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Stuff, but they say he's right and refer to the presidential daily briefing of august 6th, 2001. the headline was "bin laden determined to strike in the u.s.," then said "fbi information since 1998 indicates patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance of federal buildings in new york," in new york. >> right. >> and at the time, richard clark, the top counterterrorism adviser to the president, said he begged for meetings, for cabinet-level meetings, he wanted to get more done, and condoleezz...

Car coming across the canadian border to blow up l.a.x. the daily brief on august 6th, 2001, mentioned hijackers. why didn't bush just put the faa on higher alert? the people who got -- some of the hijackers who got in didn't have good i.d. two of them got in with knives. the level of airport security at that point was very lax. if it had just been raised somewhat in the month or two before 9/11, there's a greater chance -- we don't know for sure -- nor of a chance this plot would have unraveled. >> respond to two salvos there, mudd. the first one is security at the airport was woeful and the ...

>> a number of the crit nal hijackers came into the kcountr prior to president george bush coming into the time he came into office. it was planned over a period of time. and there was no actionable intelligence that pointed specifically or specifically to the aviation plot that we saw. >> and let me correct you on this, because it did say from the august 6th, 2001, and a couple of months before 9/# 11, the presidential daily briefing of bin laden determined to attack u.s., and it is patterns that indicate patterns of suspicious activity conis tent with hijackings or other types of attacks inc...

People will. i don't think that the evidence supports that. first of all, if the american people believe that, he would never have been re-elected in 2004. and, brianna, this whole back and forth caused me to go back to the infamous pdb of august 6th, 2001, bin laden determined to strike in the united states which sounds awfully compelling, but it really is as president bush described it a general briefing that speaks to bin laden's intentions and i don't think you can say he was ever provided information as far as we know of an impending attack. >> all right. i want to ask you, sara, about so...

And another multi-car pileup. firefighters at l.a.'s task force 39 in van nuys, california, see more than their share of danger. each tour of duty. >> we average probably 10 15-plus calls a shift, so you never know what you're going to go out on. >> one big reason is the 405. a ten-lane stretch of highway havoc just two miles from their stationhouse. >> at night, we have a heightened alert because of the visibility. >> the 405 has earned a bad rep as the most congested freeway in america. august 6th, 2001. just after 2:00 a.m. freelance cameraman, paul andereg is hunting for news. >> i do al...