KING: Where were you on 9/11?
HEINZ KERRY: You know, it's very interesting. I landed at National Airport less than 12 hours before, coming from Pennsylvania, where I was doing a prescription drugs thing -- meeting. And I came in from Pittsburgh, landed at National, and that's the last time I landed at National for quite a while.
KING: How'd you hear about it?
HEINZ KERRY: I was at home in Washington. I had just come in and I got a call...
KERRY: I think I called.
HEINZ KERRY: And they said, look at the TV. I looked at the TV and I couldn't believe it.
KING: Where were you?
KERRY: I was in the Capitol. We'd just had a meeting -- we'd just come into a leadership meeting in Tom Daschle's office, looking out at the Capitol. And as I came in, Barbara Boxer and Harry Reid were standing there, and we watched the second plane come in to the building. And we shortly thereafter sat down at the table and then we just realized nobody could think, and then boom, right behind us, we saw the cloud of explosion at the Pentagon. And then word came from the White House, they were evacuating, and we were to evacuate, and so we immediately began the evacuation.
HEINZ KERRY: You walked out with John McCain, didn't you?
KERRY: Yes.
KING: You and what?
HEINZ KERRY: He and John walked out together.
KING: He and John McCain walked out -- what did you think?
Did you think...
(CROSSTALK)
KERRY: I knew instantaneously...
KING: Clinton said he though bin Laden.
KERRY: I knew instantaneously with the first. I'm a pilot, and I looked at the weather, and it's what we call in pilot lingo CAVU, ceiling and visibility unlimited. And I knew that that plane did not fly into that building accidentally, as people were speculating. It just doesn't happen, could not, under those circumstances. So I knew it was deliberate, whether it was suicide, whether it was something -- I couldn't tell. When the second plane hit, it was obvious to the world.
And as we went out of the building, my immediately feeling was, we're at war. I mean, that was the sense, that we are under attack. People are attacking the United States of America and we needed to respond.
KING: Were you scared?
KERRY: No, I wasn't scared, I was angry. I was very angry.
KING: Were you scared?
HEINZ KERRY: I was a little scared, actually. Understand, first of all, it was hard to comprehend. But, actually, I remember how I was told. My son, Christopher, had left that morning from New York, and he lived nearby -- at 6:00 in the morning to go to a meeting in Carolina, somewhere. And when he landed -- when he got off the plane, he called me.
He said -- he was in the airport. He said, mom, mom, look. And several of his friends from college lived and worked around the American Express, and he got panicked, because his friends were being killed.
KING: We're out of time.
KERRY: And my daughter called, also, she lived right near there.
KING: Oh, really?
KERRY: And she was there and she called me, hysterical, from the phone booth, saying, Dad, what's happening?
KING: See a lot of you, John.
KERRY: We will. Thank you.
KING: Teresa.
HEINZ KERRY: Thanks very much.
I can relate to that. My son called from about 30th street on his cell phone, asking what was going on. He could see smoke and hear the fire trucks, but really didn't know what had happened. He was walking to work, which would have taken him right past the trade center.
By some wierd fluke, the answering machine recorded his call, which includes my wife turning on the news.
Thanks for partial transcript. I followed the link and read the entire interview. Do you realize that just before discussing 9/11, King suggests to Kerry that he go see Fahrenheit 911? Apparently Kerry took King's advice and borrowed the cheap "seven minutes" shot from Moore, forgetting or disregarding the fact that he'd just stated on national TV that he was in shock for 40 minutes.
The DemonRat candidates have no fear that the media will even attempt to catch them in their lies and inconsistencies. They can say anything any time they wish. But God help the swiftboat vets for telling their true stories. The media is going to crucify them. The Passion of the Swiftboat Vets, on the way to a theatre near you.
In the interview with king he knew immediately what was going on and he was very, very angry but at the time he couldn't think while he sat around in an office for an hour. What a poser.
KING: Were you scared?
KERRY: No, I wasn't scared,
KING: Were you scared?
HEINZ KERRY: I was a little scared, actually.
I was scared before I wasn't scared