representative maxine waters from telik ornette.re who were there and those -- in those dark days. when president obama was here, he talked about going to houston to the dome to look at all the people who were gathered there. i actually escorted him. he was a young senator from illinois. hillary wanted to go. she was a senator from new york. wait, wait. this is important. and tried to make a really important point here. [laughter] it is important for you to love her, but i went to tell you -- i agree -- hillary wanted to go because she had been a senator for new york on 9/11. she never forgot what mary and other members of congress of both arteries did to step up to try to help near you again after the awful tragedy of that day. there we were. i could tell how moved then senator obama was. i could tell how overwhelmed hillary was. i was thrilled when president bush asked his father and me to have effort that you just read about. i was thrilled when the then republican leader of the senate of mississippi said that nobody in the gulf