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Bush: Good morning.
How are you?
Ann Compton: It was absolutely spectacular weather.
Ann Compton: Not humid,
Ann Compton: skies were clearer,
TV reporter: Smoke is billowing out of the building...
AP Network News,
News Reporter: A plane apparently has crashed into the World Trade Center in New York.
We went from a very calm beautiful day to one in which our world changed dramatically.
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Narrator: September 11th, 2001 was the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history.
Narrator: Now experience the first twelve hours surrounding the events.
Narrator: In a way the world has never seen.
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Bush: Andy Card comes up behind me and says, "America's under attack."
And I'm watching a child read.
Eddie Marinzel: We needed to move the president and get him out of there.
He could be a sitting duck.
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There was a call that said "Angel's next."
Angel is the code word for Air Force One.
We worried someone in the president's circle could try to take down Air Force One.
Every plane had become a missile.
One of the targets might well be The White House.
Air traffic control: All aircraft land as soon as possible.
Bush: Mother got on the phone.
Bush: She said, we're outside Milwaukee.
Bush: I said, you gotta be kidding me.
Bush: What are you doing there?
She said, you grounded our plane.
Narrator: In their own words.
She told me her plane had been hijacked.
Theodore Olson: And the line went dead.
(Choked up) That really hit home.
Narrator: Those at the heart of power on that unforgettable day.
Condoleezza: We did everything we knew to do,
Condoleezza: but 3,000 people died on your watch.
It just gnaws at you.
Narrator: Come together to reveal what happened behind closed doors.
Karl Rove: She took the badge from her son's dead body,
gave it to the president and said, "I...I want you to always remember".
I remember the Secret Service screaming, take of your heels and run!
We never had a crisis quite like this.
Colin Powell: Of course we all were hurting.
We all were terrified.
Bush: The first plane was an accident.
The second one was an attack.
Bush: And the third one was a declaration of war.