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Rep. Henry Cuellar gives firsthand account of being carjacked

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Rep. Henry Cuellar on Tuesday recounted three men holding him at gunpoint during a Monday night carjacking in the Navy Yard neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Rep. Henry Cuellar offered his firsthand account Tuesday after he was carjacked at gunpoint Monday night. "I was just coming into my place. Three guys came out of nowhere and they pointed guns at me. I do have a black belt, but I recognize when you got three, three guns -- I looked at one with a gun and another with a gun, a third one behind me -- So they said they wanted my car. I said, 'Sure.' You've got to keep calm under those situations. And then they took off," Cuellar told reporters Tuesday morning on Capitol Hill. Cuellar said police have recovered his car and his phone, and he thanked both U.S. Capitol Police and the Metropolitan Police Department. "I'm a big law enforcement person. I got three brothers in law enforcement, so I certainly appreciate the good work that the police did,...