cessca. what happens in that room stays in that room. from the day i started at fox, we developed a relationship for the work we were doing exactly on the same page. we loved the stories. we loved meeting people and traveling with the smallest camera we could and getting to place nosoone else could go and telling the story. got a big story and live shot and breaking news coming on the hour and pierre would stand on the box behind them. pretty sure i ve laughed on air a few times because pierre. benji worked with pierre for a long time. you have your main base camera man you work with out of your bureau and that s who pierre was for benji. i m trey yingst and i m a fox correspondent and i m based in israel.
are you benji hall? i turned around and said, yes, yes that s me. i recked his name and my first reaction was we went to school together. she came up to me and i thought office the luckiest man on earth. i saw her and fell in love with her almost immediately. but then she played hard to get for the next two years. i then spent two years calling her, traveling around working abroad a lot. if you keep on trying, eventually you get there. the streets around us are deserted, everyone who lives here has left town and various gun battles are being fought every couple of streets. i ve always been a champion of what he does. i think it s really important. there are oftentimes i wouldn t tell alicia the danger we were going into and she would find out. i knew what he was doing.
waiting. shadows and risking their lives. jacques located benji, he was at the border guard s hospital in kyiv, it was a target of the russians, i turned to kirky kirby, he said jen the president game a directive, we can t go into ukraine, i said yes, if i can get them to the border with poland can you get permission for them to be treated a at land those are reserved for u.s. troops. john kirby went to defense secretary lloyd austin and began the process of getting permission, austin didn t hesitate.
that is where jacques came in, being jacques, no frills was like, yes, okay. okay. my new hand is being delivered, look a look at that. if we have any doubts about what these guys do when you are asleep, don t be. the rest of me feels a little bit strange, but jacques has been saving my day, i feel out of it. jacques was right there at the beginning. when benji was located. he was the right thera his side when transported out of the war zone. jacques then spent months by benji s side. in the hospital. as he went through every surgery. jacques never left ben s side, he was a sweetheart. not very manly, but he was john spot. he is like a father figure in many ways, he was
and heart, he will lay his entire almost 20 year career down to do the right thing. dave hit up sea spray, and said i might have a solution for you, the polish prime minister was having a meeting in kyiv. there is a train leaving tonight going back to poland. from kyiv. dave knew that this was a secret mission. but the only way to get benji out was to get him on the polish prime minister s train. he said, i think i have an option if we get the right approval in place from the pentagon, the polish special operations command and ambassador and administration, and all of these things that normally take months, we could do that in next couple hours, i think you have a ride out. so begins a story that you wouldn t believe it if hollywood tried to tell it. despite security dangers