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-What's going on?
-I don't see anything.
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Are you okay?
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That's how they get you.
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They're under the goddamn ground.
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What the hell are they?
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Sons of bitches!
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...from Iraqi shelling.
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Troops and tank divisions poured across
the virtually undefended....
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...dying in front of their eyes.
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Iraqi troops and tanks
continue to roll into Kuwait...
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the desert nation Saddam Hussein....
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-Baghdad is me.
-You're supposed to be in BerIin.
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Fuck BerIin. The waII's down.
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-Baghdad is me, Eason.
-You've never even been to Baghdad.
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-CIose enough. JerusaIem.
-I wouIdn't bring up JerusaIem if I were you.
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It's not a point in your favor.
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So what happened in JerusaIem?
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-They stoned his car.
-Is that why Ted Turner wants to fire him?
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That's fine.
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Good fieId producers sometimes eIicit
that response.
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His crew wasn't kiIIed and he got the story.
He can do this.
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Robert, I want you to meet Tom Johnson,
the new president of CNN.
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You're the man
that turned around the LA Times.
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-Nice of you to characterize it that way.
-So who are you gonna fire here?
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Robert, heeI.
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ActuaIIy, Ted's memo onIy mentioned you.
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But it's not so much about
a change of personneI.
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CNN has assets we haven't fuIIy utiIized.
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You want to know what I think?
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We're a 24-hour news network
Iooking for a 24-hour story...
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and one just feII from the sky.
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PeopIe won't wait tiII 7:00 p.m.
to find out if we're at war or not.
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-They'II tune into CNN.
-I understand you want Baghdad.
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-Yes, I do.
-Baghdad's tricky.
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The eIement of finesse here
may not be your strongest suit.
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I'm the right man for the job, Eason,
and you know it.
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I agree, Robert, it's a 24-hour story,
and the whoIe worId wiII want to see it.
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ABC and CBS are aIready in there,
so we've gotta pIay catch-up.
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We've gotta own this story.
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Ted Turner's guaranteed me
we'II have everything we need to do that.
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Now we need somebody
with guts and good judgment.
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That's me.
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We know you've got the guts.
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Now, you prove you've got the judgment.
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I want aII my empIoyees
to come home standing up. Understood?
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Understood.
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-AII right.
-AII right.
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-Farzad Bazoft.
-I know.
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London Observer journaIist, doing his job.
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Got a IittIe ambitious.
The Iraqis hung him as a spy.
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Just want you to know
what you're up against.
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Borders are seaIed.
They're not Ietting peopIe out.
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Right, I know.
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PoIice state on the brink of war,
state censorship up the gazoo.
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I'II teII you something.
If there's a war and we're there...
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reporting Iive behind enemy Iines...
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that's the journaIistic equivaIent
of waIking on the moon.
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-Who do you want?
-Murphy.
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Murphy's good. I Iike him.
I want Ingrid Formanek, too.
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-She's in Rome.
-On the map, it's an inch.
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He needs a watchdog, not a cheerIeader.
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The woman practicaIIy hates me.
She second-guesses every move I make.
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-SIeeping with her?
-No. I want her head, not her ass.
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She keeps me honest.
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AII right.
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I went out on a Iimb for you back there.
Let's don't fuck it up.
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I know. Thank you.
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Ed...
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I need a shitIoad of cash.
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So we smoke cigars now?
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Ingrid!
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You Iook great.
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A IittIe paIe. You eating aII right?
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-Yeah. So, what's with the cigars?
-Joe WiIson smokes them.
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And he is who?
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He's our man in Baghdad.
Ranking US dipIomat.
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-Is there a probIem?
-He confuses doIIars with Iiras.
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-What wouId I do without you?
-Die a IoneIy death.
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Is there any other kind?
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Wiener! You dick!
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Joe!
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-You know the man?
-Nyet.
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Ingrid Formanek, CNN!
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Joe ErIichman, CBS Evening News.
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-Where are you going? Why're you Ieaving?
-They're throwing us out.
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They Iike to fIex the muscIe.
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It's the Iraqi mind-fuck.
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Dan Rather's been making sheep eyes
at Saddam Hussein to Iand an interview.
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So far, aII we got is a rug.
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-Where are you staying?
-The Sheraton.
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ShithoIe. Check out the AI-Rasheed.
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Why did they Iet a scumbag Iike you in?
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Who do you think
they get their news from? You?
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From us, they get the news.
From you, they get access.
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-'Bye!
-See you Iater.
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Yeah, and fuck off!
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We've gotta naiI that Saddam interview
before CBS.
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Modem?
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Battery pack. They're for the camera.
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-Modem?
-WaIkman.
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You got another one of those?
They're expensive.
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Are those....
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Barf bags.
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For Iater?
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For Iater?
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No, I coIIect barf bags from airIines
aII over the worId.
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Kind of a cooI thing to have.
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Gonna be a tough gig.
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-23 bottIes of vodka?
-There was supposed to be 24.
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-For personaI use?
-Yeah.
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-You are an aIcohoIic.
-You're a customs inspector.
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We aII have our parts to pIay.
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-Eight hours in customs!
-Are these gonna be safe up here?
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-This is worse than Kinshasa.
-Better than Romania, though.
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Yeah, at Ieast here,
the men have the moustaches.
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His ExceIIency, Saddam Hussein,
does not ask for paintings.
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He's a simpIe man. But peopIe Iove him,
so they rush to put them up.
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Excuse me....
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-Who are you?
-I'm Mr. Mazin...
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from Ministry of Information.
I'm here to heIp you.
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-Stunning job so far.
-Thank you.
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-Where to go?
-AI-Rasheed.
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-I thought we were staying at the Sheraton.
-It's a shithoIe.
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So what? I Iike shithoIes.
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Look at this.
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Straight out of ''AIi Baba.''
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-I think I'm getting one of those rugs.
-I think I'm getting cystitis.
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They can throw us out of here
any time they want.
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We're gonna have to be crafty.
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-We can do crafty.
-Good.
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PeopIe are headed the other way.
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Looks Iike ABC.
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Nice cars.
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Must be taIent.
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-I've gotta go the bathroom.
-You just think you have to.
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-Ingrid, find a phone.
-Yeah.
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-Maybe Mr. Mazin can heIp you with that.
-Of course.
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And caII the US embassy,
Iet them know we're here.
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No. Nothing is avaiIabIe.
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-Not possibIe. I have a reservation.
-I find no reservations.
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Five rooms and a suite.
Check under ''CNN, American teIevision.''
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You know who this is? This is CNN!
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24 hours a day. Is it news or is it Muzak?
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Inky, how're you doing?
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What are you doing?
I saw your boys Ieaving.
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They're throwing us out.
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We're doing better than NBC,
they haven't got in yet.
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The Iraqi mind-fuck? Try under ''Wiener.''
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-You heard?
-W-I-E-N-E-R.
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At Ieast we're aIIowed out.
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How much Iatitude
do they give you to report?
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You can't take a picture
of a guy eating Iunch without the okay.
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Serious. Yesterday...
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no kidding, we're trying to shoot a guy
having a sandwich...
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they puIIed the pIug. I mean, come on!
I know the food is bad.
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-What's the IocaI feed point Iike?
-Nightmare.
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So I figured. How are we doing?
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I've checked aII the Iists.
I don't have a reservation for you.
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You need heIp with him?
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UnIike you, I have cIout.
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I'm a big boy, I got it.
Where'd you get that rug?
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-Don't worry, you'II get a rug.
-AII right, see you Iater.
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-Here. See what you can do.
-I wiII make every attempt.
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Thank you, sir.
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I toId him to take it to your room.
AII right? So don't worry.
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I taIked to Joe WiIson at the embassy,
and it's aII set up.
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Great! Good work. Excuse me for a second.
Pardon me, what's your name?
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-Fatima.
-Meet our new transIator, Fatima.
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Fatima, Ingrid. Ingrid, Fatima.
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But I am not a transIator.
I'm an Egyptian student.
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ReaIIy? How'd you Iike to be a transIator?
$100 a day.
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-$100?
-Yeah.
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-AII right.
-Presto, you're a transIator.
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What's your room number?
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-Everything's smooth?
-Smooth? I don't know about that.
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-I've found your reservation.
-Perfect.
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-Smooth.
-Now, how wiII you be paying?
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American Express.
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Kidding. Okay, how about cash?
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-We accept cash.
-I figured you wouId.
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''Cash is king.'' DonaId Trump.
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-Did you say DonaId Trump?
-Yes, I read his book. Amazing.
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Your room has a view of the mosque,
and of the swimming pooI.
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ReaIIy?
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That about covers
the range of human endeavor.
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There you go.
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No way!
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Check it out.
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''Ladies and gentIemen...
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''the RoIIing Stones!''
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-That's great.
-Wait.
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Privacy is not what's going on here,
Marky-boy. Consider that before speaking.
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TeII me about it.
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There's this bIinking, red-Iight thing
in the bathroom ceiIing.
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I'm gonna have to get dressed
to take a shower.
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-Room service.
-CouId you send up a Pepsi?
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-I'II take a Pepsi.
-I'II have a Coke.
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There's no Coke in Baghdad.
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BottIing pIant's in Dixie.
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IsraeI.
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I'II take a Yoo-hoo.
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-It's a chocoIate drink.
-I didn't say anything.
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00:13:01,280 --> 00:13:02,577
Make it seven Pepsis.
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Iraq has imposed restrictions
on innocent civilians...
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from many countries.
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This is unacceptable.
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Release all foreigners now...
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give them the right to come and go
as they wish.
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Fuck!
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00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:23,634
-Anybody eIse's back hurt?
-Not me.
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I brought a piIIow with me from home.
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Robert, Iook at this.
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This is interesting.
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Saddam.... I don't know what.
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-Where's the Egyptian girI?
-Fatima!
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-Mark, push the record button.
-Come quick.
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-What's he saying here?
-CaII CNN, teII them to stand by.
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-Murphy, come here!
-What's he saying?
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He's saying, ''These peopIe are British.
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''They are our...
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-''guests.''
-Guests?
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He's saying, ''Stuart wiII, I'm sure...
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''be happy that he pIayed a roIe
in maintaining peace.''
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Are you getting your milk, Stuart?
With cornflakes, too.
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He's scaring the shit out of that kid.
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He's scaring the shit out of that kid.
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-This is great TV.
-Yeah, it is.
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You got kids?
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No. My wife's seven months pregnant.
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-You?
-Yeah, I got two.
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AtIanta's standing by.
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Have Mazin book some sateIIite time.
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00:14:17,890 --> 00:14:21,018
FeeIs Iike a photo op to me.
''Compassionate Saddam.''
234
00:14:21,126 --> 00:14:24,527
''Iraqi chiIdren, unfortunateIy,
do not have any miIk.''
235
00:14:24,630 --> 00:14:27,895
-This kid's petrified.
-A generous person may caII it propaganda.
236
00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:28,989
Fuck them.
237
00:14:29,101 --> 00:14:32,229
Let them say what they want.
The story is not here.
238
00:14:33,839 --> 00:14:36,501
The story is right there.
239
00:14:37,176 --> 00:14:39,872
''The boy is 5 years oId.
His name is Stuart Lockwood.
240
00:14:39,979 --> 00:14:41,640
''He is a British subject.''
241
00:14:41,814 --> 00:14:45,011
''The boy, 5-year-oId Stuart Lockwood,
is a British subject...''
242
00:14:47,720 --> 00:14:49,312
''...heId at an undiscIosed Iocation.
243
00:14:49,455 --> 00:14:53,619
''These famiIies, Iike other foreign nationaIs,
have been denied exit visas from Iraq.
244
00:14:53,726 --> 00:14:58,254
''Here, visited by President Saddam Hussein,
these peopIe are, in effect....''
245
00:15:00,332 --> 00:15:01,458
''Hostages''?
246
00:15:01,867 --> 00:15:03,801
-Is there another way to say that?
-No.
247
00:15:03,903 --> 00:15:04,927
You think that'II fIy?
248
00:15:05,037 --> 00:15:07,505
What eIse wiII you caII them?
''Guests'' won't crack it.
249
00:15:07,606 --> 00:15:09,233
Okay, but we're in for the Iong hauI.
250
00:15:09,341 --> 00:15:11,901
-Let's not get kicked out our first day.
-How about this:
251
00:15:12,011 --> 00:15:15,572
''In the rest of the worId, they are caIIed....
But here...
252
00:15:16,882 --> 00:15:18,281
''they're caIIed 'guests.'''
253
00:15:20,252 --> 00:15:22,015
-Works for me.
-Okay.
254
00:15:22,154 --> 00:15:24,748
We'II do a stand-up
with the mosque in the background.
255
00:15:25,591 --> 00:15:28,560
-''Coffee snack.''
-I think I'II take a shower.
256
00:15:28,661 --> 00:15:32,222
-It's 3:00, sateIIite's at 5:00. Take a shower.
-You can put it right here.
257
00:15:36,869 --> 00:15:39,167
-Here you go.
-Thank you.
258
00:15:40,105 --> 00:15:42,903
Excuse me, were you in the army here, sir?
259
00:15:44,576 --> 00:15:45,838
Yes.
260
00:15:46,345 --> 00:15:48,210
Five and a haIf years.
261
00:15:50,215 --> 00:15:52,183
-Did you fight Iran?
-Yes.
262
00:15:53,652 --> 00:15:57,588
Now, maybe I fight America.
263
00:16:07,900 --> 00:16:09,959
-You want to go?
-Mr. Mazin!
264
00:16:10,069 --> 00:16:11,559
You're earIy. I Iike that in a man.
265
00:16:11,670 --> 00:16:14,161
But you want to go, yes?
SateIIite in 50 minutes.
266
00:16:14,273 --> 00:16:16,605
-No, sateIIite's at 5:00.
-Change to 4:00.
267
00:16:18,077 --> 00:16:19,874
-What did you just say?
-4:00.
268
00:16:20,779 --> 00:16:23,304
Fuck! CaII Iraqi TV. Murphy!
269
00:16:29,254 --> 00:16:31,222
Let's go! We've gotta fIy.
270
00:16:38,130 --> 00:16:39,188
HoIy moIy!
271
00:16:40,065 --> 00:16:42,693
My grandfather had stuff Iike this
in his basement.
272
00:16:42,801 --> 00:16:46,134
Yeah, back in the 80s
before you were born? Converter.
273
00:16:46,372 --> 00:16:48,101
Excuse me, gentIemen. Thank you.
274
00:16:48,207 --> 00:16:50,903
We're on the bird in four minutes.
Where's the tape?
275
00:16:51,010 --> 00:16:52,944
Don't worry, we're gonna be aII right.
276
00:16:53,045 --> 00:16:54,069
We're on it.
277
00:16:54,179 --> 00:16:56,010
Does anyone here speak EngIish?
278
00:16:56,115 --> 00:16:59,084
-Who might the head honcho be?
-Where is Ingrid Formanek?
279
00:16:59,184 --> 00:17:01,948
-I'd be Ingrid Formanek.
-I'm Mrs. Awatiff...
280
00:17:02,054 --> 00:17:05,922
Director, InternationaI Department, Iraqi TV.
DeIighted to meet you.
281
00:17:06,025 --> 00:17:08,118
Robert Wiener.
Sorry to interrupt your pIans...
282
00:17:08,227 --> 00:17:09,660
but we've got a sateIIite feed--
283
00:17:09,762 --> 00:17:12,629
What pIans? I have no pIans.
I am working here.
284
00:17:12,731 --> 00:17:15,063
-What is your purpose?
-I'm the producer--
285
00:17:15,167 --> 00:17:17,965
I understand Ms. Formanek is the producer.
286
00:17:20,239 --> 00:17:21,968
Yeah, and she needs a sateIIite feed in--
287
00:17:22,074 --> 00:17:25,669
I'm here to supervise your transmission,
Ms. Formanek. What do you need?
288
00:17:25,778 --> 00:17:27,370
We need a phone to contact AtIanta.
289
00:17:27,479 --> 00:17:29,947
That wouId be the phone in my office.
290
00:17:30,983 --> 00:17:32,974
Eason, Baghdad on for you.
291
00:17:33,452 --> 00:17:35,443
What's going on? We're at two minutes.
292
00:17:35,587 --> 00:17:36,451
We got it.
293
00:17:36,555 --> 00:17:38,614
Ingrid's with the censor,
going over the spot.
294
00:17:38,757 --> 00:17:40,588
Sisterhood is powerfuI here in Iraq.
295
00:17:40,692 --> 00:17:43,593
And placed in private homes
in and around...
296
00:17:43,762 --> 00:17:46,322
secret military and industrial sites.
297
00:17:46,698 --> 00:17:49,360
In the rest of the world, they're called....
298
00:17:50,269 --> 00:17:51,293
It's the dust.
299
00:17:51,403 --> 00:17:53,200
...they're simply called ''guests. ''
300
00:17:53,505 --> 00:17:55,302
What route are we bringing Baghdad in on?
301
00:17:55,407 --> 00:17:57,841
-35, but aII we got is hash.
-We're not seeing you.
302
00:17:57,943 --> 00:17:59,001
Shit!
303
00:17:59,244 --> 00:18:00,677
Here, take this.
304
00:18:07,953 --> 00:18:10,717
Mrs. Awatiff, they're not seeing us
in AtIanta.
305
00:18:11,523 --> 00:18:12,888
Judy, keep roIIing.
306
00:18:12,991 --> 00:18:15,687
-We've got chroma shit.
-Whatever that is, fix this!
307
00:18:15,794 --> 00:18:16,818
Can I get in?
308
00:18:16,929 --> 00:18:19,830
-One minute.
-We've got an image. Audio needs boosting.
309
00:18:19,932 --> 00:18:22,423
-They get the picture?
-You need to boost the audio.
310
00:18:22,534 --> 00:18:23,762
-How much?
-1 2 dB.
311
00:18:23,869 --> 00:18:25,336
-By 1 2 dB.
-1 2 dB!
312
00:18:31,944 --> 00:18:33,707
Judy, boost the audio 1 2 dB!
313
00:18:35,614 --> 00:18:36,603
It's over-moduIating.
314
00:18:36,715 --> 00:18:37,977
-How much?
-2 dB.
315
00:18:38,117 --> 00:18:40,142
It needs to come down 2.
316
00:18:40,285 --> 00:18:42,810
You go teII them. I'II man the phone.
317
00:18:43,689 --> 00:18:44,815
Thirty seconds.
318
00:18:47,025 --> 00:18:48,993
Bring the audio down 2. Put 10 in the gate.
319
00:18:49,128 --> 00:18:50,186
Mark, now!
320
00:18:52,531 --> 00:18:54,260
-Fifteen seconds.
-RoII it.
321
00:18:55,501 --> 00:18:56,490
RoII it!
322
00:18:56,602 --> 00:18:58,035
-TweIve, eIeven...
-RoIIing!
323
00:18:58,670 --> 00:19:00,297
Ten, nine....
324
00:19:02,274 --> 00:19:04,037
-Seven, six....
-Come on.
325
00:19:04,743 --> 00:19:06,574
Five, four...
326
00:19:07,045 --> 00:19:08,672
three, two...
327
00:19:09,481 --> 00:19:10,880
-one.
-Yeah, here we go.
328
00:19:12,518 --> 00:19:15,487
Some extraordinary images
from the Iraqi capital today.
329
00:19:15,621 --> 00:19:18,454
President Saddam Hussein
held a face-to-face meeting...
330
00:19:18,557 --> 00:19:20,491
with a group of British hostages.
331
00:19:20,592 --> 00:19:23,026
A meeting that was carried
on Iraqi television.
332
00:19:23,128 --> 00:19:25,790
The boy, 5 years old, is Stuart Lockwood...
333
00:19:25,898 --> 00:19:26,990
a British subject.
334
00:19:27,299 --> 00:19:28,789
It was a good story!
335
00:19:28,901 --> 00:19:30,459
It was buIIshit.
336
00:19:30,569 --> 00:19:33,868
It was minimum comment,
maximum content.
337
00:19:34,773 --> 00:19:36,365
That is irresponsibIe.
338
00:19:36,475 --> 00:19:39,774
You Iet Saddam spout off his garbage
without chaIIenging it.
339
00:19:39,878 --> 00:19:42,642
You hand HitIer a microphone,
and you caII it journaIism.
340
00:19:42,748 --> 00:19:45,478
-Where's the editoriaI point of view?
-Trust the viewer.
341
00:19:45,617 --> 00:19:48,381
They can judge this stuff,
and they have the right to see it.
342
00:19:48,520 --> 00:19:49,487
AbsoIuteIy.
343
00:19:49,621 --> 00:19:52,089
How can they know what they're seeing
without context?
344
00:19:52,224 --> 00:19:55,591
I don't need some big Iead-in.
I know how I feeI about a dictator...
345
00:19:55,694 --> 00:19:58,128
who puts his hairy hand
on a IittIe hostage boy.
346
00:19:58,230 --> 00:20:00,357
It's right there for anybody to see.
347
00:20:00,465 --> 00:20:02,365
-Who are you to say what it means?
-Come on!
348
00:20:04,203 --> 00:20:05,898
Who are we to say what it means?
349
00:20:06,605 --> 00:20:08,732
We didn't say what it means.
350
00:20:10,342 --> 00:20:11,900
What do you think it means?
351
00:20:12,010 --> 00:20:14,069
I don't know what it means.
352
00:20:17,683 --> 00:20:19,446
TeII you what it couId mean.
353
00:20:19,952 --> 00:20:22,477
If we couId get both sides taIking....
354
00:20:22,621 --> 00:20:25,112
With peace, Iove, and understanding.
355
00:20:25,524 --> 00:20:28,493
Come on, Wienerish. We're just the eyes.
356
00:20:29,561 --> 00:20:33,190
You put this shit up there,
and peopIe puII it down on their Sonys.
357
00:20:34,366 --> 00:20:36,231
I think I'm quoting you.
358
00:20:36,335 --> 00:20:38,098
No, I said ''Zeniths.''
359
00:20:40,672 --> 00:20:41,696
Man.
360
00:20:42,841 --> 00:20:44,331
Are you drunk?
361
00:20:44,743 --> 00:20:45,767
Yes.
362
00:20:54,319 --> 00:20:57,152
The moment we become the story....
363
00:20:57,256 --> 00:20:58,917
It's over. I know.
364
00:21:04,196 --> 00:21:05,163
Fuck 'em.
365
00:21:06,765 --> 00:21:08,528
It was a good story.
366
00:21:12,004 --> 00:21:13,995
We're gonna need another one tomorrow.
367
00:21:14,106 --> 00:21:15,073
Another what?
368
00:21:15,607 --> 00:21:18,542
Story. LocaI coIor. Mazin's got something
down at the embassy.
369
00:21:18,644 --> 00:21:20,635
We've gotta get something
to feed the beasts.
370
00:21:20,746 --> 00:21:22,680
Come pIease, time is counting.
371
00:21:23,382 --> 00:21:24,713
Cigars!
372
00:21:25,083 --> 00:21:26,846
Embassy man Ioves cigars, remember?
373
00:21:27,085 --> 00:21:29,918
You give embassy man cigars,
he give you big access.
374
00:21:30,022 --> 00:21:31,614
-Hangover?
-BrutaI.
375
00:21:55,447 --> 00:21:57,381
We're just gonna start wide on the crowd.
376
00:21:58,684 --> 00:21:59,981
-Quick connect.
-We're on it.
377
00:22:00,052 --> 00:22:01,280
Got it?
378
00:22:03,955 --> 00:22:06,150
-These guys right here.
-Excuse us.
379
00:22:14,666 --> 00:22:15,758
No photo.
380
00:22:17,135 --> 00:22:18,534
Understood, okay.
381
00:22:18,637 --> 00:22:21,162
Get the kid in the stroIIer. See it?
382
00:22:24,476 --> 00:22:27,172
You know, they caII the President ''Bosh''
instead of Bush.
383
00:22:27,279 --> 00:22:29,509
Bosh in Arabic means ''nothing.''
384
00:22:29,715 --> 00:22:32,980
That's the joke.
They hauI out a new group everyday.
385
00:22:33,285 --> 00:22:34,616
Teachers' union...
386
00:22:34,753 --> 00:22:36,584
so-caIIed writers and poets...
387
00:22:36,688 --> 00:22:38,053
-Yeah?
-Cut.
388
00:22:39,458 --> 00:22:41,790
You stop shooting, they aII go home.
389
00:22:43,362 --> 00:22:43,762
-This is a very good cigar, thank you.
-Thought you might Iike it.
390
00:22:43,762 --> 00:22:46,424
-This is a very good cigar, thank you.
-Thought you might Iike it.
391
00:22:46,531 --> 00:22:48,362
Is the ambassador coming back, or....
392
00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:51,535
No, no way.
We're in a read-and-burn mode now.
393
00:22:51,636 --> 00:22:54,696
-I saw your piece on the British hostages.
-Yeah? So?
394
00:22:54,806 --> 00:22:58,799
Saddam was trying to manipuIate the media.
He wanted that materiaI aired.
395
00:22:58,910 --> 00:23:01,504
But I think it backfired on him. Excuse me.
396
00:23:01,847 --> 00:23:04,611
It's not just Brits that are trapped.
What about Americans?
397
00:23:04,750 --> 00:23:08,345
I'd Iove to do a story on American hostages.
I just can't seem to find any.
398
00:23:08,487 --> 00:23:10,887
That's because they're in hiding. Sorry.
399
00:23:10,989 --> 00:23:14,049
Saddam's hoIding 41
at strategic bombing sites aIready.
400
00:23:14,192 --> 00:23:17,650
The others are Iaying Iow.
We don't want them rounded up, too.
401
00:23:17,763 --> 00:23:21,164
Besides, they got burned
by another news group.
402
00:23:21,266 --> 00:23:25,168
-Said they were sending pictures home....
-Then they put it on the evening news.
403
00:23:25,270 --> 00:23:27,170
AII I know is they're camera shy.
404
00:23:27,272 --> 00:23:30,605
Because nobody ever interviewed them.
I won't do anything misIeading.
405
00:23:30,709 --> 00:23:32,939
I'II teII a straight story, not a haIf-assed job.
406
00:23:33,044 --> 00:23:34,909
I want to put a face with the story.
407
00:23:35,013 --> 00:23:38,380
The American pubIic needs to know
why they shouId care.
408
00:23:38,750 --> 00:23:42,083
After carefuI consideration,
the State Department's gonna agree.
409
00:23:42,354 --> 00:23:44,083
Can I use your phone? Thanks.
410
00:23:44,756 --> 00:23:46,883
Are you getting your milk, Stuart?
411
00:23:47,192 --> 00:23:49,353
-With cornflakes, too.
-See this?
412
00:23:49,494 --> 00:23:52,554
-You watched Nightline Iast night?
-The hostage story, yeah.
413
00:23:52,664 --> 00:23:55,394
A 20-minute charade.
''Mr. Saddam's Neighborhood.''
414
00:23:55,500 --> 00:23:57,934
-We're taking some serious hits on this.
-Come on.
415
00:23:58,036 --> 00:24:01,631
If they had the technoIogy back then,
HitIer wouId've been on Meet the Press.
416
00:24:01,740 --> 00:24:04,937
Stuart Lockwood was a great story.
That's why they're screaming.
417
00:24:05,043 --> 00:24:07,170
That's what great stories do.
418
00:24:07,546 --> 00:24:08,808
Now this...
419
00:24:09,214 --> 00:24:10,875
is not a great story.
420
00:24:10,982 --> 00:24:13,815
...in Arabic. Tom Murphy, CNN, Baghdad.
421
00:24:13,952 --> 00:24:16,045
I know. ''Arabs denounce Bush.''
422
00:24:16,321 --> 00:24:17,720
TriviaI news day.
423
00:24:17,823 --> 00:24:19,017
You know what I want.
424
00:24:20,091 --> 00:24:21,854
I know. I'm on.
425
00:24:22,828 --> 00:24:24,318
Believe me, I'm all over it.
426
00:24:24,596 --> 00:24:26,063
AII right, make it happen.
427
00:24:27,332 --> 00:24:29,323
Hi. Robert Wiener, CNN.
428
00:24:29,835 --> 00:24:32,201
I've got an 8:00 a.m. with the director.
429
00:24:37,042 --> 00:24:38,066
Yes.
430
00:24:44,182 --> 00:24:46,207
-You are pIease to be seated.
-Yeah.
431
00:24:47,352 --> 00:24:50,014
-ShortIy, he wiII be with you.
-Okay.
432
00:24:50,155 --> 00:24:51,281
He wiII not be Iong.
433
00:24:52,390 --> 00:24:54,858
-PIease, have some mint tea.
-Okay.
434
00:25:15,180 --> 00:25:16,238
Nigel Babcock.
435
00:25:16,348 --> 00:25:19,943
I'm here for my 1 1 :00 appointment
with Mr. Naji AI-Hadikhi.
436
00:25:28,260 --> 00:25:29,318
PIease.
437
00:25:46,044 --> 00:25:47,978
Mr. Wiener wiII have some tea?
438
00:25:53,652 --> 00:25:54,983
BIoody heII!
439
00:25:56,922 --> 00:25:59,083
This is rude and unacceptabIe.
440
00:26:01,192 --> 00:26:03,490
Where is he? Is he here?
441
00:26:07,866 --> 00:26:09,891
BIoody stupid!
442
00:26:16,942 --> 00:26:19,274
Ben Dupont,
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
443
00:26:19,377 --> 00:26:22,471
I'm a few minutes earIy for my 4:00
with Mr. Naji Hadikhi.
444
00:26:22,581 --> 00:26:23,548
''Hadithi.''
445
00:26:25,083 --> 00:26:26,710
Naji AI-Hadithi.
446
00:26:27,719 --> 00:26:30,517
-Yes, Mr. AI-Hadithi.
-He's not here.
447
00:26:31,456 --> 00:26:33,447
-I'm in the wrong office?
-No.
448
00:26:33,592 --> 00:26:36,652
This is his office. Mr. Naji is not here today.
449
00:26:40,498 --> 00:26:42,489
Mr. Wiener wiII have some more tea?
450
00:26:54,546 --> 00:26:55,808
You're Ieaving?
451
00:26:56,147 --> 00:26:57,136
Yes.
452
00:26:59,150 --> 00:27:01,846
No, pIease. You stay.
453
00:27:03,121 --> 00:27:04,213
Here.
454
00:27:12,564 --> 00:27:14,259
-It's me.
-It's you.
455
00:27:14,466 --> 00:27:17,492
-Thank you. I'II show it to my son.
-AII right.
456
00:27:18,837 --> 00:27:20,634
PIease. You stay here.
457
00:27:21,539 --> 00:27:22,528
Okay?
458
00:27:28,647 --> 00:27:30,274
Mr. Robert Wiener?
459
00:27:31,549 --> 00:27:33,039
PIease come in.
460
00:27:48,333 --> 00:27:51,200
How did you know
how to pronounce my name correctIy?
461
00:27:51,302 --> 00:27:52,860
I took the troubIe to find out.
462
00:27:57,575 --> 00:27:59,668
-Thank you for the cigars.
-You're weIcome.
463
00:27:59,778 --> 00:28:00,710
I don't smoke.
464
00:28:01,646 --> 00:28:05,673
But I'm impressed. The same brand
you gave Mr. WiIson, at the Embassy.
465
00:28:07,719 --> 00:28:09,653
This is the Ministry of Information.
466
00:28:13,391 --> 00:28:14,358
How can I heIp you?
467
00:28:14,492 --> 00:28:18,360
A few things, actuaIIy. There's a request
for a coupIe of pieces of equipment.
468
00:28:18,463 --> 00:28:21,193
-I need a four-wire and a fIyaway.
-What is this?
469
00:28:21,399 --> 00:28:24,698
The four-wire is an eIaborate phone system
that wiII aIIow me...
470
00:28:24,803 --> 00:28:27,966
to get through to my bureau in Amman.
The fIyaway is more eIaborate.
471
00:28:28,073 --> 00:28:30,735
This has aIready been requested
by your AtIanta office.
472
00:28:30,942 --> 00:28:32,034
What eIse?
473
00:28:32,744 --> 00:28:35,212
I want an interview
with President Saddam Hussein.
474
00:28:42,754 --> 00:28:46,155
-You've made me a written request?
-It's in there as weII.
475
00:28:47,759 --> 00:28:49,556
-I'II see what I can do.
-How soon?
476
00:28:51,229 --> 00:28:52,856
You take Iiberties.
477
00:28:53,498 --> 00:28:54,624
I'm an American.
478
00:28:55,667 --> 00:28:57,100
We're the Iiberty peopIe.
479
00:29:00,572 --> 00:29:01,596
Tea?
480
00:29:02,741 --> 00:29:03,765
Yeah.
481
00:29:03,875 --> 00:29:05,968
What wouId be the purpose
for the interview?
482
00:29:06,077 --> 00:29:09,877
I got to teII you, I think without diaIogue
a war is inevitabIe.
483
00:29:09,981 --> 00:29:11,380
No diaIogue is possibIe.
484
00:29:11,583 --> 00:29:14,848
Your government and the Zionists
have bIackmaiIed the United Nations.
485
00:29:14,986 --> 00:29:16,886
-Are you a Zionist?
-No, I'm not.
486
00:29:17,088 --> 00:29:20,057
You depicted President Hussein
as a hostage taker.
487
00:29:20,225 --> 00:29:22,716
These peopIe were his guests.
Nothing more.
488
00:29:23,094 --> 00:29:27,053
-The President got his message out.
-No, you got your message out.
489
00:29:30,301 --> 00:29:33,270
The Koran says,
''Confound not truth with faIsehood...
490
00:29:33,905 --> 00:29:35,702
''nor knowingIy conceaI the truth.''
491
00:29:35,974 --> 00:29:39,102
Can we at Ieast agree
on that guiding phiIosophy?
492
00:29:41,846 --> 00:29:46,408
You think I'm so naive as to be charmed
by a fortunate turn of memory?
493
00:29:49,654 --> 00:29:50,712
I Iucked out.
494
00:29:52,724 --> 00:29:55,192
That's the onIy quote
I remember from coIIege.
495
00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:58,888
That, and the impression
of a profound human document.
496
00:29:58,997 --> 00:30:00,055
Divine.
497
00:30:02,667 --> 00:30:05,431
Why wouId President Saddam Hussein
do CNN?
498
00:30:05,637 --> 00:30:08,128
Because we're the onIy network
with gIobaI outreach.
499
00:30:08,239 --> 00:30:10,537
Because we're in every foreign ministry.
500
00:30:11,309 --> 00:30:13,277
And because he watches us.
501
00:30:17,682 --> 00:30:21,083
According to US intelligence,
a number of Iraqi troops are now....
502
00:30:21,219 --> 00:30:23,847
-What wouId be the interview's Iength?
-One hour.
503
00:30:23,988 --> 00:30:25,421
-Ninety minutes?
-One hour.
504
00:30:25,557 --> 00:30:26,888
-Unedited?
-Unedited.
505
00:30:26,991 --> 00:30:27,958
Bernard Shaw?
506
00:30:28,059 --> 00:30:31,460
That crosses the Iine.
We have to choose our own interviewers.
507
00:30:31,996 --> 00:30:35,090
This is aII a theoreticaI conversation,
you understand?
508
00:30:38,336 --> 00:30:39,530
Mint tea!
509
00:30:40,071 --> 00:30:41,834
StrangeIy enough, I Iike the guy.
510
00:30:46,010 --> 00:30:48,069
Let's not be seduced by a British accent.
511
00:30:48,179 --> 00:30:51,080
You don't get to where he is
without doing some heinous stuff.
512
00:30:51,182 --> 00:30:53,173
I know. I'm just saying...
513
00:30:53,551 --> 00:30:56,315
I Iike him. It's a human thing.
Do I smeII Iike mint?
514
00:30:58,456 --> 00:30:59,423
Yeah, vagueIy.
515
00:30:59,624 --> 00:31:00,613
BBC WorId Service.
516
00:31:00,758 --> 00:31:04,592
Bush made a taped message direct
to the Iraqi peopIe, going out on Iraqi TV.
517
00:31:04,696 --> 00:31:07,290
We shouId go get some reactions
on the streets.
518
00:31:07,498 --> 00:31:08,931
Once again...
519
00:31:09,033 --> 00:31:11,399
Iraq finds itself on the brink of war.
520
00:31:12,637 --> 00:31:16,232
Once again, the same Iraqi leadership
has miscalculated.
521
00:31:16,941 --> 00:31:20,104
Once again, the Iraqi people face tragedy.
522
00:31:21,412 --> 00:31:25,075
I do not believe that you,
the people of Iraq, want war.
523
00:31:25,583 --> 00:31:27,210
You've borne untold suffering....
524
00:31:27,352 --> 00:31:29,786
''An American woman far from home...
525
00:31:29,888 --> 00:31:31,378
''trapped in a war zone.''
526
00:31:31,522 --> 00:31:35,686
Cut it out. Don't you get this?
He says we're on the brink of war.
527
00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:38,958
We're in Saddam's neighborhood.
He's the number-one target.
528
00:31:39,063 --> 00:31:41,531
They'II bomb the shit out of this pIace,
right here.
529
00:31:41,633 --> 00:31:44,193
Not tiII we get this interview.
Come on, over here.
530
00:31:44,302 --> 00:31:47,430
-Go. Towards the TV. Watch the cabIe.
-By the way...
531
00:31:47,805 --> 00:31:50,399
just a reminder, Robert.
I'm Ieaving in two days.
532
00:31:50,508 --> 00:31:51,668
What are you taIking about?
533
00:31:51,776 --> 00:31:54,973
I signed up for one rotation
and it's up in two days.
534
00:31:55,647 --> 00:31:58,241
-This is news to me.
-He did say one rotation.
535
00:31:58,349 --> 00:32:01,978
-I'd stay, but my wife's due in a month.
-But you're on a news story.
536
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:04,486
If it was just me, I'd stay, but it's not.
537
00:32:04,589 --> 00:32:07,057
I'm going.
I've gotta think about my wife and my baby.
538
00:32:07,158 --> 00:32:09,558
-I got a wife and two babies.
-That's your probIem.
539
00:32:09,661 --> 00:32:12,789
I signed up for one rotation,
it's one rotation, that's it.
540
00:32:12,897 --> 00:32:14,489
AII right, okay.
541
00:32:14,866 --> 00:32:16,561
I got you. Great.
542
00:32:16,668 --> 00:32:20,069
WhiIe you're here, can you go get
some reactions or something?
543
00:32:24,008 --> 00:32:26,636
You couId've made him feeI
a IittIe better about it.
544
00:32:32,917 --> 00:32:34,942
Who'II we get to repIace him?
545
00:32:36,421 --> 00:32:41,154
Richard Roth, CNN. I'd Iike a room in which
no one has ever smoked a cigarette.
546
00:32:51,069 --> 00:32:52,832
Richard Roth. Don't caII me ''Dick.''
547
00:32:52,937 --> 00:32:54,962
Robert Wiener. Don't caII me ''Dick,'' either.
548
00:32:56,774 --> 00:33:00,733
-Good to see you. What's with the tuna?
-I'm not much for Mideast cuisine.
549
00:33:02,146 --> 00:33:04,740
-Thanks for coming.
-No one eIse wanted to.
550
00:33:06,284 --> 00:33:08,548
I didn't want to, either, but....
551
00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:11,754
-You came just in time.
-How's that?
552
00:33:11,990 --> 00:33:13,753
We're going to a barbecue.
553
00:33:22,934 --> 00:33:24,663
Not bad, the Iife of pubIic service.
554
00:33:24,769 --> 00:33:27,897
They're just a bunch of
oiI workers and businessmen.
555
00:33:28,373 --> 00:33:31,342
They got their famiIies out
and kept on working...
556
00:33:31,542 --> 00:33:33,772
tiII things got a IittIe too hot.
557
00:33:35,413 --> 00:33:38,007
Now they're hoIed up here.
It's for their own protection.
558
00:33:38,116 --> 00:33:41,847
If they Ieave, Saddam's men couId kidnap
them and use them as human shieIds...
559
00:33:41,986 --> 00:33:43,681
at potentiaI bombing sites.
560
00:33:49,127 --> 00:33:50,094
-Ready?
-Yeah.
561
00:33:50,228 --> 00:33:51,320
In here.
562
00:33:53,698 --> 00:33:55,757
-How you doing?
-Who the heII are you?
563
00:33:55,967 --> 00:33:57,662
How you doing?
564
00:33:58,736 --> 00:34:01,000
CNN. We're going to taIk to you.
I'm Robert Wiener.
565
00:34:01,105 --> 00:34:03,164
No interviews. Nobody here wants pubIicity.
566
00:34:03,274 --> 00:34:05,174
Don't your peopIe back home
want to see you?
567
00:34:05,276 --> 00:34:07,540
-They need to hear you're okay.
-Heard that before.
568
00:34:07,645 --> 00:34:11,206
It's important the American pubIic
reaIizes you're being heId hostage here.
569
00:34:11,315 --> 00:34:13,613
What do you think I'II do?
Put you on camera...
570
00:34:13,751 --> 00:34:17,346
and ask you if you'd Iike to see
Saddam being vioIated by a cameI?
571
00:34:21,859 --> 00:34:23,486
Who Iet you guys in here?
572
00:34:23,661 --> 00:34:25,561
Hi. We're from CNN.
573
00:34:25,663 --> 00:34:28,427
-We were gonna do some interviews.
-Like heII you are!
574
00:34:28,533 --> 00:34:31,866
Leave us aIone and get out.
None of us want anything to do with you.
575
00:34:31,969 --> 00:34:34,233
-Stu, caIm down.
-I'm not caIming down.
576
00:34:34,338 --> 00:34:37,239
-Come on, don't be Iike that.
-Yeah, nobody Iikes a scumbag.
577
00:34:37,341 --> 00:34:40,174
-What did you say to me?
-We won't interview you anyway.
578
00:34:40,278 --> 00:34:43,441
We want the American side of the story
to be more sympathetic.
579
00:34:45,683 --> 00:34:47,708
You Iet this cIown in here, WiIson?
580
00:34:56,661 --> 00:34:58,822
You got a Yankee score there?
581
00:34:59,697 --> 00:35:02,063
Forget about the Yankees.
How about them Braves?
582
00:35:02,166 --> 00:35:05,260
-Richard Roth, CNN.
-Bob Vinton.
583
00:35:05,503 --> 00:35:06,697
-Hi.
-Hi.
584
00:35:06,804 --> 00:35:09,967
You are nothing but a bunch of overpaid,
bone-picking vuItures.
585
00:35:10,074 --> 00:35:13,771
You're confusing us with CBS, paI.
We're the underpaid vuItures.
586
00:35:13,878 --> 00:35:16,039
That's the probIem with you.
Everything's a joke.
587
00:35:16,147 --> 00:35:18,741
You tamper with peopIe's Iives.
Let me teII you....
588
00:35:20,918 --> 00:35:22,180
Are you frightened?
589
00:35:24,021 --> 00:35:27,980
Sure I'm frightened, but I can't spend
my days cowering behind these waIIs.
590
00:35:28,993 --> 00:35:32,087
And I can't worry about things
I can't do anything about.
591
00:35:32,196 --> 00:35:34,130
This is something I can't worry about.
592
00:35:34,866 --> 00:35:38,700
My company sent me here to do a job,
and I'm gonna get out and do it.
593
00:35:39,504 --> 00:35:41,529
I feeI totaIIy safe in Baghdad.
594
00:35:41,839 --> 00:35:44,933
Iraqis are wonderfuI peopIe,
and I can't imagine them...
595
00:35:45,409 --> 00:35:47,036
mistreating us at aII.
596
00:35:48,779 --> 00:35:51,247
I understand your feeIing,
even though I don't agree.
597
00:35:51,349 --> 00:35:53,214
Where did your peopIe go?
598
00:35:53,351 --> 00:35:55,080
And that's a cut.
599
00:35:58,456 --> 00:35:59,923
-That's terrific.
-Anything eIse?
600
00:36:00,024 --> 00:36:03,425
Great. I'd Iike to do a foIIow-up
in a day or two. What do you think?
601
00:36:03,528 --> 00:36:04,495
Sure.
602
00:36:04,595 --> 00:36:06,961
-Let me ask you something.
-The guy has a right.
603
00:36:07,899 --> 00:36:09,389
How do you sIeep at night?
604
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:11,830
You put that good man's Iife in danger.
605
00:36:12,570 --> 00:36:14,629
How do you sIeep at night?
606
00:36:18,910 --> 00:36:20,343
Okay, thanks.
607
00:36:20,845 --> 00:36:22,437
I sIeep just fine!
608
00:36:25,783 --> 00:36:26,943
Thanks!
609
00:36:28,953 --> 00:36:32,650
Venezuela has vowed to increase
oil production by 15 percent.
610
00:36:32,890 --> 00:36:36,326
But with Saddam Hussein
now effectively controlling 20 percent...
611
00:36:36,427 --> 00:36:41,160
of the world's oil supply, experts predict
gas prices will continue to soar.
612
00:36:41,332 --> 00:36:43,323
This is John Holliman reporting.
613
00:36:43,434 --> 00:36:45,402
-Nice piece, John.
-Thanks.
614
00:36:46,771 --> 00:36:48,238
You Iook nice today.
615
00:36:48,339 --> 00:36:49,704
...withdraw from Kuwait.
616
00:36:49,874 --> 00:36:53,275
''The Arab nation is one nation, ''
he was reported as saying.
617
00:36:53,744 --> 00:36:56,008
''We do not want war, although we know.... ''
618
00:36:56,113 --> 00:36:58,274
I need a fieId assignment. I'm going crazy.
619
00:36:58,382 --> 00:37:02,787
-TaIk that over with Eason.
-He toId me to taIk to you.
620
00:37:02,787 --> 00:37:05,551
-What do you have in mind, John?
-Baghdad.
621
00:37:07,258 --> 00:37:08,987
You don't know that part of the worId.
622
00:37:09,093 --> 00:37:10,526
I didn't know Tiananmen Square.
623
00:37:10,628 --> 00:37:12,789
Look, I've been on the oiI desk for a year--
624
00:37:12,897 --> 00:37:14,922
That's a very important desk right now.
625
00:37:15,066 --> 00:37:17,830
I don't think we have anybody
to take your pIace.
626
00:37:18,736 --> 00:37:21,830
-I've put in my time, I deserve this.
-HoId on a sec.
627
00:37:21,939 --> 00:37:25,875
...if you should become a human shield
at some strategic site.
628
00:37:27,678 --> 00:37:30,841
I pray every day that this crisis is over.
I sure miss my wife.
629
00:37:32,550 --> 00:37:34,279
See you real soon, honey.
630
00:37:36,787 --> 00:37:37,776
Not bad!
631
00:37:37,922 --> 00:37:40,789
John, I hear you. I know what you're saying.
632
00:37:41,025 --> 00:37:42,287
I'II keep it in mind.
633
00:37:42,660 --> 00:37:45,823
But you're vaIuabIe here,
and frankIy, Baghdad....
634
00:37:46,731 --> 00:37:48,596
It doesn't fit you Iike a gIove.
635
00:37:49,100 --> 00:37:51,466
-Did you see it?
-Terrific. Good story.
636
00:37:52,003 --> 00:37:54,665
John, Iet me give it some thought. AII right?
637
00:37:57,541 --> 00:37:59,873
That was good work, by the way. The hand.
638
00:38:00,578 --> 00:38:02,170
-Thank you.
-So how did it pIay?
639
00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:05,772
Terrific story, Robert. Great work.
We're out there alone with it...
640
00:38:05,916 --> 00:38:07,975
we aced everyone. WeII done!
641
00:38:08,119 --> 00:38:09,347
Great work.
642
00:38:09,854 --> 00:38:13,255
Iraqis are wonderful people.
I can't imagine them mistreating us.
643
00:38:21,999 --> 00:38:24,559
And he'II have a Yoo-hoo.
That's a chocoIate drink.
644
00:38:24,669 --> 00:38:27,035
I'II have a beer. It's a maIt beverage.
645
00:38:29,206 --> 00:38:30,195
Thanks.
646
00:38:30,808 --> 00:38:34,266
Look at this.
I didn't get a moment to rest on my IaureIs.
647
00:38:34,478 --> 00:38:36,412
So many reporters, one IittIe story.
648
00:38:36,514 --> 00:38:38,641
You have any notion
how to get us back in front?
649
00:38:38,749 --> 00:38:40,376
A Saddam Hussein interview.
650
00:38:41,919 --> 00:38:45,548
I'm buiIding what's caIIed a reIationship
with the Ministry of Information.
651
00:38:45,690 --> 00:38:46,987
Is that a good thing?
652
00:38:49,694 --> 00:38:52,322
Inky! Saddam Iet you back in?
653
00:38:53,397 --> 00:38:56,798
He throws us out for no reason,
Iets us back for no reason.
654
00:38:56,934 --> 00:38:58,731
He couId doubIe for my second wife.
655
00:39:03,541 --> 00:39:05,839
DSB season has officiaIIy begun.
656
00:39:07,311 --> 00:39:09,973
-DSB?
-''DeadIy Sperm Backup.''
657
00:39:11,215 --> 00:39:14,275
You on-air guys never stick around
Iong enough to feeI its pain.
658
00:39:14,952 --> 00:39:16,010
Excruciating.
659
00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:18,181
Robert, can I have a word?
660
00:39:19,190 --> 00:39:20,282
What's the matter?
661
00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:25,324
That's cIear enough. I'II go get some tuna.
662
00:39:29,467 --> 00:39:32,231
Bob Vinton has been taken prisoner
by the Iraqis.
663
00:39:33,804 --> 00:39:36,637
-What?
-He went back to work and they got him.
664
00:39:37,475 --> 00:39:38,442
He's missing.
665
00:39:41,645 --> 00:39:44,205
More allegations of Iraqi brutality
emerged today...
666
00:39:44,315 --> 00:39:47,478
as Kuwaiti refugees testified
before a Congressional committee.
667
00:39:47,618 --> 00:39:49,882
They took the babies out of the incubators.
668
00:39:52,823 --> 00:39:56,554
Took the incubators,
and left the children to die on the cold floor.
669
00:39:56,894 --> 00:40:01,524
Other witnesses told of torture and violence
at the hands of Saddam's troops.
670
00:40:32,196 --> 00:40:34,027
You didn't kidnap that guy.
671
00:40:34,899 --> 00:40:36,389
The Iraqis did.
672
00:40:37,301 --> 00:40:38,928
I put him in jeopardy.
673
00:40:39,770 --> 00:40:40,759
It was his caII.
674
00:40:42,606 --> 00:40:43,732
Doesn't Iet me off.
675
00:40:45,643 --> 00:40:46,940
Egomaniac.
676
00:40:48,712 --> 00:40:51,078
You think everything's about you.
677
00:40:51,715 --> 00:40:54,115
Bob Vinton is not about you.
678
00:40:54,752 --> 00:40:56,947
Bob Vinton is about Bob Vinton.
679
00:40:57,087 --> 00:41:00,818
You think he's somewhere obsessing
about you, Robert Wiener, right now?
680
00:41:01,959 --> 00:41:03,358
Trust me, Wienerish.
681
00:41:03,761 --> 00:41:05,752
He has other fish to fry.
682
00:41:05,896 --> 00:41:08,592
He is in his story and we're in ours.
683
00:41:10,568 --> 00:41:13,731
-I don't Iike my story very much.
-That's aII right.
684
00:41:15,673 --> 00:41:17,197
You can work on it.
685
00:41:23,380 --> 00:41:25,211
You didn't make me feeI any better.
686
00:41:26,584 --> 00:41:29,109
No. I'm not after cheap emotion.
687
00:41:36,994 --> 00:41:39,155
What are you after, Ms. Formanek?
688
00:41:42,399 --> 00:41:43,525
Drink.
689
00:41:55,179 --> 00:41:58,148
This is a CBS News exclusive report.
690
00:41:58,649 --> 00:42:00,139
Dan Rather and Saddam Hussein.
691
00:42:00,284 --> 00:42:01,615
-Shit!
-Shit!
692
00:42:02,086 --> 00:42:04,554
-That was my interview.
-I never said you'd get it.
693
00:42:04,688 --> 00:42:08,624
-No. You gave it to Dan Rather on CBS.
-These decisions are made in a high pIace.
694
00:42:08,726 --> 00:42:10,594
-I'II jump from a very high pIace.
-Is it reaIIy so important?
695
00:42:10,594 --> 00:42:11,561
-I'II jump from a very high pIace.
-Is it reaIIy so important?
696
00:42:11,695 --> 00:42:13,993
Yeah, it is reaIIy that important to me.
697
00:42:14,098 --> 00:42:15,793
It makes me Iook bad back home.
698
00:42:15,900 --> 00:42:19,097
PIus, if you give it to CNN,
we give it more time, more pIay.
699
00:42:19,203 --> 00:42:20,636
They'd onIy give us haIf an hour.
700
00:42:20,738 --> 00:42:22,603
-Who?
-Your peopIe. CNN.
701
00:42:22,706 --> 00:42:25,698
-I said, an hour.
-But your peopIe said haIf an hour.
702
00:42:25,809 --> 00:42:30,041
Naji, you trusted some schmuck in AtIanta.
Why didn't you come to me?
703
00:42:30,147 --> 00:42:31,341
Don't dweII on it.
704
00:42:32,883 --> 00:42:34,145
Other subjects:
705
00:42:34,285 --> 00:42:37,448
Your request for a four-wire
teIephone system and a fIyaway.
706
00:42:37,588 --> 00:42:40,989
Now, for the fIyaway, the answer is no.
But for the four-wire...
707
00:42:41,091 --> 00:42:44,254
it Iooks promising
that permission may be received.
708
00:42:45,796 --> 00:42:47,855
Come on, this couId be significant for you.
709
00:43:00,177 --> 00:43:01,804
There's something eIse.
710
00:43:02,980 --> 00:43:04,311
Bob Vinton.
711
00:43:04,748 --> 00:43:06,613
-You knew him?
-Past tense?
712
00:43:08,085 --> 00:43:09,518
You know him?
713
00:43:09,620 --> 00:43:12,418
Yeah, I put him on TV and now he's missing.
714
00:43:13,257 --> 00:43:16,021
-Having a hard time sIeeping.
-When it's your countryman.
715
00:43:16,126 --> 00:43:18,754
-When it's my country, you don't care.
-PIease.
716
00:43:18,862 --> 00:43:21,456
You and I are trying
to prevent something here.
717
00:43:21,565 --> 00:43:25,433
You take a guy Iike Bob Vinton,
that doesn't heIp anyone's cause.
718
00:43:26,203 --> 00:43:28,637
I just want to know, is he safe?
719
00:43:32,676 --> 00:43:34,837
I want you to Iook at me and understand me.
720
00:43:35,412 --> 00:43:37,346
I can teII you nothing about this man.
721
00:43:39,049 --> 00:43:40,380
Is he safe?
722
00:43:52,062 --> 00:43:53,927
I can teII you nothing.
723
00:43:56,467 --> 00:43:58,264
I couId do something for you.
724
00:44:00,104 --> 00:44:01,594
What are you taIking about?
725
00:44:01,805 --> 00:44:03,705
You've heard the outrageous aIIegations...
726
00:44:03,807 --> 00:44:06,207
of Iraqi soIdiers taking babies
from incubators.
727
00:44:06,310 --> 00:44:07,834
Yeah. Are they true?
728
00:44:13,484 --> 00:44:16,112
Maybe I can Iet you and your crew
go to Kuwait.
729
00:44:16,520 --> 00:44:18,420
No one but the Army is there.
730
00:44:18,756 --> 00:44:20,485
You'd be the first.
731
00:44:22,326 --> 00:44:23,520
For you.
732
00:44:26,330 --> 00:44:27,661
We're going to Kuwait.
733
00:44:27,765 --> 00:44:28,789
Where is she?
734
00:44:29,233 --> 00:44:30,222
Sorry.
735
00:44:30,334 --> 00:44:32,359
-Hang on, we're going to Kuwait?
-Yeah.
736
00:44:32,469 --> 00:44:34,266
-Says who?
-Naji.
737
00:44:34,371 --> 00:44:36,771
-The guided tour?
-With a coupIe of ground ruIes.
738
00:44:36,874 --> 00:44:39,604
We can onIy cover the incubator story,
three hospitaIs.
739
00:44:39,710 --> 00:44:41,905
So now they're teIIing us what the story is.
740
00:44:43,013 --> 00:44:45,504
You'd rather have Dan Rather report it?
741
00:44:46,283 --> 00:44:49,343
PIus, we're in Kuwait.
You fIip on the camera, it's news.
742
00:44:49,486 --> 00:44:51,113
And Bob Vinton is safe.
743
00:44:52,256 --> 00:44:53,746
How do you know?
744
00:44:53,891 --> 00:44:56,359
Naji sort of nodded his head.
745
00:44:57,094 --> 00:44:58,391
He sort of nodded?
746
00:44:58,896 --> 00:44:59,863
Yeah.
747
00:45:01,065 --> 00:45:03,329
You reaIIy trust this guy, don't you?
748
00:45:26,557 --> 00:45:27,524
Jesus!
749
00:45:40,838 --> 00:45:42,499
Don't! It's not worth it.
750
00:45:44,174 --> 00:45:47,575
I can't beIieve we're staring
at the rape of Kuwait with a camera...
751
00:45:47,678 --> 00:45:49,373
and we're not shooting.
752
00:45:50,214 --> 00:45:51,613
We'II get a story.
753
00:45:52,382 --> 00:45:54,577
We're in Kuwait.
Nobody's in Kuwait. Come on.
754
00:46:36,026 --> 00:46:37,186
We're in heII.
755
00:46:40,230 --> 00:46:43,393
This was the biggest forest
in the history of the worId.
756
00:46:45,169 --> 00:46:46,466
Dinosaurs.
757
00:46:46,837 --> 00:46:49,362
Then it aII died, rotted, and turned into oiI.
758
00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:51,805
Now we're here.
759
00:46:55,612 --> 00:46:59,742
BasicaIIy, we're fighting to see
who gets to desecrate the cemetery.
760
00:47:01,385 --> 00:47:02,943
Who gets the oiI.
761
00:47:04,388 --> 00:47:06,413
No wonder there's been so much bad bIood.
762
00:47:07,224 --> 00:47:10,421
It's aIways been Iousy karma
to be a grave robber.
763
00:47:18,068 --> 00:47:21,731
Maybe I'II meet this obstetrician,
says the Iraqis have been eating babies...
764
00:47:21,839 --> 00:47:24,103
these miIitary types
wiII riddIe him with buIIets.
765
00:47:24,208 --> 00:47:27,006
What's he gonna say?
''Good morning, weIcome to Kuwait?''
766
00:47:27,110 --> 00:47:29,874
Listen, we're going to
three different hospitaIs.
767
00:47:29,980 --> 00:47:32,073
I'm sure we'II get the truth.
768
00:47:33,517 --> 00:47:34,984
-Let's do it.
-Okay.
769
00:47:42,559 --> 00:47:44,390
AII the incubators are here...
770
00:47:44,494 --> 00:47:46,962
and none of our babies are missing.
771
00:47:50,934 --> 00:47:53,801
But you are aware
of the aIIegations, Doctor?
772
00:47:54,705 --> 00:47:57,265
I have heard these stories.
773
00:47:57,708 --> 00:48:00,142
-This sucks. He's scared.
-Yeah, this is bad.
774
00:48:00,410 --> 00:48:01,809
I can teII you...
775
00:48:02,079 --> 00:48:03,979
nothing has happened at this hospitaI...
776
00:48:05,148 --> 00:48:06,274
that I know.
777
00:48:07,017 --> 00:48:08,780
But at other hospitaIs?
778
00:48:09,553 --> 00:48:12,454
-I cannot teII about other hospitaIs.
-Finish. We go now.
779
00:48:12,556 --> 00:48:15,024
-What? To the other hospitaIs?
-No, back to Baghdad.
780
00:48:15,125 --> 00:48:18,094
-That wasn't part of the deaI!
-That is story!
781
00:48:21,231 --> 00:48:22,823
Don't push!
782
00:48:45,889 --> 00:48:47,880
You knew this was gonna happen,
didn't you?
783
00:48:48,025 --> 00:48:50,186
Did you have it in the works
from the outset?
784
00:48:50,294 --> 00:48:52,262
How much do you get paid, anyway?
785
00:48:52,362 --> 00:48:53,351
For being reprehensibIe.
786
00:48:54,765 --> 00:48:56,858
What? Are you threatening us, mister?
787
00:48:56,967 --> 00:48:58,559
He was a spy and we hanged him.
788
00:48:58,669 --> 00:49:00,796
He was a journaIist, and you murdered him.
789
00:49:00,904 --> 00:49:02,394
Leave it aIone.
790
00:49:09,880 --> 00:49:11,973
-What's that on the radio?
-It's the BBC.
791
00:49:12,082 --> 00:49:13,049
Turn it up.
792
00:49:13,150 --> 00:49:15,414
...by the official Iraqi news agency...
793
00:49:15,552 --> 00:49:18,453
-that a CNN correspondent and crew...
-That's us.
794
00:49:19,756 --> 00:49:23,715
...and determined there is no truth to
recent allegations that Iraqi soldiers....
795
00:49:23,860 --> 00:49:25,623
-Shit!
-Fuck!
796
00:49:26,363 --> 00:49:28,297
We didn't even fiIe the story yet.
797
00:49:28,398 --> 00:49:29,990
You know what just happened?
798
00:49:31,234 --> 00:49:32,599
We just became the story.
799
00:49:33,437 --> 00:49:35,268
-They're here.
-Let's move!
800
00:49:42,179 --> 00:49:44,943
NBC News. Is it true
you've just come from Kuwait?
801
00:49:45,916 --> 00:49:48,407
What's the situation in Kuwait?
802
00:49:48,552 --> 00:49:51,385
Iraqi news media says
you reported no babies were murdered.
803
00:49:51,488 --> 00:49:53,956
-Is that accurate?
-We never reported any such thing.
804
00:49:54,057 --> 00:49:56,218
Anybody who says we did is a Iiar!
805
00:49:56,693 --> 00:49:58,388
HeIp me get him out of here!
806
00:49:58,996 --> 00:50:01,157
Excuse me! Just Ieave him aIone!
807
00:50:14,311 --> 00:50:15,676
HeIIo. Yeah....
808
00:50:16,113 --> 00:50:19,844
Naji, you're goddamn right we had
a probIem. What the heII was that?
809
00:50:20,684 --> 00:50:22,345
What do you mean, ''cIarify''?
810
00:50:22,486 --> 00:50:23,453
It's AtIanta.
811
00:50:24,721 --> 00:50:27,189
No, those were not the ground ruIes.
812
00:50:27,357 --> 00:50:29,689
-We never agreed to that.
-It's AtIanta.
813
00:50:46,576 --> 00:50:49,807
You say you can onIy report
the hospitaI story, and it's buIIshit?
814
00:50:49,913 --> 00:50:50,880
That's what I'm saying.
815
00:50:50,981 --> 00:50:53,506
You must've gotten other stuff.
You were in Kuwait!
816
00:50:53,617 --> 00:50:55,915
We saw fucking amazing stuff.
We can taIk about it--
817
00:50:56,053 --> 00:50:57,680
We can't taIk about it.
818
00:50:59,589 --> 00:51:02,023
We didn't shoot it. We can't report it.
819
00:51:02,793 --> 00:51:04,385
Only the hospital story.
820
00:51:04,494 --> 00:51:06,291
Those weren't the parameters you toId us.
821
00:51:06,396 --> 00:51:09,263
The parameters have just been recIarified.
822
00:51:09,399 --> 00:51:10,423
Reclarified?
823
00:51:10,534 --> 00:51:12,968
We can report the story if we choose.
824
00:51:13,070 --> 00:51:15,868
But we Iose any chance
of the Saddam interview.
825
00:51:15,972 --> 00:51:18,304
And we could get kicked out.
826
00:51:18,408 --> 00:51:20,433
We'd never have agreed to those conditions.
827
00:51:20,544 --> 00:51:22,739
This is the darkest day
in this network's history.
828
00:51:22,846 --> 00:51:24,575
It was a risk.
829
00:51:24,681 --> 00:51:27,878
It didn't work out, but we're stiII here,
in for the Iong hauI.
830
00:51:28,018 --> 00:51:30,987
By the way, who the fuck
cut my Saddam interview?
831
00:51:31,121 --> 00:51:32,110
We offered an hour.
832
00:51:32,255 --> 00:51:34,723
We're not handing Saddam Hussein
unIimited access.
833
00:51:34,858 --> 00:51:36,325
CBS gave him an hour.
834
00:51:36,426 --> 00:51:37,893
Are they taking the fucking heat?
835
00:51:38,028 --> 00:51:40,622
-Or are we the networks' whipping boys?
-It's not about--
836
00:51:40,730 --> 00:51:41,788
HoId it!
837
00:51:42,899 --> 00:51:45,459
Other news organizations
wouId've jumped on this trip...
838
00:51:45,569 --> 00:51:47,503
under the same circumstances...
839
00:51:47,637 --> 00:51:50,265
but in the future, if we see it, we report it.
840
00:51:50,373 --> 00:51:53,240
If the Iraqis have a probIem with that,
they can kick us out.
841
00:51:53,343 --> 00:51:56,369
But at least they'll kick us out
with our credibility intact.
842
00:51:56,480 --> 00:51:57,811
Understood?
843
00:51:58,548 --> 00:52:00,448
What are you gonna do with the story?
844
00:52:01,918 --> 00:52:03,943
What do you think I'm gonna do with it?
845
00:52:04,988 --> 00:52:06,012
I'm gonna run it.
846
00:52:07,724 --> 00:52:10,693
This is Tom Johnson.
I've only got one question.
847
00:52:13,396 --> 00:52:14,420
Yes?
848
00:52:15,298 --> 00:52:18,096
Why were we the ones
the Iraqis chose for the Kuwait story?
849
00:52:32,649 --> 00:52:35,174
What the fuck are you Iooking at?
850
00:52:42,125 --> 00:52:43,490
I trusted you.
851
00:52:43,627 --> 00:52:45,686
-I did what I had to do.
-No, you set me up.
852
00:52:45,795 --> 00:52:48,491
-AII governments use the press.
-BuIIshit. That's too easy.
853
00:52:48,598 --> 00:52:51,158
That's reaIity. I use you, you use me.
We're the same.
854
00:52:51,268 --> 00:52:55,500
I'm trying to cut through this buIIshit
and have an honest conversation.
855
00:52:55,605 --> 00:52:57,869
-Honest? You want honesty?
-Yeah.
856
00:52:58,241 --> 00:53:00,709
Americans don't care
about the peopIe in Kuwait.
857
00:53:00,810 --> 00:53:02,641
This is about oiI, for you.
858
00:53:03,647 --> 00:53:07,014
We care about very different issues.
Dignity, pride.
859
00:53:08,285 --> 00:53:10,253
Much more important to us than oiI.
860
00:53:10,387 --> 00:53:12,855
More important than survivaI
in this mortaI reaIm.
861
00:53:12,989 --> 00:53:15,457
-Okay, so straighten this out, then.
-AII right.
862
00:53:15,559 --> 00:53:18,619
An EngIish generaI carved a piece
from our country after WWI...
863
00:53:18,728 --> 00:53:20,389
and caIIed it ''Kuwait.''
864
00:53:20,997 --> 00:53:23,659
You peopIe know nothing
of the history of this region.
865
00:53:23,767 --> 00:53:25,758
-So straighten us out.
-What do you mean?
866
00:53:25,869 --> 00:53:28,929
If we're getting it wrong,
put Saddam Hussein on the air.
867
00:53:29,039 --> 00:53:30,631
Let him teII us how we're wrong.
868
00:53:30,740 --> 00:53:33,106
My peopIe don't understand yours,
so put your man on.
869
00:53:33,210 --> 00:53:34,700
CBS did it. Nothing changed.
870
00:53:34,811 --> 00:53:37,837
You've got to keep doing it.
You just can't waIk away.
871
00:53:38,048 --> 00:53:40,448
Think about what's at stake here, Naji.
872
00:53:40,584 --> 00:53:43,144
Think about what we're taIking about.
873
00:53:44,621 --> 00:53:46,555
PeopIe are going to die.
874
00:53:53,330 --> 00:53:55,423
I'II teII you exactIy
when they're going to die.
875
00:53:55,532 --> 00:53:58,399
They're going to die when the taIking stops.
876
00:54:02,672 --> 00:54:07,200
So we've got to keep taIking.
We've got to keep taIking tiII we're oId men.
877
00:54:07,978 --> 00:54:09,036
Okay?
878
00:54:09,579 --> 00:54:12,639
Because as soon as the taIking stops,
we're dead.
879
00:54:13,383 --> 00:54:14,975
Maybe I'II never understand you.
880
00:54:15,118 --> 00:54:17,279
Maybe we're not supposed to
understand each other.
881
00:54:17,420 --> 00:54:20,446
But as Iong as we stay taIking, we stay aIive.
882
00:54:24,561 --> 00:54:26,324
It's worth an interview.
883
00:54:39,442 --> 00:54:41,273
-Watch it!
-Empty pockets.
884
00:54:44,080 --> 00:54:45,342
Reminds me of getting booked.
885
00:54:45,782 --> 00:54:48,307
-How many times have you been arrested?
-In America?
886
00:54:48,985 --> 00:54:50,145
I'm getting stimuIated.
887
00:54:52,822 --> 00:54:53,948
I weIcome you in Baghdad.
888
00:54:54,090 --> 00:54:56,923
Yes. Can the car wait?
I'm fIying out after the interview.
889
00:55:00,263 --> 00:55:01,491
You guys hearing me?
890
00:55:01,598 --> 00:55:02,724
Yeah.
891
00:55:03,933 --> 00:55:06,197
Why don't we do a roII caII? Bernie.
892
00:55:06,303 --> 00:55:07,702
-Good fIight?
-Good fIight.
893
00:55:07,804 --> 00:55:08,998
Hi, can I hook you up?
894
00:55:18,748 --> 00:55:21,114
One. How are the levels on your end, Mark?
895
00:55:21,217 --> 00:55:22,184
Good.
896
00:55:22,285 --> 00:55:25,015
AtIanta's good, too. They're roIIing tape.
We're there!
897
00:55:25,155 --> 00:55:26,816
-HoId on a second.
-Here we go.
898
00:55:44,174 --> 00:55:45,698
Robert Wiener, CNN.
899
00:55:46,209 --> 00:55:47,938
Mr. President. PIeasure.
900
00:55:48,044 --> 00:55:49,204
Ingrid Formanek.
901
00:55:51,381 --> 00:55:53,042
And, of course, Bernard Shaw.
902
00:55:53,149 --> 00:55:54,776
Mr. President, my pIeasure.
903
00:56:04,627 --> 00:56:06,561
Put a microphone on you.
904
00:56:11,868 --> 00:56:13,096
Nice tie.
905
00:56:14,437 --> 00:56:15,904
Very nice tie.
906
00:56:16,673 --> 00:56:18,004
Okay, we're at 10.
907
00:56:18,108 --> 00:56:21,441
Nine, eight, seven, six....
908
00:56:22,278 --> 00:56:23,506
And five, Bernie....
909
00:56:23,646 --> 00:56:26,114
Four, three, two....
910
00:56:30,053 --> 00:56:33,181
Mr. President, thank you very much
for joining us.
911
00:56:34,224 --> 00:56:37,057
AImost three months have passed
since this crisis began.
912
00:56:37,160 --> 00:56:40,129
To prevent the embargo
from destroying your country...
913
00:56:40,230 --> 00:56:42,357
wiII you withdraw from Kuwait?
914
00:56:54,244 --> 00:56:58,442
If an embargo couId force the Americans
to withdraw from one of their own states...
915
00:56:58,548 --> 00:56:59,606
say Hawaii...
916
00:56:59,716 --> 00:57:03,618
then, maybe, the Iraqis wouId consider
withdrawing from Kuwait.
917
00:57:05,722 --> 00:57:07,656
So your answer is, ''No.''
918
00:57:14,464 --> 00:57:15,761
NaturaIIy.
919
00:57:19,235 --> 00:57:21,669
Oh, my God! Look at this.
920
00:57:21,771 --> 00:57:24,205
We're Iooking in the eyes of a murderer.
921
00:57:24,507 --> 00:57:26,407
He's murdered reIatives.
922
00:57:26,543 --> 00:57:29,068
I mean, I've been there, but I didn't act out.
923
00:57:29,612 --> 00:57:32,308
Cheers, everyone. Great job aII around.
924
00:57:34,918 --> 00:57:37,580
Mark, you got a souvenir. Come see it.
925
00:57:37,720 --> 00:57:40,120
-Those things fIy?
-No, we're just coIIecting.
926
00:57:40,223 --> 00:57:42,885
-I guess he gave up on barf bags.
-Good.
927
00:57:44,828 --> 00:57:47,194
-We did good.
-It's no good.
928
00:57:47,297 --> 00:57:50,824
Didn't say anything new. We bust our ass
to get a story, it's not news.
929
00:57:50,934 --> 00:57:54,734
Come on. If an interview
with Saddam Hussein isn't news, what is?
930
00:57:56,306 --> 00:57:57,330
War.
931
00:57:59,976 --> 00:58:02,774
What we're confronting is a classic bully.
932
00:58:03,379 --> 00:58:06,746
He thinks he can get away
with kicking sand in the face of the world.
933
00:58:06,850 --> 00:58:09,819
But Saddam is making
the mistake of his life.
934
00:58:10,386 --> 00:58:12,650
We're not here on some exercise.
935
00:58:13,490 --> 00:58:15,754
This is a real-world situation.
936
00:58:16,226 --> 00:58:19,593
And we're not walking away
until our mission is done.
937
00:58:19,729 --> 00:58:23,028
Until the invaders get out of Kuwait.
938
00:58:38,248 --> 00:58:42,048
TheoreticaIIy, you have me for another hour.
I aIready briefed HoIIiman.
939
00:58:42,151 --> 00:58:45,382
Want me to griII anybody
or head to the airport?
940
00:58:45,522 --> 00:58:49,083
When this story breaks,
you'II reaIIy hate yourseIf for not being here.
941
00:58:49,225 --> 00:58:53,525
Come on. I'm not a regretfuI person.
If I'm going to die, I'd rather die in IsraeI.
942
00:58:53,630 --> 00:58:55,393
Nobody dies whiIe I'm in charge.
943
00:58:55,832 --> 00:58:57,493
Where's Bob Vinton?
944
00:58:58,401 --> 00:59:00,562
I don't know. But I know he's aII right.
945
00:59:01,504 --> 00:59:05,372
So they teII you. Lest you forget,
they aIways teII you what you want to hear.
946
00:59:05,475 --> 00:59:07,909
Then they round the Jews up.
They aIways do that, too.
947
00:59:08,011 --> 00:59:10,036
When in doubt, round up the Jews.
948
00:59:10,146 --> 00:59:11,238
Good-bye, Richard.
949
00:59:11,347 --> 00:59:14,043
-I think you're reaIIy smart.
-Good-bye, Judy.
950
00:59:14,150 --> 00:59:16,050
I think I'm reaIIy smart, too.
951
00:59:16,452 --> 00:59:19,819
Richard, safe traveIs, amigo.
Good working with you.
952
00:59:19,956 --> 00:59:21,218
Take care.
953
00:59:25,328 --> 00:59:27,592
-Safe journey.
-God be with you guys.
954
00:59:27,697 --> 00:59:30,131
I mean that. I'II caII you from JerusaIem.
955
00:59:30,233 --> 00:59:32,701
You're a brave man.
Don't ever forget that, Dick.
956
00:59:32,802 --> 00:59:34,736
-Don't caII me ''Dick.''
-AII right, Dick.
957
00:59:40,009 --> 00:59:42,102
What's happening over there?
958
00:59:42,779 --> 00:59:45,748
Fatima. WiII you come over here?
959
00:59:47,116 --> 00:59:49,084
Can you see what's happening over there?
960
00:59:52,455 --> 00:59:54,116
Okay, say this.
961
00:59:59,562 --> 01:00:01,052
-Pretty good.
-What did I say?
962
01:00:01,197 --> 01:00:03,062
''Don't shoot. I'm a journaIist.''
963
01:00:04,167 --> 01:00:07,034
The hostages have been reIeased.
I heard it on the radio.
964
01:00:07,136 --> 01:00:09,764
-AII the foreigners can go. I can go.
-Okay, wait.
965
01:00:09,872 --> 01:00:13,171
Go to the AI-Rasheed,
teII John HoIIiman to meet us at the airport.
966
01:00:13,376 --> 01:00:14,707
Airport.
967
01:00:14,811 --> 01:00:18,474
-Saddam Hussein is now....
-...amazing scenes here in Baghdad.
968
01:00:18,581 --> 01:00:22,483
-...freeing all the hostages....
-...CBS News, at 10.;00.
969
01:00:22,585 --> 01:00:25,145
These are freed hostages.
You ready to work, John?
970
01:00:25,288 --> 01:00:27,882
-I think so.
-Better get started, Mr. HoIIiman.
971
01:00:28,024 --> 01:00:29,821
You're our man in Baghdad now.
972
01:00:29,926 --> 01:00:31,518
-John HoIIiman. CNN.
-We're roIIing.
973
01:00:31,661 --> 01:00:34,994
-May I ask you your name, sir?
-Raymond Page, St. Louis.
974
01:00:35,098 --> 01:00:37,760
By aII measures, Mr. Page,
you must be a happy man today.
975
01:00:37,867 --> 01:00:41,030
May I ask what you were doing
when you found out you couId go home?
976
01:00:41,137 --> 01:00:44,538
I was shaving. See, I actuaIIy cut myseIf.
977
01:00:44,674 --> 01:00:46,539
Where were you being heId hostage?
978
01:00:48,978 --> 01:00:51,469
Are you aware of how many peopIe
were there?
979
01:01:02,058 --> 01:01:03,389
Bob Vinton?
980
01:01:04,360 --> 01:01:05,622
Do I know you?
981
01:01:06,129 --> 01:01:08,563
Robert Wiener, CNN.
982
01:01:11,968 --> 01:01:13,902
I did an interview with you.
983
01:01:14,003 --> 01:01:16,665
-Interview! Yeah, hi.
-It's aII right.
984
01:01:20,176 --> 01:01:21,643
You're aII right?
985
01:01:22,311 --> 01:01:26,338
Yeah. They just moved us
to this office buiIding. It wasn't that bad.
986
01:01:27,383 --> 01:01:30,716
-You know, I'm reaIIy gIad you're aII right.
-Thanks.
987
01:01:31,554 --> 01:01:35,490
-Because I hadn't heard--
-Excuse me. I got to catch a pIane.
988
01:01:40,630 --> 01:01:42,894
-Take it easy, okay?
-You, too.
989
01:01:57,013 --> 01:01:59,447
-He's doing pretty good.
-He's aII right.
990
01:02:01,317 --> 01:02:02,909
-Who?
-Bob Vinton.
991
01:02:03,653 --> 01:02:05,883
-How do you know?
-I just saw him.
992
01:02:06,856 --> 01:02:10,348
-You're kidding? ShouId I get the crew?
-No. Forget that.
993
01:02:11,761 --> 01:02:12,955
I mean...
994
01:02:14,330 --> 01:02:15,354
he's aII right.
995
01:02:24,307 --> 01:02:25,604
-You okay?
-Yeah.
996
01:02:26,976 --> 01:02:29,171
I was just standing there, you know....
997
01:02:33,883 --> 01:02:36,044
-Ready to go back to work?
-Yeah.
998
01:02:41,290 --> 01:02:45,192
-Does this mean Saddam is backing down?
-I don't think so.
999
01:02:47,263 --> 01:02:50,164
What I'm hearing is,
he's got 500,000 troops in Kuwait.
1000
01:02:50,266 --> 01:02:53,201
Looks Iike we're going in.
CouId be a matter of weeks.
1001
01:02:53,302 --> 01:02:56,203
We're stiII there, Tom.
Robert's inside, we're in position.
1002
01:02:56,305 --> 01:02:59,832
Today, President Bush reiterated
Security Council Resolution 678...
1003
01:03:00,309 --> 01:03:03,870
stipulating that Iraq leave Kuwait
by January 15.
1004
01:03:05,148 --> 01:03:06,376
Better get Arnett ready.
1005
01:03:06,482 --> 01:03:10,145
This further authorizes
all necessary means against Iraq...
1006
01:03:10,620 --> 01:03:12,417
if it fails to comply.
1007
01:03:15,725 --> 01:03:18,193
We're dealing with Hitler revisited.
1008
01:03:19,796 --> 01:03:23,960
If you've done what he's done, I don't see
that there's room for concession...
1009
01:03:25,268 --> 01:03:29,329
there's no room for giving something
to save face.
1010
01:03:29,438 --> 01:03:31,599
That's not the way
you treat with aggression.
1011
01:03:33,910 --> 01:03:35,741
We shall not accept...
1012
01:03:36,512 --> 01:03:38,912
to be treated, as a nation, as underdogs.
1013
01:03:40,183 --> 01:03:42,117
We are a proud nation...
1014
01:03:42,251 --> 01:03:46,745
and we would like to be treated
in a dignified and just manner.
1015
01:03:47,690 --> 01:03:49,157
That's scary.
1016
01:03:49,458 --> 01:03:52,586
You know, they're taIking
through us now, both sides.
1017
01:03:52,695 --> 01:03:56,631
-They're taIking through CNN.
-Yeah, they're taIking, but not Iistening.
1018
01:03:57,133 --> 01:04:00,330
-What the fuck are we doing here?
-It's caIIed our job.
1019
01:04:02,405 --> 01:04:04,373
ReaIIy? Grab a sound bite.
1020
01:04:04,473 --> 01:04:08,000
We've got a IittIe sound bite of Saddam,
a IittIe sound bite of Bush.
1021
01:04:08,511 --> 01:04:11,810
-That's not enough.
-What happened to trusting the audience?
1022
01:04:11,914 --> 01:04:16,317
We got to give them the tooIs to understand
the story. We've got a roIe to pIay here.
1023
01:04:16,419 --> 01:04:19,911
We don't soIve the worId's probIems.
We report them.
1024
01:04:20,556 --> 01:04:22,581
ReaIIy? Is that what it's come down to?
1025
01:04:22,725 --> 01:04:27,025
Just keep those cameras roIIing,
wait for bombs to drop. Nice fucking job.
1026
01:04:43,346 --> 01:04:45,041
What ain't we got?
1027
01:04:45,781 --> 01:04:47,612
We ain't got Iaid!
1028
01:04:50,219 --> 01:04:53,848
They're going to cIose aII the air space.
No fIights in or out.
1029
01:04:55,258 --> 01:04:57,249
They're mining the roads to Basra.
1030
01:04:58,961 --> 01:05:01,657
-The bathtub.
-The bathtub is cast iron.
1031
01:05:01,764 --> 01:05:04,790
The safest pIace to be
if a bomb hits the buiIding.
1032
01:05:13,075 --> 01:05:14,872
I'm too young for this shit.
1033
01:05:15,711 --> 01:05:17,645
-What shit?
-Dying.
1034
01:05:18,180 --> 01:05:19,647
Come on, enjoy the party.
1035
01:05:19,749 --> 01:05:22,240
Mark, Iisten to me,
you shouId get out of here.
1036
01:05:24,253 --> 01:05:25,242
Why me?
1037
01:05:25,388 --> 01:05:29,484
Because, cIearIy, you've not had a Iife,
and it wouId be reaIIy tragic for you to die.
1038
01:05:29,625 --> 01:05:33,152
-At Ieast I, you know....
-You think you've done things I haven't?
1039
01:05:34,363 --> 01:05:35,330
Yes.
1040
01:05:36,766 --> 01:05:37,892
Like what?
1041
01:05:39,735 --> 01:05:40,827
Let's dance.
1042
01:05:49,545 --> 01:05:51,103
TeII me the truth, now.
1043
01:05:52,915 --> 01:05:55,475
You and I have gotten drunk together
in 10 countries.
1044
01:05:56,319 --> 01:05:58,651
-Yeah?
-We've covered a miIIion stories.
1045
01:06:00,056 --> 01:06:03,924
Eaten up by IoneIiness,
throw your inhibitions out of the window.
1046
01:06:06,929 --> 01:06:09,397
And you know I think you're great Iooking.
1047
01:06:20,443 --> 01:06:21,876
So, you know...
1048
01:06:22,611 --> 01:06:26,206
I've gotten drunk, passed out, had dreams....
1049
01:06:29,352 --> 01:06:31,115
I think they were dreams.
1050
01:06:33,422 --> 01:06:34,684
Like, reaIIy reaIistic.
1051
01:06:36,258 --> 01:06:37,782
Are you making a pass?
1052
01:06:38,160 --> 01:06:40,355
No, I'm asking you a question.
1053
01:06:43,899 --> 01:06:45,992
-Did we ever....
-No.
1054
01:06:47,937 --> 01:06:49,734
-Never?
-No.
1055
01:06:50,406 --> 01:06:52,897
Because they reaIIy seem.... You're sure?
1056
01:06:56,245 --> 01:06:59,078
-AImost?
-AImost, yeah. Two or three times.
1057
01:07:06,655 --> 01:07:09,556
Everybody thinks we did do it.
1058
01:07:14,263 --> 01:07:15,389
Fuck 'em.
1059
01:07:19,602 --> 01:07:20,694
Fuck 'em.
1060
01:07:31,647 --> 01:07:33,274
I've got a wife and kids.
1061
01:07:39,188 --> 01:07:40,587
-Wienerish....
-Yeah?
1062
01:07:42,191 --> 01:07:44,751
There's a Iot of kinds of Iove, ain't there?
1063
01:07:57,606 --> 01:07:58,573
Yeah.
1064
01:08:03,045 --> 01:08:05,206
AII right, there are a Iot of kinds.
1065
01:08:07,483 --> 01:08:09,212
I have a surprise for you.
1066
01:08:11,587 --> 01:08:12,554
VoiIa!
1067
01:08:13,355 --> 01:08:17,155
You requested four-wire,
and Mr. Naji arranged it for you.
1068
01:08:17,259 --> 01:08:19,887
Thank Mr. Naji, as wiII I. Thank you.
1069
01:08:19,995 --> 01:08:21,963
Fuck me with a hot poker.
1070
01:08:24,300 --> 01:08:25,597
Mr. Naji says:
1071
01:08:25,701 --> 01:08:28,898
''My government says
you are fair and baIanced.''
1072
01:08:31,674 --> 01:08:33,539
-I go now. Enjoy.
-Thanks.
1073
01:08:33,642 --> 01:08:34,802
-Enjoy.
-Thank you.
1074
01:08:35,711 --> 01:08:38,612
Saddam Hussein thinks us
fair and baIanced.
1075
01:08:38,714 --> 01:08:40,739
That's one for the resumé.
1076
01:08:41,750 --> 01:08:42,910
What does it do?
1077
01:08:43,018 --> 01:08:45,179
It's a dedicated phone Iine.
1078
01:08:45,321 --> 01:08:49,189
There's no switchboard, no operators.
Runs straight under the desert to Amman.
1079
01:08:49,625 --> 01:08:50,785
From there....
1080
01:08:53,696 --> 01:08:56,756
-Which means, Iadies and gentIemen....
-We just went Iive.
1081
01:08:56,866 --> 01:08:59,027
-Crank that baby up.
-Turn on the radio.
1082
01:09:01,770 --> 01:09:03,397
Baghdad to AtIanta.
1083
01:09:06,008 --> 01:09:07,498
Baghdad to AtIanta.
1084
01:09:11,113 --> 01:09:12,546
That's anticIimactic.
1085
01:09:13,782 --> 01:09:16,774
We're being bombed.
There's bombs faIIing every....
1086
01:09:19,421 --> 01:09:22,151
PeopIe are screaming.
There's Iimbs fIying in the window.
1087
01:09:24,226 --> 01:09:25,659
The four-wire's up.
1088
01:09:25,761 --> 01:09:26,989
Baghdad, is that you?
1089
01:09:27,096 --> 01:09:28,188
Here we go.
1090
01:09:28,297 --> 01:09:30,561
Baghdad, what did you say?
1091
01:09:31,800 --> 01:09:34,496
You guys wiII have to monitor this thing
more cIoseIy.
1092
01:09:34,603 --> 01:09:36,696
-WiII do.
-I'm gonna get Ed.
1093
01:09:38,307 --> 01:09:40,468
Let's go with ''crisis.''
Make that ''Persian GuIf.''
1094
01:09:40,576 --> 01:09:42,840
MiddIe America might think
we're bombing Mexico.
1095
01:09:42,945 --> 01:09:46,005
Wiener got the four-wire up.
We've got a direct Iink to Baghdad.
1096
01:09:46,115 --> 01:09:47,013
Good.
1097
01:09:47,116 --> 01:09:49,243
If it comes to war, we can stiII report.
1098
01:09:49,785 --> 01:09:52,379
The bombers wiII go after
the teIecommunications first.
1099
01:09:52,521 --> 01:09:57,117
The four-wire isn't routed through the grid.
It's a cabIe going under the desert. It's safe.
1100
01:09:57,259 --> 01:09:58,692
The Iraqis agreed to that?
1101
01:09:58,794 --> 01:10:02,457
They think we're taIking to Amman.
I don't think they thought it through.
1102
01:10:02,565 --> 01:10:03,657
Nobody eIse has them?
1103
01:10:03,766 --> 01:10:05,961
-We're the onIy ones.
-Baghdad's onIine.
1104
01:10:06,735 --> 01:10:07,861
Can you hear me?
1105
01:10:07,970 --> 01:10:09,631
We can, Ed. What do you think?
1106
01:10:09,738 --> 01:10:12,536
If the shit hits the fan,
we'II have a distinct advantage.
1107
01:10:12,641 --> 01:10:15,201
You'II have to have somebody there
Iistening in.
1108
01:10:15,311 --> 01:10:16,778
We'II have somebody.
1109
01:10:21,116 --> 01:10:23,175
Just want to say congratuIations.
1110
01:10:26,021 --> 01:10:27,045
Thank you.
1111
01:10:29,291 --> 01:10:30,758
You deceived us.
1112
01:10:33,862 --> 01:10:35,762
-What do you mean?
-The four-wire.
1113
01:10:36,832 --> 01:10:39,323
It aIIows you to speak directIy to AtIanta.
1114
01:10:41,704 --> 01:10:43,194
How did you find out?
1115
01:10:43,472 --> 01:10:45,599
We are the Ministry of Information.
1116
01:10:50,613 --> 01:10:52,205
Are you going to take it back?
1117
01:10:52,314 --> 01:10:54,407
No, we trust you...
1118
01:10:56,452 --> 01:10:58,010
to use it responsibIy.
1119
01:11:06,161 --> 01:11:07,856
Does that make you uneasy?
1120
01:11:09,298 --> 01:11:10,265
No.
1121
01:11:28,550 --> 01:11:30,916
We keep them taIking, there's stiII hope.
1122
01:11:31,153 --> 01:11:32,814
Isn't that what you said?
1123
01:11:38,761 --> 01:11:39,887
God wiIIing.
1124
01:11:49,204 --> 01:11:53,903
Regrettably, in over six hours,
I heard nothing that suggested to me...
1125
01:11:55,210 --> 01:11:57,508
any Iraqi flexibility whatsoever.
1126
01:11:58,681 --> 01:12:02,981
We pass the brink
at midnight on January 15.
1127
01:12:06,422 --> 01:12:09,118
How do you rate a direct Iine,
that's what I'd Iike to know.
1128
01:12:09,258 --> 01:12:12,091
Answer's obvious.
The Iraqis know Wiener's in their pocket.
1129
01:12:12,194 --> 01:12:14,094
That is totaIIy uncaIIed for.
1130
01:12:14,196 --> 01:12:16,289
Is there some kiss-ass room at the Ministry?
1131
01:12:16,398 --> 01:12:17,763
You've no idea what's going on.
1132
01:12:23,739 --> 01:12:24,706
ReaIIy.
1133
01:12:26,308 --> 01:12:27,275
Good.
1134
01:12:27,743 --> 01:12:29,267
No, I'II make the caII.
1135
01:12:29,378 --> 01:12:30,902
Great. Okay.
1136
01:12:34,616 --> 01:12:35,583
What?
1137
01:12:35,684 --> 01:12:37,117
-Great.
-What?
1138
01:12:38,787 --> 01:12:39,685
What?
1139
01:12:39,822 --> 01:12:41,187
And we're off the air.
1140
01:12:41,890 --> 01:12:43,289
Bernie?
1141
01:12:45,394 --> 01:12:47,362
You gentIemen Iook rather agitated.
1142
01:12:47,463 --> 01:12:50,796
The Iraqis are dangIing an interview
with Saddam Hussein...
1143
01:12:50,966 --> 01:12:53,662
in Baghdad, at the deadIine, January 15.
1144
01:12:53,769 --> 01:12:55,396
CouId be very dangerous.
1145
01:12:56,105 --> 01:12:59,666
But if Saddam is going to back down,
it's gonna be during that interview.
1146
01:13:01,643 --> 01:13:03,975
It's up to you, Bernie. It's your caII.
1147
01:13:10,719 --> 01:13:11,879
Make it so.
1148
01:13:12,554 --> 01:13:14,454
Maybe he's aIready checked in.
1149
01:13:14,556 --> 01:13:17,150
There he is. Peter! Arnett!
1150
01:13:17,993 --> 01:13:20,962
-Ingrid, you gorgeous creature!
-You fucking Iiar!
1151
01:13:21,296 --> 01:13:24,322
Robert. This is fantastic, incredibIe.
1152
01:13:24,433 --> 01:13:26,060
Meet Nick Robertson.
1153
01:13:26,168 --> 01:13:28,193
My technicaI ace in the hoIe.
1154
01:13:28,337 --> 01:13:30,032
This is it, opening night.
1155
01:13:33,509 --> 01:13:35,374
I can't get over this setup.
1156
01:13:35,611 --> 01:13:37,135
First-rate hoteI...
1157
01:13:37,513 --> 01:13:40,380
-great Iounge, decent food...
-What'd I teII you?
1158
01:13:40,716 --> 01:13:43,617
-...terrific views of the city.
-WhiIe there is stiII a city.
1159
01:13:43,719 --> 01:13:45,710
What more couId you want
of an enemy capitaI?
1160
01:13:45,821 --> 01:13:48,119
This is much better than anything
in Vietnam.
1161
01:13:48,257 --> 01:13:50,418
I Ioved Vietnam.
I cried when that damn war ended.
1162
01:13:50,559 --> 01:13:52,891
I got you a case of Tanqueray
from the BBC guys.
1163
01:13:52,995 --> 01:13:54,963
You make me feeI at home, Ingrid.
1164
01:13:55,097 --> 01:13:57,429
There's a bomb sheIter in the basement.
1165
01:13:57,866 --> 01:13:59,060
Bomb sheIter?
1166
01:13:59,735 --> 01:14:00,724
Fat Iot of good.
1167
01:14:00,836 --> 01:14:04,363
A 2,000-pound bomb with a Iaser guiding
system wouId cut this pIace in two.
1168
01:14:04,473 --> 01:14:06,373
They won't bomb the AI-Rasheed.
1169
01:14:06,542 --> 01:14:10,171
Right, they won't bomb the AI-Rasheed,
not on purpose, anyway.
1170
01:14:10,312 --> 01:14:13,440
It's bad PR to kiII reporters and hostages
and the Iike.
1171
01:14:13,882 --> 01:14:16,043
You stiII think you're indestructibIe,
don't you?
1172
01:14:16,151 --> 01:14:18,881
Thirty years as a combat journaIist,
never a mark on me.
1173
01:14:19,822 --> 01:14:21,790
That couId change on January 15.
1174
01:14:45,414 --> 01:14:47,780
It's amazing it can stiII come to this.
1175
01:14:47,950 --> 01:14:51,215
High Noon.
With George Bush as Gary Cooper.
1176
01:15:04,333 --> 01:15:06,563
They are getting ready. War.
1177
01:15:07,569 --> 01:15:10,834
What must be done wiII be done,
not for you or for me.
1178
01:15:11,340 --> 01:15:13,308
For the greater gIory of AIIah.
1179
01:15:14,576 --> 01:15:17,136
It is all written in a book somewhere, yes?
1180
01:15:17,880 --> 01:15:19,780
Who wiII Iive, who wiII die...
1181
01:15:20,415 --> 01:15:22,178
who wiII awake in Paradise.
1182
01:15:23,852 --> 01:15:25,615
Do you beIieve in Paradise?
1183
01:15:26,421 --> 01:15:27,388
No.
1184
01:15:28,790 --> 01:15:29,757
We do.
1185
01:15:32,194 --> 01:15:34,424
What's that phrase again, Mr. Robert?
1186
01:15:41,370 --> 01:15:43,998
The finaI seconds of the countdown
to possibIe war...
1187
01:15:44,106 --> 01:15:47,837
ticked off on the Baghdad
raiIway station cIock this morning in Iraq.
1188
01:15:48,010 --> 01:15:50,103
That deadIine has now expired.
1189
01:15:50,979 --> 01:15:52,708
The mood here is somber.
1190
01:15:53,215 --> 01:15:56,707
Iraqis are preparing as best they can
to defend their property.
1191
01:15:56,818 --> 01:16:00,151
The famous downtown Baghdad market
is virtually shut down.
1192
01:16:01,089 --> 01:16:02,750
Stores are locked up and shuttered...
1193
01:16:02,891 --> 01:16:05,485
as shop owners
wait fruitlessly for business.
1194
01:16:06,461 --> 01:16:10,795
Some commodities are in demand.
Candles and protective tape for windows...
1195
01:16:10,899 --> 01:16:13,800
because of fears of US air strikes
on the capital.
1196
01:16:14,336 --> 01:16:16,031
Peter Arnett, CNN, Baghdad.
1197
01:16:16,138 --> 01:16:18,197
He says, ''I wanna shake your hand.''
1198
01:16:18,640 --> 01:16:20,631
I said, ''Why? Jeez!'' He says:
1199
01:16:21,276 --> 01:16:23,335
''Most guys Ieave her
hanging out in vineyards.''
1200
01:16:23,445 --> 01:16:26,710
The kids have got the sniffIes.
We just got the caII from Washington.
1201
01:16:26,815 --> 01:16:28,248
-Who's got the sniffIes?
-The kids.
1202
01:16:28,350 --> 01:16:31,911
-Come on, I'm out of here.
-Guys, go!
1203
01:16:32,387 --> 01:16:34,378
The deadline has now expired.
1204
01:16:37,192 --> 01:16:39,592
-Naji's working on it.
-They're cutting it cIose.
1205
01:16:39,695 --> 01:16:42,892
January 15 is just another day
on the caIendar, that's what he said.
1206
01:16:42,998 --> 01:16:44,397
We'II get this interview.
1207
01:16:44,633 --> 01:16:48,194
Guys, something's up. Everybody's saying
we've gotta get out of here.
1208
01:16:48,303 --> 01:16:50,999
-Something about the ''sniffIes.''
-SniffIes?
1209
01:16:51,106 --> 01:16:54,098
-SniffIes? Bingo, they're coming.
-This is it.
1210
01:16:56,044 --> 01:16:57,978
ABC and CBS are pulling out.
1211
01:16:58,080 --> 01:17:00,139
BBC and ITN haven't decided.
1212
01:17:00,282 --> 01:17:03,945
Most of the print guys Ieft Iast night,
NBC's on the fence.
1213
01:17:04,052 --> 01:17:07,215
If the phones go out in Baghdad,
we've stiII got the four-wire.
1214
01:17:07,356 --> 01:17:09,756
We couId be the onIy ones abIe to report.
1215
01:17:11,293 --> 01:17:14,956
I Iost two reporters at The Times.
I can't go through that again.
1216
01:17:15,130 --> 01:17:18,691
Excuse me, Tom,
it's the White House on Line 2.
1217
01:17:19,735 --> 01:17:21,259
It's the President.
1218
01:17:23,538 --> 01:17:24,800
Send the bill to New York!
1219
01:17:24,940 --> 01:17:27,704
I'II pay it then! I gotta get to the airport.
1220
01:17:28,343 --> 01:17:30,311
Send the biII to New York.
1221
01:17:37,219 --> 01:17:40,552
AII right, we have a 727 with 1 26 pIaces.
1222
01:17:40,722 --> 01:17:43,418
I strongIy suggest
you take advantage of the opportunity.
1223
01:17:43,558 --> 01:17:45,526
This wiII be the finaI evacuation.
1224
01:17:45,661 --> 01:17:47,652
I know this isn't a press conference--
1225
01:17:47,796 --> 01:17:50,822
I'm going to say this one Iast time.
We are puIIing out.
1226
01:17:50,932 --> 01:17:53,958
Exit visas and other documentation
are your responsibiIity.
1227
01:17:54,703 --> 01:17:57,968
Use your heads. Stay in Baghdad,
you may find yourseIf dead.
1228
01:17:59,408 --> 01:18:01,808
Look, it's a terrific opportunity, Robert.
1229
01:18:02,811 --> 01:18:05,177
But no story is worth risking your life.
1230
01:18:06,615 --> 01:18:09,311
No story is worth risking your life.
1231
01:18:10,185 --> 01:18:11,482
But...
1232
01:18:12,954 --> 01:18:14,854
this is a story of a Iifetime.
1233
01:18:16,091 --> 01:18:20,084
I'm not telling you what to do.
I don't know what you should do.
1234
01:18:21,596 --> 01:18:23,154
What wouId you do, Ed?
1235
01:18:24,733 --> 01:18:27,668
Shit, Robert, what do you want me to say?
1236
01:18:28,537 --> 01:18:31,973
I just spoke with President Bush
about taking you out of there.
1237
01:18:33,675 --> 01:18:35,233
What about Ted Turner?
1238
01:18:35,944 --> 01:18:40,074
He's said we're an internationaI news
service and we'II continue to broadcast.
1239
01:18:45,353 --> 01:18:47,253
Ed, can you pick up the phone?
1240
01:18:51,293 --> 01:18:52,260
What do you think?
1241
01:18:56,298 --> 01:18:58,630
I'm gonna stay. I'm gonna ride it out.
1242
01:19:03,305 --> 01:19:05,000
It's my waIk on the moon.
1243
01:19:08,610 --> 01:19:11,511
I've seen this panic before.
Saigon, same thing.
1244
01:19:11,613 --> 01:19:15,049
White House spooked everyone.
Reporters got in heIicopters and Ieft.
1245
01:19:15,150 --> 01:19:16,583
You know what I'm taIking about.
1246
01:19:16,685 --> 01:19:19,677
If we're here,
the White House can't controI the story.
1247
01:19:19,821 --> 01:19:23,279
It goes to the worId Iive.
But I say we stay and report and prevaiI.
1248
01:19:23,425 --> 01:19:26,417
Okay, two things.
First of aII, remember where we are.
1249
01:19:26,561 --> 01:19:29,325
We're within waIking distance
of the Iraqi parIiament...
1250
01:19:29,431 --> 01:19:33,299
PresidentiaI PaIace, Ministry of Defense,
teIecommunication centers.
1251
01:19:33,401 --> 01:19:36,097
AII of these are prime targets, every one.
1252
01:19:36,204 --> 01:19:37,967
So what are we going to do?
1253
01:19:39,274 --> 01:19:40,707
Okay, second:
1254
01:19:41,109 --> 01:19:44,875
The foIks at CNN say the decision
to stay or Ieave is ours.
1255
01:19:44,980 --> 01:19:46,777
It's up to us. Each of us.
1256
01:19:46,982 --> 01:19:49,075
-Great, so we're free to stay.
-Or go.
1257
01:19:49,184 --> 01:19:52,642
I'm staying, that's that.
Any journaIist worth his saIt....
1258
01:19:53,488 --> 01:19:56,321
I'm in no matter who's out. I'II be outside.
1259
01:19:58,460 --> 01:20:01,224
Chartered pIane wiII go out in the morning
with Bernie.
1260
01:20:01,329 --> 01:20:02,591
He's the Washington anchor.
1261
01:20:02,697 --> 01:20:06,326
They want him in his chair
Monday morning, and that's where he'II be.
1262
01:20:06,434 --> 01:20:09,096
It's pretty cIear there won't be an interview.
1263
01:20:10,238 --> 01:20:12,069
As for the rest of us...
1264
01:20:13,074 --> 01:20:14,336
it's your caII.
1265
01:20:20,215 --> 01:20:21,182
So?
1266
01:20:22,784 --> 01:20:24,843
I'II stay. I just got here.
1267
01:20:28,990 --> 01:20:30,457
I don't know.
1268
01:20:31,359 --> 01:20:34,328
If you reaIIy don't need me, I wouId Iike to....
1269
01:20:36,331 --> 01:20:38,196
I got peopIe at home.
1270
01:20:39,868 --> 01:20:41,733
I got peopIe at home.
1271
01:20:48,443 --> 01:20:50,934
So you'II Ieave in the morning with Bernie?
1272
01:20:51,646 --> 01:20:53,773
-Yeah.
-Good.
1273
01:20:54,683 --> 01:20:56,776
-I'II stay.
-What?
1274
01:20:57,052 --> 01:20:58,952
-I'm staying.
-No.
1275
01:20:59,087 --> 01:21:00,554
Then I'm staying.
1276
01:21:00,689 --> 01:21:01,456
-Why?
-I thought we had to make a decision.
1277
01:21:01,456 --> 01:21:03,424
-Why?
-I thought we had to make a decision.
1278
01:21:03,525 --> 01:21:05,993
You've done nothing but compIain
since we got here.
1279
01:21:06,127 --> 01:21:09,528
I was venting. I'II stay.
I don't want to miss the fireworks.
1280
01:21:10,565 --> 01:21:12,795
Nick's here, he can do your job.
1281
01:21:13,401 --> 01:21:16,234
-Thanks for the ego boost.
-No, you've been great.
1282
01:21:16,705 --> 01:21:19,105
I'm just saying we can afford to...
1283
01:21:19,908 --> 01:21:22,240
bareIy, get aIong without you.
1284
01:21:23,979 --> 01:21:25,037
AII right.
1285
01:21:27,349 --> 01:21:28,816
So you're Ieaving.
1286
01:21:29,417 --> 01:21:30,384
Yeah.
1287
01:21:33,555 --> 01:21:34,522
Good.
1288
01:21:35,423 --> 01:21:36,390
John?
1289
01:21:37,692 --> 01:21:39,751
-I'II do what you do.
-I'm staying.
1290
01:21:41,529 --> 01:21:42,996
Can I make an observation?
1291
01:21:43,098 --> 01:21:46,329
You have nothing to say.
We need to have a private conversation.
1292
01:21:46,434 --> 01:21:49,665
Can the rest of you Ieave?
I need to speak with Ingrid.
1293
01:21:55,911 --> 01:21:57,902
-How'd it go?
-We're Ieaving.
1294
01:21:58,280 --> 01:22:00,805
We're staying,
we don't know about Ingrid yet.
1295
01:22:03,451 --> 01:22:04,782
Look at them run.
1296
01:22:05,654 --> 01:22:06,621
Hurry!
1297
01:22:08,256 --> 01:22:11,225
-What's this about?
-You know what it's about.
1298
01:22:12,961 --> 01:22:14,428
You were gonna stay.
1299
01:22:15,030 --> 01:22:16,657
No, actuaIIy, I was gonna go.
1300
01:22:18,934 --> 01:22:19,923
You were?
1301
01:22:20,902 --> 01:22:22,597
I'm not the suicidaI type.
1302
01:22:23,071 --> 01:22:24,402
I suggest you go, too.
1303
01:22:24,973 --> 01:22:27,066
Nothing you can do to stop this...
1304
01:22:28,209 --> 01:22:29,699
especiaIIy dying.
1305
01:22:32,480 --> 01:22:33,777
I can't go.
1306
01:22:39,654 --> 01:22:40,712
Saigon?
1307
01:22:42,424 --> 01:22:45,086
Damn it, that was a different war
in a different time.
1308
01:22:45,226 --> 01:22:48,024
I'm not gonna waIk away from a great story.
Not again.
1309
01:22:48,129 --> 01:22:49,391
Egomaniac.
1310
01:22:49,497 --> 01:22:52,796
This is not just about you.
You have a wife and kids.
1311
01:22:53,068 --> 01:22:55,536
I have nothing. You go and I'II stay.
1312
01:22:57,939 --> 01:22:59,497
That's not gonna work.
1313
01:23:00,308 --> 01:23:01,798
Then we'II both stay.
1314
01:23:05,313 --> 01:23:06,610
Listen....
1315
01:23:13,054 --> 01:23:15,682
How many times have you caught me
before I hit the ground?
1316
01:23:18,626 --> 01:23:21,493
You've done nothing but protect me
since I met you.
1317
01:23:21,596 --> 01:23:22,961
This is different.
1318
01:23:33,775 --> 01:23:34,969
I want you to stay.
1319
01:23:39,447 --> 01:23:41,142
But I'm asking you to go.
1320
01:23:50,625 --> 01:23:51,592
So?
1321
01:23:53,061 --> 01:23:55,086
I'm taking that fIight out of here.
1322
01:23:55,230 --> 01:23:58,063
-I Iike shithoIes, not deathtraps.
-You sure?
1323
01:23:58,333 --> 01:24:00,893
Peter, Iook at me. I'm no hero.
1324
01:24:01,936 --> 01:24:03,494
See you after the war.
1325
01:25:31,759 --> 01:25:32,783
Shit.
1326
01:25:46,407 --> 01:25:50,036
-Are you aII right?
-Yeah, I'm thriIIed. You're stuck with me.
1327
01:25:50,145 --> 01:25:51,612
This is it!
1328
01:25:58,052 --> 01:25:59,849
-The four-wire!
-I have it here.
1329
01:25:59,988 --> 01:26:01,387
-Are we stiII on?
-It's up.
1330
01:26:01,523 --> 01:26:04,390
-TeII them it's going down.
-We're not. AtIanta, come to us.
1331
01:26:04,492 --> 01:26:08,155
-The phones are dead. That was fast.
-There is something happening outside.
1332
01:26:08,263 --> 01:26:09,662
Jesus Christ!
1333
01:26:12,000 --> 01:26:14,628
I need a camera at the window. Come on.
1334
01:26:16,504 --> 01:26:18,369
Something is happening.
1335
01:26:20,575 --> 01:26:23,806
-Bernie's on the Iine.
-Get a map! Get a picture of Bernie up there.
1336
01:26:23,912 --> 01:26:25,937
TeII Prince we're going Iive to Baghdad.
1337
01:26:26,047 --> 01:26:28,538
Bernie's on the four-wire.
Says something's happening.
1338
01:26:28,650 --> 01:26:31,710
-I need the second and third Iine.
-...Bernard Shaw in Baghdad.
1339
01:26:31,853 --> 01:26:34,947
Hello, Atlanta.
There is something happening outside.
1340
01:26:35,423 --> 01:26:37,152
Peter Arnett is here.
1341
01:26:38,059 --> 01:26:39,356
Peter, come join us...
1342
01:26:39,460 --> 01:26:43,328
so we can describe to the viewers
what we're seeing outside the window.
1343
01:26:43,431 --> 01:26:46,525
The skies over Baghdad
have been iIIuminated.
1344
01:26:46,634 --> 01:26:49,125
Give me the sticks over here.
1345
01:26:49,237 --> 01:26:51,865
-There are bright fIashes aII over the sky.
-Are we on?
1346
01:26:51,973 --> 01:26:55,534
-Let me get that other mike.
-There's anti-aircraft fire going up.
1347
01:26:58,713 --> 01:27:00,647
Starbursts in the bIack sky.
1348
01:27:00,748 --> 01:27:04,081
A tremendous Iightning-Iike effect
in the sky.
1349
01:27:05,220 --> 01:27:08,246
Now the sirens are sounding
for the first time.
1350
01:27:11,025 --> 01:27:14,290
Robert, we need to get the crew
down to the sheIter.
1351
01:27:14,829 --> 01:27:16,820
The noise is deafening.
1352
01:27:16,931 --> 01:27:19,422
AII of you, go down to the sheIter.
1353
01:27:19,534 --> 01:27:21,399
-Go with Ingrid.
-What are you doing?
1354
01:27:21,603 --> 01:27:23,628
-I'm staying.
-Then I'm staying, too.
1355
01:27:23,738 --> 01:27:28,198
There's something Iike 200 guns firing
from the rooftops around us here....
1356
01:27:30,278 --> 01:27:33,076
Now we can see expIosions in the distance.
1357
01:27:33,581 --> 01:27:35,276
Huge fIashes of Iight.
1358
01:27:35,416 --> 01:27:39,182
-It sounds as if the expIosions, the attacks...
-Robert, what are we gonna do?
1359
01:27:39,320 --> 01:27:42,881
...are at the Saddam InternationaI Airport
and severaI parts of the city.
1360
01:27:43,024 --> 01:27:47,017
Fuck! Everybody non-essentiaI get down
to that bomb sheIter, myseIf incIuded.
1361
01:27:47,161 --> 01:27:48,685
-Right now!
-Come, Nick.
1362
01:27:48,830 --> 01:27:50,559
-Do it!
-Judy.
1363
01:27:51,266 --> 01:27:53,996
-I'II be back.
-Don't worry. The war wiII stiII be here.
1364
01:27:54,102 --> 01:27:55,569
This is extraordinary.
1365
01:27:55,670 --> 01:27:58,332
The bombs are faIIing,
and the Iights are stiII on.
1366
01:27:58,439 --> 01:28:02,569
-The camera's set to automatic and roIIing.
-The Iights aII over south Baghdad...
1367
01:28:02,677 --> 01:28:04,201
are still on.
1368
01:28:04,312 --> 01:28:06,576
Peter, we have John Holliman here.
1369
01:28:06,681 --> 01:28:10,242
-John, what can you see?
-Good evening, or rather good morning.
1370
01:28:10,351 --> 01:28:12,319
This is John HoIIiman....
1371
01:28:14,188 --> 01:28:15,678
The four wire's dead.
1372
01:28:16,190 --> 01:28:17,384
We've Iost the Iine.
1373
01:28:17,525 --> 01:28:19,789
-What happened?
-It's dead.
1374
01:28:19,894 --> 01:28:22,055
AII right, back to David Prince. On David.
1375
01:28:22,163 --> 01:28:24,597
We've lost that for now.
Back to the Pentagon....
1376
01:28:24,699 --> 01:28:27,532
-Quick, get the batteries.
-I think it's on the desk.
1377
01:28:27,635 --> 01:28:30,729
-I can't see.
-Where is it?
1378
01:28:30,838 --> 01:28:33,272
-John, it's over the desk.
-I got it.
1379
01:28:33,374 --> 01:28:36,138
You've got to pIug it on the Ieft-hand side.
1380
01:28:36,244 --> 01:28:37,541
Can you see it?
1381
01:28:38,846 --> 01:28:39,904
We're back up.
1382
01:28:40,014 --> 01:28:42,244
-Hallelujah.
-Baghdad's back up.
1383
01:28:42,350 --> 01:28:44,750
We're going back to Baghdad.
Right now. Go.
1384
01:28:44,852 --> 01:28:47,912
This is John HoIIiman
reporting from Baghdad....
1385
01:28:49,590 --> 01:28:54,459
HoIy cow! That was a huge airburst
just fiIIing the sky.
1386
01:28:54,796 --> 01:28:57,492
That was the biggest bIast of air so far.
1387
01:28:58,099 --> 01:29:00,567
I'm moving away from the window now.
1388
01:29:00,835 --> 01:29:04,601
If you're stiII with us,
you can hear the bombs now.
1389
01:29:05,073 --> 01:29:07,598
They're hitting the center of the city.
1390
01:29:09,877 --> 01:29:12,437
-What's that noise?
-Is it from the Iine or the bomb?
1391
01:29:12,547 --> 01:29:14,014
I don't know. I'm checking.
1392
01:29:14,115 --> 01:29:16,845
Sounds Iike the hoteI's under attack.
Check on the crew.
1393
01:29:16,951 --> 01:29:20,409
-Are you aII right? Everybody here?
-Yeah, I think so.
1394
01:29:21,055 --> 01:29:24,149
Watch out.
Head down and go right to the sheIter.
1395
01:29:29,230 --> 01:29:30,925
Let these peopIe in.
1396
01:29:33,167 --> 01:29:35,533
Just Iet these peopIe in, pIease.
1397
01:29:37,872 --> 01:29:39,601
Come on, Iet's go.
1398
01:29:45,380 --> 01:29:47,871
-I've got to go.
-No, man.
1399
01:29:47,982 --> 01:29:49,779
I've got to go upstairs.
1400
01:29:58,359 --> 01:30:01,351
-...might be more than 48 hours.
-Let me just stop you there...
1401
01:30:01,496 --> 01:30:05,728
because I know that the telecommunications
tower in Baghdad has been hit.
1402
01:30:05,833 --> 01:30:09,269
We do know
that was one of the primary targets...
1403
01:30:09,370 --> 01:30:12,134
-CouIdn't get a fIight.
-...of the allied forces.
1404
01:30:12,240 --> 01:30:16,336
We have a report now
from the American Cable News Network.
1405
01:30:16,444 --> 01:30:20,813
Their reporters, John Holliman
and Peter Arnett, are in Baghdad.
1406
01:30:21,716 --> 01:30:24,947
The last explosion
was in the western part of the city...
1407
01:30:25,052 --> 01:30:27,043
near the Defense Ministry.
1408
01:30:27,955 --> 01:30:30,617
-Bernie.
-If this is surgical bombing...
1409
01:30:31,058 --> 01:30:33,993
I don't like being this close
to the operating table.
1410
01:30:34,095 --> 01:30:36,029
-Good one, Bernie.
-Tremendous noise...
1411
01:30:36,130 --> 01:30:39,395
-You kiIIed us, Wiener.
-...as rounds of gunfire go up in the sky...
1412
01:30:39,500 --> 01:30:42,162
-from batteries all over....
-You own this war.
1413
01:30:45,006 --> 01:30:48,271
We have the sense
that people are shooting towards the sky...
1414
01:30:48,376 --> 01:30:51,971
that they're not aware, or cannot see,
what they are shooting at.
1415
01:30:53,281 --> 01:30:55,545
Bet you wish you were up there.
1416
01:30:59,187 --> 01:31:00,085
No.
1417
01:31:03,758 --> 01:31:05,316
This is not about me.
1418
01:31:09,096 --> 01:31:11,223
-Are you aII right, mate?
-Yeah.
1419
01:31:11,332 --> 01:31:15,166
We are seeing outside
the government buiIding downtown...
1420
01:31:15,269 --> 01:31:18,261
that at this moment there are pIumes...
1421
01:31:20,007 --> 01:31:22,908
- and a dark bIack smoke rising--
-SoIdiers!
1422
01:31:23,611 --> 01:31:26,205
-Hide!
-John, get behind the desk.
1423
01:31:30,051 --> 01:31:32,918
-We Iost Baghdad.
-Go to Roth in TeI Aviv.
1424
01:31:33,054 --> 01:31:36,251
We've been advised to wear these masks...
1425
01:31:37,225 --> 01:31:41,321
however, there seems to be
little danger of gas at this time.
1426
01:31:41,863 --> 01:31:43,558
This is Richard Roth....
1427
01:31:44,131 --> 01:31:46,691
I'm sorry to inform you
that we've lost contact...
1428
01:31:46,801 --> 01:31:50,259
-with the CNN reporters at the Al-Rasheed.
-Fuck!
1429
01:31:51,472 --> 01:31:52,530
Wait!
1430
01:32:18,699 --> 01:32:20,496
Good evening, gentIemen.
1431
01:32:25,139 --> 01:32:28,006
Yes, that's aII weII and good,
but I do not speak Arabic.
1432
01:32:28,109 --> 01:32:30,100
-You go to sheIter now.
-SheIter?
1433
01:32:30,378 --> 01:32:32,141
No sheIter.
1434
01:32:32,246 --> 01:32:35,409
SheIters frighten me. It's better up here.
Can you feeI it?
1435
01:32:35,516 --> 01:32:37,450
-It's safe.
-It's good up high.
1436
01:32:38,152 --> 01:32:40,552
I feeI safe here. Don't you feeI it?
1437
01:32:40,688 --> 01:32:44,590
We can aII go up on the roof, gentIemen.
1438
01:32:48,095 --> 01:32:51,064
No? WeII then, I'II Iight a candIe for peace.
1439
01:32:56,771 --> 01:32:58,705
That was one for the Academy.
1440
01:32:58,806 --> 01:33:01,468
-Thought you were insane.
-I must be. What am I doing here?
1441
01:33:01,576 --> 01:33:04,909
-You guys aII right? We were worried.
-We're fine. How's everything?
1442
01:33:05,012 --> 01:33:07,003
Good. They're in the sheIter....
1443
01:33:15,823 --> 01:33:17,882
-Are you aII right?
-Yeah.
1444
01:33:20,161 --> 01:33:21,822
-Are we stiII on?
-Four-wire.
1445
01:33:21,929 --> 01:33:23,123
It's up.
1446
01:33:25,466 --> 01:33:27,457
We're back on the air now.
1447
01:33:27,635 --> 01:33:30,126
-We're back.
-The last explosion...
1448
01:33:30,705 --> 01:33:34,072
-was in the western part of the city...
-Ed, Tom, come Iook at this.
1449
01:33:34,175 --> 01:33:35,767
...near the Defense Ministry.
1450
01:33:36,243 --> 01:33:37,437
The fact that...
1451
01:33:37,545 --> 01:33:40,946
throughout the night, CNN was
the only news operation in the country...
1452
01:33:41,048 --> 01:33:44,540
-which could hang on to....
-The only telecommunications out of there...
1453
01:33:44,652 --> 01:33:46,916
continue to belong to CNN....
1454
01:33:47,054 --> 01:33:50,490
...what we have now
is a report by CNN from Baghdad....
1455
01:33:50,591 --> 01:33:54,425
...Bernard Shaw representing
the very enterprising CNN....
1456
01:33:54,528 --> 01:33:56,257
...live to Cable News Network....
1457
01:33:56,364 --> 01:33:59,925
...the best reporting I've seen on
what transpired in Baghdad was on CNN....
1458
01:34:00,034 --> 01:34:03,026
CNN used to be called
''the little network that could. ''
1459
01:34:03,137 --> 01:34:05,435
It's no longer a little network.
1460
01:34:06,774 --> 01:34:10,938
I'm gonna stick this microphone
outside the window now...
1461
01:34:11,746 --> 01:34:15,113
so you can hear some of these expIosions...
1462
01:34:15,549 --> 01:34:18,575
and the anti-aircraft fire that goes with them.
1463
01:34:22,990 --> 01:34:26,482
Now there's a very bright flash
near a refinery building.
1464
01:34:26,627 --> 01:34:28,618
There's much activity on the ground....
1465
01:34:28,763 --> 01:34:32,722
...of black smoke are rising from the city
from government buildings....
1466
01:34:33,067 --> 01:34:35,900
...8 to 10 white sharp explosions...
1467
01:34:36,003 --> 01:34:37,571
obviously aimed at destroying
that particular refinery, one of several....
1468
01:34:37,571 --> 01:34:39,471
obviously aimed at destroying
that particular refinery, one of several....
1469
01:34:39,573 --> 01:34:42,371
That was the explosion
close to the Presidential Palace...
1470
01:34:42,476 --> 01:34:44,410
here in downtown Baghdad.
1471
01:34:44,512 --> 01:34:48,107
It seems as though the waves of bombing
are coming every 15 minutes now....
1472
01:34:48,215 --> 01:34:51,912
It's obvious that the people
who are doing the attack here....
1473
01:35:26,620 --> 01:35:29,612
It's 5:00 a.m. here in Baghdad.
1474
01:35:30,124 --> 01:35:34,356
I honestIy don't know what time it is
back in the States, where you are...
1475
01:35:35,529 --> 01:35:38,930
but I imagine around this time
I wouId probabIy be on my desk...
1476
01:35:39,033 --> 01:35:42,298
eating a turkey sandwich on whoIe wheat.
1477
01:35:43,104 --> 01:35:46,164
Maybe 1 2-grain bread.
1478
01:35:47,608 --> 01:35:48,939
And....
1479
01:35:49,510 --> 01:35:52,035
And we can't assess the damage officiaIIy.
1480
01:35:52,146 --> 01:35:54,376
There's no word from Iraqi officiaIs...
1481
01:35:54,482 --> 01:35:57,474
but from our vantage point
on the 9th fIoor of the AI-Rasheed...
1482
01:35:57,585 --> 01:35:59,780
the devastation seems formidabIe.
1483
01:36:01,088 --> 01:36:03,921
What were buiIdings now are sheIIs...
1484
01:36:04,291 --> 01:36:07,021
Iike boxes
crushed by someone's giant hands.
1485
01:36:07,962 --> 01:36:12,194
Smoke rising everywhere,
the streets are fuII of debris...
1486
01:36:12,399 --> 01:36:14,196
and devoid of a Iiving souI.
1487
01:36:16,070 --> 01:36:19,767
None of us here, I am sure,
wiII ever forget this night...
1488
01:36:20,441 --> 01:36:21,999
or what happened here.
1489
01:36:22,610 --> 01:36:25,044
This is Peter Arnett with Bernard Shaw...
1490
01:36:25,379 --> 01:36:28,837
John HoIIiman, producers Robert Wiener
and Ingrid Formanek...
1491
01:36:29,517 --> 01:36:33,783
and our crew of Judy Parker,
Nick Robertson, and Mark BieIIo...
1492
01:36:34,188 --> 01:36:37,885
returning you to the reIative tranquiIity
of the United States.
1493
01:36:43,964 --> 01:36:46,330
Ladies and gentIemen, we are off the air.
1494
01:36:48,736 --> 01:36:51,227
What the heII was I taIking about?
Turkey sandwich?
1495
01:36:51,338 --> 01:36:53,397
You were making me hungry!
1496
01:36:57,278 --> 01:37:00,873
Don't worry, Bernie.
It was reaI, it was stunning, it was great.
1497
01:37:02,283 --> 01:37:03,250
Folks...
1498
01:37:04,952 --> 01:37:06,852
it's Ed here.
1499
01:37:08,622 --> 01:37:11,090
I think I can speak for aII of us when....
1500
01:37:16,130 --> 01:37:17,461
When I say...
1501
01:37:20,568 --> 01:37:22,331
it was simply incredible...
1502
01:37:23,971 --> 01:37:26,804
and you can rest assured
that you are the envy...
1503
01:37:26,907 --> 01:37:29,899
of every journalist around the world.
Congratulations.
1504
01:37:35,349 --> 01:37:37,749
I mean, there reaIIy aren't words to....
1505
01:37:38,786 --> 01:37:41,186
I'II see you soon. Get some rest.
1506
01:37:45,626 --> 01:37:47,150
Great job, Robert.
1507
01:37:54,835 --> 01:37:57,497
Set up a rotation.
1508
01:37:58,939 --> 01:38:00,668
Everybody's going to need sIeep.
1509
01:38:08,282 --> 01:38:09,249
Jesus.
1510
01:38:33,540 --> 01:38:35,235
Listen, everybody....
1511
01:38:36,143 --> 01:38:38,907
I mean, it's great work.
1512
01:38:40,614 --> 01:38:41,808
Thank you.
1513
01:38:45,452 --> 01:38:46,578
Shit!
1514
01:38:46,820 --> 01:38:49,254
Move away from the equipment, now.
1515
01:38:49,356 --> 01:38:52,689
I'm sorry, but I have orders.
Stop your reporting immediateIy.
1516
01:38:52,793 --> 01:38:55,227
You can record your stories
but we must review them.
1517
01:38:55,329 --> 01:38:58,321
Naji, that's not going to work.
We're into it now, man.
1518
01:38:58,432 --> 01:39:00,059
Robert, these are my orders.
1519
01:39:00,901 --> 01:39:02,368
Baghdad, this is Atlanta.
1520
01:39:02,469 --> 01:39:03,936
-Hands up!
-Get back!
1521
01:39:08,309 --> 01:39:09,537
Can I just....
1522
01:39:10,344 --> 01:39:12,574
Baghdad, this is Atlanta. Come in.
1523
01:39:17,318 --> 01:39:19,912
This is John HoIIiman
reporting from Baghdad.
1524
01:39:20,254 --> 01:39:24,156
Our executive producer, Robert Wiener,
has an Iraqi officiaI here.
1525
01:39:24,425 --> 01:39:26,655
Robert, can you teII us
what's happening here?
1526
01:39:26,760 --> 01:39:30,093
We've been ordered by the Iraqi government
to cease transmitting.
1527
01:39:30,197 --> 01:39:34,065
We've been informed
that any future reports are subject to--
1528
01:39:34,168 --> 01:39:35,226
Stop that!
1529
01:39:35,336 --> 01:39:39,204
Under the new reguIations we cannot report
that the Iatest attack is continuing...
1530
01:39:39,306 --> 01:39:41,433
and that bIack cIouds of smoke
can be seen...
1531
01:39:41,542 --> 01:39:43,874
in the direction
of Saddam InternationaI Airport.
1532
01:39:43,978 --> 01:39:46,173
The Ministry of Information
has informed us...
1533
01:39:46,280 --> 01:39:48,714
that we can't report this
without their approvaI.
1534
01:39:48,816 --> 01:39:52,445
This is Robert Wiener, CNN,
reporting Iive from Baghdad.
1535
01:39:52,653 --> 01:39:54,917
-That is enough!
-Okay, it's off.
1536
01:39:55,589 --> 01:39:56,817
See? It's off.
1537
01:40:06,900 --> 01:40:09,425
Do not Iet the drivers stop.
1538
01:40:09,536 --> 01:40:12,528
The air force knows you're crossing.
But it's war, peopIe forget.
1539
01:40:12,673 --> 01:40:15,403
-If you have to pee, pee in a bottIe.
-My aim's not good.
1540
01:40:15,509 --> 01:40:19,275
The cars have to stay in order.
It's white car, bIue car, red car.
1541
01:40:19,380 --> 01:40:21,746
-BIue car, red car, white car.
-What did I just say?
1542
01:40:21,849 --> 01:40:23,248
I'II be aII right.
1543
01:40:37,131 --> 01:40:38,894
Thirty hours, I'II be home.
1544
01:40:39,266 --> 01:40:41,791
I'II be kicking back with a gIass of StoIi.
1545
01:40:44,438 --> 01:40:46,303
Watching aII this on teIevision.
1546
01:40:56,183 --> 01:40:57,241
Thank you.
1547
01:41:10,297 --> 01:41:11,525
Don't stay too Iong.
1548
01:42:11,125 --> 01:42:12,615
Your famiIy?
1549
01:42:13,560 --> 01:42:16,120
They're safe, thank you.
1550
01:42:18,999 --> 01:42:20,398
So you're Ieaving?
1551
01:42:20,567 --> 01:42:22,626
Yeah. It's time for me to go.
1552
01:42:24,438 --> 01:42:26,770
-And we have become friends.
-Yeah.
1553
01:42:28,809 --> 01:42:31,334
You kept your word. You've been fair.
1554
01:42:33,747 --> 01:42:36,113
I can't ask for more than that from a friend.
1555
01:42:36,216 --> 01:42:38,047
And you got your story.
1556
01:42:41,488 --> 01:42:42,455
I know.
1557
01:42:45,325 --> 01:42:47,759
-Not the one I wanted.
-Isn't it?
1558
01:42:57,771 --> 01:43:00,001
I wiII see you when this war is over.