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News Making Headlines 'Over There'
Aired March 14, 2003 - 07:53 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
JACK CAFFERTY, CNN ANCHOR: It's time -- we were just "Over There." We're going to go back "Over There," only not to Paris. We'll go to London -- it's Friday -- to check in with our friend, Richard Quest, and find out what the London newspapers are salivating over. They love it, and so do we here in the Colonies, when there is embarrassment there at the big palace.
What's going on?
RICHARD QUEST, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning to you, Jack.
This is the report. It's a long 100 pages. And the basic thrust of it is that Prince Charles' household is a shambles. And all -- now, don't you titter! Titter ye not! It's all about the fact that there was a rape -- there was an alleged homosexual rape at the palace, and there was the Burrell trial that collapsed, and there were all of those gifts that had been sold.
What is interesting about this report is that -- what we've discovered is that when there was that alleged homosexual rape, Prince Charles said of the alleged victim, "Let's get George out."
CAFFERTY: The George being the alleged victim.
QUEST: George being the alleged victim. He said, "Let's get George out." Nobody believed in the alleged rape. Everybody disbelieved it, and they still disbelieve it. And the upshot of this report, this long report is that the way Prince Charles runs his private household is not the sort of way you and I would run a bank account.
CAFFERTY: Yes, I was -- actually, I was laughing at the way you said "shambles." I wasn't laughing at the events in the palace. I was laughing at the way you said "shambles."
"Thomas the Tank Engine," a very popular program with British children, but apparently it's raising hell with ticket sales on the railroad.
QUEST: "Thomas the Tank Engine," a report by a psychology lecturer, Brian Young, apparently he says there are too many accidents and it has a negative impact on children. So, we put this to the test.
Now, look, we've got a couple of "Thomas the Tank Engine" books here. This is "Good Work, Thomas," and poor James is lying on the side in the field. And in this "Thomas the Tank Engine," the book which is called "Hello, Thomas," this one's got Percy the Engine in a big lake of water.
So the question is: Does "Thomas the Tank Engine" always manage to run off the wire?
CAFFERTY: Why do I think this one will? Oh, there you go.
QUEST: So, let's ask Thomas does he think that he could actually frighten children from getting on board a train?
You may well think we haven't got enough to keep us busy...
(CROSSTALK)
CAFFERTY: Oh, yes. That thought hadn't occurred to me at all, Richard. Listen, you've got six days to get busy and come up with another electrifying three minutes of live television from "Over There." Good to see you -- have a nice weekend. I'll talk to you next week -- Richard Quest.
QUEST: Thanks.
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Aired March 14, 2003 - 07:53 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
JACK CAFFERTY, CNN ANCHOR: It's time -- we were just "Over There." We're going to go back "Over There," only not to Paris. We'll go to London -- it's Friday -- to check in with our friend, Richard Quest, and find out what the London newspapers are salivating over. They love it, and so do we here in the Colonies, when there is embarrassment there at the big palace.
What's going on?
RICHARD QUEST, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning to you, Jack.
This is the report. It's a long 100 pages. And the basic thrust of it is that Prince Charles' household is a shambles. And all -- now, don't you titter! Titter ye not! It's all about the fact that there was a rape -- there was an alleged homosexual rape at the palace, and there was the Burrell trial that collapsed, and there were all of those gifts that had been sold.
What is interesting about this report is that -- what we've discovered is that when there was that alleged homosexual rape, Prince Charles said of the alleged victim, "Let's get George out."
CAFFERTY: The George being the alleged victim.
QUEST: George being the alleged victim. He said, "Let's get George out." Nobody believed in the alleged rape. Everybody disbelieved it, and they still disbelieve it. And the upshot of this report, this long report is that the way Prince Charles runs his private household is not the sort of way you and I would run a bank account.
CAFFERTY: Yes, I was -- actually, I was laughing at the way you said "shambles." I wasn't laughing at the events in the palace. I was laughing at the way you said "shambles."
"Thomas the Tank Engine," a very popular program with British children, but apparently it's raising hell with ticket sales on the railroad.
QUEST: "Thomas the Tank Engine," a report by a psychology lecturer, Brian Young, apparently he says there are too many accidents and it has a negative impact on children. So, we put this to the test.
Now, look, we've got a couple of "Thomas the Tank Engine" books here. This is "Good Work, Thomas," and poor James is lying on the side in the field. And in this "Thomas the Tank Engine," the book which is called "Hello, Thomas," this one's got Percy the Engine in a big lake of water.
So the question is: Does "Thomas the Tank Engine" always manage to run off the wire?
CAFFERTY: Why do I think this one will? Oh, there you go.
QUEST: So, let's ask Thomas does he think that he could actually frighten children from getting on board a train?
You may well think we haven't got enough to keep us busy...
(CROSSTALK)
CAFFERTY: Oh, yes. That thought hadn't occurred to me at all, Richard. Listen, you've got six days to get busy and come up with another electrifying three minutes of live television from "Over There." Good to see you -- have a nice weekend. I'll talk to you next week -- Richard Quest.
QUEST: Thanks.
TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com.
