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>> this is our question of the day. what do moms really want on their special day? you see the three options there? 60% is the resounding winner. i think this has been in first place all morning long. they want to eat for a meal. mom wants to eat, apparently wants to eat without prepping it, and without cleaning it herself. yeah. >> duly noted. mom. >> important factors there. you can head to our ktvu.com/vote to weigh in all right. >> flowers too. and handmaid's. oh, well, coming up last, all of the above. >> why not. well we want to give you a quick reminder that you can now stream k u news on your ♪ >> i'm benjamin dunn for shannon. civilians are ordered to evacuate in rafa as they are going to give their military operation to the heavily populated southern gaza city despite tom fortin president biden.
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>> historically dealing with rafa. >> with the key weapon supported with israel's threatened full-scale invasion. >> when they see america pulling back even the slightest, that is a message to hamas that we don't have to agree to a cease-fire. >> and leaving israel vowing to fight on. >> wu standalone. >> this has -- as they rise. ranking member this house congressman adam smith. then for president trump leaves all on his ability to have a gag order trial for the prosecution star witness with
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the legal obstacles, trumps track takes them to the jersey shore. >> regina did radical left democrats mark as communist and fascists with a campaign trial in big testimony. they regained their lives. >> walk as if you don't have prostatic side of that happening? >> a lot of work blood sweat and tears. >> benjamin: all right know about fox news sunday. ♪ -- now on fox news sunday. thousands of palestinians are fleeing after they ordered evacuation of the southern gaza city they say hamas militants have been killed with targeted
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operations from the crossing gate for egypt. they say they are running out of food to distribute in southern gaza fearing civilians good face a full-blown famine. here we wish they continue to protest running down the upper level of new york city's iconic manhattan bridge. and commencement ceremonies saw disruptions this weekend including the university of wisconsin in uc berkeley. in a moment we will talk with the public and senator rick scott on how the ranking member democrat adams smith a first let's turn to trade gates on the ground in southern israel good morning. >> reporter: good morning. with the manic efforts to end the war and successful, here along the israel and gaza border airstrikes continue against hamas positions.
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>> reporter: no 220 days into the war between israel and hamas, the battle rages on. 's really forces are again in northern gaza. going after cells of hamas fighters and launching air strikes moving in on the southernmost city of rafa. >> we have limit -- eliminate dozens of terrorists with us about the weapons. >> reporter: the defense forces one at 300,000 palestinians have fled rafa for the humanitarian zone that is along the sea. they drop with the evacuation orders in recent hours. >> reporter: words cannot describe how we feel right now, let people fleeing from them -- there to the south know those leave -- living in the south have to flee to the central part. life is extremely difficult. >> the amount on the is really
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prime minister for the off the ground invasion with a cease-fire deal and ending the war. not only is the israeli leader facing continued international pressure from the bite administrations and others over increasing civilian casualty rates and gaza. but he seen fresh demonstrations against his government that lack a plan to end the conflict. more than seven months into the war hamas still holds a hundred and 32 people hostage. some dead and some alive. >> using the full force required to bring our loved ones at any cost necessary in order to restore peace of mind with those hostages and families. >> reporter: try to get the hostages out of gaza hamas maintains an ability to target major is really population centers earlier today we heard the rocket siren sounding in the southern city.
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benjamin? >> those keep coming. tray, has a written update on the us military what they are building and is there any danger to the us soldiers as a source retorts gaza? >> we understand this is now complete with the 320 million-dollar project slightly delayed due to weather on the tide but once it's in place us officials say 90 trucks of a day-to-day will be able to pick up supplies in the mediterranean coast and take it into gaza to help many palestinians there. benjamin? >> thank you very much. report from israel, we will see later. joining us now is the florida senator rick scott. thank you we are happy to have you on today in the situation in god's eyes getting pretty harsh for the palestinians, bots, the big news this week is president biden's withholding weapons from israel. what message do you think this sends israel and what doesn't -- what message does this send to
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hamas? repped -- >> first it's a horrible message for israel. i met with the prime minister about six weeks ago and miss in the fence and idf. they don't have a choice. you know, hamas the last battalions are in rafa, if they are going to destroy hamas which they have to do for any security , they have to go in and they will do every thing they can to get the civilians out. i went half a mile from gaza 63 people were killed, girls were raped and people were murdered alive just shot point blank for being one thing, jewish." into the nova film festival area and talk to parents the loss or loved ones israel has no choice but to destroy rafa. i have always believed bite and unfortunately is now part of the pro- hamas wing of his party and he's worried about when the present -- winning the
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presidential election. thank goodness for president trump ease when the most pro-israel presidents in our history and a hopi wins we can get someone in there that will support israel. it's discussed aim. money that goes to gaza is going to hamas, whether we like it or not it's not going to the gazans is going to help hamas. is the the tunnels were built with money from america rocket scent into israel there's money for america. >> with the big news this week is he's withholding weapons from israel but the republicans have been critical about this. in saying this and mr raking use the power of american arm several times to influence the israeli war policy. when more planes and cluster munitions to be withheld. what do you make of this? i'm sure you were fan of president reagan but what he talked about the different with what happened in 1981 with what
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president biden is doing today? >> we had live in reality. here's what we now. they are primarily in rafa. israel has no choice but to destroy hamas. they want to open up the border just to let the gazans come in. it's frustrating that this has not happened. binds doing nothing to force them to open up their borders to the civilians, if he was worried about those civilians in gaza let egypt open there borders for them to come in. the idea that we are not supporting israel's ability to destroy hamas how do you ever live in any peace in israel? and we still having american hostages. why does biden even time with the hostages? we have eight americans, over 30 americans killed. you hardly ever hear anything out of biden's mouth. today, where we are today is israel in support and they have
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to destroy hamas. hamas is in rafa so that civilians need to leave and that's what they are trying to do to keep civilians safe so that the commitment they've always made. >> does interesting he's doing what president reagan did and yet is being criticized for it. i like to move onto president trump's court case at the moment but it's interesting to see how both sides did this. he was in court and you were there as well. with the alleged hush money trial and speaking afterwards, you came out and spoke and attacked the judges daughter, the prosecutor's wife something the former president has not been able to do under gag order. why did you decide to join him this week in court and then purposely go after the judges family? >> number 1 is president trump is a friend i knew -- a friend. i knew him for a long time even before he was florida's governor.
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the democrats are using the court system to go after and prosecute criminally a political opponent. that is occurring. this is wrong. they are just thugs trying to stop trump from being able to run for president. this has happened to me and a lot of people. the just -- justice department says in a three-person down to be the lead prosecutor, is that not sound bad? 's wife is a big donor, right? the judges daughter the judges a democrat donor. but the democratic fundraiser. everyone involved in this is part of the democrat machine. it just looks horrible what's going on here! and they put a gag order on trump in the middle of the presidential race? all they are trying to do is make sure that trump can't go inch when the presidency. biting can't run on his record. the economy we were good and not at war. binds record with a border
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wide-open inflation is unbelievable and now we are at war around the world what biden has to do is silence trump and that is what he is trying to do right now. speak to thank you your vocal about that earlier this week. seeing this across america at the moment taking part in the israeli solidarity event, countering these encampments. what do you make of these protests? also want to think it says about the future of universities here, perhaps also about the future of young americans? >> first off they are complacent in allowing people to spew hatred. picking one group juice, to allow individuals to come on their campus and be violent and trespass in all these things without immediately saying it has to stop you are complacent. we have to call it hatred and anti-semitism every day. so what's going on this country?
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we are allowing people to spew hatred! and counter it. i'm really disappointed in the mayor of dc. when george washington university asked for support she said know. she only governed the protesters when she had to testify in congress. this is a dangerous time and we need to stand up for jews in this country, we need to stand up for israel, and it's a pretty scary time if you are a jewish student at these universities right now. i've talked to a lot of them i was at george washington university which is wear my daughter went in the jewish student leaders were not even allowed to meet with the president of the university! this stuff is wrong. >> benjamin: the concern is we will see more and more of this as well in the future. thank you so much for joining us today, we really appreciate it, thank you. >> have a good day, goodbye benjamin. >> benjamin: joining us now is the ranking member of the house armed services community adam smith.
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congressman, i want to start with the protests we were just talking about. in your own party the far left members are saying its because of these protests at universities that biden has held back weapons to israel. here's what the congressman said she said this is why young people across the country were protesting for and finally, the needle has moved in a significant way. i hope we see more progress but don't ever let people say that your vote or voices or meaning -- are meaningless and actions are worthless. this is always within us to bend. do you agree that the protests influence the white house's decision? do you think they are incentivizing for the disruption as well? >> absolutely not. it's a deal -- ridiculous research in. there's two things humanitarian crisis in gaza. which you describe anything quite well in the opening to this and the fact that the prime
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minister benjamin netanyahu has no plan for what's going to happen in gaza going forward. this is humming the president has been pushing for in the very beginning. yes, destroy hamas. by the way, the notion that president biden is not supporting israel is ridiculous. we just signed a $15 billion supplemental plan to support israel. we have been shipping weapons to israel throughout this crisis in president biden has been doing that, he's unquestionably supporting israel and by the way, i was at an event with president biden yesterday the very first thing he said was if hamas would release hostages this war would be done. he supports israel and he understands hamas needs to be destroyed but that's not it! that's not all that needs to be dog so there needs to be a future for goes on that's not there. they won't help israel if they just come back because there is
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no future for the palestinian people. >> benjamin: when you say that president biden is supporting israel but i want to give you something that the washington post just yesterday, the biden administration working urgently to stave off a full scale is really invasion is offering israel valuable assistance if they hold back including sensitive intelligence to help the israeli military pinpoint the location of the hamas leaders and find the groups hidden tunnels and i think it's amazing first of all that this intelligence has not already been shared. that's what someone would do if you want to help and get american hostages out, and the other is how can the us use intelligence like this as leverage? >> the crucial thing about this story is there's no evidence whatsoever that it's true. the biting ministration has absolutely been sharing intelligence and working with israel from the very start of the war. that has been widely reported so there's no evidence whatsoever. >> but there is evidence they are pulling back the weapons.
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>> fair enough we don't bait and switch me here okay? the first thank you said was there was evidence that we had information that we could provide to they israel information. i don't see evidence of that but as to the weapons, i will admit that the president was not at click -- not as clear on this as he should have been but all that has been held back to date are dumb 2000-pound bombs because the president feels i think rightly, that they should not be using rafa. it's exactly similar to what president reagan did. he did not withhold all aid to israel anymore then president biden is, he tried to shape the campaign to move israel in a direction that will be better for israel in the middle east. you can't credibly argue that president biden hasn't been supporting israel based on what he has said and done since october 7th. >> benjamin: nevertheless, despite every thing the white house is saying, it is somewhat embarrassing perhaps them netenyahu is not listening to president biden.
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>> 100%! >> benjamin: the national security advisor posted that hamas loves biden. what is that say? >> whether it says is benjamin netanyahu is not good for israel right now! he's leading them down a path of endless war, conflicts, and no piece! >> benjamin: even with the removal? >> i don't vote drill in the election. >> benjamin: would you support him leaving office? >> that's up to the israeli people to make that decision. what i'm saying is as long as he is an office there's an obligation to president biden to try and influence the policies in a better direction! and look, it's undeniable that prime minister benjamin netanyahu led them to that point where october 7th happened and he is continuing the same policies. we support israel, we want to move in the direction where there is a sustainable peace. and this proposal by the house republicans this week to say
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blank check to israel, the president can never not give israel something. that just a ridiculous proposal. we need to get to long-term peace for the sake of the is really people. speech your next guesses them mother of an american hostage coming on and it's been 219 days. they say not enough is being done and frankly they are saying the american houses have been forgotten about. what would be your message to her? >> like i said i was with president biden yesterday the very first thing he said, for the last several months he has been pushing a peace agreement, let's be clear the biggest block to a cease-fire right now is hamas. there was a deal on the table to get a temporary cease-fire in exchange for releasing hostages. that's been the singular focus director burns, 20 lincoln, a variety of people that have been there working with anyone they can work with to get the deal and get the hostages home and there is no doubt right now that hamas is the block to the steal we need to put pressure on them and that's when my criticisms of
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the protest used in the us. they are not putting any pressure on hamas and hamas is blocking the cease-fire right now! >> thank you thing that's all we have time for but thank you. >> benjamin: more than a hundred have hostages remain unaccounted for. one of the hostages we will speak with the hostages mother holy recently received proof that he is still alive. what she is calling on the israeli government to do. i will bring the panel to discuss biden's vow to not supply weapons to israel if it continues with its rough offensive. ♪
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>> my commitment to the safety of the jewish people in the safety of israel and the right to exist as an independent state's ironclad even when we disagree. the prime just -- we are working around the clock to free the remaining hostages, will not rest until we bring them all home. >> benjamin: president biden pledging to bring the is really in hostages home cease-fire negotiations ended with no deal leaving felling members wondering the next move. when those hostages is a 23-year-old kidnapped october 7th and taken to gaza. joining me now is his mother rachel, thank you for being with us today. and i know this not how you want to be spending the day. but at the moment there is so much dialog, so much political division and so much cease-fire talk do you feel today that not
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enough is being done? what do you think needs to be done? >> i think it's clear not enough is being done because we still have 303 to cherish souls being held captive for 219 days and within this cohorts of 132 souls there are the american aid who i think that most americans even are aware that there are american innocent civilians being held against there will but there is a lot of people in that hostage cohort that we don't hear about when we hear a lot of noise about the hostages being held, you rarely hear about the muslim arabs that are hostage, you very rarely hear about the tight buddhist that are held hostage and you rarely hear about the black christian africans who are being held
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hostage. there is mexicans, there is argentinians and germans, somehow there has been an attempt to make this group of people a monolithic homogenous group. >> benjamin: why do you think this has happened? do you think it just doesn't serve the political benefit for the size working for a solution? >> i think it's actually an excellent question i would ask you turn around to someone in the media since i have no knowledge of why certain things are crafted or narrated a certain way, but i find it curious and suspicious that for whatever reason that has not been publicly saturating the news. >> benjamin: do you think that perhaps the israeli invasion into rafa, with that put your son with all these other hostages in their lives and it
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-- in danger? >> i'm not a military strategist , i am a mother who is horribly and miserably worried about her only son who has been in -- been in an active war zone for 219 days along with 131 other people who the oldest one is a grandpa who is 86 years old, the youngest one is one and a half years old we have daughters, sons, sisters, brothers, spouses, fathers, mothers, grandparents. we are all horribly worried about our loved ones being in harms way. >> benjamin: would you like to see the cease-fire talks continue? must be be awful to see that is
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that wear you think a solution could be found? >> i think that we really have to be creative and insightful and figure out a way forward. both sides really have to figure out a way forward and calling for a timeout certainly we'll give some time for people to start to think straight again. i think what really gets lost in this is that america should not be considered this neutral negotiator, they were also a victim on october 7th. forty-five americans were killed october 7th and 12 were taken into captivity and hr still being held hostage. i certainly want all the suffering in the region and there is so much suffering to go around with hundreds of
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thousands of innocent civilians in gaza who are suffering and also hundred 32 innocent civilians in gaza who were direct their on october 7th that are suffering. i think people have holding these two truths and that's an injustice to everyone involved. >> you made very clear this was an attack on them and will try to tell the stories of all those being held because they need to be the main focus of what we do. thank you so much for joining us today we appreciate it. >> thank you for having me. >> benjamin: it's time for our sunday group. where the fox news senior political analyst and former bush white house advisor and fox news contributor in the former bush national security official michael. thank you all for joining me today. i appreciate it. i want to start off by playing a sad point -- soundbite from
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president biden get your response to this. >> they will not get our support if they go on these population centers, we're not walking from the security or israel's ability to wage war in those areas. >> benjamin: we just heard from rachel, these are americans being held inside gaza at the moment and biden there is saying he's not walking away from the israel security even though he's holding weapons back. to think the administration is getting this wrong? >> i do and i think they're getting it wrong for the wrong reasons. i think it's all a politics. i think he feels compelled by the them on college campus and by the disarray the left-wing and democratic party with the pro- hamas wing of the party. we just have to do something about it. so he has to look tough to them in his dealings with israel and i think it's a mistake because anything that makes it look political makes the president look weaker and makes america's
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position in the region look weaker as well. >> benjamin: this is a political decision, would you say that is why president biden has the domestic political purposes? >> not all below me just how important it was to hear from that mother of a hostage. i think that was a perspective that is lost in all the commotion here about the protest focused on the israeli offensive but i think her perspective is so important because it is mother's day. went to carl's point i don't think he is responding to any cubist protests. i thank you want to bring those hostages home and see an end to the war and he wants to see us policy satisfied which is calling for the two state solution, a state of israel in the state for the palestinians. and the idea that you would support an attack on a population centrally raw file with more than a million people potential humanitarian crisis
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that would be caused by the attack doesn't help us get hostages home, it doesn't help us with the negotiating with israel to come to a deal. it puts these countries in a more tenuous situation because of all of the world is like ngc with the israelis are doing? this is what the president here is talking about! the constructive steps to achieve a deal. >> seppi what sights makes policy and the way he's dealing with the israelis back and forth. i posted this on ask, they said biden privately threatened to rethink his support for the war in february, two months before doing so publicly but the white house didn't put this into the readout because he wanted to avoid a public blow up. what you make if -- of his evolution of his support with the policy towards israel? >> i think this is modeled insult defeated. they pass a $14 billion
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assistance package for israel, bidens has repeatedly we have your back, then yet they say on the other hand we are not going to send you arms and don't do anything we ask you not to do. this week i was in israel and we learned that they have submitted a humanitarian plan to the biden administration that begins to take care of the movement of the innocent civilians northward in gaza and in this way i think there will be fewer civilian casualties when they go in full-scale but to go back to the hostages, by the way i think when the israelis put forward the very serious and well thought out proposal recently that was rejected by hamas we realize that there is no leverage that biden administration has over hamas. they should put more pressure on hamas and support this invasion of raw file with the future
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hostage negotiations. >> benjamin: how do thing the policy at the moment is playing out domestically? how is this affecting them? >> i think he's in tenuous situation where his party is divided and we are seeing this just on the college campuses and the republicans are definitely picking apart every opportunity they can where he seems to then then val -- bend and bow to that side and withhold aid and may 20th is when they have asked for him to provide more information. >> trying to play that midline and please both sides. we will have the take a break right there but we'll be back just after the break. michael cohen, expected to take -- take the stand next week with president trump's trial on monday. we will discuss weather he's a credible witness of prosecutionm anard that's coming up next. ♪ an
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>> i got indicted four times in the time of three seconds. every time there's a plano -- floods over if my plane flies over then i got subpoenaed to go before a grand jury. why did they do this nine years ago as an example? or eight years ago, they could've done this many years ago and they waited till the
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election. right into the middle of the election. >> benjamin: before president trump lashing out with multiple states last night at the indictment. calling the case political motivated. it's been a very busy week for him of course we are the highly anticipated peace with this trial hurting oars and helping president trump? when he gets to speak after the trial every day. >> it's also pulling him off from doing campaign staff, it will depend of how the jury decides if a mother is guilty or night he's known for attacking his enemies and bringing them people who crossed him and here
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he has a gag order he's unable to say anything and that's lamenting how this person has defined his reputation in these not able to do that and now we have michael cohen coming to the stand and that's a very vitriolic relationship. >> benjamin: that was can be the question, michael cohen is coming up this site doesn't seem to warm them. >> we've had an interesting week and now we will have another interesting week where we see if he's a credible witness but this whole process has energized the base of trump's political support and we said that gigantic rally on saturday with the new york environments and
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with the public opinion in the 10th of may with the 20% and they will be convicted. and it was a significant issue. and 40% said he did something illegal in a 21% with those saying that they didn't do anything illegal. we were conflicted about this and you like what you are hearing with the trial. >> we don't know how close elections going to come down to
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it will be neck and neck before the election the current hush money case of course but then after that everything else is being pushed back and i want to say is is a big boost to president trump with the hush money case being done he's an off campaigning. it's ironic to hear him saying why did we do this long time ago. it seems like the whole justice system is afraid of being accused of playing politics. they say we will wait and be cautious and down in florida she gave him such a big kiss this week by saying we'll just allay this want after the election and i say i think it's not the stormy daniels testimony that was in the headlines for the upcoming testimony by michael cohen if trump testifies,
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headlines like you wouldn't believe and he would be a tremendous risk because who believes he didn't have sex with stormy daniels? who doesn't that he paid hush money? and fiesta testify in law a than that would be perjury. that's what his supporters hope. >> we have the primaries coming up in three states and on 20% of the vote last week. with the women voters in much of the trials switching over. >> a thing that's part of it and i think president trump to win
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what he needs they need to appeal to the college-educated women independence writing this is why you are seeing this. >> benjamin: we will have to seal this pans out thank you for being with me today i appreciate it. >> we take an inside look into the preeminent military hospitals in the week -- what they are doing to help americans shape their lives.
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♪ >> during my time this week in washington i went to the medical center to look at the amazing job the dedicated doctors and nurses in physical therapist do to help them recover from catastrophic injuries. i received excellent care at another military hospital in san antonio texas after sustaining serious injuries that impacted to colleagues of mine. i talked to three vets of there stories of pain, hope, and recovery starting with the day that change lives forever.
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>> had won the most dangerous jobs in the army i would look for the iuds in afghanistan in july 2nd it penetrated my already 31 it was a directional charge bomb that went straight through. in that moment as you can see it at dinner both of my legs and slammed my left femur and half my pelvis and disappeared my spine and my pelvis right middle finger was amputated my four front teeth were knocked out when i hit the steering wheel except my heart and left long. they went in and fixed it. >> one incredible journey. i didn't think it would be possible to survive someone like that. >> , she died twice in the operating table and they were already preparing my family lives in a call for a month and a half saying he probably won't even come out of this and if he
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does he will not be normal. >> was working as per the overgrown task force during the event -- evacuation of gift -- afghanistan when a suicide bomber blew himself up. >> i came to recognize the fire and we later got to meet a few of my best friends i was way through most of its screaming and kicking the whole 9 yards behind the sniper tower and just about completely blood up by the time i got to the rule to facility had about three drops of blood in my body. >> reporter: he was back home when he sustained his injuries back in 2022. >> i don't remember much of that at all with the rest the emergency room disconnected from my urethra and my left leg was broken into places on my right
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or went to places myself guess was dislodged in my right arm and right leg were also broken. >> the early days of recovery after the day that changed the lives were traumatic. >> when he came out of the coma and see the path ahead? >> the first words to my dad was this is different. [ laughter ] everybody laugh because they were like well he has a point this is different but we can't take back time and change this and i can grow my legs back so how do we get past this moment? >> you see for laval to him as a wonder where this comes from? have you always been like this? >> no actually i almost took my life six times after i was blown up. there is a mere next to hospital bed and i would look there every day and see a monster. when the ways i realize i was able to get through was not pushing people away.
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not hearing them say you will get through it and saying you don't know what i'm going through. if they are there they want to care and they want to be there for us. i stop pushing people away i allowed them in my circle to give me encouragement. >> my injuries and all yours. >> i got the knee. [ laughter ] i said to myself early on and i wouldn't do the specific -- before and i'm having a bad day of time the first person in the room that comes in the door i'm having a bad day if i don't tell them it will get worse and worse for me. i would never do that before. >> so this change our respective of life and how we do this. >> of course we couldn't do without family either. your wife was by your side the whole time. >> last six and a half years she's been kicking my butt literally telling me i need to tell my story.
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>> what were the early thoughts when you finally stabilized and had the habitation what did you think about the path ahead? >> i was with me the first six month of my recovery she raised me and my siblings as a single mother. i grew up seeing her struggle through a lot but always overcoming it's always had that mindset and i remember she was in tears one day and she was like you will run again. >> reporter: i was the whole process of physio? >> before the accident try to get back there it's never straight process you only get 20 steps ahead and take a whole bunch back. if all he could do is 1% to one day, you just keep doing that until it adds up to something. >> there's so much love here when you come that they look at
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our situations and they say what do we need? most the times they are already prepared when we walk in the door they say yes, we know you need this right here already made and set for you and you can get running. >> there you go! get it! >> the physical therapist has helped hundreds of vets go through rehab over the last 20 years. >> is a tough job you do. >> and has its challenges at times. >> if he wants only get their injuries like this at the push them. >> correct. >> reporter: tell us what this would look like you have a patient that came in, and amputee where you start? what do you do? >> we strengthen their endurance and their balance and coordination. we take them prior to that and put together until they are up from the stuff.
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>> let's put your right foot up on here. and see if you can rotate from side to side. >> always be looking at how does this feel? >> challenging. >> just incredible stories, up next you'll take a look at the high-tech equipment that injured vets have access to and then we will hear what is next to the life of the three that's we talked to. ♪
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♪ >> benjamin: walter reed national medical centre has a wide range of prosthetics used by patients. we got to sample some of the amazing artificial limbs and we got some final thoughts about the future from our three that's. >> looking at all these you're covering almost every limb from top to bottom. >> this is a prosthetic for an
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amputee my hand is powered by using electrodes on the inside so far batteries are charged you never make any guarantees, oh, it is! the batteries or charge so using the electrical signals from somebody's forearm and keep in mind, yes, we make these cool prosthetics were nothing you -- works without good therapy. it's a whole team environment. our technicians in the back would help us fabricate the actual socket portion and the prostitute just would make how the socket fits and make the prosthetics and then our ot team works with the patient to control those muscle -- muscle contraction so they can properly open and close the hand. it's not easy to isolate the muscle contractions. and that's why it's such a team environment. >> benjamin: what what's on them like this cost? >> that's a really great question we don't care how much
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things cost on the civilian side here it's not cheap. i will say it that way. it's under a hundred thousand dollars if that gives you a ballpark. but for us, when we purchased thanks for our patience we get it at cost. >> whenever i asked the doctors down in san antonio they said he don't have the worry about the cost we can provide to exactly what you need when veterans and soldiers need. so what's this year? >> this is a suit, a dynamic movement maybe you had a crush injury or some type of nerve injury and chronic pain being tingling or numbness we use these on our patients, offbrand. >> i think i want one. >> oh! >> benjamin: all the groups we -- vets we talk to are grateful for the help they got and they are optimistic about the future.
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>> i have a new normal now my left arm able to fully extend with all kinds of physical activities but i can still do a lot of this stuff that i used to do just the strength is not quite there yet so i just have to go back to square one. >> guard coming here for a reason they reminded me that the world considers ptsd is a certain thing or what we know it as but he gave me posttraumatic successful domination in this situation. >> and you're going on to do bigger and better things right? >> yes can't wait. >> there is a timely at the draw the line and say her life is not so bad you're still alive. i friend sitting as close as you and i write now that were killed next to me and i'm here and they are not. i don't have survival skill but i am grateful and my family does not degree me for the rest of their lives. >> i feel the same way our
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cameramen and fixer was killed and i just from a farmer speaking to them they would want me to pick up and standing keep going and work harder in their names. >> it's the best way to honor their memories. >> benjamin: the two things we learned that day injuries like that they lost for life. they need treatment for life and it's about the community around them that have gone them through it. for me that commute he was m y wife and i want to reach out t
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the world's top canine athletes have descended upon new york but only the best have qualified to take the stage at one of our country's great sporting venues for a yearly showcase of the fast and the furriest.

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