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Archive: Bedminster, New Jersey – 13 June 2023
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Bernard Kerik:
"(Reporter: Hi sir, can I get your reaction to the Trump indictment today?")
I think it’s outrageous. I think it’s sickening. I think it’s a dark day for this country. You know, this is, this is the Biden administration and the Democratic Party doing what they’ve tried to do for the last six years. This is just another extension of that. I think it’s outrageous."
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Archive: Washington, D.C. – 3 December 2004
2. Kerik shakes hands with then-President George W. Bush, approaches podium
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Bernard Kerik, (speaking as Nominee for Secretary of Department of Homeland Security):
"Mr President I understand, as you do, the tremendous challenge that faces America in securing our nation and its citizens from the threat of terrorism and I know what is at stake. On September 11, 2001 I witnessed first hand the very worst of humanity and its very best. I saw hatred claim the lives of 24-hundred innocent people and I saw the bravest men and women I will ever know rescue more than 20-thousand others. There isn’t a day that has passed since the morning of September 11th that I haven’t thought of the sacrifices of those heroes and the losses we all suffered. I promise you, Mr President, that both the memory of those courageous souls and the horrors I saw inflicted upon our proud nation will serve as permanent reminders of the awesome responsibility you place in my charge."
4. Bush and Kerik shake hands, leave room
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Archive: Baghdad, Iraq – 25 November, 2007
5. Wide, Kerik at table during news briefing
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Bernie Kerik (speaking as senior US police advisor in Iraq):
"We gave out notices of a reward for a minimum of 2,500 US dollars for information leading to the arrest of anyone that attacks a Coalition member or member of the Iraqi police service."
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New York – 11 September 2001
7. Then New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani walking up street after buildings collapsed, Kerik (in white shirt with face mask) approaches him and speaks to him
STORYLINE:
Bernard Kerik, who served as New York City’s police commissioner on 9/11 and later pleaded guilty to tax fraud before being pardoned, has died. He was 69.
The New York Police Department confirmed his death Thursday on social media.
FBI Director Kash Patel said his death came “after a private battle with illness.”
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani reflected on his long history with his former police commissioner on his show Thursday.
“We’ve been together since the beginning. He’s like my brother,” Giuliani said through tears. “I was a better man for having known Bernie. I certainly was a braver and stronger man.”
Kerik, an Army veteran, rose to the pinnacle of law enforcement before a fall so steep that even a city jail named after him was renamed.
In 2010, he pleaded guilty to federal tax fraud and false statement charges, partially stemming from over $250,000 in apartment renovations he received from a construction firm that authorities say counted on Kerik to convince New York officials it had no organized crime links. He served three years in prison before his release in 2013.
Kerik was appointed by Giuliani to serve as police commissioner in 2000 and was in the position during the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
In 2005, Kerik founded the Kerik Group, a crisis and risk management consulting firm.
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