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Cantor Fitzgerald chairman Brandon Lutnick and executive vice chairman Kyle Lutnick discuss the impact of the 9\/11 attacks on the company and their relationship with their father, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, on \u2018The Claman Countdown.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

I think I speak for a lot of women when I say that when you\u2019re eight months pregnant, all you want to do is sleep.<\/p>\n

And when you work the hours that I was working on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, you dream about sleep.<\/p>\n

At the time, I was an anchor at CNBC working a split shift. I would get up at 3 a.m. ET, anchor the 5 a.m. to 7 a.m. premarket show, go home at 7:30 a.m., try to sleep for a few hours, then return to the studio in Ft. Lee, New Jersey, to anchor the 4 p.m. market wrap-up broadcast. Insane hours, I know.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But about a year earlier, when I was only helming the early morning gig, I jumped at the offer to reach a broader audience in the afternoon. The catch was that I could only have the 4 p.m. if I continued to work the pre-dawn show as well.<\/p>\n

AMERICA MARKS 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF 9\/11 ATTACKS<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Just getting used to the crazy sleep schedule was hard enough, but when I got pregnant with my first child, it quickly became way more difficult. But I gamely plowed ahead. On Sept. 11, 2001, I was a month and a few weeks from giving birth.<\/p>\n

After finishing the morning show on that sparkling September day, I headed home, lumbered into my apartment in Edgewater, New Jersey, right on the Hudson River, just a town away from the studio, closed the blackout curtains and was just drifting off when my then-husband, a senior producer at MSNBC, called me. “Turn on Channel 4,” he said. He sounded anxious.<\/p>\n

I flipped on the TV and saw smoke pouring out of the North Tower of the World Trade Center. It looked like some idiot had flown a small plane right into the side of the building. “What the hell happened?” I asked. With a more urgent tone he said, “I don\u2019t know, but I\u2019ve gotta go,” and hung up.<\/p>\n

25 YEARS LATER, 9\/11 MEMORIES ENDURE AS NATION GATHERS TO HONOR NEARLY 3,000 LIVES LOST<\/strong><\/p>\n

I stared at the screen. The shot was from a live, unmanned camera affixed atop another downtown building. The towers bisected a crystal blue sky. Zero clouds. What happened?<\/p>\n

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Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick visits the memorial ahead of the 25th anniversary commemoration ceremony at the National 9\/11 Memorial and Museum in New York, on Sept. 11, 2026.<\/span> (Adam Gray\/Bloomberg via Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Being a business news journalist, I knew a lot of my show guests worked in that tower. I was mentally ticking off who worked on which floor when suddenly a second plane, clearly a large passenger jet, plowed into the South Tower. Instinctively, my right hand flew to my belly and my left hand covered my mouth. I grabbed the phone and woke up my father on the West Coast. “Dad, turn on the news. NOW.”<\/p>\n

My father, a surgeon and fully aware his daughter was eight months pregnant, took one look at the TV and immediately adopted his reassuring “doctor” voice. “Liz, I\u2019m sure there\u2019s an explanation for this. Whatever it is, I need you to be really calm, OK?”<\/p>\n

“I am calm, Dad. But I\u2019ve got to get back to the studio.” The newswoman in me was kicking in. I hung up and jumped back into my clothes, into the car and sped back to the office.<\/p>\n

When I walked in, people looked shocked. Glancing surreptitiously at my stomach, my manager said, “Liz, if you want to go home, we understand. We\u2019ll get someone else to do the show.” I was perplexed. We\u2019re in the news business. The thought of not doing my job at a time like this literally never occurred to me. I thanked him and said, “No, I\u2019m here. Have we figured out which Wall Street firms are on which floors?”<\/p>\n

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U.S. Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins reflects on the significance of the 9\/11 remembrance, explaining how September 12th demonstrated American resilience and freedom to the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

But I already knew the answer. Cantor Fitzgerald occupied the top floors of the North Tower. Huge staff. Fund giant Fred Alger Management was right below them on the 93rd floor. My chest tightened. My dear friend David Alger was their CEO. I silently begged. Please, PLEASE, David, tell me you\u2019re not there.<\/i><\/p>\n

Sandler O\u2019Neill Partners was on the 104th floor of the South Tower. Co-founder Herman Sandler was a Wall Street legend. He\u2019d be fine, right? Marsh & McLennan. Keefe, Bruyette & Woods. Euro Brokers. I knew people in both towers.<\/p>\n

LIZ PEEK: WE CANNOT LET THE LEFT REWRITE WHAT HAPPENED ON 9\/11<\/strong><\/p>\n

Whatever hope we had that friends had survived disappeared when both towers collapsed, enveloping lower Manhattan in that awful, sickening gray ash.<\/p>\n

But I kept thinking, “Surely David Alger had led his troops down the stairwell before the collapse. That\u2019s David.”<\/p>\n

I envisioned him gripping a bullhorn, marching north on Broadway. He was larger than life with the best smile ever. I\u2019d seen him just two weeks earlier when he had been a guest on the network.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I ran into him after that interview. “Liz!” he boomed, flashing that high-wattage smile. He looked down at my belly, put his hand gently on it, looked directly in my eyes and said, “You\u2019re going to be the best mom.” David was the proud father of two daughters, so he knew from whence he spoke.<\/p>\n

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I would never see David again. He died on 9\/11 along with 2,977 others in the towers, at the Pentagon and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania \u2013 all victims of the coordinated attack by the Al Qaeda terrorist group. I attended David\u2019s funeral. His daughters were drenched in grief.<\/p>\n

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A month and two weeks later, still mourning him, Herman Sandler, and so many others, including the 658 innocent souls who worked at Cantor Fitzgerald, I felt contractions. My obstetrician\u2019s office told me to come in. My doctor’s practice was in the city. They quietly ushered me past a pregnant woman staring blankly in the corner of the waiting room. I later learned her husband had been killed in the World Trade Center attacks. Twenty-five years later, I can still remember thinking, “How can I be happy right now? What kind of world am I bringing this child into?” Any joy felt inappropriate.<\/p>\n

That night I gave birth to a healthy baby girl. Of course, I felt happiness, but it was tinged by an unseen gray veil of sadness. Trust me, all of us who were there on 9\/11 felt the same way. I took comfort in knowing that all the letters in David\u2019s last name \u2013 A, L, G, E and R are woven within the name we chose for our newborn: Gabrielle.<\/p>\n

The darkness in the rotted hearts of those who stole lives and futures on 9\/11 will never be understood, nor does that kind of evil deserve the effort. What does deserve effort is carrying on, reaching for the stars and living a good life while holding tight the memories of the 2,977 who didn\u2019t get to continue theirs.<\/p>\n

FOR MORE FROM LIZ CLAMAN CLICK HERE<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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