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We want to bring in barbara star who is a friend of the ambassador. she joins us now. you know ambassador lippert well. what can you tell us about him? i read he was a former navy seal. >> he is a reservist in the navy right now working intelligence issues. he had been assigned to a navy seal unit at this point. like most of the pentagon press corps, professional friends with mark lippert because was a fim familiar figure until a few months ago here in the pentagon hallways. he served as chief of staff to former defense secretary chuck hagel. he served in a number of positions working asian po...

Ambassador. treated for non-life-threatening injuries. back to paula hancocks in seoul. what have you learned? >> reporter: well, anderson we know straight off of this attack the ambassador was taken to a local hospital just about half an hour ago. we understand he was transferred to a larger hospital here in seoul. we're being told by that hospital he is currently in surgery. they don't have details of his condition at this point. they said they're waiting for the end of the surgery to give us any kind of information. and we also know from police that the attacker himself was likely injured. ...