we love these mornings here, hime bill hemmer, welcome to america s newsroom . how you doing, martha? martha: doing well, bill. it was a big night, almost double the turnout, also a factor here, o donnell on the gop ticket, she will run for joe biden s seat in delaware. listen to this: a lot of people have already said that we can t win the general election. it is the same yes we can! yes, we can! it is the same so-called experts who said we had no chance of winning the primary. [applause] it will be hard work. but we can win. and if those same people who fought against me were just worked just as hard for me, we will win! [applause] martha: but the national committee that helps republican senate candidates says they will not give any money to o donnell. no financial support for her. and that is part of the big part of the story. bill: sure is. and moments ago, martha, republican leader mitch mccom said he will support o donnell. dana perino is former white h
launcher that was strapped to his back. they couldn t move. they didn t have any cover or any kind of concealment to behind behind or protect themselves. reporter: the sergeant says he doesn t have nightmares. i don t dream. it s not something i dream about. it s something that i think about in the guy time.daytime. he did not dream of being a soldier. i was working at the subway at the time and mopping the floors, like ten o clock at night and the radio is on and they started saying the army recruiter is giving out free t-shirts and i m a sucker for a free t-shirt i guess. reporter: he married his wife jennifer last november and is in no hurry to return to combat. combat s not a good thing. reporter: he says he doesn t feel like a hero. no more than every single service member in the united states military today. reporter: at the pentagon, jennifer griffin, fox news. bret: amazing story. intelligence officials say two drone attacks today in the northern wasiristan re
chasing the other away. giunta pulled his friend brennan to safety. sergeant giunta was just right there with him, just holding his hand. reporter: despite giunta s efforts, it was too late to save josh brennan. he ll say he was just doing his job. but the reality is there s very few people in the world that would have done what he did. you know what the award says. above and beyond the call of duty. if everyone who has gone above and beyond the call of duty received the medal of honor, i think everyone i stand with would have the medal of honor. reporter: martha raddatz, abc news, vicenza, italy. you can see how obviously humble he is about receiving the medal of honor. and his family went on to say, more specifically his father said, this is really bittersweet for us because we re so happy for our son but in order for him to get this obviously two wcwcwcwcwcwcwcwcwcwcwcwcwcwcwcwcwcwcwcwcwcwcwcwcwcwcwcwcwcwcwcwcwcwcwcwcwcwcwcwcwcwcwcwcwcwcwcwcwcwcwcwcwcwcwcwcwcwcwcwcwcwc
reporter: he was just 22 years old at the time, during this battle, which abc news cameras captured. it was a fight so intense, an ambush so sudden, that soldiers were lying wounded within seconds. among them, giunta s closest friend, sergeant josh brennan, shot multiple times and cut off from the other soldiers. to tell the story about that day hurts me. reporter: staff sergeant brett perry back in afghanistan for a second tour was with giunta on that frigid mountain during the battle. i can t even begin to describe how intense it was. the most intense whizzes i ve ever heard from bullets just going right over us. reporter: with two taliban fighters now dragging his friend josh brennan away giunta charged right into the ambush, killing one of the taliban fighters and
hurt close, and the close where it snaps by your head, but you re not hit. and then there s the whiz, that s a little bit further away than the crack. reporter: he saw sergeant josh brennan hauled away by the taliban. we never have gotten my son s body back. he saw they were carrying him into the woods and that josh had been wounded by the taliban and that when he got to josh, that josh was, you know, severely wounded. he held his hand and talked to him and comforted him and tried to tell him that everything was going to be okay. . reporter: brennan later died of his wounds, but at least he didn t fall into enemy hands and the commander at the time dan kierney nominated him for the medal. i ve never seen anything or heard of anything that heroic in my life and he was shot twice in the abdomen on his the base plate for his body armor and then shot again, a third time, in the at 4 rocket