David Taylor in Conversation with Michael Morell

Twenty-five years ago, the United States sustained the greatest loss of life since Pearl Harbor. In a coordinated attack, 2,996 died following plane strikes into both towers of the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and rural Pennsylvania. It was a day that would be indelibly seared into the conscience of the nation. Michael Morell was to become Acting CIA director, but in September 2001 he was assigned to conduct the Presidential Daily Briefing. That morning he was with the president at an elementary school when word reached them in Florida that a plane had just hit one of the Twin Towers. Fifteen minutes later, a second plane hit, and it was Morell’s job to brief the president that the country was now at war. He added his own evaluation: “I think it’s al-Qaeda and the master mind is Osama bin Laden." In conversations with David Taylor, Mike will take us through his experiences during a day that changed America forever.