“I was interested to see his anger expressed, at the time and 20 years on.” “This really throws light on the media perception of the “Bush running scared” narrative of the time,” says Wishart. We learn that Bush was desperate to return to DC, but his team was having none of it, and ushered him to an air force base in Nebraska. Should the president be rushed to safety? Speak to the nation immediately? Return to Washington and assume control? “None of us had the playbook,” says Card. We hear about competing concerns, from the worries of the security service to the advice of the chief of staff. Wishart, who watched 9/11 unfold while “sitting in my flat in Ladbroke Grove, finishing the edit of my first book”, is most proud of the opening scenes covering the Florida school between 9.07am and 9.30am that day, as “machinery of government” sparked into gear. The result, 9/11: Inside The President’s War Room, contains a minute-by-minute account of the day, told through interviews with all the major political players including Bush, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice and press secretary Ari Fleischer – 70 hours of tape distilled into an hour and a half. “This project started with a fascination about how political leaders make decisions – what they are like during a crisis, and how it might feel to be ‘in the room’.” “The point of this film is to put yourself into the president’s seat and ask: what would you have done?” says Adam Wishart, the award-winning director whose work includes a film about the murdered private detective Daniel Morgan. I didn’t want to lurch out of the chair, scare a classroom full of children. So I waited for the appropriate moment to leave the classroom. “During a crisis, it’s really important to set a tone and not to panic. “I could see the horror on the faces of the news people who just got the same news,” Bush says. In an astonishing documentary to be aired on BBC1 on August 31, featuring interviews with Bush, we learn what really happened in the minutes and hours after the World Trade Center attacks.
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