NEW YORK — ABC News journalist Christiane Amanpour unexpectedly landed an exclusive interview with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Thursday.
The veteran foreign correspondent made it to the interview only after talking her way past an angry mob that had surrounded her car.
Amanpour wrote on ABC’s website that she had been granted an interview with new Vice President Omar Suleiman at the Presidential Palace. While ABC’s camera crew was setting up, Amanpour asked to see Mubarak, whom she had interviewed in the past.
“Within what seemed like just minutes, I was whisked into a reception room where he was waiting,” she wrote. “He greeted me warmly, and we started to talk. He looked tired, but well.”
Mubarak told Amanpour that he’d like to leave office now but fears the country would sink deeper into chaos.
Amanpour’s interview was off camera.
