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Writer Marianne Manilov interviews some of the teachers and parents involved in John Stossel's interviews for his upcoming "scared green" report and gets their version of what happened during the interview. "He started asking leading questions and it was very clear what he wanted to get," says environmental educator John Quigley, who witnessed the interviews. "He would say, 'Wow, it's really scary, isn't it?' And the kids weren't scared at all and so they just looked at him. He asked that question repeatedly. ... These were bright kids, and they were responding well. He was clearly trying to elicit certain responses on tape. When he didn't get the verbal response he wanted, he had the crew shoot from behind and had the students raise their hands while he asked, 'Is the air getting dirtier or cleaner?' It was clear that he wasn't interested in honest dialogue but was trying to elicit certain responses for a script he had already written."