Atlanta, Chicago, and Philadelphia. Destroyed.

Thomas J. Whitmore, President Thomas J. Whitmore (Bill Pullman)

7 seconds sound clip from the Independence Day (1996) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:24:30 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- You should have told us about this when they first arrived!

- You should have warned us before we launched a counterattack that cost the lives of hundreds of American pilots!

- There was no way that we could have known that our fighters would have been that ineffective against their attackers.

- Mr. President. (2)

- The little bit of information we have comes directly into this room, Mr. President.

- Atlanta, Chicago, and Philadelphia. Destroyed.

- We learned that NATO and Western Allied installations were the first to be taken out.

- Then we were hit. They knew exactly where and how to hit us.

- And our forces? We're down to 15 percent.

- If you calculate the time it takes to destroy a city and move on, we're looking at the worldwide destruction of every major city in the next 36 hours.

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