isn t an accident anymore. talk about the infrastructure you had around you that allowed you, in the elapsed time of two minutes, to go out and tell the leader of the free world what happened here. candidly, chiefs of staff have to make decisions all day long, does the president need to know. it s amazing how many people come in, i have to see the president right now. so i wrestled with that after a navy captain, deb lowery, she came to me, she was the director of the white house situation room, went on to become an admiral, one of the first admirals in the navy, she told the president it appeared to be a prop plane, told me it was a commercial jet liner and then said, my god, another plane. and that s when i stood there and said to myself, does the president need to know? yes, he does.