CNN full transcript of take-down of O'REILLY, via DUer PearliePoo2 (thanks!1)

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[font size=5]"I didn't see anything like that happen" says CBS Correspondent with O'Reilly during the Falklands[/font]
Today on CNN’s Reliable Sources hosted by Brian Stelter, Eric Engberg, a correspondent for CBS News for 26 years, shared his account of Argentina during the Falklands War. As a former colleague of Bill O’Reilly, Engberg disputes the Fox Anchor’s description of Argentina as a ‘war zone’. A transcript and videos from the show are available below.

BRIAN STELTER, CNN HOST: .... ...we have interviewed [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]six other people who were working for CBS[/FONT] in Argentina at this time. And [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]all of them are refuting O’Reilly's version[/FONT] of the events. One of those people will join me live in a moment. ....


... [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]events in Ferguson were actually more serious and more severe[/FONT]. ....

Unfortunately, some of the [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]other staffers[/FONT] we talk to [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]are insisting on anonymity because[/FONT] they still work in the industry or because [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]they don't want to be criticized by Bill O’Reilly[/FONT].

But Eric Engberg is speaking out. He was a correspondent for CBS News for 26 years, and he and O’Reilly were both in Argentina during that war, he joins me from Sarasota. ....


ENGBERG: [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]What he just said was a fabrication, a lie[/FONT]. There were five CBS correspondents, including him, assigned to the bureau. They were under the direction of Larry Doyle, one of our very first field producers. You marines out there will understand what I was saying. He was a lurp in the marines in Vietnam before he went to CBS. He's a very skilled operator in combat and dangerous situations.

He sent all five of the correspondents and all 10 or 12 of the camera crew members out into the street. [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]Nobody stayed in their hotel room[/FONT] because they were afraid. We were all working and we saw what looked - what was [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]a moderate size riot[/FONT]. It was a couple thousand people attacking Casa Rosada, or the area around the Casa Rosada, by waving their arms, by clapping and chanting and singing songs.

Nobody attacked the soldiers. Nobody attacked the police. There was nobody lying on the ground when it was over that I saw.

But at any rate, all CBS people did their jobs, covered the demonstration, brought their video back to be used in a story that night. And that was when [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]O’Reilly bucked at[/FONT] the idea [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]turning his tape[/FONT] shot by his camera man [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]over[/FONT] to the unit that was putting together the story.

When Doyle said, Bob Schieffer will do the story tonight and we'll use the video your crew shot, he said, I didn't come down here - this is according to Larry Doyle who remembers it well. O’Reilly looked at him and said, [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]I didn't come down here to shoot video so this old man can use it in his story[/FONT]. And Larry Doyle said, what old man are you talking about? O’Reilly said, [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]Schieffer[/FONT].

Well, [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]they took, wrestled[/FONT] the [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]tape from him[/FONT] and used it in the Schieffer piece. Doyle turned to O’Reilly and said, I think [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]you better leave[/FONT]. You [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]don't belong here[/FONT]. Doyle took steps to send O’Reilly out of Buenos Aires to send him home.

O’Reilly, by the way, according to Doyle, said, you can't send me out of here. And Doyle said, oh, yes I can. ....



STELTER: But let me play one more sound bite. This is one that I haven’t seen covered in the past few days, amid all this controversy. It’s from 2011 on stage [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]interview with O’Reilly and Marvin Kalb[/FONT]. Take a look.

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O’REILLY: I got a call from CBS bureau chief to say, O’Reilly, get down there. Great. I get down, got my two crews. So, I’m looking around. [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]Where are the other CBS correspondents[/FONT]? I don't see anybody.

OK. Maybe they are busy maybe on the other side of Casa Rosada. I don't know where they are.

So, anyway, all hell breaks loose. [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]People start to storm[/FONT] the Casa Rosada, the Argentine [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]troops[/FONT] the people down in the streets. They [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]shot them down[/FONT]. It's not like rubber bullets or gas. These people are [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]dying[/FONT], all right?

So, anyway, I get my crew, and I grab my crew away, down a side street. We're shooting this stuff. It's unbelievable. I mean, [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]people falling. Bing bing bing[/FONT].

A soldier runs down the street, I’m there. A [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]photographer gets trampled[/FONT]. All right? So, he's on the ground. [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]I grab him and[/FONT] the camera and [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]drag him[/FONT] into a doorway.

The soldier comes up and he's standing maybe 10 feet away, he’s got the [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]M-16 pointed at my head[/FONT]. I thought it was over. I said (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE) it means, journalist, please don't shoot, por favor. The guy was about, I know, 18, 19 years old. He didn't shoot.