Colin Powell’s Monday morning CBS interview was interrupted by a screaming protester.
Powell had just answered a question about returning to America after the Vietnam War, when the episode took place.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell (R) takes part in an onstage interview with Aspen Institute President and CEO Walter Isaacson (L) at the Washington Ideas Forum in Washington, September 30, 2015. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo
An off-screen producer can be heard shouting, “No! Get back here!” before the set-crasher explodes on the former secretary of state.
“Alright, Colin Powell! You know better,” he inaudibly screamed. “As a black man in America, you dropped bombs on Iraq. That’s fucked up!”
Powell took the outburst in stride.
He turned to the CBS team and asked, “is he one of yours?” eliciting laughs from all parties.