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Did 9/11 put the US on a permanent war footing?
Twenty-five years after 9/11, Christiane and Jamie dedicate a special episode to their memories of the day the world changed forever.
Christiane becomes emotional as she recalls the first time she saw the images of planes hitting the Twin Towers. She also reveals how it took her so long to hear about the attack in the first place, given she was thousands of miles away on assignment in Sierra Leone, cut off from phones and pictures. She describes the scramble to get word to her, the long journey back to London to broadcast, and her fear that Jamie might also have been a target for the…
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