>> today we present this report and these recommendation to the president of the united states, to the united states congress, and the american people. >> the commission made a number of recommendations, including tightening u.s. borders, increasing preparedness before the next attack, sharing information among agencies, appointing a national intelligence director and creating a national counterterrorism center. >> we need to ensure that the key countries -- >> anyone who said that the commission wasn't going to come up with anything new under the sun, which is one of the things that the white house told us, was wrong. because clearly we didn't have a director of national intelligence and we would not have had a director of national intelligence had it not been for the commission. >> on that september day, we were prepared.