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Military assault is happening, 2013, january, what they attacked was a remote but big international gas facility. gas processing facility. it was apparently way too lightly protected and full of westerners and other international civilians who these terrorist groups were found easy to take hostage. >> now to another big and still developing story tonight, american citizens among perhaps dozens of those taken hostage in algeria in northern africa. right next door to mali with not coincidentally french warplanes have been pounding militant for days. tonight, the u.s. state department has strongl...

Into some shouting matches off the record. >> did you ever take lip like that from a congressman? >> i actually have. and it's not a pleasant experience. and as a reporter -- >> did you report what they said to you in anger? >> no. because that was said off the record. >> i see. >> totally off the record. >> so they say, can i say something off the record? you're no good. [ laughter ] >> but that thing, the difference is and this is true of everything you're doing here, chris. we're in a hypermedia age in which virtually nothing is off the record. virtually nothing is unrecorded. virtually not...

>> i've been on the hill a long time. and i've occasionally gotten into some shouting matches off the record. >> did you ever take lip like that from a congressman? >> i actually have. and it's not a pleasant experience. and as a reporter -- >> did you report what they said to you in anger? >> no. because that was said off the record. >> i see. >> totally off the record. >> so they say, can i say something off the record? you're no good. [ laughter ] >> but that thing, the difference is, and this is true of everything you're doing here, chris. we're in a hypermedia age in which virtually nothi...

>> let me ask you -- >> ann wasn't buying it all. she hit mr. obama with a question right after that. she'll officially retire on september 10th, the 41st anniversary of her first day as a network correspondent. hats off to ann. she's an absolute legend, has been an inspiration to so many young reporters and journalists here at abc and many networks. covering the news for us back in the day. it's been a pleasure of a lifetime working alongside her at the white house. >> a big congratulations. well, we've had some fun here this summer but with all the state fairs going on, particularly in the...

Talking to cnn through the night is that no, they believe they are still on ukrainian territory. they haven't been more specific than that. but it means that they are in theory still here, possibly still in this area. perhaps they have not been recovered. i don't know to what extent the rebels here have actually launched a real search effort to try and locate these things. there is so much debris, it is spread out over such a wide area, it would take a considerable amount of time and a large number of people to do it thoroughly. and we haven't seen either of those things just yet, don. >> phil...