9/11: Day 2

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Wednesday 09/12/2001

On the day after 9/11, a consideration of the international dimensions and the congressional response to the attacks with the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Joe Biden. Jim Hoagland, foreign correspondent for the Washington Post, supports the assumption that Osama bin Laden is responsible for the attack on the Trade Center, aided by the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Journalists David Halberstam, Frank Rich, and Anthony Lewis discuss Giuliani's and President Bush's early responses to the tragedy, the quality of news coverage, and what aspects of society may change in the aftermath.