Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Charlie Rose Discusses His Trip And Exclusive Interview With Syrian President Assad



Checkpoints, Armed Guards, Bullet-Proof Vests For Charlie Rose On The Road To Damascus -- TV Newser

Charlie Rose was back in the anchor chair of “CBS This Morning” today talking about how he landed that wide-ranging interview with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. As we reported yesterday, Rose and CBS News chairman Jeff Fager, Rose’s producer for the interview, traveled to the region late last week and secured the interview Sunday morning.

“I must say that Jeff and I found them, once we got there, they didn’t make any effort to change content, there was nothing off the record. There was no sense of, you can’t talk about this. None. I said, “This is going to be a very tough interview.” And they said “The president would like you to be that way.”

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