records show the staff sergeant bales salted a girlfriend and, once, fled the scene of an accident. and now the news from washington, dc this afternoon with the rest of what we learned. james? reporter: sergeant bales attorney called the 3 1/2 hour session with his clients one of the most emotional meetings of his life, but the military sources caution against anyone portraying sergeant bales as a victim noting that many other american soldiers have seen a lot more combat and not cracked. according to documents obligated by new york times he was arrested a decade ago on pedestrian charge of assaulting a woman after an incident in a hotel room in washington. the charges were dropped after he paid a fine and completed anger management training. this was before he was married. and five years ago his striker group had a gun battle in iraq, in the holy city but in that deployment and the other tours,