Mosab Hassan Yousef is a former Israeli spy, was born the son of one of the most influential leaders of the militant Hamas organization in the West Bank, and grew up in a strict Islamic family.  He has since converted to Christianity.

Fox News correspondent Johnathan Hunt has set up an interview with Yousef. We needed a place to conduct the interview and booked a hotel suite, which is a common practice.  The hotel Googled Mosab and learned about his past. After talking with the head of security, the hotel told me it was fine for us to do an interview there.  However, the night before the interview I learned we might have a problem.  FOX News’s legal department called me to warn that a legal agreement the hotel had requested hit a snag.

I started working on plan b.

When I woke up the morning of the interview, I contacted the head of security for the hotel.  He gave me the green light.   Our legal department informed me an agreement still had not been reached, but I was told to move ahead with the interview.  So, our crew began setting up — lighting the hotel suite and arranging the chairs for an interview.  We usually give ourselves an hour for this.

Shortly after, I got a call from the head of the hotel’s PR department.  She said without a signed agreement we could not conduct an interview in the hotel.  I wouldn’t sign the agreement because it said if anything newsworthy happened while we were at the hotel, we couldn’t shoot it. We attempted to get the hotel to change the language of the contract, but with 30 minutes before the interview was to begin, we had to move.

The crew broke down all of their equipment — something that usually takes more than a few minutes and rushed to the FOX DC bureau.  With their help, we set up a conference room and started the interview only a few minutes late.