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>> virtually identical. >> i was sitting in my office. i heard someone say a small plane hitted the world trade center. i looked out the window. my office faced down 6th avenue at the towers and i saw virtually everything after that moment. the one moment i'll never forget was watching the first tower collapse because the twin towers had been such a permanent fixture on our landscape and this skyline and i kept wanting to believe that it was going to emerge from the dust but it never did. a massive structure was gone in an instant. it was the moment in my life when my brain did not believe wha...

243 firefighters killed, and most crushed when the building collapsed, but in the end, some of them even risking that and knowing a possibility because they saw the first tower collapse and that that was a possibility. >> right. neil: they were still, still, looking for people. did any of them besides the one buddy get back to you to say, this doesn't look good? >> well, i'll address that we're talking about captain billy burke and billy was with pa disabled man who was in a wheelchair, and billy knew the north tower-- or the south tower collapsed. he was in the north and he sent his men out, ...

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2001, secretary johnson, it didn't seem possible that a commercial airline could hit those buildings. >> i was one of those americans, 9/11 happens to be my birthday. and i remember vividly, i drove in from our home in new jersey out here. the weather was a lot like it is right now, a crisp, beautiful, blue sky day. got to work early in midtown manhattan, same law firm i'm with now. i was sitting at my desk and i heard somebody next door to me say a small plane has hit the world trade center. and from my office i had a view down sixth avenue at this site right here. i could see it and i though...

I took family there, to windows on the world. my son was 3 weeks old, i took him up to the observation deck in 1994 and to see that tower collapse was incomprehensible. and it changed me, it changed our nation. the department of homeland security didn't exist in 2001. and here we are 20 years later, we built back bigger. i'm a trustee of this memorial here today, i'm proud to say. and i think it's important we learn the lessons of the past and honor the bravery and the suffering of those who died that day. >> you, as you said, ran this newly formed homeland security department under president ...