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down in georgia, lawmakers are considering doing away with electronic voting all together. now down to brian and one of our nation s brian: in 2004 while serving overseas captain hughesing saw his newborn daughter live for the first time on fox & friends. you ve gotten a chance to see some photos and probably a video of bailey. but you have never gotten the chance to see her live. and so we wanted to give that you gift. she s cute. brian: there you go. and what you couldn t see over there through the marine he would carry the weight of carrying 354 men through ar ramadi, iraq. is he sharing new experience brand new book echo ramadi. had you 10 deployments over there. first off.
it s their shared experiences. obviously the fighting, the friction. all those things that we experience in such a dynamic environment, they were trust into the war in ramadi deadly in 2006 during the surge. it s about the people and the feelings and the emotion. that s what makes this book so different. i did 75 interviews with my marines, the soldiers, the families, my amazing gold star families that i cannot thank enough. they are just remarkable people. i call them extraordinary because there is no other way to describe them. brian: right. through that process it was interesting that i understood a little bit more about myself. i understood a little bit more about my marines. some of the funny stories came out. some of the heart breaking stories as well. but it was just a great process to be able to share their story. brian: what changes when you go through a life and death situation with a large group of people and you are responsible? what changes about a relationship? well,
are surrounded by most certain danger. they performed amazing every single time we were fighting the enemy. brian: they say that about war that you have got to adapt. you could have had the best plan but everything changes as soon as the first shots are fired. it really happened here. the invasion was perfect. the post invasion wasn t. and you got the worst nightmare that happened. had you to have urban warfare. you guys had to learn on the fly in the beginning it wasn t working. so you adapted, you changed and you won. what is that like? well, i don t think there was ever a metric of success where they say hey, scott, did you win or loads? i get that question a lot. brian: you could say that you suppressed the city. absolutely. if there are bad guys that killed my marines absolutely effective, that s what they do. in that picture you that you have. i ordered my marines that day before we were thrust into that sea of ramadi. i had to order my men to kill because i never wanted them