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this is a crew speeding away from the rixos hotel in tripoli where gadhafi loyalists, the gunmen who had been holding these men and women captive for five-plus days. now and only now can they tell their story. we will hear it coming up. something here, the cnn crew, among dozens of international journalists, as i mentioned at the rixos hotel, between 30 and 35 journalists were held inside for five-plus days trying to negotiate the release according to our matthew chance, every hour, every minute of every day. the end came today when a cnn producer persuaded the local commander that...

Activity. so we've heard a lot about his favorite wife, how she might be privy to more information and this is the woman we understand the u.s. officials are most interested in speaking to, too. >> thanks so much. let's bring in nbc news chief pentagon correspondent gym miklaszewski. any idea how soon u.s. officials will be allowed to question these women and what specific intelligence does the u.s. hope to get from them? >> reporter: well, it's not quite clear, martin, yet exactly what that timing may or may not be. but i can tell you that the u.s. officials are very eager to talk to these ...

You just read from the pakistani taliban lead of wouldn't -- we wouldn't be hearing regardless. so i don't know that not releasing the photograph doesn't -- isn't ultimately dispositive on that. >> michael isikoff, thank you. the second question we posed on this broadcast, would the president's action against bin laden silence his critics? and the answer came swiftly, and predictable form. >> i praise the president yesterday i think it was a gutsy move that he decided to go in and get him so we could have identification. but if we -- if he had his way, and democrats had his way we wouldn't h...

The idea that you could have a guy for 50 minutes and get everything you want to get is ridiculous. particularly if you are having him interrogated by people who are f.b.i. agents and local law enforcement and don't know right questions to and. >> the feb fib is taxed with gathering intelligence. >> that's right. since last november, the administration said it would have a key target interrogation group that will have the kind of empty inform that would allow them to get more information it was not made operational. i bet not a single person that interrogated in 50 minutes who had this much kn...

Biggest foreign policy issues, that's pretty damning, you have the cia director unable to do that. >> senator collins is ed his difference. there's a difference between cia director of gathering intelligence, conducting covert places, maybe operations getting rid of bad guys, verse being the diplomatic leader of the united states and the world where we are trying to get countries to join us in common cause. that's a totally different skill set. while he may have information about some of these hot spots, he had not devised a strategy -- i'm not talking about broad, i'm not talking about specif...