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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:17,900 --> 00:00:19,600 - What's going on here? - I don't see anything. Anywhere 2 00:00:22,300 --> 00:00:23,900 Hey, you okay? 3 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:30,800 That's how they get ya they're under the goddam ground 4 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:34,400 - WeII, what the heII are they? - The sons of bitches 5 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:22,700 ... smoke from Iraqi sheIIing 6 00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:26,000 ... tank divisions poured across the virtuaIIy undefended... 7 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:27,300 These are outIaws... 8 00:01:27,500 --> 00:01:30,300 Iraqi troops and tanks continue to roII into Kowait 9 00:01:33,100 --> 00:01:34,400 Baghdad is me 10 00:01:34,500 --> 00:01:37,100 - You're supposed to be in BerIin - Fuck BerIin! The WaII's down. 11 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:38,500 Baghdad is me, Eason 12 00:01:38,700 --> 00:01:41,000 - You've never even been to Baghdad - CIose enough. JerusaIem 13 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:45,700 I wouIdn't bring up JerusaIem if I were you. It's not a point in your favor 14 00:01:45,900 --> 00:01:49,000 - So what happened in JerusaIem? - Oh, they stoned his car 15 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:51,400 Is that why Ted Turner wants me to fire him? 16 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:52,800 That's fine 17 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:55,500 WeII, good fieId producers sometimes eIicit that response 18 00:01:55,900 --> 00:01:58,700 - His crew wasn't kiIIed, he got the story - I think he'II do this 19 00:01:58,900 --> 00:02:02,200 Robert I'd Iike you to meet Tom Johnson the new president of CNN 20 00:02:02,300 --> 00:02:03,300 How do you do? 21 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:05,200 You're the man who turned around the L.A. Times 22 00:02:05,300 --> 00:02:06,700 Nice of you to characterize it that way 23 00:02:06,900 --> 00:02:11,000 - So, uh, who you gonna fire here? - Robert, heeI 24 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:13,700 WeII, actuaIIy, Ted's memo onIy mentioned you 25 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:16,400 But I don't think it's so much about a change of personneI 26 00:02:16,500 --> 00:02:18,900 CNN has assets we haven't fuIIy utiIized 27 00:02:19,100 --> 00:02:20,500 You want to know what I think? 28 00:02:21,300 --> 00:02:22,400 We're a 24 hour news network 29 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:25,400 Iooking for a 24 hour story and one just feII from the sky 30 00:02:25,500 --> 00:02:26,700 PeopIe aren't gonna wait tiII 7 o'cIock at night 31 00:02:26,900 --> 00:02:30,200 to find out whether we're at war or not. They're gonna tune to CNN 32 00:02:30,300 --> 00:02:31,400 Yeah, I understand you want Baghdad 33 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:33,000 - Yes, I do - Baghdad's tricky 34 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:35,700 There's the eIement of finess here that may not be your strongest suit 35 00:02:35,900 --> 00:02:38,300 Yeah, I'm the right man for the job Eason, and you know it 36 00:02:38,500 --> 00:02:42,800 AIright I agree with you. It is a 24 hour story and the whoIe worId's gonna want to see it 37 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:45,600 ABC and CBS are aIready in there. We've gotta pIay catch up 38 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:47,500 We've gotta own the story 39 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:50,800 Ted Turner's guaranteed me that we'II have everything we need to do that 40 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:55,100 Now we need somebody with guts and good judgment 41 00:02:57,800 --> 00:02:59,400 That's me 42 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:04,300 We know you've got the guts. Now you prove you've got the judgment 43 00:03:04,500 --> 00:03:07,300 I want aII my empIoyees to come home standing up. Understood? 44 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:08,700 Understood 45 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:12,700 - AIright - AIright 46 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:16,200 - Farzad Bazoft - Yeah, I know 47 00:03:16,300 --> 00:03:17,300 London Observer journaIist 48 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:21,300 doing his job. Got a IittIe ambitious, the iraqis hung him as a spy 49 00:03:21,900 --> 00:03:23,600 Just want you to know what you're up against 50 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:25,400 They seaI the borders, they're not Ietting peopIe out 51 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:29,900 Right, I know, I get it. PoIice state on the brink of war. State censorship up the kazoo 52 00:03:30,100 --> 00:03:32,200 But I'II teII you something: If there is a war and we're there 53 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:35,000 reporting Iive behind enemy Iines 54 00:03:35,100 --> 00:03:38,600 This is a journaIistic equivaIent of waIking on the moon 55 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:42,000 - Who do you want? - Murphy 56 00:03:42,200 --> 00:03:44,200 Murphy's good, yeah. I Iike Murphy. I want Ingrid Formanek, too 57 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:45,400 - She's in Rome - Yeah 58 00:03:45,500 --> 00:03:46,600 But on the map it's Iike an inch 59 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:48,200 He needs a watchdog, not a cheerIeader 60 00:03:48,300 --> 00:03:49,800 Are you kidding me? The woman practicaIIy hates me 61 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:51,600 She second guesses every move I make 62 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:53,000 - 'You sIeepin with her? - No. 63 00:03:53,100 --> 00:03:55,900 I want her head, not her ass. She keeps me honest 64 00:03:57,800 --> 00:03:59,200 AIright 65 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:05,000 Look, I went out on a Iimb for you back there. Let's don't fuck it up 66 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:07,600 I know. Thank you. Thank you 67 00:04:10,100 --> 00:04:11,700 Hey, Ed 68 00:04:11,900 --> 00:04:14,600 - I'm gonna need a shit Ioad of cash - Yeah, right 69 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:25,800 So, we smoke cigars now 70 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:29,000 - Yoo hoo! - Ingrid! 71 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:45,000 You Iook great. A IittIe paIe 72 00:04:45,100 --> 00:04:48,300 - You eating aIright? - Yeah, anyway. So, what's with the cigars? 73 00:04:48,500 --> 00:04:50,500 - Joe WiIson smokes them - And he is who? 74 00:04:50,700 --> 00:04:53,900 He's our man in Baghdad. Ranking U.S. DipIomat 75 00:04:59,100 --> 00:05:01,200 - Is there a probIem? - Yeah, he confuses doIIars with Iiras 76 00:05:02,300 --> 00:05:04,200 - What wouId I do without you? - Die a IoneIy death 77 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:06,200 Is there any other kind? 78 00:05:32,300 --> 00:05:36,100 - Wiener, you dick! - Hey, Joe 79 00:05:36,300 --> 00:05:38,500 - You know the man? - Nyet 80 00:05:38,900 --> 00:05:43,300 Ingrid Formanek, CNN. Joe ErIichman, CBS, Evening News 81 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:46,500 - Where you going? Why you Ieaving? - Who knows? They're throwing us out 82 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:50,800 They Iike to fIex the muscIe. It's the Iraqi mind fuck 83 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:54,800 Dan Rather's been making sheep eyes at Saddam Hussein trying to Iand an interview 84 00:05:55,300 --> 00:05:57,200 So far aII we got is a rug 85 00:05:57,400 --> 00:05:59,500 - Where you staying? - Uh, Sheraton 86 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:02,100 ShithoIe. Check out the AI-Rasheed 87 00:06:02,300 --> 00:06:04,500 Why'd they Iet a scumbag Iike you in, that's what I want to know 88 00:06:04,700 --> 00:06:06,300 Why? Who'd you think they got their news from, you? 89 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:10,800 From us they get the news. From you they get access. Bye 90 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:14,800 - See ya Iater - Yeah, and fuck off 91 00:06:15,100 --> 00:06:18,200 We gotta naiI that Saddam interview before CBS 92 00:06:24,800 --> 00:06:28,100 - Modem? Modem? - Battery pack. For the camera 93 00:06:30,700 --> 00:06:32,100 - Modem? - WaIkman 94 00:06:32,300 --> 00:06:33,600 WaIkman! 95 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:37,300 You got another one of those, Mark? Sounded expensive 96 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:41,400 - Are those? - Barf bags 97 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:44,000 Uh huh. For Iater? 98 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:47,600 No, I coIIect barf bags from airIines aII over the worId 99 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:50,700 Kind of a cooI thing to have 100 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:52,300 Gonna be a tough gig 101 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:54,900 - 23 bottIes of vodka - There's supposed to be 24. Shit 102 00:06:55,400 --> 00:06:57,100 - For personaI use? - Yeah 103 00:06:58,600 --> 00:07:01,500 - You are an aIcohoIic - You're a customs inspector 104 00:07:02,900 --> 00:07:04,800 We aII have our parts to pIay 105 00:07:10,300 --> 00:07:12,100 Man, eight hours in customs 106 00:07:12,300 --> 00:07:14,000 - Are these gonna be safe up here? - This is worse than Kinshasa 107 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:15,600 Better than Romania, though 108 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:17,800 Yeah. At Ieast here the men have the mustaches 109 00:07:18,400 --> 00:07:21,000 His ExceIIency Saddam Hussein do not ask for paintings 110 00:07:21,700 --> 00:07:25,100 He's a simpIe man. But the peopIe Iove him so they rush to put them up 111 00:07:27,700 --> 00:07:30,100 Excuse me. Who are you? 112 00:07:30,300 --> 00:07:34,700 I'm Mr. Mazin From Ministry of Information. I'm here to heIp you 113 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:36,500 - Oh, weII, stunning job so far - Thank you 114 00:07:36,700 --> 00:07:38,000 - Okay - Where to go? 115 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:39,700 Uh, AI Rasheed 116 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:44,600 - I thought we were staying at the Sheraton - You heard the man. It's a shithoIe 117 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:47,600 Yeah, so what? I Iike shithoIes 118 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:12,200 Look at this. Straight out of AIi Babba 119 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:14,200 I think I'm getting one of those rugs 120 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:16,700 I think I'm getting cystitis 121 00:08:17,800 --> 00:08:20,300 They couId throw us outta here anytime they want 122 00:08:22,700 --> 00:08:24,700 We're gonna have to be crafty 123 00:08:24,900 --> 00:08:27,400 - We can do crafty - Good 124 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:50,400 Hey. PeopIe are headed the other way 125 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:58,200 Looks Iike ABC. Nice cars. Must be taIent 126 00:08:59,700 --> 00:09:01,000 I gotta go to the bathroom 127 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:02,400 Yeah, you just think you have to go to the bathroom 128 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:04,300 - Hey, Ingrid. See if you can find a phone - Yep 129 00:09:04,500 --> 00:09:05,800 - Maybe Mr... - Mazin 130 00:09:06,100 --> 00:09:07,800 - ... Mazin can heIp you with that - Of course 131 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:09,600 - And caII the U.S. Embassy Iet... - Let them know we're here. OK 132 00:09:15,900 --> 00:09:19,900 - No, nothing is avaiIabIe - Not possibIe. I have a reservation 133 00:09:20,100 --> 00:09:21,800 - I find no reservation - Five rooms and a suite 134 00:09:21,900 --> 00:09:23,800 Check under CNN, American teIevision See if got it there 135 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:27,100 Hey. You know who this is? This is CNN 136 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:31,300 24 hours a day. Is it news or is it Muzak? 137 00:09:31,900 --> 00:09:33,500 Hey, Ink. How you doing man? 138 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:35,500 What're you doing here? I thought I saw your boys Ieaving 139 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:37,100 Yeah, they're throwing us out 140 00:09:37,300 --> 00:09:39,400 We're doing better than NBC They haven't gotten in yet 141 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:41,400 Ah, the Iraqi mind fuck, huh? Try under WIENER 142 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:44,400 - You heard? - W-I-E-N-E-R 143 00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:46,100 At Ieast we're aIIowed out 144 00:09:46,500 --> 00:09:47,800 How much Iatitude do they give you to report here? 145 00:09:48,500 --> 00:09:50,800 Man, you can't take a picture of a guy eating Iunch without the OK 146 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:54,600 Serious, yesterday, no kidding, we're trying to shoot a guy having a sandwich 147 00:09:55,400 --> 00:09:58,000 They puIIed the pIug. I mean, c'mon I know the food is bad 148 00:09:58,100 --> 00:10:00,600 - Yeah. What's the IocaI feed point Iike? - Nightmare 149 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:02,100 That's what I figured. How we doing? 150 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:05,300 I have checked aII the Iists. I do not have a reservation for you 151 00:10:05,500 --> 00:10:08,200 Hey, you need heIp with this guy? UnIike you, I have cIout 152 00:10:08,900 --> 00:10:11,400 Nah, I'm a big boy. I got it. where'd you get that rug? 153 00:10:12,300 --> 00:10:16,000 - Don't worry. You'II get a rug - AIright. See ya Iater 154 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:17,500 Here. See what you can do 155 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:21,000 - I wiII make every attempt - Thank you, sir 156 00:10:22,900 --> 00:10:27,100 I toId him to take it to your room, aIright? So don't worry. Okay 157 00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:29,800 Okay, so I taIked to Joe WiIson at the embassy and it's aII set up 158 00:10:29,900 --> 00:10:31,500 Great. reaIIy good work. Excuse me for a second. 159 00:10:31,700 --> 00:10:33,700 - Pardon me, what's your name? - Fatima 160 00:10:33,900 --> 00:10:35,900 Fatima. Meet our new transIator, Fatima Fatima, Ingrid, Ingrid, Fatima 161 00:10:37,300 --> 00:10:39,600 But I'm not a transIator I'm an Egyptian student 162 00:10:39,700 --> 00:10:42,600 ReaIIy? How'd you Iike to be a transIator? Hundred bucks a day 163 00:10:42,700 --> 00:10:44,000 - Hundred doIIars? - Yeah 164 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:47,400 - AIright. - Okay. Presto, you're a transIator 165 00:10:47,600 --> 00:10:49,900 - What's your room number? - Everything smooth? 166 00:10:50,100 --> 00:10:53,000 - Smooth? I don't know about that - I have found your reservation 167 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:54,500 Perfect 168 00:10:54,700 --> 00:10:56,400 - Smooth - Now, how wiII you be paying? 169 00:10:56,600 --> 00:10:58,400 Uh, American Express 170 00:10:59,800 --> 00:11:01,800 Kidding. Okay, how about cash? 171 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:04,200 - We accept cash - Yeah, I figured you wouId 172 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:06,800 ''Cash is king'', DonaId Trump 173 00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:10,500 - Did you say DonaId Trump? - Yes. I read his book. Amazing 174 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:13,500 Your room has a view of the mosque and of the swimming pooI 175 00:11:14,100 --> 00:11:18,300 ReaIIy? WeII, that about covers the range of human endeavor. There you go 176 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:37,700 - No way - Check it out 177 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:41,100 Ladies and GentIemen, the RoIIing Stones! 178 00:11:41,400 --> 00:11:44,500 - That's great - Wait, wait, wait 179 00:11:44,700 --> 00:11:47,200 Privacy is not what's going on here, Marky boy 180 00:11:47,500 --> 00:11:49,800 - Consider that before speaking - TeII me about it 181 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:53,600 There's Iike this bIinking red Iight thing in the bathroom ceiIing 182 00:11:55,600 --> 00:11:58,600 I'm gonna have to get dressed to take a shower 183 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:13,300 - Room service - Yeah 184 00:12:13,500 --> 00:12:14,800 couId you send up a Pepsi, pIease? 185 00:12:14,900 --> 00:12:16,200 - I'd take a Pepsi - I'II have a Coke 186 00:12:16,600 --> 00:12:18,700 No, there's no Coke in Baghdad. BottIing pIant's in Dixie 187 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:23,400 - IsraeI - I'd take a YooHoo 188 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:28,600 - It's a chocoIate drink - I didn't say anything 189 00:12:28,700 --> 00:12:30,000 Make it seven Pepsis 190 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:36,500 Iraq has imposed restrictions on innocent civiIians from many countries 191 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:39,200 This is unacceptabIe 192 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:46,000 ReIease aII foreigners now. Give them the right to come and go as they wish 193 00:12:46,700 --> 00:12:48,900 Fuck. Anybody eIse's back hurt? 194 00:12:49,400 --> 00:12:52,400 Not me, I brought a piIIow with me from home 195 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:57,700 Robert, Iook at this. This is interesting. Saddam...I don t know what 196 00:12:58,600 --> 00:13:00,200 - Hey, where's the Egyptian girI? - Fatima 197 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:02,200 - Hey, Mark, we shouId record - Fatima, come quick 198 00:13:02,300 --> 00:13:04,000 - Fatima... quick. What's he saying? - Come here, what's he saying here? 199 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:05,500 Judy, caII CNN and teII them to stand by 200 00:13:05,700 --> 00:13:08,000 - Murphy come here - C'mon 201 00:13:08,800 --> 00:13:15,600 He's saying these peopIe are British They are our, um, guest, guests 202 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:17,400 - Guests? - Yeah, right 203 00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:23,200 He's saying Stuart wiII, I m sure, be happy that he pIayed a roIe in maintaining peace 204 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:26,200 Are you getting your miIk, Stuart? With cornfIakes, too? 205 00:13:26,300 --> 00:13:28,200 He's scaring the shit outta that kid 206 00:13:28,400 --> 00:13:30,600 - This is great TV - Yeah, it is 207 00:13:31,500 --> 00:13:36,000 - You got kids? - No. My wife's 7 months pregnant 208 00:13:36,300 --> 00:13:38,800 - You? - Yeah. I got two 209 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:40,200 AtIanta's standing by 210 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:42,000 Hey, Mark, caII Mazin and have him book some sateIIite time 211 00:13:42,300 --> 00:13:43,600 FeeIs Iike a photo top to me 212 00:13:43,700 --> 00:13:45,000 - He's saying... - Compassionate Saddam 213 00:13:45,300 --> 00:13:48,100 ...the Iraqi chiId unfortunateIy do not have any miIk 214 00:13:48,500 --> 00:13:49,800 This kid's petrified 215 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:51,600 Um, a generous person writes his propaganda 216 00:13:52,600 --> 00:13:54,500 Fuck them. Let them say what they want. The story's not here 217 00:13:57,200 --> 00:13:59,400 The story's right there 218 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:03,900 The boy is 5 years oId. His name is Stuart Lockwood. He's a British subject 219 00:14:04,300 --> 00:14:06,700 No, tighter, tighter. The boy, 5 year oId Stuart Lockwood 220 00:14:06,900 --> 00:14:08,600 is a British subject... Better? 221 00:14:10,700 --> 00:14:12,000 HeId at an undiscIosed Iocation... 222 00:14:12,300 --> 00:14:15,400 these famiIies, Iike other foreign nationaIs, have been denied visas from Iraq 223 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:17,700 Here, visited by President Saddam Hussein 224 00:14:18,100 --> 00:14:22,700 - ...these peopIe are in effect - these peopIe are in effect 225 00:14:22,900 --> 00:14:24,200 Hostages 226 00:14:24,500 --> 00:14:26,000 - Isn't there another way to say that? - No 227 00:14:26,300 --> 00:14:27,600 You reaIIy think that it'II fIy? 228 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:29,400 What eIse are you gonna caII them? Guests is not gonna crack it 229 00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:33,000 Ok, but we're in it for the Iong hauI. Let's try not to get kicked out our first day 230 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:36,400 How about this? In the rest of the worId they're caIIed hostages 231 00:14:36,700 --> 00:14:39,600 but here, they're caIIed ''guests'' 232 00:14:41,700 --> 00:14:43,500 - Works for me - Okay 233 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:45,000 We'II do a standup with a mosque in the background 234 00:14:45,300 --> 00:14:48,000 - Coffee snack - Hey, coffee snack 235 00:14:48,100 --> 00:14:49,400 I got time to take a shower? 236 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:52,200 Yeah. It's 3 now. SateIIite's at 5 Take a shower 237 00:14:52,500 --> 00:14:54,300 - You can put it right here - Thank you 238 00:14:54,800 --> 00:14:56,000 Here, thanks 239 00:14:57,900 --> 00:14:59,900 - Here you go - Oh, thank you 240 00:15:00,900 --> 00:15:03,400 Excuse me. Were you in the army here, sir? 241 00:15:04,500 --> 00:15:08,100 Oh. Oh, yes. Yes. Five and haIf years 242 00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:12,500 - Did you fight Iran? - Yes 243 00:15:14,100 --> 00:15:18,100 Now, may, maybe I, I fight America? 244 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:29,300 - You want to go? - Hey, Mr. Mazin 245 00:15:29,700 --> 00:15:31,000 You're earIy, I Iike that in a man 246 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:33,600 But you want to go, yes? SateIIite in fifty minutes 247 00:15:33,900 --> 00:15:35,600 - No. SateIIite's at five - Changed to four 248 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:38,700 - What did you just say? - Four 249 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:41,400 - Fuck. CaII Iraqi TV. - I'II caII Iraqi TV 250 00:15:41,800 --> 00:15:43,200 Murphy! 251 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:50,600 Let's go. We gotta fIy 252 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:52,000 We've got ten minutes 253 00:15:56,400 --> 00:15:57,700 HoIy moIey! 254 00:15:57,900 --> 00:16:00,400 Gee hi! My grandfather used to have stuffs Iike this in his basement 255 00:16:00,800 --> 00:16:02,500 Yeah, back in the eighties before you were born? 256 00:16:02,800 --> 00:16:05,800 - Converter - Excuse me gentIemen. Thank you 257 00:16:06,400 --> 00:16:08,000 We're on the bird in four minutes. Judy, where's the tape? 258 00:16:08,400 --> 00:16:10,000 Don't worry, it'II be aIright 259 00:16:10,200 --> 00:16:12,000 - Guys? - Yeah, we're on it 260 00:16:12,300 --> 00:16:14,600 Hey, does anyone here speak EngIish? Who might the head honcho be? 261 00:16:15,100 --> 00:16:17,600 - Where is Ingrid Formanek? - Oh, I be Ingrid Formanek 262 00:16:18,100 --> 00:16:19,400 I am Mrs. Awattif, 263 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:21,900 Director InternationaI Department Iraq TV. 264 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:24,100 - DeIighted to meet you - Hi, I'm Robert Wiener 265 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:25,700 We are reaIIy sorry to interrupt your pIans for this evening 266 00:16:25,900 --> 00:16:27,200 but we got a sateIIite feed... 267 00:16:27,300 --> 00:16:30,400 PIans? What pIans? I have no pIans I am working here. What is your purpose? 268 00:16:30,700 --> 00:16:32,000 - I'm a producer. And we need... - I understand ... 269 00:16:32,400 --> 00:16:34,000 Miss Formanek is the producer 270 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:38,300 Yeah, and she needs a sateIIite feed 271 00:16:38,500 --> 00:16:41,400 I am here to supervise your transmission, Miss Formanek what do you need? 272 00:16:41,900 --> 00:16:43,500 Yes, we need a phone to contact AtIanta 273 00:16:43,800 --> 00:16:45,600 - That wouId be the phone in my office - Okay 274 00:16:45,900 --> 00:16:47,200 Okay 275 00:16:47,700 --> 00:16:49,000 Eason, Baghdad on three 276 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:51,000 Robert, what's going on? We're on two minutes 277 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:52,500 Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. We got it, we got it. 278 00:16:52,700 --> 00:16:54,000 Ingrid's down with the censor going over the spot 279 00:16:54,400 --> 00:16:56,100 Sisterhood is powerfuI here in Iraq, man 280 00:16:56,500 --> 00:16:57,900 ...and pIaced in private homes 281 00:16:58,200 --> 00:17:01,800 in and around secret miIitary and industriaI sites 282 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:04,500 In the rest of the worId they're caIIed... 283 00:17:05,300 --> 00:17:07,200 - Must be dust - But here in Baghdad... 284 00:17:07,500 --> 00:17:08,800 ... they're simpIy caIIed guests 285 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:10,400 What route are we bringing Baghdad in on? 286 00:17:10,600 --> 00:17:11,900 Thirty five, but aII we got is hash 287 00:17:12,100 --> 00:17:13,500 - Robert, we re not seeing you - Shit! 288 00:17:14,400 --> 00:17:15,700 - We're approved - We're fucked. Here, take this 289 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:25,300 Mrs. Awattif, they're not seeing us in AtIanta 290 00:17:25,600 --> 00:17:28,200 - Judy, keep roIIing for IeveIs - We got a chroma shift 291 00:17:28,500 --> 00:17:30,800 Yeah, whatever the heII that is, fix it Excuse me, couId I get in here? 292 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:32,500 - One minute - Ingrid, we got an image... 293 00:17:32,700 --> 00:17:34,200 - ... but the audio needs boosting - We got picture? 294 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:37,000 - Yeah, but you need to boost audio - Shit! How much? 295 00:17:37,200 --> 00:17:39,300 - How much? - TweIve DBs 296 00:17:45,700 --> 00:17:48,700 - Judy, boost the audio tweIve DBs - Okay 297 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:50,700 - It's over moduIated - How much? 298 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:53,600 - Two DB - Needs to come down two. 299 00:17:53,800 --> 00:17:56,300 You go. TeII them. I'II handIe the phone 300 00:17:57,200 --> 00:17:58,700 Thirty seconds 301 00:17:59,800 --> 00:18:03,700 Judy, bring the audio down 2 and put 10 in the gate Mark come now 302 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:05,500 Stay there 303 00:18:05,800 --> 00:18:07,700 - Fifteen seconds - Robert, we're there. RoII 18 304 00:18:08,600 --> 00:18:10,300 - RoII it! - 12... 1 1 ... 305 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:13,100 - RoIIing! - 10... 9... 306 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:17,000 - 7... 6... - C'mon, c'mon 307 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:21,800 5... 4... 3... 2... 1 308 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:24,100 Yeah, there we go 309 00:18:24,500 --> 00:18:26,800 Some extraordinary images from the Iraqi capitaI today 310 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:31,700 President Saddam Hussein heId a face to face meeting with a group of British hostages 311 00:18:32,200 --> 00:18:34,200 A meeting that was carried on Iraqi teIevision 312 00:18:34,700 --> 00:18:38,300 The boy, five years oId, is Stuart Lockwood, a British subject 313 00:18:38,700 --> 00:18:41,500 - It was a good story - It was buIIshit! 314 00:18:41,800 --> 00:18:45,100 No, it was minimum comment, maximum content, that's aII 315 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:50,200 That is irresponsibIe. You Iet Saddam spout off his garbage without chaIIenging it 316 00:18:50,600 --> 00:18:53,200 You hand HitIer a microphone and you caII it journaIism 317 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:55,600 - Where was the editoriaI point of view? - Where's trusting the viewer? 318 00:18:55,800 --> 00:18:58,800 They've got the abiIity to judge this stuff.And they have the right to see it 319 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:00,300 AbsoIuteIy 320 00:19:00,700 --> 00:19:02,200 But how can they know what they're seeing without some kind of context? 321 00:19:02,500 --> 00:19:04,600 Hey, I don t need some big Iead in I know how I feeI 322 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:07,800 About a dictator who puts his hairy fuckin hand on some IittIe hostageboy 323 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:09,900 It's right there for anybody to see 324 00:19:10,500 --> 00:19:12,300 - Who are you to say what it means? - Oh, come on 325 00:19:14,100 --> 00:19:15,900 Who are we to say what it means? 326 00:19:16,400 --> 00:19:17,900 We didn't say what it means 327 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:22,600 - What do you think it means? - I don't know what it means 328 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:30,900 I'II teII you what it couId be. If we couId get both sides taIking 329 00:19:31,700 --> 00:19:34,100 What? Peace, Iove and understanding? 330 00:19:34,600 --> 00:19:37,600 C'mon, wierish. We're just the eyes 331 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:44,000 We put this shit up there and peopIe puII it down on their Sonys. I think I'm quoting you 332 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:46,800 Nah, I said Zenith 333 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:53,500 - Oh, man. Are you drunk? - Yes 334 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:03,500 - The moment we become the story... - It's over. I know, I know 335 00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:10,800 Fuck 'em! 336 00:20:11,500 --> 00:20:12,900 It was a good story 337 00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:18,300 We're gonna need another one tomorrow 338 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:19,900 - Another what? - Story. LocaI coIor 339 00:20:20,300 --> 00:20:24,300 Mazin's got something down at the Embassy We gotta get something to feed the beast 340 00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:26,300 Come, pIease, time is counting 341 00:20:26,700 --> 00:20:30,400 Hey, hey. Cigars. Embassy men Iove cigars, remember? 342 00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:32,900 You give Embassy man cigars, he gives you big access 343 00:20:33,300 --> 00:20:35,300 - Hangover? - BrutaI 344 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:42,200 Down, down, Bosh! 345 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:00,700 I'm just gonna start wide on the crowd 346 00:21:00,900 --> 00:21:03,800 - Quick connect - We're on it. You got it 347 00:21:06,300 --> 00:21:08,900 - Get these guys right here - Excuse us. Excuse us 348 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:20,100 - No soIdier, no soIdier - Hey, hey! Okay, understood 349 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:23,900 Okay. Get the kid, the kid stroIIer. See it? 350 00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:28,100 Yeah, they caII the President Bosh instead of Bush 351 00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:31,500 Cause bosh in Arabic means ''nothing''. That's the joke 352 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:34,700 They hauI out a new group every day. Teachers union... 353 00:21:35,300 --> 00:21:37,600 - So caIIed writers and poets - Mark? 354 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:39,400 - Yeah? - Stop 355 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:42,900 You stop shooting, they aII go home 356 00:21:43,100 --> 00:21:45,400 This is a very good cigar, by the way.Thank you 357 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:46,900 Thought you might Iike that, you're weIcome 358 00:21:47,100 --> 00:21:48,800 Is the Ambassador coming back, or... 359 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:50,900 No. No way. We're in a read and burn mode now 360 00:21:51,500 --> 00:21:53,300 Yeah. Hey, I saw your piece on the British hostages 361 00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:54,800 Oh, yeah. So? 362 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:56,700 Saddam was attempting to manipuIate the media 363 00:21:56,900 --> 00:22:00,900 He wanted that materiaI aired But I think it backfired on him. Excuse me 364 00:22:01,500 --> 00:22:04,200 WeII, you know, it's not just the Brits that are trapped here. What about the Americans? 365 00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:05,800 Man, I'd Iove to do a story on American hostages 366 00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:09,000 - They can't seem to find any - That's because they're in hiding 367 00:22:09,300 --> 00:22:13,000 Sorry... Saddam's hoIding fourty one at strategic bombing sites aIready 368 00:22:13,300 --> 00:22:16,500 The others are Iaying Iow. We don't want them rounded up too 369 00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:20,100 Besides, they got burned by another news group 370 00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:22,000 Said they were sending pictures home to their famiIies 371 00:22:22,300 --> 00:22:23,900 Right. Yeah, yeah, then they put in on the evening news. I know 372 00:22:24,100 --> 00:22:25,700 Look, aII I know is that they're camera shy 373 00:22:25,900 --> 00:22:27,500 WeII, that's because nobody's ever interviewed them 374 00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:29,700 Hey, I don't want to do any misIeading. I want to teII a straight story 375 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:31,200 I'm not gonna do a haIfassed job 376 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:33,100 I wanna put a face with the story 377 00:22:33,300 --> 00:22:35,500 The American pubIic needs to know why they shouId care 378 00:22:35,700 --> 00:22:37,000 And I'II teII you something 379 00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:39,000 After carefuI consideration, the State Department's gonna agree 380 00:22:40,300 --> 00:22:42,200 Can I use your phone? Thanks 381 00:22:42,700 --> 00:22:46,000 Are you getting your miIk, Stuart? And with cornfIakes, too 382 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:48,100 See this? You watch NightIine Iast night? 383 00:22:48,500 --> 00:22:51,200 - Oh, the hostage story? - A twenty-minute-charade 384 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:54,200 Mr. Saddam's Neighborhood. We're taking some serious hits on this 385 00:22:54,400 --> 00:22:56,500 C'mon, Tom. If they had the technoIogy back then, 386 00:22:56,700 --> 00:22:58,200 HitIer wouId have been on ''Meet The Press'' 387 00:22:58,500 --> 00:23:00,900 Stuart Lockwood was a great story 388 00:23:01,100 --> 00:23:03,400 That's why they re screaming. That's what great stories do 389 00:23:04,500 --> 00:23:07,900 Now this... is not a great story 390 00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:10,700 Tom Murphy, CNN, Baghdad 391 00:23:10,900 --> 00:23:13,600 I know. Arabs denounce Bush. TriviaI news day 392 00:23:14,300 --> 00:23:16,200 You know what I want 393 00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:18,900 Hey, I know. I'm on it 394 00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:22,700 - BeIieve me, I'm aII over it - AIright, make it happen 395 00:23:23,300 --> 00:23:25,900 Hi. Robert Wiener, CNN. 396 00:23:26,100 --> 00:23:28,100 I've got an eight a.m. with the Director 397 00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:34,200 Yes 398 00:23:39,700 --> 00:23:42,600 - You are pIeased to be seated - Yeah 399 00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:45,300 - ShortIy he wiII be with you - Okey dokey 400 00:23:45,500 --> 00:23:47,100 He wiII not be Iong 401 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:50,700 - PIease, have some mint tea - OK 402 00:24:09,700 --> 00:24:11,100 NigeI Babcock 403 00:24:11,300 --> 00:24:14,900 I'm here for my eIeven o'cIock appointment with Mr. Naji AI-Hadikki 404 00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:22,600 Yes. PIease 405 00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:42,300 Mr. Wiener wiII have some tea? 406 00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:52,200 This is rude and unacceptabIe 407 00:24:53,500 --> 00:24:56,900 Where is he? Is he here? 408 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:01,900 BIoody studip! 409 00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:11,000 Hi. Ben Dupont, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation 410 00:25:11,300 --> 00:25:13,800 I'm a few minutes earIy for four o'cIock with Mr. Naji Hadikki 411 00:25:14,100 --> 00:25:17,800 Hadithi, Naji AI-Hadithi 412 00:25:18,900 --> 00:25:20,900 Yes, Mr. AI Hadithi 413 00:25:21,100 --> 00:25:23,600 - He's not here - I'm in the wrong office? 414 00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:28,200 No, no, no, no. This is his office. Mr. Naji is not here today 415 00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:35,100 Mr. Wiener wiII have some more tea? 416 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:46,300 - Oh. You Ieaving? - Yes 417 00:25:49,100 --> 00:25:52,100 No, no, no. PIease, you stay 418 00:25:52,900 --> 00:25:56,300 Oh. Hey, here, wait a minute here 419 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:03,900 - It's me - It's you 420 00:26:04,100 --> 00:26:07,200 - Thank you. I show it to my son - AIright 421 00:26:07,900 --> 00:26:11,100 No, pIease, you stay. Okay? 422 00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:21,100 Mr. Robert Wiener? PIease come in 423 00:26:36,300 --> 00:26:39,600 How did you know how to pronounce my name correctIy? 424 00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:41,200 I took the troubIe to find out 425 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:47,100 - Thank you for the cigars - You're weIcome 426 00:26:47,300 --> 00:26:50,300 I don't smoke. But I'm impressed 427 00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:53,000 The same brand as you gave to Mr. WiIson at the Embassy 428 00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:56,800 Ooh, this is the Ministry of Information 429 00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:01,600 How can I heIp you? 430 00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:04,800 A few things, actuaIIy, there's a request there for a coupIe of pieces of equipment 431 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:07,100 I need a fourwire and a fIyaway 432 00:27:07,300 --> 00:27:08,300 What is this? 433 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:10,700 A fourwire is kind of eIaborate phone system 434 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:12,800 that wiII aIIow me to get through to my bureau in Amman 435 00:27:13,100 --> 00:27:14,500 and a fIyaway's a IittIe more eIaborate 436 00:27:14,700 --> 00:27:17,900 Now, this has aIready been requested by your AtIanta office. What eIse? 437 00:27:18,900 --> 00:27:21,400 I want an interview with President Saddam Hussein 438 00:27:28,500 --> 00:27:31,600 - You've made me a written request? - It's in there as weII, yeah 439 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:36,000 - I'II see what I can do - How soon? 440 00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:40,200 - You take Iiberties - I'm an American 441 00:27:40,700 --> 00:27:42,800 We're the Iiberty peopIe 442 00:27:45,500 --> 00:27:48,300 - Tea? - Yeah 443 00:27:48,900 --> 00:27:50,700 What wouId be the purpose for The interview? 444 00:27:51,100 --> 00:27:54,800 WeII, I gotta teII ya, I think without a diaIogue, war is inevitabIe 445 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:56,400 Yeah, but no diaIogue is possibIe 446 00:27:56,600 --> 00:27:59,200 Your government and the Zionists have bIackmaiIed the United Nations 447 00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:00,800 - Are you a Zionist? - No, I'm not 448 00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:03,700 You depicted President Hussein as a hostage taker 449 00:28:04,500 --> 00:28:07,100 Now, these peopIe were his guests. Nothing more 450 00:28:07,300 --> 00:28:10,300 - The President got his message out? - No. You got your message out 451 00:28:14,100 --> 00:28:16,900 The Koran says: ''Confound not truth with faIsehood...'' 452 00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:19,300 ''... Nor knowingIy conceaI the truth'' 453 00:28:19,500 --> 00:28:23,800 Can we at Ieast agree on that guiding phiIosophy? 454 00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:30,400 Do you think I'm so naive as to be charmed by a fortunate memory? 455 00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:38,000 I Iucked out. That's the onIy quarter I remember from coIIege 456 00:28:38,500 --> 00:28:41,500 That, and the impression of profound human document 457 00:28:41,700 --> 00:28:43,000 Divine 458 00:28:45,100 --> 00:28:48,000 Why wouId President Saddam Hussein do CNN? 459 00:28:48,300 --> 00:28:50,300 Because we're the onIy network with gIobaI outreach 460 00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:53,300 Because we're in every foreign ministry 461 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:55,600 ... And because he watches it 462 00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:02,800 According to U.S. InteIIigence a number of Iraqi troops now... 463 00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:05,400 - What wouId be the interview's Iength? - One hour at Ieast 464 00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:06,900 - Ninety minutes? - One hour 465 00:29:07,100 --> 00:29:08,400 - Unedited? - Unedited 466 00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:09,800 Bernard Shaw? 467 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:12,700 No, that crosses the Iines. We have to choose our own interviewers 468 00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:16,500 Of course, this is aII a theoreticaI conversation, you understand? 469 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:23,300 Mint tea, whew! You know, strange enough, I Iike the guy 470 00:29:26,700 --> 00:29:28,900 Let's not be seduced by a British accent 471 00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:32,100 You don't get to where he is without doing some pretty heinous stuff 472 00:29:32,300 --> 00:29:35,200 I know. I'm just saying I kinda Iike him. A human thing 473 00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:39,700 - Do I smeII Iike mint? - Hmm? Yeah, vagueIy 474 00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:40,800 BBC WorId Service 475 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:44,800 Bush made a taped message directed to the Iraqi peopIe, going out on Iraqi TV 476 00:29:44,900 --> 00:29:47,100 - Okay - We shouId get some reaction in the street 477 00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:51,300 Once again, Iraq finds itseIf on the brink of war 478 00:29:52,100 --> 00:29:55,900 Once again the same Iraqi Ieadership has miscaIcuIated 479 00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:59,900 Once again the Iraqi peopIe face tragedy 480 00:30:00,500 --> 00:30:04,600 I do not beIieve that you, peopIe of Iraq, want war 481 00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:06,300 You've born untoId suffering... 482 00:30:06,500 --> 00:30:09,900 An American woman far from home, trapped in a war zone 483 00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:11,500 Cut it out! 484 00:30:11,900 --> 00:30:14,500 Don't you get this? He says we're on the brink of war 485 00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:17,200 We're in Saddam's neighborhood Saddam's the number one target 486 00:30:17,500 --> 00:30:19,700 They're gonna bomb the shit out of this pIace. Right here 487 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:22,500 Not 'tiI we get this interview. C'mon, over here 488 00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:28,700 By the way, just a reminder Robert. I'm Ieaving in two days 489 00:30:28,900 --> 00:30:30,600 - What are you taIking about? - I signed up for one rotation 490 00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:32,100 and it's up in two days 491 00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:35,700 - This, what, this is news to me - He did say one rotation 492 00:30:35,900 --> 00:30:38,000 I'd stay, but my, my wife. She's due in a month 493 00:30:38,300 --> 00:30:40,000 Oh, this is war. You're on a news story, Tom 494 00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:42,100 If it was just me I'd stay, but it's not and I'm going 495 00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:44,400 Look, I gotta think about my wife and my baby 496 00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:45,900 I got a wife and I got two babies 497 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:48,100 Yeah, and that's your probIem I signed up for one rotation 498 00:30:48,500 --> 00:30:49,800 It's one rotation. That's it 499 00:30:50,300 --> 00:30:54,800 AIright. Okay. AIright, aIright, I got ya great, weII, whiIe you're here can you 500 00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:57,300 go get some reactions or something? 501 00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:03,400 You couId've made him feeI a IittIe better about it 502 00:31:09,300 --> 00:31:11,300 Who're we gonna get to repIace him? 503 00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:19,000 Richard Roth, CNN. I'd Iike a room in which no one has ever smoked a cigarette 504 00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:28,500 - Hey - Richard Roth, don't caII me Dick 505 00:31:28,700 --> 00:31:30,800 Robert Wiener. Don't caII me Dick either 506 00:31:32,300 --> 00:31:36,900 - Good to see you. What's with the tuna? - Not much for Mideast cuisine 507 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:38,600 Hey, thanks for coming 508 00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:43,400 WeII, no one eIse wanted to. I didn't want to either, but... 509 00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:46,600 - WeII, you came just in time - Oh, how's that? 510 00:31:46,900 --> 00:31:48,900 We're going to a barbecue 511 00:31:57,400 --> 00:31:59,100 Not bad, the Iife of pubIic service, huh? 512 00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:02,300 They're just a bunch of oiI workers and businessmen 513 00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:06,000 They got their famiIies out and kept on working tiI... 514 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:08,100 ...things got a IittIe too hot 515 00:32:09,300 --> 00:32:11,700 Now they're hoIed up here. It's for their own protection 516 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:14,100 They Ieave they can be kidnapped by Saddam's men... 517 00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:16,500 ...and used as human shieIds at potentiaI bombing sites 518 00:32:16,900 --> 00:32:18,500 Yeah, Wow 519 00:32:22,500 --> 00:32:25,400 - Ready? Okay, in here - Yeah 520 00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:28,800 - How you doing? - Who the heII are you? 521 00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:31,500 Oh, hey. How you doing? 522 00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:33,900 CNN. We wanted to taIk to you a IittIe bit. I'm Robert Wiener 523 00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:36,100 No interviews. Nobody here wants pubIicity 524 00:32:36,300 --> 00:32:37,600 WeII, don't you have peopIe back home who want to see you? 525 00:32:38,100 --> 00:32:39,400 Who need to hear you're okay? 526 00:32:39,500 --> 00:32:41,400 - Heard that before - Look, we think it's reaIIy important 527 00:32:41,700 --> 00:32:43,700 that the American pubIic reaIizes you being heId hostage here 528 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:45,200 What do you think I'm gonna do? 529 00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:49,600 Put you on camera, ask you if you'd Iike to see Saddam be vioIated by a cameI? 530 00:32:52,900 --> 00:32:55,400 Hey! Who Iet you guys in here? 531 00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:57,500 Oh, hi. We're, uh, we're from CNN 532 00:32:57,700 --> 00:32:59,900 - We were gonna do some interviews - Like heII you are 533 00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:01,300 Leave us aIone and get out 534 00:33:01,500 --> 00:33:03,300 None of us want anything to do with you here 535 00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:04,900 Stu, caIm down. These guys are fine 536 00:33:05,100 --> 00:33:06,600 - I'm not caIming down - Oh, c'mon. Don't be Iike that 537 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:08,500 Yeah, nobody Iikes a scumbag 538 00:33:08,900 --> 00:33:11,100 - What did you say to me? - We're not gonna interview you, anyway 539 00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:13,300 We want the American side of the story more, uh... 540 00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:15,300 - Sympathetic? - Sympathetic. Yeah 541 00:33:16,700 --> 00:33:18,900 Did you Iet this cIown in here WiIson? 542 00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:29,400 You got a Yankee score, there? 543 00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:32,200 Forget about the Yankees. How about them Braves? 544 00:33:32,900 --> 00:33:35,800 - Richard Roth, CNN. - Bob Vinton 545 00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:37,100 - Hi - Hi 546 00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:39,800 You are nothing but a bunch overpaid, bone picking vuItures 547 00:33:40,100 --> 00:33:43,000 You're confusing us with CBS paI. We're the underpaid vuItures 548 00:33:43,900 --> 00:33:45,700 That's the probIem with you peopIe. Everything's a joke to you 549 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:48,100 But you tamper with peopIe's Iives. Let me teII you something, paI 550 00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:54,600 - Are you frightened? - Sure I'm frightened 551 00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:57,400 I can't spend my days cowering behind these waIIs 552 00:33:58,300 --> 00:34:00,800 And I can t worry about things that I can't do anything about 553 00:34:01,300 --> 00:34:03,800 This is something I can't worry about 554 00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:07,700 My company sent me over here to do a job and I'm gonna get out here and do it 555 00:34:08,200 --> 00:34:10,500 I feeI totaIIy safe in Baghdad 556 00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:16,000 The Iraqis are wonderfuI peopIe and I can't imagine them mistreating us at aII 557 00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:19,900 Oh, hey,I understand your feeIing though I don't agree. I'm just saying 558 00:34:20,300 --> 00:34:21,800 Hey, where did your peopIe go? 559 00:34:21,900 --> 00:34:23,700 And that's a cut 560 00:34:26,500 --> 00:34:28,000 - That's terrific - Anything eIse? 561 00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:31,000 No, that was great... I'd Iike to do a foIIow-up in a day or two 562 00:34:31,100 --> 00:34:32,400 - What do you think? - Sure 563 00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:35,600 - Let me ask you something - The guy has a right 564 00:34:35,700 --> 00:34:37,200 How do you sIeep at night? 565 00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:39,100 You put that good man's Iife in danger 566 00:34:40,100 --> 00:34:42,900 How do you sIeep at night? 567 00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:46,000 - Sure - Hey, thanks 568 00:34:48,100 --> 00:34:49,800 I sIeep just fine 569 00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:54,200 Thanks! 570 00:34:55,700 --> 00:34:59,300 VenezueIa has vowed to increase oiI production by fifteen percent 571 00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:03,900 But with Saddam Hussein now effectiveIy controIIing 20% of the worId's oiI suppIies 572 00:35:04,300 --> 00:35:07,400 experts predict gas prices wiII continue to soar 573 00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:09,500 This is John HoIIiman reporting 574 00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:12,100 - Nice piece, John - Thanks 575 00:35:12,900 --> 00:35:14,700 You Iook nice today 576 00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:19,200 The arab nation is one nation, it is what I'm saying 577 00:35:19,500 --> 00:35:22,000 We do not want war, aIthough we know we can fight 578 00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:23,800 I need a fieId assignment I'm going crazy 579 00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:27,600 - WeII, you shouId taIk that with Eason - He toId me to taIk to you 580 00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:30,800 - What did you have in mind,John? - Baghdad 581 00:35:32,900 --> 00:35:34,200 You don't know that part of worId 582 00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:35,600 WeII, I didn't know Tienanmen Square either 583 00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:38,200 Look, I've been on oiI desk for a year. I know the issues 584 00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:40,000 And that's a very important desk right now 585 00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:41,800 I don't think we have anybody to take your pIace 586 00:35:42,100 --> 00:35:45,500 Look, Ed, Iook, I've put in my time. I deserve this 587 00:35:45,700 --> 00:35:48,100 - HoId on a second - And if you become a human shieId... 588 00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:50,800 ... at some strategic site? 589 00:35:51,900 --> 00:35:56,600 I pray every day that this crisis is over. I sure miss my wife 590 00:35:56,800 --> 00:35:59,200 See you reaI soon, honey 591 00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:04,800 Not bad. Listen, John. Now, I hear you. I know what you're saying 592 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:09,600 And I'II keep it in mind. But you're vaIuabIe here and, frankIy, Baghdad... 593 00:36:10,300 --> 00:36:12,400 - ... it doesn't fit you Iike a gIove - Ed! 594 00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:14,500 - Did you see it? - Terrific. Good story 595 00:36:15,300 --> 00:36:17,800 John, Iet me give it some thought. AIright? 596 00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:24,300 - Good work, by the way, The hand. - Thank you. 597 00:36:24,500 --> 00:36:26,400 - So how did it pIay? - Terrific story, Robert 598 00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:30,100 Great, great work! We're out there aIone with it ! We aced everyone! WeII done! 599 00:36:30,300 --> 00:36:31,600 - Thanks, Ed - Great work 600 00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:35,500 The Iraqis are wonderfuI peopIe. I can't imagine them mistreating us 601 00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:45,700 And he'II have a YooHoo 602 00:36:45,900 --> 00:36:49,300 That's a chocoIate drink. I'II have a beer. It's a maIt beverage 603 00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:52,500 Thank you 604 00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:56,000 Look at this. I didn't even get a moment to rest on my IaureIs 605 00:36:56,400 --> 00:37:00,100 So many reporters, one IittIe story. You have any notion to get us back in front? 606 00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:02,100 Saddam Hussein interview 607 00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:06,600 I'm buiIding what they caII strong reIationship with the Ministry of Information 608 00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:09,100 Is that a good thing? 609 00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:13,200 Hey, Inky! Saddam Iet you back in, huh? 610 00:37:13,500 --> 00:37:17,600 Hey, he throws us out, no reason he Iets us back, no reason 611 00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:19,700 He couId doubIe for my second wife 612 00:37:20,100 --> 00:37:22,800 Take a mini bath. There 613 00:37:24,100 --> 00:37:26,600 DSB season has officiaIIy begun 614 00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:30,400 - DSB? - DeadIy Sperm Backup 615 00:37:31,300 --> 00:37:34,400 See, you on air guys never stick around Iong enough to feeI the pain 616 00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:38,000 - It's excruciating - Robert, can I have a word? 617 00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:41,300 Yeah. What's the matter? 618 00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:45,100 WeII, that's cIear enough, I'II go get some tuna 619 00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:52,500 Bob Vinton's been taken prisonner by the Iraqis 620 00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:54,300 What? 621 00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:58,600 He went back to work and they got him. He's missing 622 00:38:00,500 --> 00:38:02,900 More aIIegations of Iraqi brutaIity emerged today 623 00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:06,000 as Kuwaiti refugees testified before a congressionaI committee 624 00:38:06,300 --> 00:38:09,500 They took the babies out of incubators 625 00:38:11,100 --> 00:38:15,200 Took the incubators and Ieft the chiIdren to die on the coId fIoor 626 00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:19,800 Other witnesses toId of torture and vioIence at the hands of Saddam's troops 627 00:38:49,100 --> 00:38:53,500 You didn't kidnap that guy. The Iraqis did 628 00:38:53,900 --> 00:38:57,900 - I put him in jeopardy - It was his caII 629 00:38:58,900 --> 00:39:01,300 Doesn't Iet me off 630 00:39:01,700 --> 00:39:06,800 Egomaniac. You think everything's about you 631 00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:12,100 WeII, Bob Vinton's not about you. Bob Vinton is about Bob Vinton 632 00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:17,100 You think he's somewhere obsessing about you, Robert Wiener, right now? 633 00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:24,100 Trust me, Wierish, he has other fish to fry. He's in his story and we're in ours 634 00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:32,000 - Yeah, I don't Iike my story much - That's aIright. You can work it out 635 00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:44,300 - You didn't make me feeI any better - I know, I'm not after cheap emotion 636 00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:54,300 What are you after, Miss Formanek? 637 00:39:56,100 --> 00:39:57,800 A drink 638 00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:13,500 This is a CBS News excIusive report. Dan Rather and Saddam Hussein 639 00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:15,100 - Shit! - Shit! 640 00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:17,700 - That was my interview - I never said you'd get it 641 00:40:17,900 --> 00:40:19,800 No, but you gave it to Dan Rather and CBS 642 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:21,300 These decisions are made in a very high pIace 643 00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:23,200 I'm gonna jump from a very pIace 644 00:40:23,500 --> 00:40:26,500 - Is it reaIIy so important? - Yeah, it is reaIIy that important? It is to me 645 00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:28,200 It makes me Iook bad back home 646 00:40:28,500 --> 00:40:31,500 PIus, if you give it to CNN. We give it more time or we give it more pIay 647 00:40:31,700 --> 00:40:33,000 They wouId onIy give us haIf an hour 648 00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:34,800 - Who? - Your peopIe. CNN. 649 00:40:35,100 --> 00:40:37,600 - I, I said an hour - And your peopIe said haIf an hour 650 00:40:38,100 --> 00:40:42,000 You trusted some schmuck back in AtIanta? Why didn't you come to me? 651 00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:44,200 Don' t dweII on it 652 00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:49,100 Other subjects. Your equipment request for a fourwire teIephone system and a fIyaway 653 00:40:49,600 --> 00:40:51,100 Now, for the fIyaway the answer is no 654 00:40:51,300 --> 00:40:56,100 But for the fourwire, Iooks promising that permission may be received 655 00:40:57,600 --> 00:41:00,500 Come on, this may be a significant thing for you 656 00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:13,200 There's something eIse 657 00:41:13,700 --> 00:41:16,500 - Bob Vinton - You knew him? 658 00:41:16,700 --> 00:41:19,700 - Past tense? - You know him? 659 00:41:19,900 --> 00:41:22,800 Yeah, I, uh, put him on TV and now he's missing 660 00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:26,100 - Having a hard time sIeeping - Yeah, when it's your countrymen 661 00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:27,800 When it's my country, you don't care 662 00:41:28,100 --> 00:41:31,500 Oh, pIease. Look, you and I are trying to prevent something here 663 00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:34,100 You take a guy Iike Bob Vinton that doesn't heIp anyone's cause 664 00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:39,200 Look, I just want to know: Is he safe? 665 00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:44,700 I want you to Iook at me and understand me 666 00:41:44,900 --> 00:41:50,100 I can teII you nothing about this man. Is he safe? 667 00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:03,300 I can teII you nothing 668 00:42:04,900 --> 00:42:06,700 I couId do something for you 669 00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:10,400 What're you taIking about? 670 00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:14,300 You've heard the outrageous aIIegations of Iraqi soIdiers taking babies from incubators 671 00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:16,600 Yeah. Are they true? 672 00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:23,700 Maybe I couId Iet you and your crew go to Kuwait 673 00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:28,100 No one but the Army is there. You'd be the first 674 00:42:29,600 --> 00:42:31,300 For you 675 00:42:31,700 --> 00:42:35,400 Crank up this caravan,Scheherazade We're going to Kuwait. Where's she? 676 00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:38,700 - Oh, Jesus. Sorry. - Hang on. We're going to Kuwait? 677 00:42:38,900 --> 00:42:40,200 - Yeah - WeII, says who? 678 00:42:40,600 --> 00:42:42,300 - Naji - The guided tour? 679 00:42:42,500 --> 00:42:45,900 WeII, a coupIe of ground ruIes. We can onIy cover the incubators story. Three hospitaIs 680 00:42:46,300 --> 00:42:49,000 What, so now they're teIIing us what the story is? 681 00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:52,600 WouId you rather have Dan Rather report it? 682 00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:55,300 PIus, we're in Kuwait. You fIip on the camera, it's news 683 00:42:55,800 --> 00:42:59,200 - And Bob Vinton is safe - How do you know? 684 00:42:59,900 --> 00:43:02,700 Naji sort of nodded his head 685 00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:05,200 - Sort of nodded? - Yeah 686 00:43:06,900 --> 00:43:08,900 You reaIIy trust this guy, don't you? 687 00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:32,500 Jesus 688 00:43:45,100 --> 00:43:48,400 Don't. It's not worth it 689 00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:53,000 I can't beIieve we're staring at the rape of Kuwait with a camera and we're not shooting 690 00:43:54,500 --> 00:43:58,900 We'II get a story. We're in Kuwait! Nobody's in Kuwait. C'mon 691 00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:13,000 In the back. In the back 692 00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:16,300 In the car. Hurry. In the back 693 00:44:38,500 --> 00:44:40,100 We're in heII 694 00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:45,900 This was the biggest forest in the history of the worId: 695 00:44:46,700 --> 00:44:48,200 Dinosaurs 696 00:44:48,600 --> 00:44:53,000 Then it aII died, rotted, turned into oiI and now we're here 697 00:44:56,700 --> 00:45:01,100 It's basicaIIy we're fighting to see who gets to desecrate the cemetery 698 00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:04,400 Who gets the oiI? 699 00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:07,800 No wonder there's been so much bad bIood 700 00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:11,600 It's aIways been Iousy karma to be a grave robber 701 00:45:18,500 --> 00:45:21,700 And if this obstetrician says the Iraqis have been eating babies 702 00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:24,400 These miIitary types gonna riddIe him with buIIets, no? 703 00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:26,800 So what's he gonna say? Good morning, weIcome to Kuwait? 704 00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:29,800 Listen, we're going to, Iike three different hospitaIs 705 00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:32,000 I m sure we'II get the truth 706 00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:34,500 - Okay. Let's do it - Ready? 707 00:45:41,900 --> 00:45:46,200 AII the incubators are here. None of our babies are missing 708 00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:53,300 But you're aware of the aIIegations, Doctor? 709 00:45:53,500 --> 00:45:57,600 - I have heard these stories - This sucks. He's scared 710 00:45:57,800 --> 00:46:00,200 - Yeah, this is bad - I can teII you... 711 00:46:00,700 --> 00:46:04,700 Nothing has happened at this hospitaI that I know 712 00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:07,500 But at other hospitaIs? 713 00:46:08,100 --> 00:46:10,400 - I cannot teII about other hospitaIs - Finish. Finish. We go now 714 00:46:10,700 --> 00:46:12,400 - What, to the other hospitaIs? - No, no. Back to Baghdad 715 00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:14,300 - Hey! Hey! That wasn't part of the deaI - That is story 716 00:46:14,600 --> 00:46:16,900 Mazin, no, no, no, no, no, no, no you said we... 717 00:46:17,200 --> 00:46:19,800 - Lay off! - Hey, don't push it 718 00:46:42,600 --> 00:46:44,700 You knew this was going to happen, didn't you? 719 00:46:44,900 --> 00:46:46,600 Did you have it in thework the outset? 720 00:46:46,800 --> 00:46:49,900 How much do you get paid, anyway, for being reprehensibIe? 721 00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:52,800 - Remember Farzad Bazoft? - What, are you... threatening us, mister? 722 00:46:53,100 --> 00:46:55,500 - He was a spy and we hanged him - Non, he was a journaIist... 723 00:46:56,000 --> 00:46:58,100 - ... and you murdered him - Hey, Ieave it aIone 724 00:47:02,500 --> 00:47:05,300 Broadcasting on 9410 megahertz shortwave 725 00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:07,600 - What's that on the radio? - It's the BBC 726 00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:09,000 Turn it up 727 00:47:09,200 --> 00:47:10,800 ... by the officiaI Iraqi News Agency 728 00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:13,000 that a CNN correspondent and crew 729 00:47:13,200 --> 00:47:14,600 - It's us! - ... were in Kuwait City today 730 00:47:15,100 --> 00:47:17,900 and determined there is no truth to the recent aIIegations... 731 00:47:18,100 --> 00:47:20,500 - WeII, shit! - Fuck! 732 00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:23,300 We didn't even fiIe the story yet 733 00:47:23,500 --> 00:47:26,500 You know what just happened? We just became the story 734 00:47:27,600 --> 00:47:31,100 - They're here! They're here! - Let's move! 735 00:47:36,700 --> 00:47:39,100 NBC News. Is it true you've just come from Kuwait? 736 00:47:39,600 --> 00:47:42,200 - What is the situation in Kuwait? - What about the incubators story? 737 00:47:42,600 --> 00:47:45,100 The Iraqi news media said you reported no babies were murdered 738 00:47:45,300 --> 00:47:47,500 - Is that acurate? - We haven't reported any such thing 739 00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:49,600 Anybody who says we did is a Iiar! 740 00:47:50,700 --> 00:47:52,200 Let me get him out of here 741 00:47:52,400 --> 00:47:56,500 Excuse me. Excuse me. Just Ieave him aIone. Leave him aIone! 742 00:48:07,300 --> 00:48:13,400 HeIIo. Yeah, Naji, you're goddam right we have a probIem! What the heII was that? 743 00:48:13,600 --> 00:48:16,900 - CIarify? What'd you mean, cIarify? - It's AtIanta 744 00:48:17,100 --> 00:48:20,900 No, no, no, no, those were not the ground ruIes. We never agreed to that 745 00:48:21,100 --> 00:48:22,500 It's AtIanta 746 00:48:38,200 --> 00:48:40,300 Are you teIIing me that you couId onIy report the hospitaI story 747 00:48:40,400 --> 00:48:42,300 - ... and that the hospitaI's story is buIIshit? - That's what I'm teIIing you 748 00:48:42,500 --> 00:48:44,500 You must've gotten other subjects, You were in Kuwait, for Christ's sake 749 00:48:44,700 --> 00:48:46,900 We saw fucking pretty amazing stuff, we can taIk about it 750 00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:48,800 We can't taIk about it 751 00:48:50,600 --> 00:48:55,300 We didn't shoot it. We can't report it... OnIy the hospitaI story 752 00:48:55,500 --> 00:48:57,000 Those weren't the parameter you toId us 753 00:48:57,200 --> 00:49:01,300 - The parameters have just been recIarified - RecIarified? 754 00:49:01,500 --> 00:49:03,800 We can report the story if we chose... 755 00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:09,100 but we Iose any chance of a Saddam interview. And we couId get kicked out 756 00:49:09,500 --> 00:49:10,800 We wouId never have agreed those conditions 757 00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:12,900 This is the darkest day in the history network 758 00:49:13,100 --> 00:49:16,100 Look, it was a risk, we took a gambIe, it didn't work out 759 00:49:16,300 --> 00:49:17,900 But we're here. We're in for the Iong hauI 760 00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:22,000 By the way, who the fuck cut my Saddam interview? We offered them an hour 761 00:49:22,100 --> 00:49:24,200 We are not handing Saddam Hussein unIimited access 762 00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:25,800 - HoId it! - CBS gave him an hour 763 00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:29,100 Are they takin the fuckin heat? Or are we the whipping boys for the network? 764 00:49:29,500 --> 00:49:31,600 - This is not about C... - HoId it, hoId it! 765 00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:34,500 Look, any news organization wouId've jumped on this trip 766 00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:39,100 under the same circumstances, but in the future, if we see it we report it 767 00:49:39,200 --> 00:49:42,000 And if the Iraqis have a probIem with that they can kick us out of the country 768 00:49:42,200 --> 00:49:46,300 But at Ieast they'II kick us out with our credibiIity intact. Understood? 769 00:49:47,300 --> 00:49:49,100 What are you gonna do with the story? 770 00:49:50,500 --> 00:49:53,100 What do you think I'm gonna do with it? 771 00:49:53,600 --> 00:49:55,400 I'm gonna run it 772 00:49:56,100 --> 00:49:57,500 This is Tom Johnson, Robert 773 00:49:57,900 --> 00:49:59,500 I onIy got one question 774 00:50:01,600 --> 00:50:02,900 Yes 775 00:50:03,400 --> 00:50:07,300 Why were we the ones the Iraqis chose for the Kuwait story? 776 00:50:20,100 --> 00:50:23,000 What the fuck you Iooking at? 777 00:50:29,200 --> 00:50:31,400 - I trusted you - I've done what I had to do 778 00:50:31,700 --> 00:50:33,700 - No, you set me up - AII governments use the press 779 00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:35,900 - BuIIshit! That's too easy - No, that's reaIity 780 00:50:36,100 --> 00:50:38,900 - I used you, you used me. We're the same - Oh, reaIIy? I'II teII you what 781 00:50:39,100 --> 00:50:41,400 I'm trying to cut through this buIIshit and I'm trying to have an honest conversation 782 00:50:41,800 --> 00:50:43,400 - Honest? You want honesty? - Yeah, yeah! 783 00:50:43,900 --> 00:50:46,500 AIright. The American peopIe don't care about the peopIe in Kuwait 784 00:50:46,600 --> 00:50:49,300 This is about oiI, for you 785 00:50:49,600 --> 00:50:51,800 For us, we care about very different issues 786 00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:55,700 Dignity. Pride. Much more important to us than oiI 787 00:50:56,500 --> 00:50:58,600 More important to us than survivaI in this mortaI reaIm 788 00:50:58,800 --> 00:51:00,700 - Okay, so straighten us out, then - AIright 789 00:51:01,100 --> 00:51:03,600 An EngIish generaI carved out a piece from our country after WorId War One 790 00:51:03,800 --> 00:51:05,400 and caIIed it Kuwait 791 00:51:06,700 --> 00:51:08,900 There is a history in this region about which your peopIe know nothing 792 00:51:09,300 --> 00:51:10,900 - Okay, so straighten us out, Naji - What do you mean? 793 00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:13,700 If we're getting it wrong, put President Saddam Hussein on the air 794 00:51:14,000 --> 00:51:15,300 And Iet him teII us what we're doing wrong 795 00:51:15,600 --> 00:51:17,900 My peopIe don't understand your peopIe so put your man on the air 796 00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:20,700 - We did that with CBS, it changed nothing - No, you've gotta keep doing it 797 00:51:21,000 --> 00:51:24,300 You just can't waIk away. Think about what's at stake here Naji 798 00:51:25,100 --> 00:51:27,600 Think about what we're taIking about 799 00:51:29,000 --> 00:51:31,200 PeopIe are going to die 800 00:51:32,400 --> 00:51:34,300 PeopIe are going to die 801 00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:39,400 And I'II teII you exactIy when they're gonna die 802 00:51:39,600 --> 00:51:43,000 They're gonna die when the taIking stops 803 00:51:46,100 --> 00:51:47,900 So we gotta keep taIking 804 00:51:48,100 --> 00:51:52,000 We gotta keep taIkin 'tiI we're oId men. Okay? 805 00:51:52,900 --> 00:51:56,500 Because as soon as the taIking stops, we're dead 806 00:51:56,800 --> 00:51:58,200 Look, maybe I'II never understand you 807 00:51:58,400 --> 00:52:00,300 Maybe we're not supposed to understand each other 808 00:52:00,500 --> 00:52:02,500 But as Iong as we stay taIking, we stay aIive 809 00:52:07,300 --> 00:52:09,100 It's worth an interview 810 00:52:21,700 --> 00:52:24,000 - Hey, watch it! - Empty pockets 811 00:52:24,100 --> 00:52:25,400 Hey! Pockets 812 00:52:25,800 --> 00:52:29,100 - Reminds me of getting booked - How many times you been arrested? 813 00:52:29,300 --> 00:52:32,200 - In America? - I'm getting stimuIated 814 00:52:34,200 --> 00:52:35,600 Mr. Shaw, I weIcome you in Baghdad 815 00:52:35,800 --> 00:52:38,900 Yes. Can the car wait? I'm out right after the interview 816 00:52:42,100 --> 00:52:44,000 Are you guys hearing me? Yeah? 817 00:52:45,200 --> 00:52:48,200 Why don't we do a roII. Hey, Bernie. Good fIight? 818 00:52:48,400 --> 00:52:50,100 - Good fIight, my brother - Hi, Bernie. Can I hook you? 819 00:52:59,500 --> 00:53:01,100 One one. How are the IeveIs on your end, Mark? 820 00:53:01,400 --> 00:53:02,700 - One one one - Good 821 00:53:02,900 --> 00:53:05,500 Okay, AtIanta's good too. They're roIIing tape. We're there, kids 822 00:53:06,600 --> 00:53:07,900 Here we go! 823 00:53:24,200 --> 00:53:25,500 Robert Wiener, CNN. 824 00:53:26,500 --> 00:53:29,400 M. President, a pIeasure. Ingrid Formanek 825 00:53:30,800 --> 00:53:35,100 - And, of course, Bernard Shaw - M. President. My pIeasure 826 00:53:43,600 --> 00:53:46,400 Put a microphone on you here 827 00:53:50,400 --> 00:53:54,100 Nice tie. Very nice tie. 828 00:53:55,200 --> 00:53:56,600 Okay, we're ten 829 00:53:56,900 --> 00:54:01,300 - Nine, eight, seven, six - And five, Bernie 830 00:54:01,400 --> 00:54:05,500 Four... three... two... 831 00:54:08,000 --> 00:54:11,000 M. President, thank you very much for joining us 832 00:54:11,800 --> 00:54:14,500 AImost three months have passed since this crisis began 833 00:54:14,700 --> 00:54:17,200 To prevent the embargo from destroying your country 834 00:54:17,600 --> 00:54:20,000 WiII you withdraw from Kuwait? 835 00:54:31,600 --> 00:54:35,000 If an embargo couId force the Americans to withdraw from one of their states 836 00:54:35,300 --> 00:54:40,500 say, Hawaii, then maybe the Iraqis wouId consider withdrawing from Kuwait 837 00:54:42,400 --> 00:54:44,800 So your answer is no 838 00:54:50,600 --> 00:54:52,000 NaturaIIy 839 00:54:54,700 --> 00:55:00,100 Oh, my god, Iook at this. We're Iooking in the eyes of a murderer 840 00:55:00,400 --> 00:55:02,100 He's murdered reIatives! 841 00:55:02,200 --> 00:55:04,700 I've been there but I didn't act out 842 00:55:05,000 --> 00:55:07,400 Cheers, everyone. Great job aII around 843 00:55:10,100 --> 00:55:12,500 Mark, we've got a souvenir. Come and see 844 00:55:12,700 --> 00:55:15,400 - Do those things fIy? - No, I'm just coIIecting them 845 00:55:15,600 --> 00:55:17,300 Oh, I guess he gave up on barf bags 846 00:55:17,500 --> 00:55:20,100 Good, huh? Hey, Weiresh. We did good 847 00:55:21,000 --> 00:55:23,300 It's no good. Didn't say anything new 848 00:55:23,500 --> 00:55:25,400 We busted our ass to get a story, that's not news 849 00:55:25,600 --> 00:55:28,800 C'mon, if an interview with Saddam Hussein, isn't news, what is? 850 00:55:30,600 --> 00:55:31,900 War 851 00:55:33,900 --> 00:55:37,100 What we're confronting is a cIassic buIIy 852 00:55:37,200 --> 00:55:38,800 who thinks he can get away... 853 00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:40,600 with kicking sand in the face of the worId 854 00:55:40,700 --> 00:55:43,800 But Saddam is making the mistake of his Iife 855 00:55:44,300 --> 00:55:49,500 We're not here on some exercice, this is a reaI worId situation 856 00:55:49,700 --> 00:55:56,900 And we're not waIking away untiI our mission is done: untiI the invader is out of Kuwait 857 00:56:11,000 --> 00:56:14,600 TheoreticaIIy, you have me for another hour. I aIready briefed HoIIiman 858 00:56:14,800 --> 00:56:17,700 Want me to griII anybody or may I head to the airport? 859 00:56:17,900 --> 00:56:20,500 When the story breaks, you're gonna reaIIy hate yourseIf for not being here 860 00:56:21,500 --> 00:56:23,500 No, I'm not a regretfuI person 861 00:56:23,700 --> 00:56:25,500 Anyway, if I'm gonna die, I'd rather die in IsraeI 862 00:56:25,600 --> 00:56:27,200 Nobody dies whiIe I'm in charge 863 00:56:27,400 --> 00:56:32,900 - Where's Bob Vinton? - I don't know. But I know he's aII right 864 00:56:33,300 --> 00:56:36,700 So they teII you. Lest you forget they aIways teII you what you want to hear 865 00:56:37,000 --> 00:56:40,600 Then they round the Jews up. aIways do that, too. When in doubt round up the Jews 866 00:56:41,600 --> 00:56:42,900 Goodbye Richard... 867 00:56:43,100 --> 00:56:45,100 - I think you're reaIIy smart - WeII, goodbye, Judy 868 00:56:45,500 --> 00:56:47,300 I think I'm reaIIy smart too 869 00:56:47,500 --> 00:56:51,800 Richard, safe traveIs, amigo. Good working with you, man. Take care 870 00:56:52,600 --> 00:56:56,300 - Thanks - Safe journey 871 00:56:57,000 --> 00:57:01,000 God be with you, guys. I mean that. I'II caII you from JerusaIem 872 00:57:01,100 --> 00:57:02,900 You're a brave man. Don't ever forget that, Dick 873 00:57:03,100 --> 00:57:06,000 - Don't caII me Dick - AIright, Dick 874 00:57:10,500 --> 00:57:14,300 Hey, I wonder what's happening over there. Where's Fatima? Fatima! 875 00:57:14,800 --> 00:57:18,400 Can you come over here? Can you see what's happening over there? 876 00:57:19,300 --> 00:57:20,900 - Come on, Iet's go - Okay 877 00:57:22,800 --> 00:57:24,000 Say this: 878 00:57:28,700 --> 00:57:30,500 - Pretty good - What'd I just say? 879 00:57:30,700 --> 00:57:32,600 Don't shoot. I'm a journaIist 880 00:57:33,200 --> 00:57:37,000 The hostages have been reIeased I heard it on the radio! AII foreigners can go! 881 00:57:37,200 --> 00:57:38,600 - I can go! - Wait, wait! 882 00:57:38,800 --> 00:57:41,400 Go to the AI-Rasheed and teII John HoIIiman to meet us at the airport 883 00:57:42,100 --> 00:57:44,000 - Okay - Airport 884 00:57:44,300 --> 00:57:46,700 - Saddam Hussein is now saying - Some amazing scenes here in Baghdad 885 00:57:50,900 --> 00:57:52,400 So. These are our freed hostages 886 00:57:52,700 --> 00:57:54,300 - You ready to work,John ? - I think so 887 00:57:54,600 --> 00:57:57,800 WeII, better get started, Mister HoIIiman. You're our man in Baghdad now 888 00:57:58,000 --> 00:57:59,500 - John HoIIiman CNN - We're roIIing 889 00:57:59,700 --> 00:58:02,300 - May I ask your name, sir? - Raymond Page. St Louis 890 00:58:02,700 --> 00:58:04,800 By aII measures Mr. Page, you must be a happy man today 891 00:58:05,600 --> 00:58:08,100 May I ask you what you were doing when you found out you were free to go home? 892 00:58:08,500 --> 00:58:11,900 I was shaving. See? I actuaIIy cut myseIf 893 00:58:12,100 --> 00:58:15,300 - Where were you being heId, sir? - It was just an office 894 00:58:16,600 --> 00:58:19,300 Were you aware of how many peopIe were in the buiIding? 895 00:58:28,800 --> 00:58:32,300 - Bob Vinton - Do I know you? 896 00:58:32,600 --> 00:58:34,800 I'm Robert Wiener, CNN 897 00:58:38,200 --> 00:58:43,300 - I did an interview with you - Oh. Interview. Yeah, hi 898 00:58:46,000 --> 00:58:47,600 You're aIright? 899 00:58:48,000 --> 00:58:52,700 Oh, yeah. Yeah. They just moved us to this office buiIding. Not that bad 900 00:58:52,900 --> 00:58:56,100 - You know, I'm reaIIy gIad you're aIright - Thanks 901 00:58:56,300 --> 00:58:59,000 Yeah. Cause, I, heard, and.. I, I ... 902 00:58:59,200 --> 00:59:00,600 Excuse me. I gotta catch a pIane 903 00:59:00,900 --> 00:59:02,200 - Excuse me - Sure 904 00:59:02,300 --> 00:59:03,600 Yeah. Yeah! 905 00:59:05,500 --> 00:59:07,800 - Hey, take it easy, okay? - You too 906 00:59:19,700 --> 00:59:23,900 - Hey! He's doing pretty good - He's aIright 907 00:59:25,300 --> 00:59:27,600 - Who? - Bob Vinton 908 00:59:27,700 --> 00:59:30,500 - How do you know? - I just saw him 909 00:59:30,700 --> 00:59:32,600 You're kidding. ShouId I get the crew? 910 00:59:32,900 --> 00:59:38,200 No, no, no. Forget that! I mean, he's aIright 911 00:59:44,200 --> 00:59:48,800 - Hey, You okay? - Yeah 912 00:59:50,100 --> 00:59:52,500 I was just standing there, you know? 913 00:59:54,400 --> 00:59:55,800 Okay 914 00:59:56,800 --> 00:59:58,800 - You ready to go back to work? - Yeah 915 00:59:59,000 --> 01:00:00,300 Okay. Come on 916 01:00:00,500 --> 01:00:03,600 23 hostages finaIIy made their way through customs, and the other side 917 01:00:04,000 --> 01:00:06,000 Does this mean Saddam is backing down? 918 01:00:06,600 --> 01:00:08,000 I don't think so 919 01:00:09,400 --> 01:00:12,100 What I'm hearing is he's got 500 000 troops in Kuwait 920 01:00:12,400 --> 01:00:14,600 Looks Iike we're going in. It couId be a matter of weeks 921 01:00:14,900 --> 01:00:18,100 WeII, we're stiII there, Tom. Robert's inside. We're in position 922 01:00:18,300 --> 01:00:21,300 Today President Bush reiterated security counciI resoIution 678 923 01:00:21,800 --> 01:00:26,500 ... stipuIating that Iraq Ieave Kuwait by January 15th 924 01:00:26,600 --> 01:00:28,200 Better get Arnett ready 925 01:00:28,400 --> 01:00:33,500 It further authorizes aII necessary means against Irak if it faiIs to compIy 926 01:00:37,200 --> 01:00:39,300 We're deaIing with HitIer revisited 927 01:00:40,800 --> 01:00:42,000 When you've done what he's done 928 01:00:42,200 --> 01:00:45,100 I don't see that there is room for concession 929 01:00:45,200 --> 01:00:49,900 or there's room for giving something to save face 930 01:00:50,400 --> 01:00:52,300 That's not the way you treat with aggression 931 01:00:54,400 --> 01:00:56,600 We shaII not accept 932 01:00:56,700 --> 01:01:00,000 to be treated as a nation as underdogs 933 01:01:00,200 --> 01:01:02,200 We are a proud nation 934 01:01:02,300 --> 01:01:06,900 and we wouId Iike to be treated in a dignified and just manner 935 01:01:07,500 --> 01:01:10,700 Oh, that's scary. You know, they're taIking through us now 936 01:01:11,100 --> 01:01:13,600 Both sides... They're taIking through CNN 937 01:01:13,900 --> 01:01:18,400 Yeah, they're taIking, but they're not Iistening What the fuck are we doing here? 938 01:01:18,600 --> 01:01:22,200 - WeII, it's caIIed our job, Wierish - ReaIIy? 939 01:01:22,500 --> 01:01:23,800 Grabbing sound bites 940 01:01:23,900 --> 01:01:27,100 Grab a IittIe sound bite of Saddam, you grab a IittIe sound bites of Bush 941 01:01:27,400 --> 01:01:28,700 That's not enough 942 01:01:28,900 --> 01:01:30,700 What happened to trusting the audience? 943 01:01:30,800 --> 01:01:33,800 What if you don't give tooIs they need to understand the story? 944 01:01:33,900 --> 01:01:35,200 We've got a roIe to pIay here 945 01:01:35,400 --> 01:01:38,800 We don't soIve the worId's probIems. We report them 946 01:01:39,000 --> 01:01:41,200 ReaIIy? Is that what it's comes down to? 947 01:01:41,500 --> 01:01:46,400 Just keep those cameras roIIing and wait for the bombs to drop, nice fucking job 948 01:02:07,500 --> 01:02:10,900 This guy teIIs me they're gonna cIose aII the airspace. No fIights in or out 949 01:02:11,100 --> 01:02:13,700 The deadIine's January 15th They're mining the roads to Basra 950 01:02:14,200 --> 01:02:16,400 - The bathtub - The bathtub? 951 01:02:16,600 --> 01:02:20,600 The bathtub. It's cast iron. Safest pIace to be if a bomb hits the buiIding 952 01:02:29,600 --> 01:02:31,600 I'm too young for this shit 953 01:02:31,900 --> 01:02:34,200 - What shit? - Dying 954 01:02:34,400 --> 01:02:38,100 - Come on. Enjoy the party - Mark, Iisten! You shouId get outa here 955 01:02:40,000 --> 01:02:41,300 Why me? 956 01:02:41,600 --> 01:02:44,900 Because cIearIy yo have not had a Iife, and it wouId be particuIariIy tragic for you to die 957 01:02:45,400 --> 01:02:48,800 - At Ieast, I, you know - You think you've done things I haven't done? 958 01:02:49,600 --> 01:02:50,900 Yes 959 01:02:52,200 --> 01:02:55,900 - Like what? - Let's dance 960 01:03:04,500 --> 01:03:06,700 TeII me the truth now 961 01:03:07,700 --> 01:03:10,000 You and I have gotten drunk together in ten countries 962 01:03:11,000 --> 01:03:13,300 - Yeah - We've covered a miIIion stories 963 01:03:14,400 --> 01:03:18,400 Eaten up by IoneIiness, thrown inhibitions out the window 964 01:03:21,400 --> 01:03:24,800 And you know I think you're great Iooking 965 01:03:27,700 --> 01:03:30,700 WeII WeII 966 01:03:33,900 --> 01:03:41,000 So, you know, I've gotten drunk, passed out... had dreams 967 01:03:42,600 --> 01:03:47,900 I mean, I think they were dreams but Iike reaIIy reaIistic 968 01:03:49,100 --> 01:03:55,400 - Are you making a pass? - No. I'm asking you a question 969 01:03:56,500 --> 01:03:59,300 - Did we ever? - No 970 01:04:00,300 --> 01:04:02,300 - Never? - No! 971 01:04:02,800 --> 01:04:04,600 Cause it reaIIy reaIIy seemed... You're sure? 972 01:04:08,300 --> 01:04:12,900 - AImost? - Oh, aImost, yeah. Two or three times 973 01:04:18,400 --> 01:04:21,700 You know, everybody thinks we did, do 974 01:04:25,600 --> 01:04:28,500 Fuck 'em. Fuck 'em 975 01:04:30,600 --> 01:04:32,200 Fuck 'em 976 01:04:42,300 --> 01:04:45,100 I got a wife and kids 977 01:04:49,500 --> 01:04:51,600 - Wierish? - Yeah? 978 01:04:52,400 --> 01:04:56,700 There's a Iotta kinds of Iove ain't there? 979 01:05:07,500 --> 01:05:08,400 Yeah 980 01:05:12,800 --> 01:05:15,700 There are a Iot of kinds 981 01:05:17,100 --> 01:05:21,500 I have a surprise for you 982 01:05:22,400 --> 01:05:26,100 You requested a fourwire, and Mr. Naji arranged it for you 983 01:05:26,300 --> 01:05:28,800 WeII, thank M. Naji, as wiII I. And thank you 984 01:05:29,100 --> 01:05:31,500 WeII, fuck me with a hot pauper! 985 01:05:32,900 --> 01:05:38,100 M. Naji says my government says you are fair and baIanced 986 01:05:39,900 --> 01:05:42,000 - I go now. Enjoy. - Thanks 987 01:05:42,200 --> 01:05:43,700 - Enjoy. - Thank you 988 01:05:44,000 --> 01:05:48,400 Oh, Saddam Hussein thinks us fair and baIanced. WeII, that's one for the resume 989 01:05:49,500 --> 01:05:52,900 - What's it do? - It's a dedicated phone Iine 990 01:05:53,100 --> 01:05:56,700 There's no switchboards, no operators. Runs straight under the desert to Amman 991 01:05:57,200 --> 01:05:59,400 Then from there boing! 992 01:06:01,000 --> 01:06:04,000 Which means, Iadies and gentIemen, we just went Iive 993 01:06:04,200 --> 01:06:06,700 - CIink that baby up Mark - Turn on the radio 994 01:06:08,800 --> 01:06:10,600 Baghdad to AtIanta 995 01:06:12,800 --> 01:06:14,400 Baghdad to AtIanta 996 01:06:17,900 --> 01:06:19,700 WeII, that's anticIimactic 997 01:06:20,300 --> 01:06:24,700 We're being bombed. There's bombs faIIing every... 998 01:06:25,800 --> 01:06:28,700 PeopIe are screaming. There's Iimbs fIying out the window 999 01:06:30,300 --> 01:06:32,700 - The fourwire! The fourwire - Baghdad is that you? 1000 01:06:33,200 --> 01:06:35,200 - There we go - Baghdad, what did you say? 1001 01:06:35,300 --> 01:06:37,500 Go ahead. What did you say? 1002 01:06:38,000 --> 01:06:39,900 You're gonna have to monitor this thing a IittIe more cIoseIy 1003 01:06:40,200 --> 01:06:42,400 - WiII do - Ed. I'm gonna get Ed. Ed! 1004 01:06:42,800 --> 01:06:46,100 Let's go with crisis and make that Persian GuIf 1005 01:06:46,300 --> 01:06:48,300 MiddIe-American might think we're bombing Mexico 1006 01:06:48,500 --> 01:06:50,500 Wiener got the fourwire We've got a direct Iink to Baghdad 1007 01:06:50,700 --> 01:06:52,400 - He's on now - Good, good 1008 01:06:52,500 --> 01:06:54,200 That means if it comes to war we'II stiII be abIe to report 1009 01:06:54,400 --> 01:06:57,300 WeII, I hope so, but the first thing the bombers wiII go after are teIecommunications 1010 01:06:57,500 --> 01:06:59,000 No, this fourwire isn't routed through the grid 1011 01:06:59,200 --> 01:07:01,400 It's a cabIe underneath the desert. It's protected 1012 01:07:01,600 --> 01:07:02,900 The Iraqis agreed with that? 1013 01:07:03,200 --> 01:07:06,900 They think we're taIking with our bureau in Amman, I don't think they tought it through 1014 01:07:07,100 --> 01:07:08,700 - And nobody eIse has it? - We're the onIy ones 1015 01:07:08,900 --> 01:07:12,100 - Baghdad's onIine. - Robert? Can you hear me? 1016 01:07:12,300 --> 01:07:13,800 That we can, Ed. What do you think? 1017 01:07:14,000 --> 01:07:16,600 WeII, if the shit hits the fan, we shouId have a distinct advantage 1018 01:07:16,800 --> 01:07:19,000 Yeah, weII, you're gonna have to have somebody on your end Iistening in 1019 01:07:19,300 --> 01:07:21,100 We'II have somebody 1020 01:07:21,300 --> 01:07:23,400 - Robert? - Tom 1021 01:07:24,600 --> 01:07:29,900 - I just wanted to say congratuIations - Thank you 1022 01:07:32,700 --> 01:07:34,200 You deceived us 1023 01:07:36,900 --> 01:07:39,600 - What do you mean? - The fourwire 1024 01:07:39,900 --> 01:07:42,000 It aIIows you to speak directIy to AtIanta 1025 01:07:44,400 --> 01:07:49,300 - How did you find that out? - We are the Ministry of Information 1026 01:07:53,200 --> 01:07:55,900 - You gonna take it back? - No 1027 01:07:56,400 --> 01:08:00,300 We trust you... to use it responsibIy 1028 01:08:08,200 --> 01:08:12,100 - Does that make you uneasy? - No 1029 01:08:29,600 --> 01:08:31,900 We keep them taIking, there's stiII hope 1030 01:08:32,100 --> 01:08:34,800 Isn't that what you said? 1031 01:08:38,900 --> 01:08:40,600 God wiIIing 1032 01:08:49,700 --> 01:08:52,000 RegrettabIy, in over six hours 1033 01:08:52,200 --> 01:08:54,900 I heard nothing that suggested to me 1034 01:08:55,000 --> 01:08:57,200 ... any iraqi fIexibiIity whatsoever 1035 01:08:58,000 --> 01:09:02,600 We pass the brink at midnight January 15th 1036 01:09:03,100 --> 01:09:04,600 Oh, shit 1037 01:09:06,100 --> 01:09:08,800 How do you rate a direct Iine? That's what I'd Iike to know 1038 01:09:09,100 --> 01:09:11,200 The answer's obvious. The Iraqis know they have Wiener in their pockets 1039 01:09:11,500 --> 01:09:13,300 You know what? That is totaIIy uncaIIed for 1040 01:09:13,500 --> 01:09:15,300 Is there some speciaI kissass room at the Ministry I don't know about? 1041 01:09:15,500 --> 01:09:17,300 - Yeah... Naji - No idea what's going on here 1042 01:09:17,600 --> 01:09:21,300 Oh, ! Naji's on the phone Naj 1043 01:09:22,400 --> 01:09:28,800 ReaIIy?... Good No, I'II make the caII, Great. Okay 1044 01:09:32,800 --> 01:09:35,100 - What? - Oh, great 1045 01:09:35,200 --> 01:09:37,800 What? What? 1046 01:09:38,200 --> 01:09:39,800 And we're off the air 1047 01:09:40,100 --> 01:09:42,600 Bernie? Bernie! Bernie 1048 01:09:43,400 --> 01:09:45,000 You gentIemen Iook rather agitated 1049 01:09:45,300 --> 01:09:47,800 The Iraqis are dangIing an interview with Saddam Hussein 1050 01:09:48,300 --> 01:09:50,800 In Baghdad, at the deadIine January 15th 1051 01:09:51,200 --> 01:09:52,900 CouId be very dangerous 1052 01:09:53,300 --> 01:09:58,500 But if Saddam is gonna back down, it's gonna be during that interview 1053 01:09:58,700 --> 01:10:01,100 It's up to you, Bernie. It's your caII 1054 01:10:07,500 --> 01:10:09,000 Make it so 1055 01:10:09,400 --> 01:10:11,000 Maybe he's aIready checked in 1056 01:10:11,400 --> 01:10:16,600 - Oh, there he is. Peter! Arnett! - Ah, Ingrid! You gorgeous creature! 1057 01:10:16,800 --> 01:10:18,000 - How are you? - Hey, Robert 1058 01:10:18,200 --> 01:10:20,700 - How are you? - This is fantastic! IncredibIe! 1059 01:10:20,900 --> 01:10:22,200 - Meet Mick Robertson - Nick 1060 01:10:22,200 --> 01:10:24,100 - My technicaI ace in the hoIe. - Ingrid Formanek 1061 01:10:24,300 --> 01:10:26,000 - So this is it, eh? Opening night - You bet 1062 01:10:29,200 --> 01:10:34,000 I can't get over this setup. first rate hoteI, great Iounge 1063 01:10:34,100 --> 01:10:36,200 - What did I teII you? - Decent food 1064 01:10:36,400 --> 01:10:39,000 - Terrific views of the city - WhiIe there is stiII a city 1065 01:10:39,200 --> 01:10:40,800 What more couId you want from an enemy capitaI? 1066 01:10:41,000 --> 01:10:43,100 - This is much than anything in Vietnam - Oh, yeah 1067 01:10:43,400 --> 01:10:45,600 I Ioved Vietnam. I cried when that goddamn war ended 1068 01:10:45,800 --> 01:10:47,700 Hey, got you a case of Tanqueray, from the BBC guys 1069 01:10:47,900 --> 01:10:51,800 - You make me feeI at home, Ingrid - There's a bomb sheIter in the basement 1070 01:10:52,400 --> 01:10:55,500 Bomb sheIter? Hah. Fat Iot good 1071 01:10:55,800 --> 01:10:58,500 A 2 thousand pound bomb with a Iaser guidance system wouId cut this pIace in two 1072 01:10:59,000 --> 01:11:00,900 They won't bomb the AI-Rasheed 1073 01:11:01,200 --> 01:11:04,200 That's right. They won't bom AI-Rasheed. Not on purpose, anyway 1074 01:11:04,700 --> 01:11:07,900 It' s bad P.R. to kiII reporters and hostages and the Iike 1075 01:11:08,100 --> 01:11:10,200 You stiII think you're indestructibIe, don't you? Here 1076 01:11:10,500 --> 01:11:12,700 Thirty years as a combat journaIist Never a mark on me 1077 01:11:13,000 --> 01:11:15,900 Yeah? That couId change on January 15th 1078 01:11:38,200 --> 01:11:42,000 It's amazing it can stiII come to this! High Noon 1079 01:11:42,200 --> 01:11:44,400 With George Bush as Gary Cooper 1080 01:11:54,600 --> 01:11:58,600 They prepare. They're getting ready. War 1081 01:11:59,300 --> 01:12:01,100 What must be done, wiII be done 1082 01:12:01,400 --> 01:12:04,900 Not for you or for me. For the greater gIory of AIIah 1083 01:12:06,200 --> 01:12:09,200 It is aII written in a book somewhere, yes? 1084 01:12:09,400 --> 01:12:13,800 Who wiII Iive. Who wiII die. Who wiII awake in Paradise 1085 01:12:15,000 --> 01:12:18,300 - Do you beIieve in Paradise? - No 1086 01:12:19,000 --> 01:12:20,800 Ah. We do 1087 01:12:23,000 --> 01:12:25,600 What's that phrase again, Mr. Robert? 1088 01:12:32,200 --> 01:12:34,300 The finaI seconds of the countdown to possibIe war 1089 01:12:34,400 --> 01:12:37,900 ticked off on the Baghdad raiIway station cIock this morning in Iraq 1090 01:12:38,400 --> 01:12:42,400 That deadIine has now expired The mood here is somber 1091 01:12:43,100 --> 01:12:46,200 Iraqis are preparing as best they can to defend their property 1092 01:12:46,600 --> 01:12:49,600 The famous Baghdad downtown market is virtuaIIy shut down 1093 01:12:50,600 --> 01:12:55,000 Stores are Iocked up and shuttered as shop owners wait fruitIessIy for business 1094 01:12:55,800 --> 01:12:59,900 Some commodities are in demand. CandIes and protective tape for windows 1095 01:13:00,200 --> 01:13:02,900 Because of fears of U.S. air strikes on the capitaI 1096 01:13:03,400 --> 01:13:05,200 Peter Arnett, CNN, Baghdad 1097 01:13:05,600 --> 01:13:08,400 He says: ''I want to shake your hand'' I said: ''Why''? 1098 01:13:08,600 --> 01:13:10,200 He says: ''WeII... 1099 01:13:10,300 --> 01:13:12,400 ...most guys just Ieave her hanging out...'' 1100 01:13:12,900 --> 01:13:14,400 The kids have got the sniffIes. We just got the caII from Washington 1101 01:13:14,700 --> 01:13:16,000 - Are you sure? - Yeah 1102 01:13:16,100 --> 01:13:17,700 - Who's got the sniffIes? - The kids! 1103 01:13:18,300 --> 01:13:19,600 - I'm outta here - Shit. Come on, come on 1104 01:13:20,800 --> 01:13:22,800 - That deadIine has now expired - Okay 1105 01:13:25,300 --> 01:13:27,500 - Naji says he's stiII working on it - They're cutting it awfuIIy cIose 1106 01:13:27,900 --> 01:13:30,600 January 15th is just another day on the caIendar. That's what the man said 1107 01:13:30,900 --> 01:13:33,400 - We'II get this interview - Hey, guys, something's up 1108 01:13:34,000 --> 01:13:37,000 Everybody's saying we gotta get out of here. Something about the sniffIes 1109 01:13:37,400 --> 01:13:38,700 - SniffIes? - Yeah 1110 01:13:38,900 --> 01:13:41,200 - SniffIes. Bingo. They're coming. - This is it 1111 01:13:43,600 --> 01:13:47,000 ABC and CBS are puIIing out. BBC and ITN haven't decided 1112 01:13:47,600 --> 01:13:50,700 Most of the print guys Ieft Iast night, NBC's on the fence 1113 01:13:51,200 --> 01:13:54,000 If the phones go out in Baghdad, we've stiII got the fourwire 1114 01:13:54,400 --> 01:13:56,500 We couId be the onIy ones abIe to report 1115 01:13:58,100 --> 01:14:01,200 I Iost two reporters at the Times, I'm not gonna go through that again 1116 01:14:02,000 --> 01:14:08,500 Excuse me, Tom. It's the White House on Iine 2. It's the President 1117 01:14:10,000 --> 01:14:16,100 Hey, send the biII to New York Hey, send the biII to New York! 1118 01:14:23,300 --> 01:14:26,100 AIright, we have a 727 with one hundred and twenty six pIaces 1119 01:14:26,400 --> 01:14:28,600 I strongIy suggest you take advantage of the opportunity 1120 01:14:28,800 --> 01:14:31,100 This wiII be the finaI evacuation 1121 01:14:31,500 --> 01:14:32,800 Look, I know this isn't a press conference... 1122 01:14:33,000 --> 01:14:35,600 Look, I'm gonna say this one more time. We are puIIing out 1123 01:14:35,900 --> 01:14:38,900 Exit visas and other domentation are your responsibiIity 1124 01:14:39,700 --> 01:14:42,400 Use your heads, peopIe. Stay in Baghdad, you may find yourseIf dead 1125 01:14:45,000 --> 01:14:47,200 Look, it s a terrific opportunity Robert 1126 01:14:47,500 --> 01:14:50,400 but no story is worth risking your Iife 1127 01:14:51,100 --> 01:14:53,800 No, no story is worth risking your Iife 1128 01:14:54,500 --> 01:14:58,400 But... this is the story of a Iifetime 1129 01:15:00,200 --> 01:15:04,600 Look, I'm not teIIing you what to do, I don't know what you shouId do 1130 01:15:05,600 --> 01:15:11,200 - What wouId you do, Ed? - Shit, Robert. What do you want me to say? 1131 01:15:12,100 --> 01:15:16,800 I just spoke with President Bush. He's taIking to me about taking you out of there 1132 01:15:17,000 --> 01:15:19,100 What about Ted Turner? 1133 01:15:19,400 --> 01:15:24,700 He said we're an internationaI news service, and we'II continue to broadcast 1134 01:15:28,300 --> 01:15:31,100 Ed, can you pick up the phone? 1135 01:15:33,900 --> 01:15:35,700 What do you think, Robert? 1136 01:15:38,800 --> 01:15:42,300 I'm gonna stay. I'm gonna ride it out 1137 01:15:43,500 --> 01:15:47,200 Hey, this is my waIk on the moon 1138 01:15:50,600 --> 01:15:53,300 I've seen this panic before Saigon. Same thing 1139 01:15:53,600 --> 01:15:55,100 White House spooked the shit out of everybody 1140 01:15:55,300 --> 01:15:56,900 The reporters got the heIicopters and got the heII out 1141 01:15:57,100 --> 01:15:58,400 Robert, you know what I'm taIking about 1142 01:15:58,600 --> 01:15:59,500 Course they don't want us here. If we're here... 1143 01:16:00,000 --> 01:16:02,000 The White House can't controI the story It goes to the worId Iive 1144 01:16:02,200 --> 01:16:04,200 But I say we stay, and report and prevaiI 1145 01:16:04,800 --> 01:16:07,300 Okay. Two things. First of aII, remember where we are 1146 01:16:07,600 --> 01:16:09,800 We're within waIking distance of the Iraqi ParIiament 1147 01:16:10,000 --> 01:16:14,400 The presidentiaI PaIace, the Ministry of Defense, teIecommunications centers 1148 01:16:14,600 --> 01:16:16,600 AII of these are prime targets, every one 1149 01:16:16,800 --> 01:16:18,100 So what are we gonna do? 1150 01:16:19,800 --> 01:16:25,200 Okay. Second, the foIks at CNN say the decision to stay or Ieave is ours 1151 01:16:25,400 --> 01:16:26,900 It s up to us. Each of us 1152 01:16:27,100 --> 01:16:29,000 - Great. So we're free to stay - Or go 1153 01:16:29,600 --> 01:16:31,400 WeII, I'm staying, and that settIed and any journaIist worth his saIt... 1154 01:16:31,600 --> 01:16:36,400 - Hey, Pete - I'm in, no matter who's out. I'II be outside 1155 01:16:37,500 --> 01:16:40,700 Okay. Chartered pIane'II be ready to go in the morning Bernie wiII be on it 1156 01:16:40,900 --> 01:16:43,400 He's the Washington anchor. They want him in his chair Monday morning, 1157 01:16:43,600 --> 01:16:44,900 and that's where he's gonna be 1158 01:16:46,100 --> 01:16:48,200 It's pretty cIear there's not gonna be an interview 1159 01:16:49,900 --> 01:16:53,500 As for the rest of us, it's your caII 1160 01:16:59,300 --> 01:17:04,200 - So? - WeII, I'II stay. I just got here 1161 01:17:07,900 --> 01:17:14,000 I don't know. If you reaIIy don't need me, I wouId Iike to... 1162 01:17:14,600 --> 01:17:20,400 I just, I got peopIe at home. I got peopIe at home 1163 01:17:24,400 --> 01:17:26,200 AIright 1164 01:17:26,400 --> 01:17:29,200 Okay, so you're gonna Ieave in the morning with Bernie 1165 01:17:29,400 --> 01:17:33,400 - Yeah - Good. I'II stay 1166 01:17:33,700 --> 01:17:35,300 - What? - I'm staying 1167 01:17:35,400 --> 01:17:36,800 No. Wait, wait, no 1168 01:17:37,000 --> 01:17:39,000 - Then I'm staying - Why? 1169 01:17:39,200 --> 01:17:40,600 I, I thought we had to make a decision 1170 01:17:40,800 --> 01:17:42,800 Yeah, but you've done nothing but compIain since we got here 1171 01:17:43,000 --> 01:17:46,500 I was venting. I'II stay. I don't want to miss the fireworks 1172 01:17:48,200 --> 01:17:50,100 Nick's here. He can do your job 1173 01:17:50,300 --> 01:17:53,200 - Thanks for the ego boost. - No, no, You've been great 1174 01:17:53,400 --> 01:17:57,600 I'm just saying that I think we can afford to ... bareIy... 1175 01:17:57,700 --> 01:17:59,200 get aIong without you 1176 01:18:00,400 --> 01:18:01,700 AIright 1177 01:18:03,800 --> 01:18:06,600 - So you're Ieaving? - Yeah 1178 01:18:09,600 --> 01:18:12,300 Good. John? 1179 01:18:13,600 --> 01:18:17,200 - I'II do what you do - I'm staying 1180 01:18:17,500 --> 01:18:19,700 - Can I make an observation? - No. You have nothing to say 1181 01:18:20,000 --> 01:18:22,000 You and I need to have a private conversation 1182 01:18:22,300 --> 01:18:25,500 Can the rest of you, uh Ieave? I need to speak with Ingrid 1183 01:18:31,200 --> 01:18:33,200 - How'd it faII out, gang? - We're Ieaving 1184 01:18:33,300 --> 01:18:36,300 - We're staying - We don't know about Ingrid yet 1185 01:18:37,900 --> 01:18:42,100 Oh, Iook at 'em run. Hurry! 1186 01:18:42,800 --> 01:18:47,100 - What's this about? - You know what it's about 1187 01:18:47,400 --> 01:18:51,300 - You're gonna stay - No, actuaIIy, I was gonna go 1188 01:18:53,100 --> 01:18:55,000 - You were? - Uh huh 1189 01:18:55,200 --> 01:18:58,600 I'm not the suicidaI type. I suggest you go too 1190 01:18:58,900 --> 01:19:03,200 Nothing you can do to stop that, especiaIIy dying 1191 01:19:06,100 --> 01:19:07,800 I can't go 1192 01:19:12,900 --> 01:19:14,700 Saigon? 1193 01:19:15,600 --> 01:19:18,200 Goddamn it, Robert, that was a different war, at a different time 1194 01:19:18,400 --> 01:19:20,700 I'm not gonna waIk away from a great story. Not again 1195 01:19:20,900 --> 01:19:25,700 God. Egomaniac. This is not just about you. You have a wife and kids 1196 01:19:25,900 --> 01:19:28,500 I have nothing. Look, you go and I'II stay 1197 01:19:30,600 --> 01:19:34,700 - That's not gonna work - WeII then, we'II both stay 1198 01:19:37,700 --> 01:19:39,300 Listen to me 1199 01:19:45,300 --> 01:19:48,800 How many times have you caught me before I hit the ground? 1200 01:19:50,400 --> 01:19:54,900 You've done nothing but protect me since the time I met you. This is different 1201 01:19:56,800 --> 01:19:58,600 This is different 1202 01:20:05,000 --> 01:20:07,500 I want you to stay 1203 01:20:10,500 --> 01:20:14,000 But I'm asking you to go 1204 01:20:21,100 --> 01:20:25,400 - So? - Oh, I'm taking that fIight out of here 1205 01:20:25,600 --> 01:20:27,400 I Iike shithoIes, not deathtraps 1206 01:20:27,600 --> 01:20:31,000 - You sure? - Oh, Peter Look at me. I'm no hero 1207 01:20:32,000 --> 01:20:34,200 See you after the war 1208 01:22:03,100 --> 01:22:05,100 Oh! God! 1209 01:22:11,700 --> 01:22:13,000 - Wiener! - You aIright? 1210 01:22:13,100 --> 01:22:15,300 Yeah. I'm totaIIy screwed! You're stuck with me 1211 01:22:15,800 --> 01:22:18,100 This is it! This is it! 1212 01:22:23,600 --> 01:22:25,400 - The fourwire! - I have it, Peter 1213 01:22:25,600 --> 01:22:26,900 - Are we stiII on? - It's up 1214 01:22:27,200 --> 01:22:29,200 - TeII em what' s goin' down here - HeIIo, AtIanta? AtIanta, come to us 1215 01:22:29,400 --> 01:22:32,800 - Phones are dead. Man, that was fast! - There is something happening outside 1216 01:22:33,100 --> 01:22:36,400 - HoIy Christ! - HeIIo, AtIanta, heIIo? 1217 01:22:36,600 --> 01:22:39,200 Camera in the window! I need a camera in the window come on! 1218 01:22:39,300 --> 01:22:41,700 - Robert! - ...in Baghdad something is happening 1219 01:22:44,600 --> 01:22:46,800 - Bernie's on the Iine - Get a map up! Get a map! 1220 01:22:47,000 --> 01:22:49,800 Get a picture of Bernie up there! And teII French that we are going Iive to Baghdad 1221 01:22:50,000 --> 01:22:51,200 Bernie's on the phone! He says something's happening... 1222 01:22:51,400 --> 01:22:55,200 We have to go to Baghdad, Secretary. We're going to Bernard Shaw in Baghdad 1223 01:22:55,300 --> 01:22:58,500 HeIIo, AtIanta. There is something happening outside 1224 01:22:58,700 --> 01:23:01,600 Peter... Peter... Peter Arnett is here with me 1225 01:23:01,700 --> 01:23:04,600 Peter come join us so we can describe to the viewers 1226 01:23:04,700 --> 01:23:06,600 what we're seeing outside the window 1227 01:23:06,700 --> 01:23:10,200 The skies over Baghdad have been iIIuminated 1228 01:23:10,400 --> 01:23:12,000 Give me the sticks! Give me the sticks! 1229 01:23:12,200 --> 01:23:14,300 There are bright fIashes aII over the sky 1230 01:23:14,500 --> 01:23:15,800 - Peter, are we on? - Let me get that other mic 1231 01:23:16,000 --> 01:23:19,900 WeII, there's antiaircraft fire going up into the sky 1232 01:23:21,600 --> 01:23:24,900 Starbursts in the bIack sky. Tremendous Iightning in the sky 1233 01:23:25,000 --> 01:23:26,600 A IightningIike effect 1234 01:23:26,700 --> 01:23:31,400 - I've got the night scope on - Now sirens are sounding for the first time 1235 01:23:32,300 --> 01:23:36,400 Robert! Robert! We need to get the crew down to the sheIter! 1236 01:23:36,900 --> 01:23:38,800 - The noise is just deafening - Okay 1237 01:23:39,000 --> 01:23:41,300 AII of you, aII of you to the sheIter! 1238 01:23:41,500 --> 01:23:43,200 - Go with Ingrid ! - What are you doing? 1239 01:23:43,400 --> 01:23:45,600 - I'm staying - Then I'm stayin too 1240 01:23:46,600 --> 01:23:49,600 Something Iike 200 guns firing from the rooftops around us here 1241 01:23:51,600 --> 01:23:56,300 Now we can see expIosions in the distance. Huge fIashes of Iight 1242 01:23:56,500 --> 01:24:01,600 Robert! Robert! What are we gonna do? 1243 01:24:03,600 --> 01:24:07,300 Fuck! Everybody nonessentiaI get down to that bomb sheIter myseIf incIuded! 1244 01:24:07,400 --> 01:24:09,400 - Right now! - Come, Mick! 1245 01:24:09,600 --> 01:24:11,200 - Do it! - Judy! 1246 01:24:12,100 --> 01:24:14,200 - I'II be back! - Don't worry. The war'II stiI be here 1247 01:24:14,400 --> 01:24:15,700 This is extraordinary 1248 01:24:16,000 --> 01:24:18,400 The bombs are faIIing and the Iights are stiII on. Ooh! 1249 01:24:18,500 --> 01:24:20,600 Camera's on automatic! And we're roIIing! 1250 01:24:20,800 --> 01:24:23,700 The Iights aII over downtown Baghdad are stiII on 1251 01:24:24,200 --> 01:24:26,600 - Peter, Peter! - We have John HoIIiman here 1252 01:24:26,800 --> 01:24:28,100 John, what can you see? 1253 01:24:28,300 --> 01:24:31,400 Good evening, gentIemen. Or rather good morning. This is John HoIIiman 1254 01:24:33,300 --> 01:24:36,800 - That's it! The fourwire is dead - We've Iost the Iine 1255 01:24:37,200 --> 01:24:38,500 - What happened? - What's going on? 1256 01:24:38,600 --> 01:24:39,600 It's dead 1257 01:24:39,800 --> 01:24:40,700 Coming back to David French 1258 01:24:40,900 --> 01:24:43,900 We've Iost that for the moment. Back to the Pentagon again 1259 01:24:44,400 --> 01:24:46,400 - Quick! PIug in a battery! Quick - I think it's on this desk! John! 1260 01:24:46,800 --> 01:24:48,100 - Battery! - I can't see! 1261 01:24:48,300 --> 01:24:52,200 - Where is it? Where is it? - I got it! It's over the desk 1262 01:24:52,400 --> 01:24:53,400 - Know how to pIug it in? - Yeah. 1263 01:24:53,500 --> 01:24:56,600 On the Ieft hand side, Bernie. Can you see it? 1264 01:24:57,700 --> 01:24:59,500 - We're back up - HaIIeIujah 1265 01:24:59,600 --> 01:25:01,500 - They're back up! Baghdad's back - AIright. We're going back to Baghdad 1266 01:25:01,700 --> 01:25:03,000 Right now 1267 01:25:03,300 --> 01:25:05,400 This is John HoIIiman reporting from Baghdad... 1268 01:25:08,000 --> 01:25:12,100 HoIy cow! That was a huge air burst just fiIIing the sky 1269 01:25:12,700 --> 01:25:15,000 That was the buggest bIast of air so far 1270 01:25:15,900 --> 01:25:18,600 I'm, I'm, uh moving away from the window now 1271 01:25:18,800 --> 01:25:22,400 If you're stiII with us you can hear the bombs now 1272 01:25:22,800 --> 01:25:26,100 They're hitting the center of the city 1273 01:25:27,400 --> 01:25:28,500 What's that noise? 1274 01:25:28,700 --> 01:25:31,300 - Is that just noise on the Iine or the bomb? - I don't know. I'm checking 1275 01:25:31,400 --> 01:25:33,800 Sounds Iike the goddamn hoteI is under attack. Check on Wiener and the crew 1276 01:25:34,800 --> 01:25:37,600 - Are you aIright? Everybody here? - Yeah, I think so. 1277 01:25:38,200 --> 01:25:41,200 Watch that girI! Keep your heads down! 1278 01:25:43,200 --> 01:25:46,500 Let us in! Let these peopIe in! 1279 01:25:49,900 --> 01:25:56,300 Just Iet these peopIe in, pIease Come on! Go, go, go, go, go, go! 1280 01:26:01,400 --> 01:26:03,700 I gotta go! I gotta go, man! Go! 1281 01:26:24,300 --> 01:26:26,400 CouIdn't get the fIight 1282 01:26:27,800 --> 01:26:31,000 We, I gather, have a report now from the America CabIe News Network 1283 01:26:31,200 --> 01:26:34,700 Their reporters, John HoIIiman and Peter Arnett, are in Baghdad 1284 01:26:36,300 --> 01:26:41,600 The Iast expIosion was in the western part of the city, near the Defense Ministry 1285 01:26:42,200 --> 01:26:44,400 - Bernie? - If this is surgicaI bombing 1286 01:26:45,100 --> 01:26:47,800 I don't Iike being this cIose to the operating tabIe 1287 01:26:47,900 --> 01:26:49,400 Good one, Bernie 1288 01:26:50,400 --> 01:26:52,400 You kiIIed us, Wiener! 1289 01:26:54,300 --> 01:26:56,400 You own this war 1290 01:26:58,700 --> 01:27:01,100 I have the sense that peopIe shooting towards the sky 1291 01:27:01,400 --> 01:27:05,200 and they are not aware or they cannot see what they are shooting at 1292 01:27:06,400 --> 01:27:09,300 Bet you wish you were up there 1293 01:27:11,900 --> 01:27:13,400 No 1294 01:27:16,700 --> 01:27:19,100 This is not about me 1295 01:27:21,800 --> 01:27:23,600 - Are you aIright, mate? - Yeah, I'm aIright 1296 01:27:24,000 --> 01:27:27,000 We're seeing outside the government buiIding downtown 1297 01:27:27,400 --> 01:27:31,400 At this moment there are pIumes in the darkness 1298 01:27:32,200 --> 01:27:33,600 BIack smoke rising... 1299 01:27:33,800 --> 01:27:36,000 John!! Bernie! soIdiers! Hide! 1300 01:27:36,300 --> 01:27:38,300 - Bernie! get down! - John! Get behind the desk! 1301 01:27:41,700 --> 01:27:44,200 - We've Iost Baghdad - Go to Roth in TeI Aviv 1302 01:27:44,900 --> 01:27:46,800 We've been advised to wear these masks 1303 01:27:47,200 --> 01:27:52,600 However there seems to be IittIe danger of gas at this time 1304 01:27:53,000 --> 01:27:55,000 This is Richard Roth 1305 01:27:56,000 --> 01:28:00,500 I'm sorry to inform you that we Iost contact with the CNN reporters at the Rasheed HoteI 1306 01:28:00,700 --> 01:28:02,000 Fuck! 1307 01:28:06,000 --> 01:28:09,800 Let me through! Let me through! Fuck! 1308 01:28:28,800 --> 01:28:30,400 Good evening, gentIemen! 1309 01:28:34,600 --> 01:28:37,300 Yes, that's aII weII and good but, I do not speak Arabic! 1310 01:28:37,500 --> 01:28:38,800 You go to sheIter now 1311 01:28:38,900 --> 01:28:39,900 - SheIter? - SheIter 1312 01:28:40,000 --> 01:28:43,200 No sheIter! No sheIter! SheIters frighten me! It's better up here! 1313 01:28:43,600 --> 01:28:46,000 Can't you see? It's safe! It's good up high! 1314 01:28:47,000 --> 01:28:49,500 I feeI safe here! It's good up high Don't you feeI it? 1315 01:28:49,800 --> 01:28:51,400 Or we can aII go up on the roof! 1316 01:28:51,700 --> 01:28:53,500 GentIemen, gentIemen, pIease! We can go up on the roof! 1317 01:28:56,500 --> 01:29:00,300 No? WeII then, I'II Iight a candIe for peace 1318 01:29:03,500 --> 01:29:07,700 - Oh, dear! That was one for the Academy - I thought you were insane 1319 01:29:07,900 --> 01:29:09,500 WeII, I must be, or what the heII am I doing here? 1320 01:29:09,700 --> 01:29:11,600 - You guys aIright? We were worried - Yeah, we're fine 1321 01:29:11,700 --> 01:29:13,700 - How's everyone downstairs? - They're good. They're in the sheIter 1322 01:29:23,300 --> 01:29:26,100 - Robert, you aIright? - Yeah 1323 01:29:27,300 --> 01:29:30,600 - Are we stiII on? The Fourwire! - It's up. It's up 1324 01:29:32,400 --> 01:29:34,800 - We're back on the air now. - We're back! 1325 01:29:35,400 --> 01:29:39,200 The Iast expIosion was in the western part of the city 1326 01:29:39,400 --> 01:29:41,900 - Ed!Tom! Come Iook at this! - Near the Defense Ministry 1327 01:29:43,400 --> 01:29:46,800 ... fact that throughout the night, CNN was the onIy, news operation in the country 1328 01:29:47,000 --> 01:29:48,800 that was abIe to hang onto its teIephone... 1329 01:29:49,000 --> 01:29:52,300 ... the onIy teIecommunications of there now continue to beIong to CNN 1330 01:29:52,600 --> 01:29:55,800 But what we have now, again reported by CNN from Baghdad 1331 01:29:56,300 --> 01:29:59,800 The very enterprising Bernard Shaw, representing the very enterprising CNN 1332 01:30:01,400 --> 01:30:05,100 The best reporting that I've seen on what transpired from Baghdad was on CNN 1333 01:30:05,300 --> 01:30:08,100 CNN used to be caIIed ''The IittIe network that couId'' 1334 01:30:08,600 --> 01:30:10,500 ... but it 's no Ionger a IittIe network 1335 01:30:12,300 --> 01:30:16,900 I'm gonna stick this microhone outside the window now 1336 01:30:17,100 --> 01:30:19,700 so you can hear some of these expIosions 1337 01:30:20,400 --> 01:30:23,200 and the antiaircraft fire that goes with them 1338 01:30:27,900 --> 01:30:30,500 Now, there's a very bright fIash near a refinery buiIding 1339 01:30:31,200 --> 01:30:32,700 There's much activity on the ground there 1340 01:30:32,900 --> 01:30:36,400 Thick baIIs of bIack smoke arriving from the city from government buiIdings 1341 01:30:36,900 --> 01:30:39,300 - ... BareIy a miIe away - Eight to ten white sharp expIosions 1342 01:30:39,800 --> 01:30:42,600 ObviousIy aimed at destroying that particuIar refinery 1343 01:30:43,000 --> 01:30:45,800 That was the expIosion cIosest to the PresidentiaI PaIace 1344 01:30:46,300 --> 01:30:48,000 here in downtown Baghdad 1345 01:30:48,300 --> 01:30:51,600 See as though the waves of bombing are coming every fifteen minutes now 1346 01:31:28,500 --> 01:31:31,700 It's... five am here at Baghdad 1347 01:31:32,200 --> 01:31:38,100 I honestIy don't know what time it is back in the States but I imagine around this time 1348 01:31:38,300 --> 01:31:43,300 I wouId probabIy be on my desk eating a turkey sandwich on whoIe wheat 1349 01:31:44,400 --> 01:31:50,000 Maybe a tweIvegrain bread and, uh... 1350 01:31:50,400 --> 01:31:54,400 And we can't assess the damage officiaIIy There's no word from Iraqi officiaIs 1351 01:31:54,600 --> 01:31:57,700 But from our vantage point here on the ninth fIoor of the AI Rasheed 1352 01:31:58,000 --> 01:32:00,000 the devastation seems formidabIe 1353 01:32:01,700 --> 01:32:07,600 What were buiIdings now are sheIIs, Iike boxes crushed by someone's giant hands 1354 01:32:08,200 --> 01:32:10,000 Smoke rising everywhere 1355 01:32:10,800 --> 01:32:14,200 The streets are fuII of debris and devoid of a Iiving souI 1356 01:32:16,100 --> 01:32:22,100 None of us here I am sure, wiII ever forget this night or what happened here 1357 01:32:22,400 --> 01:32:25,900 This is Peter Arnett with Bernard Shaw, John HoIIiman 1358 01:32:26,200 --> 01:32:28,600 Producers Robert Wiener and Ingrid Formanek 1359 01:32:28,900 --> 01:32:32,900 and our crew of Judy Parker, Nick Robertson and Mark BieIIo 1360 01:32:33,200 --> 01:32:37,900 Returning you to the reIative tranquiIity of the United States 1361 01:32:42,800 --> 01:32:46,500 Ladies and gentIemen, we are off the air 1362 01:32:47,700 --> 01:32:49,900 What the heII was I taIking about? A turkey sandwich? 1363 01:32:50,300 --> 01:32:52,700 You were making me hungry! 1364 01:32:55,500 --> 01:32:59,900 Don't worry, Bernie, it was reaI, it was stunning. It was great. Great 1365 01:33:00,400 --> 01:33:04,700 FoIks, it's Ed here... And... 1366 01:33:06,300 --> 01:33:09,100 I think I can speak for aII of us when... 1367 01:33:13,700 --> 01:33:15,200 When I say... 1368 01:33:17,900 --> 01:33:20,500 ... It was simpIy incredibIe... 1369 01:33:21,200 --> 01:33:23,500 And, you can rest assured that you are the envy 1370 01:33:23,800 --> 01:33:27,600 ... of every journaIist around the worId. CongratuIations 1371 01:33:29,800 --> 01:33:34,900 There... I mean, there reaIIy aren't words to... 1372 01:33:35,300 --> 01:33:38,100 I'II see you soon. Get some rest 1373 01:33:41,900 --> 01:33:45,100 - Great job, Robert - Thanks, Bernard 1374 01:33:50,800 --> 01:33:54,700 We're gonna set up a rotation 1375 01:33:54,900 --> 01:33:56,800 Everyone's gonna need sIeep 1376 01:34:03,600 --> 01:34:05,000 Jesus 1377 01:34:27,900 --> 01:34:33,200 Hey Iisten, everybody. I mean, it's great work 1378 01:34:34,800 --> 01:34:39,800 Thank you... Thank you. Oh, shit! 1379 01:34:40,900 --> 01:34:44,700 Move away from the equipments now! Robert, I'm sorry but I have orders 1380 01:34:44,800 --> 01:34:46,100 You must stop your reporting immediateIy 1381 01:34:46,300 --> 01:34:48,300 You can record stories but we must review them 1382 01:34:48,800 --> 01:34:51,300 Naji, that's just not gonna work I mean, we're into it now, man 1383 01:34:51,500 --> 01:34:55,500 - Robert! These are my orders - Baghdad, this is AtIanta! 1384 01:34:57,900 --> 01:35:02,200 - Baghdad. Baghdad, this is AtIanta - Can I just...? 1385 01:35:03,200 --> 01:35:06,200 Baghdad, this is AtIanta. Come in. 1386 01:35:10,000 --> 01:35:12,600 This is John HoIIiman reporting from Baghdad 1387 01:35:12,800 --> 01:35:16,300 Our executive producer, Robert Wiener has an Iraqi officiaI here 1388 01:35:16,600 --> 01:35:19,000 Robert can you teII us what's happening here? 1389 01:35:19,200 --> 01:35:22,000 Yeah. UnfortunateIy, we've been ordered by the Iraqi government to cease transmitting 1390 01:35:22,200 --> 01:35:26,000 We've been informed that any future reports are subject to censorship 1391 01:35:26,200 --> 01:35:27,400 Stop that! 1392 01:35:27,600 --> 01:35:30,400 Under these new reguIations we cannot report that the Iatest attack is continuing 1393 01:35:30,600 --> 01:35:32,700 and that bIack cIouds of smoke can be seen 1394 01:35:32,900 --> 01:35:35,100 on the direction of Saddam InternationaI Airport 1395 01:35:35,600 --> 01:35:36,900 But the Ministry of Information has informed us 1396 01:35:37,100 --> 01:35:39,300 that we cannot report any of this without their approvaI 1397 01:35:39,500 --> 01:35:40,400 Stop it! 1398 01:35:40,600 --> 01:35:43,700 This is Robert Wiener, CNN, reporting Iive from Baghdad 1399 01:35:43,800 --> 01:35:46,600 - That is enough! - Okay. It's off. It's off 1400 01:35:46,800 --> 01:35:48,400 See? It's off 1401 01:35:57,400 --> 01:36:00,000 The caravan can't stop. Do not Iet the driver stop 1402 01:36:00,200 --> 01:36:02,600 Air Force knows you're crossing, but it's war. PeopIe forget shit 1403 01:36:02,800 --> 01:36:04,500 And if you have to pee, pee in a bottIe 1404 01:36:04,600 --> 01:36:06,800 - Yeah, but my aim's not that good - The cars have to stay in order 1405 01:36:07,000 --> 01:36:08,800 It's white car, it's bIue car it's red car 1406 01:36:09,300 --> 01:36:10,600 BIue car, red car, white car 1407 01:36:10,900 --> 01:36:14,200 - What did I just say? - Wiener, I'II be aIright 1408 01:36:18,400 --> 01:36:20,300 One minute 1409 01:36:26,400 --> 01:36:28,800 Thirty hours, I'II be home 1410 01:36:29,000 --> 01:36:32,200 Kicking back with a gIass of StoIi 1411 01:36:33,300 --> 01:36:36,000 Watching aII of this on teIevision 1412 01:36:44,600 --> 01:36:46,300 Thank you 1413 01:36:58,200 --> 01:37:00,200 Don't stay too Iong 1414 01:37:56,500 --> 01:38:01,100 - Your famiIy? - They're safe. Thank you 1415 01:38:04,200 --> 01:38:08,200 - So, you're Ieaving? - Yeah. It's time for me to go 1416 01:38:09,400 --> 01:38:13,100 - And we have become friends - Yeah 1417 01:38:13,500 --> 01:38:16,300 You kept your word and you've been fair 1418 01:38:18,500 --> 01:38:22,400 - I can't ask for more than that from a friend - And you got your story 1419 01:38:26,000 --> 01:38:31,100 - Yeah. Not the one I wanted - Isn't it? 1420 01:38:41,300 --> 01:38:44,100 I wiII see you when this war is over 120881

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