we're to be going back to the airport to dan bartlett. i said, get some remarks written for the president. we've got 600 people in the gymnasium. you'll have to talk to them. he can not say anything. we do not know. be the truth. the president then came out of that classroom. he excused himself to the students, to the media. and he came into the holding. and the first thing he said was, get the fbi director the phone and we to say he's here. mr. president. then you talk to the vice president. he talked to his national security adviser. he talked to the of new york, tried to reach the mayor of new york city. i then ran around the building and went into the room with the 600 people from the community. we were and stood at the back of the room. and i saw the president come in with secretary of education ron paige. and i stood there as the president walked and went to the podium and the first thing he said was, i'm going to have to be going back to washington, d.c. and then he explained what had just. it was a very short, but i was not please

dan bartlett, who was the communique director, and then some more senior reporters who were here in dc, got on. we had a full we had a full press pool and took everybody's cell phones. we had timed it so we would land right after right after what they call true. and on and the day happened, be kind of misty and and, you know, people people on the ground. we had a lot of special guys. who were you covering the trip, not knowing who was coming either, but they could they pulled later. they could hear the plane land, but they couldn't the plane. and all of a sudden, the big, beautiful blue and white plane comes out of the mist. and they were i can't repeat on television what some of the some of the comments were, but it was a pretty extraordinary. and then taking off was probably the most wracking because you know there's engines pointing at the ground and even though the plane is pretty well equipped to protect itself it was and we had to get we thought to about 15,000 feet to be out of harm's. and there was an altimeter in the staff area and everybody looking at that or i'm sorry, it wa