he said we are the russians. and just at that moment, i realized and looked down at his insignia that we encountered a whole contingent of russian special forces, airborne troops sent to that airport in the hours before and who had just fought a pitched battle with ukrainian military forces to secure that airport. and they were totally in control. it s not the line we ve been getting from ukrainian officials. they ve been saying there was a counteroffensive. we re taking the airport back. but that wasn t the situation at all. the russians that we spoke to there were totally in control of that airport. a brief firefight. we didn t see what they were shooting at, but we took cover which is when i went live and did that report on cnn a few hours ago. but it just underlines how close russian special forces, russian troops have been deployed to the ukrainian capital kyiv. it was about 15 miles away from the city center. and it s not just that one
that when microphones caught him saying that. turns out as the president was heading in the state of the union, navy seals had wrapped up a rescue of two hostages in somalia. american and danish relief worker kidnapped in october. approximately 20 members of seal team six, once again, parachuted in somalia 1:00 a.m. local times a couple miles from jessica buchanan and paul thisted were being held. brief firefight, they killed all nine of the people. the seals and hostages sustain nod injuries. u.s. military blackhawk and cobra helicopters flew the hostages to a u.s. military base in jabuti. mission successful, mission just completed, defense secretary panetta made it over to capitol hill in time for the speech and for the good job tonight, that from the look on his face, he seems not have totally expected
although not the same individuals. kimberly dosier of the associated press has been reporting on the dramatic raid and bob baer our old friend is an intelligence columnist for time magazine. do the play by play and we ll get the commentary from bob. i use these happy terms because it turned out incredibly well. all nine kidnappers killed, none of the rescuers killed. the hostages taken completely without injury. nine kidnappers killed. it was a high risk raid, a joint special operations raid. the s.e.a.l.s parachuted in from a distance and then hiked to the site, which was an open encampment. they quickly subdued the attackers. there was a brief firefight. some of them were actually asleep. they secured the hostages and then army special operations helicopters flew in, took away the s.e.a.l.s, took away the hostages, all of them unharmed. did they go in with those
saying that. turns out as the president was heading in the state of the union, navy seals had wrapped up a rescue of two hostages in somalia. american and danish relief worker kidnapped in october. approximately 20 members of seal team six, once again, parachuted in somalia 1:00 a.m. local times a couple miles from jessica buchanan and paul thisted were being held. brief firefight, they killed all nine of the people. the seals and hostages sustain no injuries. u.s. military blackhawk and cobra helicopters flew the hostages to a u.s. military base in jabuti. mission successful, mission just completed, defense secretary panetta made it over to capitol hill in time for the speech and for the good job tonight, that from the look on his face, he seems not have totally expected
heading in the state of the union, navy seals had wrapped up a rescue of two hostages in somalia. american and danish relief worker kidnapped in october. approximately 20 members of seal team six, once again, parachuted in somalia 1:00 a.m. local times a couple miles from jessica buchanan and paul thisted were being held. brief firefight, they killed all nine of the people. the seals and hostages sustain nod injuries. u.s. military blackhawk and cobra helicopters flew the hostages to a u.s. military base in jabuti. mission successful, mission just completed, defense secretary panetta made it over to capitol hill in time for the speech and for the good job tonight, that from the look on his face, he seems not have totally expected to hear from the president. as we prepared for the