Sorry bout that,
1. I knew.
2. Did you?
3. If I had been President, I would have scrambled F-15's.
4. And ordered them to shoot down any aircraft that was somewhere it should not of been.
5. My dear mother called me and said a plane had hit one of the Twin Towers.
6. I said, "Its the muslims".
7. Matt Larua kept saying the first plane strike was an accident, and he thought it was a small plane.
Regards,
SirJamesofTexas
Problems with your scenario
1. The president did not see the impact; he was initially informed that "a small, twin-engined plane hit one of the World Trade Center Towers., he knew nothing further, until after the second plane hit, when Andrew Card informed him of that fact, and that "America is under attack."
2. No. North American Air Defense Command did, and began the procedure to scramble fighters in accord with the existing contingency plan.
3. You couldn't have. Since the Cold War was over, there were no longer armed, fueled F-15s or F-16s sitting on the tarmac ready to scramble, with pilots ready to fly them at a moment's notice-in fact, the first fighters scrambled HAD NO LIVE ARMAMENT ABOARD. Further, see the elapsed time between the first impact and the second. IF NORAD HAD armed fighters available, and IF those had been ordered to take off immediately after NORAD received word of the first impact, their was insufficient time to get them airborne and intercept the second plane.
4. How would anyone know that? FAA controllers were not sure which aircraft were hijacks ( a couple they thought MIGHT be, in fact had other, unrelated problems). There were only about 4,000 civilian flights in the air. Which ones would you have shot down, again? How would you know you got the right ones?
5. Is your mother an air traffic controller AND a psychic? Did she know which aircraft were the hijacked ones?
6. "It's the Muslims" covers a lot of people. exactly which ones would you have nuked, and how would you know you hit the right ones, or does that matter?
7. It's Matt Lauer. He is a reporter, not a government official or military commander. I'm pretty sure he did not have either a hotline to the commander at NORAD, or the authority to order fighters scrambled, much less a shootdown of a commercial airliner. Reporters report what they know (often erroneous information; they do not make or execute national policy (let us hope!).
You are NOT the President, (Thank God!) and after that post, I would not trust you to "command" a troop of Girl Scouts on a day hike.