Destined by fate. let me explain. on september 11, 2001 victor seracini age 51 was the captain of united flight 175, the airplane that hijackers directed into the south tower of the world trade center. inside that building on the 84th floor, patrick mcgwire, age 40, was working at euro brokers incorporated. his plan could be evacuate had been interrupted by the announcement that the situation was under control. each man left behind a wife and children. the seracinis seen here had two. the mcgwires had four. last weekend in austin, texas, victor seracini s daughter brie yelle married patrick mcgwire s son sean. the meeting was hardly a coincidence. each was only 10 years old when they lost their fathers. they met two years later at camp
We are so blessed to have you as an angel. and we re empty without you. we love you very much. so touching. my next guest survived the 9/11 attacks. he was working in the south tower when the second plane hit. his office was on the 84th floor. only four people above that impact zone survived. brian, thank you so much for being here. it s good to be here. it s been 14 years. how should we keep remembering that terrible day? the process is underway right now today. and you just need to if each individual remembers or takes in that life is precious, then the remembrance goes on all year. if you know that you re alive for a reason or somebody has passed for some other reason, we
But the world is also different in a positive way where we are more fully informed. it s good you say that. because your story has positive aspects to it. you met who came to be your very close friend. bring us through what happened that day. you re on the 84th floor. what happens? i knew in that split second it was terrorism because we had been looking up nine floors to the building next door wondering what was going on. but knew something was amiss more than a small plane, that s for sure. the room fell apart. i had been asked to be a volunteer fire marshall and the world trade center provided me with a flashlight and a whistle and everything else. i had that with me at the time and led a group of six people off our floor to stairway a. we were stopped by a woman coming up and said, you can t go down. there s flames below us.
In the aftermath of 9/11 our nation ached, it cried, and it prayed, and in our pain we pledged to come together as one and to do what we could to prevent osama bin laden and his killing machine from ever carrying out another attack against our beautiful country. never again, we vowed. never again. that was cia director john brennan thursday, saying the u.s. would do anything in its power to prevent another 9/11 from happening again here in america. the promise coming days after a controversial cia report was released detailing the enhanced interrogation tactics that the u.s. used to get information from terror suspects. my next guest says it should have never been released. joining me now, don arias. his younger brother, adam, was killed in the world trade center attacks. thank you very much for being here, don, and our condolences on the loss of your brother adam who was on the 84th floor of tower 2 on 9/11, 2001.
The promise coming days after a controversial cia report was released detailing the enhanced interrogation tactics the u.s. used to get information from terror suspects. next guest say have never been released. joining me now, don aria, his younger brother adam was killed in the world trade center attacks. thank you very much for being here, don. our condolences in the loss of your brother adam who was on the 84th floor of tower 2 on 9/11/2001. your reaction to the time when others have said it will potentially endanger the lives of american service personnel. it s unfathomable for me. i just don t understand it, megyn. there are 2, 976 americans that are dead, yet we obsessed over the treatment of their killers. you know, the spirit of national masochism that we re going