0 exception. did i find a problem with it. the family was there. i asked him to please tone it down. we did not want to upset the family members of mikey monday sewer. who was killed? yes, sir. he earned the medal of honor and jumped on a bill: he said you deserved. he said we all deserved to lose a few guys. bill: navy seals. i m assuming. he was saying that to me. bill: was he drunk. not. i never saw him with a drink in hand at all. bill: once he said you deserved to lose a few guys you popped him. yes, sir. he fight back. he was there he went down and i took off running. it did they arrest you. no, sir i had a master chief that said punch and run. bill: are you going to pop me tonight? no. bill: okay, good. the other thing in the book is that you are credited with 1 auto certified kills which means you as a sniper took out 150 guys and somebody else saw it witnessed it. so, so you areth most lethal sniper in u.s. history. you have the five stars t
no. it s the factor s most compelling right now. bill: i gave you the opportunity to define for millions of people what you want the law to be and you can t. caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. the factor begins right now. i m bill o reilly, thanks for watching this special edition of the factor. we begin tonight with three genuine american war heros. chris kyl and former seal marcus la tremendously. all have remarkable stories to tell us. we begin with sergeant meijer. before we get to the book, and what you did and what you were honored for, recently, the u.s. command in afghanistan forbade american and nato troops from patrolling with our afghan allies. that is just stunning to me after 11 years in the theater. what do you think about that? i couldn t imagine. i was living withvi these guys, these afghans and i trusted them with my life. you know, i was so close to them that i was as close to them as i wasth the marines. bill: so and you were out in
dangerous man is in the house, my editor matt, who was keeping me under control as i tried to craft perhaps the most unlikely structured book in the history of writing where i attempted to replicate very closely the way we remember which of course has no chronology, and she was kind enough to suggest each chapter might begin and chronologically progress towards its end, which is how it is in its final form. each chapter does reset to childhood following the themes. it does replicate in some ways the pathways we remember, and that s how this book was built through the elements and following them. so, if my hair catches on fire tonight excuse that, i have dangerous amounts of hair spray on. [laughter] i m going to read a couple of small selections, which will kind of give you a look into me and i exist in this book as a messenger. this book isn t about a portrait of me or my family, it s not a biography, it s a portrait of my perspective and what is most important in reading th
i ve got two kids myself, and i m never going to push em towards the military, and i m never going to push em away because one great thing, the military, it is a volunteer force. and if you re going to be there, i want it to be because you want it. and you re going to understand that honor that goes into serving your country. as far as preparing them, i mean, they need to know that when you sign up to go into the military, there s a very high likelihood especially now you re going to go to war. so just prepare yourself that you may be called upon by your country to put your life on the line and possibly give your life for everybody else s safety here. and a lot of people are saying, well, they don t understand why they re fighting over there, and that s fine. just you don t even listen to the people who are coming out against the war because what they need to be doing is protesting congress. or protest the president. all these politicians. but leave the military guys
guest: and the marine recruiter was out to lunch, and then in the strip mall all of a sudden there, you know, you ve got the army recruiter, the navy recruiter, all coming out trying to be snipers themselves and pick you off and get you to come to them. i talked to each one of them, and the navy recruiter sold me on being a seal. host: and at that moment you knew you wanted to be a seal? guest: yes, sir, i mean, everything he was telling me which, of course, the recruiter built it up to where it was more of a jason bourne type thing, but he definitely sold me that the navy seals, they do all this stuff that you never hear about and all this great adventures, and you re going to be the most highly-trained person out there, you re going to be able to have all these skills shooting and hand to hand, so i thought, all right, that sounds great. if there s a best, then i want to be the best. host: what was your training like? guest: well, the initial boot camp to become a