by anything so proud of daddy s robot leg. lifet a different way of life. and welcome back to a special edition , hannity.k to now, that was benjamin hall s wife, alicia. now, benjami ion ofn family was an incredible source of inspiration to him on his you can se journey to recovery. now you can see e more omoref tt 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
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 intervi
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 any
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
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