Hillary Clinton said Sunday that the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks serves as a reminder that the United States must “confront extremism of all kinds.” During an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union,” the former secretary of state told host Dana Bash that there are still lessons to be learned from 9/11. “We’ve also been reminded, I think, how important it is to try to counter extremism of all kinds, especially when it uses violence to try to achieve political and ideological goals,” Clinton said. “So I’m one who believes there are still lessons to be learned from what happened to us on 9/11 that we should be very aware of during this time in our country and in world history.” Clinton recalled what it was like to be a senator from New York at the time of the attacks and how Republicans and Democrats were able to rally behind President George W. Bush in a way the country hasn’t seen since. Hillary Clinton speaks during the New York Democratic Convention at the Sheraton in Midtown Manhattan on February 17, 2022. (Barry Williams/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images) BIDEN ATTACKS AGAIN IN SPEECH ON LABOR’S ‘MAGA,’ ‘FULL OF ANGER, VIOLENCE AND HATE’ Bash asked Clinton: “All of America’s elected officials really put the party aside and came together after these attacks. Would that be possible today?” “Well, I hope it will be, and I give President Biden a lot of credit for trying to continue to reach out to people while sounding the alarm about threats to our democracy,” Clinton responded. Hillary Clinton attends the ‘In Her Hands’ premiere during the Toronto International Film Festival on September 9, 2022 in Toronto, Ontario. (Wesley Lapointe/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) “I remember very well, two days after I did that interview, I was in the Oval Office with then-President Bush, and he asked me what we needed, and I told him we needed $20 billion to rebuild New York, and he said, ‘You I caught.’ And he was good on his word, and there were all kinds of political discussions about it, but he never wavered,” he continued. “And I hope now that people will rally behind President Biden, who is doing an amazing job trying to rebuild our manufacturing sector, trying to address climate change, expanding health care, all the other things, including trying to do something about gun violence that the vast majority of Americans approve of.” “So we’re in a funny position, Dana, because there’s a small, but very vocal, very powerful, very determined minority that wants to impose its views on all the rest of us,” he added. And it’s time for everyone, regardless of party, to say, ‘No, that’s not who we are as America.’” President Joe Biden delivers a prime-time speech at Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia on September 1, 2022. (Alex Wong/Getty Images) CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Clinton’s comments on the 21st anniversary of 9/11 come amid a new messaging strategy by President Biden and the White House that features so-called “MAGA Republicans,” or conservative members of Congress aligned with former President Donald Trump, as a threat to the country. . “They refuse to accept the will of the people,” Biden said at a meeting of the Democratic National Committee in Maryland on Thursday night. “They threaten our very democracy.” Jessica Chasmar is a reporter for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to [email protected] and on Twitter: @JessicaChasmar.
