Tonight’s Anderson Cooper 360° live from NYC’s Ground Zero
Tonight on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360°, Anderson interviews with Pervez Musharraf, former President of Pakistan, about the killing of Osama bin laden and Pakistan’s reaction.
Tonight’s AC360 will be live from NYC’s Ground Zero with an inside look into the special operation that brought down Osama Bin Laden. Guests include: Michael Scheuer – former Osama Bin Laden hunter, Ari Fleischer – fmr. WH press secretary under pres. Bush, Jim Riches – Ret. FDNY Deputy Chief, NYT’s Thomas Friedman, Robert Baer – former CIA operative, Gary Berntsen – former CIA Officer, Kenny Specht – 9/11 first responder.
Additionally, CNN reporters and contributors: Nic Robertson, Sanjay Gupta, Peter Bergen, Fareed Zakaria and Fran Townsend.
Below please find a bite from Cooper’s Musharraf interview airing tonight. Please credit all usage to CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360° Full transcript available after the show.
Anderson Cooper: Mr. president for years US officials, Intel officials have been saying OBL was in fact in Pakistan, you have been denying for years now, categorically saying no, he was in Afghanistan…do you now admit you were wrong?
Pervez Musharraf: no, I don’t think i was ever denying, I was asked everywhere…and my first response invariablyalways was that i don’t know, I don’t know where he is.
AC: actually sir that not true you said repeatedly he was in Afghanistan
PM: and I used to ask, what Intel do you have? He could be in Afghanistan. But I never, I always said he could be in Pakistan or Afghanistan. I never said no, he was never in Pakistan, I never said that
AC: actually sir that’s not true, you said in interviews that you believed he was in Afghanistan, that he was not in Pakistan
PM: no I always put a doubt in that that I don’t know. and I never had that information,. And so and so anyone who said he was in Pakistan also didn’t have the intelligence.. It was not based on any intelligence. It was guesswork
Tune in to Anderson Cooper 360° live tonight from Ground Zero at 10pET on CNN.
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