THAT PLANE WAS BOUND FOR THE CAPITOL BUILDING IN WASHINGTON OR THE WHITE HOUSE. WE'LL NEVER KNOW NOW. SENATOR TOM COTTON. I HEARD YOU ON THE AIR LAST NIGHT ON ABC. I BELIEVE I SAW THAT. WE CAN TALK ABOUT THE DEBATE IN A MOMENT. YOUR REFLECTIONS AS YOU SERVE OUR OWN COUNTRY AND THINK ABOUT THIS DAY TODAY, SIR. >> WELL, THANK YOU, BILL, A VERY SOLEMN DAY. MY HEART GOES OUT TO THE FAMILIES OF ALL THOSE WHO LOST LOVED ONES ON 9/11 AND IN THE TRADE TOWERS AND PENNSYLVANIA AT THE PENTAGON, THE FIREFIGHTERS AND FIRST RESPONDERS WHO SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES THAT DAY AND ALL THE FAMILIES AFFECTED BY THE WARS TO AVENGE THE DEATHS IN AFGHANISTAN AND MAKE SURE HUSSAIN COULDN'T THREAT EN THE WORLD. THOSE FAME PLEASE HAVE HAD GRIEF FOR MANY YEARS. I HOPE THIS CAN BE A DAY THAT THEY LOOK BACK PROUDLY ON THEIR LOVED ONES AND WHAT THEY DID ON THOSE DAYS AND THE LIVES THEY LIVED LEADING UP TO THAT DAY AS WELL. OUR PRAYERS ARE WITH ALL OF THEM. >> Dana: SENATOR, LAST YEAR AT THE REPUBLICAN PRIMARY DEBATE I ASKED A QUESTION ABOUT ARE WE BACK TO SEPTEMBER 10TH THINKING? I KNOW THAT IN YOUR MIND YOU ARE ALWAYS THINKING ABOUT THE TERRORISM THREAT. YOU GREW UP THROUGH THOSE YEARS. YOU MADE LIFE AND CAREER DECISIONS BASED ON WHAT HAPPENED THAT DAY. THIS IS THE QUOTE FROM THE "NEW YORK POST" EDITORIAL BOARD. YOUR REACTION. AFTER 23 YEARS WE STILL NEED TO REMEMBER THE LESSONS OF 9/11 FOR ALL THE ERRORS OF THE WAR ON TERROR. THEY HAVE NEVER ENDED THEIR WAR ON US. AMERICA OR ITS LEADERS RISK FALLING BACK INTO THE COMPLACENCY THAT LED TO THE ATROCITY WE SWORE TO NEVER FORGET. HAVE WE FALLEN BACK TO SEPTEMBER 10TH? >> DANA, I DON'T THINK WE CAN EVER AS A NATION GO BACK TO THE SEPTEMBER 10TH MINDSET. THERE ARE PATRIOTS SERVING THROUGHOUT OUR GOVERNMENT AND AROUND THE WORLD WHO ARE TRYING TO INSURE THAT WE NEVER HAVE ANOTHER TERRORIST ATTACK. CERTAINLY ONE ON THE SCALE OF 9/11 WHETHER IN THE MILITARY OR INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY AND DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE AND STATE DEPARTMENT. WE HAVE TO RECOGNIZE THAT WE HAVE OTHER SERIOUS THREATS AS WELL LIKE THE THREAT TO CHINA. THAT EDITORIAL IS RIGHT. THE JIHADISTS HAVE NEVER GIVEN UP THEIR EFFORTS TO KILL AMERICANS AND UNDERMINE AMERICA. WE NEED THOSE BRAVE PATRIOTS TO BE VIGILANT TO MAKE SURE WE ARE PROTECTING OUR NATION EVEN AS WE CONFRONT CHALLENGES LIKE THE CHINESE COMMUNISTS. >> Bill: IRAN CAME UP LAST NIGHT DURING THE DEBATE. KAMALA HARRIS STANDS BY THE DECISION TO GET OUT OF AFGHANISTAN WHEN THEY DID. THIS WAS A MOMENT THAT DONALD TRUMP JUMPED ON BECAUSE SO FAR AS WE CAN TELL, NOT MANY PEOPLE HAVE BEEN FIRED FROM THIS ADMINISTRATION. HE SAID THIS AFTER AUGUST OF 2021 AND AFGHANISTAN. >> THEY NEVER FIRED ONE PERSON. THEY DIDN'T FIRE ANYBODY HAVING TO DO WITH AFGHANISTAN AND THE TALIBAN AND THE 13 PEOPLE WHO WERE JUST KILLED VICIOUSLY AND VIOLENTLY KILLED AND I GOT TO KNOW THE PARENT AND THE FAMILY. THEY SHOULD HAVE FIRED ALL THOSE GENERALS, ALL THOSE TOP PEOPLE BECAUSE THAT WAS ONE OF THE MOST INCOMPETENTLY HANDLED SITUATIONS ANYBODY HAS EVER SEEN. >> Bill: I KNOW YOU HAVE GIVEN THIS GREAT THOUGHT. WHY NOT FIRE ANYONE? >> WELL, I THINK THEY WANTED TO FIRE SOMEONE THEY WOULD HAVE TO START AT THE TOP WITH JOE BIDEN AND KAMALA HARRIS. THEY ARE THE ONES WHO DISREGARDED THE ADVICE OF ALMOST EVERY ONE OF THEIR KEY CABINET OFFICIALS AND SENIOR MILITARY ADVISORS WHO THOUGHT IT WOULD BE FOOL HARDY TO GIVE UP OUR LARGE SECURE AIR BASE OUTSIDE OF KABUL AND RETREAT TO A SMALL AIRPORT WHERE 13 BRAVE AMERICANS DIED. AFGHANISTAN AND OUR HUMILIATION WAS A TURNING POINT. A FEW WEEKS LATER VLADIMIR PUTIN BEGAN TO MASS TROOPS ON UKRAINE AND INVADED LIKE HE DID UNDER BARACK OBAMA. BUT NOT WHEN DONALD TRUMP WAS PRESIDENT. IT SUPERCHARGEED IRAN'S SENSE OF CONFIDENCE IN THE MIDDLE EAST THAT THEY COULD GET AWAY WITH ALMOST ANYTHING. THAT'S WHY THEY HAVE BEEN CONTINUALLY SHOOTING ROCKETS AND MISSILES AND DRONES AT AMERICAN FORCES IN THE REGION. WE HARDLY EVER STRIKE BACK AT THEM. THEY FUNDED HAMAS AND HEZBOLLAH AND THEIR ATTACKS ON ISRAEL. REBELS IN YEMEN BACKED BY IRAN HAVE A CHOKE HOLD OF THE RED SEA. A VITAL GLOBAL WATERWAY FOR PROSPERITY. THE HUMILIATION OF AFGHANISTAN THREE YEARS WAS EMBOLDENED ALL OF OUR ADVERSARIES AROUND THE WORLD. >> Dana: THANK YOU FOR JOINING US TODAY ON THE DAY