Clinton's Bosnia Blunder (CBS News) — Transcript

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1. 0:00we're beginning with a follow-up to a
2. 0:01story Cheryl Akerson reported here last
3. 0:04night she showed us video that directly
4. 0:06contradicted Hillary Clinton's account
5. 0:09of the danger she faced on a 1996 visit
6. 0:12to Bosnia since our broadcast that video
7. 0:15has spread all over the Internet it was
8. 0:17the most viewed video of the day on
9. 0:19YouTube with more than a million hits
10. 0:22and today Senator Clinton admitted quote
11. 0:25I made a mistake but it wasn't the only
12. 0:27one as Cheryl shows us tonight
13. 0:31Hillary Clinton's attempt to tout her
14. 0:32foreign policy experience hounded her
15. 0:35again on the campaign Trail today I made
16. 0:38I you know I uh made a mistake in in
17. 0:41describing it I she claimed she misspoke
18. 0:43last week and was sleep deprived when
19. 0:45she described Landing under sniper fire
20. 0:47in tusla Bosnia something that didn't
21. 0:50happen but CBS News has found several
22. 0:52times in the past few months when
23. 0:54Senator Clinton used the Bosnia trip to
24. 0:56try to show her International experience
25. 0:59December and
26. 1:00know we landed in one of those Corkscrew
27. 1:02Landings and ran out because they said
28. 1:05there might be sniper fire I don't
29. 1:07remember anybody offering me tea on the
30. 1:10tarmac when that was happening then in
31. 1:12February the welcoming ceremony had to
32. 1:15be moved inside because of sniper fire
33. 1:17and last week and uh I remember Landing
34. 1:20under sniper fire we basically were told
35. 1:22to run to our cars now that is what
36. 1:24happened after CBS News video showed
37. 1:26what really happened when she landed and
38. 1:28greeted officials senator Clinton
39. 1:30maintained there were risks but
40. 1:32explained to the Philadelphia Daily News
41. 1:34why she was seen on the Bosnian tarmac
42. 1:36greeting a young child if it was really
43. 1:38so dangerous I was also told that the
44. 1:41greeting ceremony had been moved away
45. 1:43from the uh tarmac but that there was
46. 1:47this 8-year-old girl and I said well I
47. 1:49have I can't I can't rush by her I've
48. 1:52got to at least greet her so I greeted
49. 1:53her I took her stuff and I left now
50. 1:55that's my memory of it good to see you
51. 1:57once again her memory doesn't match our
52. 2:00videotape she and her daughter Chelsea
53. 2:02lingered on the tarmac to greet US
54. 2:05military
55. 2:06officials took photos there was the
56. 2:09group of seventh graders on the tarmac 2
57. 2:11and then Senator Clinton walked to the
58. 2:13armor vehicle where she did eventually
59. 2:16Dock and
60. 2:17enter Senator Clinton hinted today that
61. 2:20her own staff has been suggesting to her
62. 2:22that the events weren't quite as
63. 2:23dramatic as she had suggested her staff
64. 2:25also sent out an email to reporters
65. 2:27today with a list of supposed
66. 2:29inconsistency
67. 2:30in what Senator Obama has said and done
68. 2:33Harry in the end doesn't this really
69. 2:34come down to a matter of can you trust
70. 2:37what she
71. 2:38says I think so I think that one reason
72. 2:41political observers think this is so
73. 2:42important is that Hillary Clinton has of
74. 2:44course made experience her issue in this
75. 2:46campaign saying she's the one that's
76. 2:48best suited to answer that 3 in the
77. 2:50morning phone call all right Cheryl
78. 2:51aison on Capitol Hill thanks