*A new History Channel documentary airing Thursday will show some never before seen or heard series of events on that dreaded day, 9/11.
Condoleezza Rice told the filmmakers that she got a phone call from the president after the second airplane hit the World Trade Center in New York.
The former president, George W. Bush, was visiting a school in Florida when he heard of the tragedy, saying he was flying up to the Pentagon where the third plane struck.
In the clip, Rice says she told the president that there was no way he was coming back.
“I said, ‘You cannot come back here. The United States of America is under attack, you have to go to safety. We don’t know what is going on here.’”
Despite the danger, Bush persisted. Rice raised her voice at the president and refused to allow him to come back and hung up the phone.
The documentary, “9-11: State of Emergency,” contains interviews with military leaders, including former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, rescue workers, military members and survivors of the Pentagon and WTC attacks.
Rice describes the chaos on that day, saying lines of communication were cut off and danger continued to find them wherever they went.
In fact, the bunker where she hid with Vice President Dick Cheney and other staff began to run out of air.
“There were so many people in the bunker that the oxygen levels started dropping, and the secret service came in and said we’ve got to get some people out of here, she said, according to London’s Daily Mail. “‘They literally went around telling people that they weren’t essential and they had to leave.”
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I want to see this documentary. i have always thought of Condoleeza as a brown noser to W and to see her yell and hang up on him should be very interesting indeed.
Babycakes: Brown noser is being kind. She is/was all up in it. She was damned near acting like his mistress. It was disgusting.
Did y’all know that Condi once mistakenly referred to Bush in an interview as “my husband?”
I know Bush liked her and always had her back, but was it more than that?
Hmmm, now that is something to think about.
There was Forbes and others thinking Condoleezza Rice was only the most powerful WOMAN in the world when Condi’s fans have always known that she is the most powerful PERSON in the world, more powerful than the men presidents of the USA even.
Do we have to wait for another 9/11 type emergency before putting Condi in charge again? Why don’t the Americans elect Rice president and have her in charge in the good times not just the bad?
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Peter, no disrepect to you, but you are crazy if you think I will support Condoleeza Rice for president. That’s simply not going to happen… As strange as this may sound I kinda liked Condi. That said, Condi doesn’t want to be president of ANYTHING! She’s said this repeatedly…and I believe her. I believe she is as happy as fat kid eating cake that her time in the White House is OVER! She is doing what she loves now which is teaching and performing as a concert pianist with the likes of Aretha Franklin. Condi for president of the United States of America? Hell no!
AMEN! to that!
I always thought that for the most part, we got Condi wrong. Her principled stance and respect for the constitution and rule of law were not that far from Colin Powell. She was just not willing to walk away as quickly as he was. We know, for example, that she wanted to get Gitmo closed, and she never was a favorite of the likes of Rumsfield and Chenney.
But for real, a lot of people still don’t know what was supposed to go down on 9/11. That plane that hit the Pentagon was on a direct route for the WH, but since it was flying so low, and they couldn’t see the WH, they diverted it to the Pentagon. And of course, 9/11 was chosen because Congress was in session that day. The plane that the passengers crashed was supposed to take out the Capitol.
I’m a retired AF veteraness (I made that up)I want to keep “not” liking her. Please stop making her human. But I like the fact that she yelled at that drunk bastard. Mr. Powell, like most military folks, know when it’s a lost cause. She thought she was “keeping-it-real”, by having her man’s back. yuckety-yuck-snort-&-guffaw.
LOL @ nightshift, you are too funny
I feel you. I also was a huge Condi detractor, but I’m now seeing what she was up against. It is now being reveled, for example, that there were a lot if hostility towards her from Rumsfield and the neo-cons. Probably because of her opposition to what they stood for. Bush knew that and protected her, even though they all wanted him to get rid of her. She was therefore caught between a rock and a hard place. She had to be careful what she said. Bush himself was exploited by the neo-cons. They exploited his anger towards Saddam for wanting to kill his father.
she shoulda hung up on him when he said we were going to war to find wmd’s…then we wouldnt have gotten into that mess to begin with.
I’ve never been impressed with Condi. I felt that she was a sell out. When she said that she never faced any racism growing up in AL, and that she was never part of the “Counter Culture” refering to groups like SCLC, she tore her ass with me.
There is no way she would have grown up at that time in AL, and not faced racism! Not having skin color as black as she was. She is just one year older than I am. I have VERY VIVID memories of how hateful this country was towards Blacks, and I grew up in MI.
See this video “Alabama’s Condi” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKNtkCfPGWY
“When she said that she never faced any racism growing up in AL,” is a straight lie – Condi never said that and has recounted stories of racism – you don’t want to know the truth and prefer to spread smears. Shame on you.
All Peter Dow’s Condi videos
http://www.youtube.com/user/DrCondiRice#g/f