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Speaker 1: Bells tolling Bagpike's plane at ground zero here in New

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Speaker 1: York City. It was one of the solemn tributes across

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Speaker 1: the country as Americans look back on the horror and

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Speaker 1: the legacy of nine to eleven. Almost three thousand people

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Speaker 1: were killed when hijack planes crashed into the World Trade

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Speaker 1: Center that day, the Pentagon, and of course, in that

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Speaker 1: field in rural Pennsylvania, the firm Canter Fitzgerald. It lost

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Speaker 1: more than six hundred employees when the North Tower of

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Speaker 1: the World Trade Center fell, and just three days after that,

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Speaker 1: our next guest began rebuilding that firm and making sure

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Speaker 1: that we never forgot the lives that were lost and

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Speaker 1: the sacrifices that were made to keep us safe ever since.

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Speaker 1: Please to say that Howard Lutnick, the chairman and CEO

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Speaker 1: of Canter Fitzgerald, joins us right now on what has

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Speaker 1: become for him an annual charity day, a way to

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Speaker 1: raise money and awareness, of course, for what happened twenty

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Speaker 1: two years ago. Howard, give us a little bit of

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Speaker 1: insight here on just how much reception you've had on

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Speaker 1: this particular day, this particular year, and of the years

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Speaker 1: prior leading up to this.

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Speaker 2: So we started the firm, committed that twenty five percent

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Speaker 2: of everything we made we'd go to the families of

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Speaker 2: those we lost our nine to eleven, And with all

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Speaker 2: the commitment of all of our employees, we raised one

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Speaker 2: hundred and eighty million dollars in the first five years

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Speaker 2: for those families. And then after five years we decided,

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Speaker 2: all right, let's extend it out. So all of our employees,

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Speaker 2: all these people behind you, they've all waived their pay,

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Speaker 2: and we get celebrity ambassadors to come in. You got

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Speaker 2: Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban behind me. Charlie Sturnom was here,

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Speaker 2: President Clinton was here earlier today, Matthew McConaughey, Keenan Thompson.

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Speaker 2: I mean, just a who's who, sports stars, celebrities across

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Speaker 2: the board helping us raise money. And we give away

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Speaker 2: every penny we do business with today, hopefully about twelve

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Speaker 2: million dollars today, and we're gonna give it to about

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Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty charities all around the world and

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Speaker 2: in all the communities where our employees live and our

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Speaker 2: and our clients live. And so it's the most uplifting

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Speaker 2: day for a day that is really, really dreadful for us.

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Speaker 1: That's well said, Howard. And of course, so you know,

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Speaker 1: in addition to the lives lost, just kind of the

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Speaker 1: star I think on the sun. Yeah, absolutely, who's that

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Speaker 1: is that? Nicole Kidman ring and the build there is

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Speaker 1: Oh there he is Keith Urban. All right, now music

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Speaker 1: superstar there, Keith Urban and now the superstar Howard Lutnik

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Speaker 1: there of the finance world. It's great to see you laughing.

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Speaker 1: It's great to see that this has turned into something

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Speaker 1: positive that will carry on. I mean, how much do

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Speaker 1: you see I guess the general sense that we're going

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Speaker 1: to remember this. I mean we're twenty two years removed,

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Speaker 1: and we know that as these events sort of get

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's it's vital for us that we keep

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Speaker 2: the top of mind, especially you know, right around today.

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Speaker 2: I know the you know, there are people who are young,

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Speaker 2: like for instance, this morning, when I was walking around,

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Speaker 2: I said hello to we offer a job to every

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Speaker 2: kid of someone we lost on nine to eleven. So

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Speaker 2: we had a young woman today. Her father was one

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Speaker 2: of our lawyers, Matt Leonard and she was six months

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Speaker 2: old on September eleventh, so she joined the company. But

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Speaker 2: you've got a whole new generation coming up, people who

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Speaker 2: don't remember the day, and they've got to know the importance,

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Speaker 2: the significance and that you can't keep us down. That

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Speaker 2: the firm of Cannifitzgerald will show. We had two thousand

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Speaker 2: people back then, dropped below a thousand after nine to

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Speaker 2: that means we're just doing trades raising money for charity.

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Speaker 2: But we just kept growing and building. Now we have

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Speaker 2: fifteen thousand people in the group around the world. We've

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Speaker 2: got Newmark, fantastic company, Canifitzgerald and then BGC where I'm

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Speaker 2: sitting right now, and these companies just they all donate

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Speaker 2: everything to charity, keeping it alive, improving. You just can't

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely. And the fact that you've done this for

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Speaker 3: now twenty two years and have raised I believe what

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Speaker 3: So some astronomical numbers here, Can you take us back

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Speaker 3: for a moment, just to recount how you felt and

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Speaker 3: what you went through the day of nine to eleven, because,

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Speaker 3: important for them to understand how this is not just

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Speaker 2: So I was I was taking my son to his

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Speaker 2: they would put the time of the picture and that

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Speaker 2: And so I got a call and they set a

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Speaker 2: plane hit the building. So I raced down to the

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Speaker 2: had many, many doors, and I figured if one of

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Speaker 2: out of all the other doors. But unfortunately, the highest

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Speaker 2: floor I heard someone from was the ninety second floor.

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Speaker 2: Then the building collapsed. I ran for my life and

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Speaker 2: I ended up, you know, diving under a car, and

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Speaker 2: you've all seen that sort of tornado of black smoke

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Speaker 2: while I was stuck in that black smoke. And then

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Speaker 2: I wandered. I wandered uptown until people were clean. When

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Speaker 2: I went to the front of the line and they

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Speaker 2: looked at me like I was a ghost because I

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Speaker 2: to tell her I was alive. My brother Gary was

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Speaker 2: in the building, he was thirty six. My best friend

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Speaker 2: Doug was in the building. He's thirty nine. I have

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Speaker 2: dinner with his wife every year since then. They just

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Speaker 2: we feel most comfortable together. So this was personal. We

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Speaker 2: hired all of our friends. We hired people we cared about.

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Speaker 2: And that was the rule for the whole firm, not

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Speaker 2: only for me, but all of our employees. Let's go

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Speaker 2: hire people we like. Let's go hire people we care about.

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Speaker 2: And so if you lost everybody you work with, you

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Speaker 2: know what you would do. You would cry. And I cried.

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Speaker 2: I cried every day for years and years, because these

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Speaker 2: were people you love. You love the people you work with.

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Speaker 2: You just don't think about it that way.

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Speaker 3: Well, you've turned something a tragedy, into something much better,

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Speaker 3: something stronger, something that gives back. We appreciate you. Howard

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Speaker 3: Lutnik the termanancy of Canter Fitzgerald on this nine to

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Speaker 3: eleven charity day for the firm,