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you know, you hear over the radio, we're taking fire, we're under fire. and you hear the pleading in their voices. they need help bad. >> i actually dropped to a knee. why did i do that? that's when the rocket hit. >> he had a machine gun. he started laying down. >> i rolled him over. there was no response. i ripped off his body armor, took a pulse.
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couldn't feel nothing. >> when you realize they are dead, what do you do? >> just said a prayer over both of them. >> i grew up on the farm. rode horses as much as i could. worked with cattle. my mom had a book that asked what your career would be or what you wanted to grow up to be. mine was always either a police officer or a firefighter or a soldier. it was december of 1983 when i actually signed up. i wanted to be in the infantry. that's where you do all the fun stuff. when i got out of the military, i started working as a police
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officer. then after that i picked up a job as chief of police in a small town. then moved on to contracting after that. i got to benghazi, that was my first time into libya. >> i remember walking through our university and there was an army recruiter. he picked me out of the crowd. he said, hey, what are you going to do after college? he showed me a ranger video. i said, that looks tough. is it hard? he said, you have to be tough to get in. that's what i want to do. if people can't do it, i want to do that. in 2003 i was medically discharged. i got a call from black water. they were saying, we are looking for contractors to go to iraq. i got the call to go to libya early 2012.
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>> third grade. that's when we lived across the street from the recruiting station. i chose the marine corps. heard they are the toughest guys. i tried out for the toughest i could find. got out two months before i got bored had to find work. ended up getting a job with air conditioners. i got into contracting. the first time that i actually went there to libya, i went into tripoli. the second time i went back and the third time and fourth time, they were in benghazi. >> this attack lasted 13 hours. four people died, including our ambassador. it was on 9/11. so i want you to take us back to
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the beginning. for people who don't-s: know t job, contractors, how do you explain it? >> for us, it was protection. protecting cia case offers overseas. >> how did the hierarchy work? you have the chief of base, the main guy in charge. >> that was bob? >> yes. then you have the team lead, >> our team leader is a staffer. us contractors are -- if you talk military, we are like enlisted. >> our members of the team are not here. tyrone woods, who you called rone, two other members who remain anonymous. jack and d.b. >> correct. yes. >> you were set upñifñ to prote the annex, which was the cia -- >> the personnel at the annex. >> this is -- gives us
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perspective of the other facility there which was what you guys call the consulate. where are we? >> here is the consulate. then here is us. here is our compound. >> pretty close. three-quarters of a mile. about a mile drive. >> maybe a mile. if you did the whole thing. >> this site, was it well protected? >> who wants to take that? >> it looked nice. it was a beautiful compound. it had orchards. it had a really nice -- >> it had a swimming pool. >> they had their own security. they were their owne e:security. >> yeah. >> diplomatic security. >> they didn't have an american force, a marine detachment. >> what did you tell them in. >> i said, if you get attacked, you are going to die. you know that, right? i remember i said, if you need
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us, just call. we will come get you. >> what's your reaction when you hear the ambassador is coming to benghazi? >> we were thinking, there's five guys to protect him. that's a huge compound. >> 9/11 comes. routine day. >> yeah, it was. >> during the day. it was normal day. just doing normal task stuff, task organization stuff. >> you had to move. it was late in the afternoon. >> early evening. x#pj't out to meet people for dinner. normal night, town looked normal. there was nothing that looked any different than any other day. >> there was no whisper that the video was a major problem? >> didn't know about a video until i got to germany. no idea about any video. >> so how do you hear that something is wrong? >> our team leader. he came across the7j/j radio. i remember, i looked at my
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watch. it was 9:32 when i got the call -- first got the call that said, hey, we need grs. >> what is that? >> global response staff. >> i remember i looked at d.b. and said, manage something is g. started moving to our team room. >> where were you? >> myself and jack were in building d. >> about right there, i said, what's happening? he said the consulate is attacked. you could hear the fire, the actual concentration of fire and some explosions. >> it was a relatively quiet night in benghazi. by 9:00, the seven americans in the compound are settling down for the night. you have the ambassador in his room writing in his diary. you have sean smith online talking with a friend. you have five diplomatic security agents somewhere around 30 or 40 minutes later, men
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stream on to the compound with a ak-47s, shooting off guns. almost instantly, they have overrun the compound. militia men, they flee. you are ready to go. >> five minutes, we are ready. we're ready to go. >> then what happens? >> i went to the tl and i said we are ready to go. bob looks through me and goes, you need to wait. he is on the phone talking to somebody. i assume they were trying to coordinate us to link up with 17 february. >> the local militia. >> probably 15 minutes and i got out of the car and bob and the team lead were standing on the front porch. i just said, we need to get over there. we are losing the initiative. bob just looked at me and said stand down, you need to wait. >> we are getting calls from state department guys saying, we are taking fire.
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we need you here. we need help. >> we were talking about it in the car. >> why are we waiting? >> the ambassador and sean are in the villa. with them is scott, a security agent charged with protecting the ambassador. they hide behind a locked gate. he waits in the shadows with a rifle ready to shoot anyone who tries to enter. the attackers can't get in. but use fuel to set the villa on fire. from beginning to when you are ready to go, thumbs up to the time when you actually pull out, what's that time frame? >> close to 25 minutes. >> to bob i said, we need to go. got the wait again. i got in the car and said, get in the back seat. at rone. we left.
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>> you did that pretty much on your own. >> yes, we were never given the okay to go. we got the final straw for us to go, that's my opinion and how i felt was one of the ds agents said, they are starting to light buildings on fire. you need to get here. >> they used the words stand down. >> a number of people, including the house intelligence committee, they insist no one was hindered from responding to the situation at the compound. committee's wording was there was no stand down order given to american personnel attempting to offer assistance that evening. what do you say? >> it happened. >> it happened on the ground. all i can talk about is what happened on the ground to us, to myself twice and to tig once. it happened that night. that happened. we were told to wait and stand down. we were delayed three times. >> you asked for support. >> after i was leaving, i said, get us an isr, a drone and get
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us a gun ship. >> the drone would have given you eyes above. >> and support, protection -- >> fire power? >> exactly. this is a fox newsalert. the senate reaching a late night deal on long-term spending. chad is live from washington. what can you tell us? >> reporter: they just passed this big spending bill, 54-40. this was the end of a long slog to avoid a government shutdown. one hangup that they ran into was over immigration. you had conserva ted cruz in particular, who said we don't like what the president has done on immigration. we want to vote. we want to hold up the process. we want to defund part of that
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if that's possible. in the deal the department of homeland security is funded through the end of february. a few minutes ago the senate rejected a constitutional point of order that senator cruz lodged against the bill. harry reid said that he was wrong, wrong, wrong to do thatp house and senate. this goes to president obama's desk for his signature. >> thank you, chad. again, if you are joining us, the senate has pass aed a major spending bill. this has been a fox news alert. >> i was standing right here. direction. i thought it was bad guys. so i drew down my weapon. i saw it was ds guys driving it. that's when i heard, we can't find the ambassador. i started moving towards the
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front porch. that's when they were pulling indow. >> the ambassador is still lost? >> yeah. you and tyrone woods go into the building one of many times, but go in and there's a moment there. >> he was saying, i can't find my way out. come to my voice. he almost made another right into where the -- i think it was a dining room. it was in flames. i reached out and grabbed him and said this way. we just went out and coughed up a couple lungs. >> you are back here. >> yes. one of the libyan guards in the back. he comes, open the gate. open the gate. i came back and i opened the gate. i said, when you come through this gate, you close it and you lock it. i moved forward. later, he didn't do that. we paid for it. we paid for it down the road.
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>> you have been there for a while. then you hear gunfire from outside the compound. then rocket propelled grenade. >> bam. just huge. >> where does it hit? >> over in this area. on other side of where we are trying to collect and get out. another explosion goes off. it's from the gate that was left open. i started running fire. >> i was inside the safe haven. i heard the explosion and gunfire started cracking off. >> what did you do? >> i moved from here over to @h here, crouched down. at the same time, a guy with an rpg moved into the view of the gate. he was coming up here shooting. he would run away. just -- he was shooting and i shot him. >> you shot him. he went down? >> it was just weird. it was like a light switch. everything stopped. >> you finally get together. you give up the search for the ambassador? >> he made the call and we had
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done everything -- we are all been in the house so many times. the state department guys left. they were on their way back to ours. >> rone says, take a left. in the confusion of the counter attack, they take a right. >> i said to myself, i can't say what i said to myself on camera. it was damn you knuckleheads. >> now we are holding a piece of property that there's nobody else on. >> they say, everybody get down, we're getting out of here. out f
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they were jocking up, i get a call. you need to get back to base. >> you tell the case offer, we got to wrap this up? >> she's trying to say good-bye. we need to go now. like any good case officer, she's trying to gather information what's going on. i looked and said, you are in my world. you need to be quiet. let me do what i need to do. >> you have been back on the compound in the annex for a while. you said before you felt like you wanted to be with your team.
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but you also knew you had a job to do there. >> i knew i was the only one -- we had two site security officers who were a great help. but from the grs side, i was the only one that was there. the ds guys come back first. the armored car held up. they roll in. i could hear when they were leaving they announced over the radio and then i heard fun fi gunfire and knew where they were at. though are calling they coming in hot. >> which means? >> coming in fast. >> have the great ready. >> have the gate opzkb >> you hear the sound of the tires just -- they are on run flats but you hear that sound coming through. both sides and the front windshield were shot up. you could see the relief on their face when they got in. scott looked like a chimney
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sweep. he was black from head to toe. i told him to get inside, get medical help. the other guys asked what they could do. i told them to get up on the various buildings. we had one get up on each one.of these buildings here. i went back up on this building until our guys come in. they knew where they needed to go. each one went to their pre-positioned or pre-planned position. jack is up on this roof. rone is up here. tig is in this corner initially. i'm over in this corner over here. >> you are exhausted. some of you probably have smoke inhalation. you are preparing for another fight. >> just gut feeling we're going to get attacked. >> it wasn't long after they showed up, you start hearing
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tires screeching over in this area. we start asking over the radio to the tl if fed 177t! is comin over to assist. the response was they are not sure. we immediately assumed that anything that's coming in is coming in that are bad guys. >> i asked the status of the inspector. they said, checking on it. that's the last -- that's the last time that i got an actual answer if one was -- we were going to get support or not. >> i was expecting air support. even if it was just a flyover by a jet or whatever. >> sometimes that's all it takes. it gets the bad guys down. >> no doubt that would have been nice. >> i want to put this up!cbsñ s can describe what's outside the annex that you are most concerned about. >> this stock yard and this is very -- a lot of concealment. a lot of bushes and small trees in this area.
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this is what we call zombie land. >> right at this intersection. >> they are starting to stage here. this area -- this is a big open parking lot. here is the -- here is the house that we are seeing people start to go into that little area. >> they can come into here and give them access to our back gate. >> you are watching this develop, the cars and people going into this house that you don't know if it's bad guys or not. what's the engagement? you wait until they fire on you? >> wait until we see action from them that specifies them being attacking us or going to attack us. i mean, i'm not going to wait to get hit before i hit back we start seeing movement from this direction. through the night vision goggles. >> this house had kids in there that would pester us.
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you didn't want to open fire. i don't want to shoot somebody that doesn't have it coming to them. i don't want to shoot a child. they were starting to move up on us. i remember d.b. says, i got movement. i have my laser. i am i'm picking out targets. i got on the radio with oz. i said are you seeing what i'm seeing? >> can they see it? >> no. >> in my mind, they are getting ready -- we're going to engage. we let them get as close as ghiú possible. and thenv84váp)q them out. the first thing they fired was an rpg. it went flying over the compound. >> came over our -- pmyself and d.b.'s head. >> i was bringing water over to oz. i got about right here about the corner of the gym when -- >> a huge flash. >> a homemade explosive.
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>> it goes off. it hit right here just inside. >> then what happens? >> to me it was, okay, it's on. we started fighting. started lighting them up. i was lasering targets to shoot them. >> the fire fight starts. what does that look like? >> it's awesome. >> it's a green hue. with the lasers, you see three, four sets of lasers just bouncing back and forth taking flash of light which is the enemy shooting at you. hear the round going past your head. you are reengaging in those spots. >> anybody take a hit? >> me and tig were in this corner. they were trying to shoot out the lights. secondary from one of the rounds hitting the wall or one of the lights, it splattered into my face and cut me across -- the bridge of the nose. >> you push back. you take down a lot of people. it stops. >> to me, we won that game.
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all right. good deal. morale goes up. i think all of us could feel it that it wasn't over yet. that was a probe. they are going to come back with a bigger force. that's what we would do. >> there's a break there. >> two hours. >> two, two and a half hours. >> at what point do you hear about ambassador stephens? >> there was a ds agent up on the building with jack. he got a phone call. that's how we found out that he 1:00 a.m., local looters and curiosity seekers have entered the consulate and infiltrated the safe haven. six apparently good samaritans come across an unresponsive man. they take him to the benghazi medical center where he is worked on for 45 minutes before being declared dead. they have scott's phone which
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had been given to the ambassador during the attack. calling the numbers, someone gets to the american embassy and says a man has been found and he is dead. the caller provides a description matching ambassador chris stephens. >>záñmñ a car pulls up and park here. a guy comes around and he is reaching like he is throwing something. right as he brings his arm back to throw, i engage him. i move and shoot him two to three times. he goes down and whatever he threw landed just short of our back gate and exploded. which then engaged again it was -- >> the signal. >> this was bigger. it was more -- it was a laryq j force coming through. there was i would say between 20
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looking forward. >> he wanted to see his baby. >> he had twins. >> he had twins. >> what's he telling you? >> every day and two or three times a day we would skype and sind individu send videos of the twins. when i didn't get a call, that's when you worry. we always e-mails or talked on the phone. he would always call around 3:00, 4:00 p.m. our time. always. if he didn't, i knew ahead of time why he wasn't going to be able to call. >> we would talk every day. when time would allow. most often the same time every day. if he didn't call me, you know, call me, then you know i would begin to worry. >> it's one of the reasons i'm fighting. it's one of the reasons i'm
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doing what i do. not only for the people here for the family back home but primarily you are thinking about the team. that's your -- >> they are family. we're all family now. we're all brothers. that's the way it is. so you are thinking of this family here as much as that family there. here. >> i ended up on top of the command center in building c with rone at this point. >> more 'ç>hj(áá(v what happens then? >> we don't know what they are doing. we didn't know if they were lost or trying to probe us. >> there's a guy with a cell phone. >> he walked up cell phone and walked back. maybe he was getting gps co-ordinates. >> it's another thing. i want to shoot him. is he taking a walk? weird things are happening. we're trying, we are good. we fought them off again.
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>> i was expecting more cars. it was actually the first convoy was small. i was happy to see them. three of the guys i had worked with before. i recognized them off the bat. >> including glen. >> including glen. >> navy seal. you had worked with him. >> we had done a trip in tripoli before benghazi. i knew him from contracting. >> they come in. they go to building c. you are still waiting for what's happening. >> the aircraft that they had wasn't big enough to take us back. so they were going to take the non-shooting personnel and get them out. >> to the airport. >> we were going to stay there and hold. >> literally? >> literally.
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>> and i think they had been there about an hour. we were talking about that wondering what's taking so long, why aren't we getting out of here? the super wn was starting to co. be ready for an attack. it was that time that glenn come up on the roof. come over and was talking to rone. rone had introduced me. because i had never worked with him before. he said, he's a sniper. hopefully, we ain't going to need you. i'm glad to have another shooter up here. glen -- bub turned and was walking back toward the front of the building and almost immediately a mortar cam in ae d landed on the wall right there. when i heard it -- i didn't know i heard it. it sounded like when a rocket goes off. >> small arms fire started coming from this direction.úhh rone had a machine gun. he stood in probably a three-quarter cross position and
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just started laying down hay. >> down this avenue of approach from here. started to engage. i ran out of ammo. knelt down, changed magazines and as i'm coming up, i start tm re-engage, another mortar hits. almost to the center of the building. it knocked me back. that's what hit rone. he was standing to my left. i got knocked back. as i stood up i saw him out of the corner of my eye. he was in a fetal position in the corner right here. >> i stand up. try to re-engage with my rifle. i bring i had hand up and from here down is hanging off at a 90-degree angle. >> yourxó >> yeah. i keep trying to bring it up. it won't stay. i can't make it work.? that's when the second round
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hit. that's when i saw bub go down about right here. i wasn't sure if he was hit or if he was taking cover. then i turned back and gentry to engage and get my hand to come up. a third round hits in the same vicinity. at that point i felt luke i got hit by a thousand -- stung by a thousand bees up and down my side. i figure i better get to cover now in case another one comes. the whole night went quiet after that. >> that tough to talk about? >> yeah. yeah, just a little. >> i bet.x.c4 >> yeah. you know, it's what has to be done. i mean, you are in a fight. you got to stay in the fight. that's the only thing i could think ofo34e's rone is down. somebody needs to continue firing. >> you see this mortar attack-1 happen.
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what are you doing? >> i'm still -- i'm over here on tower three, covering this area. to me it looked like it hit around here. we had no cover from mortar attacks. the buildings -- i'm surprised it didn't collapse. another explosion hits right here. when i heard another thump, that's when i jumped off the tower and moved back and got somewhere right around here. that's when the mortar hit and once that hit it just -- it was black and dead quiet. jack came over and said, there's no movement. that's when i sprinted to the ladder. i kind of went up as fast as i could. that's when i saw dave off to my left, looked like somebody in the center and then a couple other peopleûpeñ maybe over her. i moved over to dave. i find a tourniquet.
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dave's leg was completely suffered off. it was barely on by a thread. same with his arm. >> ligaments. >> got the tourniquets on him. called back on the radio say i need help up here. i need help. i heard noise. i moved over to where the noise was. there was -- >> i was trying to get a tu tourniquet on myself. >> your hand is down. i pulled out the tourniquet and i was trying to fix my arm. >> he was going, clheck this ou. you need to stop. you are going to make it worse. >> i was bored. >> we got a tourniquet there, grabbed the tourniquet. threw it on him. stood him up. >> he asked if i could get down or get to the ladder. yeah, i'm going to have to. i knew there were others down. >> you were banged up. >> just a little bit.
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i got hit in the chest, up and down the 4h÷vside, hit inm$mi t throat. i guess i will have to. so i hooked my top arm around the top rung of the ladder and just climbed over and was concentrating on just thinking, if i fall now, i'm going to break my neck and die. that's the last thing i want to do. i'm concentrating on getting my feet on the rung and sure enough i slip and luckily i had my arm and i caught myself. pulled myself back up and got down and was able to inch my way down the ladder. >> after i got up and moving, i went back to rone. he was still in the fetal position. i rolled him over. there was no response. i ripped off his body armor. tried -- got that off. took a pulse. couldn't feel nothing. got the flashlight.
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no pupil movement. no dilation. put my ear to his chest and tried to see if his chest was going up and down, if i could hear a heart beat. there was nothing. i left him. went over to the other 5icwguy. i did pretty much the same exact thing, checked him, ripped off his body armor. there was nothing. >> when you realize they are dead, what do do you? >> i just kind of said a prayer over each -- both of them. >> the quote is, god watch over him, guide him to where he needs to be, take care of his family. >> so after that, i kind of -- the d-boys they are -- they want to get everybody off the roof. when i was doing the prayer, i
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ignored them. it was like, gathered up everybody's weapons that was left. >> you have to get the bodies off the roof. it's tough. the d-boys picked the bodies up and dumped them over the side of the roof. maybe that's not the right description. but they got them off the roof the most expedient matter. i know it's not something you want to see. well another great thing about all this walking i've been doing is that it's given me time to reflect on some of life's biggest questions.
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comcast business. built for business. turned on the news and there it was, four americans had been dead and two were unidentified. i'm like, you know, he hasn't called me. i tried texting, calling. i began to cry. and i hit my knees and prayed. >> if i panic right away, i just get myself worked up. i tried to not worry about it. i thought, well, i will hear from him in the morning or the next evening. >> there was a ticker on the bottom of whatever news it was. and it said something to the effect that there was an attack on the annex in benghazi. my heart dropped.
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gosh, how will i tell the kids? that was my first reaction. >> take you to when the bigger convoy arrives. they finally get there. it's 50 cars. there's technicals, which are the big mounted machine guns. >> it was a mean convoy. i remember the first vehicle coming in. i had my gun on him. eyes on. right at his head. i reached my hand off with my offhand and i went like this. the car and did -- a big smile. one thing that we learned on the jobs, you have to know how to read people. >> is there a part of you that looked at the convoy and said, where was that? where was that before? >> yes. i did. where the hell were these guys?
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>> where were they hours ago? >> exactly. >> you get everybody mounted up. you drive them to the airport in this massive convoy. still worried about attacks on the way. you get there and there's another confrontation. >> between the militia, ours and whoever was controlling the airport. we were the bigger militia. so we got through. >> you have a smaller airplane. it's not exactly big for everybody. load you guys up. you walk on. >> they are starting to pull me off. i walked into benghazi, i'm going to walk out of here. i get up, slide to the edge and stand up. they bring in dave. he was in and out of consciousness throughout the flight. somewhere in between that, somebody is clearing their gun in the plane. >> in the plane. >> a round goes off.
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>> the pilot is -- he wasn't going to take off until they "á @r(t&háhp &hc% it lodged against a seat post and didn't penetrate anything. >> if there was another delay, he probably wouldn't have made it.íiz/ >> i didn't answer it the first time. it rang a couple of times. if it was him or some, you :hix, representative informing me of what had happened. i took a.a1ñ deep breath and i
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listened. i just said, okay, and i love you. i probably didn't sleep much that night. love you. i probably didn't sleep much that night. >> it was really great. i said i'm okay. everything is okay and he hung up. so it was super quick. >> finally about 5:00 in the afternoon, and somebody called and said that he had arrived there so i was like -- like i could breathe. >> would you do it all over again? >> yes. definitely. >> i'd be there. >> that's just the way we are. >> we run to it. we're not running away from it. >> how often do you get back to this 13 hours? do you think about it a lot? >> everyday you think about it. >> there ain't a day that you
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don't. >> i mean i'm reminded of it every time i go to grab something. >> because your hand. >> yeah. because i still don't have full use of it. never probably will have full use of it. i mean -- but -- so it is a reminder but it reminds me of the honor of fighting with guys like tig and tanto and rone and bub and jack and db. very few times in your life will you get to form a bond like this and most of the time it's done in situations that suck. but, you know, i wouldn't give it up. >> when you see all of the=j);z and forth that has happened over the roughly two years, what do you think about all of the political battle and that sort of thing? >> you can't get wrapped up in
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it75lcujt(uáq we're not politicians. we're contract -- we're soldiersment we'soldiers me . we're marines, rangers. we still are. will always be. leave that to the politicians. i can't speak to why a politician did this or that all i can speak for is what we went through that night and what happened. >> i gave you that 30 minutes back and gave you air power, would ambassador stephens still be alive today? >> yes, without the delay they would still be alive. my gut is yes. >> are you in on that?6.&js >> i strongly believe if we would have left immediately they'd still be alive today. >> i think there's a lot of things that could have been i mean, air power if we had air support, they would have sent somebody in. the inspector in my opinion can see heat signatures -- >> they would have been able to
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she goes daddy, i don't want you to go fight bad guys anymore. granted, i still miss the guys. i miss going overseas but every night when i go upstairs and i get to kiss my kids goodnight, it all dissipates. >> just like to enjoy being home me and the wife together and the kids. it's just peaceful.
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>> did you have fun? >> yeah. >> want to do it again? >> not having my thumb, it's very difficult to pick things up. it's one of those things that you don't really think about until you don't have[f4jñ it an. >> oh, you like the red one? okay. do you want me to hold your baby? we just thank you that we'reqi here with our friends and just watch over us and keep us safe and god bless us. >> greater love have no man than a man lay down his life for his friends. >> i think of ç&rstyrone and b
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every time i read that. >> they are just somewhere else right now. i mean, i guess eventually we'll all link up some day. tonight on "red eye." >> coming up on "red eye," the bahamas get a makeover just in time for tourist season. we will discuss how global warming is changing the face of this once tropical resort. plus, how did the president feel about "the good wife" being nominated for a golden globe earlier this week? >> nothing was more important. that's a big deal. >> and finally, doggie motorcycle gang. wewe've got the exclusive look at the show pup of anarchy. none of these stories on "red eye" tonight. >> and now let's welcome our guests. she can wound you with a smile, but she prefers to use
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