At one point in the film Bush is seen in the primary school classroom where he first learned of the planes being flown into the World Trade Center towers, and Moore slows the footage down so that Bush is seen to be blinking uncomprehendingly and endlessly, a child's storybook open ridiculously before him, as a counter in the corner of the screen counts out the nine minutes before the President seemed to react. That's what I had heard about Moore's movie, except for the slowing down thing. But does that tape show his reaction after the first tower being hit, or the second? I'll bet it's the first, and Moore is intellectually dishonest enough to pretend it's the second.
I doubt that President Bush had seen the attack at the time that footage was shot. The first crash was not broadcast initially. It wasn't until the second hit that people were on the scene. Even then it was a clip of the second plane that played repeatedly with someone coming forth with "first plane" footage later (maybe even a day later).
I do not know if he was notified after the first hit or second hit.
Where was Bill Clinton and what did he do immediately (5 minutes) after he heard that there was a bombing in OKC?