Hillary Clinton in Bosnia: We're taking sniper fire! Get to the Choppa! — Transcript

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1. 0:00i remember landing under sniper fire in
2. 0:02the speech last week
3. 0:04senator clinton was referring to her
4. 0:05visit to tusla bosnia in 1996
5. 0:08as first lady the brutal war was over
6. 0:12but hostilities continued
7. 0:14and though the trip was exactly 12 years
8. 0:16ago tomorrow
9. 0:17the memory seemed etched in clinton's
10. 0:19mind
11. 0:20there was supposed to be some kind of a
12. 0:22greeting ceremony at the airport but
13. 0:24instead we just ran with our heads down
14. 0:25to get into the vehicles
15. 0:28to get to our base problem is that's not
16. 0:30what happened
17. 0:31and we should know cbs news accompanied
18. 0:34the first lady and daughter chelsea
19. 0:36on that bosnia trip that's senator
20. 0:38clinton talking to me on the military
21. 0:40flight into tusla
22. 0:41and these are the pictures we recorded
23. 0:43of the greeting ceremony when the plane
24. 0:45landed
25. 0:45compare that to senator clinton's
26. 0:48account i remember landing under sniper
27. 0:50fire
28. 0:50there was no greeting ceremony and we
29. 0:53basically were told to run to our cars
30. 0:54now that is what happened
31. 0:56thank you there was no sniper fire
32. 0:58either when senator clinton visited two
33. 1:00army outposts where she posed for photos
34. 1:03and no sniper fire back at the base
35. 1:08referring to the cbs news video clinton
36. 1:10aides today
37. 1:11acknowledged her arrival in bosnia was
38. 1:13not quite as dramatic as clinton put it
39. 1:16she met that there was fire in the
40. 1:18hillside around the area when we landed
41. 1:20which was the case
42. 1:28who knows if she misremembered misspoke
43. 1:30exaggerated
44. 1:31whatever it makes the case for senator
45. 1:33obama that all this experience that
46. 1:35she's been talking about
47. 1:36is at least partly her imagination
48. 1:38hundreds of thousands have viewed the
49. 1:39video
50. 1:40online in just the past few days a
51. 1:42reminder that in politics
52. 1:44memory should always match the videotape