::THE SLICE REPORT WITH MONA AUSTIN

  The Pentagon Arlington, VA     9:54 A.M. EDT        THE PRESIDENT:  Well, thank you very much, Secretary Esper.  Today, our nation honors and mourns the nearly 3,000 lives that were stolen from us on September 11th, 2001.  On these grounds, 184 people were murdered when al Qaeda terrorists overtook American Airlines Flight 77 and crashed it into the Pentagon.    For every American who lived through that day, the September 11th attack is seared into our soul.  It was a day filled with shock, horror, sorrow, and righteous fury.    I vividly remember when I first heard the news.  I was sitting at home watching a major business television show early that morning.  Jack Welch, the legendary head of General Electric, was about to be interviewed when all of a sudden they cut away.  At first, there were different reports: It was a boiler fire, but I knew that boilers aren’t at the top of a...