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There's lots of things to do. it was transformative just to this place in manhattan. >> for years they thought we wouldn't get out of this. >> and they gave rent discounts to people. there were young people and there was an incentive for a little while. >> for a short period of time. >> but it moved some people in and now this is a vibrant part of the city. >> it was become one of the most valuable neighborhoods in new york. >> hallie jackson, you've got stuff where you are? >> we do. you talk about moments in new york city and the way that that city came together. there were moments, obviousl...

Had the warrant on bin ladin. he had the i-49 squad and one of his strokes of genius was hiring ali stafaun. and john was a unique individual, not your characteristic fbi agent. he had a book on his table of tulips, the flower that drives men wild. he knew everybody in new york. he called himself the sheriff. and he understood the threat that al qaeda posed to america as very few people even in the fbi and the cia did. and he pursued it. i remember 9/11, the day i began looking through obituaries, trying to find somebody to write about, and a couple of days later i found the obituary of john o...

Shame. but they are who they are and we've got to work with them. and overseas we've got to rebuild our relationships with our allies around the world. people keep saying, i don't know that we need to have military overseas or foreign aid or those things. those are the things that keep america safe. >> mayor bloomberg, thank you for your time this morning. >> you're welcome. the bottom line is, i think you should be optimistic for what's going to happen and understand that there's plenty of problems and we certainly haven't solved them all and it's time to pull together. >> former three-term m...

Target these groups as they should be targeted, terrorists. >> hallie? >> thanks, ali. we've been talking on kind of the macro level. can you get micro for a second and tell the story for our viewers about somebody named john o'neill, who you write about, who was critical in understanding and bringing to the front of the u.s. government what was happening as it related to al qaeda. he ended up, by almost a cruel twist of fate, starting a new job at the world trade center about two and a half weeks, maybe three weeks before september 11th, and was killed, it's believed, in the collapse on septe...

Since the 9/11 commission, since knowing what we know, since declassifying cia information, could we prevent another 9/11 from happening today? >> thank you, ali. i think there's a lot of things that took place over the last 20 years that make a lot of our intelligence and law enforcement agencies work better together. we have been able to prevent another 9/11 from happening and i think the communication is way better than it used to be before. i think the sharing of information is better. but we live in a totally different world today. we want to start thinking of the world through the prism ...