REPORTERS REMEMBER COVERING THE 9/11 ATTACKS (Video):

Over on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, co-host Willie Geist struggled to talk about losing neighbors and close family friends in the attacks, though poignantly told of his then-pregnant sister-in-law narrowly escaping the twin towers and his now-19-year-old nephew just entering his sophomore year of college. Fellow co-host Mika Brzezinski described how she had just started a new job working for CBS News in New York on that fateful day.

Later in the day, CNN’s John King remembered covering the White House on September 11th, 2001 and how “staff and reporters were ordered to evacuate, told to run.” Back on MSNBC, anchor Andrea Mitchell recalled: “At a time before social media, Americans were transfixed by watching it live on television. Were we all bound together by broadcasters…”

A clip followed of late Meet the Press host Tim Russert interviewing then-Vice President Dick Cheney just days later about how the nation would respond to the heinous acts. Cheney replied: “If you provide sanctuary to terrorists, you face the full wrath of the United States.”

Mitchell declared: “The country united behind our leaders, there was no talk of a blue or red state America after those hijackers hit New York, Washington, and Shanksville, Pennsylvania.”

But of course, while it probably sounded good to Mitchell at that moment, it obviously wasn’t true: 20 Years After 9/11: Remembering the Left’s Unhinged Reaction.

And finally, great moments in moral narcissism: Brian Stelter shares who were ‘the closest thing America had to national leaders on 9/11’ (just guess):