I'm going to From the high desert and the Great American Southwest.

This is coast to coast AM and I'm Art Bell.

Good evening, good morning, good afternoon, as a case may be across the world,

and we will get into international coverage as a night wears on.

This of course is Coast-to-coast AM, and I'm, like many of you,

most of you probably, I've been up since early morning

without rest watching the horrific events of the day.

And I've thought about what to do tonight all day long, and I have come to the conclusion that I cannot nor should I try

to out expert CNN or any of the other large outlets. You've been getting that all day long since early morning. It's still going on now and I expect days from now it will still be going on.

The events in New York are just... A of faxers and e-mailers to me said Arthur just aren't

words and yet in radio and broadcasting we deal in words.

So I thought perhaps by this time of the night or morning, depending on your time zone,

the best thing that I could possibly do would be to essentially open the lines and let all of you speak.

Instead of just sort of sitting here and speculating, I'll let you speculate. There's no expert I could bring that would be more powerful

than those CNN and others have had on the air. It's just as simple as that. So I'm going

to open the phone lines here shortly and I'm just going to

let America speak to America. I know you've got a lot. By now you've got a lot of pen-up

feelings and I think that's the proper thing for me to do. What happened was compared by so many

media outlets you know to Pearl Harbor. It is certainly another day of infamy, but in my opinion far more dastardly than Pearl Harbor,

Pearl Harbor at least was an attack on the U.S. military.

This was an attack on U US military. This was an attack on US civilians. In New York City, earlier today, I happened to speak with the president of our network, and I mean Premier Radio Network,

the network that syndicates Rush Limbaugh, Dr. Laura, myself, Mike Reagan, and so many others.

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