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Which i'm proud i did. >> reporter: now our viewers should know that when we try to talk to you in the hallway you pretend you're on the cell phone, which you know you do. that has changed a lot. >> in the early days, the press was a very good way to bring out problems that needed to be fixed. now i have other leaders of power, so i'm hardly inaccessible. i'm sitting here with you. and you can say a lot of bad things about chuck schumer, inaccessibility never's going to be one of them. >> reporter: same about authenticity. >> there's a balcony. >> reporter: leader or not, refined he will never...

Power, hardly inaccess bum. sitting here with you, and you can say a lot of bad things about chuck schumer and inaccessibility is never going to be one of them. >> same goes for authenticity. there's a balcony. >> no? >> try to find out so we can have barbecues. >> oh, that sounds fun. >> leader or not, refined, he will never be. >> put a fire escape down there. it will be like brooklyn. >> that's right. >> dana bash joins us from washington. >> sounds like this is not the role schumer wanted to play, but he could oddly be well suited to be a sort of foil for the president-elect. at least acco...

Same goes for authenticity. >> no. >> try to find out. >> that sounds fun. >> leader or not, refined he will never be. >> just put a fire escape down there and it will be like brooklyn. >> that's right. >> i'm sorry. i'm just right here. how awesome a trick is that? i didn't know that. that is one of the greats. >> i've actually been in an elevator and i'm trying to listen. is there a person on that phone or are you just really ignoring me. it's off to the races already today for chuck schumer with obamacare there's going to be the president obama up there to talk about it. vp elect mike pence...

>> this is the type of job you see once in a 28-year career. >> reporter: manhattan apartment building ignited in flames more than 200 members of the fdny raced toward it, these five men among them. >> roof was on fire, fire out of the shaft, all around us. >> reporter: the firefighters never met before, but that day, an 81-year-old man trapped in his home brought them together. >> frank called me and told me that we had a guy at the window. >> my thought was possibly a fire escape to get to him. there was no rear fire escape in this old building. >> tied the rope to the roof. that's when andy...

To him. as you saw there was no rear fire escape. >> i grabbed the rope, dumped the rope onto the roof and that's when andy and steve and joe came up. we just went to work. jim lee was being scaled down scaling the burning building. >> go to your right. go to your right. >>. >> i remember seeing him looking up at me with that hood up. i said let's go. >> with the rope holding them beginning to burn -- >> they successfully lowered the two men to safety seconds before