Guest Host Mary Walters: Mayor Mamdani says he'll attend 9/11 ceremony despite criticism

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1:03Start free at joinhomebase.com. HomeBase, built for small businesses that do it all. And welcome to Hour 3 of the Jesse Kelly Show. I'm Mary Walter sitting in for Jesse Kelly. Tomorrow, Kelly Nash is with you. Wow, a lot of Kelly's. Kelly Nash is with you tomorrow. And then Jesse is back. Thank you so much for letting me join you here. And thank you for joining me. If you want to jump in, 877-377-4373 is my number, 877-377-4373 is super easy. Or you can reach out to me on Exet Mary Walter Radio. And you can tag me in a post there as we go through through the process here. Yitzhak said that this whole thing with this paying parents to you know, so what somebody to stay home to take care of your kids, he said, run the 9,000 program, $9,000 reimbursement program for five years and see if there is an increase in American babies being born. And you get the extra $1,000 from the Trump accounts, so with the bonus. See, I like the

2:08Trump accounts because it's being privately funded. The Del's stepped up and they're funding this and some other people have stepped up to keep it going. I like that. That I like. privately funded because if we all have more money back in our pockets, we could maybe share the wealth a little bit. But if I'm being forced to share the wealth through government programs and they can decide who is more deserving of my money than I, I don't have as much money in my pocket to reward people that I think should be rewarded. See how that works? So I like the fact that that that is being privately funded. All right. September 11th is Friday. Now I live as I said in the People Socialist Republic of New Jersey. I, it was way too close as far as I'm concerned. But it's very, very, very, very vivid to me. I have not been to ground zero. I can't, we went to ground zero that happened in September. I want to say November, October, November, November. We were, we were there. We went down and they were still taken some of the steel beams out and

3:13it was things were still dusty and and and all of that. And I can't go back. I can't go back. I had an uncle who was in the lobby one of the towers fell and they survived, which is amazing. My sister-in-law's brother was one of the police officers who survived. He came from the Bronx and just rushed down there and was there on one of the buildings fell and was miraculously saved. And just ruined him for life, like mentally ruined him for life. So I just, the county that I live in in New Jersey over 3,000 children lost one or both parents that day. So it's super, super, like it's fresh to me. It's raw to me. I don't know if it will ever not be raw to me. So it's super important and so I have a problem with some of the things that have been happening regarding 9-11. And yeah, I mean I can saw the smoke come over. I could smell it. It was, it was rough.

4:15So President Trump was on Fox News with Tray Gouding and he was, they were discussing 9-11 and Trump had some reflections on that because remember at the time Trump the builder was in New York at the time and he talks about how he from where he was in Midtown Manhattan. You could see the World Trade Center because there are huge buildings, big tall buildings or you know, you're in a big tall building but they were huge tall buildings. They were so iconic. You always knew where you were and Manhattan based on where the World Trade Center is. But if you were up, you could know yourself from the street but if you were higher up, you could always tell. And he's reflecting on what he saw that day when he could see the smoke from where he was. Here's President Trump. And I'm viewing this thing happen. I said, that's crazy. It couldn't be a plane. Maybe it was a missile. Maybe it was something but it's not anything that we built like the boilers and the air conditions. It's not of that. So I said, wow, and it was really, and then I'm watching and I saw

5:20the second plane hit and you saw that and you're watching it and it's because I watched the year patterns for years and you know where the planes are. They go up right up to Hudson River. This thing was coming right into the second building and I said, wow, so I watched that happen and I said, wow, we are now in a different time. So I saw it and I said the world has just changed. And I went down and I was building a building in New York and I had a lot of construction workers and I went down there very shortly thereafter the following day. You couldn't go down the same day but like the following, they're very, very quickly afterwards. And then. Yeah. So what he did is he took some of his crews down there and he helped, they helped put them to work instead of building his buildings, put them to work moving and digging in the rubble

6:20to look for survivors. And yeah. So what President Trump of course there's an iconic picture of him walking down there with all these people around him to see what it was. But I I think that it was a very different time in this country. Obviously when people came together, did matter, Democrat, Republican, whatever people wanted to help and they wanted to do something. And so President Trump's at the time, Mr. Trump sent down some of his workers to help. I want to go to cut to President Trump in his speech announcing an honor, something to honor a 9-11 firefighter hero named Jeffrey Palazzo. I said this weekend in New York, the Coast Guard will commission a brand new beautiful. I bought it myself. I negotiated the price. It was very expensive. I didn't want to negotiate too hard an honor of him. But brand new Coast Guard will,

7:26they're going to commission a beautiful brand new fast. It's called fast response cutter, the most incredible kind of ship you'll ever see. It can go through anything. They go out into waves at a five times bigger than it. And they come back. I don't know how they do it, but they come back. But this is the U.S. Coast Guard cutter, Jeffrey Palazzo. So we honor him with this very important tribute. Yeah. And there are tributes that have been happening in the last 25 years. And I think they are all very fitting. What bothers the living daylights out of me is we don't teach history in our schools anymore and we haven't. And so we have an entire generation that knows nothing about what happened on 9-11. Zip, they know nothing about what happened on 9-11. Or what they are being taught is so whitewashed that it's so far from the truth that it's actually just a bastardization of history. Now speaking of bastardization of history, let's talk about

8:29Mayor Zorom Mamdani. So shall we? So I'm sure you saw this Friday. Well, does this happen on Friday? Yeah. So administration officials were gathered at City Hall for some executive orders. And this is ahead of the 25th anniversary of the attacks, which is happening this Friday. One of them established a day of remembrance and another for beefing up security against future terror or threats. That's for us, okay? After Mamdani signed the last of the documents, he gave police commissioner Jessica Tish the ceremonial pen and he whispered to her, can you pass this? And so she passes it to this guy who was standing next to her and she was so awkward, it looked like a hostage video. She just like kind of like just hands it over like to the side, you know, hands it to this guy. She was like Mamdani handed her a cobrons and he or give it to that guy over there. She wanted nothing to do with this. She hands it to the guy. The guy was Mamdani's or is Mamdani's chief counsel.

9:30His name is Ramsey Kassam. Now he was not in the press conference originally. So I'll tell you what happened. But he he wasn't present during the press conference until the very end and he snuck in about 15 minutes late and then he made a quick exit right after the police commissioner. He was present at the ceremony because he and his team wrote both 9-11 executive orders as part of his duties as chief counsel. All right. Now so why is this why you were even talking about this? Well a Michael what is this guy's name? Okay, but anyway a retired detective and had John professor at John J College of Criminal Justice. I was named as Michael Alcazar. Told the New York Post this was calculated. This happened during a ceremony meant to be about the victims and no one else. 9-11 families didn't come to City Hall to watch Mamdani spotlights someone whose work intersects with the very ideology that took to their loved ones.

10:33Commissioner Jessica Tish was reduced to a prop rather than acknowledging her role as the leader of the NYPD. But when they were devastated NYPD and the fire department devastated on 9-11. Just devastated so many men and women ran towards the buildings and were then killed in the aftermath because they chose to go save lives and run towards the building and I know I'm preaching the choir here. I'm just going to tell you. You know what I'm going to tell you on the other side is we got a quick break coming up but on the other side of this I'm going to tell you who Ramsey Kossum is and why so many people are so angry by that simple gesture of handing Jessica Tish the pen who is the head of the police union. So this was a slap in the face to her as well as every family member that was in that room and actually all of us and why it was done in my humble opinion.

11:35And you can give yours 877-3777-4373 or tag me in a post on Exit Mary Walter Radio. Tell you who we was, who he is coming up next on the Jesse Kelly show. Welcome back. Mary Walter in on the Jesse Kelly show talking to Mam Donnie and 9-11 and what he did that I think was just such a slap and I'm telling you this show this is what happens elections have consequences we say it all the time but I never thought I would see today where we would have someone who is so clearly more islamist than Muslim is the mayor of New York I just never thought I would see it and yet sox said we could smell the burning plastic and I'm telling it at metallic taste and white planes this stench came right at the Hudson my brother was down there saw number one go in D.A.'s office he had the prosecution against Deutsche Bank disconnected fire system corruption etc. So yeah I if you if you remember if you remember um all right so who is this guy Ramsey

12:37Kossum who Jessica Tish the head of the the police unit all right police department was forced to hand the pen the ceremonial signing pen to which is an honor to be handed that pen Kossum represented Al-Qaeda operative Ahmed Al-Darby and he's even seen on video smirking as he receives the pen one man whose brother was a firefighter with ladder five and was killed in the north tower said how can you defend a guy like that who wants to do Americans or any is an innocent person harm councilmember Joanne Ariola Queens says it shows you exactly where his loyalty's truly lies she said it was breathtakingly tone deaf and disrespectful the families who lost loved ones on 9-11 have everywhere to be outraged on the 25th anniversary city hall should be honoring their sacrifice who dignity not forcing those families to endure yet another insult so Al-Darby was sent to Guantanamo after he was convicted of terrorism in the O2 bombing of a French oil tank

13:40or in the Middle East he was part of an Al-Qaeda plot to attack the global oil trade after 9-11 his sister married Khalid Al-Mindar who was one of the 9-11 hijackers the there was the plane that crashed into the Pentagon and this guy Kossum who was given the ceremonial pen founded a legal clinic acuni which is a city university of New York that offers free legal representation to Muslims he also defended Mamou Khalil who is a leader of the pro-Palestinian encampment at Columbia who was detained by ICE Vicki Paladino is a Republican at a queen since she said Ramsey Kossum said he was inspired by 9-11 not to join the fight against terrorism but to defend the terrorists themselves he doesn't even belong in this country much less in our government a former political democrat political consultant David Sivella posted on x was it deliberate on your part to give your Muslim base a hint that this is all BS to pacify other New Yorkers that is

14:46pretty much what it comes across as what it's it's just it was such a slap so because of that there are now protests and a there is a petition that is circulating to keep Mamdani from the 9-11 ceremonies they want to keep him out and i can't blame them let's go to cut eight Rudy Giuliani is one of the loudest voices he was on newsmax by the way i'll be on newsmax at 7.05 a.m. tomorrow morning eastern time i'm Rudy Giuliani on newsmax talking about this entire thing and why Mamdani should just skip the 9-11 proceedings altogether the reality is this ceremony is for the families and for America to remember historically and frankly whatever he'd like to say he doesn't agree that September 11 was an Islamic terrorist attack on the united states of America

15:47one that is in terms of a war or effort continuing today and maybe even worse today so having lost friends there and being very close to many of the families it offends me that he's coming this is not a place for for people like the Arab princeling who gave me 10 million dollars so that he could say this was caused by american and an Israeli foreign policy from day one i've taken a very strong position against that because i knew that would be the propaganda the islamic extremists would use because we fall for it too many american fall for that islamic propaganda which is the reason they're taking over certain parts of america and certain parts of europe they have every desire to take us over this is not they want to be just another religion they want to dominate us that's what they're taught from the day they begin their extremist

16:52religious education mandami is a clear a clear supporter of that all of the all of the all of the right muslims he supports our murders yeah he also claimed that mandani doesn't agree that September 11 was an Islamic terror attack on the united states of america he also knew had former new york governor George pataki also called on mandami to stay home he said that the mayor was too close to people such as far left influencer Hassan piker who has blamed america for the terror for the attack he said with respect to the mayor i think anyone who doesn't intentionally distance themselves from his on piker who has said that america deserve the attacks of 9-11 should not be there anyone who has refused to reject the phrase global globalize the intifada which unequivically calls for violence against jews not just in israel but anywhere in the world should not be at that site i i think mandani has two choices reject those extremist views against

17:53america and calling for violence against jews are voluntarily decide it's not in the families in the victims interests for him to be there here's the thing you know he's going to be there because like that pen he wants to shove it in everyone's faces coming up on the other side i have to play for you this one piece of audio that moved me it i weld up a little bit i got a little tiri i'd um that was it was part of the celebration today the memorial today at the white house hey welcome back all right we're talking about uh 9-11 and i i have to share this with you i have to show this with you okay so and you can you can tag me to post on ex at mary walter radio if you want to jump in 877-377-43-73 and yet so i know uh used to live in new york made this is incredible he said the pen was a setup of jessica tish the head of the n-y-p-d he made her a jewish female give the pen to a male muslim who's a jihadi the muslims love symbolism they hate women

18:55and more so a jewish woman so he made her submit take a knee for islam wow i did not put that together at all but he did he made her as a jewish woman pass that pen to a muslim man who defended a jihadi and has connections wow you etsoc that's uh that's very interesting and uh thank you for for bringing that up i didn't really i didn't realize that so all right so i want to play this this is uh cut nine this is frank ciller the head of the tunnel to towers foundations cio and his brother steven died uh as we know on on 9-11 he put on 60 pounds of gear and ran through the i think it was the Manhattan midtown tunnel no it wouldn't have been the midtown tunnel uh the Brooklyn battery tunnel i think yeah Brooklyn battery tunnels what he what he ran through

19:55and two miles because he couldn't get in so he put his gear on he had left for the night he was on the night shift he left and he he came back and he got as close as he could left his car and and off he went running now uh a little backdrop he had he's the youngest of i think like nine or something like that like a lot of brothers older brothers and sisters and there's a big age difference he was the bonus baby and his parents died when he was young like when he was like eight years old first his dad died and then a year and a half later his mother passed away from cancer so his older siblings raised him all right so that's part of this backstory and i i i could not look i i was watching all of this live and i i had to get it to shoot so anyway we're gonna share part of this but if you have a chance to look up the entire speed just like five minutes i highly recommend it this is just this is more than half here we go when he was almost 11 years old i spent the day with him it was right after we lost our parents and he questioned his very existence he said he said to me frankie what did mommy daddy have to die i wish i was never born

21:05i said Stephen don't say that mommy daddy loved you so much they brought you into this world and your brothers and sisters we will always be there for you and we will never let you down and i don't know why mommy and daddy had to die but i know god put you on this earth for a reason and one day you would do something very special well i think he did something very special he grew up he came lived with me when he was 18 years old got re-equainted with a little girl he used to walk to school with every single day when he was eight nine years old they fall in love they get married they have their first kid they have their second kid they have a house they becomes a five i'd have the third kid the fourth kid that fifth kid is on top of the world he has everything he ever wanted he's married the love of his life five beautiful children the love of his siblings and nephews and

22:06nieces the brotherhood the brotherhood of the fire department met the world to him he was on top of the world he had everything he ever wanted he was the happiest he ever was in his life and he works his night shift on September 10th and the September 11th on the way home to play golf with us he had a call to duty just like so many out here would have a call to duty in one second like that you would put your life on the line he went back to his firehouse he got his gear he drove to the mouth of the Brooklyn battery tunnel it was closed for security reasons he straps his feet pounds a gear on his back and he ran through that tunnel which is almost two miles long he came out one up west street ribs a hook or for fire truck and he said still put that back he left he runs with it he was on a mission he goes into South Tower he's running up those stairs

23:11and like so many heroes that day while saving others he gave up his life at 9.59 am I was sitting in my living room with my mother-in-law and I turned to her when the South Tower fell down and I said Nancy I think I just lost my brother I went to so many different firehouses trying to find out where was Stephen where was Stephen I was calling where was Stephen finally we brought my whole family together at my house and in the afternoon I got a call from Richie Obama a firefighter lived a few doors from my brother Stephen and he said to me Frank it's really he's down at ground zero he says Frank Stevens on a list of missing firefighters and it's really bad down here I said yes I know rich up we're all looking we're in my living room we're all looking and it goes no it's really bad down here I said Rich I could see it he goes no Frank you don't understand nobody's coming home

24:11yeah and then he he goes on to recount how he had it then go and tell Stevens wife and his kids that their father was gone which is what you know Stephen went through that when he was a kid it was just so powerful and what they're doing is the steel across America tour and it was at the ellipse and this is where the ceremony took place and they also have pictures of all of the first responders who lost their lives in the 9-11 terrorist attack and they're really big and they have them on these these pillars and it was just lining the walkway at the ellipse and then they have this big huge piece of steel they had they had it blessed today and it was just so so powerful and I think we have done such a disservice to the next generation by not telling them about it 877-3777-4373 if you want to jump in let's head to New York hey Sean welcome you're on the Jesse Kelly show hi

25:15oh hi and I'm glad we're all talking about 9-11 because it's very important never to forget I could tell you I went down there on 9-11 down the train setting you can only go as far as can actually what you call I saw guys coming out of their cars they were all through the police or through the firemen and what happened that day should have never happened because a open board is every enemy of America was inside our country but I just want to say something else because those firemen who died that day they were warriors but also last year before Thanksgiving Sarah Beckham a female naris no godwoman was murdered yes I have to in yeah freak and I don't it tell people I was told something unusual was going on two weeks after 9-11 so I went out and can't even get what nobody was flying but I noticed hundreds upon hundreds of people from

26:16Afghanistan were coming into this country I asked the workers there and we know who these people are they didn't know who they are but we now know who one of them was his name is Lockham Wild he's the one who murdered Sarah Beckham a day before Thanksgiving last year so really close the borders legally and illegally this country is done and I want to build churches in Saudi Arabia and I want to sell country a hand down in Saudi Arabia that's what I want to do you know it though I have to tell you I know you're in New York what the hell happened in the mayoral election I think he's gone I think he's gone what happened in the mayoral election now they're saying that because of all of this that Bruce and thank you for your call Sean you're going to hear that kind of anger from people you are because of what happened you're going to hear it Bruce Blankman is the Republican running against governor Kathy Hocal and he's not that far behind her he's actually

27:18doing quite well and they're saying that because of all of this everything that's happening that you may very well see a Republican take the governorship of New York which would be amazing all right more coming up we'll try to we'll try to end it lighten it up coming up a little bit here because we're going to talk about the Democrat socialist convention that they they just had and it's it's kind of entertaining so I'll talk about that next on the Jesse Kelly and we are back we are so back all right so socialism 2026 did you miss it it ended yesterday in Chicago what a great city to have a have a conference in especially for socialism and so this clown car of insanity all gathered in one place and it was very it was a lot of fun if you're on the outside looking in and you have a lot of popcorn and a couple of beers so I went to their their page the socialism conference dot org and looked at their 2026 schedule and it's fun because you can you can um filter it based on different things for like culture and art on Friday they had sing struggle

28:24organized movement songs political education and collective power because you know how much fun it is when these people sing tone deaf as all heck and they always somebody's always got a drum so yeah and then after that was introduction to the theater of the oppressed I'm sorry but I find that hilarious you also could have sat on in on songs for liberation uh art and propaganda unlearning from Paul Robeson and why the artist must take sides no most only take one side uh let's see uh building communities is poetry for the people creating your own community based poetry workshop uh neo-future the neo-futurists present the infinite wrench okay let's see what else do we have um oh gender sexuality and liberation

29:26gender and accumulation sex for pleasure controller controlling your reproduction under a pro natalist regime I will tell you in all honesty I don't even know what I would say at about 30 percent of what the words are in any of this I have no idea because they speak their own language and I refuse to learn it I just absolutely refuse unsafe the carceral roots of the anti-trans backlash organizing under hostile state governments we are each other's liberation so very very fun so so with some of the audio coming out of it so let's just start with cut 18 all right now the person who is giving this speech by the way they all had masks on every single one of them had masks on some of them had two masks on because they are just so beta and the physical shape of most of them if they get a good flu they're out right so um this person was obese of course and wearing a mask uh giving this little talk here it's only a minute long here we go yeah the fantasy of being fitter than the fascists it's not just that it's cringe or strategically bad

30:35so it is um I think it's also politically revealing fitness is a measure of relative disposability under capitalism our task is not to become less disposable to become more useful to the ruling order what we all need to be doing is rejecting the disposability in all of its forms the point is not to beat the fascists at their own game it is not to lay a better claim on their own territory by being fitter more eugenic in fact the more disgenic the better I think the revolution is not a contest between optimized and properly prepared bodies that idea is fascist in and of itself and it races the history of less struggles around the world first of all that was not that that was not the the obese person um she's she's thin so I have to

31:37get you know that's fine but I don't understand what about 40% of the words were they're disgenic eugenic whatever and um but I do want it so I don't understand that but I want to get to oh um cut 19 let's try that I think this is I think this is one because you can almost hear them breathing heavily under the mask the political deployment of GLP ones is fascistic not because individuals take them but because the conditions under which they become necessary are shaped by a world fixated on genociding fat people this is a structural critique that asks what happens when the conditions produced by capitalism by public health by the state apparatus and by anti-black desire align around a single bodily ideal that leaves little to no room for diversions and punishes anybody that does whereas earlier diet drugs were often associated with vanity or addiction GLP ones are positioned as responsible medicine promising relief rather than restraint but to understand why the deployment of GLP ones as fascistic requires turning to fronts for knowns

32:40account of black flesh under colonial surveillance okay so that's the guy that's a heavy guy but what he's saying there is being fit is fascistic it's fascistic and he's also saying that if you're black you're just naturally heavy and I happen to know that that's not true I know plenty of people who are of color who are not obese and and overweight because they take care of themselves and we don't have time I don't think we have time for doing oh we do we do let's do the last one this one this one talks about healing like your mental health healing listen to what they have to say about actually you know healing your brain and moving forward and getting over a trauma in life go ahead in lefty space we can have this insidious accidental small bubbling up of health fascism when we talk about healing and we say okay come together for a ritual of healing and care and we have to be really careful about what healing actually means and what we're offering and I found over and over again in space over time during metroserge that folks were not

33:45looking for healing what they actually wanted was support and care together in ritual collectively sitting with the cracks sitting with the bones sitting with the aftermath of the explosions sitting there in the dark together not trying to get better not trying to get past it not even like grieving if we weren't yet able to grieve but sitting in the horror together and and that kind of like slowing down enough slowing down enough together to not like the grasping at desperately grasping at the world that we hoped would be emerging soon but instead being here now with the broken pieces was was a thing that really like a recurring theme and is still a recurring theme just sit with the bones I don't it's just ridiculous but there's so much fun audio out there so have for have fun hit the internet and check it out I'm Mary Walter you can check me out at Mary Walter

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