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Security officer at the steps going up to the cockpit on air force one to make certain nobody could come up the steps to take down air force one. it was a swirl of information, much of it wrong, all of it scary. laura: i want to play the cockpit recording from flight 93, the one that was believed to be headed toward the white house. >> united 93, 1:00, 12 miles east. >> negative contact, looking at united 93. >> united 93. laura: where were you and the president at that point? >> we were aboard air force one. we did not hear those audiotapes until days later after september 11th, that is the p...

Their loss reminds us that september 11th was not a singular event. but a date that marked a cultural paradigm shift in our country and for freedom-loving people across the globe. to the families of flight 93 here and at home, honoring a loved one, my heart goes out to you. having lost a brother on september 11th, i, too, live with the grief that is deep, consuming, and always present. for those that lost loved ones in the terrorist attacks on our country 20 years ago today, you know that we can never move on but that we must continue to move forward. on september 11th, 2001, we lost a total o...

They realized they were part of a larger attack, there was such little margin for them to act. >> it was close. the plane was traveling almost 600 miles an hour, really close to the ground. it was just hundreds of feet off the ground during this flight. they began the counterattack at 9:45. at 10:03 when the plane crashed, they were still fighting. they had just made it into the cockpit. you can kind of make sense of that from the transcript that was eventually released. a few minutes later, if they're not successful, that plane crashes into the u.s. capitol. i know there were jets scrambling ...

Television screen. it was critically important to the white house and to the bidens to want to make a physical representation at each of the stops. they woke up this morning, of course, in new york city. they headed to ground zero for that initial commemoration, where the president was standing side by side with two former presidents, a sight we don't see as often these days, the former presidents' club getting together, of course, to mark this incredibly important occasion. from there they went to shanksville, pennsylvania, where earlier in the day the vice president did make some remarks whe...

Wonder what you thought about the images that define generations, and the crashing down of edifices and buildings. how important was that in the psychology do you think also of what they were trying to deal? well, that's a good question. i think what was going on was 0sama bin laden who is heading up 0sama bin laden who is heading up al-qaeda, he realised it was not possible to defeat america by military means in an open war. but it was possible to insult america, and it was very deliberate in terms of symbolic targets if, as i said, the twin towers for the symbol of american economic might, w...