Jake Cassevetes is a world renowned shooter just back from being embedded during the U.S. invasion of Iraq. As a well-pa | dG1fN0p0TWg5OFo5NlU
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00:00 (soft music)
00:02 - So is that your husband?
00:09 - Yeah.
00:09 - Is he in country?
00:10 - You know Iraq.
00:13 - He'll get vaccinated.
00:18 - Actually, no, he won't.
00:20 (dramatic music)
00:26 (soft music)
00:28 - With one day to go before George W. Bush
00:32 delivers the keynote speech at the convention,
00:35 the city is bracing itself for a mass demonstration.
00:38 - You're a reporter?
00:42 - Cameraman mostly.
00:43 - So you do just ride around in tanks
00:45 filming US troops invading foreign countries?
00:47 (phone ringing)
00:51 - Hello?
00:52 - We got a green light.
00:53 - Got a prime time special?
00:54 - I need you to go out and shoot street level protests
00:56 at the RNC.
00:57 Just get me the edgiest stuff you can.
00:59 - The whole militant idealism
01:04 fades about one week after you get the first paycheck.
01:06 - You don't believe in anything.
01:08 You have never lost anything.
01:10 - Yeah.
01:11 - What have you lost?
01:12 - What have I lost?
01:13 When I lost Cruz, I started really thinking
01:17 about what it is that I was gonna do about it.
01:20 Because the rich will always be fighting wars over oil
01:22 and land, and we're always gonna be on the front lines.
01:26 We're the ones who have to throw dirt
01:27 in the coffins of our families.
01:29 - Hey D, did you get my protest tapes in from yesterday?
01:34 Give me the fucking tape.
01:37 - I don't have them, they'll be back by noon.
01:39 - What do you mean you don't have them?
01:40 Back from where?
01:41 - Kramer made a deal with Homeland Security
01:43 that they could scan the footage
01:44 for potential terror threats.
01:46 - So what, I'm out there now spying on the protesters?
01:48 I'm doing surveillance for the feds?
01:51 (dramatic music)
01:54 - You wanna know something?
01:59 - You're a journalist.
02:00 This is a news organization.
02:02 - Is that thing on?
02:10 (dramatic music)
02:13 [BLANK_AUDIO]