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Masked and heavily armed men appeared as if from nowhere. there was a brief fire fight and richard engle and his colleagues were then blindfolded and started being moved from safe house to safe house. it was on arrival at that first safe house that their nightmare really began. listen. >> they kept us blindfolded, bound. we werent physically beaten or tortured. a lot of psychological torture. threats of being killed. they made us choose which one of us would be shot first and when we refused, th...

Out and say we voted for some tax hikes. it will be interesting to see what kind of revolt there will be, though, from their tea party caucus and the people who said no tax hikes for any reason. >> they want to go home for the holidays and tell their constituents we voted for tax cuts. thats where it is. >> right. >> thats where i think it is. joan walsh, bob shrum, great to have you with us tonight. coming up, nbcs richard engel is safe after five days of captivity in syria. well have the det...

But as you can see, looking like himself. on the left this is gazi and john cloister, a long-time nbc news photographer. these three men were able to appear live on the "today" show, fife days after being kidnapped and held in captivity in syria. just hours before this shot of them this morning, they were freed by a syrian rebel group who rescued them from an unknown group that had taken them and that had held them for five, long, horrible days. the rebel group not only rescued these three, they...

And john klooister, a long-time nbc news photographer. these three men were able to appear live on the "today" show, fife days after being kidnapped and held in captivity in syria. just hours before this shot of them this morning, they were freed by a syrian rebel group who rescued them from an unknown group that had taken them and that had held them for five, long, horrible days. the rebel group not only rescued these three, they then took responsibility for driving them to the border and getti...

Are trying to win some sort of pr victory so that they can go out and say we voted for some tax hikes. it will be interesting to see what kind of revolt there will be, though, from their tea party caucus and the people who said no tax hikes for any reason. >> they want to go home for the holidays and tell their constituents we voted for tax cuts. thats where it is. >> right. >> thats where i think it is. joan walsh, bob shrum, great to have you with us tonight. coming up, nbcs richard engel is...

Nbc news photographer. these three men were able to appear live on the "today" show, fife days after being kidnapped and held in captivity in syria. just hours before this shot of them this morning, they were freed by a syrian rebel group who rescued them from an unknown group that had taken them and that had held them for five, long, horrible days. the rebel group not only rescued these three, they then took responsibility for driving them to the border and getting them safely out of syria. the...

More than halfway on spending cuts. that is by definition what compromise is about, meeting you halfway. the president is here. the republicans are here. the president has come halfway. the republicans have come this far. so we are close. >> they say they are close and they have been making baby steps of progress behind-the-scenes but in public we are seeing no sign they have moved that much closer together to avoid the fiscal cliff. >>shepard: thank you, ed. >> a real sigh of relief across amer...

Protesters marched in the square to protest draft constitution. a crew escaped captivity from the syrian gunman. correspondent leland vittert has a piddle east roundup. >> once the hunted, syrian outgunned rebels are becoming the hunter. they appear to have more organization. fighters are better armed thanks to qatar and advancing on me mass cuss. -- massacre. evidenced by the kidnapping of the chief correspondent richard angele in what he thought was rebel territory. a newly freed crew arrived ...

In syrian captivity. the foreign correspondent lived through it. lawmakers await benghazi review. [ whistle blows ]