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Reasons the "new york times" started looking into this they had nine reporters working on this in the past month or so is whether nbc knew at the time there were questions about the story. according to the times report overnight there were some people telling nbc, well we think this might not have been the assad regime after all and those concerns were put to the side. the way "new york times" put it the network mufed quickly to put engel on the air with an account blaming shiite captors and did...

It may have been a setup in order to free them. in fact according to engel it says the group that freed us also had ties to the kidnappers. essentially the story we were told in 2012 was this was a group of kidnappers affiliated with the government of assad, right? the assad regime that has done so much damage to syria. well in fact it seems like these kidnappers had ties to the rebels the rebel groups, the moderate rebels we were hearing so much about in 2012. so the story is told the story has...

We should mention right off the top the kidnapping itself is not under question. you dont want to play with somebody being put through that kind of ordeal. but the question what does it mean for nbc news and their integrity. lets bring in cnn media correspondent, host of reliable sources. youre very well wired at nbc news. what is the plus/minus on this? >> this is a story that had been percolating for weeks and weeks. "new york times" started looking into engels story of his kidnapping after th...

Really freed. the times thought they had a story here. frankly i was waiting for weeks for this story to come out. but nbc did something very wise perhaps. they had engel go re-report it himself and contact sources and try to figure out exactly what happened. >> i heard engel wanted to re-report it himself. which also speaks to his skills as a reporter. there was a lot of stink around this story. youre right, it has been around. and people trying to tie engel to it in a way they werent able to d...