Jenna Bush Hager Tearfully Remembers Being In College During 9/11
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- čas přidán 10. 09. 2021
- Jenna Bush Hager recalls being a 19-year-old college student during the Sept. 11 terror attacks. She opens up about the burden her father, former President George W. Bush, was inheriting in the days and years to come. Former chief of staff Andy Card also recalls the first night in the White House after the attacks and describes having to get the president and first lady to a bunker.
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I lost my dad and two uncles during 9/11 all three first responders love you daddy bless you always and love you Uncle bill and Will
💐
I am so sorry for your losses.
Heart felt sympathy. 🙏
Mason, my deepest condolences to you❤️
My condolences.
We lost a lovely couple from our old neighborhood. They were in the second plane. They were going to California to get her parents settled in assisted living. They had been married for 40 years, but they were like newlyweds. Always laughing and joking. They were truly best friends. They were the nicest people. I will never forget them.
🧢🧢🧢🧢🧢🧢
big cap
God bless them and you, I will never forget 🙏🙏❤❤
Those poor parents :(
Thats so sad :(
I cried when He mentioned were all suffering from PTSD.. it's so true I'll never forget that day.
What do you mean ?
“ptsd”
disrespectful to the people who actually have it.
For those who were there and saw the events unfold in front of them.. that was a traumatic experience. What don't you understand. No disrespect to those who lost their life. Alot of people were affected by that day
@@liamdidonato ptsd isn't just how is portrayed on Hollywood with the sweat and nightmares. For example, for me is every time I'm on a plane I think "please nobody hijack this plane." It's an irrational fear but it's a fear that I know stems from this event. Now we're just numb and jaded but that day creeps up out of nowhere from time to time.
I tried to watch the documentary made by the Naudet brothers this morning. I got about 3 minutes in and I had to pause and collect myself. I live in Michigan and didn't lose anyone on 911, so I pay my respects by watching and listening and remembering. But man, it is hard.
I was a senior in high school at the time and remember desperately looking to the teachers and adults around me for reassurance. I just wanted to hear someone say “it’s alright, we’re going to be OK”… but no one did. Literally everyone was shaken and scared.
I’ll never forget or be able to fully explain how that day felt.
I too remember that day, I was at my house with my 1-month-old Twins named Zoey (Girl) and Julian (Boy), 6-year-old son named Tyler, 8-year-old son named Andrew, and 10-year-old son named Peter, I was washing the Dishes in the kitchen sink, looking over the island bar that connected the kitchen and the living room, and watching on the TV that was in the Entertainment Center that was in the corner of the living room, an Episode of "Little House on the Prairie" (When it was on the Superstation TBS at the time, and It was the Episode of when that old house that they've remade into a School for all of those Poor Blind kids, was on Fire), Zoey and Julian were taking their naps in their cribs in the nursery, Tyler was in his bedroom, sitting in his beanbag chair watching his favorite TV Cartoon show "The Fairly OddParents", Andrew was in his bedroom playing a game on his Video Game on his PlayStation 2 "Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3", Andrew was working on his PUZZ 3-D of The Titanic, I was washing the last bowl, and was putting it on the drainer, when the telephone ring, I pulled the plug out, and answered the phone, I started talking to my friend named Sarah, I was talking to her for over an hour, when I looked over my shoulder, and saw this happening, I told Sarah if she was watching it, she told me that she was, we got off the phone, I told Tyler, Andrew, and Peter not to go into the living room, I closed their bedroom doors, I also closed Zoey and Julian's Nursery door, I went back and continued watching This Happening, until my Husband Jason David returned home, I told him what had happened, he told me that he had heard, and his boss gave him and the other workers a week off.
R.I.P to those that lost their lives.
World Trade Center.
The Pentagon.
United 93.
I was 6 in kindergarten
Same here! The day after the 9/11 attacks, I remember asking my grandmother(who was watching the news) "Is everything okay now?", and I was expecting her to assure me that it was, but she never could. I was just hoping that this would all be over and we would get back to our normal lives, but that would never happen. The days that proceeded 9/11 were so dark and uncertain. I was fourteen-years-old at the time. Every time I heard a plane fly by, I was always fearful that it was another hijacking. The news headlines read "America's New War". Than there was the anthrax scare. After the 9/11 attacks I was on edge for weeks!
I'm so glad Jenna got to reunite with Andy Card you never see her interact with her fathers staff when they come on the today show unless it's behind the scenes. It bittersweet hearing her say that Andy Card said to Jenna "I'm sorry I had to do that I was trying to protect you".
I was a freshmen in high school and I remember watchinh it on the news at school and it was heart breaking.
Same I was in middle school... It was horrible
I was a high school teacher terrified to have to show my students what has happening in real time. So proud of how strong they were. I will never forget …………….💔
Thanks for sharing.
Same I was getting ready to.go to school and remember starring at the tv thinking wtf felt like a movie and ran to my parents room
i was a softmore in high school when this happened
I was in the hospital that day I was giving birth. The hospital was a scary place at the time.
We will never forget that day that we lost 3,000 people.
Even more died in the wars that followed.
@@katdeluxy9608 agree friend U.S.M.C. 23YEARS
We should remember all the other victims as well. Those innocent civilians lost in Iraq and afghanistan, as well as the Muslims here in the United States who were persecuted.
And 50 millions innocents aborted slaughtered babies in wombs
Thanks for supporting our country Hector
I’m the same age as Jenna and Barbara and lived in Austin at the time and could not imagine having secret service following me around at that age. They were painted as out of control party girls , but my friends and I did the same things, only difference we were lucky enough to have anonymity.
I appreciate her candor and honesty. You can tell she has a great relationship with her dad ❤
Every year we are reminded that we’ve never been the same since 9/11. It doesn’t get easier 20 years later it seems like.
I will carry the memory of that day for life, RIP to all lives lost. We will never forget you
I was 37 at the time and living on the North Shore at the Queens-Nassau border. I could see the huge plume of smoke that morning from Northern Blvd. A day has not gone by that 9-11 does not cross my mind. The sound of an airplane roaring in take off from nearby LaGuardia Airport and the sound of fire trucks responding to an emergency always transport me back to that awful morning. May God bless all the people who perished that morning and look after their surviving loved ones always.
I was in 5th grade and I remembered my teacher turned the tv on after our principal announced that something happened in New York and DC and we all were sent home and the school I went to , I lived three blocks away. I came home and my mom and grandparents couldn't even move or tell me what was going on. 20 years later, my heart is filled with emotion as we reflect on this day.
Awww. You must have been so confused and scared. 💔
I was in 5th grade too. They didn't tell us. I found out when I got home from school.
It warms my heart to hear how her voice cracked recalling how he told her he was sorry and that he was just trying to protect her. Dont think she or anyone can understand this unless ur a parent
I was in high school in 9th grade when that tragic day happened.
Same
Same..10th grade English class for me
I was a senior in college at the time and witnessed the breaking news on NBC as it happened. It was so unbelievably tragic and could not believe what I was seeing. My prayers go out to the families of those affected. God bless 🙏🏽
Commemorating a day that will live on within me as a day of infamy ----indelibly etched in my psyche as a proud NYC native who knew first hand on September 11 the call for ordinary New Yorkers to stand shoulder to shoulder ....united...and demonstrate to the world the extraordinary strength and courage New Yorkers have in a crisis of unimaginable proportions. We will never forget. Prayers today for everyone affected then, now, always. Blessings ✨
Thank you for sharing this with us, it’s a beautiful tribute to your city, New York.
♥️♥️♥️
Towards the end when Jenna referenced how President Clinton made space for her grandfather and how her father and Michelle Obama have become friends really got to me. This tragedy truly brought opposing sides together and it just saddens me to see how our political space has devolved since the Trump years.
I have to believe we can someday get back to that level of civility.
Trump the only ex president who is no where to be seen at these memorials neither Guilini either makes ya wonder now what they know about this the other presidents can put differences aside but those two grifters ekkk. Yeh there are people who still think Trump is great no he not not even show up for this memorial and his followers are in jail.
How can Michelle Obama be friends with W.?
@@karmad4491 she just is. Look it up.
@@karmad4491I see you're part of the problem. Ignorant bigots are the worst people in the world.
Yeah if liberals allow it
I was there Manager of a Circle K, 26 years old, and realized that we were changed forever. I had to cover for the middle eastern coworker, after he received death threats because of racism.
Other victims not remembered or honored nearly as much as they should be.
@@kbanghart agreed
It was a Tuesday, a very nice fall morning, I was on my way to campus
💞💞💖💖
I didn't agree at all with most of George W Bush's policies. Yet Jenna, Barbara, and Laura are all women of substance. Laura tried to get a woman put on the Supreme Court. Jenna and Barbara reject Trumpism, and advocated for marriage equality.
Trump's policies were xenophobic White Nationalism, combined with a soft on Russia stance and empty rhetoric about trade deficits. He is a worthless grifter and a fascist.
Hearing that plane in the background at the end freaked me out.
I was a freshman in college in the middle of taking my college algebra exam. The news broke out and we were excuse from taking the exam. There was chaos and confusion on our college campus trying to figure what exactly happen.
PTSD.....more true than any of us can imagine.
Chilling to hear the aeroplane at the ending of this video. ✈️ 🥺
For me, I was in Kindergarten. My class and I was later pulled out of class for a minor safety drill, as a result. Later on, the teachers were hearing about what went on in New York that morning, and had to work together to make sure that no one told us, at our age, that there was a horrific act of violence going on.
I later learned that my dad was away- in New Jersey with my grandmother, and if it weren’t for her, he’d have been in great danger. Thankfully, he's still with us, but what went on that day- even though we didn't have anyone else involved, really affected us along with the rest of the nation, and the world.
We really did grow closer as the American people. I had just turned 21, and 9/11/2001 took the final bit of innocence out of my perspective. It fundamentally changed me as well.
I was in high school that day the 11th grade and remember coming to my English classroom and seeing the television on with the North Tower enveloped in thick black smoke, I remember seeing the clock on the wall it was 08:59am. Just as I was able to process and understand what was happening the South Tower was struck all my friends and I just gasped, my teacher said were under attack. That day just seemed like it went on forever.
I still cry when I see footage of that very sad day!
*I'm too young to remember that day, but it is not lost on me to learn everything that happened that day. I remember my reaction watching the planes go into the World Trade Center, and knew this was a day the world wouldn't forget. RIP to all of those lost that day.*
I was driving across Newfoundland and couldn’t believe it. We saw all the planes on the tarmac in Gander. We knew how scared all those people were.
I'll never forget that day and thinking of what all those people were going through at the time. This country changed forever after that day. Unbelievable still to this day.
my family is part American this day still stays in my heart my uncle stayed home that day he watched as the towers fell he lost most of his firm for everyone that day touched a part of us a great video may those lost rest in peace
Was at work! Saw it in the news, heartbreaking. 😩
I also cry when I think about being in college
We all remember where we were and what we were doing that day, it was a moment in time that stands with us. The questions about what happened that day still go on though.
Hi there everyone! Jenna, this is what we called Flash Bulb Memory! However, good to hear you, someone who did live this experience from inside. We all continue to learn from this particular experience. I consider as Systemic Risk. And we've started to have a lot of them now. Meaning that they're becoming a game changer.
II. I consider them as Blessing. Theoretically I should not. However, they are increasing the accountability of the Millennials and also offering significant reflexion opportunity.
They're helping to know how to deal with complex, chaotic and disordered context. How to transform challenges into opportunities but also how to redesign the US 21st global leadership.
Yes Jenna, whether we like it or not, we are all called now to make history and the history also is reading to judge us.
I was at home expecting my first child when I was awakened by a friend of mine calling me to check on me on the phone. While on the phone, I had the urge to turn on the tv which is something I normally didn’t do. When I did I saw the north tower on fire. Not thinking much of it I continued speaking to my friend when suddenly the second plane hit the south tower. That’s how I knew I was witnessing history being changed forever.
I was also pregnant that day, and I remember thinking my child would be born into a very different world.
May all of the People who passed away Rest In Peace 🙏🙏🙏🙏
They just don’t want us to get along (speaking of terrorists)…Mr. Card. So simply stated, yet so profound.
President Bush what a great speech! Your father would have been proud of your desire to bring Americans together. As your father and President Clinton did come together to make the world a better place it is now the time that you and President Obama come together to try to heal the nation. It is a difficult task as many Americans have believe in the miss information. I do not know how you get them to believe in the truth.
Her father's military ambition and daddy issues are why this war went on forever in Afgahnistan.
@@maryk3458 And don't forget the "enhanced interrogation," Guantanamo, and the fact that W. was warned months before.
Can we talk about how well Biden went up those stairs for once 🤣
Jenna and savanah should just be drama actors.
Jena keeps her self grounded just like everyone else I like that keep it real Jen
Ugh. Oh please.
I will never forget 🕯🕯🕯🕯I was in high school
And they’re still enjoying those Kuwaiti-kick-backs!!!
AMAZING.
absoluuuuutely!!!
@@4465Vman
They are with the wealthiest of families in America, and no one questions it!
And it was kept secret at the time that Kuwait is THE WEALTHIEST NATION ON EARTH PER CAPITAL!!!
If I could ask President Bush one question and his VP another it would be, "Why did you lie about WMDs? Why did you risk our lives to protect the oil pipeline?"
That family has blood on their hands, it’s disgusting that their daughter is now on TV
@@2010hotmale2010 That was a whole weird group of war criminals that went from the father's to the sons admin to carry out their perverse obsession with getting Saddam Hussain. The were even willing to blow the cover of a covert CIA agent setting back actual nuclear intelligence back decades to cover their lies.
Soo correct, they are dressing up the pig and layering the makeup, do much deception in the media by these petroleum money hoarders, she not an angle of light but a dark angle coming out of the shadows of her evil father.
Cool
Cruelty to anybody is never ever right
I was sitting in my 5th grade classroom and we watched the news and saw the Towers coming down and people jumping
I think it was cruel to expect Jenna to have to be on air in a clearly horrific time for her and her family 😖
She was raised the right way to be strong and to show compassion for all she knows her duties as a first daughter and news reporter I’m certain she was more than happy to be there to share the memories and show honor to this day
What? Admittedly, she is not a journalist, just a chatting blonde. Many think her dad is a war criminal for his mishandling of the tragedy in 2001
@@gaynellgobert2124 She's not a reporter, just a politically well connected chat show blonde.
@@maryk3458 He is a war criminal.
I was 75 days old
My only wish was that he would have given a deadline to evacuate all that were involved less than 20 years ago.
Hearing Jenna talk about Pres Clinton asking if he could move so Bush Snr could sit beside Pres Bush to comfort and support him I thought….hmmmm never will we hear 45 offer to do anything so gracious and thoughtful. It clearly delineates 45’s lack of humanity with the caring heart of other recent presidents, regardless of party.. a stark and sad realisation.
Nor would you hear of Obama or Biden doing the same…
Thank you for saying my name Jenna! I appreciate the sincere effort and love your willingness to be bold and brave. 🥰😍😇🤩
Not to be mean, I remember there was a story about her not being able to be located/ found for hours, maybe because of lack of communication or all the chaos for hours that day?
With newly declassified documents released show the involvement of Saudi Government officials providing assistance to the hijackers leading up to the attacks and lots of warnings prior to them etc isn't it time this event was reinvestigated?
Is that when we got the nice beach photo??????????
20 years later and people’s person stories still being tears to my eyes. 💔 One day the truth will come out, completely. 🙏🏽
Already has, people just don’t want to accept it, truth is Bush lied and said they’re was weapons of mass destruction, bombed and caused thousands of lives lost in the Middle East, footage of bushes Dad making businesses dealings with the saudis in 98 then a few years later the towers go down, it was an inside job but no American will accept it and therefore you will never get the truth
About Ghislaine Maxwell?
O God thank you
I had a brother who worked at the Pentagon. He had called in sick that day due to back problems. Otherwise he would have been there on 9/11.
Yeah totally. I was thinking every day what is Jenna doing and I wonder what she was doing on 911. What a clown of a question
Whoa relax.
Says the clown.
Huh???
Basically it's fake news. What they should be talking about is how the democrats and Biden the moron messed it all up on exit.
I was in college too
poor girl. So sad.
I hope this never happens again.
I was in college too 🥲
Are you sure that’s not Rachel Ray?
We were on holiday ,camping in France . I went back to the car to close the electronic windows I had left the radio on and heard ," All tele communications with the USA are down ". That night at our campsite I watched the French TV news , Although I speak French quite well translating the news into English was difficult . Switching from French to English and back again is not easy
Someone I know works for the Bank of America in Croydon, England ,but was in New York for a conference, They were on Floor 45 in the North Tower . Although they were told to stay put, the boss in New York decided that they would all leave She wrote an account of her experiences ,how they got away etc. She was OK for 1 week after she got back to England ,but then started to suffer from severe shock and was off work for 3 months. This happened fo very many people .
Sad day in our history 🛬🏙😲😥
i wish the camera man showed the interview on a screen
@Jenna Bush Hager - I am a Gold Star Mother of Spc Matthew W. Ward. I respect your Dad even though my son is gone. You have a beautiful soul. I'll never forget that day myself.
Thank You for your service mam. I feel Gold Star Moms are also Veterans. God Bless You!
@@marleymae6746 Thank you.
@@marleymae6746 - one more thing. I would so very much love to meet her dad one day but I just know that's not possible. Many thanks for the blessings!
Her father orchestrated the whole thing...your father is a devil....
Jenna was a cute first daughter, I was 20 back then
My grandma die because of a heart attack couple days after this attack she was scared were going to war
That's sad 😢
We didn't comply w war rules either waterboarding people lol
She looks just like her dad
yes she does 🤮
Jenna was born the same year I was born, 1981. Yeah!😛
Jenna, Your dad was placed in that position at that time by God. Your dad did amazing job.
Thank you for the “slip” pictures that are on the internet of you changing on the beach !
Compassion is great a Strength.
Jenna, Tori Amos is making me laugh, my Papa was such an amazing Grandfather he played baseball. His name is John and was really gentle.
My Grandma, Frannie is the best housekeeper I have ever seen.
Papa, Marc Cohn really helps me remember John normally.
Two last names says it all
Yeah I’m not hating on her cause I really like her but she probably would’ve never gotten the job if it wasn’t for her famous parents. So probably a good idea she kept the name Bush in her name.
🙏🙏🙏🙏
I think veteran status should be mandatory to hold the office. I find it troubling as a veteran to have a commander and chief that has not set an example of service.
Lol. So you mean a military dictatorship?
Nah. It is a plus but should not be a requirement.
@@abbyolmsted7852 any plus at a leadership capacity should be mandatory.
@@gruweldaad Hold on now. I’m speaking of service not dictatorship. However straight lines in the opposite direction are the closest distance between 2 points.
I've been saying that for years, and I'm not a vet. They need to have served, and some sort of business/ economics/ or law background. But service is #1.
2:35 she’s very careful how she doesn’t specifically say a bunker at the White House, she’s a good actor keep that in mind
Плохо что погибло много невинных людей.семья Буш хорошие люди
He seems like a great man…
Not Mrs. Bush Hager's fault, but this is just horrible television production. Why is she telling how personal experience of that day imposed over the reading of the names?
Tell them Jenna
Jenna,
I’m a Maine lady as well. I totally understand.... be you, it’s completely enjoyable. 😇🙏🏻
The hand / the L....... still do it and I’m left handed and I consider myself a blonde as you!
My good friend's brother was one of Mr. Card's SS agents.
Carter? That’s pretty cool.
God bless her dad
Her dad did it. Shes crying tears of joy.
"when "Andy" told her Pops the nation was under attack, Pops kept reading "My pet goat" for eight minutes!!! wow!!
Her dad let it happen
No ones going talk about her dad's involvement? Guess not believing everything you're spoon fed
Jenna & all your family, God bless you!!! I am glad our 43rd President of the United States, former President, Gorge W. Bush and our first family is became great-grandfather and our great 41st President of the United States, former President Gorge H. Bush our first family are became great-grandfather. That is Great, & God bless your Family!!!
Do you want to know where the Bush family puppy was on 9/11 as well? smh.
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While her dad made some bad mistakes in the aftermath, and that's what he's most known for, in his defense, he was given terrible advice from several top elected officials in both major political parties.