MSNBC Special: America Strikes Back 23:00 hour anchored by Lester Holt.

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Event Date(s): 11/07/2001 | Description: 23:00:00 MSNBC Special: America Strikes Back anchored by Lester Holt. 23:00:02 Preview video. 23:01:20 NBC News correspondent Pete Williams reports that Federal Agents have cracked down on terrorist Osama bin Laden's financial network in the States. Wide shot of United States (US) Customs agent standing next to an office of a money transfer service in Seattle, Washington State. Medium shot of US Customs agents stand outside the building. Medium shot of a"Baraka Tax Service" sign on building. Wide shot of agents exiting a building. Wide shot of police officers and an emergency vehicle parked in a parking lot outside a money transfer service in Columbus, Ohio. Medium shot of two agents (man and woman) exiting a building. Rear shot of an officer enters room in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Close up of the lettering on a sign in Dorchester, Massachusetts seen. Wide shot of US Customs agent standing outside a money transfer service facility in Northern Virginia. US Customs agent closes vehicle's trunk filled with confiscated material. President George W Bush, speaking at the podium, says,"They present themselves as legitimate businesses, but they skim money from every transaction for the benefit of terrorist organizations." Header"62 People& Organizations" over graphic map of the United States (highlighting Seattle, Washington State, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Columbus, Ohio, Dorchester, Massachusetts). Shot widens to graphic map of Europe and Africa (highlighting countries Sweden, Switzerland, Italy, Somalia, the Netherlands and others.) Supers"Suspected Terrorist Financial Network." Wide shot of officers standing outside an office building in Boston, Massachusetts. Medium shot of a Boston police car parked next to curb. US Customs agent carries box from vehicle to building. Speaking at the podium Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill says,"They are a principal source of funding intelligence and money transfers for bin Laden, and they operate offices even here in the United States." Medium shot of a bank teller (faces unseen) counting money. Medium shot of a woman entering numbers on computer. Close up shot of a hand closing a register till. Tilt down from tower to people walking at a marketplace. American flags on display outside store and in storefront window in Fremont, California. Sign"Afghan Cuisine" in storefront window. Unidentified man, sitting behind desk, shakes hands with person (faces unseen). Wide shot of a man riding a motorcycle past people walking along street in Islamabad, Pakistan. Man (hawala dealer) speaking with man holding money. Hawala dealer sits in front of computer. Zoom in to exterior of building. Medium shot of a Pakistani man walking up a flight of stairs. Rear shot of a man walking in a corridor. Close up of a hand holding cash on desk. Medium shot of a man tending toa customer. Medium shot of a man writing on pad of paper. Close up of a hand counting a wad of money. In interview former National Security Council Official William Wechsler says,"In many places in the world, many remote places, it is faster, cheaper and easier to move your money through the hawala system than it would be to move it through Citibank." Paper currency taped to window. People walking along sidewalk. US Customs agent enters a money transfer service in Seattle, Washington State. Williams reports and closes on camera from Washington, DC. 23:03:55 Holt is joined live by Ernst and Young's David Caruso (no location given). They discuss the difficulty in trying to trace the money trail to terrorist organizations. Low level shot of people counting money. Close up shot of a hand counting a stack of money. Close up shot of an Afghan man. Panning shot of money seen taped to a glass window. Close up shot of hands counting money. Overhead shot of money being exchanged over a counter. Close up shot of a man handing over money over a counter. 23:09:00 NBC News correspondent Campbell Brown reports from outside The White House in Washington, DC. She reports on the meeting between President George W Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair earlier today. Wide shot of Bush and Blair walking towards podiums set up in The White House earlier today. Clip of Bush commenting on needing to bring Al-Qaeda to justice. Clips of Blair commenting on terrorist bin Laden during the conference. 23:10:40 NBC News correspondent Jim Miklaszewski reports how the Taliban shows no sign of cracking after one month of US air strikes against Afghanistan. Wide shots of bombs exploding in the distance in Afghanistan. Medium shot of Afghan rebels sitting outdoors. Rear shot of an Afghan rebel, holding rifle, watches explosion in the distance. Medium shot of a military tank firing a cannon. Wide shot of a missile being launched. Close up of a Northern Alliance soldier's face. Medium shot of military vehicles moving along a road. Wide shot of men riding horses. At The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, Joint Chief of Staff Vice Chairman General Peter Pace says,"Reporting back about cavalry charges, and this is opposition forces riding horseback into combat against tanks and armored personnel carriers. So these folks are aggressive." High overhead shot of Taliban soldiers on horseback in Afghanistan. Northern Alliance soldiers firing weapons. At press conference, Pace says,"I cannot draw for you on a map right now the front lines of the individual units." Panning shot of two men removing debris inside building damaged by bomb in Afghanistan. Gun camera video of a bomb striking a Taliban trucks and exploding. (Al Jazeera TV) Young boy, claimed to be Osama bin Laden's son, sitting next to wreckage of US helicopter. Boys hold up pieces of helicopter wreckage. Boys and others stand next to helicopter wreckage. Panning shot from helicopter wheel to wreckage. Close up of a hand holding a letter. Boys hold up guns in the air. Masked Taliban soldier sits next to helicopter wreckage. Map of Afghanistan highlighting Kandahar, Kabul and Ghanzi. Military cargo plane takes off from runway. Medium shot of a pilot seated inside cockpit. Super"Time is Running Out","If You Stay and Fight for the Taliban You Will Be Killed","Desert Your Unites and Live". Miklaszewski reports and closes on camera from The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. 23:12:56 Holt voices over graphic showing the results from a Zogby poll asking how effective the war on terrorism is. 23:13:22 Holt is joined by MSNBC military analyst and retired Colonel Ken Allard live in the studio. They discuss the tactics used to try to capture terrorist Osama bin Laden and to defeat the terrorists. Gun camera video of targets being hit (Defense Department Video). 23:18:03 Holt voices over preview video. 23:22:12 Excerpt of Holt interviewing widow Kelly Green Grady and widow Eileen Erwin both in the studio. Both of their husbands worked at Cantor Fitzgerald and perished in the World Trade Center collapse in New York City, New York. They discuss the problems faced in trying to get funds from charitable organizations. Still of Erwin and her family. Still of Grady and her family. Graphic titled"Red Cross." 23:26:14 Holt voices over preview video. 23:28:51 Live overhead shot of backhoes sifting through smoldering debris at"ground zero", where the World Trade Center towers once stood in New York City, New York. 23:39:19 Live shot ends. 23:29:15 Holt reports the latest news. Graphic on the right hand side of the screen reading"Terror Funding Crackdown; Blair in Washington; Rescue Workers' Health." 23:30:12 NBC News correspondent Andrea Mitchell reports that the war on terror is not just being fought on the battlefield, but that there is also the public relations offensive. The Bush administration has hired an advertising executive and put her in charge of spin control. Wide shot of Afghan men running down a street. Wide shot of anti-American protesters cheering during a rally. Shot of an effigy being beaten during a rally. Close up shot of protesters cheering in the street. Mitchell walks with undersecretary of state Charlotte Beers outdoors in Washington, DC. Shot of Beers talking on the telephone in an automobile seen in the rearview mirror. Close up of Beers talking on the telephone in an automobile. Rolling shot of Madison Avenue in New York City, New York. In interview J Walter Thompson North America's Bob Jeffrey says"What Charlotte will do is something that really connects with the hearts and minds of those people, because at the end of the day, that's what we're in the battle for, hearts and minds." Medium shot of boxes on Uncle Ben's rice on store shelf. Medium shot of an American flag waving in the wind. Secretary of State Colin Powell, speaking at a hearing, says,"Well, guess what? She got me to buy Uncle Ben's rice, and so there is nothing wrong with getting somebody who knows how to sell something." Medium shot of Mitchell and Beers walking outdoors. In interview Beers says,"I dislike that phrase, selling, because that's way too arrogant for where we are now. I think that the best we can do is open a dialogue of mutual respect and understanding. I'd actually be very satisfied with that." Wide shot of people at a marketplace in Afghanistan. Medium shot of leaflets falling from sky. Close up of a hand holding leaflet. (Al Jazeera TV) Saudi-born Osama bin Laden speaking at the podium. Panning shot from television monitor to group of men watching television in Islamabad, Pakistan. Clip of a former ambassador appearing on Al-Jazeera TV. In interview with an Egyptian reporter, Powell says,"Ramadan is a very important religious period for Muslims throughout the world." Clip of bin Laden speaking outside his cave in Afghanistan. In interview former State Department Counter-terrorism coordinator Michael Sheehan says,"It's not going to be any easy spin job done by any experts from Hollywood or Madison Avenue." In interview with Mitchell, Beers says,"You know, I'm not as awed by the bin Laden propaganda machine as the world is at this point." Mitchell reports and closes on camera Washington, DC. 23:32:40 Holt is joined by Georgetown University Professor Michael Hudson live in Washington, DC. They discuss the objectivity of Beers trying to"sell" America's message to the Muslim world. Various video clips of bin Laden's children and Al-Qaeda members outdoors (courtesy of Al-Jazeera TV). Close up shot of Afghan men holding leaflets. 23:36:23 Holt voices over preview video. 23:39:14 NBC"Dateline" correspondent Rob Stafford reports a"Dateline" package titled"A Few Good Men." (Please see NY-DL-20011104-0001.) 23:51:58 Live overhead shot of backhoes sifting through smoldering debris at ground zero in New York City, New York. 23:52:10 Live shot ends. 23:52:11 Excerpt from"MSNBC Investigates: Out of the Rubble" anchored by John Seigenthaler. 23:57:07 Holt closes the segment. 23:57:16 Live overhead shot of backhoes sifting through smoldering debris at ground zero in New York City, New York. 23:57:29 Live shot ends. 23:59:24 MSNBC Business Traveler's Forecast. Graphic plug for weather.msnbc.com.