Chris Wallace: Countdown Bin Laden

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Jack Carr

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🗓️ 29 September 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Chris Wallace is the anchor of Fox News Sunday where each week he interviews the most prominent newsmakers of the day.

For over five decades, Chris has had a front seat to history as a journalist covering almost every significant political event of our time, including as chief White House correspondent for NBC News from 1982 to 1989. He has interviewed seven American Presidents, numerous foreign heads of state, and won every major broadcast news award, including three Emmy Awards, the duPont-Columbia Silver Baton, and the Peabody Award. He moderated the 2016 Republican Party Presidential Debate and general election presidential debates in 2016 between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, and in 2020 between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. His interviews with everyone from Mother Teresa to Vladimir Putin chronicle the people and events of the past half-century.

He is the author of First Lady: A Portrait of Nancy Reagan, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage, Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days that Changed the World, and his latest, Countdown Bin Laden: The Untold Story of the 247-Day Hunt to Bring the Mastermind of 9/11 to Justice.

On today’s Danger Close, Jack and Chris Wallace discuss his career, journalism, the hunt for Osama bin Laden, and more.

Follow Fox News Sunday on Twitter @FoxNewsSunday and check out the Countdown Series at https://www.countdownbook.com

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0:00.0	This is the Danger Close Podcast.
0:09.0	Beyond the Books with me, Jack Carr.
0:17.0	Welcome to the Danger Close Podcast, an Ironclad original presented by Six Hour.
0:21.3	My guest today is Chris Wallace.
0:23.5	Chris is the host of Fox News Sunday, but he started his career in journalism back in
0:28.5	1864, when he was an intern still in high school for Walter Cronkite during the 1964 Republican
0:35.5	National Convention.
0:37.5	From there, he went to college and it was eventually the NBC White House correspondent
0:41.6	from 1982 to 1989.
0:44.6	He has interviewed some of the most prominent newsmakers of our time to include Mother
0:49.6	Tracea, Bal Regan, President Obama, President Clinton, President Trump.
0:56.6	He continues to host Fox News Sunday every week on the Fox News Channel.
1:01.5	He is the author of the Countdown Series.
1:04.8	His latest Countdown bin Laden, I encourage every American to go out and read this book.
1:11.2	Just like with his last years, Countdown 1945, about the lead up to dropping the atomic
1:15.9	bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
1:18.4	But Countdown bin Laden is so relevant, particularly because of the recent events in Afghanistan.
1:24.7	And also because to me, it seems like it is one of the last times that we were truly united
1:30.2	as a country.
1:31.5	And one of the last times we can point to where our elected leaders, our military establishment
1:37.5	worked together to accomplish a goal.
1:40.9	And everyone should go out and read this, particularly high school students, junior high school
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