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Joe Johns, CNN correspondent:
"No raccoons were injured in this exercise."
Please what?
Raccoons are really not mentioned that often on a live broadcast from the White House.
But this appearance by CNN correspondent Joe Johns didn't look like a normal one either.
Around his mission he had to fight a raccoon.
Joe Johns, CNN correspondent:
"Where? There he is! No events on the President's agenda. Is he still there? Can someone shoo him?"
Even men from the Secret Service helped scare them away.
The raccoon stepped in when Johns had just finished his first live presentation and was waiting for his second assignment.
Joe Johns, CNN correspondent:
"
Damn raccoons. God again, this is the second time."
In fact, Johns had met a raccoon seconds before a live broadcast last week.
Joe Johns, CNN correspondent:
"I felt something on my leg. The first thing I thought was it was a cameraman from another station. I looked down and then it was a raccoon that was clutching my leg."
But for all the excitement surrounding the CNN broadcast and the drastic countermeasures by Johns, the most important message of the mess remains:
Joe Johns, CNN correspondent:
"No raccoons were injured in this exercise."