jill daugherty for us now live at the u.s. state department. know, jo, when we hear the phrase back channel communications, obviously our ears perk up. what's going on? >> reporter: well, they have these back channels. and one of the reasons they need them is because the u.s. and iran don't have any official diplomatic relations. so how do you talk to them? there are a variety of ways. the swiss represent u.s. interests, you can talk through the swiss, you can talk through the iraqis, you can talk through the turks. tl there are a number of different countries. the latest we heard from u.s. officials is there was a letter from the u.s. ambassador to iran saying essentially what the united states has been saying in public, but it is very important to get this message across, and that is exactly what you said, don't even think about blocking that. it's a highly dangerous situation, very, very narrow strait. you have big ships, you have huge amounts of oil. in fact, 60% of the world's oil is shipped around the world on ships. so it's very, very im

. >> jill daugherty, thank you. i want to talk a little more about this. jill was just talking about jessica buchanan, the young woman who was rescued from those pirates in somalia. we have brian todd who joins me at valley forge christian college in pennsylvania. jessica was a student there on that campus. what have you learned about her, brian? >> well, brooke, we know that she was a student here. she graduated in 2007 with a degree in education. they are ecstatic on this campus that she has been rescued. they got the news this morning when they all went to their required chapel services here. it's a small liberal arts college associated with the assembly of god church. jessica buchanan had graduated, like i said, in 2007. she had gone over to africa several times to student teach on mission and see things like that, and the people here describe her passion for education, and especially a passion for teaching in that part of the world, this is what the school president, don meyer, said about that. >> when someone loves africa, it just comes through. for h

foreign affairs correspondent jill daugherty joins us. why would the u.s.to talk with the taliban? and omar is still on the loose, over ten years since they've been looking for him. >> you know, that's an excellent question. and you think the taliban, what is your image. people who chop off hands, won't let girls go to school. but there are other taliban out there. it's a very mixed bag. and now this news that they would be willing to open an office to begin some type of peace negotiations with the u.s. and its international partners is big news. and as we know, there have been talks. they've been at times secret, and the government isn't willing to talk too much about it openly. but there have been talks going on for almost two years. but there are a lot of pros and cons obviously about doing this. >> the big question, jill, i mean, diplomatically, can this work? >> well, let's go through the pros and cons. if you say, what are the cons, there are a lot out there. number one, who are the taliban. they're a different group, disparate groups. number two, wha

we're going to go straight to the state department to jill daugherty to lead this off. omalia raid. who led it off? >> the navy seals were prt

we're going to go straight to the state department to jill daugherty to lead this off. omalia raid. who led it off? >> the navy seals were part of the team. the seals were the ones who got osama bin laden. they went into somalia to rescue two international aid workers, one of them a 32-year-old american. her name is jessica buchanan, and also a danish citizen. he is 60 years old. paul