nutshell, being wounded on the battlefield in vietnam, having survived, being placed in a body bag, placed in a cooler, revived on the, really embalming table. determine determined that i still had a pulse. ainsley: wow. brian, how about your story? i served 26 1/2 years in the military. 15 years ago i was struck with a explosive device in iraq. my unit was operating in fallujah. my vehicle was struck. beginning of an ambush. unfortunately i took the brunt of the blast. fast forward to today, i had over 33 surgeries to put me back together. i m honored to be among these men and women with purple hearts. brian: one of the greatest showings of our military. must be great pride with that jay? i m a 21 year army veteran, retired, served two tours in iraq. i received my purple heart during my first tour out of a
if it was self-defense, why not provide the gun and the body that matches the story and matches the bullet in the vest? because with those simple things, law enforcement would have done an investigation and that probably would have been the end of this story. reporter: so why did oakes shoot and then kill his lover s ex-husband? the judge floated his own theory. how does the knight win the hand of the princess? he goes out and slays the dragon that s hunting the princess. at the starting point here mr. oakes believed he could free ms. opdycke from the past, whatever dragons were chasing her and perhaps by doing so would win her hand. reporter: the judge gave michiel oakes the maximum 26 1/2 years in prison. he is appealing his conviction.
you made your decision, and how you felt about making it. well, my child was born at 26 1/2 weeks, 1 pound, 14 ounce when is they were born and i use the pronounce they, because they re gender nonconfirming, and really should not be alive by all accounts. this was 22 years ago, and i was in india at the time, so there were only two nicus in the country, but even if they had been born in the united states, a child at that time 22 years ago, a child born that early, and that low birthweight had less than a 50% chance of survival. even today it s difficult. even today. and even if they do survive, tremendous morbidity issues, all kinds of issues that might come up. so, you know i also had an infection at the time, so there was a issue of my own mortality. i had an emergency c-section.
that is for sure. speaking to him this week, he said the president s team continues to negotiate with robert mueller about a possible interview. i know, i know, we ve been saying this for months this interview may happen, it may not happen. it s interesting mueller has not issued a subpoena yet for president trump, but there still seem to be negotiations about having written answers. but talking to every source close to the federal government here, the prosecutor side, mueller still would like to see the president sit down at some point to get his view of events. but giuliani for now continues to push off that final decision. and, tamara, is there anything wrong with this way of looking at the calendar? 26 days until the midterms, 27 days until the window opens for something consequential, perhaps, from the mueller investigation? well, i thought the direction you were going is 26 1/2 days until attorney general jeff sessions needs to worry very
something consequential, perhaps, from the mueller investigation? well, i thought the direction you were going is 26 1/2 days until attorney general jeff sessions needs to worry very seriously about his job. yeah, poll closing, we figure. exactly. so we have a lot of eyes on both the mueller investigation and also what sort of personnel moves president trump will he s not even being remotely cagey about it at this point. he used his favorite phrase when asked about personnel. we ll see what happens. when he says, we ll see what happens, often the person he is talking about does not last in the administration much longer, and he s made it pretty clear that jeff sessions is in his sights. donna edwards, is there any individual, in your mind, who speaks for your party, who is the voice of not so much the resistance, but the democratic