The Situation Room has special commo gear to facilitate control of a rapidly evolving tactical situation. Meanwhile the WH upstairs is a place dedicated more to political concerns:
We know that at no point that night was the Prez in the Situation Room —WHERE was he..?
Was he upstairs, taking care of purely domestic political considerations during this tragedy..?
According to Joan Rivers comments, it could be he might have hade same “sex” sex upstairs???