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Very active in africa and has been hiding out in tripoli for sometime and then there was this operation surrounding his car, smashing the window and pulling him out of the car and driving him away and getting him on to that u.s. helicopter carrier in the mediterranean before he might be brought to the u.s. >> richard, given that it was in libya, how the libyan government wants to handle this. is libya a safe haven for al qaeda operatives and proof that they were on the anti-gadhafi side and we may have been helping? >> there were. radicals on the anti-gadhafi side and the real problem is the l...

>> where? >> who knows? >> there are countries that will offer safe haven, maybe iran. you need to offer his people some protection from the slaughter that could come against him and then some government that would be more broad based than this government which represents a tiny fraction of the syrian people. >> let me bring in nbc chief correspondent, richard angle. you are in turkey. look at the square behind you looks calm. i don't know if that is a good reading. >> reporter: it is calm right here. we're sort of in the eye of the storm. over the weekend turkish forces moved in in almost a m...

Richard angle and his crew freed after being kidnapped and held captive in syria for five days. they were driving in what they thought was rebel-controlled area when a group of 15 gunmen wearing ski masks jumped out and pulled them out of their car. they put the three men in a truck and blindfolded them. they threatened to kill them over and over again, pretended to shoot them. firing the gun into the air. the three men were eventually freed by rebels. they just arrived safe flee turkey. here is angle in his own words. >> we were driving in syria, about five days ago in what we thought was a r...

He believes he was an essential piece of the national security community and of this administration. so i'm not sure whether the personal transgression, although there is a code of honor. and he felt strongly that he had frankly screwed up. and he had to pay the consequences. and after 24 hours and clearly consulting his colleagues, other people in the national security community, don't know who else, the president agreed and accepted it on the phone in a conversation this afternoon. >> andrea mitchell, congratulations on this reporting that led to this scoop. i take your point this is not som...

Don don't. richard angle joins us next. some of the things we thought you should know. the communications director for newark new jersey mayor booker stepping down. the resignation comes day after the controversial appearance on "meet the press" where booker criticized the obama campaigns attacks on bain capital. the controversy over the comments has nothing to do with her stepping down and that she's leaving on good terms with mayor book. >> massachusetts congressman barney frank apologizing for comments he made referencing the death of trayvon martin during a college graduation on sunday, ...