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Just wants to go home. a 16-year-old girl from california is thanking her rescuers after investigators say a family friend killed her mother and brother and kidnapped her. hannah anderson spoke with nbc news in her first interview since horseback riders spotted her with james dimaggio in the wilderness of idaho and an fbi team saved her. she corrected a report that she called dimaggio 13 times before he grabbed her. >> the phone calls weren't phone calls. they weren't texts, because he was picking me up from cheer camp, and he didn't know the address, like, where i was, so i had to tell him ...

Going to try to come back and ban assault rifles and ban high-capacity magazines. some of the things that senator blumenthal was talking about which is a much more liberal approach to gun control, he's argued that's why we need to take a more common sense approach, like his bill with senator toomey that would make expand background checks and get to the issue of mentally ill and criminals not having guns. >> thanks so much to both of you. >> thank you, chris. >> of course, we want to remind you about the president's speech later today in buffalo. we'll have it live at 11:00 a.m. eastern time. ...

Calls, they were texts because he was picking me up from cheer camp and he didn't know the address or what -- like where i was so i had to tell him the address and tell him that i was going to be in the gym and not in front of the school just so he knew where to come get me. >> that's 16-year-old hannah anderson describing her final hours of freedom before james dimaggio abducted her from san diego and led authorities on a cross-country chase. dimaggio's violent rampage started at his own home in the san diego neighborhood where he killed her mother christina and her 8-year-old brother ethan t...

Tough. she knew how to handle things. >> hannah also explained those 13 calls her abductor made to her at school right before he kidnapped her. >> the phone calls weren't phone calls. they were texts because he was picking me up from cheer camp and he didn't know the address or where i was. i had to tell him the address and be in the gym and not in front of the school just so he knew where to come get me. >> hannah would not talk about what happened in the idaho woods. that part of her story is still under investigation. but she did have this to say to her critics. >> you are who you are. you ...

Idaho mountains on august 10th spoke to nbc. she spoke about why she went online to answer people's questions about her murdered mother and brother and about her gratitude to her supporters. but she would not go into the details offer captivity. however, hannah did explain past letters as well as 13 phone calls from the day of her abduction that search warrants say she exchanged with her kidnapper, longtime family friend, james dimaggio. >> the phone calls weren't phone calls. they were texts, because he was picking me up from cheer camp, and he didn't know the address or like, where i was, so...