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Past. that's what we're going to commemorate with 9/11. while it is 20 years ago, it is a state of being very much needed in the present. actually i argue we need to be who we were then more than we needed to be that then. we need it now. cnn political analyst, friend, david gregory, had a front row seat to 9/11 history. he was covering the bush white house. he was in the press corps in 2001, traveled with bush on 9/11. he was with him at the elementary school. remember that? in sarasota, florida when the 43rd president learned from the whisper from andy carr that the second plane had hit. you...

Cavern. >> for months after 9/11 i was working in the white house, see an airplane over d.c. was so haunting. >> and for years here. >> yeah. it is so quiet. we hear it. >> it is hauntingly quiet. i remember we were at camp david right after 9/11. and all of a sudden we heard jets. and that's because they were our jets keeping people away. and there was a small piper pilot flying by and the jets were on him and quickly. and that disrupted the quiet. >> yeah. >> in d.c. -- >> who's that? that's us. andy, i want to ask you about how the heroics of the day changed george w. bush. i never heard th...

Of veer off for a little bit and it's like he mentally loses himself just for a moment before recomposing himself and briefly coming back to the classroom. i saw that, i remember being slightly confused and almost thinking to myself, he had to go to the bathroom or he was, you know, losing himself in the reading like i was. so it was almost amusing in that way. we didn't find out about the attack until after he had left and we were explained as to why he had to cut his reading short. he was there to read to multiple classrooms. mrs. daniels was the first of many that he was to read to. we were...

Itself. i remember the day of the attack, when you become a little more aware, i knew what new york city was, but the world trade center i think was -- i was completely unknown to me. so we're made aware of these tacts, that the world is a bigger place and america is more vulnerable than what we were led to believe. and that in me inspired a sort of -- i wouldn't say adventurous, but curiosity to see the rest of the world. in my adult life i've lived and moved in at least four different cities. that is something that i do not want to discontinue. and that is a result of that day, right. it ins...

Second plane struck the world trade center just after 9:00. the president's chief of staff andrew carr approached president bush and told him america was under attack. we're joined by andy carr and one of the second grade students at emma booker elementary school 20 years ago now a chemical engineer. thank you for being here. andy, what do you remember about that moment and that day? >> i knew i was delivering a message that was a very rare message. and the venue was completely disconnected from the magnitude of the message. walking into a classroom of second graders, in front of a press pool,...