Video Belies Clinton's Bosnia Statements — Transcript

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1. 0:00Despite her initial account of a 1996
2. 0:03trip to Bosnia,
3. 0:04I remember landing under sniper fire.
4. 0:06This newly released video debunks
5. 0:09Hillary Clinton's recollection of a
6. 0:10would-be dangerous encounter as first
7. 0:13lady.
8. 0:14There was supposed to be some kind of a
9. 0:15greeting ceremony at the airport, but
10. 0:17instead we just ran with our heads down
11. 0:19to get into the vehicles.
12. 0:21That was last week. Now confronted with
13. 0:23new evidence, the New York senator is
14. 0:25backpeddling.
15. 0:26You know, I uh made a mistake in in
16. 0:28describing it. I have said many times, I
17. 0:31have talked about this many times that
18. 0:33we were, you know, very much um told by
19. 0:37the Secret Service and the military that
20. 0:39we were going into a war zone.
21. 0:41Clinton's campaign rival, Barack Obama,
22. 0:43is blasting the remarks, saying they are
23. 0:45all part of a pattern in which Clinton
24. 0:47tries to exaggerate her role in
25. 0:49policymaking during her husband's
26. 0:51administration.
27. 0:52You know, gosh, lighten up, guys. I
28. 0:54mean, obviously, come on.
29. 0:56I I I say millions of words every week
30. 0:59and there's a lot more uh you know uh
31. 1:04you know room for for error when you're
32. 1:06talking as much as I'm talking.
33. 1:08There's no denying this looks bad for
34. 1:10the Clinton campaign. But to be sure,
35. 1:12Clinton is not the first candidate for
36. 1:14president to pat a resume. Obama has
37. 1:17exaggerated his role in reaching a
38. 1:18compromise in the Senate on immigration
39. 1:21as well as his authorship of a bill to
40. 1:23address the housing crisis. But analysts
41. 1:25say these Bosnia embellishments are
42. 1:27quite damaging for a candidate who
43. 1:29critics say has built her candidacy on
44. 1:32an illusion of experience. Ed Donahghue,
45. 1:34The Associated Press.