MSNBC The News with Brian Williams

NBC ID: ARHAEWTDQ2 | Production Unit: MSNBC, The News | Media Type: Aired Show | Media ID: MNBC-NW-20011214-0001 | Air Date(s): 12/14/2001 | Event Date(s): 12/14/2001

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Event Date(s): 12/14/2001 | Event Location(s): Afghanistan;Virginia Beach, Virginia;Jordan;Egypt;Washington, DC;New York City, New York;Arlington, Virginia;Milwaukee, Wisconsin;Israel; | Description: 20:00:00 The News with Brian Williams. 20:02:00 Williams introduces a package with NBC News correspondent reporting. Terrorist Osama bin Laden is said to be hiding in a complex of caves in the mountains of Tora Bora, Afghanistan where the allied forces say he is preparing for his last stand. Computer animation of a map of Afghanistan, altitude 12,000-13,000. Daytime exterior, Tora Bora, Afghanistan, wide Panning shot of the Tora Bora mountains. Medium shot Afghan warlord Hazrat Ali reads directions to others. Medium shot Ali talks onto a two-way radio. Wide Panning shot of mountains. In Afghanistan, daytime, medium shot bin Laden enters a cave. Medium shot bin Laden lying down in a cave. Exterior, daytime, Tora Bora, Ali talks with his soldiers. Zoom out shot of Eastern Alliance soldiers. Wideshot Soldiers walking in the mountains. Medium shot Soldiers riding in back of a pickup truck. Medium shot Americans hiding in a pickup truck. Close up A soldier aiming a shotgun. Medium shot Panning shot of men talking and a bomb going off. NBC's Jim Avila reports on camera. Wideshot Smoke rising from a bomb explosion. Wideshot A smoke cloud. Wideshot Four mushroom clouds. Medium shot A soldier flinches at bullets approach. Wideshot Reporters duck for cover as bullets approach. Medium shot Avila ducks. Wide Panning shot of bombs exploding in the background. Computer animation of a map of the Pakistan border. Medium shot Ali talks with soldiers. Wideshot Snow capped mountains. Zoom out shot of military aircraft in flight. Medium shot Panning shot of Ali looking at the mountains. Wideshot The Tora Bora mountains. In voice over, Avila signs off from Tora Bora, Afghanistan. 20:04:05 Williams is joined live from Tora Bora, Afghanistan by NBC News correspondent Ned Colt. Colt reports on the recent US military aerial bombardment in the area. Zoom in medium shot of mountain area with rising black cloud from bomb. Various wideshots of mountain region with clouds from recently dropped US bombs. Medium shot of Northern Alliance soldiers standing about holding weapons, daytime. Medium shot of Northern Alliance troops seated in back of pick up trucks rolling along dirt road. 20:07:30 Williams is joined live from Virginia Beach, Virginia by Retired US Air Force Lieutenant General Michael Short. Short discusses recent remarks by commander in chief of U.S. Central Command Tommy Franks and what the Pentagon has recently said about the war effort. Short applauds the efforts by the US military thus far. Medium shot mountain area daytime in Afghanistan, tank position seen, Northern Alliance soldiers standing about as US bombs drop on mountain range in distance. Point of view shot walking through dimly lit cave. Short comments on the military strategy involved in rooting out the al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden from the complex network of caves. Graphic animation of cave network. 20:11:10 Williams voices over file footage of John Walker Lindh as Northern Alliance captive, seated on floor with other prisoners of war. 20:11:40 Williams introduces a package with NBC News correspondent Andrea Mitchell reporting reports that while the airing of the bin Laden videotape added resolve to most people who saw it, it was a different story in the Middle East, where there are varying opinions. Clip of amateur video of bin Laden and radical cleric Sheik Ali bin Said al-Ghamdi talking. Wide shot of people in a restaurant watching a monitor. Medium shot of restaurant goers watching the video. Medium shot of a man watching the videotape. During press conference President of the United States George W Bush says"It is preposterous for anybody to think that this tape is doctored. That's just a feeble excuse to provide weak support for an incredibly evil man". Wide shot of a television set in a restaurant in Cairo, Egypt. Wide shot of people watching television. Medium shot of men sitting in the restaurant. Wide shot of a television set. Medium shot of men watching television. In Cairo, an unidentified man says"I think that the American government is the one who made the tape, and America can do anything by modern technology and computer". Tilt shot of Egyptian newspapers. Wide shot of motorists driving on a city street at night in Jordan. Wide shot of people walking on a sidewalk. In interview American University's Akbar Ahmed says"They would say anything coming from America is suspect, and we will reject it". Women walking on the sidewalk in Saudi Arabia. Clip of Radical cleric Sheik Ali bin Said al-Ghamdi speaking on bin Laden tape. Medium shot of bin Laden and al-Ghandi talking with captions. Clip of an Egyptian news broadcast. Zoom out shot of a website of an Egyptian newspaper. Graphic with supers with clip of al-Ghamdi, now hundreds of people are coming out to join you(US Government Transcription). Medium shot of bin Laden and al-Ghamdi talking on the videotape. In interview Saudi spokesman Adel Al-Jubeir says"I can assure you that if he were inside Arabia, he would be someplace where he where he would have to explain why he was there, and what his role is with bin Laden". Mitchell signs off on camera from Washington, DC. 20:14:00 Williams is joined live from Washington, DC by Saudi spokesman Adel Al-Jubeir who comments on the bin Laden videotape, describing bin Laden's face as that of an"evil murderer." Al-Jubeir comments on the Saudi government reaction and states that he and his countrymen reject bin Laden as both a Saudi and a Muslim. Clips from the bin Laden videotape seen. Al-Jubeir does not think the tape is an American forgery and that he is positive bin Laden was responsible to the 2001-09-11 attacks on the US and Muslims around the world should believe the tape as proof positive. Insert graphic text excerpts from New York Times newspaper. 20:22:00 Williams introduces a package with NBC News correspondent Robert Hager reporting. New information in suffering about the air traffic system on 2001-09-11, and how it seemed there were more airplanes involved in the attacks. Daytime exterior NYC, New York 2001-09-1, Zoom in shot of the World Trade Center towers in flames. Interior air traffic control center, Blue distorted shot of air traffic control workers. In Washington, DC, NBC's Robert Hager reports on camera. Blue distorted zoom out shot of a map at the command center. Blue distorted shot of a man sitting in front of a computer monitor. Blue distorted tilt shot of officials and a radar up above. Blue distorted zoom out shot of a man pointing. In interview"Aviation Week's" David Bond says"Two planes have crash into the World Trade Center. You know there is a conspiracy. It's something that you've never imagined in your life probably. You're thinking how many of these planes are part of it? How much of this stuff is left?" Distorted point of view shot of a cockpit. Distorted shot of a cockpit with captions and audio transmissions from airplanes on 2001-09-11. Blue distorted shot of employees at the command center sitting in front of computers. Time lapse shot of a map showing airplanes in flight on 2001-09-11 and after they were grounded. Daytime exterior Milwaukee, Wisconsin, wideshot a grounded airplane on a runway. Wideshot Former President George Bush and former First Lady Barbara Bush exit a building and enter a sport utility vehicle. Medium shot, In interview"The Controllers Union's John Carr says"There's no margin for error. It--it had never been practiced before. It had never been conceived of before that we would have to land every aircraft in the national airspace system". Blue distorted shot of the command center. Wideshot The World Trade Center towers in flames. Blue distorted shot of the command center. Daytime exterior, Arlington, Virginia, Zoom out shot of the Pentagon in flames. In voice over, Hager signs off from Washington, DC. 20:24:35 Williams is joined live from Washington, DC by the Washington Bureau chief for Aviation Week magazine Jim Asker. Asker comments on new reports his magazine will be issuing on what the FAA and the government did to ground planes on 2001-09-11, whether the system is safe today, and if there will be changes in safety measures air traffic control command center. Graphic map of US with flights in progress dots seen all over map. 20:31:30 Williams introduces a package with NBC News correspondent Pete Williams reporting on the legal value of the bin Laden tape and how it might defend co-conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui. In Virginia, convoy of sports utility vehicles, transport Moussaoui. Clips of Saudi-born terrorist Osama bin Laden entering room and of bin Laden speaking. Shot reduces in size and insert supers"UBL:We did not reveal the operation to them unitl...just before they boarded the planes." Close up police photo of Moussaoui. On 2001-09-11 in New York City, New York, low angle shot of smoke billowing from one of the World Trade Center towers. Long shot of smoke billowing from WTC tower. In interview former Federal prosecutor Nancy Luque says bin Laden is essential saying that Moussaoui was a tool and liken him to a weapon that bin Laden was using rather than calling him a co-equal or a co-conspirator. Shot of bin Laden. Close up of videocassette with red label"This medium is classified: SECRET". In interview George Washington University Professor Stephen Saltzburg says it appears that we can identify the speaker, we can identify the voice and therefore, we have a sufficient foundation to admit this tape at any trial in which it is relevant. Police photo of Moussaoui. Zoom out on statue of Lady Justice outside building. Clip of bin Laden on bin Laden tape. Shot reduces in size and insert super"UBL: ...martyrdom operation". In interview former federal prosecutor Chuck Rosenberg says you can be found guilty if you knowingly joined the conspiracy, if you knew of the agreement, you became part of the conspiracy and you took some steps in achieving its objectives. Williams reports and closes on camera from Washington, DC. 20:33:30 Clip from 2001-12-14 of US President George W Bush seated in White House commenting, SOT"Dead or alive, either way, . . . . . it doesn't matter to me." 20:34:25 Williams is joined live from Washington, DC by former US Ambassador at large for war crimes issues David Scheffer and from the MSNBC studio by former Al Jazeera TV journalist Ghida Fakhry. Fakhry comments on the bin Laden video tape, capturing or killing bin Laden, the prospects of a trial for bin Laden and the security issues that would entail, and bin Laden as a martyr. Scheffer believes bin Laden will not reach US soil if captured, what type of trial this will be and what type of defense bin Laden will use. Fakhry and Scheffer comment further on bin Laden given orders to his followers to kill him if his capture is imminent and future terrorist attacks on America. 20:42:25 Williams voices over video, daytime, from Israel showing Israeli military police rounding up andarresting suspected Palestinian militants. Medium shot Palestinians with guns raised in air marching in street. Wideshot of masked Palestinian militants running across rubble and rocky ground with guns drawn. Medium shot exteriors of bombed out building. 20:43:00 Williams voices over panning high wideshots of the World Trade Center ground zero collapse area in New York City, New York, workers suspended in cage with welding torch, sparks seen, near still-standing facade of WTC tower as large section of facade falls to ground. Medium shot ironworkers in cage suspended by crane. 20:43:50 Williams voices over video of Marian Fontana walking outside with her son. Medium shot of Fontana in interview. Stills of Marian and her husband, a firefighter who was killed in the 2001-09-11 attacks on the WTC. 20:48:20 Williams introduces a package with NBC News correspondent Jamie Gangel reporting. A look at the day in the busy life of Office of Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge as NBC's Jamie Gangel has an exclusive interview with Ridge and his daily routine of handling the current terrorism threat situation and instability. Exterior, early morning darkness, Washington, DC, Panning shot of buildings to vehicle pulling up along street. Medium shot White House. Medium shot Ridge exits car and says"good morning" as he walks toward the White House entrance. Interior, White House, medium shot Ridge inside office. Close up Ridge reads document. Medium shot Men sit down in Ridge's office. Medium shot Ridge and men inside office. Low medium shot Man (faces unseen) enters Ridge's office and closes door. Gangel talks with Ridge as cameramen follow along hallway. Ridge says the country is still in a high state of alert and will have to maintain that until Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda are disposed of and dismantled. Zoom in on Ridge inside room with other senior White House staff during a briefing. Medium shot Ridge walks along hallway. Zoom in on White House Situation Room door. In interview Ridge says"The President wants it done. The President has commissioned me to do it. That is all the authority I need." Rear shot of Ridge and unidentified man walking. Tracking shot, Hallway leading up to the Oval Office. Day exterior, President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush handshaking with Ridge and others. White House interior, medium shot Ridge says"There is nothing that goes unchallenged when you present it to the president." Ridge looks on as President Bush says"I appreciate this Tom. You did a good job." Medium shot National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice and others look on. Medium shot Bush speaking. Brief cuts, In interview with Gangel, Bush says"I think that Yasir Arafat needs to prove to the world that he has the capability and the desire to bring killers to justice. I think he needs to prove that he is a leader by bringing murderers to justice. We're a heck of a lot closer today than we were 60 days ago and he (bin Laden) thinks he can run and he can hide, but he is not going to be able to. We'll get him." Clip from bin Laden videotape while talking about the September 11th terrorist attacks. Medium shot Ridge says"Well as a prosecutor, it's a prosecutors dream. I mean it's clearly acceptance for responsibility. When America now sees the kind of evil that the president and this country are fighting against, I think it reinforces candidly the resolve of this country to win the war." Medium shot Ridge and unidentified man walk along hallway. Medium shot Police at an airline security checkpoint. Medium shot Piece of luggage moving on a conveyor. Daytime exterior, wideshot Hazardous materials inspectors wearing safety suits. White House interior, medium shot Ridge says they have to work toward a goal and fail safe system, but there's no 100% guarantee that will ever be done, notes Americans will have to pay a price unless they don't retain the qualities that makes Americans what they are. Zoom in on Ridge and Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson. Medium shot Bush, and pulls back to Bush and Ridge. Medium shot Ridge says"Listen, the prime and most important factor is that the president maintains his high approval ratings. Sure, it is part of the job description." Medium shot Ridge handshaking with unidentified women and men. Medium shot Ridge says"I worry about a terrorist, an indiscriminate act taking American lives, somewhere, sometime, and I worry about the fact that I just don't know where or when." Medium shot Ridge walks along hallway. Medium shot Ridge walks toward car and says"Good night, thank you." Gangel reports and closes live from newsroom. 20:56:10 Williams voices over graphics of various headlines from newspapers across the country.

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