(VIRGIN ISLANDS) — The U.S. Virgin Island’s 2024 Democratic caucuses are on Saturday.
The nationwide presidential nominating race, which kicked off in January, is now drawing to a close six months later.
President Joe Biden is the only major candidate still running in the territory and already clinched the party’s nomination earlier this year.
There are seven delegates available to win in Saturday’s caucuses.
Territory significance As a U.S. territory — not a state — the U.S. Virgin Islands do not participate in presidential general elections but do help decide whom the political parties nominate as their candidates.
The territory’s 2024 Republican caucuses were in February. Former President Donald Trump won.
In 2020, Biden won his party’s caucuses in the U.S. Virgin Islands over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders with about 91% of the vote.
(GUAM) — Guam’s 2024 Democratic caucuses are on Saturday.
The nationwide presidential nominating race, which kicked off in January, is now drawing to a close six months later.
President Joe Biden is the only major candidate still running in Guam and already clinched the party’s nomination earlier this year.
There are seven delegates available to win in Saturday’s caucuses.
Territory significance As a U.S. territory — not a state — Guam does not participate in presidential general elections but it does help decide whom the political parties nominate as their candidates.
Guam’s 2024 Republican caucuses were in March. Former President Donald Trump won.
In 2020, Biden won his party’s caucuses in Guam over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders with about 70% of the vote.
(WASHINGTON) — Former President Donald Trump continues to center his third presidential campaign on retribution against his political allies, saying in a recent interview that at times revenge is “justified” — comments that President Joe Biden’s campaign seized on Friday to point to Trump’s focus on personal and political retribution.
“Donald Trump is back on [the] trail — now a convicted felon but still unhinged and consumed by his obsession with revenge,” the Biden campaign’s Ammar Moussa said in a statement to ABC News.
Trump is a “diminished, small man who only cares about himself, his billionaire donors, and his own revenge,” Moussa said in the statement.
In an interview with television host Dr. Phil McGraw — best known as “Dr. Phil,” Trump was asked about his calls for retribution, and his claims of taking action against some political opponents. Though Trump originally said he would work on forgiving and forgetting, he quickly changed his tune after McGraw, referencing the pope, said forgiveness was necessary in order to avoid revenge.
“Well revenge does take time. I will say that, and sometimes revenge can be justified,” Trump said in the interview that aired Thursday night.
“You know the word ‘revenge’ is a very strong word, but maybe we have revenge for success. But that’s what I’d like to see. I want to see the country survive, because this country is not going to survive like this.”
Trump’s calls for retribution started the month he was indicted — first mentioned while he was rallying his most fervent supporters at CPAC in March.
“In 2016, I declared ‘I am your voice.’ Today I add: ‘I am your warrior. I am your justice, and for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution,'” Trump said at the political conference.
Now, Trump’s calls for retribution have intensified on the campaign trail after his 34-count conviction in his Manhattan hush-money trial.
“We’re going to show them that we’re going to fight,” Trump said in a speech at Trump Tower the day after his guilty verdict.
Since then, Trump has floated the idea of the potential that Democrats could be subject to investigations and possible imprisonment because they have gone after him.
“It’s a very terrible thing, it’s a terrible precedent for our country,” said Trump in an interview with Newsmax earlier this week. “Does that mean the next president does it to them? That’s really the question, you know.”
“So you know, it’s a terrible, terrible path that they’re leading us to, and it’s very possible that it’s going to have to happen to them.”
Then, on Thursday, during an interview with KNXV, a Phoenix ABC station, Trump repeatedly declined to rule out prosecuting Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who brought the hush-money payment case to court. It’s not known how Trump would order that prosecution.
”Alvin Bragg did some very bad things,” Trump said when asked if he’d prosecute Bragg, repeating his claims that the district attorney is backed by Democrats and that the judge in the case was “highly conflicted.”
Again pressed if he would prosecute Bragg, Trump said “I’m not going to say anything one way or the other,” adding “we’re going to see what happens.”
When the interviewer noted he didn’t jail his political opponents during his first term and asked if that approach has changed now that he’s convicted, Trump responded that he thought it would be a “horrible thing” to arrest and jail the wife of a former president of the United States — referring to Hillary Clinton who was his rival in the 2016 general election. He went on to say, “The world is different now. They’re doing things that were never done.”
After receiving backlash, Trump has modified his language, pivoting his sentiments to argue that he was claiming he was talking about retribution as a form of “success,” not revenge — saying “my revenge will be success.”
However, his conviction has only motivated him and his base to more frequently use rhetoric that leaves the door open to violence.
In an interview with Fox News last weekend, his first sit-down interview since his conviction, Trump struggled to say whether he’d pursue revenge in his possible second administration, saying he wants to bring the country together, but also repeatedly saying his political opponents are “bad” and “evil” people.
“It’s a really tough question, in one way, because these are bad people — these people are sick and things that are so destructive,” Trump said when asked about his previous comments about revenge.
“My revenge will be success,” he added, saying he would bring the country together, but again railed against “evil people” that are going after him.
Trump’s retribution comments haven’t just involved his own legal battles. He has also attacked entities that have gone after his political allies, most recently the House committee that investigated the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
This week, a judge ruled former Trump adviser Steve Bannon must report to prison by next month, which led the former president to defended Bannon by calling for the Jan. 6 committee to be indicted, pushing unfounded claims that they deleted and destroyed evidence.
“The unAmerican Weaponization of our Law Enforcement has reached levels of Illegality never thought possible before,” Trump wrote in a post on his social media network. “INDICT THE UNSELECT J6 COMMITTEE FOR ILLEGALLY DELETING AND DESTROYING ALL OF THEIR ‘FINDINGS!'”
At times, some have attempted to steer Trump away from his violent rhetoric, as Democrats have used his words against him. Still, Trump has doubled down.
McGraw argued that Trump wouldn’t “have time to get even” if he were elected for a second term. He also presented to Trump a “what if” scenario in an attempt to allow the former president to potentially shift the conversation in a more positive direction.
“What if when you win this election, you said, ‘Enough is enough. Too much is too much. This is a race to the bottom, and it stops here. It stops now,'” McGraw asked.
Trump said he was “OK with that,” but then made claims about those who “spied” on his campaign — referencing that the FBI intercepted communications of someone associated with his campaign who communicated with Russian agents during 2016 election.
(WASHINGTON) — As Hunter Biden continues his trial in Delaware over allegations he lied on a gun permit application, first lady Jill Biden has been in his corner, showing support while also juggling her official duties.
Almost every day this week, Jill Biden was in court watching the proceedings along with other family members and growing emotional as details of Hunter Biden’s drug addictions, fraught relationships and other dark aspects of his past were brought up by prosecutors.
The first lady’s commitment to attending the trial was evident as she flew back late Thursday from France, where she accompanied President Joe Biden to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day, to attend Friday’s court hearings before flying back overseas to attend a state dinner being hosted by the French prime minister on Saturday.
President Biden has not appeared at his son’s trial. In a statement on Monday, as jury selection was underway, Biden said he wouldn’t comment on the case but expressed “boundless love” for his son.
“I am the President, but I am also a Dad. Jill and I love our son, and we are so proud of the man he is today,” the president said in the statement. “Hunter’s resilience in the face of adversity and the strength he has brought to his recovery are inspiring to us.”
Hunter Biden was indicted in September by special counsel David Weiss on two counts related to false statements in purchasing the firearm and a third count of illegally obtaining a firearm while addicted to drugs. Hunter Biden pleaded not guilty and has denied the charges.
The indictment came after a plea deal with the federal government fell apart at the 11th hour last summer. It marked the first time a child of a sitting president was criminally indicted.
Hunter Biden’s legal issues have put the first family in the spotlight by their critics, particularly among Republicans on the Hill and former President Donald Trump.
The jeers did not appear to deter Jill Biden from showing up in court nearly every day since proceedings began.
The first lady has entered the courtroom with her security detail, sometimes affecting foot traffic in the federal courthouse as the first family has protection needs.
Hunter Biden was seen embracing his stepmother before she took her front-row seat. Jill Biden often sat next to her daughter Ashley Biden, Hunter’s step-sister; Valerie Biden, the president’s sister; or Melissa Cohen, Hunter Biden’s wife.
During the first week of hearings, the first lady was attentive and craned her next toward the screen showing exhibits of video, photos or text message data collected by the government.
She was visibly emotional on Tuesday as some of those exhibits included audio excerpts from Hunter’s book — him reading in lurid detail tales of his addiction to crack cocaine and alcohol.
Hunter Biden has been open about his addictions and the effect it had on his entire family, including his parents. In his 2018 memoir, he spoke about how then-Vice President Biden saved his life when he was on a binge and pushed him to get into rehab.
Jill and Ashley Biden sat shoulder-to-shoulder as the clips played out, at times leaning their heads against one another. At one point, as Hunter Biden’s voice was heard describing a raucous 12-day bender in Los Angeles, Jill Biden lifted her left arm and draped it around her daughter’s shoulders.
A person sitting with the family told ABC News they were both “fighting off tears.”
On Friday, Jill and Hunter Biden entered the courtroom arm-in-arm as Naomi Biden, Hunter Biden’s daughter, took the stand for the defense. While she testified, her husband, Peter Neal, sat in the gallery next to the first lady.
It is unclear if Hunter Biden will take the stand in his own defense when the trial resumes next week.
The two counts of making false statements carry sentences of up to 10 years and five years, respectively, while the possession charge carries a sentence of up to 10 years.
President Biden told “World News Tonight” anchor David Muir on Thursday that he would accept the outcome of his son’s trial and would not consider pardoning him.
ABC News’ Lucien Bruggeman contributed to this report.
(WASHINGTON) — Republican Tennessee Sen. Bill Hagerty is the latest person to be mentioned in Donald Trump’s orbit as the former president and presumptive GOP presidential nominee decides who to pick as his running mate.
Three sources familiar with the matter confirmed to ABC News that Hagerty is among the names being floated recently in Trumpworld, including by the former president, during discussions about the veepstakes. A fourth source familiar with the matter told ABC News that Hagerty’s team is promoting the senator as a possible addition to Republicans’ 2024 ticket as an alternative to the other candidates in the mix.
Hagerty was one of several Trump surrogates who attended the former president’s fundraiser in San Francisco Thursday night. Two sources also confirmed that Hagerty attended an Alabama fundraiser Wednesday night for Trump that was hosted by Donald Trump Jr., the former president’s eldest son.
The fourth source said they believe Hagerty would take the job if offered — but that the senator hasn’t received or been asked for vetting materials.
That would put Hagerty behind other vice presidential hopefuls. ABC News reported Wednesday that Trump’s campaign has formally requested information from a small handful of potential running mates, including North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum and Sens. Marco Rubio and J.D. Vance.
Trump campaign officials have also requested information from Sen. Tim Scott, Reps. Byron Donalds and Elise Stefanik and Ben Carson, though it’s unclear how extensive the requests were.
Trump also did not mention Hagerty during an interview on Newsmax on Tuesday in which he complimented Burgum, Rubio, Scott and Vance.
Perhaps more than anything, the mentions of Hagerty’s name underscore the fluidity of Trump’s veepstakes, even as his campaign presses forward to obtain information from other potential picks.
“Anyone claiming to know who or when President Trump will choose his VP is lying, unless the person is named Donald J. Trump,” said Brian Hughes, a senior adviser for the Trump campaign.
Trump has said he plans on announcing his pick closer to the Republican National Convention, which is in mid-July.
Asked about his potential running mate by Fox News’ Sean Hannity, Trump repeated that he’s going to announce his choice “during the convention.”
“In all fairness, we have some people that have done a fantastic job in communicating the ills and the assets and the advantages and the disadvantages of what we’re doing as a country and where we are as a country,” Trump told Hannity in clips that aired Thursday night.
Like other potential Trump running mates, Hagerty has maintained a presence on cable news, appearing on channels such as Fox News to defend the former president and excoriate Democrats’ record.
“Clearly, Donald Trump’s policies led to a far more robust American economy, and the American worker was far better off,” Hagerty claimed during an appearance earlier this month on Fox Business.
Other candidates have also appeared at fundraisers for the former president, including some they’ve organized themselves.
Hagerty also has a tie with Trump, having served in his administration as ambassador to Japan.
Hagerty is a white male from a reliably red state, so it’s not clear exactly what constituency he’d bring along for Trump. Hagerty he did not appear in New York to join Trump in court during his criminal trial, a prominent destination for Trump’s allies and would-be running mates prior to his conviction.
Several potential running mates, including Burgum, Donalds and Vance, traveled to the Manhattan court room where Trump was tried and ultimately convicted of felonies regarding hush-money payments to cover up an alleged affair during the 2016 race, payments that prosecutors said amounted to campaign finance violations.
Several other allies, including Speaker Mike Johnson convened outside the court, setting the building as a high-profile stage for Republicans to underscore their support and bash witnesses and local prosecutors, some of whom Trump was barred from going after due to a gag order.
“The president is expected to sit here for six weeks to listen to the Michael Cohens of the world,” Vance wrote on X the day he attended the trial. “I’m now convinced the main goal of this trial is psychological torture. But Trump is in great spirits.”
“The American people have already acquitted Donald Trump,” Burgum added during his own trip to New York. “The sooner that this scam trial can be concluded, the sooner the president can get back to getting out and campaigning and talking to the American people about the issues that matter.”
Hagerty has still be a vocal defender from afar, however, saying on Fox Business earlier this month that the trial was a “mockery of the American justice system.”
ABC News’ Soorin Kim, Lalee Ibssa and Kelsey Walsh contributed to this report.
(WASHINGTON) — Justice Clarence Thomas has formally disclosed for the first time trips to Bali, Indonesia and the elite Bohemian Grove club in California — both paid for by his friend and billionaire Harlan Crow — that were at the center of an explosive ProPublica report last year exposing the unreported financial ties to a GOP benefactor.
Thomas acknowledged in his latest annual financial report, released Friday, that he had “inadvertently omitted” reimbursement for food and lodging expenses for the July 2019 travel.
He did not disclose the value of the one-night hotel stay in Bali or three-night stay at the private club. The justice also did not disclose private jet transportation to Indonesia or travel on a luxury yacht, both of which were reportedly provided by Crow.
Thomas reported no travel or reimbursements for 2023. He reports accepting one gift last year: a pair of $2,000 photo albums from Terry Giroux, the outgoing executive director of the Horatio Alger Association.
The filings, as required by the Ethics and Government Act of 1978, are the first from Thomas and the other justices since the Supreme Court released a formal Code of Conduct late last year, prompted in part by the controversy surrounding Thomas’ previously undisclosed ties to Crow.
Justice Samuel Alito was the only justice who received an extension to file his report.
The filings offer one of the only windows into the financial interests of the Supreme Court justices and their spouses, providing a modicum of transparency to an otherwise highly opaque branch of government.
While few of the justices reported accepting any gifts of value last year, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson noted more than $12,500 in donated art to decorate her chambers and four Beyonce concert tickets worth more than $3,711.
Several justices reported earning six-figure book royalties well above their government salaries.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who has a legal memoir in the works, reported a $340,000 advance from Regenery Publishing. Justice Jackson, whose memoir is due for release in September, noted a $893,750 advance from Penguin Random House. Justice Neil Gorsuch reported a $250,000 book royalty from Harper Collins, and Justice Sonia Sotomayor noted an $86,783 payout from Penguin.
Associate justices each earn $298,500 in annual government salary; the chief justice earns $312,200. Additional “outside earned income” is capped at $32,000 per year under federal judiciary rules.
“Each justice would be capable of earning 10 times their current salary in the private sector, so it’s reasonable for them to want to boost their income as authors, especially those with inspiring life stories,” said Gabe Roth, executive director of Fix the Court, a left-leaning watchdog group. “This may be an unpopular opinion, but I don’t see anything ethically compromising about it so long as the justices don’t use their offices to hawk books, they speak to ideologically diverse audiences on their book tours, and they recuse from petitions involving their publishers.”
Justice Sotomayor reported earning $1,879 for a voice performance in the animated PBS television series “Alma’s Way.”
Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Kavanaugh and Gorsuch each reported more than $10,000 in teaching income at law schools.
Many of the justices also indicated acceptance of all-expenses-paid trips last year for professional functions – such as conference lectures, academic ceremonies, and historic commemorations.
Chief Justice John Roberts was the only member of the Supreme Court to list no gifts, outside income or travel reimbursement of any kind.
Roth said there are also indications that several justices paid their own way for certain, publicly-reported trips that didn’t appear on the forms – including Justice Elena Kagan’s trip to San Diego to christen a Navy ship and her attendance at a tennis tournament. Justice Barrett also appears to have declined $5,000 honorariums for speaking at the University of Minnesota Law School.
In this June 16, 2021, file photo, Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) speaks alongside Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) during a press conference on Capitol Hill with members of The American Legion, in Washington, D.C. — Samuel Corum/Getty Images, FILE
(WASHINGTON) — A group of American lawmakers honored the bravery of World War II veterans who took part in D-Day with a parachute jump into Normandy on Friday morning, using some of the same vintage planes that flew American paratroopers over France 80 years ago.
The lawmakers are all military veterans, and were led by Reps. Jason Crow, D-Colo., and Michael Waltz, R-Fla. The other participants included: Reps. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, Rich McCormick, R-Ga., Mark Green, R-Tenn., Cory Mills, R-Fla., Darrell Issa, R-Calif. and Keith Self, R-Texas.
Crow, an Army Ranger who served in two units that played key roles in the invasion of Normandy on D-Day, said the jump was a “very personal experience.”
“To participate in the jump over the same fields 80 years to the week was an incredible experience and my way of highlighting that service and sacrifice,” Crow said.
In an interview with ABC News’ Jay O’Brien before the jump, Crow said the jump is about remembering that “America is at its best when we come together, unite under common cause and purpose.”
“We serve and we make individual sacrifices to do big and important things,” Crow said in an interview in Washington shortly before leaving for France. “And in an era where we’re wondering about our place in the world, about American leadership, this is a reminder that American leadership matters.”
Before departing Washington, Waltz said the jump honors World War II veterans and pays respect to their sacrifice.
“This will be the last major anniversary with the World War II veterans. The youngest that we know of is 96. The oldest is 107. We need to honor them and need to keep their story and their sacrifice alive,” Waltz said. “What better way to pass that story on to the next generation than by jumping out of a perfectly good World War II-era aircraft?”
Waltz, the first Green Beret to serve in Congress, said that “American people need to see” lawmakers from across the aisle come together, and that electing more veterans to Congress would benefit the country.
“If we’re all in a tank or a ship or a plane together just a few years ago, as veterans, as Americans, we’re all willing to die together and we should be able to roll up our sleeves and get things done,” Waltz said.
Both Crow and Waltz performed a parachute jump over Normandy with French paratroopers five years ago, for the 75th anniversary of D-Day.
“There’s no better way to get you out of the airplane than to be in an 80-year-old aircraft,” Crow joked. “It freaks me out a little bit. But these pilots are great. The maintenance is great. It’s a very, very safe exercise.”
Crow said that while the plane on Friday was small and noisy, it flew well.
“The pilots were fantastic … it underscored for me how more advanced our systems are,” Crow said.
(CAEN, France) — President Joe Biden, in France to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day, offered a forceful defense of democracy at a site of American heroism during World War II in a speech that carried 2024 political undertones for those watching in the U.S.
Biden on Friday spoke from Pointe du Hoc, where Army Rangers scaled 100-foot cliffs to seize the German ammunition that could have been used against troops at Omaha and Utah beaches.
“As we gather here today, it’s not just to honor those who showed such remarkable bravery that day June 6, 1944,” Biden said. “It’s to listen to the echo of their voices. To hear them. Because they are summoning us and they’re summoning us now. They’re asking us what will we do? They’re not asking us to scale these cliffs. They’re asking us to stay true to what America stands for.”
“They’re not asking us to do their job. They’re asking us to do our job,” Biden continued. “Protect freedom in our time, defend democracy, stand up to aggression abroad and at home, be part of something bigger than ourselves.”
It was the same backdrop where Ronald Reagan, the first U.S. president to visit the shores of Normandy to mark the anniversary of allied forces invading occupied France, gave an iconic speech lauding the men who fought there and warning about the dangers of isolationism in the battle against totalitarianism.
Biden similarly spoke of the soldiers’ bravery, and of the principles of American democracy and leadership on the world stage.
Biden put democracy front and center of his 2020 campaign for the White House and is doing so again in his reelection bid, pushing back against former President Donald Trump’s “America First” agenda.
Biden didn’t mention Trump by name in his address but sought to make that contrast clear.
“When we talk about American democracy, we often talk about the ideals of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness. What we don’t talk about is how hard it is … The most natural instinct is to walk away, to be selfish, to force our will upon others to seize power, never give up,” Biden said.
“My fellow Americans, I refuse to believe, I simply refuse to believe that America’s greatness is a thing of the past,” he added.
Biden also drew a connection between World War II and threats facing eastern Europe with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s aggression in Ukraine. Hours before his speech, Biden met face-to-face with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to reiterate unwavering U.S. support for the war-torn nation.
At the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc, Biden said the troops who stormed Normandy decided to believe in something bigger than themselves, and that they would want the same against modern-day challenges.
“They stood against Hitler’s aggression. Does anyone doubt, does anyone doubt that they would want America to stand up against Putin’s aggression here in Europe today?” Biden said.
“They fought to vanquish a hateful ideology in the 30s and 40s,” he added. “Does anyone doubt they wouldn’t move heaven and earth to vanquish hateful ideologies of today?”
In the crowd on Friday was veteran John Wardell, a New Jersey native who became a private first class and fought in the Battle of Brest. Biden thanked Wardell for his service, prompting applause from the audience.
“You deserve that and a lot more, John,” Biden said.
Wardell told ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Mary Bruce the experience was an “honor” and humbly insisted he was “just a small part” of that history.
Wardell said his message to the next generation was, “Let’s see what they do. I hope they honor what’s happened here in years past and are made to realize. Read a little history. I hope that they do.”
(NORMANDY, France) — President Joe Biden, in France to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day, will give remarks on Friday forcefully defending democracy at a site of American heroism during World War II.
Biden will speak from Pointe du Hoc in Normandy, where Army Rangers scaled 100-foot cliffs to seize the German ammunition that could have been used against troops at Omaha and Utah beaches.
It is the same backdrop where President Ronald Reagan, the first U.S. president to visit Normandy to mark the anniversary allied forces invading occupied France 40 years later, gave an iconic speech lauding the men who fought there and the need for alliances against totalitarianism.
Biden on Friday, according to the White House, will similarly address “timeless principles” of American democracy and leadership on the world stage.
“He’ll talk about the stakes of that moment. An existential fight between dictatorship and freedom,” national security adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters earlier this week.
“And he’ll talk about the dangers of isolationism and how if we bow to dictators and fail to stand up to them, they keep going and ultimately America and the world pays a greater price,” Sullivan added.
ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Mary Bruce reports that while he is not expected to call out former President Donald Trump by name, the contrasts will be clear.
Before his speech, Biden met face-to-face with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to reiterate U.S. support for the war-torn nation in its fight against Russian forces.
Biden commended the bravery of the people of Ukraine and Zelenskyy’s authority against Vladimir Putin’s invasion.
“And you’re proving once again that people cannot and will never be overtaken and I assure you, the United States is going to stand with you,” Biden said.
“You are the bulwark against the aggression that is taking place,” he added. “We have an obligation to be there … We’re still in, completely, thoroughly.”
Biden announced a new assistance package for Ukraine to help restore the country’s electrical grid, and offered an apology for the delay in funding for Ukraine as Congress negotiated $60 billion in aid.
Biden put democracy front and center of his 2020 campaign for the White House and is doing so again in his reelection bid, seeking to contrast his foreign policy approach with Trump’s “America First” agenda.
His appearance in France comes as he navigates two international conflicts: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.
Earlier this week, at Normandy American Cemetery, Biden spoke about the need to work with partners around the globe in safeguarding freedom.
“Isolationism was not the answer 80 years ago and is not the answer today,” Biden said. “Real alliances make us stronger, a lesson that I pray we Americans never forget.”
ABC News’ Sarah Kolinovsky contributed to this report.
