Well, Donald Trump keeps making it easier and easier for future historians a hundred years from now

to evaluate who he really was as a person and a president.

At 8.46 a.m., when the North Tower of the World Trade Center was struck by an airliner,

we had reason to believe at first that it was an accident. No aircraft ever should have been

even close to the World Trade Center, but it could have been a plane out of control on the way

to LaGuardia. But 17 minutes later at 9.03 a.m. when the South Tower was hit

by an airliner, everyone knew this was not an accident. And 34 minutes later, when a third

airliner hit the Pentagon, the world knew. This was a coordinated attack unlike anything the

world had ever seen. And no one knew what would be hit next.

No one would have any reason at that time to believe it was over.

The vice president of the United States was lifted out of his chair in his office,

in the west wing of the White House, and rushed through the corridors where

he disappeared into the White House bunker and spent the entire day down there, worried that the next

plane was coming for him in the White House. The president of the United States spent the rest of

the day in the air, in Air Force One,

which was a judge to be the safest place the president could be with the country under attack

and Washington awaiting the next plane to hit the Capitol or the White House or who knew.

At 10.03 a.m., United Flight number 93 hit the ground in Pennsylvania,

killing everyone on board after passengers bravely rebelled against Osama bin Laden's hijackers.

The plane had already been detected off course by air traffic control and been presumed to be

headed for Washington targeting the Capitol

or the White House. Once flight 93 went down, it was over, but no one knew that. Least of all,

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