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Urgency, and my blood was not nearly as boiling. >> every morning that summer bush received a president's daily brief or pdb outlining security threats to the united states. >> isn't it a fact, dr. rice, that the august 6th pdb warned against possible attacks in this country, and i ask you whether you recall the title of that pdb. >> i believe the title was bin laden determined to attack inside the united states. now, the pdb -- >> thank you. >> no -- >> i will get -- >> i would like to finish my point here. >> i didn't know there was a point. >> you asked me whether or not it warned of attack...

Alert, but such an alert was not issued, and a quarter of an hour later, the cockpit in united 93 was breached. can you explain that decision? can any of you explain that decision? >> mr. white was the senior person at the command center. he might be the best able to do that. >> i wasn't aware of that request. this is the first i have heard of it today. i wasn't in a position that day to have heard that request. i was -- have always been under the assumption that we did issue a verbal warning to the air carriers about cockpit security. i don't know if we -- if we even made a decision or if the...

It was a cost center for the airlines. >> the question is, was there sort of direct lobbying either by the airlines or by congress on any specific safety or security. the answer would be, no. >> how can you sit there and say that the airlines were not lobbying? what are they paying these high-priced lobbyists for? >> there's a lot of excuses out there, but the end result is people made choices not to focus on terrorism, and whether it was administration or agencies, they all failed. >> jane garvey, captain flynn, minetta, i think they are traitors. i called them to their face and that's the wa...

And nothing happened. >> the faa did not want us to tell congress. they did everything they could. they tried to have the report classified. >> the whole system of security was so flawed, it's a matter how the terrorists wanted to do it. >> the main reason security was so bad? many told the commission it was money. >> the nature of what was happening in the civil aviation industry in the united states at that time did not put terrorism high on the list of priorities. >> every time the government proposed an actual add-on or separate tax item for security, the airlines opposed it. they said tha...

John kerry will meet with the russian foreign minister in an effort to reach a solution on the syrians chemical weapons. lax airport after allegedly making threats and forcing officials to evacuate the airport on tuesday "q" more than 315 economists signed a letter for president obama, asking him to not make janet yellen the chair of the fed occurred more newsletter. now back to our special. after they made it through security, the four hijacking teams took their seats, mostly in first and business class.