Cape Talk, Friday night

Playing a game of semantics here, where he's saying he left the office. It doesn't mean he left Bassam's supervision. Because I caught him in a lie. And he said, if it's about his supervision, he could have been supervised under Bassam until 2016. The assistants' claim that Austin was only held in Bassam's compound for a few days isn't true.

His doctor and other members of the NDF militia who saw him. It seems pretty clear that Austin was with Bassam until early 2013. That's when his trail goes cold. So, I don't know why the assistant is giving us this story. Then he claims Austin was handed to Hezbollah, the Lebanese political party and armed group that's closely linked to Iran. Why would Hezbollah want that kind of risk?

Hezbollah knows what it means to take a Westerner. Westerners care about their people. They negotiate. He said, I have a feeling that Austin Tice is still alive. So now he's saying Austin was moved out of Syria so that Hezbollah could use him as a bargaining chip with the Americans. But Hezbollah never did that. And then

He mentions Austin might be in Iran. And he seems really keen that we look into this. I set that to one side for a moment because I want to see if he can help us find Bassam. When was the last time that you saw Basam al-Hassan? Shufda Sam al-Hassan. The last time I saw Basam al-Hassan was the eve of the fall of the regime. I woke him up and I told him the regime fell. And he was like, You're crazy. I said, No, wake up.