ground Zero, where the World Trade Center had stood just two days before, paused to salute those who were laboring in the shadow of death.

And to vow to rebuild.

A Sept. 13, 2001, interview with President Donald Trump shows Trump focused on the work of digging through the tons of debris to find survivors, but also looking beyond America’s time of tragedy to what would come next.

“It’s like a whole different city and world,” Trump said. “I cannot believe the sight of lower Manhattan without the World Trade Center. Therefore, we have to rebuild. Not necessarily in that form, but we have to rebuild. At least as good and maybe better.”

Trump would later submit a design for a structure similar to the World Trade Center that was passed over in favor of the current Freedom Tower.

In the interview, Trump mused upon the destruction, citing the “thousands and thousands of lives” lost in the terrorist attack that was coordinated with an attack on the Pentagon and and a third attack that was foiled when passengers on United Airlines Flight 93 fought against their captors, leading to a crash in Pennsylvania.

Trump’s focus during the interview was the men doing the hazardous, risky work of combing the debris to retrieve the dead and hopefully find survivors.

“I have hundreds of men inside working right now and we’re bringing down another 125 in a little while. They’ve never done work like this before,” Trump said. “Its terrible.”

“Not only is it devastating, but its very dangerous because every few minutes a whistle would go off and everybody would just run because you have all the buildings around it which are in such a weakened state that people just don’t know,” he said.

“It’s a terrible thing for the workers and it’s a terrible thing for the world, really,” he added.

Trump praised the workers who refused to quit.

“The great thing is when they find somebody that’s alive, like the five firemen they just found a little while ago, so that’s the great thing and that’s what they’re all striving for, but generally speaking that’s not the case,” Trump said.

“It’s a very depressing situation for these folks,” he continued.

On the day Trump was interviewed, there was a report that five firefighters had been pulled from the rubble alive. The report was later proven to be inaccurate.

In reality, the report was based on several rescuers who had been pulled out of the rubble after being trapped there earlier that day.

Trump was asked if he thought there were survivors.

“Its a tough situation, but you can’t give up hope,” he said, citing the report of the five firefighters. “There probably are some more people in there but you can’t give up hope.”

Trump then noted that the rescue teams showed incomparable courage.

“But I’ll tell you what, you really can take heart. There firefighters and policemen and the construction workers equally, the courage they have is unbelievable. They’re working, digging out, and lifting up steel. And above them you have 55-story buildings that are very possibly going to be pouring down on them at any minute and they’re working like nothing’s wrong. They’re amazing.”

Trump was in Manhattan on the day of the attacks, and has said he saw the plume of smoke from the Twin Towers after the attack.

Trump caused a furor as a candidate when he noted that in New Jersey, Muslims perched on rooftops celebrated the attacks.

The Fate of Hemingway’s Key West Home

'It's just a house. Save the cats. Get all the cats in the car and take off,' said the author's granddaughter

by Zachary Leeman

People from all over the world travel to visit the Key West home where Ernest Hemingway wrote a number of his best-known works, including the novel “To Have and Have Not” and the short-story classics “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” and “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber.”

The author lived in the house for most of the 1930s — and today it contains a whopping 55 cats, all of which are descendants of the writer’s own cats. With its distinguished Spanish Colonial architecture, the house has been a popular tourist destination for years.

Many people feared the home would be lost to the ravages of Hurricane Irma, yet the house's caretaker and 10 staff members refused to leave the property.

Caretaker Jacqui Sands, who is 72, remained at the house — a National Historic Landmark that is officially known as the Ernest Hemingway Home & Museum. Sands felt an obligation to take care of the property and the cats, which famously have six and even seven toes in some cases.

Ernest Hemingway's granddaughter, actress and model Mariel Hemingway, begged Sands to leave and be safe.

"I think that you're a wonderful and admirable person for trying to stay there and save the cats, and save the house, and all that stuff," Hemingway told TMZ on Friday. "But ultimately, it's just a house. Save the cats. Get all the cats in the car and take off."

Sands, the staff members, and the cats ended up lucking out over the weekend. Irma caused far less destruction in Key West than expected — there was much more damage in the other keys.

The TMZ site reported it had been told all the cats and occupants of the home were just fine after Irma.

Aside from a few fallen trees, there's not much more damage to speak of on the property. Despite fears, the Hemingway House remains standing and fans will be free to visit the home, its lush gardens, and flowers — and the cats — for years to come.

A Dairy Queen Owner Posted This 'Politically Incorrect' Sign. It's Creating A LOT Of Buzz. "This restaurant is politically incorrect." Screenshot: CBS 58 ByAMANDA PRESTIGIACOMO @amandapresto Wisconsin Dairy Queen owner Kevin Scheunemann generated a lot of buzz — and a lot of business — when a "politically incorrect" sign he posted on his store door offended an out-of-towner who took to social media to complain. "This restaurant is politically incorrect," warns the sign Scheunemann posted some four years ago. The poster warns that they "have been known to say" things like "Merry Christmas," Happy Easter," and "God Bless America," and give away free ice cream sundaes to veterans on Veterans Day. The bottom of the sign, in large letters, reads: "In God We Trust." The owner first posted the sign after a customer complained about the Christian music he heard being played in the Kewaskum Dairy Queen. Instead of ridding the store of the music, Scheunemann felt it was necessary to post a warning to potential customers about their values, which revolve around "God and country." "I felt the sign was appropriate to hang in terms of being transparent about the views of the owner and staff supporting God and country," Scheunemann explained to CBS 58. "It just seems that those kinds of values and principles are becoming controversial in society," he added. Despite hanging without a hitch (or a complaint) for nearly four years, the sign recently became national news after an out-of-town customer became triggered by the "politically incorrect" message, and posted a snapshot and a complaint to the offical Dairy Queen Facebook. "I find this extremely offensive," whined an Oregon woman who goes by the name Ashley Coleman on Facebook. "Please speak with the franchise owner," she added. But the community has since rallied around the Dairy Queen store, seemingly in agreement with the sign's sentiments. "Business is good," noted local CBS reporter Julie Parise, "thanks in part to a sign that's hanging on the front door." Business owners in the area also came to Scheunemann's defense. "He posted it on the door so you see it before you walk in," said local store owner April Serwe. "You don’t have to walk in if you don't agree with it." Some Kewaskum residents even said the sign is unnecessary, since most all of them "share the same values," notes CBS 58. "In this small community, I don't think it's a problem," said local Liz Torrison. "We're all just liking each other and having fun." Even Republican Senator Duey Stroebel, who represents the 20th District wherein the Kewaskum Dairy Queen store is located, got in on the support for Scheunemann, quipping that the sign was "creating a blizzard" of "offended snowflakes." Dairy Queen has not dictated the owner take down the sign, but they did distance themselves from the poster in a statement: American Dairy Queen Corporation does not encourage our independently owned and operated franchisees to post non-business related messages in their locations or on their external reader boards. This sign expresses the views of this independent owner only and does not speak for ADQ Corporation or any of our other independent franchise owners. We expect our franchisees and employees to treat every person who walks through our doors with the utmost dignity and respect. Nothing less is acceptable. Scheunemann said he'd be willing to make accommodations for anyone uncomfortable with the declarations made on the poster.   Imran Awan entering federal court for his arraignment Sept. 1, 2017. Screenshot from One America News used with permission Imran Awan Still Has A Copy Of Congressional Data Linked To Wasserman Schultz LUKE ROSIAK Investigative Reporter Prosecutors have given Imran Awan a copy of the hard drive of a House laptop that Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz tried to keep law enforcement from looking at, court filings show, suggesting prosecutors intend to bring charges related to the underlying cybersecurity and theft probe. The hard-drive copy was included in discovery even though the Florida Democrat has said the laptop contains House information on it and is a government-paid work computer, and even though Imran was fired and banned from the House network because of suspected cybersecurity violations. Imran left the laptop, with the username RepDWS, in a phone booth in circumstances that suggest that it was not accidentally forgotten there. Alongside it, he left a copy of his ID and letters to the U.S. attorney that ensured it would be treated as evidence instead of simply returned as a missing laptop. Imran entered a House office building the night of April 6, two months after he was banned by House authorities from touching its network, and placed the laptop, a copy of his ID, and letters to the US Attorney in a phone booth, according to a police report. There would be little reason to enter the phone booth, and it would be difficult to forget items there. Imran also left in the phone booth a notebook that said “attorney client privilege,” which could be a reason why prosecutors gave Imran’s lawyer a copy of what could be Wasserman Schultz’s laptop. Prosecutors said they were giving him a copy under the legal process of discovery, in which defendants have a right to evidence being used against them. He has only been charged with bank-fraud crimes related to trying to flee the country with cash, which is why its inclusion in discovery suggests prosecutors intend to bring charges related to the underlying cybersecurity and theft probe. Imran’s lawyer, Wasserman Schultz, and many in the media have said the misconduct involving Imran goes no further than bank fraud, but the timeline makes clear that a serious criminal investigation into those House issues was the impetus for those moves, and the notebook also included “case details” and letters about “the apparent owner of the bag being investigated,” well before he was accused of bank fraud. An Aug. 31 letter from prosecutors to Imran’s attorney reads: Prosecutors gave Imran a copy of the laptop found in a phone booth / Federal court records Wasserman Schultz frantically fought to stop police from looking at the laptop’s hard drive. For more than two months, police had been telling her they suspected him of cybersecurity breaches, including what she called “data transfer violations,” but she maintained that she thought the police were picking on him and wanted to protect his “due process” — even though she knew how serious cyberbreaches can be because she was head of the DNC when its emails were released last year. Wasserman Schultz’s laptop was left in an old phone booth in a House building like this one. / Photo: DCNF Imran had access to all the emails and files of dozens of House Democrats. The bizarre refusal of members of Congress to criticize Imran no matter how many suspicious actions are tied to him raises questions about whether members may be afraid that he could release their emails if they assist in his prosecution, or that some could implicated in a kickbacks scheme involving disappearing equipment and ghost employees. David Damron, a spokesman for the Florida lawmaker, declined to tell The Daily Caller News Foundation why Wasserman Schultz would still be so adamant the allegations against Imran were made up even after Imran apparently took her laptop late at night and left it where it would be found, alongside other seemingly carefully curated evidence. Damron would not clarify why she said the laptop was hers and she had lost it, then that it was Imran’s and she had never even seen it, and finally, the revelation that it had the username RepDWS, rather than Imran’s username. Wasserman Schultz hired an outside attorney, Bill Pittard, to argue that police and prosecutors should not be allowed to keep or look at the laptop because it was full of sensitive legislative information, invoking the Constitution’s “speech and debate clause.” Wasserman Schultz was prohibited from allowing Imran to touch anything having to do with the House network after the Feb. 2 ban, but she kept paying him and providing him access to the office, she said, to have him work on “printers” and “websites.” Damron would not say whether Wasserman Schultz thought he had connected to the network using the laptop. He would also not say what Imran was doing roaming the House hallways at night. After learning that Imran was the subject of an investigation, Wasserman Schultz went out of her way to add his wife, Hina Alvi, to her payroll in a newly created position as a second IT aide. In March, Hina left the country with $12,000 in cash, her children, and large amounts of household goods while Wasserman Schultz knew she was the subject of a criminal investigation, but she kept paying Imran. Weeks later on April 6, the laptop and letters to the U.S. Attorney turned up in the phone booth. On May 18, she threatened the Capitol Police with “consequences” if they didn’t return the laptop, saying “if a member loses equipment… it should be returned” because “the member” is not the subject of an investigation. Police chief Matthew Verderosa noted that he was keeping the laptop because it was tied to a criminal suspect. Indeed, if the laptop had been found by itself, the laptop would have been returned, but the seemingly carefully laid collection of items left with it, including multiple IDs and references to a criminal case, ensured that the laptop would be immediately considered evidence. Immediately after prosecutors gave Imran a copy of the laptop, Imran’s wife, Hina Alvi, told prosecutors she would agree to return from Pakistan to face charges, seemingly indicating she has confidence that she won’t face serious punishment for theft or cyber violations, despite authorities being in possession of massive quantities of invoices that were systematically altered to prevent the equipment from appearing in House inventories. Bill Miller, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney of the District of Columbia, declined to comment on giving Imran an image of the laptop. Wasserman Schultz’s brother, Steve Wasserman, is an attorney in the office. He has no role in prosecuting the case, but he has tweeted an op-ed arguing that there should be no case against his sister. Yet Another Anonymously Sourced Trump-Russia Story Falls Apart PETER HASSON Associate Editor Once again, a huge Trump-Russia story that relied upon anonymous sources has fallen apart. NBC News dropped what the network hyped as a “potential bombshell” last week. “Manafort Notes From Russian Meet Contain Cryptic Reference to ‘Donations,'” the original headline read. The story claimed that Manafort’s notes from the 2016 Trump Tower meeting with White House aide Jared Kushner, Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer included the word “donations” near a reference to the Republican National Committee. NBC began walking back the “potential bombshell” almost immediately, issuing a correction the same day noting that the word “donation” didn’t actually appear in the notes, but quoting one source who said the word “donor” was in the notes. But NBC’s corrected story still wasn’t accurate, according to a new Politico report, which said that the word “donor” didn’t appear in Manafort’s notes. Moreover, Manafort’s notes “are not seen as damaging to the Trump family or campaign officials,” Politico reported. The outlet cited several sources who have seen Manafort’s notes, while NBC relied on “two sources briefed on the evidence” to make its claim. Even before Politico fully debunked NBC’s reporting, the network’s decision to publish the story came under fire. The day after NBC originally published the story, The Washington Post’s Erik Wemple criticized the story, which he said “provides only fodder for innuendo and conspiracy, not for sound conclusions about what happened.” NBC News’ botched “bombshell” is just the latest anonymously sourced Trump-Russia story to fall apart. CNN was forced to rewrite a story in June that claimed that former FBI Director James Comey’s Senate testimony would refute President Trump’s assertion that Comey reassured him three times that he was not under investigation. In fact, Comey confirmed Trump’s account. Later that month, CNN retracted a story that claimed Trump campaign adviser Anthony Scaramucci was under investigation in relation to Congress’ Russia probe. The botched story turned into a public relations nightmare for CNN, and three of the network’s employees ended up resigning. A Feb. 14 New York Times story that was widely seen as a bombshell was actually “almost entirely wrong,” Comey said during his Senate testimony, adding that “in the main it was not true.” That story, too, relied on anonymous sources. “The challenge, and I’m not picking on reporters, about writing stories about classified information is the people talking about it often don’t really know what’s going on, and those of us that actually know what’s going on are not talking about it,” Comey said. Bannon: 'The Republican Establishment Is Trying to Nullify the 2016 Election' By Susan Jones Steve Bannon, the former chief strategist for President Trump, appeared on CBS's "60 Minutes," his first television interview, on Sunday, Sept.10, 2017. (Photo: Screen grab from CBS) (CNSNews.com) - "The Republican establishment is trying to nullify the 2016 election. That's the brutal fact we have to face," President Trump's former chief strategist Steve Bannon told CBS's "60 Minutes." The interview aired Sunday night. Bannon said Mitch McConnell and "to a degree" Paul Ryan "do not want Donald Trump's populist, economic, nationalist agenda to be implemented. It's very obvious.” CBS's Charlie Rose asked Bannon for a story to illustrate his point: Well, Mitch McConnell, when we first met him...he said I think in one of the first meetings in Trump Tower with the president as we're wrapping up. He basically says, I don't want to hear any more of this draining the swamp talk. He says, I can't even hire any smart people because everybody's all over them for reporting requirements and the pay, etc. And the scrutiny. You know, you gotta back off that. The drain the swamp thing was Mitch McConnell, was day one, did not want to go there, wanted us to back off. Bannon said the Republican establishment will not help Trump unless they're put on notice that they're going to be held accountable if they do not support him. "Right now, there's no accountability," Bannon continued. "They do not support the president's program, and it's an open secret on Capitol Hill. Everybody in this city knows it." Bannon said "absolutely," he is going to go to war with Trump's opponents, now that he's left the White House and returned to his journalism perch at Breitbart. Bannon defined the swamp as a "successful business model" that's been 50 years in the making. He said it comprises donors, consultants, lobbyists and politicians who feast at taxpayers' expense -- the permanent political class of both parties. "Seven of the nine wealthiest counties in America ring Washington, D.C.,” he noted. "You're not going to drain that in eight months. You're not going to drain it in two terms. This is going to take 10, 15, 20 years of relentlessly going after it.” Later in the interview, Bannon noted that the Republican establishment insisted on doing a repeal and replacement of Obamacare as the first order of business in the Trump administration. "Paul Ryan and these guys come in and say, ‘We've done this for seven years. We've voted on this 50 times. We understand this issue better than anybody. We know how to repeal, and we know how to replace, and this is ours. That's what we're going to start with day one. And we will have something on your desk by Easter. By the Easter break, we'll do repeal and replace.’” Repeal and replace was supposed to be part one of a plan to accomplish three major legislative goals in the first year, Bannon said. After scrapping Obamacare, the plan was to tackle tax reform and get that done by the August break, followed by infrastructure legislation that would pass by the end of the year. "That was the deal," Bannon said. And so far, none of it has been done. Bannon said he believes the Republican establishment is now working on a plan to fix Obamacare, not replace it. "I think the choice is going to be, you're not going to be able to totally repeal it," he said. WATCH: As Dingbat Sen. Whitehouse Melts Down In Judiciary Committee Hearing Says Trump's nominees are bought with "dark money." By ROBERT KRAYCHIK screenshot/C-SPAN On Wednesday, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) framed two of President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees as serving the interests of “dark money.” Whitehouse made his comments during a Senate Judiciary Committee nomination hearing for Amy Coney Barrett and Joan Larsen, who are nominated to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, respectively. Barrett is a law professor at Notre Dame Law School and Larsen is a justice of Michigan’s Supreme Court. Barrett and Larsen, said Whitehouse, are supported by nefarious "dark money" interests: A very significant machinery of influence … is designed … to bring the will of ideological and commercial interests into our courts in ways that will follow the wishes of those ideological and commercial interests. [Barrett and Larsen] have been cleared by those very ideological and commercial interests for policy-making positions in the courts. Whitehouse regularly speaks of “dark money” as a powerful political phenomenon pushing America rightward. Omitted from his calculus is the volume of money spent in the opposite direction, including but not limited to leftist expenditures to news media outlets, academia, the bureaucracy, popular culture and celebrities, and ostensibly nonprofit and charitable organizations. Barrett and Larsen share “an affinity for commercial interests,” said Whitehouse. “Dark money” operators sought to yield a “return on investment” in federal courts from their spending on public campaigns in support of Barrett’s and Larsen’s confirmations to federal judgeships, he added. Whitehouse lamented the evasive nature of modern nominees in addressing inquiries about their own views of mistaken rulings from the Supreme Court: To sit here and pretend that there is no role for people’s personal and private views, or their social views when they go to the court, is just so preposterous and to be crisis. ... We sit here in this bizarro world in which we’re asked to pretend that nominees’ personal views and social views have no role, and we shouldn’t discuss them, at all; and we’re just gonna sit around following precedent, when we know as practising lawyers is not true. Across his speaking time, Whitehouse said “dark money” five times and “ideological and commercial interests” six times. Watch Whitehouse's comments below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=8&v=YENygXfm5xA Trey Gowdy Schools Liberal On The Constitution In Epic Viral Video Jeff Charles CLICK TO JOIN At a House Oversight Committee hearing, Representative Trey Gowdy (R-SC) gave the people in attendance a valuable lesson on the Second Amendment. While questioning Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary Kelli Ann Burriesci, Gowdy attacked the department’s practice of preventing Americans of their right to bear arms if they have been put on the terrorist watch list. During the hearing, he said, “My question is, can you name another constitutional right we have that is chilled until you find out it’s chilled, and then you have to petition the government to get it back? Is that true with the First Amendment?” It started when Gowdy first asked what process DHS goes through when they put an American citizen on the terrorist watchlist: “What process is afforded a U.S. citizen, not someone who’s overstayed a visa, not someone who crossed a border without permission, but an American citizen—what process is currently afforded an American citizen before they go on that list?” A flummoxed Burriesci seemed unable to provide a reasonable answer. “I’m sorry, um, there’s not a process afforded the citizen prior to getting on the list,” she said. “There is a process should someone feel they’re unduly placed on the list.” Burriesci’s “answer” wasn’t good enough for the Representative. He continued, “Yes there is. When I say ‘process’ I’m actually using half of the term ‘due process,’ which is a phrase we find in the Constitution, that you cannot deprive people of certain things without due process,” he said. “So I understand [Center for American Progress fellow Ken Gude]’s idea, which is to wait until your right has been taken from you and then you can petition the government to get it back. I understand that that’s his idea.” He then asked Burriesci to name “another constitutional right we have that is chilled until you find out it’s chilled, and then you have to petition the government to get it back? Is that true with the First Amendment?” Laura Ingraham Given 10 PM Fox News Show Fox News has seen a major personnel shakeup over the past year. And now, it looks like all these staff changes proved to be a huge opportunity for long-time contributor Laura Ingraham. Founder Roger Ailes left the network last year amidst a sexual harassment scandal. Ditto for Bill O’Reilly, the popular host who left the network this year after multiple sexual harassment claims. During these two scandals, there was a large exodus of talent, including Megyn Kelly, Andrea Tantaros, and Gretchen Carlson (who was reportedly a victim of Ailes’s harassment). And just last week it was announced that pro-Trump host Eric Bolling was leaving the network. The latest shakeup takes the form of a brand new show – not a firing. Laura Ingraham has been making a name for herself as a radio host for years, and she’s been a guest host on a handful of Fox News shows, including “The O’Reilly Factor.” Now, Ingraham is getting her own show. According to the Daily Caller, “Sean Hannity’s show will be moved one hour earlier to 9 PM and ‘The Five’ will be moved back from 9 PM to its original time slot at 5 PM.” Ingraham will get a prime time show at 10 PM, replacing Hannity. This is another huge shakeup, and it shows that Fox is doubling down on bringing pro-Trump voices into the fold. With Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and now Laura Ingraham – all supporters of the president – completing the evening lineup, the network appears to be pushing back on earlier reports that they were ditching Trump. Ironically, CNN broke the news before Fox did: Previously Ingraham had been considered as a potential White House press secretary for the Trump Administration. Admittedly, with the media hell bent on derailing the Trump presidency, it’ll be nice to see another pro-Trump face in prime time. Ingraham has long been a hawkish voice on immigration, and she has been more supportive of Donald Trump than most other conservative hosts.

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