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Mark takes your calls! · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: The Mark Simone Show on 710WOR. Well, it's the 25th
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  Speaker 1: anniversary of September 11th, 2001. We'll talk to some of
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  Speaker 1: the people that covered it that morning. We'll talk to
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  Speaker 1: Scott Shannon a little later this hour. He was on
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  Speaker 1: the air for many, many, many hours. The morning guys
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  Speaker 1: were all on live, so they had to cover it
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  Speaker 1: as it unfolded. Let's take some calls. Let's just see what,
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  Speaker 1: because people have a lot to say about what they
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  Speaker 1: went through that day. Let's go to Mike in Florida. Mike,
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  Speaker 1: how are you doing?
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Mark.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Mike.
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  Speaker 2: I remember that day being a Manhattanite, getting the vibe
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  Speaker 2: from other people like my father and brother in Queens
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  Speaker 2: that Manhattanites were a little bit more of a target.
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  Speaker 2: And there was a certain element of paranoia following a
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  Speaker 2: few days afterwards. I remember getting on the train at
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  Speaker 2: some point, the subway train, And I'm sitting in the
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  Speaker 2: car and like a bunch of guys came in wearing
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  Speaker 2: traditional Middle Eastern garb. And I was like, oh my God,
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  Speaker 2: what is this? And then I remember walking down in
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  Speaker 2: Chelsea one morning and over my shoulder comes this loud
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  Speaker 2: roar of a jet. And it couldn't have been, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it felt like it was like right behind me. And
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  Speaker 2: that freaked me out. It was an Air Force jet
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  Speaker 2: patrolling the area because they were still patrolling things. And
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  Speaker 2: it was, such an odd feeling of sort of like
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  Speaker 2: quiet and paranoia and camaraderie, all sort of all mixed
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  Speaker 2: together among the populace.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Mike. Good, uh, good, good, uh, call. Um, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there were, they banned all air traffic from over New
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  Speaker 1: York city, but there were fighter jets patrolling over New
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  Speaker 1: York city, flying constantly all over the place and occasionally helicopters,
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  Speaker 1: police helicopters, that sort of stuff. Hey, the other good
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  Speaker 1: thing is, um, it came out of that. We, didn't
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  Speaker 1: have the police department. It was great, but it basically
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  Speaker 1: just patrolled the streets and that was it. We didn't
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  Speaker 1: have a big intelligence capability around the world, but we
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  Speaker 1: suddenly over the next year or two got one and
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  Speaker 1: thank Ray Kelly for that. He realized we couldn't depend
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  Speaker 1: on the federal government or the FBI or anybody for
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  Speaker 1: a warning. We had to have our own intelligence. He
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  Speaker 1: created a massive infrastructure for that where he placed detectives
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  Speaker 1: all over the world in hotspots to you know, be
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  Speaker 1: the first to learn of anything, any threat anywhere. We
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  Speaker 1: still have that, uh, today, thanks to him. So, uh,
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  Speaker 1: all over the world, we've got detectives, we've got people there.
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  Speaker 1: We've got people that speak different languages that, uh, uh,
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  Speaker 1: work with other intelligence of people around the world, but
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  Speaker 1: just strictly for the NYPD, get us the information directly.
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  Speaker 1: And first also, and this was controversial, you had to, uh,
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  Speaker 1: start putting people at, uh, you know, in, in certain, uh,
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  Speaker 1: There were some very controversial mosques and other places. You
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  Speaker 1: had to infiltrate them with people that spoke the language
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  Speaker 1: just to learn if anything was happening. And that started,
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  Speaker 1: the NYPD continues to do that stuff to this day.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go to Tom in Connecticut. Tom, how are you doing? Hi, Matt.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning. Just a couple of remembrances. I'm a retired
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  Speaker 3: air traffic controller. And there was a flight. a scheduled
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  Speaker 3: flight out of Bradley, which has happened, going to Florida.
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  Speaker 3: And one of the planes that hit the World Trade
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  Speaker 3: Center almost had a mini collision with them. And the
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  Speaker 3: air traffic controllers in New York were scrambling, but they
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  Speaker 3: pointed out that the plane flying down the Hudson River wasn't, Yeah, it.
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  Speaker 1: Was a renegade plane. That's a good point. Well, thanks, Tom.
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  Speaker 1: It was a bright, sunny day that day. That's the
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  Speaker 1: reason the attack was able to happen. Had it been
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  Speaker 1: a cloudy day or the weather had been bad, they
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  Speaker 1: would have waited. These guys obviously weren't trained pilots. So
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  Speaker 1: what they did was they used the Hudson River, starting
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  Speaker 1: around Albany, and they knew the Hudson River went right
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  Speaker 1: to the World Trade Center. So they looked down and
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  Speaker 1: just followed the Hudson River all the way in. needing
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  Speaker 1: a bright, sunny day to do that. But, you know, also,
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  Speaker 1: it was a tremendous intelligence failure. Federal government. It happened
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  Speaker 1: under the Clinton administration when he put in, oh, that
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  Speaker 1: awful CIA director. What was his name? I think it
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  Speaker 1: was Deutsch. This was some woke CIA director who decided
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  Speaker 1: we didn't need to use informants. He cut all that off.
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  Speaker 1: He said, we have satellite pictures. We can see everything
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  Speaker 1: on the ground. We don't ever need to use any
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  Speaker 1: informants again. So he cut all that off. Had we
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  Speaker 1: been using informants, we might have been able to learn
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  Speaker 1: something ahead of time. Also, there was this wall that
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  Speaker 1: had been put up. The CIA and the FBI were
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  Speaker 1: not allowed to talk to each other. So the terrorists
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  Speaker 1: like Mohammed Atta in Germany, other places, CIA is looking
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  Speaker 1: at this guy knowing he's probably a terrorist. He comes
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  Speaker 1: to the U.S., And the FBI is watching this guy,
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  Speaker 1: and he's taking flying lessons. But the instructor later said
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  Speaker 1: he took lessons in how to fly the plane. He
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  Speaker 1: didn't want any lessons in how to land the plane,
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  Speaker 1: which is a little suspicious. But had the CIA been
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  Speaker 1: able to talk to the FBI and put two and
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  Speaker 1: two together, everything might have been different. They might have
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  Speaker 1: figured this out ahead of time. But that was later corrected.
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  Speaker 1: You have the 9-11 Commission who discovered all of that
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  Speaker 1: and corrected it and put things back. The way they
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  Speaker 1: should be. Hey, let's take a break for all the
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  Speaker 1: latest news. When we come back, we'll talk to the
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  Speaker 1: legendary Scott Shannon. He was on that morning. It all
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  Speaker 1: unfolded while his show was on. He covered it all live.
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  Speaker 1: It was quite a day for him. We'll talk to
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  Speaker 1: him next. And we'll talk to Warner Wolf, who was
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  Speaker 1: quite a part of that story, covering it live. And
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  Speaker 1: a whole lot more coming up. It's Mark Simone here,
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  Speaker 1: 9 to noon every day, 710WOR.