Vanderbilt Television News Archive

CNN Evening News for 2011-03-02

This program is about 1 hour long

• Introduction/Preview Anderson Cooper (New York)

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  09:00:10 pm — 09:01:20 pm

• Libya / Uprising

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  09:01:20 pm — 09:12:00 pm

  (Studio: Anderson Cooper) A fight in an important desert town in which the rebels were able to hold off Libyan leader Muammar el-Kadhafi's troops reported; video shown; details given of Kadhafi's various denials. [KADHAFI - {thru translator} says there is no protests.] Video of a funeral march being fired on in eastern Libya shown.

  (Studio: Anderson Cooper) Report introduced.

  (Benghazi: Ben Wedeman) A look inside the battle for Libya presented; video shown, including the wounded inside the hospital. [Voice of Libyan MAN - describes what happened to his brother and how they are killing the people.]

  (Studio: Anderson Cooper; Benghazi: Ben Wedeman) The fighting he witnessed on the road with an air attack on trucks on the ground near Brega, the importance of Brega, which has an oil refinery, the issue of Al Qaeda involvement, the motivation of local people and the new-found freedom discussed.

  (Studio: Anderson Cooper; Tripoli: Nic Robertson) Kadhafi's three-hour speech today in which he criticized the international community, his attempt to rally his people and laying the blame on the opposition discussed.

• Upcoming Items (Studio: Anderson Cooper)

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  09:12:00 pm — 09:12:20 pm

• (Commercial: Verizon; GMC; AARP; Plavix.)

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  09:12:20 pm — 09:15:00 pm

• Libya / Uprising / Ibrahim Interview

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  09:15:00 pm — 09:30:10 pm

  (Studio: Anderson Cooper) The factual discrepancies between what Libyan leader Muammar el-Kadhafi is saying and what is being reported on the ground emphasized. Live interview from Tripoli held with Libyan government spokesman Musa Ibrahim. [IBRAHIM - says this is an armed rebellion with people attacking cities; states Al Qaeda elements took hold of the situation, hijacked the movement and are leading the country into chaos; states we will show the captured Al Qaeda on TV; indicates the government has taken a step back to prevent bloodshed, we need tribal intervention, gotten young people to give up their arms; comments vaguely on the use of hallucinatory drugs by young Libyans; defends Kadhafi's speeches; denies massacres and bombing of civilians.]

• Upcoming Items (Studio: Anderson Cooper)

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  09:30:10 pm — 09:30:50 pm

• (Commercial: United Healthcare; SPDR; Audi; Harry Connick, Jr.; Samsung; CNN; Comcast; CNN Sunday Night.)

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  09:30:50 pm — 09:34:10 pm

• Libya / Uprising / A Discussion

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  09:34:10 pm — 09:44:10 pm

  (Studio: Anderson Cooper) Live discussion held with CNN's Ben Wedeman and Jill Doughtery and Johns Hopkins University professor Fouad Ajami about the interview with the Libyan government spokesman Musa Ibrahim. [AJAMI - says he told lies: there is a bloodbath in the country; comments on how the lie has to be supported; defends the Libyan provisional government in Benghazi while the US is invested in the idea that leader Muammar el-Kadhafi's is legitimate suggests the administration has to make a political decision about who to deal with.] [WEDEMAN - says the people have long memories about the regime of leader Muammar el-Kadhafi and they want a normal life; comments on the poor educational system, the miserable infrastructure.] [DOUGHERTY - says Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was talking about the lack of clarity about the opposition and the lack of contact with the government in Tripoli.]

• Upcoming Items (Studio: Anderson Cooper)

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  09:44:10 pm — 09:44:30 pm

• (Commercial: Honda; Zurich; America's Natural Gas; Colace; T. Rowe Price; CNN; International Academy of Design and Technology; Comcast; CNN "Race Rage")

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  09:44:30 pm — 09:48:00 pm

• Libya / Uprising / Man's Story

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  09:48:00 pm — 09:52:40 pm

  (Studio: Anderson Cooper) The story of a Libyan man who escaped after his brother was killed presented. [Voice of MAN - recounts hearing his brother was caught by security forces; states the family found his brother in the morgue after he was murdered by being beaten to death.]

• Upcoming Items (Studio: Anderson Cooper)

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  09:52:40 pm — 09:53:00 pm

• (Commercial: Lenovo; Bank of America; United States Postal Service; AutoTrader; TD Ameritrade; 1-800-sandals.)

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  09:53:00 pm — 09:56:20 pm

• 360 Bulletin

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  09:56:20 pm — 09:58:20 pm

  (Studio: Anderson Cooper) Report introduced.

  (Studio: Isha Sesay) The murder of two US airmen in Frankfurt, Germany, by a lone gunman; a Supreme Court ruling that anti-gay protests at military funerals are legal under the First Amendment; the unveiling of the iPad2 by Apple's Steve Jobs and the removal of Charlie Sheen's two boys from his house reported. [SHEEN - addresses his sons.] Sheen discussed.

• Good Night

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  09:58:20 pm — 09:58:20 pm