. >> and is it your opinion that mr. sarey felt threatened? >> reporter: according to the journalists he was with, he did feel threatened. and we don't know exactly what transpired between the men and robert sarey, and with the journalists listening or certainly in the same room. but certainly there was a statement made that forced him to feel like he needed to leave crimea as requested. >> and you indicated this happened to you and your crew yesterday? >> reporter: yeah, what is interesting here is the coordination between the men in uniform and the pro-russian demonstrators who showed up. they were clearly called to show up there. they knew they needed to create a corridor through which sarey was brought. and yesterday we saw similar coordination at a base about an hour and a half from this capitol. there were russian troops who tried to get in the base. ukrainian troops stopped them. and as that conflict went on, a few hundred pro-russian demonstrators showed up and sat between -- or tried to get inside the base between the ukrainian soldier