large pulmonary artery and pulmonary va vein had been lacerated. tying those vessels bag together had to resect a small part of the lung. then ended up taking out the rib that had been shattered. the operation lasted 2 and a half hours. the next day it was lieutenant general petraeus he aid i am going home. no way you had an m 16 hoot through the chest major vessels major urge gree. no way you can go home. he said well at least send me back so i can be at a local hospital so i can be back with my soldiers. what about that soldier who accidentally shot him? i read this where that when he went back therein stead of basically aing you are out, you are never going to be successful he ended up promoting him to ranger school. really does give an inieth into general petraeus s psyche. ever since that encounter in the er senator frist and general
secure the promise of our future. and joining me now is msnbc deputy political director mark murray, and a lot to talk about including a great showing for congresswoman bachmann in the iowa poll, but it is interesting, mark, that she noted in her opinion that the tea party is not a right-wing of the republican party, and she says that it is disaffected democrats and independents and all kinds make up that party, which of course we know that she needs more than the right wing of her party if she plans to survive. well, that is right. that is a line she has been using for several years now, and she also debuts in that june debate in new mexichampshire. and she wants to tap into the va vein of the tea party, and she wants to be that person. it was interesting in the speech saying i m not a social conservative or fiscal conservati conservative, but a tea party conservative. there is a void in the republican party for someone to