series of brutal attacks.attack. and benjamin hall was workin g around the clock to bring all of us real time information on the ground. >> here with more on the groundv . >> he's in kyiv tonight, the capitol of ukraine. hefox's own benjamin hall. >> benjamin, what's going on to on tonight?night? well, sean, you'd have to look back at today and say whatnot an we've seen is it's a continuation, if not ann escalation of what we've seenof over the last week, increasingig civilian areas. civilian areas, an inability to geto ge humanitarian aid into these surrounding cities.t rian and an inability for peoplem. >> get out of them. then just just a few days late on march the 14th, hall was on a fact finding mission on the outskirts of ukraine other wo other journalists, peter and sasha, when they were viciously attacked by russian forces now. and sasha, they were killed kile had hall was left fighting for his life. >> here's jennifer griffin was j and worried aboutn. our colleagues and ben hall tonight. >> a word about our colleagues, the loss and pain we feel is the loss and pain we feel enormous, is enormous. but if ever therbue were a time that the world needed journalists, reporters risking journalist reporterstheir livese stories, to tell the truth, uth it's now without a free press. the autocrats, when we will redouble our efforts to honor efforts t these collea. and all reporters in harm's way >> and jennife tonight, and jennifer worked tis endlessly, tirelessly to help benjamin hel and get him to saf. now, in the hours, dayst and weeks and months thatfoughtf followed, benjamin fought for his life and he did ite.he did i with such a positive attitude. i've had the honor of speakingwh ben throughout his recovery and his courage in the face ofa in twhat unthinkable adversity is an inspiration personally to me and to so many others. hao he has a new book. k i urge you to read saved a war reporter'soe mission to make it home. it is out march the 14th. and by the way, it is a must nead . i recently sat downw york. with benjamin hall in new york . here is part one of this interview. >> benjamin hall saved a warrem reporter's mission to make it home. >> my friendmy friend,, welcomer thank you. it's great to see you. pleasure to be here.t th you talk about the term of war correspondent. you've been all over the world. unfortunately, there been been conflicts. and you've been you wereyou' av the syrian civil war. >> you were in mosul in iraq. you we you were in kabul and in afghanistan during wartime mogadishu. >> and then, of course, ukraine . >> you were in war zones.job. that's your job. so hard. y i can only imagine the things that you've seen over the years and every place you've been to telace you've babout thl us t >> yeah, it's a job that youe se both love and both hate. you hate it because you see some of the horrible things, horrible things, families losing everything, homes ev, molished schools being demolished, children who have nothing. nothhave to love ischot to .ols yoing.u haveve it. to undey you're doing it and the importance of it. you've got to understand thatim those stories, as you tell to other people, really haven ui influence. and i think we need to knowple l these storielys. it's been hard a job ont's been hard. and it's a job that once younyt start, once you love it, it's th very difficult to do anything else because few oth very few or jobs that fill you with such perhaps pride and necessity to do it. so now i've i've done all the wars i feel when a war you breaks out, you've got to beit'a there to cover it. and it's important to our ewers. >> dangeviewers and it's work. and maybe did you ever imagine what happened to you would did happen to do those thoughts go through your head? surrounded by co it'erestisng interesting. lleagues who i'm surrounded by colleaguesht w who were injured, seven orho aa eight who died over the years. and so i knew it could happen. but did i've seen it happen.i ev but dier thid i ever think it wd happen to me? no, i'm not sure i did. bu i knew the risks. be a little i knew it could happen. but i think there has to ben't. a little element inside. you has to believe it won't. ey and so you make everyo in t precaution and take every precaution you can before you go in there. yoe risks, but and you're aware of the risks, c but you can't let it cloud judg your judgment. you can't let it distracment oru when you're working, because ify that cloud your mind, you won'ty do your job as well. so youou think about it go beforehand. but when you go in, you focusine on the job, the work and thelkio people you're talking to . and you don't let an lety fear >> you talked about your injuries. your mind. >> you talk abouttalk about t your injuries. let's talk about that dahat day and you were with your didn't make it out alive. the journalist w cameraman, didn't make it outs alive and a journalist was there as well. well w didn't make it out alive. and who didn't make it out alive.en and let's talk about the moment that changed your life forever. and what you remember about it. you talk about going black anday then you tell a pretty mi miraculous story about getting your consciousness back . >> let's let's talk about that moment, that day y. yeah. fi i mean, well, firstly, i was, wr i was saved that day. we were out we were filming in an abandoned village just o outside kif v. the russians had almost ci surrounded the city. and the idea was they would take it in the nex t few days. next few days. we actually , ironically, weren't planning on going up to the front lines. we were filmineren't plannins. g these areas that had been totally demolished and we saw schools that had been hit, churches that had beet haolished.n hit. and we filmed this all ourselves. and as we finished, we were aron drivind ch g back towardsth the capital city of kyiv. of kyi hadn't seen anyone in a longv. time. and we slow down an abandoned checkpoint and i don't know the first mie cameabout 30 feetn out of nowhere and about reverse tht in front of us immediately shouts, reverse the car, reverse the car. there were two ukrainians fiveing as well and five of us in a car car got stuck. erre we couldn't go back and shoutedh ,get out of the car. i won't get out of the car. then and the nextd second, the seco one hits right in front of the left of the car. i was in one , i went black and i was in a dark place. i couldn't feel or see. and i had taken shrapnel in the eye and the matchboxpnel in by shrapnel in my in my neck. and i was i was out i was out dead. and then i saw my my daughter, i don't know, went into this blackness right in front to me came my daughter ranna. and she said , to me, daddy, you've got to get out ofid to me the car. real as if she was in front of me. i don't know where she came to me and i came to and i opened up my eyes and my. instinct took me towards the car door and i scrambled. tb i pulled myself out and i gotitt out of the car and the third bomb hit the car. itself right after that. next thing i know, i wake up, it's thrown me away.m on fire. i'm on fire .e. my right leg is gone. t i roll around, i try to put. d y i knew you had lost your foot. >> i'd lost a foot. as god. the foot had gone. ironically, i didn't notice it at the time. >> your eye is injured sean: y and bleeding and took pieces of my skull out to my left hand , which has been put piece back together with all torn up the thumb hanging off. so i was lying there, lying there, and i was still alive. he at this point, and immediately said , don't move. russian drones don't, russian d. and so i'm lying there in this barren landscape trying not wha to move, trying to think owef, what we can do, looking at my injuries, realizing how badly injured i am. . and i get my cell phone out and no reception, can'twe wer get hold of hold oe.f anyone. no one knew where we were.und a we'd be moving around a little bit. and so i actually had my cell phone out.- i wi and the first thought i was, i will record what i'm seeing.i and i actually stoppedstopped a injuri i took a picture of my leg and some of my injuries and i immediately thought, well,on't my children can't see this if ct i don't come home. i can't be the last picture that perhaps they see. so i was sitting there and i deleted them immediately. >> but we lay there for a while longer. and pure again.. who was lying about five feetm away from me. >> also just lying there said the russians. the russians. >> and after a while a car came passed. it was up on this ridge justouta behind me. i shot a car, car . >> i started trying to wave atit it, wave out o didn'f trying tot attention. it didn't see me said it's the russians, it's the russians. >> and i said it's the, it doesn't matter. i'm so badly injured. go. and i remember thinking, it doesn't matter about my injuries. right now. . myself. i will do whatever it takes right now. i will drag myself home, pull myself. and i started pulling myself dr along the ground, dragging myself up the hill. and that same car a little while later took a wrong turn. and down the road, turn aroundwe and came back . and by that point i was a little bit higher up and i had my hand full of dirt and stones and i was waving and i thre w at the car and they saw me and they stopped, ran out and grabbed hold of me.bbedd they dragged o dragged me.st that was the first time i felt real pain. amazingly, i was so sort of the adrenaline is pumping through me at firsnaline wast ie the injuries, but i wasn't feeling the pain. and as soon as i was draggedgroh on the ground and the burns and the skin, a lot of thas andc just came ofamf the air. pain. and that was the point that i suddenly felt the real pain and i was thrown into the back of this van with pain you've ever felt before i >> sn your life >>at say and then when i was evacuated as well, and payments we as well and sends you to a a new place, an awful place, but somewhere that you have to find a way through and i wasr, i the last thing i remember. i found an ambulance afount a checkpoint and there's checkpoint have people and i enh remember getting an injection and that wasat p the end of that part. i'm ,in t where i am.ng i know i wake up, i'm in this hosp and i don't know where i am. al and i look around me and i seesh you. i'm in w russia. all i know is that we were saying russians, the car was bars c russian. this point i got bars comingomin out of my le'tg. gain, i' i can't movem very badlyruss injured. but again, i'm thinking i'm ini russia. >> how do i get out? i've got to find a way out.y ou i'm going to escape here. and someone came into the roomve with my state department press card. t >> i'd be working therhere ae and holding it up. and he was shouting, who areshog you? who are e you?you yo >> and the man opposite this other patient in the bed was moving -- wh and his sheet stard to rise. so i assumed he had a gun pointed at me. so i'm in the spy world andat m i think that i'm being held. what can i do? how can i get out and into the room? what this americanoo, richard k jadick. hid down atime he looked down at mnde and he said , ben, you want to get out of here?here? i said, absolutely, let's go .t whatever it takes, let's go . and i said , by the way, thathea guy's russian and he's got g a gun because it wasn'tsn't the truth at all.truth at a but that was the time thatll. i came into the hands of save that's w our allies. hen i got an incredible team thn to get me and what they did to get me on short notice. rt after jim griffin, our pentagon reporter reached out to them, e to spoke to sarah virata, who set them up. this is the same group that got got many people out ofout of afg afghanistan when it fell, is still getting people ouhanisf afghanistan. they put together this team, former soldiers, forme r intelligence, who came right in straight away from poland. they bough oldo battered ambulances and they broke right into kiv as the shells areame i falling. they came in because they knew they k another american was stuck inek that was me. and they were going to risk and on their own lives to get one american. friend who die and one of them had a great friend who died in afghanistan, many, but all in afghanistan. a and one of the m ha d watched a friend of his, ben, die,they d and his friend ben haddie. daughters. and he said , i lost my last. friend ben, who had daughters bn at home. i'm not goino g to lose another whatever it takes will go in and get in that. and then i was takent takes. inn the hands, this incredible and they seople, and they saved my life then and then let me let me go back a little bit and i want to talk , you -- everything go a little more about your daughter. >> so everything goes black . there's nothingness in a sense. yo you have no idea what had happened. >> and you you an feel you seef you. the presence of your daughter, right? >> there in front of you. now, you mentioned in the book m that you believe ientin god . >> yeah. do you believe that that was god sending your daughter to say, daddy, wake up?aughte >> absolutely. my family are angels.ngels. they were sent to me. they wer and i know i was saved that day as well. i and when i saw her, it was an, incredible piece as well. i was blacked out, but it wast quite ther e. >> it wasn't rushed.t fearful. it wasn't fearful. she came in thime to me in this blackness, this pistone your said that i've got to get out of the car. >> your daughter's name is anaas ,but i think it was allf my three of my daughters. it was ana. it was iris. it was ca herme togethee. me that da they came together to me that be day.n but if i had been an inch inaven any direction, i'd be dead.ttinm >> i was sitting iidn the middle seat of this little car ord thet and if i row and the other four peopl had be died. blinif i had been any anywhere else, i'd have been blind ini would ha both eyes.ano i would havew, suffered serious head injuries and somehow in 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giving them loans considered too risky by traditional investment firms. and more than twenty one million people from california to connecticut are under winter weather alerts as multiple storms move across the country. right now, heavy rain is drenching a large portion of california, washing out roads and causing flash flooding. people in the midwest and northeast are bracing for snow this weekend. some places could see up to aas' foot. i'm lauren blanchard. now back to "hannityo be", marc 14th.>> m >> i'm sitting iarchn our bootht the fontagon. the fox bootx h is on a hallway with all the other television with allnetworks. pentagon press secretary john kirby had come in to talkh he me when a french journalistjo came running down the hall., wa she said , jen , where'ss your team hit in kyiv? i called jay wallace, the president of news at fox. and i just said , jay has our team been hurt? was benji hurt? was benji hurt? and he and he said , do you knowth him who was with him? i said, pieri said here, the bes that benji had survive and nobody knew where he was. nobody knew where sasha and puiu. to hel >> sp.o i said, do you want me to help? and he said , yes, now, that was fox's own jennifer griffinoi on colleague benjamin hall. now in a forthcoming documentary entitledhall. l and survival, a story from the front linein well,. 19, 9:00 well, you can see that on march the 19th, 9:00 p.m. right here u on the fox news channel. now, here is more of bmy exclusive interview. with benjamin in this special edition of "hannity". >> when you had the awareness, awareness of how severed th your injuries were and thatpassd car passed and then came back and you threw a rock at cam it, you describeu in the booklu that you had to start pulling yourself up a so that the carl would be able to see you atht that point with all the injuries that you have., to >> that, to me, is miraculousdo that you were able to do that with such severe injuriesalon to elbows. g. arms slid along and not once did i think i can't do this one , that i think the injuriesi are too bad for this. there wanks one thought in bad r my mind, whatever it takes wh to get home, whatever it takes,g nothing else matters.le the pain struggles , it doesn't matter. you got to do that every second, do whatever you have to and i felt that throughoutry the whole recovery, whenever things are really dark and hard re dark anand painful, whatever, it doesn't matter. put away the evil, put awayer. the bad. can don do it. you can do it.credible dri and that's an incredible driving force. if yource. hold something front of you that you want to do, no matter what, you canu do it. you can really do it.>> w yoe u know, we always try to put ourselves in the position. thro how would i act if i went through something similar? i thing simila, i could tell yon think i could ever in any way, h match the mental toughness, the strength, the faith, the fortitude, the courage that you're describing here. yoi think you could i think most people can. >> what amazed me most was where you can find and how you v can find a new level. >> i never thought that was possible. i never th i nei never thought i could go through that myself. i've see n people go through horrific things in war go s, but every every time i go to ati point where i didn't think things are possible, i found another levetn of strength inside me. and i look deep inside and iins i looked deep inside. i said said , you got to get throughn. this. you hold on . you put aside that. ow. and i know we've all got it. i believe that now it's deep inside of us . you find it, you fight for it, and it is inside us . we've got. lieve in it and yo and so i think you could i think anyone could if you just believe in it and you keep doing let's talk about pure. ab you traveled to numerous war zones together. >> hhee wa friens a closd.e fri you said in the book that you believe peter saved your lifek t that day. >> why did you believe that?you he was in the same car as you? >> he was in the same car , i think, to the end.r first. got out of that car first. he cleared he cleared the way t for mer yo to get out. to and whether you want to look alt this ia n bigger way, look aton god and religion, perhaps gave e his life to save mine. perhaps something happened there with this incredible person, took that sacrifice.>> y riskouou thi think he opened thr for you putting himself at riska ?ni the and when he kept sayin dg russie the meaning, the drones or above you, h ofe was still e is still tryinga to save me. when he said that, that was it.l he was stillif trying to save my life., he had cut right till the end. he had cut his femoral artery. he wasn't injured like i was. ed it was a small wound and he bled out. >> but the last thought for hima was just continuouvis, giving us one shot. it's the russians and ild traveled the world together. we went to so many different conflict zones together and you develop a really close bond to people like , you know, we slept in caves and trenches.s. we've been everywhere together. we've seen it. en it. and , you know, we trusted t other implicitly with our lives. and sor explicitly right there at that moment, he was there for med. again at the end. day, and i think every single day i think back to that moment when i'm struggling at all. it i remember what it was lik was e there with my injuries. to sit there, to lie there an with my injuries, and that was d there. and i tr iy to picture it as vividly as i can remember it. the feel of the ground, the clearness of the air. i remember ie t and i remember being there. and i remind myself that if yout can't do everything from now on , if you can't do th the live life has the best life and do as goodgo as you can, his life has gone >> to waste. at >> you knew at that point or ath what point did you know that he was dead? ohow he wa , i didn't know he was dead.red i didn't i didn't even know he was injured. he wasn't injured like i was. and it was only when i wasy out, on the way out and i wase on the polish prime minister's train and i this is a couple of days later. and i had asked hile om a couple with times i asked the people i was with where with pierre and sasha was a journalist. sasha wa ss our fixer as well.as and where's where's sasha and the two ukrainian drivers who were with us as well? and a few driver and a couple of times thatot t backt the answerhe. >> oh, i he's back .he's back he's back.th he's back in kyiv. he's back there after a couple of times. i knew what that meant. yeah. you know, there was no ways no i was going out. we weren't both going out. if we were alive. and i remember saying, you know, i said pierre's dadn in at doesn't mean you had been inan afghanistan together. >> he told a storytogeth in thek about you watchingde horses. some afghanis, you know, ride horses and us to ride with peter. and you both rode together and knowing this country was about to go through the of war because that's what it is .peac but you had a moment of peace had thisnity, sort of you it wpeter had a special bond describing it was and that wasa beautiful. >> it was in the mountains. do, we decided that, you know,forge whatever we got to do, we'res ge going to just forget it. horsesp these horses. let's ride up the hills.f and there was this moment ofre real peace, beautiful, going beautiful sky and sun. and we just though t it is going to the two of us ride up together on these horses. and in some ways, that was that last little piece for the country as well. afghanistan was about to fal afghanistan was about to fall l as well. but perhap well. s it was the last piece for us , too.ece for us to and i think back to that t moment, too.hat mome you knownt, we had this bond and we talked about everything that meant so much to us, how we loved lif weane. r families now we lov. e traveling and hw we loved our families. so we talked about those together, as we often did. and i remember that part to the one who just loved the world, loved doing everything he could let me talk about. got in got in this car , they literally dragging you with the these most severe injuries. >> whae most sevt do you remember from that point to the point where you woke up in the hospital? >> very little. i remember bumping around in the back of the car. i was in and out at this point i remembof consciousness and i just remember being dragged out and then getting an injection. what i found out the other daylf is that they were about to take both my legs off and one doctor said, don't do it again. i'm coming in. specialist, let me have a look . they had taken one was already gone. they were about to take the other leg wa the lealready ut to gos alreadyn he was about to go and he went in. >> and at the last minute heot said he hoped that he got get warm againly going again and he felt it as the leg. , itw started to get warm again. and muches awaso it was minutesm losing the whole of the left leg and much of the muscle wasn taken. you know tha bt the leadg itself is still pretty bad shape at the moment, but it's there right now. there, right now. and that may come of f and it may come off at a late date because of some of the injuries that are still ongoing. but for the moment, i got it.>>i >> i tol told you before we sta , over the yearsbeen t i've been to walter reed, i've been to bethesda, i've met people with similar injuries sold as your soldiers are fightinierg for our country. and i every single time i would meet them here, their story, i would leave with a real sense of embarrassment that i everlife thought in my life that i havel problems. i don't have these problems. these are these are challengesp that are beyond really the comprehension of most people. this is the reality, sadly, of dly of war and evil.r. it does exist, i believe, in this world . but that was always the feeling i had. maybe had bed other people that maybe had been through these moments and they would keep woud going back to the people that were starting their journey sayiand helping, saying, look a me, i'm riding my bicycle now. i'm back wit my life has changed. i'm back with my kids. kid i'm back with mys, my family. >> you've already started that process a little bit. i haved by. this. and i wa s blessed by the other people who had gone through this. you had similar injuries, and i was so blessed to be able to be treated in military medicine. any defense askede and gave permission for meo ente to enter first to landstuhl gera base in germany and then sansan antonio, bamsey and texas. and i was surrounded by people had sp who had spent the last yearstwenty years helpingsoldir the soldiers who were injured like i was rebuildinred likeg tm giving them legs and helping leg them get through this mentally.e and i'd sit downntally. wim every week. then we'd talk aboutand wh the difficulties, what we'd gone through. and i'm very luckyat. thatt out of thiims with optimism, with hope that we've got to keep doing this every dayhi and keeps. fighting. >> but i'vi e spoken to many of them, many of themy who have found it very difficult, who lose their identity and losee their can't quite see wher their confidence, who can't quite see where their life goes next. and some of themlife, many of tm who tried to take their own lives before. and i think i got through this as well as i did because of the help from other people. and if i can give some obecausff back , i can help some of them get through these moments, too. and that's what i want to do, talk to as manastogethery peopln get through it together. and this is a group effort. everyone reached out to me. many times a you reached out to me earliernd on many times and gave me these words of wisdom. you encouraged me to keep going. everyone, all of us all of, thos than reached out. and people pray for you and send you things every single one of those gives youreo strength, reminds you that you're doing it for others. it for that 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interview on march the 19th, o 9:00 p.m. right here on fox. as we debut a documentaryt entitled sacrifice and survivals a story from the front lines.. and here is more of my interview with benjamin, hisn first in-person interview since he wasinterview wounded in ukr. >> behind the scenes, there'sol a whole effort being mobilized on your behalf. honestly, as i loo lk back aookt now, and our own jennifer jenni griffin, who i've always r glifadmired, and she got right to work and she was working in n the pentagon and they were helpful getting you to the right hospital, getting you outt of ukraine, getting you on ain train. the polish prime minister allowing that to happen, breaking all protocols, ve to i believe, to do that. i was geur friend scotty, all these people, i was getting regular updates that probably i wasn't supposed to get soow t nosy and pushy. going youtod to know thatwe were going to be okay. >> and when did you find out all that had happened? whenther words, there was this whole mobilization effortwhole on your behalf, but it hadmo perfectly. to almost work perfectly. there was not a lot of rooitm f error in any way. >> >> and in many cases it was minute by minute. and if something had gone wrong, i wouldn't have come outt safely. yeah, jen hav, griffin, the see she found out, the very second she found she picked up the phone. she called silverado, phone who founded save our allies. d n >> something's happened in ukraine. we need people to go in. d can can you help?yoand imme or she said diat, i've got the t people in poland. and immediately that minute they were looking for us . they had our pictures out thatee they had the license plates out looking at wthere. >> they were looking at ways in and out of the country. they put this team togethethey l >> these save our allies.are am these are amazing people.az these peoplein save lives. they're still doing it today. they got people out of afghanistan and they say that,hd you know, when people need 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this old ambulanc e. ukraini gunmat every checkpoint, the ukrainian government came hit squadsof the caren c. they thought we were the russian hit squads coming in to kill zelenskyy. they opene sure i wn d my own wounds. they looked at my injuries. they to make sure i was a real, patient one after the next desperately this race to try th and get to the polish primes tr. minister's train. and they didn't have enough n' pain medt have enough s to given i left the hospital. >> and it wa s at that point that the pain started to really grow. we made it to the train. they managed to finally carry me on . we had ten hours and those were the ten hours where i had to dig deep, where i could feel pain. and they had no medicine fore t you, no medicine. i asked someone at one point if they had anything and he gave me a couple of advil, which somo is all he hanything. d at th but they may be the ten worst hours consciously for you in terms of the magnitude of pain i was in. fr i was inam a mind frame of whatever it takes. this is survival mode. and this is keep going.ve, and my mind is on overdrive. >> hyperdrive. it couldn't stop thinking i had a traumatic brain injury and it wouldn't go for the next three weeks. itcouldn't sleep every second. another though wt about what i was seeing, what i was thinking, who was around me, what we were doing. i couldn't stop it. arted, real nightmares started kee some hallucinations and i just keep havino comeg to come back e going home. i'm going to be safe . stay with find another level.e you can get through this pain. you can get through it.sa and i knew that the peoplet thrg i was with save our allies. i knew when they were with meit that i was in the right hands, in the safe hands.right and if i could stick with them, i'd be there finally, we cross the border into polandk and there was the black hole in the eighty second airbornehawk e is there to take me. thd that was the moment that i knew i was saved. moment i kn saved. i remember being car and i remember being carried onto that blackhawk with the, you knowth, the soldiers waiting there perfectly, getting me on board. so me onboard on that helicopter, u to g get to germany and then, okay, take us from that point and how your family has assembled and how the doctors are involved. o ips withand coming to grips wt your future is going to be. that's not that'for ans noybt er anybody to deal with . >> no. no, and i think that being innk landstuhl and being the privilege, given the privilege to be treated als for 20 by military was also what got te me through this for 20 yearsat. they treated people like meme ki with exactly the same kind of injuries. this, as they call it,njit poly the same polytrauma. after explosion's, you get theuo same year limbless, you get burned, you get eyesight, , loss, you lose various limbs . and so they have these facilities set up. they know how to treat them.f th and i heard some of the stories in the show from the height ofep the wars where there are more people and patients than there were rooms and they were people worse than i was out there. but i was there. and at that point, we started cd talking about what the future was, what we could do with m tyc family, how they could comome. my my wife was there very quickly and we talked about what's best for us .on was, how do we do this?o to then the discussion was to goas to either walter ree d or to sn antonio in texas, and the the decision was taken in sane bu antonio because of the burns in the burns, some of the big problems i had and that hady siw to be solved. first, my sister nu was a burn nurse and one of the more the difficult jobs psychologically for anybody in the medicals psychologically in the medical profession you have to keep profession, because you have to keep changing the bandages. yes. and when you take off the old ones, the pain is excruciating. ng forfor the patient that you're taking care of. >> you live through that. that is painful.ugh that 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of time, she of time.d or she doesn't even know if you're dead or alive. yeah, she had to go throughat. that. let' but let's talk about when yous first set eyeseyes on on her. >> where were you? i was in i was in germany at that point. at the hospital. >> i remember first tryingto hur to hug her, but i had so. many wires and tubes sticking, d so n i couldn't quite find a way to do so. but we just stayed theres together. anor she just said was it's goig to be all right. it's going to be fine.'s going we're going to get through this . apologized for her.gh this. i'm not sure what for, butt sur putting her into that position for being infoputting he a plac. and i suppose it's somethingi t that came out.it was i think it was more for whatoreu t toshe was about to go through, because people tell the story of what happened to me h and ho' hard it was fover me, how brave i've been. my wife and my family have gonen through just as much. >> they really have. who she's beenall one of these picd up all the pieces. >> she's been the strength behind me who will be on who kept the children together. she said something else.me thinthe really struck me, too. you said you remember i talked about the story of pure and you and the horses in afghanistan, but you say when you're alone, you think about pyotr and thaty you believe again that he laid,t down his life to save you.save and i should have been the first person killed in all this. >> and that day he saved my life and it seems like you think about him every day. >> i do.seem s every single day. of himt pictures up a lot when we talk about him,leg you know, talk about him, aboutg the incredibles things he did,t talk about the amazing things he did, what a great person he was. whati won't let what happenedke the horror of what happened take away the incredibleincredin he was. and i won't think about him as this someone lying inhelped coffin. i was hurt. s people, w i think of the incredibleho savet me so elped so many people who saved my life, who taught me so much aboutealle the job. i really love. nonow. and that's how iw. who and that's how i have dies, to remember. and i think anyone who dies, you look at them, yo youu great commemorate them, you remembers their lives, remember the great things they did. you remember the affection youmr you holdthem. and you hold them down, you keep on going. don't let it drag you back .em remember them. do everything you want to fore t them, do more because of them.h that's how i feel now.n a gift. and it's another reason why i think i was given a gift. i can realize that nowrealize going to waste a single moment ahead of me. there's no time to waste. it isn't.. let's do that next week or wai the week after.th i do it now. if youe wannet to do somethingd o it right now. and i do it for pyecroft. and if i think i think tired. i'm going to do something, i feel tired . r bein so tired for being tired.p get up and do it. i do it, dt,o it for everyone else gone. is gone and got to find that drive to keep doing things because that can go instance. it went for it went for other people that can end and itwanted would be a pity to have missed things that you wanted to do upst because you were too to caught up in other things to them too lazy to do them. now when the wisdomis behind this i came out of trauma and pain is inspiring, to say the least. >> and what would you like to do?e do you think aboutto the futureo >> would you b ever want to go back and be a war correspondent again? no, i don't think so. and i thought a lot about it. and it's not because i don't think it's a i love doing itfamr and it's an incredible job, buot i don't think i could put my family through again. 's for. and it's so it's for them. and i had already talked before ukraine about pulling back from some of the war zones.ro and it was am the wan ongoinr go discussion that my wife and ii o had. st i'd moved to dc. i was covering the state department. i was traveling with the secretary of state. dr ukraine waews the one war that drew me back in. i i wasn't planning on doing iwasp because sometimes it's not justa about how much you want to do and how passionate i am for the job. toi had to think of them inow the family.at and finally, i've learned that lesson on paper.e i was job. people need i could have learned itot earlier. but people need to keep doingi r this job and i encourage everyone elsaggoe to go out and keep doing this job. it is essential we need to knowu what's happening around the world. it cant. affect you. i and so i encourage people to go out, be plan, be prepared.e peoo nout. , are you going to do i but keep doing this job. when i g bo back to ukraine,a i'm i'm sure i will go back to ukraine at some point. noll i go to the frontill go ba no, i don't think i will right now. now. >> did you eve do you ever speak with president zelenskyy? >> no. i've been in touch with hisve mo office. i know he's happy to have meme come back and speak to him. and so that's certainly anspeaki i would like to do. yeah. t as people i think arhie watchiny and listening to this and they see an inspiration, what we'retu about a fullll yea year now, ri. that you we we've had this and you're out there telling your story and you're saying in positivityble and an attitude that is inspirational. and , you know, everybody and i think in life seems to thinkodyn that they have trouble ls and i don't think there's anything more difficult than this. i thin k that is an inspiring thing. i'm suggesting we turn this eve into a movie. i don't know if you've ever watcof twatched or read any of the books about life after death or near death experiencei them i happen to personally like them. and one wa. and ons 90 minutes in heaven down. piper was a preacher, hadclarint a horrible car accident. they declared him dead at the scene. behol and lo and behold,d, a preacher ca came by , prayedme over him, and he came back from life. heaven. but he described his experience to heaven and how that changed his life. and another book, heaven anot is real about a young child. by same thing i saw. >> , i was in heaven. imp is this impacted your spirituality in life, in believe in the words you said , you believe in god . g is it deeper? dooddeeper? you believe god u here for a reason?ason. i think it's a question that anyone who's seen horror would ask themselves, you know, how can horrible thing a disease? you have a god and happy disease. - and i think the same way i answered it back then, i answer the same way now. ans i think there is more evil. >> there is more good in this world and there is evil. there really is . and you see in horriblen a lot u know, i've seen a lot of it.i've >> i've seen horrible things in war. absolutely. war,ngs inbut i saw more good te who came together to help me.th it's a more powerful force than the bad. force. i know that. and that's what we have to do.eo we havn e to fight on the side f good and that's what we've got to do. >> what's next for you? ing the person i've ever met? besides being the most positive person i've ever met? with the greatest attitude with t i think i've ever met, i wanthe to get back to work. i think i love work and i love the stories i tell. i think the people i get get to mee to meett a fascinating ae want to keep meeting incrediblet people. what i really want to do with the stories i wanwant t i l the hero all of the incredible peoplees i've met first, those heroes who came to save me thesed opti incredible stories of hope and optimism. and i spent my whole career talking about the horrorr talke the wars and the bad things. i might spend some time telling stories about the incredible. people out there, the people that we need to hear more of.be >> s at fio maybe at first i'm g focu to focus on that as well. i want to talk to people who have gone through injuries and attacks like i have been to see how they fought through it, try and help thetry m throuh it. and keep meeting people, keeps, telling stories, keep tryings to make it. sounds corny to makecorn the wo better places, make people do s everything every day. something that is good, knowom that's important. >> yeah, that't's not s goodcor. you know what i learned about ab the story behind the story and everybody from jennifer griffin, the polisr h prime, the minister, the save our allies, the group that risked thei the group that risked their lives to save you. everybody involved in the hospitals, all the footballn ,the people that you write about that work to help you and save you a t this point or that point, you know, magically getting savew,d and getting outc of that war zone, thatnd a car magically turning aroundnd m and coming back , your daughter coming to you. now you see the blessings ins i life. there's there's somethingn this really deep and profound in s this story. th-- this this book., you know, i don't tear upi like a lot. i like to to project toughness but this book brought more thany a few tears to my eyes. in i ur story is beyond inspirational. love the fact thi love the factd it. and i think all of us can learn a lot from it. and , you know, i'm glad you even answered a couple ofexts. my texts. i was like, i got to talk to me. >> he's got to remember i woulsi stop. t and i say, wowhis ,