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Speaker 1: Dan Mitchinson, US correspondent, is with us right now.

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Speaker 2: Hi Dan, Hi, Heather.

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Speaker 1: What can you tell us about the news, which is

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Speaker 1: just how that somebody is being detained.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is in the Nancy Guthrie disappearance case, and

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Speaker 2: authorities have detained a person for questioning. We understand that

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Speaker 2: this person was detained during a routine traffic stop. The

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Speaker 2: FBI releasing, of course, security pictures and videos of this

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Speaker 2: potential suspect into the investigation. Earlier, we've seen four images

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Speaker 2: depicting somebody wearing gloves and a mask and a backpack

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Speaker 2: appearing to tamper with the camera at her home the

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Speaker 2: morning that she disappeared, and the FBI said that this

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Speaker 2: potential suspect at the time was armed. What we don't

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Speaker 2: know right now, though, is who this person is. Is

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Speaker 2: this the person that was in the video or is

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Speaker 2: this somebody completely different? You know? The FBI, you know,

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Speaker 2: is just a few hours ago was saying they weren't

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Speaker 2: aware of any continued communication between family men members and

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Speaker 2: the suspected kidnappers as well. So this is something I

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Speaker 2: think we're going to be learning a lot more about

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Speaker 2: in the coming hours.

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Speaker 3: Now, do you do you is it clear whether the

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Speaker 3: fact that somebody has been detained has been proactively released

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Speaker 3: by authorities or has.

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Speaker 1: Leaked out and then sort of in an unplanned way.

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Speaker 2: I think this sort of leaked out. There were a

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Speaker 2: number of leaks from NBC News, CBS News, various news

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Speaker 2: sources as well that said this, and then boom, it

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Speaker 2: just started to unfold. And maybe this is good that

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Speaker 2: they're actually releasing some news about this, because we haven't

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Speaker 2: heard a lot. And you know, you've been doing what

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Speaker 2: you've been doing for a long time. I have as well,

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Speaker 2: and you know, after a while, you get a gut

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Speaker 2: feeling about certain stories that something doesn't just sit right.

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Speaker 2: Somebody is lying. It's like like a sixth sense. And

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Speaker 2: I've talked to a few colleagues too, and you know,

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Speaker 2: we agree that something just hasn't felt right about this.

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Speaker 2: The FBI knew more than they were letting on, or

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Speaker 2: the family wasn't sharing a big chunk of information. Something

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Speaker 2: just felt a bit off. So hopefully we're going to

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Speaker 2: get a clear picture of what is going on with

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Speaker 2: this person that they detained.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you bang on the adent now, I

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Speaker 3: see you've got a whole bunch of people who are

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Speaker 3: leaving you as Congress.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we u sixty members, fifty one House members, nine senators,

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Speaker 2: and the question is why are they leaving. I mean,

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Speaker 2: lawmakers can choose to retire for a variety of reasons,

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Speaker 2: you know, health issues, law commutes to Washington, the political

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Speaker 2: climate as well. It appears that it's just the unappealing

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Speaker 2: prospect of continuing in their jobs. NBC looked into this

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Speaker 2: and it seems a lot of those who are retiring

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Speaker 2: and say, you know what, the political arena right now,

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Speaker 2: it's not a pleasant place to be. There's this toxic

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Speaker 2: partisan atmosphere. There's congressional retirements that can provide clues about

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Speaker 2: where lawmakers think the winds may be blowing in the

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Speaker 2: mid term elections coming up this November. And we've got

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Speaker 2: thirty House Republicans twenty one Democrats. The Senate's more evenly

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Speaker 2: divided on this, and I think Democrats are facing an

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Speaker 2: uphill battle to at the four seats they need for

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Speaker 2: control of this. So I think a lot of people

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Speaker 2: are saying, well, I'll go out while I'm on top,

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Speaker 2: or is at least as close to the top as

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Speaker 2: I'm going to get at.

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Speaker 3: This point, Dan, thank you very much. Made always appreciate

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