Analysis: Week in Politics

By Liane Hansen

Published April 4, 2004 at 12:00 AM EST

NPR's Liane Hansen talks with Los Angeles Times Washington bureau chief Doyle McManus about this past week's positive news on the jobs front, the intensifying race between Sen. John Kerry and President George Bush, and the coming testimony by National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice before the Sept. 11 commission.

Liane Hansen

Liane Hansen has been the host of NPR's award-winning Weekend Edition Sunday for 20 years. She brings to her position an extensive background in broadcast journalism, including work as a radio producer, reporter, and on-air host at both the local and national level. The program has covered such breaking news stories as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the capture of Saddam Hussein, the deaths of Princess Diana and John F. Kennedy, Jr., and the Columbia shuttle tragedy. In 2004, Liane was granted an exclusive interview with former weapons inspector David Kay prior to his report on the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The show also won the James Beard award for best radio program on food for a report on SPAM.