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stahl: are you suggesting they may not have been threatened? >> monaco: no. what i'm suggesting is, i wasn't present when any threats were made. but what matters, lesleyhese families felt that way as they were going through the most horrific time they will ever encounter. >> stahl: but was that the policy? was that true? d prosecuted? could someone who contributed to pay ransom also be prosecuted? >> monaco: so, what's true is that the justice department has never prosecuted a family, or friends of a family that has paid a ransom. >> stahl: but was it the policy? >> monaco: well, what's... the... the policy is, the united states government will not pay ransoms or make concessions to terrorist hostage takers. >> stahl: that policy is based in part on a presumption that paying ransom invites more hostage-taking, but that is refuted by a new study that examined the case of every known western hostage taken since 9/11. it was co-authored by peter bergen, a counterterrorism expert, for the nonpartisan new america foundation. >> peter bergen: they don't know necessarily you're american when they take you. it's sort of a target of opportunity. so, some count

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weicker: -- but you are lesley stahl. ms. stahl: i will ask one last question, then turn it over to the audience. has your view of the investigation, what happened, the outcome, any part of that changed in the last 45 years? if i may say so, looking out over this room filled with -- at that time -- very, very young people thrust into some very big things, and they conducted themselves with great valor, and i'm amazed that nothing went wrong. my view has not changed that it was the only time in history where a committee -- we all got along. it's overblown about people running to the white house and snitching. there wasn't anything to snitch. the hearings were so open. we were getting sometimes 40,000 .ieces of mail a week ms. stahl: can you imagine if there had been email? mr. edmisten: i still think it has relevance. why do we have 30 days -- 30 things with a date attached to the end of it? in the old days, there would be some big news. wouldree networks and pbs show the u.n. general assembly whatever. their ratings dropped. t

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stahl: i will let gordon wrap it up, unless there's another question. >> [indiscernible] the question i wanted to ask you, lesley, what's your impression of this? you were there this whole time. i remember seeing you do standups in front of the committee. what was your take as a member of the press? you have a good news and historical arc. ms. stahl: when someone asks me about watergate, i remember this mass of excitement amongst all of us. there were long tables set up. movie stars came. famous people, ceos showed up. everybody wanted to have a peek at this room and what was happening. it was the center of all life. if you are inside, it was raw excitement, electric excitement. and we were all friends. it wasn't just the democrats and the republicans. it was the press as well. notes would start. somebody would write something funny. it would go up and down the press table, then to the committee, then it would come back around, as everybody read whatever the joke was and laughed. i just remember this sense of oneness. we were all together in this. i'm going to ask gordon to ask a question and wrap it up. >> i ha