in fact, nelson rockefeller would become vice president under president ford. we are joined by david rothenberg, a member of the attica observers' committee. he was one of the 35 people brought into attica to negotiate on behalf of prisoners. he is founder of "the fortune society," which was relatively new at the time of the uprising. it helped people who got out of prison reintegrate into society. also with us is michael hull, director of the new hbo documentary film "betrayal at attica." it plays this conversation between president nixon and the new york governor nelson rockefeller. david rothenberg, your thoughts on what happened and why when you were negotiating with so many others between the prisoners in the state rockefeller decided to simply have the troopers opened fire? >> amy, we were brought in as observers. the negotiators were the inmates. some of the observers like bill kunstler and congressman video and tom wicker, little more sophisticated than people like myself who are new in this whole arena. they're giving advice. but what had happened is i

it was where there was this final defended of showdown between goldwater and nelson rockefeller to be the republican nominee that year. it was a bloody fight. after they finished that campaign, there's a victory party for goldwater. the goldwater campaign that rigging goes. two reagan stands up and says, now let's, quote, make love to democrats. we don't want to win a convention, we have to win an election. he gets booed in the room for saying that. that's where his focus is, how do we sell this message to his broad a group as possible. i think today, in our fractionalized universe, that set of questions is one that politicians don't have to ask themselves. they are really thinking that through, how do we bring as many people on board with these ideas as possible, that will force you to come to the more important questions of how do we create a broader governing coalition to make this stuff happen. >> chase, how are you gonna make things happen today? >> one way to make them happen is for my fellow republicans to stop saying that they are fed myers of ronald reagan and start acting li

the attica prison uprising began on september 13, then-new york governor nelson rockefeller ordered armedte troopers to raid the prison. they killed 39 people. on monday, we will look at the attica uprising. this is democracy now! i'm amy goodman. this week marks 20 years since the 9/11 attacks. on the morning of september 11, 2001, democracy now! was on the air in our downtown firehouse studios when the world trade center was attacked. we were the closest national broadcast to ground zero. the latest news we have is there have been widespread attacks that clued at least three commerci jet crashes. we now believe perhaps four step three commercial jet crashes into significant buildings. in the first attack on a plane hit the north tower of the world trade center in manhattan shortly before 9:00, followed by another plane into the second tower about 20 minutes later. a hours later collapsed. about an hour later, a plane crashed into the pentagon, part of which collapsed. amy: that was just a part of our many are broadcast will stop we just did not go off the air on that day for at least si