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Tuesday, March 23, 2004 at 10:00 AM EST
Day One: 9/11 Hearing
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The 9/11 Commission holds public hearings as a former counterterrorism chief rips President Bush. Could more have been done to prevent the 9/11 attacks? Tonight and tomorrow, On Point: in depth analysis of the 9/11 hearing.

Guests:

Tim Burger, Washington correspondent, TIME Magazine

P.J. Crowley, senior fellow and director of national defense and homeland security, Center for American Progress, and former special assistant to the president for national security affairs in the Clinton administration (1997 to 2001)

Gerald Posner, investigative journalist and author of “While America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11.”

 
 

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