When a falling light almost hit the Clintons — Transcript

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1. 0:01sixty minutes overtime when Hillary
2. 0:06Clinton first appeared on 60 minutes she
3. 0:09was a 44 year old governor's wife going
4. 0:11on TV to help her husband with a problem
5. 0:14his problem long-rumored allegations of
6. 0:17marital infidelity finally surfaced in a
7. 0:20supermarket tabloid Jennifer flowers a
8. 0:22former TV reporter says she had an
9. 0:25affair with Bill Clinton threatening his
10. 0:27run for president it was just at the
11. 0:29beginning of the campaign and very few
12. 0:31people really knew who bill was and
13. 0:34nobody knew who Hillary was so you were
14. 0:37really introducing her to the American
15. 0:38public that's correct
16. 0:42okay as I mentioned it was a very big
17. 0:46interview for steve Kroft
18. 0:47and a young producer named Frank Devine
19. 0:50it was interesting to be in the room it
20. 0:53was was clear that there was some kind
21. 0:56of serious relationship between the two
22. 0:58of them the despite what had gone on
23. 1:01that they were a team Don Hewitt the
24. 1:03creator of 60 minutes was there to he'd
25. 1:06convinced CBS to give him 10 minutes of
26. 1:08prime air time for the interview after
27. 1:10the Super Bowl I think because did you
28. 1:16know how if you know what I think or say
29. 1:21on this subject go get it tape and run
30. 1:23it again people are sitting out there
31. 1:26voters and they're saying look it's
32. 1:31really pretty simple if he has never had
33. 1:33an extramarital affair why doesn't it
34. 1:35just say so
35. 1:37that may be what they're saying you know
36. 1:39what I think they're saying I think
37. 1:41they're saying here's a guy who's
38. 1:42leveling with us it made for riveting
39. 1:46televisions and 34 million people were
40. 1:48watching there isn't a person watching
41. 1:51this who would feel comfortable sitting
42. 1:53on this couch detailing everything that
43. 1:56ever went on in their life or their
44. 1:57marriage 40 minutes into the interview
45. 1:59the lights were hot
46. 2:01the lights were heavy and the whole
47. 2:03light bar came crashing down with all
48. 2:06the lights on it on the back of the
49. 2:07couch
50. 2:09Mary and Joseph well at the time I
51. 2:12thought there's a woman that doesn't
52. 2:14swear because of a foul language was
53. 2:16gonna come out of her mouth that would
54. 2:17have come out of her mouth right then
55. 2:19I got over there pretty fast make sure
56. 2:22they were okay it was a scary it was
57. 2:26very scary all right in some ways after
58. 2:34the light fell everybody loosened up