MSNBC Dayside Weekend 16:00 hour anchored by Stone Phillips
NBC ID: ARNXUZGS7N | Production Unit: MSNBC Live (Dayside) | Media Type: Aired Show | Media ID: MNBC-DAY-19990711-0007 | Air Date(s): 07/11/1999 | Event Date(s): 07/11/1999Beschreibung
Event Date(s): 07/11/1999 | Description: (Repeat broadcast from MNBC-DAY-19990710-0001.) 16:00:00 MSNBC Weekend Magazine anchored by Stone Phillips. 16:00:20 Preview of upcoming stories. 16:05:29 NBC's Dennis Murphy reports a"Dateline" package."A Company Man?". Man and woman walk through pedestrian tunnel at night with supered title and credits seen. In voice over former Soviet Union KGB official and defector to the United States Victor Sheymov says there was zero margin for error. At night grainy shot of Victor and wife Olga Sheymov walking seen. In voice over Olga says every second there was a danger. Graphic black and white walkers, grainy low shot of legs seen. Low shot of couple walking in tunnel seen. In voice over Victor says a mistake could be deadly. In voice over Olga says she just looked at him and said that's it, we have no way back. Train conductor's hands rip ticket. Train exterior window seen. Train pulls out of station. Low shot of train wheels in motion with passing train superimposed seen. Rolling shot of the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia at night seen. Reflections from lights on water at night seen. Black and white shot of KGB seal sculpture seen. Exterior of KGB office building at night seen. Graphic shadow on sidewalk seen. Victor sits in dark and lights pipe. Close up on mouth puffing on pipe seen. In voice over Victor says it was a hanging question, do they know, do they not? Hand held grainy shot sweeps ground on train platform. Hand held grainy shot moves down train corridor seen. Grainy rolling shot from car on Moscow street seen. Grainy rolling shot of prostitute with man outside car on Moscow street at night seen. Rolling shot from rear window at night seen. Reflection of man walking with child in train window at station seen. Grainy rear shot of guard in booth watching car pull up seen. Grainy shot of guard checking papers outside a car at border crossing seen. In interview Victor says their big worry was that their daughter would start crying or something like that. In interview Olga says it was extremely risky, it was dangerous. Graphic KGB missing person stills of Victor, Olga, and their child seen. Close up on still of Victor seen. Negative still of Victor with KGB seal superimposed seen. Still of Victor bleeds to panning shot of Cheymov's KGB identification papers seen. Slow zoom on KGB seal on papers seen. Close up on CIA medals awarded to Victor and Olga seen. Hands type on keyboard. Expert on defectors Bill Geimer (ph) works at computer in office. In interview Bill says he (Victor) came from a spot nobody else had come from and he knew a great deal. Train approaches lit turn on subway track. Back of train car with special effects on track lights seen. Side shot of Victor with passing train superimposed seen. Slow motion of Victor walking seen. Canted shot of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) seal on tile floor of office seen. In interview Victor says the CIA's word is worthless, they told him lies and shortchanged him. Three Russian soldiers goosestep slowly outside Lenin's Tomb in Moscow. Low shot of tree tops pans down to Victor smoking a pipe on rocky shore of a harbor park. Shots of Victor smoking on rock seen. Shadow of Victor smoking on rock seen. In interview Victor says we may not know some terrorist are going to blow up something because somebody didn't want to deal with the CIA. Still of Victor from KGB identification seen. Panning shot pans up KGB office at night. KGB seal carved relief on side of building seen. Panning shot of film cannisters on shelves in storage facility seen. KGB seal superimposed over reel to reel type machine seen. Skyline of Warsaw, Poland under low sun and across river seen. Still of Olga holding young daughter in snow seen.St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow seen. In interview Victor says he asked for immediate citizenship for his wife, daughter and self, full medical coverage and 1 million dollars. Victor sits on rocks in harbor park. Stacks of $1 bills in counting machine seen. Stacks of $1 dollar bills rotate in counting machine seen. Slow motion rolling shot of suburban homes seen. In interview Victor says"I would love to tell you." (KGB secrets given to the CIA) Victor says some are sensitive now and revealing them prematurely could harm our national security even now. Aerial of a United States Navy aircraft carrier under way at sea seen. Overhead shot of helicopter idling on deck seen. Radar rotates on ship. Flight crew on deck gesture for take off. Helicopter lifts off deck. Sailor looks at radar screens on bridge. Radar screen seen. Helicopters on deck runway seen. Pilot in cockpit seen. Flight crew sailor on deck seen. Helicopter lifts off. Exterior of Kremlin, highway and river seen. ln interview Victor says the 6th fleet were sitting ducks because they had no idea that their communication was being read almost on line. Grainy shot at night of the Washington Monument and aircraft in sky seen. Aerial of the CIA headquarters building seen. Grainy hand held shot enters emergency room office. Surgeon pulls glove over hand seen. American flag in wind with palm of hand superimposed seen. Graphic bills seen. In interview Victor says no (he did not get a million dollars cash on arrival). Victor walks in park. Slow jerky zoom on CIA seal outside CIA Operations Center office door seen. In interview Victor says this (CIA accounting) is a piece of paper when after long refusal the CIA was finally forced to give him an accounting of money given to him or spent on his behalf. Victor says they charged $10,000 for security guards. Victor says when he asked about large bill for car rentals he was told the cars were rented by CIA officers debriefing him and when he objected they said they worked with you didn't they. Graphic scrolling CIA accounting sheet seen. Graphic bills disappear to reveal accounting sheet with insert supers"House...131,875.00","Automobile...8,000.00","Education...28,498.00", and"Daughter's education...11,282.00" seen. In interview Victor says he is trying to stress that a deal is a deal, he never asked for more money than they promised him. In interview Geiman says they could never learn what they learned from him with the expenditure of one million dollars, it would be a bargain at 10 million. NBC's Dennis Murphy reports on camera on steps at night. Geimer walks on sidewalk in Washington, DC. Geimer enters door with slow zoom to nameplate"The Jamestown Foundation" seen. In interview Geimer says by and large he would characterize the treatment of defectors as abysmal. Black and white slow motion overhead shot of CIA employees walking over tile floor CIA seal seen. Slow motion rear shot of hotel doorman putting luggage into car trunk seen. Slow motion low shot of darkened man walking in train station. In voice over and interview Geiman says the CIA regards defectors as traders, untrustworthy, they look down on them, they are treated institutionally in a very poor way. Geimer looks at photographs at office desk. Photographs on desk and in hands seen. Geimer types at desk. In interview Geimer says he knows of two people that have serious difficulties today, he asked them if they would like to appear on this program but they declined, they were afraid. Victor and Olga walk in park. Olga walks into cordoned off lobby area and asks men if they are ready. Olga instructs set constructors on tv show set. Book"Tower Of Secrets: A Real Life Spy Thriller" by Victor Sheymov seen. Aerial of radar ball on roof and National Security Agency headquarters seen. Aerial moves over trees to CIA headquarters exterior seen. In interview Victor says in 1990 he went to Congress when he couldn't settle his differences with the CIA directly. At night panning shot pans from reflection of Capitol Building in water to building and fountain seen. In interview Victor says the investigation found the CIA wrong on all accounts. Still of Senate Intelligence Committee meeting with CIA seal superimposed seen. Empty judge's chair in court seen. Empty courtroom seen. Victor walks in park. Slow motion of Victor walking in park seen. Former director of the CIA, R. James Woolsey walks down office corridor. In interview Victor says he (Woolsey) felt so strongly that when he learned the particulars he absolutely refused any pay. Woolsey pulls book from shelf to reveal himself. Woolsey looks at law book and walks out of aisle with book. In interview Woolsey says yes sometimes ( he has seen defectors being treated badly) normally when it occurs it is an aberration but it occurs when a defector stands up aggressively for their rights, they're have been some bad occurences. CIA mission leader list plaque on wall with slow motion people walking by seen. Split screen of medical logo and doctor writing on paper, hospital hallway, doctor shuffling forms, empty hospital bed, and rolling shot from gurney in hall, seen. In interview Woolsey says something like that verges on fraud (CIA defense of saying English agreements are different than Russian translation of agreements with defectors). Former CIA director William Webster (ph) chats with man and woman at a social event. Webster speaks at podium. Webster is sworn in as CIA director seen. In interview Victor says Webster agreed to arbitrate and issued his opinion that the CIA was wrong on all points and Victor was right saying the agency has to go an extra mile to amend this issue and they ignored it as they ignored everything else. Slow motion of Webster seen. Split screen with statue of Justice and empty jury seats, judge's seat seen. In interview Victor says the CIA should be held accountable for what they do, and they hide behind a shroud of secrecy to cover up their misdeeds, that is an abuse of power. Victor says somebody has got to be the first. (to successfully sue the CIA) Exterior and exterior dining area of CIA headquarters seen. Shot of dining area seen through punched out wording on sculpture wall seen. In interview Woolsey says there are ways in which bad treatment of defectors weakens national security because it tells people out there who might work for the US and bring us a priceless bit of information, that they will not necessarily be treated well and bargians might not be kept. Reflection of dark figure in puddle with water drop in voice over seen. In interview Victor says he would tell a potential defector from North Korea that if he wanted to be treated like a human being find somebody else, don't deal with the CIA. 16:21:56"Dateline NBC" package"Starlight, Starbright" with NBC News correspondent Dawn Fratangelo reporting on a computer system that was designed to link children with Cystic Fibrosis. 10-year old Cystic Fibrosis sufferer Vanessa Torres (PH) does video conferencing at New York City's Mount Sinai Medical Center with fellow Cystic Fibrosis sufferer Charlotte Reardon (PH) at Washington, D.C.'s Children's National Medical Center as Torres asks Reardon how she's doing, and the two of them seen on computer screen conversing. Torres seen talking into microphone during the video conferencing. Torres and Reardon talk about Reardon's hospital stay. Torres undergoing medical procedure for her Cystic Fibrosis seen. Graphic intro for"Starbright World" computer network (linking children in hospitals all over the country) and Starbright World graphics seen. Torres explains it's important to have friends like Charlotte because she helps her to understand her illness better. Hospital corridor seen. Close up of intravenous (IV) drop seen. Faded shot of Torres (with nose clipped shut) undergoing medicalprocedure seen. Inserts of children's drawings seen. Torres and Reardon video conferencing seen. Torres explains how Charlotte has helped her."Girl Power" graphics from Starbright on computer screen seen. Girls at hospital working on computer seen. Close up of one of the girl's catheter in arm seen. Torres sitting in front of the computer at hospital seen. Starbright graphics explaining IV's seen. Boy playing baseball on Starbright in hospital seen. Boy (with no hair) having video conference at Mount Sinai Medical Center with other patient seen as other patient asks boy whether he knows how to speak Italian and boy responds no but that his parents do. Child touring Game Zone on Starbright seen. Same boy (with no hair) lies on hospital bed as he plays with Starbright and his mother looks on. Graphic dog on computer screen seen. Clips from movies"Jurassic Park" and"E.T." with actor Henry Thomas and the extra terrestrial E.T. seen. In interview movie director Steven Spielberg says a lot of seriously ill children wrote him letters after"E.T." came out saying that they dreamed of E.T. making them better using his finger, and says he used to cry reading these letters. Spielberg looking into camera on movie set seen. Spielberg and Sprint official testing their Starbright network seen. E.T. graphics seen on computer. Spielberg seen in video conference with boy. Spielberg says he envisions sick children standing up with IV's hooked up to their arms crowded around a computer laughing and telling jokes. Hospitalized children in video conferences seen. Girl typing on computer seen. Torres seen in video conference with boy as she asks him if he has any pets and he responds that he has a wild dog. Spielberg says we have to understand that these kids are scared, isolated and often depressed so whatever they can do to give them some kind of intervention through interaction with other kids just like them, says it is amazing that these kids are acting just as if they were at home or in the playground. Dawn Fratangelo reports on camera. Same boy (with no hair) lies on hospital bed accompanied by his mother and the Director of the Child-Life Program at Mount Sinai Diane Rodey (PH) enters his room, greets them and takes seat beside bed. Close up of that boy speaking seen. In interview Rodey says it's very serious business for a child who is working to recuperate. Boy (with no hair) uses Starbright network in his hospital room as his mom looks on. He's seen in video conference with girl. Rodey says the beauty of Starbright World is that there are aspects of the world that the child can go into and shine. Torres and Reardon in video conference seen. Torres says it's important for hospitals to have these computers for kids because they can learn about their illness by talking to other children with the same illness and make a friend, and says when she's older she will realize that Starbright made her a better person.