most of this money will make sure our families are okay, our children are taken care of. so it s not like we can retire, you know, that definitely isn t part of the plan right now, you know, but being able to think about next steps is definitely a great feeling to have that opportunity to be able to do that. yeah. well thank you so much for coming and talking to us. pleasure. thank you for having us. i spoke with jonathan moore who represented four of the five in the lawsuit acolluding raymond santana and kevin richardson. just ahead, iraq on the edge, isi serks fighters closing in and armed u.s. drones flying overhead. is the crisis about to spin out of control and u.s. involvement about to grow? plus a tea party leader accused of taking part in a smear campaign has taken his own life.
it came out in the middle of two wars, i wanted civilians to get a feel for what combat is like for soldiers that we send over there. the next is different, it s an attempt to enquire a little more deeply how combat affects the young men. it was all young men out there and there was some very interesting conversations with these guys that we had about the consequences of this. a lot of them afterwards really missed it and wanted to go back, which is a puzzling thing on the face of it if you think how hard it was out there and dangerous. and the other sort of end of the spectrum, you know, one guy really ruminated whether god hates him for all the killing and added but i would do it over again the same way if i had to. complex stuff for these soldiers. but wanted to go back because of the intensity of the experience, because it was you talk to soldiers, to marines, to those who have served and say often that
scene. while the teens were in jail, the real rapist didn t stop. he commits at least five more rapes that we know of after the central park jogger. reporter: suing for damages has taken years, more than a decade. the city has always maintained it acted in good faith with a settlement, there is no apology. instead, the city calls it a wise solution closing as they put it a difficult chapter in new york s history. susan candiotti, cnn, new york. anyways, a shameful chapter. it s been a long horrific journey for antron mccray, kevin richardson, raymond santana and kharey wise. you said you never thought this day would come. what was this day like finally after these years to get it settled?
and that scar hasn t been removed just because we ve come to this point. that s very real. like i said in the film, we really went through that. and it was shameful because we was always known as raymond santana, the guy from the central park jogger case, not raymond santana, my childhood buddy or something like that and the same for all of us. it s hard to get past that even though we know that this is now a new chapter, you know, but just yesterday, so to speak and no amount of money, i mean, obviously a huge settlement, but no amount of money wipes that away, no amount of money makes up. you had years of your life taken from you. right. people have not been in that situation can t even imagine being in prison for something you did not do. yeah, exactly. and after the announcement of the settlement, you know, it