Kristen Breitweiser

It doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

Our understanding of what happened, again, comes from the 9-11 Commission telling us what happened and comes from the cell phone calls that gave an awful lot of information about the hijackers.

And again, there, there's been a lot of talk about how that was possible.

When planes are flying at 30,000 feet, how in 2001 was there able to be a connected cell phone call?

More to the point when the planes are being flown sort of like haphazardly and herky-jerky.

And the way cell phones work is they connect from towers to the ground.

Well, when a plane is moving all over the airspace and flying at maximum speed, it's really...

really rare for a cell phone to connect at 5,000 feet, let alone 30,000 feet.

And so that raises questions.

Our entire understanding of what took place on those planes literally comes from the cell phone calls.

We asked the FBI about that and we didn't really get any clear answers.

And to this day, we still don't have many clear answers.

Exactly.

No, we don't know.

Like my biggest questions aside from the cell phones and what have you and how the hijackers themselves were actually able to, you know,

navigate from the middle of nowhere to the precise targets that they went to when they were so grossly incompetent and not speaking to the ground.

My biggest question is where was our air defense?

I know as a fact, because I read all the rules and the procedures and protocols back in the day,

those f-16s should have been up within five minutes they should have been flanking those planes and they should have stopped those planes and at the bare minimum they should have been communicating down to the ground the f-16 pilots to say we can't get these guys to stop you know and put people on alert right but for some reason three planes were allowed to be hijacked over the course of almost an hour and a half and the united states of america did nothing to stop it

So putting aside all the failures to prevent the attacks for the 18 months, two years before 9-11, okay?