- for a politician, you want to be relevant. you wawant people e to care what you t think. yoyou want to o be able to changnge people s s lives. you wawant to be a able to led and haveve millions s of amers fofollow you.. so t to not be r relevant anan, that is heheartbreakining. - i m proud that we chose to statay positiveve and to runun a campaigign of id. in an era a of personanal atta, negativeve ads, and d cynical s, we ranan a campaigign thatat was uplififting. - giuliaiani was thehe frontrr fofor the repupublican nomomi, anand then peoeople starteted v. - - he investeted his hearat and d soul in ththis primary, and who coconducted hihimself with all t the qualitities of t the exceptitional amamerican leaeader he trurul. - - did rudy g giuliani did? - - barack obabama will bebee the 44thth presidentnt of thehe united ststates. - - he d come e to the end of a a politicalal career,
i really h had wrestleled a lolot with morortality, immortalality, deathth. soso in a way,y, it preparare. - do w we know thehe number f casualalties at ththis point, ? - i don n t think wewe really t to spepeculate abobout that. the numbmber of casusualties will be momore than anany any y of us can n bear, ultitim. - thatat was him. . that s not. the reasonon it s so p powerfl is thahat it s itit is disarmrmingly direre, anand heartfelelt, and d simple, and cleaean, and clelear, anand came frorom his heara. and, y you know, t that expres, you know, , what was i in his ht and d mind at ththat time. it s all t that neededed to be e said, and d it s all t that cocould be saiaid. and itit was pitchch perfect for that m moment. - ththe night bebefore president t bush came,e, i thouought i was s having a heart t attack at t one po, cause m my shoulderer was in a lot ofof pain.
- we p proceeded u up west st. on the w way up, i saw fafather judgege, anand i asked d him to pray fofor us, which hehe assured m me ththat he was s doing. and ththen i walkeked to 7 75 barclay y street, and d i was brouought into, , a cubicacal inner ofofficer anand told thahat we had r rd the white e house. and ththen, the desk s started to o sha. - oh, , my god, the sosouth buildiding just crurumbled fromom the to! - - oh, it s c coming downwn. it is justst coming dodown. - oh, mymy god! the buililding just t fell! - the dedebris is flflying. i m gonna a run. - ohoh, my god.. - we undnderstand nonow ththere has bebeen a secocondary explplosion on towerer 2. - a sectction of thehe world trade cecenter has c collapse. - itit s just anan unbelievave situation n here. - we wondedered if we e hadt gone from m bad to wororse, because e when you lookeded outside,,
and d were notifified that a secondnd plane hadad hit. and realizized at thatat pot that, obobviously, it wasas a terroririst atta. [s[sirens waililing] - frfrom a new y york city firefifighter, drop p what you r re doin, report t to your comompany. a majajor disasteter is occug inin new york k city this mornining. [peoeople clamororing] - whwhen i got t to chief ga, whwho was the e commanderr for r the rescueue effort, i said, c chief, can n we t a helicoptpter up therere? anand he said d to me, no. itit would be e too dangere. therere s too mumuch fire. and d then, he l looked at me anand he said,d, we can n save everyrybody bebelow the fifire. [draramatic musisic] [sirens s wailing] - - all of us s were reactc, justst trying toto make peoe asas safe as p possible. no one knenew exactlyy whatat was goingng on. no o one knew if thehere were momore plan. no o one knew if therere was anothther targ.
anand i think k that s howow h. - what s t the situatition righght now? - ththe situatioion is thatt two airplalanes have a attack, apparentntly. - - why? - all righght, well ththen, lelet s let s s go nortrth, . - ththey might b be afraid,, but t they overcrcome it becacause they r re trying to help p other peopople. - i lost m my wife andnd daugh. theyey were in t the building whenen it hit. - i don t t know. i cacame do. i m alivive. i just wanant to knoww if my y wife is alalive. - - no idea hohow many peoeoe anand cops arere dead yet.. many peoeople hurt.. - [indndistinct] i hearard you say y earlier t- that you l lost everybybod. what were e you talkining ab? - i don t t know. i can t t find any o of my me. they won t t come up o on the- on thehe radio oror the cell l phone, so i don t t know. - where e did you lalast sesee them, sisir? - they w were in froront of one worlrld trade cecenter a- it s thehe worst thihing i i ve ever seseen in my l . [radioio chatter]] - we ve e got,