Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120723:19:42:00
What they do. >> so what was your biggest surprise from the trip? >> well, i think my biggest surprise has got to be just the humanist element. it's so easy to see these things as abstractions. like in syria right now, we have assad taking his helicopters and literally gunning down civilians or part of this rebellion in damascus, and i feel like by surfing the middle east, i've sort of developed this humanist connection to it that you don't really get in brute serious journalism. you don't really get in kind of the straight news wire coverage. and i think blik like in my boo provide the humani...