With myself as well. No, im in a lovely cafe in Downtown Doylestown in pennsylvania, in bucks county, pennsylvania. I dont know if youve been to doylestown. It is beautiful. You should definitely come here. Caitriona, youre in a library or a fake library . Im in a fake library. Yeah. No, its not. I mean, full disclosure, any library you see on television these days is fake. Lets be honest. I dont think theres a librarian on the planet that would let me speak this loudly if i were in a library, but i am in the Library Corner of the bbc washington bureau, so i have nipped into the Library Corner to have this chat with you guys, because it is very busy in this bbc bureau. Weve had a lot of reinforcements come into town for the debate this week. Of course, its been another crazy busy week and a crazy busy month and a crazy busy year, but im delighted that us three are going to find the time every week to just get together and have a chat about what weve noticed from the campaigns, whats im
I would be impressed. Yeah, i would be impressed with myself as well. No, im in a lovely cafe in Downtown Doylestown in pennsylvania, in bucks county, pennsylvania. I dont know if youve been to doylestown. It is beautiful. You should definitely come here. Caitriona, youre in a library or a fake library . Im in a fake library. Yeah. No, its not. I mean, full disclosure, any library you see on television these days is fake. Lets be honest. I dont think theres a librarian on the planet that would let me speak this loudly if i were in a library, but i am in the Library Corner of the bbc washington bureau, so i have nipped into the Library Corner to have this chat with you guys, because it is very busy in this bbc bureau. Weve had a lot of reinforcements come into town for the debate this week. Of course, its been another crazy busy week and a crazy busy month and a crazy busy year, but im delighted that us three are going to find the time every week to just get together and have a chat abo
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So, obviously, my immediate question was, can we go? can we get there? setting it up with the ukrainians was not the hard bit. Actually, it was convincing my editors and, you know, layers of management back at the times that this was a safe thing to do, or that we could mitigate the risks involved in it. Because they weren t just about the danger there. They were also these legal risks about. . . . . The legal consequences of illegally crossing into russia, which is how the russian government have perceived the trip. But you obviously persuaded them, cos you went. Just to explain, then, who you did speak to and what the terms were. I suppose the question is, whether you were changing names to protect russians, because getting people, presumably, in russia to speak candidly to western journalists must be very hard? well, yeah, these are people who lived in a very quiet corner of russia, and probably had never had anything to do with a journalist, even a russian journalist, never mind a
To protect russians, to protect russians, because getting people, presumably, in russia to speak candidly to Western Journalists must be very hard . Well, yeah, these are people who lived in a very quiet corner of russia, and probably had never had anything to do with a journalist, even a russian journalist, never mind a foreign one. I gave them their choices. I used first names only. And, you know, gave them the choice. I also made. I made very sure to speak to them out of the earshot of ukrainian journalists as much. Ukraine and had taken aggressive action there. And you attended something that sounded very fascinating, which was that ukraines civilian Military Liaison Officers were showing films to local people about the invasion. And i wonder what the reaction was to the films as you were there . Yeah, i mean, that was extraordinary, and one of the most extraordinary things to watch. There was a small audience of older people who were watching it. I spoke to one of them afterwards,