WASHINGTON — Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick emotionally recalled on the latest episode of “ Pod Force One ” how he lost his brother, his best friend and hundreds of employees at his firm, Cantor Fitzgerald, in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Lutnick, now 64, told The Post’s Miranda Devine that he had taken his eldest son to school for his first day of kindergarten on that fateful Tuesday morning.
“I’ve got a picture in front of his school at 8:48 [a.m.],” two minutes after hijacked American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center, of which Cantor Fitzgerald occupied the 101st through 105th floors.
“I’m just in the school, and then my phone keeps ringing, but I have a flip phone, but there’s no one on the other end,” Lutnick said. “I kept s