That’s where the misrepresentation of Larry Silverstein’s comments come in.
Silverstein was interviewed for the PBS documentary “America Rebuilds.” But he never said, let alone “admitted,” that he had ordered building 7 demolished. He said:
v"I remember getting a call from the fire department commander, telling me that they were not sure they were gonna be able to contain the fire, and I said, “We’ve had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it.” And they made that decision to pull and we watched the building collapse"
As the BBC reported, citing misinterpretation of his words, a spokesperson for Silverstein issued a follow-up statement clarifying that by using the phrase “pull it,” he was not referencing the building itself but the crew of firefighters inside the building:
In the afternoon of September 11, Mr Silverstein spoke to the Fire Department Commander on site at Seven World Trade Centre.
The Commander told Mr Silverstein that there were several fire fighters in the building working to contain the fires.
Mr Silverstein expressed his view that the most important thing was to protect the safety of those fire fighters, including, if necessary, to have them withdraw from the building.
Later in the day, the Fire Commander ordered his fire fighters out of the building and at 5:20pm the building collapsed. No lives were lost at 7 World Trade Centre on September 11, 2001.
In sum, Silverstein never said he had ordered the building demolished. Instead, conspiracy theorists twisted his vague wording in the documentary interview to suit their own agenda. Silverstein later stated that his comments had been mischaracterized and clarified that what he meant by “pull it” was the crew of firefighters inside the building, not the building itself.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/building-7-collapse/
