Another couple of clips
from the Maliki interview, each followed by
discussion between Anderson and Michael.
Length: 5:50 / 4:43
Two more clips from the
interview, each followed by discussion between Wolf
and Michael.
Length: 4:47 / 5:12
More from Michael's
interview with PM al-Maliki, with additional
comments.
Length: 4:35
Michael is back in
Baghdad, and had an exclusive sit-down with Prime
Minister al-Maliki.
Length: 3:21 / 2:29
The entire second hour of
AC360 was the complete interview Anderson did with
Michael last week. It amounts to an impressive primer
on the several wars going on inside Iraq. They broke
it up into six sections, and I've done the same with
the clips in order to make them easier to download.
This is an amazing hour and ought to be required
viewing in Washington... I wonder whether Jack
Cafferty is sending copies to everyone there?
Length: 7:21 / 8:51 / 7:16 / 7:00 / 4:58 /
6:47
Before leaving to return
to Baghdad, Michael sat down with Anderson Cooper for
an interview. Tonight we get two sections of it: one
dealing with Michael's abduction on Haifa Street by
Zarqawi's men in September of 2004 and the other with
how Iran was able to exploit the coalition's invasion
into Iraq for their own purposes and position
themselves strategically deep inside the country.
Length: 9:24
Michael talks to Wolf in
more detail about the cross-purposes of the Iraqi
troops we are training.
Length: 4:33
Michael and General David
Grange join Lou to discuss the surge plan and what
kind of effectiveness it may have.
Length: 4:36
Michael speaks with Wolf
about what exactly the various Iraqi groups are
fighting for -- Iraq or sectarian interests? And how
we are training and arming groups who are not exactly
on our side.
Length: 4:43
Mick speaks with Anderson
about how long it will take to see whether the surge
works -- not even two months. Then again, it is not a
new plan, not one that will resolve the problem. The
insurgents will melt out of Baghdad and wait for us
to leave, same as they did in Tal'Afar, Fallujah,
Ramadi, etc, etc. etc.
Length: 3:47
Mick is in NYC, speaking
with Wolf Blitzer as a follow-up to Wolf's interview
with VP Cheney, in which Cheney professes to have
full confidence in Nouri al-Maliki and the Iraqi
government's ability to rein in Muqtada al-Sadr.
Jack Cafferty tags on a comment about the number of
e-mails they received asking where Mick has been. (I
know I've been swamped by them, too -- a lot of
people are glad to see him again!)
Length: 6:10
Mick joins Anderson for
reaction to the SotU address. Like most people who
have been studying the situation, he doesn't see a
lot of promise to the surge -- the plan will be
putting our troops in even more danger, and he
wonders whether the American public is prepared for
that.
Length: 3:01
Mick is in DC for
coverage and commentary of the State of the Union
address. And for the first time, seriously, ever, we
get to see him in a suit jacket! (He looks great
tonight -- rested, laughing, very relaxed.)
He also tells Wolf and Paula that he is heading back
to Iraq next weekend, so we'll be hearing much more
from him very soon.
Length: 3:18