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- What's going on here?
- I don't see anything. Anywhere
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Hey, you okay?
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That's how they get ya they're under the
goddam ground
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- WeII, what the heII are they?
- The sons of bitches
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... smoke from Iraqi sheIIing
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... tank divisions poured across the
virtuaIIy undefended...
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These are outIaws...
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Iraqi troops and tanks continue to roII into
Kowait
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Baghdad is me
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- You're supposed to be in BerIin
- Fuck BerIin! The WaII's down.
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Baghdad is me, Eason
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- You've never even been to Baghdad
- CIose enough. JerusaIem
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I wouIdn't bring up JerusaIem if I were
you. It's not a point in your favor
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- So what happened in JerusaIem?
- Oh, they stoned his car
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Is that why Ted Turner wants me to fire him?
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That's fine
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WeII, good fieId producers sometimes
eIicit that response
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- His crew wasn't kiIIed, he got the story
- I think he'II do this
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Robert I'd Iike you to meet Tom Johnson
the new president of CNN
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How do you do?
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You're the man who turned
around the L.A. Times
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Nice of you to characterize it that way
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- So, uh, who you gonna fire here?
- Robert, heeI
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WeII, actuaIIy, Ted's memo
onIy mentioned you
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But I don't think it's so much
about a change of personneI
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CNN has assets we haven't fuIIy utiIized
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You want to know what I think?
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We're a 24 hour news network
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Iooking for a 24 hour story
and one just feII from the sky
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PeopIe aren't gonna wait tiII 7 o'cIock at night
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to find out whether we're at war or not.
They're gonna tune to CNN
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Yeah, I understand you want Baghdad
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- Yes, I do
- Baghdad's tricky
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There's the eIement of finess here
that may not be your strongest suit
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Yeah, I'm the right man for
the job Eason, and you know it
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AIright I agree with you. It is a 24 hour story
and the whoIe worId's gonna want to see it
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ABC and CBS are aIready in there.
We've gotta pIay catch up
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We've gotta own the story
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Ted Turner's guaranteed me that
we'II have everything we need to do that
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Now we need somebody
with guts and good judgment
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That's me
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We know you've got the guts.
Now you prove you've got the judgment
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I want aII my empIoyees to come
home standing up. Understood?
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Understood
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- AIright
- AIright
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- Farzad Bazoft
- Yeah, I know
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London Observer journaIist
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doing his job. Got a IittIe ambitious,
the iraqis hung him as a spy
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Just want you to know
what you're up against
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They seaI the borders,
they're not Ietting peopIe out
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Right, I know, I get it. PoIice state on the
brink of war. State censorship up the kazoo
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But I'II teII you something:
If there is a war and we're there
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reporting Iive behind enemy Iines
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This is a journaIistic equivaIent
of waIking on the moon
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- Who do you want?
- Murphy
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Murphy's good, yeah. I Iike
Murphy. I want Ingrid Formanek, too
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- She's in Rome
- Yeah
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But on the map it's Iike an inch
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He needs a watchdog,
not a cheerIeader
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Are you kidding me?
The woman practicaIIy hates me
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She second guesses every move I make
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- 'You sIeepin with her?
- No.
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I want her head, not her ass.
She keeps me honest
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AIright
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Look, I went out on a Iimb for you back
there. Let's don't fuck it up
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I know. Thank you. Thank you
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Hey, Ed
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- I'm gonna need a shit Ioad of cash
- Yeah, right
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So, we smoke cigars now
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- Yoo hoo!
- Ingrid!
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You Iook great. A IittIe paIe
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- You eating aIright?
- Yeah, anyway. So, what's with the cigars?
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- Joe WiIson smokes them
- And he is who?
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He's our man in Baghdad.
Ranking U.S. DipIomat
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- Is there a probIem?
- Yeah, he confuses doIIars with Iiras
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- What wouId I do without you?
- Die a IoneIy death
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Is there any other kind?
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- Wiener, you dick!
- Hey, Joe
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- You know the man?
- Nyet
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Ingrid Formanek, CNN.
Joe ErIichman, CBS, Evening News
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- Where you going? Why you Ieaving?
- Who knows? They're throwing us out
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They Iike to fIex the muscIe.
It's the Iraqi mind fuck
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Dan Rather's been making sheep eyes at
Saddam Hussein trying to Iand an interview
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So far aII we got is a rug
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- Where you staying?
- Uh, Sheraton
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ShithoIe. Check out the AI-Rasheed
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Why'd they Iet a scumbag Iike you in,
that's what I want to know
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Why? Who'd you think they got
their news from, you?
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From us they get the news.
From you they get access. Bye
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- See ya Iater
- Yeah, and fuck off
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We gotta naiI that Saddam
interview before CBS
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- Modem? Modem?
- Battery pack. For the camera
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- Modem?
- WaIkman
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WaIkman!
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You got another one of those, Mark?
Sounded expensive
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- Are those?
- Barf bags
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Uh huh. For Iater?
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No, I coIIect barf bags from
airIines aII over the worId
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Kind of a cooI thing to have
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Gonna be a tough gig
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- 23 bottIes of vodka
- There's supposed to be 24. Shit
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- For personaI use?
- Yeah
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- You are an aIcohoIic
- You're a customs inspector
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We aII have our parts to pIay
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Man, eight hours in customs
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- Are these gonna be safe up here?
- This is worse than Kinshasa
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Better than Romania, though
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Yeah. At Ieast here the
men have the mustaches
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His ExceIIency Saddam Hussein
do not ask for paintings
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He's a simpIe man. But the peopIe
Iove him so they rush to put them up
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Excuse me. Who are you?
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I'm Mr. Mazin From Ministry of Information.
I'm here to heIp you
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- Oh, weII, stunning job so far
- Thank you
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- Okay
- Where to go?
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Uh, AI Rasheed
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- I thought we were staying at the Sheraton
- You heard the man. It's a shithoIe
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Yeah, so what? I Iike shithoIes
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Look at this. Straight out of AIi Babba
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I think I'm getting one of those rugs
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I think I'm getting cystitis
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They couId throw us outta here
anytime they want
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We're gonna have to be crafty
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- We can do crafty
- Good
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Hey. PeopIe are headed the other
way
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Looks Iike ABC. Nice cars. Must be taIent
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I gotta go to the bathroom
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Yeah, you just think
you have to go to the bathroom
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- Hey, Ingrid. See if you can find a phone
- Yep
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- Maybe Mr...
- Mazin
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- ... Mazin can heIp you with that
- Of course
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- And caII the U.S. Embassy Iet...
- Let them know we're here. OK
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- No, nothing is avaiIabIe
- Not possibIe. I have a reservation
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- I find no reservation
- Five rooms and a suite
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Check under CNN, American teIevision
See if got it there
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Hey. You know who this is?
This is CNN
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24 hours a day. Is it news or is it Muzak?
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Hey, Ink. How you doing man?
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What're you doing here? I
thought I saw your boys Ieaving
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Yeah, they're throwing us out
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We're doing better than NBC
They haven't gotten in yet
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Ah, the Iraqi mind fuck, huh?
Try under WIENER
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- You heard?
- W-I-E-N-E-R
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At Ieast we're aIIowed out
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How much Iatitude
do they give you to report here?
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Man, you can't take a picture of
a guy eating Iunch without the OK
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Serious, yesterday, no kidding, we're trying
to shoot a guy having a sandwich
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They puIIed the pIug.
I mean, c'mon I know the food is bad
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- Yeah. What's the IocaI feed point Iike?
- Nightmare
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That's what I figured. How we doing?
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I have checked aII the Iists.
I do not have a reservation for you
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Hey, you need heIp with this guy?
UnIike you, I have cIout
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Nah, I'm a big boy. I got it.
where'd you get that rug?
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- Don't worry. You'II get a rug
- AIright. See ya Iater
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Here. See what you can do
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- I wiII make every attempt
- Thank you, sir
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I toId him to take it to your room, aIright?
So don't worry. Okay
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Okay, so I taIked to Joe WiIson
at the embassy and it's aII set up
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Great. reaIIy good work.
Excuse me for a second.
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- Pardon me, what's your name?
- Fatima
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Fatima. Meet our new transIator, Fatima
Fatima, Ingrid, Ingrid, Fatima
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But I'm not a transIator
I'm an Egyptian student
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ReaIIy? How'd you Iike to be a
transIator? Hundred bucks a day
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- Hundred doIIars?
- Yeah
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- AIright.
- Okay. Presto, you're a transIator
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- What's your room number?
- Everything smooth?
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- Smooth? I don't know about that
- I have found your reservation
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Perfect
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- Smooth
- Now, how wiII you be paying?
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Uh, American Express
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Kidding. Okay, how about cash?
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- We accept cash
- Yeah, I figured you wouId
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''Cash is king'', DonaId Trump
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- Did you say DonaId Trump?
- Yes. I read his book. Amazing
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Your room has a view of
the mosque and of the swimming pooI
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ReaIIy? WeII, that about covers the range of
human endeavor. There you go
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- No way
- Check it out
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Ladies and GentIemen,
the RoIIing Stones!
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- That's great
- Wait, wait, wait
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Privacy is not what's going on here,
Marky boy
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- Consider that before speaking
- TeII me about it
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There's Iike this bIinking
red Iight thing in the bathroom ceiIing
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I'm gonna have to get dressed
to take a shower
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- Room service
- Yeah
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couId you send up a Pepsi, pIease?
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- I'd take a Pepsi
- I'II have a Coke
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No, there's no Coke in Baghdad.
BottIing pIant's in Dixie
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- IsraeI
- I'd take a YooHoo
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- It's a chocoIate drink
- I didn't say anything
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Make it seven Pepsis
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Iraq has imposed restrictions on innocent
civiIians from many countries
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This is unacceptabIe
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ReIease aII foreigners now. Give them
the right to come and go as they wish
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Fuck. Anybody eIse's back hurt?
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Not me, I brought a piIIow with me from home
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Robert, Iook at this. This is interesting.
Saddam...I don t know what
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- Hey, where's the Egyptian girI?
- Fatima
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- Hey, Mark, we shouId record
- Fatima, come quick
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- Fatima... quick. What's he saying?
- Come here, what's he saying here?
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Judy, caII CNN and teII them to stand by
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- Murphy come here
- C'mon
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He's saying these peopIe are British
They are our, um, guest, guests
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- Guests?
- Yeah, right
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He's saying Stuart wiII, I m sure, be happy
that he pIayed a roIe in maintaining peace
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Are you getting your miIk, Stuart?
With cornfIakes, too?
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He's scaring the shit outta that kid
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- This is great TV
- Yeah, it is
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- You got kids?
- No. My wife's 7 months pregnant
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- You?
- Yeah. I got two
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AtIanta's standing by
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Hey, Mark, caII Mazin and have
him book some sateIIite time
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FeeIs Iike a photo top to me
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- He's saying...
- Compassionate Saddam
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...the Iraqi chiId unfortunateIy
do not have any miIk
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This kid's petrified
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Um, a generous person writes
his propaganda
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Fuck them. Let them say what they want.
The story's not here
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The story's right there
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The boy is 5 years oId. His name is Stuart
Lockwood. He's a British subject
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No, tighter, tighter. The boy, 5 year oId
Stuart Lockwood
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is a British subject... Better?
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HeId at an undiscIosed Iocation...
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these famiIies, Iike other foreign
nationaIs, have been denied visas from Iraq
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Here, visited by President Saddam Hussein
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- ...these peopIe are in effect
- these peopIe are in effect
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Hostages
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- Isn't there another way to say that?
- No
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You reaIIy think that it'II fIy?
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What eIse are you gonna caII them?
Guests is not gonna crack it
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Ok, but we're in it for the Iong hauI.
Let's try not to get kicked out our first day
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How about this? In the rest of the worId
they're caIIed hostages
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but here, they're caIIed ''guests''
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- Works for me
- Okay
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We'II do a standup with a
mosque in the background
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- Coffee snack
- Hey, coffee snack
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I got time to take a shower?
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Yeah. It's 3 now. SateIIite's at 5 Take a
shower
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- You can put it right here
- Thank you
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Here, thanks
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- Here you go
- Oh, thank you
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Excuse me. Were you in the
army here, sir?
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Oh. Oh, yes. Yes. Five and haIf years
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- Did you fight Iran?
- Yes
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Now, may, maybe I, I fight America?
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- You want to go?
- Hey, Mr. Mazin
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You're earIy, I Iike that in a man
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But you want to go, yes?
SateIIite in fifty minutes
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- No. SateIIite's at five
- Changed to four
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- What did you just say?
- Four
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- Fuck. CaII Iraqi TV.
- I'II caII Iraqi TV
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Murphy!
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Let's go. We gotta fIy
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We've got ten minutes
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HoIy moIey!
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Gee hi! My grandfather used to have
stuffs Iike this in his basement
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Yeah, back in the eighties
before you were born?
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- Converter
- Excuse me gentIemen. Thank you
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We're on the bird in four minutes.
Judy, where's the tape?
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Don't worry, it'II be aIright
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- Guys?
- Yeah, we're on it
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Hey, does anyone here speak EngIish?
Who might the head honcho be?
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- Where is Ingrid Formanek?
- Oh, I be Ingrid Formanek
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I am Mrs. Awattif,
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Director InternationaI Department Iraq TV.
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- DeIighted to meet you
- Hi, I'm Robert Wiener
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We are reaIIy sorry to interrupt
your pIans for this evening
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but we got a sateIIite feed...
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PIans? What pIans? I have no pIans
I am working here. What is your purpose?
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- I'm a producer. And we need...
- I understand ...
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Miss Formanek is the producer
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Yeah, and she needs a sateIIite feed
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I am here to supervise your transmission,
Miss Formanek what do you need?
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Yes, we need a phone to contact AtIanta
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- That wouId be the phone in my office
- Okay
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Okay
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Eason, Baghdad on three
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Robert, what's going on?
We're on two minutes
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know.
We got it, we got it.
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Ingrid's down with the censor
going over the spot
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Sisterhood is powerfuI here in Iraq, man
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...and pIaced in private homes
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in and around secret
miIitary and industriaI sites
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In the rest of the worId they're caIIed...
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- Must be dust
- But here in Baghdad...
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... they're simpIy caIIed guests
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What route are we bringing
Baghdad in on?
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Thirty five, but aII we got is hash
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- Robert, we re not seeing you
- Shit!
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- We're approved
- We're fucked. Here, take this
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Mrs. Awattif, they're not
seeing us in AtIanta
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- Judy, keep roIIing for IeveIs
- We got a chroma shift
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Yeah, whatever the heII that is, fix it
Excuse me, couId I get in here?
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- One minute
- Ingrid, we got an image...
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- ... but the audio needs boosting
- We got picture?
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- Yeah, but you need to boost audio
- Shit! How much?
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- How much?
- TweIve DBs
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- Judy, boost the audio tweIve DBs
- Okay
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- It's over moduIated
- How much?
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- Two DB
- Needs to come down two.
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You go. TeII them. I'II handIe the phone
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Thirty seconds
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Judy, bring the audio down 2
and put 10 in the gate Mark come now
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Stay there
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- Fifteen seconds
- Robert, we're there. RoII 18
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- RoII it!
- 12... 1 1 ...
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- RoIIing!
- 10... 9...
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- 7... 6...
- C'mon, c'mon
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5... 4... 3... 2... 1
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Yeah, there we go
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Some extraordinary images
from the Iraqi capitaI today
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President Saddam Hussein heId a face to
face meeting with a group of British hostages
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A meeting that was carried
on Iraqi teIevision
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The boy, five years oId, is Stuart
Lockwood, a British subject
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- It was a good story
- It was buIIshit!
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00:18:42,300 --> 00:18:45,600
No, it was minimum comment,
maximum content, that's aII
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00:18:45,900 --> 00:18:50,700
That is irresponsibIe. You Iet Saddam spout
off his garbage without chaIIenging it
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You hand HitIer a microphone
and you caII it journaIism
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- Where was the editoriaI point of view?
- Where's trusting the viewer?
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They've got the abiIity to judge this
stuff.And they have the right to see it
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AbsoIuteIy
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But how can they know what they're seeing
without some kind of context?
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00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:05,100
Hey, I don t need some big Iead in
I know how I feeI
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About a dictator who puts his hairy
fuckin hand on some IittIe hostageboy
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00:19:08,500 --> 00:19:10,400
It's right there for anybody to see
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- Who are you to say what it means?
- Oh, come on
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00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:16,400
Who are we to say what it means?
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00:19:16,900 --> 00:19:18,400
We didn't say what it means
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00:19:20,500 --> 00:19:23,100
- What do you think it means?
- I don't know what it means
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00:19:27,500 --> 00:19:31,400
I'II teII you what it couId be.
If we couId get both sides taIking
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What? Peace, Iove and understanding?
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C'mon, wierish. We're just the eyes
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We put this shit up there and peopIe puII it
down on their Sonys. I think I'm quoting you
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Nah, I said Zenith
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- Oh, man. Are you drunk?
- Yes
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00:20:02,700 --> 00:20:07,000
- The moment we become the story...
- It's over. I know, I know
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Fuck 'em!
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It was a good story
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00:20:19,700 --> 00:20:21,800
We're gonna need
another one tomorrow
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00:20:21,900 --> 00:20:23,400
- Another what?
- Story. LocaI coIor
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Mazin's got something down at the Embassy
We gotta get something to feed the beast
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00:20:27,900 --> 00:20:29,800
Come, pIease, time is counting
341
00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:33,900
Hey, hey. Cigars. Embassy men Iove cigars,
remember?
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00:20:34,100 --> 00:20:36,400
You give Embassy man cigars,
he gives you big access
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00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:38,800
- Hangover?
- BrutaI
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Down, down, Bosh!
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I'm just gonna start wide on the
crowd
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- Quick connect
- We're on it. You got it
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00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:12,400
- Get these guys right here
- Excuse us. Excuse us
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00:21:19,900 --> 00:21:23,600
- No soIdier, no soIdier
- Hey, hey! Okay, understood
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Okay. Get the kid, the kid stroIIer.
See it?
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00:21:29,300 --> 00:21:31,600
Yeah, they caII the President
Bosh instead of Bush
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Cause bosh in Arabic means ''nothing''.
That's the joke
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00:21:35,500 --> 00:21:38,200
They hauI out a new group every day.
Teachers union...
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- So caIIed writers and poets
- Mark?
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00:21:41,300 --> 00:21:42,900
- Yeah?
- Stop
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00:21:43,500 --> 00:21:46,400
You stop shooting, they aII go home
356
00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:48,900
This is a very good cigar,
by the way.Thank you
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00:21:49,100 --> 00:21:50,400
Thought you might Iike that,
you're weIcome
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00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:52,300
Is the Ambassador coming back, or...
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00:21:52,500 --> 00:21:54,400
No. No way. We're in a
read and burn mode now
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00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:56,800
Yeah. Hey, I saw your piece on the British
hostages
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00:21:57,100 --> 00:21:58,300
Oh, yeah. So?
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00:21:58,500 --> 00:22:00,200
Saddam was attempting
to manipuIate the media
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00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:04,400
He wanted that materiaI aired
But I think it backfired on him. Excuse me
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00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:07,700
WeII, you know, it's not just the Brits that are
trapped here. What about the Americans?
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00:22:07,900 --> 00:22:09,300
Man, I'd Iove to do a story on
American hostages
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00:22:09,900 --> 00:22:12,500
- They can't seem to find any
- That's because they're in hiding
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00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:16,500
Sorry... Saddam's hoIding fourty one at
strategic bombing sites aIready
368
00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:20,000
The others are Iaying Iow.
We don't want them rounded up too
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00:22:20,300 --> 00:22:23,600
Besides, they got burned
by another news group
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00:22:23,900 --> 00:22:25,500
Said they were sending pictures
home to their famiIies
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00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:27,400
Right. Yeah, yeah, then they put in
on the evening news. I know
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00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:29,200
Look, aII I know is that
they're camera shy
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00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:31,000
WeII, that's because nobody's
ever interviewed them
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00:22:31,300 --> 00:22:33,200
Hey, I don't want to do any misIeading. I
want to teII a straight story
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00:22:33,500 --> 00:22:34,700
I'm not gonna do a haIfassed job
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I wanna put a face with the story
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00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:39,000
The American pubIic needs to know
why they shouId care
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00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:40,500
And I'II teII you something
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After carefuI consideration, the State
Department's gonna agree
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Can I use your phone? Thanks
381
00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:49,500
Are you getting your miIk, Stuart?
And with cornfIakes, too
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00:22:49,700 --> 00:22:51,600
See this? You watch NightIine Iast night?
383
00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:54,700
- Oh, the hostage story?
- A twenty-minute-charade
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Mr. Saddam's Neighborhood.
We're taking some serious hits on this
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00:22:57,900 --> 00:23:00,000
C'mon, Tom. If they had
the technoIogy back then,
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HitIer wouId have been on ''Meet The Press''
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00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:04,400
Stuart Lockwood was a great story
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00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:06,900
That's why they re screaming.
That's what great stories do
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00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:11,400
Now this... is not a great story
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00:23:12,300 --> 00:23:14,200
Tom Murphy, CNN, Baghdad
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I know. Arabs denounce Bush.
TriviaI news day
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You know what I want
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00:23:20,100 --> 00:23:22,400
Hey, I know. I'm on it
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00:23:22,700 --> 00:23:26,200
- BeIieve me, I'm aII over it
- AIright, make it happen
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00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:29,400
Hi. Robert Wiener, CNN.
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00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:31,600
I've got an eight a.m. with the Director
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00:23:36,300 --> 00:23:37,700
Yes
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00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:46,100
- You are pIeased to be seated
- Yeah
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00:23:46,300 --> 00:23:48,800
- ShortIy he wiII be with you
- Okey dokey
400
00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:50,600
He wiII not be Iong
401
00:23:51,500 --> 00:23:54,200
- PIease, have some mint tea
- OK
402
00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:14,600
NigeI Babcock
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00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:18,400
I'm here for my eIeven o'cIock
appointment with Mr. Naji AI-Hadikki
404
00:24:24,300 --> 00:24:26,100
Yes. PIease
405
00:24:42,700 --> 00:24:45,800
Mr. Wiener wiII have some tea?
406
00:24:52,900 --> 00:24:55,700
This is rude and unacceptabIe
407
00:24:57,000 --> 00:25:00,400
Where is he? Is he here?
408
00:25:02,900 --> 00:25:05,400
BIoody studip!
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00:25:12,300 --> 00:25:14,500
Hi. Ben Dupont, Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation
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00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:17,300
I'm a few minutes earIy for
four o'cIock with Mr. Naji Hadikki
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00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:21,300
Hadithi, Naji AI-Hadithi
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00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:24,400
Yes, Mr. AI Hadithi
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00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:27,100
- He's not here
- I'm in the wrong office?
414
00:25:27,300 --> 00:25:31,700
No, no, no, no. This is his office.
Mr. Naji is not here today
415
00:25:35,300 --> 00:25:38,600
Mr. Wiener wiII have some more tea?
416
00:25:46,500 --> 00:25:49,800
- Oh. You Ieaving?
- Yes
417
00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:55,600
No, no, no. PIease, you stay
418
00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:59,800
Oh. Hey, here, wait a minute here
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00:26:05,300 --> 00:26:07,400
- It's me
- It's you
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00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:10,700
- Thank you. I show it to my son
- AIright
421
00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:14,600
No, pIease, you stay. Okay?
422
00:26:21,100 --> 00:26:24,600
Mr. Robert Wiener? PIease come in
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00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:43,100
How did you know how to
pronounce my name correctIy?
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00:26:43,300 --> 00:26:44,700
I took the troubIe to find out
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00:26:48,500 --> 00:26:50,600
- Thank you for the cigars
- You're weIcome
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00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:53,800
I don't smoke. But I'm impressed
427
00:26:54,100 --> 00:26:56,500
The same brand as you gave
to Mr. WiIson at the Embassy
428
00:26:57,100 --> 00:27:00,300
Ooh, this is the Ministry of Information
429
00:27:04,100 --> 00:27:05,100
How can I heIp you?
430
00:27:05,300 --> 00:27:08,300
A few things, actuaIIy, there's a request
there for a coupIe of pieces of equipment
431
00:27:08,500 --> 00:27:10,600
I need a fourwire and a fIyaway
432
00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:11,800
What is this?
433
00:27:11,900 --> 00:27:14,200
A fourwire is kind of eIaborate phone system
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00:27:14,500 --> 00:27:16,300
that wiII aIIow me to get through to my
bureau in Amman
435
00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:18,000
and a fIyaway's a IittIe more eIaborate
436
00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:21,400
Now, this has aIready been requested
by your AtIanta office. What eIse?
437
00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:24,900
I want an interview with
President Saddam Hussein
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00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:35,100
- You've made me a written request?
- It's in there as weII, yeah
439
00:27:36,900 --> 00:27:39,500
- I'II see what I can do
- How soon?
440
00:27:40,100 --> 00:27:43,700
- You take Iiberties
- I'm an American
441
00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:46,300
We're the Iiberty peopIe
442
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:51,800
- Tea?
- Yeah
443
00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:54,200
What wouId be the purpose for
The interview?
444
00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:58,300
WeII, I gotta teII ya, I think
without a diaIogue, war is inevitabIe
445
00:27:58,500 --> 00:27:59,900
Yeah, but no diaIogue is possibIe
446
00:28:00,100 --> 00:28:02,700
Your government and the Zionists have
bIackmaiIed the United Nations
447
00:28:02,900 --> 00:28:04,300
- Are you a Zionist?
- No, I'm not
448
00:28:04,900 --> 00:28:07,200
You depicted President Hussein
as a hostage taker
449
00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:10,600
Now, these peopIe were his guests.
Nothing more
450
00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:13,800
- The President got his message out?
- No. You got your message out
451
00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:20,400
The Koran says: ''Confound not
truth with faIsehood...''
452
00:28:21,100 --> 00:28:22,800
''... Nor knowingIy conceaI the truth''
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00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:27,300
Can we at Ieast agree on that
guiding phiIosophy?
454
00:28:28,700 --> 00:28:33,900
Do you think I'm so naive as
to be charmed by a fortunate memory?
455
00:28:36,100 --> 00:28:41,500
I Iucked out. That's the onIy quarter
I remember from coIIege
456
00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:45,000
That, and the impression of
profound human document
457
00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:46,500
Divine
458
00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:51,500
Why wouId President Saddam
Hussein do CNN?
459
00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:53,800
Because we're the onIy network
with gIobaI outreach
460
00:28:54,100 --> 00:28:56,800
Because we're in every foreign ministry
461
00:28:56,900 --> 00:28:59,100
... And because he watches it
462
00:29:03,300 --> 00:29:06,300
According to U.S. InteIIigence
a number of Iraqi troops now...
463
00:29:06,700 --> 00:29:08,900
- What wouId be the interview's Iength?
- One hour at Ieast
464
00:29:09,100 --> 00:29:10,400
- Ninety minutes?
- One hour
465
00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:11,900
- Unedited?
- Unedited
466
00:29:12,100 --> 00:29:13,300
Bernard Shaw?
467
00:29:13,500 --> 00:29:16,200
No, that crosses the Iines.
We have to choose our own interviewers
468
00:29:16,700 --> 00:29:20,000
Of course, this is aII a theoreticaI
conversation, you understand?
469
00:29:22,900 --> 00:29:26,800
Mint tea, whew! You know,
strange enough, I Iike the guy
470
00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:32,400
Let's not be seduced
by a British accent
471
00:29:32,700 --> 00:29:35,600
You don't get to where he is
without doing some pretty heinous stuff
472
00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:38,700
I know. I'm just saying I kinda Iike him.
A human thing
473
00:29:39,100 --> 00:29:43,200
- Do I smeII Iike mint?
- Hmm? Yeah, vagueIy
474
00:29:43,300 --> 00:29:44,300
BBC WorId Service
475
00:29:44,500 --> 00:29:48,300
Bush made a taped message directed to
the Iraqi peopIe, going out on Iraqi TV
476
00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:50,600
- Okay
- We shouId get some reaction in the street
477
00:29:50,900 --> 00:29:54,800
Once again, Iraq finds
itseIf on the brink of war
478
00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:59,400
Once again the same Iraqi
Ieadership has miscaIcuIated
479
00:29:59,700 --> 00:30:03,400
Once again the Iraqi
peopIe face tragedy
480
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:08,100
I do not beIieve that you,
peopIe of Iraq, want war
481
00:30:08,300 --> 00:30:09,800
You've born untoId suffering...
482
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:13,400
An American woman far from home,
trapped in a war zone
483
00:30:13,700 --> 00:30:15,000
Cut it out!
484
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:18,000
Don't you get this?
He says we're on the brink of war
485
00:30:18,300 --> 00:30:20,700
We're in Saddam's neighborhood
Saddam's the number one target
486
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:23,200
They're gonna bomb the shit out of this
pIace. Right here
487
00:30:23,500 --> 00:30:26,000
Not 'tiI we get this interview.
C'mon, over here
488
00:30:29,100 --> 00:30:32,200
By the way, just a reminder Robert. I'm
Ieaving in two days
489
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:34,100
- What are you taIking about?
- I signed up for one rotation
490
00:30:34,300 --> 00:30:35,600
and it's up in two days
491
00:30:36,300 --> 00:30:39,200
- This, what, this is news to me
- He did say one rotation
492
00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:41,500
I'd stay, but my, my wife.
She's due in a month
493
00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:43,500
Oh, this is war. You're
on a news story, Tom
494
00:30:43,700 --> 00:30:45,600
If it was just me I'd stay,
but it's not and I'm going
495
00:30:46,100 --> 00:30:47,900
Look, I gotta think about
my wife and my baby
496
00:30:48,100 --> 00:30:49,400
I got a wife and I got two babies
497
00:30:49,500 --> 00:30:51,600
Yeah, and that's your probIem
I signed up for one rotation
498
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:53,300
It's one rotation. That's it
499
00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:58,300
AIright. Okay. AIright, aIright, I got ya
great, weII, whiIe you're here can you
500
00:30:58,500 --> 00:31:00,800
go get some reactions or something?
501
00:31:04,100 --> 00:31:06,900
You couId've made him feeI
a IittIe better about it
502
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:14,800
Who're we gonna get to repIace him?
503
00:31:16,100 --> 00:31:22,500
Richard Roth, CNN. I'd Iike a room in which
no one has ever smoked a cigarette
504
00:31:28,300 --> 00:31:32,000
- Hey
- Richard Roth, don't caII me Dick
505
00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:34,300
Robert Wiener. Don't caII me Dick either
506
00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:40,400
- Good to see you. What's with the tuna?
- Not much for Mideast cuisine
507
00:31:40,900 --> 00:31:42,100
Hey, thanks for coming
508
00:31:42,300 --> 00:31:46,900
WeII, no one eIse wanted to.
I didn't want to either, but...
509
00:31:47,700 --> 00:31:50,100
- WeII, you came just in time
- Oh, how's that?
510
00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:52,400
We're going to a barbecue
511
00:32:00,900 --> 00:32:02,600
Not bad, the Iife of pubIic service, huh?
512
00:32:03,100 --> 00:32:05,800
They're just a bunch of oiI
workers and businessmen
513
00:32:06,300 --> 00:32:09,500
They got their famiIies
out and kept on working tiI...
514
00:32:09,900 --> 00:32:11,600
...things got a IittIe too hot
515
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:15,200
Now they're hoIed up here.
It's for their own protection
516
00:32:15,500 --> 00:32:17,600
They Ieave they can be kidnapped
by Saddam's men...
517
00:32:17,900 --> 00:32:20,000
...and used as human shieIds
at potentiaI bombing sites
518
00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:22,000
Yeah, Wow
519
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:28,900
- Ready? Okay, in here
- Yeah
520
00:32:30,300 --> 00:32:32,300
- How you doing?
- Who the heII are you?
521
00:32:32,900 --> 00:32:35,000
Oh, hey. How you doing?
522
00:32:35,300 --> 00:32:37,400
CNN. We wanted to taIk to you
a IittIe bit. I'm Robert Wiener
523
00:32:37,700 --> 00:32:39,600
No interviews. Nobody here wants pubIicity
524
00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:41,100
WeII, don't you have peopIe
back home who want to see you?
525
00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:42,900
Who need to hear you're okay?
526
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:44,900
- Heard that before
- Look, we think it's reaIIy important
527
00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:47,200
that the American pubIic reaIizes
you being heId hostage here
528
00:32:47,500 --> 00:32:48,700
What do you think I'm gonna do?
529
00:32:48,900 --> 00:32:53,100
Put you on camera, ask you if you'd Iike to
see Saddam be vioIated by a cameI?
530
00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:58,900
Hey! Who Iet you guys in here?
531
00:32:59,100 --> 00:33:01,000
Oh, hi. We're, uh, we're from CNN
532
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:03,400
- We were gonna do some interviews
- Like heII you are
533
00:33:03,500 --> 00:33:04,800
Leave us aIone and get out
534
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:06,800
None of us want
anything to do with you here
535
00:33:07,100 --> 00:33:08,400
Stu, caIm down. These guys are fine
536
00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:10,100
- I'm not caIming down
- Oh, c'mon. Don't be Iike that
537
00:33:10,500 --> 00:33:12,000
Yeah, nobody Iikes a scumbag
538
00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:14,600
- What did you say to me?
- We're not gonna interview you, anyway
539
00:33:14,900 --> 00:33:16,800
We want the American
side of the story more, uh...
540
00:33:17,100 --> 00:33:18,800
- Sympathetic?
- Sympathetic. Yeah
541
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:22,400
Did you Iet this cIown in here WiIson?
542
00:33:30,500 --> 00:33:32,900
You got a Yankee score, there?
543
00:33:33,700 --> 00:33:35,700
Forget about the Yankees.
How about them Braves?
544
00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:39,300
- Richard Roth, CNN.
- Bob Vinton
545
00:33:39,500 --> 00:33:40,600
- Hi
- Hi
546
00:33:40,700 --> 00:33:43,300
You are nothing but a bunch
overpaid, bone picking vuItures
547
00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:46,500
You're confusing us with CBS paI.
We're the underpaid vuItures
548
00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:49,200
That's the probIem with you peopIe.
Everything's a joke to you
549
00:33:49,500 --> 00:33:51,600
But you tamper with peopIe's Iives.
Let me teII you something, paI
550
00:33:53,900 --> 00:33:58,100
- Are you frightened?
- Sure I'm frightened
551
00:33:58,300 --> 00:34:00,900
I can't spend my days
cowering behind these waIIs
552
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:04,300
And I can t worry about things
that I can't do anything about
553
00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:07,300
This is something I can't worry about
554
00:34:07,700 --> 00:34:11,200
My company sent me over here to do
a job and I'm gonna get out here and do it
555
00:34:11,700 --> 00:34:14,000
I feeI totaIIy safe in Baghdad
556
00:34:14,300 --> 00:34:19,500
The Iraqis are wonderfuI peopIe
and I can't imagine them mistreating us at aII
557
00:34:19,700 --> 00:34:23,400
Oh, hey,I understand your feeIing
though I don't agree. I'm just saying
558
00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:25,300
Hey, where did your peopIe go?
559
00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:27,200
And that's a cut
560
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:31,500
- That's terrific
- Anything eIse?
561
00:34:31,700 --> 00:34:34,500
No, that was great... I'd Iike to
do a foIIow-up in a day or two
562
00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:35,900
- What do you think?
- Sure
563
00:34:36,100 --> 00:34:39,100
- Let me ask you something
- The guy has a right
564
00:34:39,200 --> 00:34:40,700
How do you sIeep at night?
565
00:34:40,900 --> 00:34:42,600
You put that good man's Iife in danger
566
00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:46,400
How do you sIeep at night?
567
00:34:47,100 --> 00:34:49,500
- Sure
- Hey, thanks
568
00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:53,300
I sIeep just fine
569
00:34:56,500 --> 00:34:57,700
Thanks!
570
00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:02,800
VenezueIa has vowed to increase oiI
production by fifteen percent
571
00:35:03,300 --> 00:35:07,400
But with Saddam Hussein now effectiveIy
controIIing 20% of the worId's oiI suppIies
572
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:10,900
experts predict gas prices
wiII continue to soar
573
00:35:11,300 --> 00:35:13,000
This is John HoIIiman reporting
574
00:35:13,300 --> 00:35:15,600
- Nice piece, John
- Thanks
575
00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:18,200
You Iook nice today
576
00:35:19,300 --> 00:35:22,700
The arab nation is one nation,
it is what I'm saying
577
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:25,500
We do not want war,
aIthough we know we can fight
578
00:35:25,700 --> 00:35:27,300
I need a fieId assignment
I'm going crazy
579
00:35:27,700 --> 00:35:31,100
- WeII, you shouId taIk that with Eason
- He toId me to taIk to you
580
00:35:31,500 --> 00:35:34,300
- What did you have in mind,John?
- Baghdad
581
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:37,700
You don't know that part of worId
582
00:35:37,900 --> 00:35:39,100
WeII, I didn't know Tienanmen Square either
583
00:35:39,500 --> 00:35:41,700
Look, I've been on oiI desk
for a year. I know the issues
584
00:35:41,900 --> 00:35:43,500
And that's a very important desk right now
585
00:35:43,700 --> 00:35:45,300
I don't think we have anybody
to take your pIace
586
00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:49,000
Look, Ed, Iook,
I've put in my time. I deserve this
587
00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:51,600
- HoId on a second
- And if you become a human shieId...
588
00:35:51,900 --> 00:35:54,300
... at some strategic site?
589
00:35:55,400 --> 00:36:00,100
I pray every day that this crisis
is over. I sure miss my wife
590
00:36:00,300 --> 00:36:02,700
See you reaI soon, honey
591
00:36:04,300 --> 00:36:08,300
Not bad. Listen, John. Now, I hear you.
I know what you're saying
592
00:36:08,500 --> 00:36:13,100
And I'II keep it in mind. But you're
vaIuabIe here and, frankIy, Baghdad...
593
00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:15,900
- ... it doesn't fit you Iike a gIove
- Ed!
594
00:36:16,100 --> 00:36:18,000
- Did you see it?
- Terrific. Good story
595
00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:21,300
John, Iet me give it some thought. AIright?
596
00:36:24,100 --> 00:36:27,800
- Good work, by the way, The hand.
- Thank you.
597
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:29,900
- So how did it pIay?
- Terrific story, Robert
598
00:36:30,300 --> 00:36:33,600
Great, great work! We're out there aIone
with it ! We aced everyone! WeII done!
599
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:35,100
- Thanks, Ed
- Great work
600
00:36:35,700 --> 00:36:39,000
The Iraqis are wonderfuI peopIe.
I can't imagine them mistreating us
601
00:36:47,900 --> 00:36:49,200
And he'II have a YooHoo
602
00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:52,800
That's a chocoIate drink.
I'II have a beer. It's a maIt beverage
603
00:36:54,500 --> 00:36:56,000
Thank you
604
00:36:56,700 --> 00:36:59,500
Look at this. I didn't even
get a moment to rest on my IaureIs
605
00:36:59,900 --> 00:37:03,600
So many reporters, one IittIe story. You
have any notion to get us back in front?
606
00:37:03,900 --> 00:37:05,600
Saddam Hussein interview
607
00:37:06,900 --> 00:37:10,100
I'm buiIding what they caII strong
reIationship with the Ministry of Information
608
00:37:10,300 --> 00:37:12,600
Is that a good thing?
609
00:37:14,100 --> 00:37:16,700
Hey, Inky! Saddam Iet you back in, huh?
610
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:21,100
Hey, he throws us out, no reason
he Iets us back, no reason
611
00:37:21,300 --> 00:37:23,200
He couId doubIe for my second wife
612
00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:26,300
Take a mini bath. There
613
00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:30,100
DSB season has officiaIIy begun
614
00:37:30,900 --> 00:37:33,900
- DSB?
- DeadIy Sperm Backup
615
00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:37,900
See, you on air guys never stick
around Iong enough to feeI the pain
616
00:37:38,300 --> 00:37:41,500
- It's excruciating
- Robert, can I have a word?
617
00:37:42,500 --> 00:37:44,800
Yeah. What's the matter?
618
00:37:45,700 --> 00:37:48,600
WeII, that's cIear enough,
I'II go get some tuna
619
00:37:52,300 --> 00:37:56,000
Bob Vinton's been
taken prisonner by the Iraqis
620
00:37:56,500 --> 00:37:57,800
What?
621
00:37:58,100 --> 00:38:02,100
He went back to work
and they got him. He's missing
622
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:06,400
More aIIegations
of Iraqi brutaIity emerged today
623
00:38:06,700 --> 00:38:09,500
as Kuwaiti refugees testified
before a congressionaI committee
624
00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:13,000
They took the babies out of incubators
625
00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:18,700
Took the incubators
and Ieft the chiIdren to die on the coId fIoor
626
00:38:18,900 --> 00:38:23,300
Other witnesses toId of torture and
vioIence at the hands of Saddam's troops
627
00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:57,000
You didn't kidnap that guy.
The Iraqis did
628
00:38:57,400 --> 00:39:01,400
- I put him in jeopardy
- It was his caII
629
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:04,800
Doesn't Iet me off
630
00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:10,300
Egomaniac. You think
everything's about you
631
00:39:11,100 --> 00:39:15,600
WeII, Bob Vinton's not about you.
Bob Vinton is about Bob Vinton
632
00:39:16,300 --> 00:39:20,600
You think he's somewhere obsessing
about you, Robert Wiener, right now?
633
00:39:21,100 --> 00:39:27,600
Trust me, Wierish, he has other fish to fry.
He's in his story and we're in ours
634
00:39:29,100 --> 00:39:35,500
- Yeah, I don't Iike my story much
- That's aIright. You can work it out
635
00:39:41,500 --> 00:39:47,800
- You didn't make me feeI any better
- I know, I'm not after cheap emotion
636
00:39:54,500 --> 00:39:57,800
What are you after, Miss Formanek?
637
00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:01,300
A drink
638
00:40:12,100 --> 00:40:17,000
This is a CBS News excIusive report.
Dan Rather and Saddam Hussein
639
00:40:17,300 --> 00:40:18,600
- Shit!
- Shit!
640
00:40:18,700 --> 00:40:21,200
- That was my interview
- I never said you'd get it
641
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:23,300
No, but you gave it to
Dan Rather and CBS
642
00:40:23,500 --> 00:40:24,800
These decisions are made
in a very high pIace
643
00:40:25,100 --> 00:40:26,700
I'm gonna jump from a very pIace
644
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:30,000
- Is it reaIIy so important?
- Yeah, it is reaIIy that important? It is to me
645
00:40:30,300 --> 00:40:31,700
It makes me Iook bad back home
646
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:35,000
PIus, if you give it to CNN. We give
it more time or we give it more pIay
647
00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:36,500
They wouId onIy give us haIf an hour
648
00:40:36,700 --> 00:40:38,300
- Who?
- Your peopIe. CNN.
649
00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:41,100
- I, I said an hour
- And your peopIe said haIf an hour
650
00:40:41,600 --> 00:40:45,500
You trusted some schmuck back in AtIanta?
Why didn't you come to me?
651
00:40:45,700 --> 00:40:47,700
Don' t dweII on it
652
00:40:48,300 --> 00:40:52,600
Other subjects. Your equipment request for
a fourwire teIephone system and a fIyaway
653
00:40:53,100 --> 00:40:54,600
Now, for the fIyaway the answer is no
654
00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:59,600
But for the fourwire, Iooks promising
that permission may be received
655
00:41:01,100 --> 00:41:04,000
Come on, this may be
a significant thing for you
656
00:41:14,500 --> 00:41:16,700
There's something eIse
657
00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:20,000
- Bob Vinton
- You knew him?
658
00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:23,200
- Past tense?
- You know him?
659
00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:26,300
Yeah, I, uh, put him on TV
and now he's missing
660
00:41:27,300 --> 00:41:29,600
- Having a hard time sIeeping
- Yeah, when it's your countrymen
661
00:41:29,900 --> 00:41:31,300
When it's my country, you don't care
662
00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:35,000
Oh, pIease. Look, you and I are
trying to prevent something here
663
00:41:35,300 --> 00:41:37,600
You take a guy Iike Bob Vinton
that doesn't heIp anyone's cause
664
00:41:37,900 --> 00:41:42,700
Look, I just want to know:
Is he safe?
665
00:41:45,500 --> 00:41:48,200
I want you to Iook at me
and understand me
666
00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:53,600
I can teII you nothing about this man.
Is he safe?
667
00:42:04,100 --> 00:42:06,800
I can teII you nothing
668
00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:10,200
I couId do something for you
669
00:42:12,100 --> 00:42:13,900
What're you taIking about?
670
00:42:14,300 --> 00:42:17,800
You've heard the outrageous aIIegations of
Iraqi soIdiers taking babies from incubators
671
00:42:18,100 --> 00:42:20,100
Yeah. Are they true?
672
00:42:24,700 --> 00:42:27,200
Maybe I couId Iet you
and your crew go to Kuwait
673
00:42:27,700 --> 00:42:31,600
No one but the Army is there.
You'd be the first
674
00:42:33,100 --> 00:42:34,800
For you
675
00:42:35,200 --> 00:42:38,900
Crank up this caravan,Scheherazade
We're going to Kuwait. Where's she?
676
00:42:39,900 --> 00:42:42,200
- Oh, Jesus. Sorry.
- Hang on. We're going to Kuwait?
677
00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:43,700
- Yeah
- WeII, says who?
678
00:42:44,100 --> 00:42:45,800
- Naji
- The guided tour?
679
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:49,400
WeII, a coupIe of ground ruIes. We can onIy
cover the incubators story. Three hospitaIs
680
00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:52,500
What, so now they're teIIing us
what the story is?
681
00:42:53,100 --> 00:42:56,100
WouId you rather have
Dan Rather report it?
682
00:42:56,300 --> 00:42:58,800
PIus, we're in Kuwait.
You fIip on the camera, it's news
683
00:42:59,300 --> 00:43:02,700
- And Bob Vinton is safe
- How do you know?
684
00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:06,200
Naji sort of nodded his head
685
00:43:06,500 --> 00:43:08,700
- Sort of nodded?
- Yeah
686
00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:12,400
You reaIIy trust this guy, don't you?
687
00:43:34,700 --> 00:43:36,000
Jesus
688
00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:51,900
Don't. It's not worth it
689
00:43:52,500 --> 00:43:56,500
I can't beIieve we're staring at the rape of
Kuwait with a camera and we're not shooting
690
00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:02,400
We'II get a story. We're in Kuwait!
Nobody's in Kuwait. C'mon
691
00:44:14,300 --> 00:44:16,500
In the back. In the back
692
00:44:16,700 --> 00:44:19,800
In the car. Hurry. In the back
693
00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:43,600
We're in heII
694
00:44:45,500 --> 00:44:49,400
This was the biggest forest in
the history of the worId:
695
00:44:50,200 --> 00:44:51,700
Dinosaurs
696
00:44:52,100 --> 00:44:56,500
Then it aII died, rotted, turned
into oiI and now we're here
697
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:04,600
It's basicaIIy we're fighting to see
who gets to desecrate the cemetery
698
00:45:05,900 --> 00:45:07,900
Who gets the oiI?
699
00:45:08,900 --> 00:45:11,300
No wonder there's been so much bad bIood
700
00:45:11,500 --> 00:45:15,100
It's aIways been Iousy karma
to be a grave robber
701
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:25,200
And if this obstetrician says
the Iraqis have been eating babies
702
00:45:25,500 --> 00:45:27,900
These miIitary types
gonna riddIe him with buIIets, no?
703
00:45:28,100 --> 00:45:30,300
So what's he gonna say?
Good morning, weIcome to Kuwait?
704
00:45:30,700 --> 00:45:33,300
Listen, we're going to,
Iike three different hospitaIs
705
00:45:33,500 --> 00:45:35,500
I m sure we'II get the truth
706
00:45:36,100 --> 00:45:38,000
- Okay. Let's do it
- Ready?
707
00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:49,700
AII the incubators are here.
None of our babies are missing
708
00:45:53,900 --> 00:45:56,800
But you're aware of the aIIegations, Doctor?
709
00:45:57,000 --> 00:46:01,100
- I have heard these stories
- This sucks. He's scared
710
00:46:01,300 --> 00:46:03,700
- Yeah, this is bad
- I can teII you...
711
00:46:04,200 --> 00:46:08,200
Nothing has happened at this hospitaI
that I know
712
00:46:08,900 --> 00:46:11,000
But at other hospitaIs?
713
00:46:11,600 --> 00:46:13,900
- I cannot teII about other hospitaIs
- Finish. Finish. We go now
714
00:46:14,200 --> 00:46:15,900
- What, to the other hospitaIs?
- No, no. Back to Baghdad
715
00:46:16,100 --> 00:46:17,800
- Hey! Hey! That wasn't part of the deaI
- That is story
716
00:46:18,100 --> 00:46:20,400
Mazin, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no you said we...
717
00:46:20,700 --> 00:46:23,300
- Lay off!
- Hey, don't push it
718
00:46:46,100 --> 00:46:48,200
You knew this was going
to happen, didn't you?
719
00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:50,100
Did you have it in thework the outset?
720
00:46:50,300 --> 00:46:53,400
How much do you get paid, anyway,
for being reprehensibIe?
721
00:46:53,500 --> 00:46:56,300
- Remember Farzad Bazoft?
- What, are you... threatening us, mister?
722
00:46:56,600 --> 00:46:59,000
- He was a spy and we hanged him
- Non, he was a journaIist...
723
00:46:59,500 --> 00:47:01,600
- ... and you murdered him
- Hey, Ieave it aIone
724
00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:08,800
Broadcasting on 9410
megahertz shortwave
725
00:47:08,900 --> 00:47:11,100
- What's that on the radio?
- It's the BBC
726
00:47:11,300 --> 00:47:12,500
Turn it up
727
00:47:12,700 --> 00:47:14,300
... by the officiaI Iraqi News Agency
728
00:47:14,500 --> 00:47:16,500
that a CNN correspondent and crew
729
00:47:16,700 --> 00:47:18,100
- It's us!
- ... were in Kuwait City today
730
00:47:18,600 --> 00:47:21,400
and determined there is no truth
to the recent aIIegations...
731
00:47:21,600 --> 00:47:24,000
- WeII, shit!
- Fuck!
732
00:47:24,900 --> 00:47:26,800
We didn't even fiIe the story yet
733
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:30,000
You know what just happened?
We just became the story
734
00:47:31,100 --> 00:47:34,600
- They're here! They're here!
- Let's move!
735
00:47:40,200 --> 00:47:42,600
NBC News. Is it true
you've just come from Kuwait?
736
00:47:43,100 --> 00:47:45,700
- What is the situation in Kuwait?
- What about the incubators story?
737
00:47:46,100 --> 00:47:48,600
The Iraqi news media said you
reported no babies were murdered
738
00:47:48,800 --> 00:47:51,000
- Is that acurate?
- We haven't reported any such thing
739
00:47:51,300 --> 00:47:53,100
Anybody who says we did is a Iiar!
740
00:47:54,200 --> 00:47:55,700
Let me get him out of here
741
00:47:55,900 --> 00:48:00,000
Excuse me. Excuse me.
Just Ieave him aIone. Leave him aIone!
742
00:48:10,800 --> 00:48:16,900
HeIIo. Yeah, Naji, you're goddam right we
have a probIem! What the heII was that?
743
00:48:17,100 --> 00:48:20,400
- CIarify? What'd you mean, cIarify?
- It's AtIanta
744
00:48:20,600 --> 00:48:24,400
No, no, no, no, those were not
the ground ruIes. We never agreed to that
745
00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:26,000
It's AtIanta
746
00:48:41,700 --> 00:48:43,800
Are you teIIing me that
you couId onIy report the hospitaI story
747
00:48:43,900 --> 00:48:45,800
- ... and that the hospitaI's story is buIIshit?
- That's what I'm teIIing you
748
00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:48,000
You must've gotten other subjects,
You were in Kuwait, for Christ's sake
749
00:48:48,200 --> 00:48:50,400
We saw fucking pretty amazing
stuff, we can taIk about it
750
00:48:50,500 --> 00:48:52,300
We can't taIk about it
751
00:48:54,100 --> 00:48:58,800
We didn't shoot it. We can't report it...
OnIy the hospitaI story
752
00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:00,500
Those weren't the parameter you toId us
753
00:49:00,700 --> 00:49:04,800
- The parameters have just been recIarified
- RecIarified?
754
00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:07,300
We can report the story if we chose...
755
00:49:07,500 --> 00:49:12,600
but we Iose any chance of a Saddam
interview. And we couId get kicked out
756
00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:14,300
We wouId never
have agreed those conditions
757
00:49:14,500 --> 00:49:16,400
This is the darkest day in the history network
758
00:49:16,600 --> 00:49:19,600
Look, it was a risk, we took a gambIe,
it didn't work out
759
00:49:19,800 --> 00:49:21,400
But we're here. We're in for the Iong hauI
760
00:49:21,500 --> 00:49:25,500
By the way, who the fuck cut my Saddam
interview? We offered them an hour
761
00:49:25,600 --> 00:49:27,700
We are not handing Saddam
Hussein unIimited access
762
00:49:27,900 --> 00:49:29,300
- HoId it!
- CBS gave him an hour
763
00:49:29,500 --> 00:49:32,600
Are they takin the fuckin heat? Or
are we the whipping boys for the network?
764
00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:35,100
- This is not about C...
- HoId it, hoId it!
765
00:49:35,900 --> 00:49:38,000
Look, any news organization
wouId've jumped on this trip
766
00:49:38,300 --> 00:49:42,600
under the same circumstances,
but in the future, if we see it we report it
767
00:49:42,700 --> 00:49:45,500
And if the Iraqis have a probIem with that
they can kick us out of the country
768
00:49:45,700 --> 00:49:49,800
But at Ieast they'II kick us out with
our credibiIity intact. Understood?
769
00:49:50,800 --> 00:49:52,600
What are you gonna do with the story?
770
00:49:54,000 --> 00:49:56,600
What do you think I'm gonna do with it?
771
00:49:57,100 --> 00:49:58,900
I'm gonna run it
772
00:49:59,600 --> 00:50:01,000
This is Tom Johnson, Robert
773
00:50:01,400 --> 00:50:03,000
I onIy got one question
774
00:50:05,100 --> 00:50:06,400
Yes
775
00:50:06,900 --> 00:50:10,800
Why were we the ones the Iraqis
chose for the Kuwait story?
776
00:50:23,600 --> 00:50:26,500
What the fuck you Iooking at?
777
00:50:32,700 --> 00:50:34,900
- I trusted you
- I've done what I had to do
778
00:50:35,200 --> 00:50:37,200
- No, you set me up
- AII governments use the press
779
00:50:37,500 --> 00:50:39,400
- BuIIshit! That's too easy
- No, that's reaIity
780
00:50:39,600 --> 00:50:42,400
- I used you, you used me. We're the same
- Oh, reaIIy? I'II teII you what
781
00:50:42,600 --> 00:50:44,900
I'm trying to cut through this buIIshit and
I'm trying to have an honest conversation
782
00:50:45,300 --> 00:50:46,900
- Honest? You want honesty?
- Yeah, yeah!
783
00:50:47,400 --> 00:50:50,000
AIright. The American peopIe
don't care about the peopIe in Kuwait
784
00:50:50,100 --> 00:50:52,800
This is about oiI, for you
785
00:50:53,100 --> 00:50:55,300
For us, we care about very different issues
786
00:50:55,500 --> 00:50:59,200
Dignity. Pride. Much more
important to us than oiI
787
00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:02,100
More important to us than
survivaI in this mortaI reaIm
788
00:51:02,300 --> 00:51:04,200
- Okay, so straighten us out, then
- AIright
789
00:51:04,600 --> 00:51:07,100
An EngIish generaI carved out a piece
from our country after WorId War One
790
00:51:07,300 --> 00:51:08,900
and caIIed it Kuwait
791
00:51:10,200 --> 00:51:12,400
There is a history in this region
about which your peopIe know nothing
792
00:51:12,800 --> 00:51:14,400
- Okay, so straighten us out, Naji
- What do you mean?
793
00:51:14,500 --> 00:51:17,200
If we're getting it wrong,
put President Saddam Hussein on the air
794
00:51:17,500 --> 00:51:18,800
And Iet him teII us what we're doing wrong
795
00:51:19,100 --> 00:51:21,400
My peopIe don't understand your peopIe
so put your man on the air
796
00:51:21,500 --> 00:51:24,200
- We did that with CBS, it changed nothing
- No, you've gotta keep doing it
797
00:51:24,500 --> 00:51:27,800
You just can't waIk away.
Think about what's at stake here Naji
798
00:51:28,600 --> 00:51:31,100
Think about what we're taIking about
799
00:51:32,500 --> 00:51:34,700
PeopIe are going to die
800
00:51:35,900 --> 00:51:37,800
PeopIe are going to die
801
00:51:40,900 --> 00:51:42,900
And I'II teII you exactIy
when they're gonna die
802
00:51:43,100 --> 00:51:46,500
They're gonna die when the taIking stops
803
00:51:49,600 --> 00:51:51,400
So we gotta keep taIking
804
00:51:51,600 --> 00:51:55,500
We gotta keep taIkin 'tiI we're oId men.
Okay?
805
00:51:56,400 --> 00:52:00,000
Because as soon as the taIking stops,
we're dead
806
00:52:00,300 --> 00:52:01,700
Look, maybe I'II never understand you
807
00:52:01,900 --> 00:52:03,800
Maybe we're not supposed
to understand each other
808
00:52:04,000 --> 00:52:06,000
But as Iong as we stay taIking,
we stay aIive
809
00:52:10,800 --> 00:52:12,600
It's worth an interview
810
00:52:25,200 --> 00:52:27,500
- Hey, watch it!
- Empty pockets
811
00:52:27,600 --> 00:52:28,900
Hey! Pockets
812
00:52:29,300 --> 00:52:32,600
- Reminds me of getting booked
- How many times you been arrested?
813
00:52:32,800 --> 00:52:35,700
- In America?
- I'm getting stimuIated
814
00:52:37,700 --> 00:52:39,100
Mr. Shaw, I weIcome you in Baghdad
815
00:52:39,300 --> 00:52:42,400
Yes. Can the car wait?
I'm out right after the interview
816
00:52:45,600 --> 00:52:47,500
Are you guys hearing me?
Yeah?
817
00:52:48,700 --> 00:52:51,700
Why don't we do a roII.
Hey, Bernie. Good fIight?
818
00:52:51,900 --> 00:52:53,600
- Good fIight, my brother
- Hi, Bernie. Can I hook you?
819
00:53:03,000 --> 00:53:04,600
One one. How are the IeveIs
on your end, Mark?
820
00:53:04,900 --> 00:53:06,200
- One one one
- Good
821
00:53:06,400 --> 00:53:09,000
Okay, AtIanta's good too.
They're roIIing tape. We're there, kids
822
00:53:10,100 --> 00:53:11,400
Here we go!
823
00:53:27,700 --> 00:53:29,000
Robert Wiener, CNN.
824
00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:32,900
M. President, a pIeasure.
Ingrid Formanek
825
00:53:34,300 --> 00:53:38,600
- And, of course, Bernard Shaw
- M. President. My pIeasure
826
00:53:47,100 --> 00:53:49,900
Put a microphone on you here
827
00:53:53,900 --> 00:53:57,600
Nice tie. Very nice tie.
828
00:53:58,700 --> 00:54:00,100
Okay, we're ten
829
00:54:00,400 --> 00:54:04,800
- Nine, eight, seven, six
- And five, Bernie
830
00:54:04,900 --> 00:54:09,000
Four... three... two...
831
00:54:11,500 --> 00:54:14,500
M. President, thank you
very much for joining us
832
00:54:15,300 --> 00:54:18,000
AImost three months have passed
since this crisis began
833
00:54:18,200 --> 00:54:20,700
To prevent the embargo
from destroying your country
834
00:54:21,100 --> 00:54:23,500
WiII you withdraw from Kuwait?
835
00:54:35,100 --> 00:54:38,500
If an embargo couId force the Americans
to withdraw from one of their states
836
00:54:38,800 --> 00:54:44,000
say, Hawaii, then maybe the Iraqis wouId
consider withdrawing from Kuwait
837
00:54:45,900 --> 00:54:48,300
So your answer is no
838
00:54:54,100 --> 00:54:55,500
NaturaIIy
839
00:54:58,200 --> 00:55:03,600
Oh, my god, Iook at this. We're
Iooking in the eyes of a murderer
840
00:55:03,900 --> 00:55:05,600
He's murdered reIatives!
841
00:55:05,700 --> 00:55:08,200
I've been there but I didn't act out
842
00:55:08,500 --> 00:55:10,900
Cheers, everyone.
Great job aII around
843
00:55:13,600 --> 00:55:16,000
Mark, we've got a souvenir. Come and see
844
00:55:16,200 --> 00:55:18,900
- Do those things fIy?
- No, I'm just coIIecting them
845
00:55:19,100 --> 00:55:20,800
Oh, I guess he gave up on barf bags
846
00:55:21,000 --> 00:55:23,600
Good, huh? Hey, Weiresh.
We did good
847
00:55:24,500 --> 00:55:26,800
It's no good. Didn't say anything new
848
00:55:27,000 --> 00:55:28,900
We busted our ass to get
a story, that's not news
849
00:55:29,100 --> 00:55:32,300
C'mon, if an interview with
Saddam Hussein, isn't news, what is?
850
00:55:34,100 --> 00:55:35,400
War
851
00:55:37,400 --> 00:55:40,600
What we're confronting is a cIassic buIIy
852
00:55:40,700 --> 00:55:42,300
who thinks he can get away...
853
00:55:42,500 --> 00:55:44,100
with kicking sand in the face of the worId
854
00:55:44,200 --> 00:55:47,300
But Saddam is making the mistake of his Iife
855
00:55:47,800 --> 00:55:53,000
We're not here on some exercice,
this is a reaI worId situation
856
00:55:53,200 --> 00:56:00,400
And we're not waIking away untiI our mission
is done: untiI the invader is out of Kuwait
857
00:56:14,500 --> 00:56:18,100
TheoreticaIIy, you have me for
another hour. I aIready briefed HoIIiman
858
00:56:18,300 --> 00:56:21,200
Want me to griII anybody
or may I head to the airport?
859
00:56:21,400 --> 00:56:24,000
When the story breaks, you're
gonna reaIIy hate yourseIf for not being here
860
00:56:25,000 --> 00:56:27,000
No, I'm not a regretfuI person
861
00:56:27,200 --> 00:56:29,000
Anyway, if I'm gonna die,
I'd rather die in IsraeI
862
00:56:29,100 --> 00:56:30,700
Nobody dies whiIe I'm in charge
863
00:56:30,900 --> 00:56:36,400
- Where's Bob Vinton?
- I don't know. But I know he's aII right
864
00:56:36,800 --> 00:56:40,200
So they teII you. Lest you forget they
aIways teII you what you want to hear
865
00:56:40,500 --> 00:56:44,100
Then they round the Jews up. aIways do
that, too. When in doubt round up the Jews
866
00:56:45,100 --> 00:56:46,400
Goodbye Richard...
867
00:56:46,600 --> 00:56:48,600
- I think you're reaIIy smart
- WeII, goodbye, Judy
868
00:56:49,000 --> 00:56:50,800
I think I'm reaIIy smart too
869
00:56:51,000 --> 00:56:55,300
Richard, safe traveIs, amigo.
Good working with you, man. Take care
870
00:56:56,100 --> 00:56:59,800
- Thanks
- Safe journey
871
00:57:00,500 --> 00:57:04,500
God be with you, guys.
I mean that. I'II caII you from JerusaIem
872
00:57:04,600 --> 00:57:06,400
You're a brave man.
Don't ever forget that, Dick
873
00:57:06,600 --> 00:57:09,500
- Don't caII me Dick
- AIright, Dick
874
00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:17,800
Hey, I wonder what's happening
over there. Where's Fatima? Fatima!
875
00:57:18,300 --> 00:57:21,900
Can you come over here?
Can you see what's happening over there?
876
00:57:22,800 --> 00:57:24,400
- Come on, Iet's go
- Okay
877
00:57:26,300 --> 00:57:27,500
Say this:
878
00:57:32,200 --> 00:57:34,000
- Pretty good
- What'd I just say?
879
00:57:34,200 --> 00:57:36,100
Don't shoot. I'm a journaIist
880
00:57:36,700 --> 00:57:40,500
The hostages have been reIeased
I heard it on the radio! AII foreigners can go!
881
00:57:40,700 --> 00:57:42,100
- I can go!
- Wait, wait!
882
00:57:42,300 --> 00:57:44,900
Go to the AI-Rasheed and teII
John HoIIiman to meet us at the airport
883
00:57:45,600 --> 00:57:47,500
- Okay
- Airport
884
00:57:47,800 --> 00:57:50,200
- Saddam Hussein is now saying
- Some amazing scenes here in Baghdad
885
00:57:54,400 --> 00:57:55,900
So. These are our freed hostages
886
00:57:56,200 --> 00:57:57,800
- You ready to work,John ?
- I think so
887
00:57:58,100 --> 00:58:01,300
WeII, better get started, Mister HoIIiman.
You're our man in Baghdad now
888
00:58:01,500 --> 00:58:03,000
- John HoIIiman CNN
- We're roIIing
889
00:58:03,200 --> 00:58:05,800
- May I ask your name, sir?
- Raymond Page. St Louis
890
00:58:06,200 --> 00:58:08,300
By aII measures Mr. Page,
you must be a happy man today
891
00:58:09,100 --> 00:58:11,600
May I ask you what you were doing when
you found out you were free to go home?
892
00:58:12,000 --> 00:58:15,400
I was shaving. See? I actuaIIy cut myseIf
893
00:58:15,600 --> 00:58:18,800
- Where were you being heId, sir?
- It was just an office
894
00:58:20,100 --> 00:58:22,800
Were you aware of how many
peopIe were in the buiIding?
895
00:58:32,300 --> 00:58:35,800
- Bob Vinton
- Do I know you?
896
00:58:36,100 --> 00:58:38,300
I'm Robert Wiener, CNN
897
00:58:41,700 --> 00:58:46,800
- I did an interview with you
- Oh. Interview. Yeah, hi
898
00:58:49,500 --> 00:58:51,100
You're aIright?
899
00:58:51,500 --> 00:58:56,200
Oh, yeah. Yeah. They just moved us
to this office buiIding. Not that bad
900
00:58:56,400 --> 00:58:59,600
- You know, I'm reaIIy gIad you're aIright
- Thanks
901
00:58:59,800 --> 00:59:02,500
Yeah. Cause, I, heard, and.. I, I ...
902
00:59:02,700 --> 00:59:04,100
Excuse me. I gotta catch a pIane
903
00:59:04,400 --> 00:59:05,700
- Excuse me
- Sure
904
00:59:05,800 --> 00:59:07,100
Yeah. Yeah!
905
00:59:09,000 --> 00:59:11,300
- Hey, take it easy, okay?
- You too
906
00:59:23,200 --> 00:59:27,400
- Hey! He's doing pretty good
- He's aIright
907
00:59:28,800 --> 00:59:31,100
- Who?
- Bob Vinton
908
00:59:31,200 --> 00:59:34,000
- How do you know?
- I just saw him
909
00:59:34,200 --> 00:59:36,100
You're kidding.
ShouId I get the crew?
910
00:59:36,400 --> 00:59:41,700
No, no, no. Forget that!
I mean, he's aIright
911
00:59:47,700 --> 00:59:52,300
- Hey, You okay?
- Yeah
912
00:59:53,600 --> 00:59:56,000
I was just standing there, you know?
913
00:59:57,900 --> 00:59:59,300
Okay
914
01:00:00,300 --> 01:00:02,300
- You ready to go back to work?
- Yeah
915
01:00:02,500 --> 01:00:03,800
Okay. Come on
916
01:00:04,000 --> 01:00:07,100
23 hostages finaIIy made their way
through customs, and the other side
917
01:00:07,500 --> 01:00:09,500
Does this mean Saddam is backing down?
918
01:00:10,100 --> 01:00:11,500
I don't think so
919
01:00:12,900 --> 01:00:15,600
What I'm hearing is
he's got 500 000 troops in Kuwait
920
01:00:15,900 --> 01:00:18,100
Looks Iike we're going in.
It couId be a matter of weeks
921
01:00:18,400 --> 01:00:21,600
WeII, we're stiII there, Tom.
Robert's inside. We're in position
922
01:00:21,800 --> 01:00:24,800
Today President Bush reiterated
security counciI resoIution 678
923
01:00:25,300 --> 01:00:30,000
... stipuIating that
Iraq Ieave Kuwait by January 15th
924
01:00:30,100 --> 01:00:31,700
Better get Arnett ready
925
01:00:31,900 --> 01:00:37,000
It further authorizes aII necessary
means against Irak if it faiIs to compIy
926
01:00:40,700 --> 01:00:42,800
We're deaIing with HitIer revisited
927
01:00:44,300 --> 01:00:45,500
When you've done what he's done
928
01:00:45,700 --> 01:00:48,600
I don't see that there is room for concession
929
01:00:48,700 --> 01:00:53,400
or there's room for giving something to save face
930
01:00:53,900 --> 01:00:55,800
That's not the way you treat with aggression
931
01:00:57,900 --> 01:01:00,100
We shaII not accept
932
01:01:00,200 --> 01:01:03,500
to be treated as a nation as underdogs
933
01:01:03,700 --> 01:01:05,700
We are a proud nation
934
01:01:05,800 --> 01:01:10,400
and we wouId Iike to be treated
in a dignified and just manner
935
01:01:11,000 --> 01:01:14,200
Oh, that's scary.
You know, they're taIking through us now
936
01:01:14,600 --> 01:01:17,100
Both sides... They're taIking through CNN
937
01:01:17,400 --> 01:01:21,900
Yeah, they're taIking, but they're not Iistening
What the fuck are we doing here?
938
01:01:22,100 --> 01:01:25,700
- WeII, it's caIIed our job, Wierish
- ReaIIy?
939
01:01:26,000 --> 01:01:27,300
Grabbing sound bites
940
01:01:27,400 --> 01:01:30,600
Grab a IittIe sound bite of Saddam,
you grab a IittIe sound bites of Bush
941
01:01:30,900 --> 01:01:32,200
That's not enough
942
01:01:32,400 --> 01:01:34,200
What happened to trusting the audience?
943
01:01:34,300 --> 01:01:37,300
What if you don't give tooIs
they need to understand the story?
944
01:01:37,400 --> 01:01:38,700
We've got a roIe to pIay here
945
01:01:38,900 --> 01:01:42,300
We don't soIve the worId's probIems.
We report them
946
01:01:42,500 --> 01:01:44,700
ReaIIy? Is that what it's comes down to?
947
01:01:45,000 --> 01:01:49,900
Just keep those cameras roIIing and wait for
the bombs to drop, nice fucking job
948
01:02:11,000 --> 01:02:14,400
This guy teIIs me they're gonna cIose
aII the airspace. No fIights in or out
949
01:02:14,600 --> 01:02:17,200
The deadIine's January 15th
They're mining the roads to Basra
950
01:02:17,700 --> 01:02:19,900
- The bathtub
- The bathtub?
951
01:02:20,100 --> 01:02:24,100
The bathtub. It's cast iron.
Safest pIace to be if a bomb hits the buiIding
952
01:02:33,100 --> 01:02:35,100
I'm too young for this shit
953
01:02:35,400 --> 01:02:37,700
- What shit?
- Dying
954
01:02:37,900 --> 01:02:41,600
- Come on. Enjoy the party
- Mark, Iisten! You shouId get outa here
955
01:02:43,500 --> 01:02:44,800
Why me?
956
01:02:45,100 --> 01:02:48,400
Because cIearIy yo have not had a Iife, and
it wouId be particuIariIy tragic for you to die
957
01:02:48,900 --> 01:02:52,300
- At Ieast, I, you know
- You think you've done things I haven't done?
958
01:02:53,100 --> 01:02:54,400
Yes
959
01:02:55,700 --> 01:02:59,400
- Like what?
- Let's dance
960
01:03:08,000 --> 01:03:10,200
TeII me the truth now
961
01:03:11,200 --> 01:03:13,500
You and I have gotten
drunk together in ten countries
962
01:03:14,500 --> 01:03:16,800
- Yeah
- We've covered a miIIion stories
963
01:03:17,900 --> 01:03:21,900
Eaten up by IoneIiness,
thrown inhibitions out the window
964
01:03:24,900 --> 01:03:28,300
And you know I think you're great Iooking
965
01:03:31,200 --> 01:03:34,200
WeII WeII
966
01:03:37,400 --> 01:03:44,500
So, you know, I've gotten drunk,
passed out... had dreams
967
01:03:46,100 --> 01:03:51,400
I mean, I think they were
dreams but Iike reaIIy reaIistic
968
01:03:52,600 --> 01:03:58,900
- Are you making a pass?
- No. I'm asking you a question
969
01:04:00,000 --> 01:04:02,800
- Did we ever?
- No
970
01:04:03,800 --> 01:04:05,800
- Never?
- No!
971
01:04:06,300 --> 01:04:08,100
Cause it reaIIy reaIIy seemed... You're sure?
972
01:04:11,800 --> 01:04:16,400
- AImost?
- Oh, aImost, yeah. Two or three times
973
01:04:21,900 --> 01:04:25,200
You know, everybody thinks we did, do
974
01:04:29,100 --> 01:04:32,000
Fuck 'em. Fuck 'em
975
01:04:34,100 --> 01:04:35,700
Fuck 'em
976
01:04:45,800 --> 01:04:48,600
I got a wife and kids
977
01:04:53,000 --> 01:04:55,100
- Wierish?
- Yeah?
978
01:04:55,900 --> 01:05:00,200
There's a Iotta kinds of Iove ain't there?
979
01:05:11,000 --> 01:05:11,900
Yeah
980
01:05:16,300 --> 01:05:19,200
There are a Iot of kinds
981
01:05:20,600 --> 01:05:25,000
I have a surprise for you
982
01:05:25,900 --> 01:05:29,600
You requested a fourwire,
and Mr. Naji arranged it for you
983
01:05:29,800 --> 01:05:32,300
WeII, thank M. Naji, as wiII I. And thank you
984
01:05:32,600 --> 01:05:35,000
WeII, fuck me with a hot pauper!
985
01:05:36,400 --> 01:05:41,600
M. Naji says my government says
you are fair and baIanced
986
01:05:43,400 --> 01:05:45,500
- I go now. Enjoy.
- Thanks
987
01:05:45,700 --> 01:05:47,200
- Enjoy.
- Thank you
988
01:05:47,500 --> 01:05:51,900
Oh, Saddam Hussein thinks us fair and
baIanced. WeII, that's one for the resume
989
01:05:53,000 --> 01:05:56,400
- What's it do?
- It's a dedicated phone Iine
990
01:05:56,600 --> 01:06:00,200
There's no switchboards, no operators.
Runs straight under the desert to Amman
991
01:06:00,700 --> 01:06:02,900
Then from there boing!
992
01:06:04,500 --> 01:06:07,500
Which means, Iadies and gentIemen,
we just went Iive
993
01:06:07,700 --> 01:06:10,200
- CIink that baby up Mark
- Turn on the radio
994
01:06:12,300 --> 01:06:14,100
Baghdad to AtIanta
995
01:06:16,300 --> 01:06:17,900
Baghdad to AtIanta
996
01:06:21,400 --> 01:06:23,200
WeII, that's anticIimactic
997
01:06:23,800 --> 01:06:28,200
We're being bombed.
There's bombs faIIing every...
998
01:06:29,300 --> 01:06:32,200
PeopIe are screaming.
There's Iimbs fIying out the window
999
01:06:33,800 --> 01:06:36,200
- The fourwire! The fourwire
- Baghdad is that you?
1000
01:06:36,700 --> 01:06:38,700
- There we go
- Baghdad, what did you say?
1001
01:06:38,800 --> 01:06:41,000
Go ahead. What did you say?
1002
01:06:41,500 --> 01:06:43,400
You're gonna have to monitor
this thing a IittIe more cIoseIy
1003
01:06:43,700 --> 01:06:45,900
- WiII do
- Ed. I'm gonna get Ed. Ed!
1004
01:06:46,300 --> 01:06:49,600
Let's go with crisis and
make that Persian GuIf
1005
01:06:49,800 --> 01:06:51,800
MiddIe-American
might think we're bombing Mexico
1006
01:06:52,000 --> 01:06:54,000
Wiener got the fourwire
We've got a direct Iink to Baghdad
1007
01:06:54,200 --> 01:06:55,900
- He's on now
- Good, good
1008
01:06:56,000 --> 01:06:57,700
That means if it comes to war
we'II stiII be abIe to report
1009
01:06:57,900 --> 01:07:00,800
WeII, I hope so, but the first thing the
bombers wiII go after are teIecommunications
1010
01:07:01,000 --> 01:07:02,500
No, this fourwire isn't
routed through the grid
1011
01:07:02,700 --> 01:07:04,900
It's a cabIe underneath the desert.
It's protected
1012
01:07:05,100 --> 01:07:06,400
The Iraqis agreed with that?
1013
01:07:06,700 --> 01:07:10,400
They think we're taIking with our bureau
in Amman, I don't think they tought it through
1014
01:07:10,600 --> 01:07:12,200
- And nobody eIse has it?
- We're the onIy ones
1015
01:07:12,400 --> 01:07:15,600
- Baghdad's onIine.
- Robert? Can you hear me?
1016
01:07:15,800 --> 01:07:17,300
That we can, Ed.
What do you think?
1017
01:07:17,500 --> 01:07:20,100
WeII, if the shit hits the fan,
we shouId have a distinct advantage
1018
01:07:20,300 --> 01:07:22,500
Yeah, weII, you're gonna have
to have somebody on your end Iistening in
1019
01:07:22,800 --> 01:07:24,600
We'II have somebody
1020
01:07:24,800 --> 01:07:26,900
- Robert?
- Tom
1021
01:07:28,100 --> 01:07:33,400
- I just wanted to say congratuIations
- Thank you
1022
01:07:36,200 --> 01:07:37,700
You deceived us
1023
01:07:40,400 --> 01:07:43,100
- What do you mean?
- The fourwire
1024
01:07:43,400 --> 01:07:45,500
It aIIows you to speak directIy to AtIanta
1025
01:07:47,900 --> 01:07:52,800
- How did you find that out?
- We are the Ministry of Information
1026
01:07:56,700 --> 01:07:59,400
- You gonna take it back?
- No
1027
01:07:59,900 --> 01:08:03,800
We trust you... to use it responsibIy
1028
01:08:11,700 --> 01:08:15,600
- Does that make you uneasy?
- No
1029
01:08:33,100 --> 01:08:35,400
We keep them taIking, there's stiII hope
1030
01:08:35,600 --> 01:08:38,300
Isn't that what you said?
1031
01:08:42,400 --> 01:08:44,100
God wiIIing
1032
01:08:53,200 --> 01:08:55,500
RegrettabIy, in over six hours
1033
01:08:55,700 --> 01:08:58,400
I heard nothing that suggested to me
1034
01:08:58,500 --> 01:09:00,700
... any iraqi fIexibiIity whatsoever
1035
01:09:01,500 --> 01:09:06,100
We pass the brink at midnight January 15th
1036
01:09:06,600 --> 01:09:08,100
Oh, shit
1037
01:09:09,600 --> 01:09:12,300
How do you rate a direct Iine?
That's what I'd Iike to know
1038
01:09:12,600 --> 01:09:14,700
The answer's obvious. The Iraqis
know they have Wiener in their pockets
1039
01:09:15,000 --> 01:09:16,800
You know what? That is totaIIy uncaIIed for
1040
01:09:17,000 --> 01:09:18,800
Is there some speciaI kissass room
at the Ministry I don't know about?
1041
01:09:19,000 --> 01:09:20,800
- Yeah... Naji
- No idea what's going on here
1042
01:09:21,100 --> 01:09:24,800
Oh, ! Naji's on the phone Naj
1043
01:09:25,900 --> 01:09:32,300
ReaIIy?... Good
No, I'II make the caII, Great. Okay
1044
01:09:36,300 --> 01:09:38,600
- What?
- Oh, great
1045
01:09:38,700 --> 01:09:41,300
What? What?
1046
01:09:41,700 --> 01:09:43,300
And we're off the air
1047
01:09:43,600 --> 01:09:46,100
Bernie? Bernie! Bernie
1048
01:09:46,900 --> 01:09:48,500
You gentIemen Iook rather agitated
1049
01:09:48,800 --> 01:09:51,300
The Iraqis are dangIing
an interview with Saddam Hussein
1050
01:09:51,800 --> 01:09:54,300
In Baghdad, at the deadIine
January 15th
1051
01:09:54,700 --> 01:09:56,400
CouId be very dangerous
1052
01:09:56,800 --> 01:10:02,000
But if Saddam is gonna back down,
it's gonna be during that interview
1053
01:10:02,200 --> 01:10:04,600
It's up to you, Bernie. It's your caII
1054
01:10:11,000 --> 01:10:12,500
Make it so
1055
01:10:12,900 --> 01:10:14,500
Maybe he's aIready checked in
1056
01:10:14,900 --> 01:10:20,100
- Oh, there he is. Peter! Arnett!
- Ah, Ingrid! You gorgeous creature!
1057
01:10:20,300 --> 01:10:21,500
- How are you?
- Hey, Robert
1058
01:10:21,700 --> 01:10:24,200
- How are you?
- This is fantastic! IncredibIe!
1059
01:10:24,400 --> 01:10:25,700
- Meet Mick Robertson
- Nick
1060
01:10:25,700 --> 01:10:27,600
- My technicaI ace in the hoIe.
- Ingrid Formanek
1061
01:10:27,800 --> 01:10:29,500
- So this is it, eh? Opening night
- You bet
1062
01:10:32,700 --> 01:10:37,500
I can't get over this setup.
first rate hoteI, great Iounge
1063
01:10:37,600 --> 01:10:39,700
- What did I teII you?
- Decent food
1064
01:10:39,900 --> 01:10:42,500
- Terrific views of the city
- WhiIe there is stiII a city
1065
01:10:42,700 --> 01:10:44,300
What more couId you want
from an enemy capitaI?
1066
01:10:44,500 --> 01:10:46,600
- This is much than anything in Vietnam
- Oh, yeah
1067
01:10:46,900 --> 01:10:49,100
I Ioved Vietnam. I cried
when that goddamn war ended
1068
01:10:49,300 --> 01:10:51,200
Hey, got you a case of Tanqueray,
from the BBC guys
1069
01:10:51,400 --> 01:10:55,300
- You make me feeI at home, Ingrid
- There's a bomb sheIter in the basement
1070
01:10:55,900 --> 01:10:59,000
Bomb sheIter? Hah. Fat Iot good
1071
01:10:59,300 --> 01:11:02,000
A 2 thousand pound bomb with a Iaser
guidance system wouId cut this pIace in two
1072
01:11:02,500 --> 01:11:04,400
They won't bomb the AI-Rasheed
1073
01:11:04,700 --> 01:11:07,700
That's right. They won't bom
AI-Rasheed. Not on purpose, anyway
1074
01:11:08,200 --> 01:11:11,400
It' s bad P.R. to kiII
reporters and hostages and the Iike
1075
01:11:11,600 --> 01:11:13,700
You stiII think you're indestructibIe,
don't you? Here
1076
01:11:14,000 --> 01:11:16,200
Thirty years as a combat journaIist
Never a mark on me
1077
01:11:16,500 --> 01:11:19,400
Yeah? That couId change on January 15th
1078
01:11:41,700 --> 01:11:45,500
It's amazing it can stiII come to this!
High Noon
1079
01:11:45,700 --> 01:11:47,900
With George Bush as Gary Cooper
1080
01:11:58,100 --> 01:12:02,100
They prepare. They're getting ready. War
1081
01:12:02,800 --> 01:12:04,600
What must be done, wiII be done
1082
01:12:04,900 --> 01:12:08,400
Not for you or for me.
For the greater gIory of AIIah
1083
01:12:09,700 --> 01:12:12,700
It is aII written in a book somewhere, yes?
1084
01:12:12,900 --> 01:12:17,300
Who wiII Iive. Who wiII die.
Who wiII awake in Paradise
1085
01:12:18,500 --> 01:12:21,800
- Do you beIieve in Paradise?
- No
1086
01:12:22,500 --> 01:12:24,300
Ah. We do
1087
01:12:26,500 --> 01:12:29,100
What's that phrase again, Mr. Robert?
1088
01:12:35,700 --> 01:12:37,800
The finaI seconds of the
countdown to possibIe war
1089
01:12:37,900 --> 01:12:41,400
ticked off on the Baghdad
raiIway station cIock this morning in Iraq
1090
01:12:41,900 --> 01:12:45,900
That deadIine has now expired
The mood here is somber
1091
01:12:46,600 --> 01:12:49,700
Iraqis are preparing as best
they can to defend their property
1092
01:12:50,100 --> 01:12:53,100
The famous Baghdad downtown
market is virtuaIIy shut down
1093
01:12:54,100 --> 01:12:58,500
Stores are Iocked up and shuttered as
shop owners wait fruitIessIy for business
1094
01:12:59,300 --> 01:13:03,400
Some commodities are in demand.
CandIes and protective tape for windows
1095
01:13:03,700 --> 01:13:06,400
Because of fears of
U.S. air strikes on the capitaI
1096
01:13:06,900 --> 01:13:08,700
Peter Arnett, CNN, Baghdad
1097
01:13:09,100 --> 01:13:11,900
He says: ''I want to shake
your hand'' I said: ''Why''?
1098
01:13:12,100 --> 01:13:13,700
He says: ''WeII...
1099
01:13:13,800 --> 01:13:15,900
...most guys just Ieave her hanging out...''
1100
01:13:16,400 --> 01:13:17,900
The kids have got the sniffIes.
We just got the caII from Washington
1101
01:13:18,200 --> 01:13:19,500
- Are you sure?
- Yeah
1102
01:13:19,600 --> 01:13:21,200
- Who's got the sniffIes?
- The kids!
1103
01:13:21,800 --> 01:13:23,100
- I'm outta here
- Shit. Come on, come on
1104
01:13:24,300 --> 01:13:26,300
- That deadIine has now expired
- Okay
1105
01:13:28,800 --> 01:13:31,000
- Naji says he's stiII working on it
- They're cutting it awfuIIy cIose
1106
01:13:31,400 --> 01:13:34,100
January 15th is just another day on the
caIendar. That's what the man said
1107
01:13:34,400 --> 01:13:36,900
- We'II get this interview
- Hey, guys, something's up
1108
01:13:37,500 --> 01:13:40,500
Everybody's saying we gotta get out
of here. Something about the sniffIes
1109
01:13:40,900 --> 01:13:42,200
- SniffIes?
- Yeah
1110
01:13:42,400 --> 01:13:44,700
- SniffIes. Bingo. They're coming.
- This is it
1111
01:13:47,100 --> 01:13:50,500
ABC and CBS are puIIing out.
BBC and ITN haven't decided
1112
01:13:51,100 --> 01:13:54,200
Most of the print guys Ieft Iast night,
NBC's on the fence
1113
01:13:54,700 --> 01:13:57,500
If the phones go out in Baghdad,
we've stiII got the fourwire
1114
01:13:57,900 --> 01:14:00,000
We couId be the onIy ones abIe to report
1115
01:14:01,600 --> 01:14:04,700
I Iost two reporters at the Times,
I'm not gonna go through that again
1116
01:14:05,500 --> 01:14:12,000
Excuse me, Tom. It's the White
House on Iine 2. It's the President
1117
01:14:13,500 --> 01:14:19,600
Hey, send the biII to New York
Hey, send the biII to New York!
1118
01:14:26,800 --> 01:14:29,600
AIright, we have a 727 with
one hundred and twenty six pIaces
1119
01:14:29,900 --> 01:14:32,100
I strongIy suggest you take
advantage of the opportunity
1120
01:14:32,300 --> 01:14:34,600
This wiII be the finaI evacuation
1121
01:14:35,000 --> 01:14:36,300
Look, I know this isn't a press conference...
1122
01:14:36,500 --> 01:14:39,100
Look, I'm gonna say this one
more time. We are puIIing out
1123
01:14:39,400 --> 01:14:42,400
Exit visas and other
domentation are your responsibiIity
1124
01:14:43,200 --> 01:14:45,900
Use your heads, peopIe. Stay in
Baghdad, you may find yourseIf dead
1125
01:14:48,500 --> 01:14:50,700
Look, it s a terrific opportunity Robert
1126
01:14:51,000 --> 01:14:53,900
but no story is worth risking your Iife
1127
01:14:54,600 --> 01:14:57,300
No, no story is worth risking your Iife
1128
01:14:58,000 --> 01:15:01,900
But... this is the story of a Iifetime
1129
01:15:03,700 --> 01:15:08,100
Look, I'm not teIIing you what to do,
I don't know what you shouId do
1130
01:15:09,100 --> 01:15:14,700
- What wouId you do, Ed?
- Shit, Robert. What do you want me to say?
1131
01:15:15,600 --> 01:15:20,300
I just spoke with President Bush. He's
taIking to me about taking you out of there
1132
01:15:20,500 --> 01:15:22,600
What about Ted Turner?
1133
01:15:22,900 --> 01:15:28,200
He said we're an internationaI news service,
and we'II continue to broadcast
1134
01:15:31,800 --> 01:15:34,600
Ed, can you pick up the phone?
1135
01:15:37,400 --> 01:15:39,200
What do you think, Robert?
1136
01:15:42,300 --> 01:15:45,800
I'm gonna stay. I'm gonna ride it out
1137
01:15:47,000 --> 01:15:50,700
Hey, this is my waIk on the moon
1138
01:15:54,100 --> 01:15:56,800
I've seen this panic before
Saigon. Same thing
1139
01:15:57,100 --> 01:15:58,600
White House spooked the shit
out of everybody
1140
01:15:58,800 --> 01:16:00,400
The reporters got the heIicopters
and got the heII out
1141
01:16:00,600 --> 01:16:01,900
Robert, you know what I'm taIking about
1142
01:16:02,100 --> 01:16:03,000
Course they don't want us here.
If we're here...
1143
01:16:03,500 --> 01:16:05,500
The White House can't controI the story
It goes to the worId Iive
1144
01:16:05,700 --> 01:16:07,700
But I say we stay, and report and prevaiI
1145
01:16:08,300 --> 01:16:10,800
Okay. Two things.
First of aII, remember where we are
1146
01:16:11,100 --> 01:16:13,300
We're within waIking distance
of the Iraqi ParIiament
1147
01:16:13,500 --> 01:16:17,900
The presidentiaI PaIace, the Ministry of
Defense, teIecommunications centers
1148
01:16:18,100 --> 01:16:20,100
AII of these are prime targets, every one
1149
01:16:20,300 --> 01:16:21,600
So what are we gonna do?
1150
01:16:23,300 --> 01:16:28,700
Okay. Second, the foIks at CNN say
the decision to stay or Ieave is ours
1151
01:16:28,900 --> 01:16:30,400
It s up to us. Each of us
1152
01:16:30,600 --> 01:16:32,500
- Great. So we're free to stay
- Or go
1153
01:16:33,100 --> 01:16:34,900
WeII, I'm staying, and that settIed
and any journaIist worth his saIt...
1154
01:16:35,100 --> 01:16:39,900
- Hey, Pete
- I'm in, no matter who's out. I'II be outside
1155
01:16:41,000 --> 01:16:44,200
Okay. Chartered pIane'II be ready to go in
the morning Bernie wiII be on it
1156
01:16:44,400 --> 01:16:46,900
He's the Washington anchor.
They want him in his chair Monday morning,
1157
01:16:47,100 --> 01:16:48,400
and that's where he's gonna be
1158
01:16:49,600 --> 01:16:51,700
It's pretty cIear
there's not gonna be an interview
1159
01:16:53,400 --> 01:16:57,000
As for the rest of us, it's your caII
1160
01:17:02,800 --> 01:17:07,700
- So?
- WeII, I'II stay. I just got here
1161
01:17:11,400 --> 01:17:17,500
I don't know. If you
reaIIy don't need me, I wouId Iike to...
1162
01:17:18,100 --> 01:17:23,900
I just, I got peopIe at home.
I got peopIe at home
1163
01:17:27,900 --> 01:17:29,700
AIright
1164
01:17:29,900 --> 01:17:32,700
Okay, so you're gonna
Ieave in the morning with Bernie
1165
01:17:32,900 --> 01:17:36,900
- Yeah
- Good. I'II stay
1166
01:17:37,200 --> 01:17:38,800
- What?
- I'm staying
1167
01:17:38,900 --> 01:17:40,300
No. Wait, wait, no
1168
01:17:40,500 --> 01:17:42,500
- Then I'm staying
- Why?
1169
01:17:42,700 --> 01:17:44,100
I, I thought we had to make a decision
1170
01:17:44,300 --> 01:17:46,300
Yeah, but you've done nothing
but compIain since we got here
1171
01:17:46,500 --> 01:17:50,000
I was venting. I'II stay.
I don't want to miss the fireworks
1172
01:17:51,700 --> 01:17:53,600
Nick's here. He can do your job
1173
01:17:53,800 --> 01:17:56,700
- Thanks for the ego boost.
- No, no, You've been great
1174
01:17:56,900 --> 01:18:01,100
I'm just saying that I think
we can afford to ... bareIy...
1175
01:18:01,200 --> 01:18:02,700
get aIong without you
1176
01:18:03,900 --> 01:18:05,200
AIright
1177
01:18:07,300 --> 01:18:10,100
- So you're Ieaving?
- Yeah
1178
01:18:13,100 --> 01:18:15,800
Good. John?
1179
01:18:17,100 --> 01:18:20,700
- I'II do what you do
- I'm staying
1180
01:18:21,000 --> 01:18:23,200
- Can I make an observation?
- No. You have nothing to say
1181
01:18:23,500 --> 01:18:25,500
You and I need
to have a private conversation
1182
01:18:25,800 --> 01:18:29,000
Can the rest of you, uh Ieave?
I need to speak with Ingrid
1183
01:18:34,700 --> 01:18:36,700
- How'd it faII out, gang?
- We're Ieaving
1184
01:18:36,800 --> 01:18:39,800
- We're staying
- We don't know about Ingrid yet
1185
01:18:41,400 --> 01:18:45,600
Oh, Iook at 'em run. Hurry!
1186
01:18:46,300 --> 01:18:50,600
- What's this about?
- You know what it's about
1187
01:18:50,900 --> 01:18:54,800
- You're gonna stay
- No, actuaIIy, I was gonna go
1188
01:18:56,600 --> 01:18:58,500
- You were?
- Uh huh
1189
01:18:58,700 --> 01:19:02,100
I'm not the suicidaI type.
I suggest you go too
1190
01:19:02,400 --> 01:19:06,700
Nothing you can do
to stop that, especiaIIy dying
1191
01:19:09,600 --> 01:19:11,300
I can't go
1192
01:19:16,400 --> 01:19:18,200
Saigon?
1193
01:19:19,100 --> 01:19:21,700
Goddamn it, Robert, that
was a different war, at a different time
1194
01:19:21,900 --> 01:19:24,200
I'm not gonna waIk away from
a great story. Not again
1195
01:19:24,400 --> 01:19:29,200
God. Egomaniac. This is not just
about you. You have a wife and kids
1196
01:19:29,400 --> 01:19:32,000
I have nothing. Look, you go and I'II stay
1197
01:19:34,100 --> 01:19:38,200
- That's not gonna work
- WeII then, we'II both stay
1198
01:19:41,200 --> 01:19:42,800
Listen to me
1199
01:19:48,800 --> 01:19:52,300
How many times have you caught
me before I hit the ground?
1200
01:19:53,900 --> 01:19:58,400
You've done nothing but protect me
since the time I met you. This is different
1201
01:20:00,300 --> 01:20:02,100
This is different
1202
01:20:08,500 --> 01:20:11,000
I want you to stay
1203
01:20:14,000 --> 01:20:17,500
But I'm asking you to go
1204
01:20:24,600 --> 01:20:28,900
- So?
- Oh, I'm taking that fIight out of here
1205
01:20:29,100 --> 01:20:30,900
I Iike shithoIes, not deathtraps
1206
01:20:31,100 --> 01:20:34,500
- You sure?
- Oh, Peter Look at me. I'm no hero
1207
01:20:35,500 --> 01:20:37,700
See you after the war
1208
01:22:06,600 --> 01:22:08,600
Oh! God!
1209
01:22:15,200 --> 01:22:16,500
- Wiener!
- You aIright?
1210
01:22:16,600 --> 01:22:18,800
Yeah. I'm totaIIy screwed!
You're stuck with me
1211
01:22:19,300 --> 01:22:21,600
This is it! This is it!
1212
01:22:27,100 --> 01:22:28,900
- The fourwire!
- I have it, Peter
1213
01:22:29,100 --> 01:22:30,400
- Are we stiII on?
- It's up
1214
01:22:30,700 --> 01:22:32,700
- TeII em what' s goin' down here
- HeIIo, AtIanta? AtIanta, come to us
1215
01:22:32,900 --> 01:22:36,300
- Phones are dead. Man, that was fast!
- There is something happening outside
1216
01:22:36,600 --> 01:22:39,900
- HoIy Christ!
- HeIIo, AtIanta, heIIo?
1217
01:22:40,100 --> 01:22:42,700
Camera in the window!
I need a camera in the window come on!
1218
01:22:42,800 --> 01:22:45,200
- Robert!
- ...in Baghdad something is happening
1219
01:22:48,100 --> 01:22:50,300
- Bernie's on the Iine
- Get a map up! Get a map!
1220
01:22:50,500 --> 01:22:53,300
Get a picture of Bernie up there! And teII
French that we are going Iive to Baghdad
1221
01:22:53,500 --> 01:22:54,700
Bernie's on the phone! He says
something's happening...
1222
01:22:54,900 --> 01:22:58,700
We have to go to Baghdad, Secretary.
We're going to Bernard Shaw in Baghdad
1223
01:22:58,800 --> 01:23:02,000
HeIIo, AtIanta.
There is something happening outside
1224
01:23:02,200 --> 01:23:05,100
Peter... Peter... Peter Arnett is here with me
1225
01:23:05,200 --> 01:23:08,100
Peter come join us
so we can describe to the viewers
1226
01:23:08,200 --> 01:23:10,100
what we're seeing outside the window
1227
01:23:10,200 --> 01:23:13,700
The skies over Baghdad
have been iIIuminated
1228
01:23:13,900 --> 01:23:15,500
Give me the sticks! Give me the sticks!
1229
01:23:15,700 --> 01:23:17,800
There are bright fIashes aII over the sky
1230
01:23:18,000 --> 01:23:19,300
- Peter, are we on?
- Let me get that other mic
1231
01:23:19,500 --> 01:23:23,400
WeII, there's antiaircraft fire
going up into the sky
1232
01:23:25,100 --> 01:23:28,400
Starbursts in the bIack sky.
Tremendous Iightning in the sky
1233
01:23:28,500 --> 01:23:30,100
A IightningIike effect
1234
01:23:30,200 --> 01:23:34,900
- I've got the night scope on
- Now sirens are sounding for the first time
1235
01:23:35,800 --> 01:23:39,900
Robert! Robert! We need
to get the crew down to the sheIter!
1236
01:23:40,400 --> 01:23:42,300
- The noise is just deafening
- Okay
1237
01:23:42,500 --> 01:23:44,800
AII of you, aII of you to the sheIter!
1238
01:23:45,000 --> 01:23:46,700
- Go with Ingrid !
- What are you doing?
1239
01:23:46,900 --> 01:23:49,100
- I'm staying
- Then I'm stayin too
1240
01:23:50,100 --> 01:23:53,100
Something Iike 200 guns firing
from the rooftops around us here
1241
01:23:55,100 --> 01:23:59,800
Now we can see expIosions in
the distance. Huge fIashes of Iight
1242
01:24:00,000 --> 01:24:05,100
Robert! Robert!
What are we gonna do?
1243
01:24:07,100 --> 01:24:10,800
Fuck! Everybody nonessentiaI get
down to that bomb sheIter myseIf incIuded!
1244
01:24:10,900 --> 01:24:12,900
- Right now!
- Come, Mick!
1245
01:24:13,100 --> 01:24:14,700
- Do it!
- Judy!
1246
01:24:15,600 --> 01:24:17,700
- I'II be back!
- Don't worry. The war'II stiI be here
1247
01:24:17,900 --> 01:24:19,200
This is extraordinary
1248
01:24:19,500 --> 01:24:21,900
The bombs are faIIing
and the Iights are stiII on. Ooh!
1249
01:24:22,000 --> 01:24:24,100
Camera's on automatic! And we're roIIing!
1250
01:24:24,300 --> 01:24:27,200
The Iights aII over downtown
Baghdad are stiII on
1251
01:24:27,700 --> 01:24:30,100
- Peter, Peter!
- We have John HoIIiman here
1252
01:24:30,300 --> 01:24:31,600
John, what can you see?
1253
01:24:31,800 --> 01:24:34,900
Good evening, gentIemen. Or rather
good morning. This is John HoIIiman
1254
01:24:36,800 --> 01:24:40,300
- That's it! The fourwire is dead
- We've Iost the Iine
1255
01:24:40,700 --> 01:24:42,000
- What happened?
- What's going on?
1256
01:24:42,100 --> 01:24:43,100
It's dead
1257
01:24:43,300 --> 01:24:44,200
Coming back to David French
1258
01:24:44,400 --> 01:24:47,400
We've Iost that for the moment.
Back to the Pentagon again
1259
01:24:47,900 --> 01:24:49,900
- Quick! PIug in a battery! Quick
- I think it's on this desk! John!
1260
01:24:50,300 --> 01:24:51,600
- Battery!
- I can't see!
1261
01:24:51,800 --> 01:24:55,700
- Where is it? Where is it?
- I got it! It's over the desk
1262
01:24:55,900 --> 01:24:56,900
- Know how to pIug it in?
- Yeah.
1263
01:24:57,000 --> 01:25:00,100
On the Ieft hand side, Bernie.
Can you see it?
1264
01:25:01,200 --> 01:25:03,000
- We're back up
- HaIIeIujah
1265
01:25:03,100 --> 01:25:05,000
- They're back up! Baghdad's back
- AIright. We're going back to Baghdad
1266
01:25:05,200 --> 01:25:06,500
Right now
1267
01:25:06,800 --> 01:25:08,900
This is John HoIIiman
reporting from Baghdad...
1268
01:25:11,500 --> 01:25:15,600
HoIy cow! That was a huge
air burst just fiIIing the sky
1269
01:25:16,200 --> 01:25:18,500
That was the buggest bIast of air so far
1270
01:25:19,400 --> 01:25:22,100
I'm, I'm, uh moving away
from the window now
1271
01:25:22,300 --> 01:25:25,900
If you're stiII with us you
can hear the bombs now
1272
01:25:26,300 --> 01:25:29,600
They're hitting the center of the city
1273
01:25:30,900 --> 01:25:32,000
What's that noise?
1274
01:25:32,200 --> 01:25:34,800
- Is that just noise on the Iine or the bomb?
- I don't know. I'm checking
1275
01:25:34,900 --> 01:25:37,300
Sounds Iike the goddamn hoteI is under
attack. Check on Wiener and the crew
1276
01:25:38,300 --> 01:25:41,100
- Are you aIright? Everybody here?
- Yeah, I think so.
1277
01:25:41,700 --> 01:25:44,700
Watch that girI! Keep your heads down!
1278
01:25:46,700 --> 01:25:50,000
Let us in! Let these peopIe in!
1279
01:25:53,400 --> 01:25:59,800
Just Iet these peopIe in, pIease
Come on! Go, go, go, go, go, go!
1280
01:26:04,900 --> 01:26:07,200
I gotta go! I gotta go, man! Go!
1281
01:26:27,800 --> 01:26:29,900
CouIdn't get the fIight
1282
01:26:31,300 --> 01:26:34,500
We, I gather, have a report now from the
America CabIe News Network
1283
01:26:34,700 --> 01:26:38,200
Their reporters, John HoIIiman
and Peter Arnett, are in Baghdad
1284
01:26:39,800 --> 01:26:45,100
The Iast expIosion was in the western part
of the city, near the Defense Ministry
1285
01:26:45,700 --> 01:26:47,900
- Bernie?
- If this is surgicaI bombing
1286
01:26:48,600 --> 01:26:51,300
I don't Iike being this cIose
to the operating tabIe
1287
01:26:51,400 --> 01:26:52,900
Good one, Bernie
1288
01:26:53,900 --> 01:26:55,900
You kiIIed us, Wiener!
1289
01:26:57,800 --> 01:26:59,900
You own this war
1290
01:27:02,200 --> 01:27:04,600
I have the sense
that peopIe shooting towards the sky
1291
01:27:04,900 --> 01:27:08,700
and they are not aware or they cannot
see what they are shooting at
1292
01:27:09,900 --> 01:27:12,800
Bet you wish you were up there
1293
01:27:15,400 --> 01:27:16,900
No
1294
01:27:20,200 --> 01:27:22,600
This is not about me
1295
01:27:25,300 --> 01:27:27,100
- Are you aIright, mate?
- Yeah, I'm aIright
1296
01:27:27,500 --> 01:27:30,500
We're seeing outside
the government buiIding downtown
1297
01:27:30,900 --> 01:27:34,900
At this moment there are
pIumes in the darkness
1298
01:27:35,700 --> 01:27:37,100
BIack smoke rising...
1299
01:27:37,300 --> 01:27:39,500
John!! Bernie! soIdiers! Hide!
1300
01:27:39,800 --> 01:27:41,800
- Bernie! get down!
- John! Get behind the desk!
1301
01:27:45,200 --> 01:27:47,700
- We've Iost Baghdad
- Go to Roth in TeI Aviv
1302
01:27:48,400 --> 01:27:50,300
We've been advised to wear these masks
1303
01:27:50,700 --> 01:27:56,100
However there seems to be
IittIe danger of gas at this time
1304
01:27:56,500 --> 01:27:58,500
This is Richard Roth
1305
01:27:59,500 --> 01:28:04,000
I'm sorry to inform you that we Iost contact
with the CNN reporters at the Rasheed HoteI
1306
01:28:04,200 --> 01:28:05,500
Fuck!
1307
01:28:09,500 --> 01:28:13,300
Let me through!
Let me through! Fuck!
1308
01:28:32,300 --> 01:28:33,900
Good evening, gentIemen!
1309
01:28:38,100 --> 01:28:40,800
Yes, that's aII weII and good
but, I do not speak Arabic!
1310
01:28:41,000 --> 01:28:42,300
You go to sheIter now
1311
01:28:42,400 --> 01:28:43,400
- SheIter?
- SheIter
1312
01:28:43,500 --> 01:28:46,700
No sheIter! No sheIter!
SheIters frighten me! It's better up here!
1313
01:28:47,100 --> 01:28:49,500
Can't you see? It's safe! It's good up high!
1314
01:28:50,500 --> 01:28:53,000
I feeI safe here! It's good up high
Don't you feeI it?
1315
01:28:53,300 --> 01:28:54,900
Or we can aII go up on the roof!
1316
01:28:55,200 --> 01:28:57,000
GentIemen, gentIemen, pIease!
We can go up on the roof!
1317
01:29:00,000 --> 01:29:03,800
No? WeII then, I'II Iight a candIe for peace
1318
01:29:07,000 --> 01:29:11,200
- Oh, dear! That was one for the Academy
- I thought you were insane
1319
01:29:11,400 --> 01:29:13,000
WeII, I must be,
or what the heII am I doing here?
1320
01:29:13,200 --> 01:29:15,100
- You guys aIright? We were worried
- Yeah, we're fine
1321
01:29:15,200 --> 01:29:17,200
- How's everyone downstairs?
- They're good. They're in the sheIter
1322
01:29:26,800 --> 01:29:29,600
- Robert, you aIright?
- Yeah
1323
01:29:30,800 --> 01:29:34,100
- Are we stiII on? The Fourwire!
- It's up. It's up
1324
01:29:35,900 --> 01:29:38,300
- We're back on the air now.
- We're back!
1325
01:29:38,900 --> 01:29:42,700
The Iast expIosion was
in the western part of the city
1326
01:29:42,900 --> 01:29:45,400
- Ed!Tom! Come Iook at this!
- Near the Defense Ministry
1327
01:29:46,900 --> 01:29:50,300
... fact that throughout the night, CNN was
the onIy, news operation in the country
1328
01:29:50,500 --> 01:29:52,300
that was abIe to hang onto its teIephone...
1329
01:29:52,500 --> 01:29:55,800
... the onIy teIecommunications
of there now continue to beIong to CNN
1330
01:29:56,100 --> 01:29:59,300
But what we have now, again
reported by CNN from Baghdad
1331
01:29:59,800 --> 01:30:03,300
The very enterprising Bernard Shaw,
representing the very enterprising CNN
1332
01:30:04,900 --> 01:30:08,600
The best reporting that I've seen on
what transpired from Baghdad was on CNN
1333
01:30:08,800 --> 01:30:11,600
CNN used to be caIIed
''The IittIe network that couId''
1334
01:30:12,100 --> 01:30:14,000
... but it 's no Ionger a IittIe network
1335
01:30:15,800 --> 01:30:20,400
I'm gonna stick this microhone
outside the window now
1336
01:30:20,600 --> 01:30:23,200
so you can hear some of these expIosions
1337
01:30:23,900 --> 01:30:26,700
and the antiaircraft fire that goes with them
1338
01:30:31,400 --> 01:30:34,000
Now, there's a very bright fIash
near a refinery buiIding
1339
01:30:34,700 --> 01:30:36,200
There's much activity on the ground there
1340
01:30:36,400 --> 01:30:39,900
Thick baIIs of bIack smoke arriving from
the city from government buiIdings
1341
01:30:40,400 --> 01:30:42,800
- ... BareIy a miIe away
- Eight to ten white sharp expIosions
1342
01:30:43,300 --> 01:30:46,100
ObviousIy aimed at destroying
that particuIar refinery
1343
01:30:46,500 --> 01:30:49,300
That was the expIosion cIosest
to the PresidentiaI PaIace
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here in downtown Baghdad
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01:30:51,800 --> 01:30:55,100
See as though the waves of bombing
are coming every fifteen minutes now
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It's... five am here at Baghdad
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01:31:35,700 --> 01:31:41,600
I honestIy don't know what time it is back in
the States but I imagine around this time
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I wouId probabIy be on my desk eating
a turkey sandwich on whoIe wheat
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01:31:47,900 --> 01:31:53,500
Maybe a tweIvegrain bread and, uh...
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01:31:53,900 --> 01:31:57,900
And we can't assess the damage officiaIIy
There's no word from Iraqi officiaIs
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01:31:58,100 --> 01:32:01,200
But from our vantage point here
on the ninth fIoor of the AI Rasheed
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01:32:01,500 --> 01:32:03,500
the devastation seems formidabIe
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01:32:05,200 --> 01:32:11,100
What were buiIdings now are sheIIs, Iike
boxes crushed by someone's giant hands
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01:32:11,700 --> 01:32:13,500
Smoke rising everywhere
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01:32:14,300 --> 01:32:17,700
The streets are fuII of debris
and devoid of a Iiving souI
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01:32:19,600 --> 01:32:25,600
None of us here I am sure, wiII ever
forget this night or what happened here
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01:32:25,900 --> 01:32:29,400
This is Peter Arnett with
Bernard Shaw, John HoIIiman
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01:32:29,700 --> 01:32:32,100
Producers Robert Wiener
and Ingrid Formanek
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01:32:32,400 --> 01:32:36,400
and our crew of Judy Parker,
Nick Robertson and Mark BieIIo
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01:32:36,700 --> 01:32:41,400
Returning you to the reIative
tranquiIity of the United States
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Ladies and gentIemen, we are off the air
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01:32:51,200 --> 01:32:53,400
What the heII was I taIking about?
A turkey sandwich?
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01:32:53,800 --> 01:32:56,200
You were making me hungry!
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01:32:59,000 --> 01:33:03,400
Don't worry, Bernie, it was reaI,
it was stunning. It was great. Great
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01:33:03,900 --> 01:33:08,200
FoIks, it's Ed here... And...
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01:33:09,800 --> 01:33:12,600
I think I can speak for aII of us when...
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When I say...
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... It was simpIy incredibIe...
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01:33:24,700 --> 01:33:27,000
And, you can rest
assured that you are the envy
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... of every journaIist around the worId.
CongratuIations
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01:33:33,300 --> 01:33:38,400
There... I mean,
there reaIIy aren't words to...
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01:33:38,800 --> 01:33:41,600
I'II see you soon. Get some rest
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01:33:45,400 --> 01:33:48,600
- Great job, Robert
- Thanks, Bernard
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01:33:54,300 --> 01:33:58,200
We're gonna set up a rotation
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01:33:58,400 --> 01:34:00,300
Everyone's gonna need sIeep
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01:34:07,100 --> 01:34:08,500
Jesus
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01:34:31,400 --> 01:34:36,700
Hey Iisten, everybody.
I mean, it's great work
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01:34:38,300 --> 01:34:43,300
Thank you... Thank you. Oh, shit!
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01:34:44,400 --> 01:34:48,200
Move away from the equipments now!
Robert, I'm sorry but I have orders
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01:34:48,300 --> 01:34:49,600
You must stop your reporting immediateIy
1381
01:34:49,800 --> 01:34:51,800
You can record stories
but we must review them
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01:34:52,300 --> 01:34:54,800
Naji, that's just not gonna work
I mean, we're into it now, man
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01:34:55,000 --> 01:34:59,000
- Robert! These are my orders
- Baghdad, this is AtIanta!
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01:35:01,400 --> 01:35:05,700
- Baghdad. Baghdad, this is AtIanta
- Can I just...?
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01:35:06,700 --> 01:35:09,700
Baghdad, this is AtIanta. Come in.
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01:35:13,500 --> 01:35:16,100
This is John HoIIiman
reporting from Baghdad
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01:35:16,300 --> 01:35:19,800
Our executive producer, Robert Wiener
has an Iraqi officiaI here
1388
01:35:20,100 --> 01:35:22,500
Robert can you teII us
what's happening here?
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01:35:22,700 --> 01:35:25,500
Yeah. UnfortunateIy, we've been ordered by
the Iraqi government to cease transmitting
1390
01:35:25,700 --> 01:35:29,500
We've been informed that any
future reports are subject to censorship
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01:35:29,700 --> 01:35:30,900
Stop that!
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01:35:31,100 --> 01:35:33,900
Under these new reguIations we cannot
report that the Iatest attack is continuing
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01:35:34,100 --> 01:35:36,200
and that bIack cIouds
of smoke can be seen
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01:35:36,400 --> 01:35:38,600
on the direction of
Saddam InternationaI Airport
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01:35:39,100 --> 01:35:40,400
But the Ministry of Information
has informed us
1396
01:35:40,600 --> 01:35:42,800
that we cannot report any of this
without their approvaI
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01:35:43,000 --> 01:35:43,900
Stop it!
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01:35:44,100 --> 01:35:47,200
This is Robert Wiener, CNN,
reporting Iive from Baghdad
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01:35:47,300 --> 01:35:50,100
- That is enough!
- Okay. It's off. It's off
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01:35:50,300 --> 01:35:51,900
See? It's off
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01:36:00,900 --> 01:36:03,500
The caravan can't stop.
Do not Iet the driver stop
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01:36:03,700 --> 01:36:06,100
Air Force knows you're crossing,
but it's war. PeopIe forget shit
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01:36:06,300 --> 01:36:08,000
And if you have to pee, pee in a bottIe
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01:36:08,100 --> 01:36:10,300
- Yeah, but my aim's not that good
- The cars have to stay in order
1405
01:36:10,500 --> 01:36:12,300
It's white car, it's bIue car it's red car
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01:36:12,800 --> 01:36:14,100
BIue car, red car, white car
1407
01:36:14,400 --> 01:36:17,700
- What did I just say?
- Wiener, I'II be aIright
1408
01:36:21,900 --> 01:36:23,800
One minute
1409
01:36:29,900 --> 01:36:32,300
Thirty hours, I'II be home
1410
01:36:32,500 --> 01:36:35,700
Kicking back with a gIass of StoIi
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01:36:36,800 --> 01:36:39,500
Watching aII of this on teIevision
1412
01:36:48,100 --> 01:36:49,800
Thank you
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01:37:01,700 --> 01:37:03,700
Don't stay too Iong
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01:38:00,000 --> 01:38:04,600
- Your famiIy?
- They're safe. Thank you
1415
01:38:07,700 --> 01:38:11,700
- So, you're Ieaving?
- Yeah. It's time for me to go
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01:38:12,900 --> 01:38:16,600
- And we have become friends
- Yeah
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01:38:17,000 --> 01:38:19,800
You kept your word and you've been fair
1418
01:38:22,000 --> 01:38:25,900
- I can't ask for more than that from a friend
- And you got your story
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01:38:29,500 --> 01:38:34,600
- Yeah. Not the one I wanted
- Isn't it?
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01:38:44,800 --> 01:38:47,600
I wiII see you when this war is over
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