President Trump held his first 9/11 commemoration. Throwback to his interview from 2001, hours after he witnessed the attack.
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00:00We're gathered here today to remember a morning that started very much like this one.
00:16I have a window that looks directly at the World Trade Center and I saw this huge explosion.
00:23Then our whole world changed.
00:27You want to just say, the hell with it, you're going forward, nothing's going to change.
00:32But the fact is something has changed.
00:34It was the worst attack on our country since Pearl Harbor.
00:39This was probably worse than Pearl Harbor.
00:42The horror and anguish of that dark day were seared into our national memory forever.
00:48I guess the big thing that you really will have to do is never forget.
00:51You just can't forget that something like this happened.
00:54I was so disappointed when they closed the stock exchange, but of course at some point
00:58you had no choice.
00:59On that day, not only did the world change, but we all changed.
01:05Donald, you have one of the landmark buildings down in the financial district, 40 Wall Street.
01:1040 Wall Street actually was the second tallest building in downtown Manhattan.
01:15And it was actually before the World Trade Center was the tallest.
01:18And then when they built the World Trade Center, it became known as the second tallest and
01:21now it's the tallest.