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that was captured. >> did you get knit background on this or know this was coming? >> we did not. we will be fully briefed. of course, we went out of session on friday before this raid actually was under taken and it would not be unusual, of course, for the president to alert the leadership of the congress, but those of us who are not in the leadership, who are simply on that committee we will be briefed next week. >> can you put that into context? we're talking syria a snatch and grab. this was something highlighted earlier on the broadcast that had it been just to take out abu sayaf and anybody who might be with him, they could have used a drone to do that. they, instead, as you say, put boots on the ground. >> yeah, that's right. there's a couple of things worth noting. remember, in addition to killing abu sayaf and gathering the intelligence, they also captured his wife. she may -- if she had an operational role she may be a
the government telling us it's celebratory. what can you tell us? >> we've been listening three and a half hours of gunfire on streets, you can probably hear knit background. ranging from small arms to intense firing. sounds to me like a machine gunfire. the government has been claiming these are celebratory fire works. i can tell you in darkness of night it's the government says they've got keys to two cities. there is another city that has been retaken by the government. well, we cannot independently verify that. clearly there has been a huge amount of tensions here, rising to a peak this morning. we haven't seen or heard anything like this. the sun is just coming up over