IMUS: So she's aware of all of the -- in my view -- idiotic analysis of this initial interview she gave that was made by various people. Rush Limbaugh and other morons.
RICHARD ENGEL (NBC News Baghdad correspondent): She's definitely aware of it. In Germany, she spent a half-day --
IMUS: Pardon me?
ENGEL: Yeah, she's definitely aware of it. Half the day in Germany, she actually missed the flight, so she had to spend the day in Germany -- missed the connection. And that day, she spent writing a sort of rebuttal to all the criticism saying that “this was not what I meant. I had no choice. These people are criminals, and I was under duress.”
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IMUS: Well, now what do you have to say, Charles? Bernard?
McCORD: What do you mean?
IMUS: Well you guys were -- had her carrying al-Zarqawi's baby.
McGUIRK: Aw, come on. Just kidding around. Just glad she's OK, she's back and all is well.
McCORD: Absolutely.
McGUIRK: And all is well.
McCORD: Enough said.
IMUS: Well, you two should apologize. That's what I think.
McGUIRK: Apologize for what? For articulating what everybody was suspecting?
McCORD: Yeah, for sharing the widely held view?
IMUS: Well, I didn't hold that view. So how widely held was it?
McCORD: It was very widely held.
IMUS: You're nuts.
McCORD: No, no, no, no, no.
IMUS: You're nuts, all of you.
McCORD: All we said is that she is a known sympathizer to the general Arab cause. And Iraq is considered, you know, almost a second home by her. There's nothing wrong with that.
IMUS: No, no. But you made her -- you four-eyed goober -- you made her sound like a terrorist, part of the insurgency.
McCORD: No. I don't think, there's no evidence to support anything like that, at this point.
IMUS: Well, of course there is. Lou and I had the tape.
McCORD: No, I mean there is no evidence to support that she is a sympathizer of the insurgency.
IMUS: Oh, you shut up.
McCORD: That's ridiculous.
IMUS: You're a horrid individual.
McGUIRK: We're just glad she's OK.
McCORD: Amen. Back with her family.
IMUS: What about you Bernard? You had her carrying al-Zarqawi's baby.
McGUIRK: Listen, it was just speculation -- was all it was.