{"id":11933,"date":"2026-02-18T07:01:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T07:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibomovies.com\/?movies=george-w-bush-the-9-11-interview"},"modified":"2026-02-18T07:01:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T07:01:05","slug":"george-w-bush-the-9-11-interview","status":"publish","type":"movies","link":"https:\/\/ibomovies.com\/?movies=george-w-bush-the-9-11-interview","title":{"rendered":"George W. Bush: The 9\/11 Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the National Geographic Channel special, \u201cGeorge W. Bush: The 9-11 Interview,\u201d the former President talks about the chaotic moments after the attacks and the reasoning behind decisions he made that day. Bush reflects on being told about the attacks while visiting schoolchildren in Florida and the difficulty in getting accurate information in what he calls \u201cthe fog of war.\u201d He also talks about returning to the White House to address Americans in the hours after the terrorist attacks. Fearing a possible psychological boost for al-Qaeda, Bush said he, quote, \u201cdamn sure wasn\u2019t going to give it from a bunker in Nebraska.\u201d The former President recalls the emotional visit to Ground Zero just three days after the World Trade Center Towers were destroyed. He describes \u201ca palpable bloodlust\u201d among workers in the ruins who were encouraging him to retaliate against those behind the attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":333,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"genres":[2],"dtquality":[],"dtcast":[48682],"dtdirector":[58285],"dtyear":[42282],"class_list":["post-11933","movies","type-movies","status-publish","hentry","genres-documentary","dtcast-george-w-bush","dtdirector-peter-schnall","dtyear-42282"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibomovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/movies\/11933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibomovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/movies"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibomovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/movies"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibomovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/333"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibomovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibomovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibomovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11933"},{"taxonomy":"genres","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibomovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fgenres&post=11933"},{"taxonomy":"dtquality","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibomovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fdtquality&post=11933"},{"taxonomy":"dtcast","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibomovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fdtcast&post=11933"},{"taxonomy":"dtdirector","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibomovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fdtdirector&post=11933"},{"taxonomy":"dtyear","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibomovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fdtyear&post=11933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}