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>> thanks for having me, andrea and thanks for having me on with my old friend ray kelly who is a terrific, terrific guy. that lady you had on was so -- brought joy to the interview. when you think of the sadness that came from this event and i think of all of the work that ray and bloomberg did to cut through the politics and the anger and grief and everything to establish those memorials, i think they've just done a phenomenal job, but that day for us was a nightmare from the very beginning and we had no idea that things would happen so quickly. the firefighters got up there right away and k...

Orchestrating between the president and the students, but when she told the students to take out their books the pet goat they reached under their chairs and that's when i went up to the president and whispered into his ear a second plane hit the second tower, america is under attack. >> and you did that so calmly, and then he reacted so calmly because you didn't want to alarm the children. you didn't want to -- for the media to start running with all kinds of questions and rumors because you wanted to protect the kids from being part of that horror. >> i was very focused on being cool, calm a...

Terrorism, and we have reports of sears tower being hit and mall of america being hit and everything just accelerated very quickly. we had the best fire chiefs you will find anywhere. they never dreamed in 102 minutes from beginning to end we could have two towers hit and two towers fall. so it was just simply we couldn't get everybody out fast enough. it's an enormous complex. two 110-story buildings and subway systems, restaurant, malls, parking garages and people out in the street. so what the first responders did when the cops came and the firefighters and ems was just a remarkable experie...