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The Week in Interviews: Anderson Cooper Presses the President About 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'
By Felix Gillette
July 17, 2009 | 10:25 a.m.



The Best of the Best from TV news interviews, July 11 to July 17:

"Body language Czarina" Tonya Reiman spoke to Fox News about Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's blinking patterns and less animated hand gestures during the confirmation hearings.

U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd told CNBC's John Harwood that he was "uneasy about the Fed assuming the systemic risk regulator that we're talking about in this modernization of financial regulations."

It was revealed that ABC News' Jake Tapper tried to get an interview with Governor Sanford in part by referring to NBC News' reporting as "slimy."

Dr. Nancy Snyderman asked President Barack Obama about his smoking habit. Mr. Obama told Ms. Snyderman that "the American people are going to have to participate in their own health."

And in Ghana, CNN's Anderson Cooper pressed Mr. Obama about "don't ask, don't tell."