jumped out of the trees and bushes on the side of the road. there were probably 15 gunmen. they were wearing ski masks. they were heavily armed. they dragged us out of the car. they had a container truck positioned waiting by the side of the road. they put is into the container truck. we were with some gunmen, rebels escorting us. they executed one of them on the spot. then they took us to a series of safe houses and interrogation places and they kept us blindfolded, bound. we weren t physically beaten or tortured. it was a lot of psychological torture. threats of being killed. they made us choose which one of us would be shot first. when we refused, there were mock shootings. they presented to shoot several times. and when you re blindfolded they fired a gun up in the air. kit be a traumatic experience. greta: we will post more of richard engel s interview on
jumped out of the trees and bushes on the side of the road. there were probably 15 gunmen. they were wearing ski masks. they were heavily armed. they dragged us out of the car. they had a container truck positioned waiting by the side of the road. they put is into the container truck. we were with some gunmen, rebels escorting us. they executed one of them on the spot. then they took us to a series of safe houses and interrogation places and they kept us blindfolded, bound. we weren t physically beaten or tortured. it was a lot of psychological torture. threats of being killed. they made us choose which one of us would be shot first. when we refused, there were mock shootings. they presented to shoot several times. and when you re blindfolded they fired a gun up in the air. kit be a traumatic experience. greta: we will post more of richard engel s interview on
sfwlimplts right now on andrea mitchell reports, on safe ground. our colleague richard engel and his team are free after a dramatic firefight in syria where they had been kidnapped and held for five days. they kept us blindfolded, bound. we weren t physically beaten or tortured. a lot of psychological torture. they made us choose which one of says would be shot first and when we refused, there were mock shootings. we will have more on their harrowing escape coming up. classes for other students are resuming in newtown for the first time since friday s deadly school massacre. as two more young victims are laid to rest today. in washington is the momentum for gun control finally building? house democratic leader nancy pelosi called for a ban on assault magazines like those used to kill the 27 victims in
is the case. eight kids every single day die from gun violence in this country. john rosenthal and michael smerkonish, i appreciate you joining us on this day. thank you. thank you. thank you. last couple of hours, speaker boehner proposed the fiscal cliff plan b and the white house rejected it. the alternative here, if you think about it in the so-called plan b makes no sense. i don t have to tell you time is of the essence. if a deal is to be reached by december 31st. how can they resolve the final differences and how far is the gap? plus they kept us blindfolded, bound, we weren t physically beaten orp tortured. it was a lot of psychological torture. in the past 24 hours, nbc chief foreign correspondent richard engel and his team rescued after being held inside syria for five days. more of what richard and his team say happened in that war zone. join our conversation on twitter.
spot. then they took us to a series of safe houses and interrogation places. and they kept us blindfolded, bound. we weren t physically beaten or tortured. it was a lot of psychological torture. they made us choose which one of us would be shot first. when we refused there were mock shootings. they pretended to shoot him a few times. then they fired the gun in the air. it was a traumatic experience prp we were told that they wanted to exchange us for four iranian agents and two lebanese people who were from the ahmad movement. we weren t allowed to speak, but if you sort of look kind of peek underneath the blindfold, you can see if maybe there s a guard in the room or not. we tried to joke a bit back and forth and keep our spirits up. we prepared to die many