‘Are You Kidding Me?!’ NewsNation Host Stunned When Freed Hostage’s Brother Says He Only Learned of Release Through CNN

RUSH EXCERPT:

VARGAS: “How did you get the news? Who called you?”

RAANAN: “This happened so quickly. I think CNN called.”

VARGAS: “Are you kidding me? Nobody from the government called you? You heard it from the media?”

RAANAN: “No, I think the government received the news at almost the exact same time that the news did. I shouldn’t say that, perhaps there was a word to some other members of my family, but as the media was trying to parse out if this was really happening, we were trying to parse out the same thing as well. It happened so quickly.”

(Via Mediaite)