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Which that would be the worst case scenario. >> that would mean the worst case scenario because i'm american and i'm a woman. and i knew that if this indeed was al shabaab, then my hopes of survival were -- they were nil. so you know, there hadn't been very many kidnappings taking place on land or taking place in this particular area, so there wasn't any precedent set to know what was going to happen. >> when did you realize that she had been kidnapped? >> just roughly a half hour or hour after it actually happened. >> that quick. >> yeah. >> which is good. >> yeah, it was good. i got a phone ...

After hour after hour. >> was there any explanation about who these people were, why they wanted you? >> no, nothing. the initial like act of being abducted was terrifying enough, but it became heightened because we didn't know and we didn't understand who it was who had taken us, because from appearance sake, they looked like they could be al shabaab. they were -- >> al shabaab, islamic militants which that would be the worst case scenario. >> that would mean the worst case scenario because i'm american and i'm a woman. and i knew that if this indeed was al shabaab, then my hopes of survival ...

It's hard for a secretary of defense to overturn precedent set by the prior secretary of defense. i think it gets a little bit political, too, which is sad. the grounds for the medal of honor, it's very simple. two eyewitnesses. that's all your need, just go. and the -- just two. and in the words of those marines in that room and the fact that those marines whose lives were saved by rafael, that they're able to testify to this because they're alive now because of what he did, that's enough for me. and here's the biggest problem, too, it's hard to have bureaucrats in d.c., doctors whether they'...

Had. the ability to hand out lifetime federal judgeships without consensus from the other party. never happened before. they think the senate should be a rubber stamp for this president -- i guess every president -- even if that president wants radical supreme court nominees and judges who will roll back our rights. >> everyone in this chamber knows that if the majority chooses to end the filibuster, if they choose to change the rules and put an end to democratic debate, then the fighting and the bitterness and the gridlock will only get worse. >> changing the rules of the senate has a long li...

to stop. >> it's not stopping. the peace keeping spokesman says countries that are supporting them needs to stop. the peace keeping department and the u.n. saying more u.n. unarmed observers turned back and three vehicles were fired upon by a source unknown when departing the scene. a very bad deteriorating situation. >> based upon what we heard, he said nearly all parts of the country in civil war. are we to assume it's nationwide now? >> it certainly is spread. these unarmed observers, only 300, they can't see everything. groups, opposition members, people reporting the increasing ...