for common sense, practical policies. great to see you. thank you for watching tonight. a quick programming note. next sunday "the next revolution" won't be broadcast. but we'll be bac one of his victims, the african designer. have the best weekend with the ones you love. see you monday. >> sean: welcome to this special edition of "hannity," for the full hour, fox news correspondent, benjamin hall, he's going to tell us his courageous story of survival, perseverance, and it will be in his own words. exactly one year ago, in march of 2022, while benjamin hall was on assignment in kyiv covering the outbreak of the war. . putin was planning to encircle kyiv with a series of brutal

attacks. benjamin hall was working around the clock to bring all of us real information on the ground. >> more on the ground is in kyiv tonight, the capital ukraine, fox's home, benjamin hall, benjamin, what's going on tonight? >> well, sean, you would have to look back today and see what we've seen is a continuation, if not an escalation of what we've seen over the last week. increasing number of attacks on civilian areas. an attempt to get humanitarian aid in the surrounded cities and the inability for people to get out of them. >> just a few days later, on march 14, hall was on a fact-finding mission on the outskirts of ukraine with two other journalists, pierre and sasha when they were viciously attacked by russian forces. pierre and sasha was killed and hall was left fighting for his life. here's jennifer griffin. >> a word about our colleagues, the loss and pain we feel is

enormous, but if ever there was a time that the world needed journalist reporters risking their lives to tell the stories, to tell the truth, it's now. without a free press, the autocrats win. we will redouble our efforts to honor these colleagues and all reporters in harm's way tonight. >> and jennifer worked endlessly, tirelessly to help benjamin and get him to safety. now in the hours, days, weeks, months that followed, benjamin fought for his life. he did it with such a positive attitude. i've had the honor of speaking with ben throughout his recovery and the courage in the face of what is unthinkable adversity is an inspiration personally to me and to so many others. he has a new book. i urge you to read it, "saved, a war reporter's mission to make it home." out march 14. by the way, it's a must read. i sat down with benjamin hall in new york. here's part one of this interview. benjamin hall, saved, a war

reporter's mission to make it home. my friend, welcome home. >> thank you. of. >> pleasure to be here. >> you talk about the term war correspondent which you've been all over the world. there's been many conflicts. you've been -- you were at the syrian civil war, you were in mosul in iraq. you were in kabul in afghanistan. during wartime, mogadishu, and, of course, ukraine. you're in war zones. that's your job. it's so hard, you -- i can only imagine the things that you've seen over the years and every place you've been to. tell us about that. >> yeah, it's a job that you can both love and both hate. you hate it because you see some of the horrible things, horrible things -- families losing everything, homes, schools being demolished, schools who have nothing. you have to love it. you have to understand why you're doing it and the importance of it. you can understand it as you tell other people really have

influence. i think we need to know these stories. it's been hard. a job once you start, once you love it, it's very difficult to do anything else, because there's very few other jobs that fill you with such perhaps pride. and the necessity to do it. i've done all of the wars. when the war breaks out, you have to cover it. it's important to our viewers. >> dangerous work. and maybe -- did you ever imagine what happened to you would happen? did those thoughts go through your head? >> yeah. i mean, it's interesting, i'm surrounded by colleagues who were injured. seven or eight who are died over the years. so i knew it could happen. i've seen it happen. but did i ever think it could happen to he? no, i'm not sure i did. i knew the risks, i knew it could happen. but there has to be a little element inside you. has to believe it won't. so, you make every precaution to take every precaution you can before you go in there and you're aware of the risks, but you can't let it cloud your judgment or distract you when you're working.

if that clouds your mind, you won't do your job as well. if you think about it beforehand, but when you go in, you focus on the job and the work and the people you're talking to and you don't let fear fill your mind. >> you talked about your injuries. let's talk about that day. and you were with pierre, your cameraman. didn't make it out alive. the journalist who was there as well who didn't make it out alive. and let's talk about the moment that changed your life forever. and -- and what you remember about it. you talk about going black and then you tell a pretty miraculous story about getting your consciousness back. let's talk about that moment that day. >> yeah, i mean -- well, firstly, i was saved that day. we were out, we were filming in an abandoned village outside of kyiv. the russians had surrounded the city. the idea is they would take it in the next few days. we weren't planning to go to the front lines. we were filming in areas that had been totally demolished.

we saw schools around churches that were hit. as we were finished, we were driving back to the capital city of kyiv. we hasn't seen it for a long time. the first missile came out of nowhere. lands about 30 feet in front of us. immediately, pierre shouts, reverse the car, reverse the car. there were two ukrainians driving as well. five of us in the car. the car got stuck. we couldn't go back. and pierre shouted, get out of the car, everyone get out of the car. and the next second, the second bomb hits. right in front of the left of it was car. and that one, i went black. i was in a dark place. i couldn't feel or see. i'd taken shrapnel in the eye. match box shrapnel in my neck. i was out, i was out dead. i saw my daughter, out of nowhere, into this blackness. right in front of me.

came my daughter, anna. she said to me, daddy, you have to get out of the car -- real as if she was in front of me. out of nowhere, she came to me. i came to. i opened up my eyes. and my instinct took me to the car door. i scrambled, i pulled myself out. i got out of the car. and the third bomb hit the car itself right after that. next thing i know, i wake up, it's thrown me away. i'm on fire. my right leg gone. i roll around, i tried to put -- >> scene: you had lost your foot at that point? >> i'd lost a foot. the foot was god. i didn't notice it at the time. >> sean: your eye is injured. you're bleeding everywhere. >> took pieces of my skull. my left hand, the thumb hanging off. so, i was lying there -- lying there. and pierre was still alive at this point. he said, don't move, russian drones, russian drones. so, i'm lying there. and this barren landscape.

trying not to move, trying to think of what we can do. looking at my injuries, realizing how badly injured i am. and i get my cell phone out. no reception. can't get ahold of anyone. no one knew where we were. we had been moving around a little bit. so, my first thought -- i will record what i'm seeing. i stopped and b took a picture of my leg and some of my injuries. and i immediately thought, well, my children can't see this. if i don't come home, that can't be the last picture they see. so i was sitting there and deleted them immediately. pierre, again, lying five feet away from me or so, just lying there. said the russians -- the russians. after a while, a car came past. it was on the ridge by me. i shouted, a car, a car. i tried to wave at it trying to

get the attention. it didn't see me. pierre said, it's the russians, it's the russians. and i said, it doesn't matter. i'm so badly injured, i got to go. and i remember thinking, it doesn't matter about my injuries. i'm going home. i will do whatever it takes right now. i will drag myself home, pull myself. and i started pulling myself along the ground. dragging myself up the hill. and that same car a little while later, took the wrong turn, came back. i was little higher up. my hands full of dirt and stones. waving, i threw it at the car. they saw me and they stopped, ran out, grabbed ahold of me. >> sean: they dragged you? >> dragged me. that's the first time i felt real pain. amazingly, i was so -- adrenaline was pumping through me at first. i could see the injuries. i wasn't feeling the pain. as soon as i was dragged along the ground, the burns and the skin and a lot of that came off

there. that's when i felt the real pain. >> sean: worst pain by far in your life? >> that, say, when i was evacuated and the pain meds as well. send you uh to a new place -- an awful place, but somewhere you have to find a way through. the last thing i remember, i found an ambulance at the check point, i remember getting an injection. that was the end of that part. then, the next thing you know, i wake up. i'm in this hospital. and i don't know where i am. i look around me. and i see i'm in russia. all i know is that we were saying russians -- the car was russian. this point, i've got bars coming out of my leg, can't move, badly injured. but, again, i'm thinking, i'm in russia. how do i get out? i got to find a way out up i have to escape here. someone came in the room with my state department press card. holding it there and i was shouting, who are you? who are you you? -- who are you?

his sheet started to rise. i thought he had a gun pointed at me. i'm in a spy world. i thought, what can i do. and into the room walked this american, rich, i didn't know him at the time. he looked down and said, hey, ben, do you want to get out of here? i said, yeah, whatever it takes, let's go. i said, by the way, that guy is russian and he's got a gun. which, of course, wasn't the truth at all. that's when i got in to save the allies and the incredible team did to come get me. what they did to get me on short notice. they reached out, spoke to who set them up. this is the same group that got be people out of afghanistan when it fell. still getting people out of afghanistan. they put together a team, former soldiers who came in. they bought two battered ambulances and they broke right into kyiv. as the shelves were falling, they came in. they knew another american was

stuck in there. that was me. and they were going to risk their own lives to get one american home. and one of them had a great friend who died in afghanistan. they served in afghanistan. they watched their friend ben die. many had daughters. i lost my last friend, ben, who had daughters and i'm not going to lose another one. whatever it takes. and i was taken to the hand of an incredible group of people and they saved my life then and there. >> let me go back a little bit. i want to talk a little bit more about your daughter. so, you -- everything goes black. there's nothingness in a sense. you had no idea what had happened. and you feel you see the presence of your daughter right there in front of you. >> yeah. >> sean: you mention in the book you believe in god? >> yeah. >> sean: do you believe that's god sending your daughter saying, daddy, wake up.

>> my family are angels. they were sent to me. i know i was saved that day as well. when uh saw her, it was an incredible peace as well. i was blacked out. but it was quiet. it wasn't rushed. it wasn't fearful. she came to me. in this peace and said, daddy, get out of the car. >> sean: your daughter's name is anna. >> anna, i think all three of my daughters, they came together to me that day. but if i had been an inch in any direction, i would have been dead. i was sitting in the middle seat of this little car. the back row. and the other four people died. and if i had been any -- anywhere else, i would have been blind in both eyes. i would have suffered serious head injuries. and somehow, i came out of this. and i came out of this, i think, in an incredible way. i feel like i came out of it with my mind and will intact, my optimism intact, my hope intact. and i think god gave me that. my family gave me that. they brought me back.

if i can't do one b thing, it's to pass it to others. try hard, work hard, believe in the right things, you can get through absolutely anything. it was my daughters who came to me that day. >> and more of my exclusive interview with benjamin hall right after this straight ahead.

good spirits and is his usual self. back to hannity. oo(. >> march 14, sitting in our booth in the pentagon. . >> march 14, sitting in our booth in the pentagon. the fox booth is in the hallway with all of the other television networks. >> the pentagon press secretary john kirby had come in to talk to me when a french journalist came running down the hall. he said, jim, was your team hit in kyiv. i called jay wallace, the of

news at fox. and i said, jay, has our team been hurt? was benji hurt? and he said, well, do you know who's with him? i said, pierre. the belief was benji had survived, nobody knew where he was. nobody knew who sasha and pierre were. he said, do you want me to help. he said yes. >> that was fox's own jennifer griffin on colleague benjamin hall. on a documentary entitled sacrifice and survival, a story from the front line, well, you can see that on march 19, 9:00 p.m., right here on the fox news channel. now, here's more of my exclusive interview with benjamin in this special edition of hannity. >> when you had the awareness of how severe the injuries were, the car passed and you came back

and you threw a rock at it. you describe in the book you had to start pulling yourself up a slope. so, that the car would be able to see you at that point. with all of the injuries that you have, that, to me, is miraculous you were able to do that with such severe injuries. >> yeah, elbows, arms, slid along. and not once did i think i can't do this. not once did i think the injuries are too bad for this. there was one thought -- whatever it takes to get home. whatever it takes. nothing else matters. the pain, the struggles. it doesn't matter. you got to do that every second. do whatever you have to. i felt that through the whole recovery. things are dark and hard and painful, whatever it takes, it doesn't matter. put away the evil, the bad, you can do it. it's an incredible driving force. you hold up something in front of you that you want to do, no matter what, you can do it, you can really do it. >> we always try to put

ourselves in a position -- how would i act if i went through something similar. i could tell you, i don't think i could ever in any way match the mental toughness, the strength, the faith, the fortitude, the courage that you're describing here? >> i think you could. most people can. what amazed me is how you can find a new level. i never thought it was possible. i never thought i could go through that myself. i've seen people go through horrific things in wars. every time i went through something that i didn't think was possible, i found another level of strength inside me. i looked deep inside. i said, you've got to get through this. you hold on. you put aside that pain. we've all got it. i believing that now. it's deep inside all of it. you find it, it is inside us. we've got that. i think anyone could if you believe in it and you keep doing it. >> we talk about pierre. you travelled to numerous war zones together. he was a close friend. he said in the book that you

believed pierre saved your life that day. why would you do that? he was in the same car with you? >> he was in the same car. pierre got out of the car first. he cleared the tway for me to get out. and whether you want to look at this in a bigger way, look at god and religion -- perhaps pierre gave his life to save mine. perhaps something happened there with the incredible person. took that sacrifice. >> you think he opened the door for you, putting himself at risk. and when he kept saying, russian, meaning the drones were above you. of. >> he was still trying to save me when he said that. that was it, he was still trying to save my life. right to the end, he had cut his femoral artery. he wasn't injured like i was. it was a small wound and he bled out. but the last thought for him was just continue saving us. watch out, it's the russians. pierre and i travelled the world together. we went to so many different conflict zones together.

you develop a close bond with people like that. in caves and trenches. we've seen it. we trusted each other explicitly with our lies. so right there at that moment, he was right there with me at the end. i think every single day, i think back to that moment, when i'm struggling, i remember what it was like to sit there, to lie there with my injuries. and pierre was there and i tried to picture it as vividly as i could remember it. the feel of the ground, the cleanliness of the air. i remember pierre being there. i remind myself, if you can't do everything, if you can't live the best life and do as good as you can, his life has gone to waste. >> sean: you knew or at what point did you know he was dead? >> i department know he was dead. i department even know he was injured. he wasn't injured like i was. >> sean: mm-hmm. >> it was only when i was on the way out, on the polish prime minister's train. a couple of days later. i had asked him a couple of times, asked the people i was with, where's pierre, pierre.

>> sean: sasha a journalist. >> our fixer as well. where's pierre and sasha? and a few drivers. a couple of times, i got the answer, oh, he's back -- he's back in kyiv. he's back there. a couple of times, i knew what that meant, you know? there was no way i was going out we're both going out if we were alive. >> sean: you knew. >> you had been in afghanistan together. you told a story in the book about you were watching some afghanis, you know, ride horses. and you asked to ride with pierre. and you both rode together. knowing this country was about to go through the hell of war, because that's what it is. but you had a moment of peace and serenity, so you and pierre had this special bond that you were describing. >> it was beautiful. it was in the mountains. we decided, you know, whatever

we've got to do, we have to forget it. let's get on the horses, ride up the hills. a moment of real peace, beautiful sky and sun. we just thought, we're going to -- the two of us, ride up together on these horses. afghanistan was about to fall as well. but perhaps it was the last piece for us too. back for that moment. we talked about the bond that meant so much to us. we loved life and travelling and loved our families. so we talked about those together as we often did. i remember that about pierre too. loved the world. loved doing everything he could. >> so, let me talk about -- you got in the car. they're dragging you with the most severe injuries. what do you remember from that point to the point where you woke up in the hospital? >> very little. bumping around in the back of

the car. i remember getting dragged down and getting the injection. i found out they were about to take both of my legs off. and one doctor said, don't do it yet, i'm coming in. specialist, let me have a look. take it on -- they were about to take the other. the leg was already cold. it was about to go. and he went in and at the last minute, he -- i don't know, he hooked it up. he got the blood supply going again. he felt it as the leg started to get warm again. so, it was minutes away from losing the whole of the left leg. and much of the muscle was taken, you uh know, the leg itself is still -- it's in bad shape at the moment. but it's there, right now. and that may come off at a later date because of some of the injuries that are ongoing. but at the moment, i got it. >> sean: i told you before we started this interview, over the years, i've been to walter reed, bethesda, i met people with similar injuries as yours, soldiers that are fighting for our country. every single time, i would meet

them, hear their story. i would leave with the real sense of embarrassment that i thought in my life, i have problems. these are problems. these are -- these are challenges that are beyond really the comprehension of most people. this is the reality sadly of war. and evil does exist in this world. but that was always the feeling i had. and i watched other people that maybe had been through these moments. they would keep going back -- the people that were starting their journey and helping them saying, look at me. i'm riding my bicycle now. look at me, my life has changed. i'm back with my kids, my family. you've already started that process a little bit. >> i have, yeah. and i was blessed by the other people who had gone through this. you had seven injuries. i was blessed to be treated in military medicine. and secretary of defense gave permission to enter first to lang stull base in germany and

san antonio, bamc in texas. i was surrounded by people who had spent 20 years helping other soldiers who were injured like i was -- rebuilding them, giving them legs and helping them mentally. sitting down every week and talked about the difficulties and what we'd gone through. i'm lucky i came out of this with optimism, hope. we got to keep doing this. keep fighting. i spoke to many of them, many of them who have found it very difficult, who lose their identity, their confidence. can't quite see where their life goes next. many of them tried to take the lives before. i can go through this because of the help of other people. talk to as many people as i can. get together. everyone reached out to me. you reached out to me early on many times and you gave me words of wisdom. you encouraged me to keep going. all of you, thousands of you reached out, pray for you, send you things.

every single one of those gives you strength. reminds you you're doing it for others. your improvement is and their improvement. i'm saying thank you to everyone who helped me. i did it because of them. and i'm going to do my best to give it back to people, i would like to. >> we'll continue with more of my interview with benjamin bring you this she■s a hero moment. new york city. you have to have the skill and the drive to make it here. not all chefs are men. oh, she can't do that. she's a girl. women bring creativity balance into a kitchen. no one should go hungry. it■s a human right to know where your next meal is coming from. we're changing our community one bite at a time, and we're not done yet. if you can see her. you can be her.

feels like nothing has changed, even though everything has changed. and i think that's, you know, credit to him. credit to the kids. they took it in their stride. they're not bothered by it. they're so proud of daddy's

robot leg. it's just a different way of life. >> welcome back to special edition of "hannity." benjamin's family was an incredible source of inspiration to him on the journey to recovery. you can see more of that interview on march 19, 9:00 p.m. here on fox as we debut a documentary entitled sacrifice and survival. a story from the front lines. more of my interview with benjamin. his first in person interview since he was wounded in be ukraine. >> behind the scenes. there's a whole effort being mobilized on your behalf. honestly, as i looked back on it now, our own jennifer glif f griffin who i always admired. she went right to work. getting you to the hospital, out

of ukraine, getting you on the train. breaking protocols i believe to do that. our friend, scotty, all of these people. i was getting regular updates. i was so nosey and pushy, i wanted to know that you were going to be okay. when did you find that happen? there's a whole mobilization effort on your behalf. but it almost had to work perfectly. it was not a lot of room for error in many ways. >> in many cases, minute-by-minute. if something had gone wrong, i wouldn't have come out safely. jen griffin, the second she found out, the second she found out, she picked up the phone and called serve and said something has happened in ukraine. we need people to go. and can you help? and immediately, that minute, they were looking for us. they had our pictures, they had

the license plates out there. they were looking at ways in and out of the country. they put this team together. >> sean: save our allies, these are amazing people. >> they're saving lives. they're doing it today. they got people out of afghanistan. people need help, need evacuating, when the big forces can't do it, we will go and save those lives. that's what they did for me as well. when i was in hospital and they found me, they didn't know how they were going to get me out. they couldn't drive me because they couldn't remove the big shrapnel in my neck. they couldn't find me because they couldn't find a small runway for a low-flying plane to come in. they didn't know what to do. out of nowhere, u.s. intelligence, we found out that the polish prime minister was the first covert visit to go visit slen ski. his train was in kyiv. if we could get there in the hour, breaking the lines in the middle of the night, in a 72-hour curfew, not a car was going to be on the street, we could go to the polish prime minister, maybe, if we could get there. we went to the city in the

middle of the dark in the old ambulance. every check point, the ukrainian gunmen came at us out of the car. they thought we were the russian hit squads. they opened up my own wounds, they looked at my injuries, make sure i was a real patient. one after the next, desperately, this race to try to get to the polish prime minister's train. they didn't have enough pain meds to give me when i was at the hospital. it's at that point when the pain started to grow. we made it to the train, we had ten hours. those are the ten that i had to dig deep. >> no medicine? >> i asked someone if he could give anything. he gave me a couple of advil. >> sean: a couple of advil -- were they maybe the ten worst hours consciously for you in terms of the magnitude of pain? >> i was in a -- i was in a mind frame of whatever it takes. this is survival mode. this keep going. and my mind was on overdrive, hyperdrive.

it couldn't stop thinking. i had a traumatic brain injury, it wouldn't go. for the next three weeks, i couldn't sleep, i couldn't stop it. real nightmares started, hallucinations. and i just keep having to come back to, "i'm going home," "i'm going to be safe." "stay with it, you can get through it." and save our allies, when i was with them, i was in the right hand. if i could stick together. there was the black hawk and the 82nd airborne was there to take me. that's the moment i knew i was saved. i remember being carried on to the black hawk with the soldiers waiting there, perfect, getting me onboard. >> on that helicopter, you get to germany. okay, then take us from that point. and how his family gettings involved. and how the doctors are involved.

and coming to grips with what your future is going to be. that's not -- that's not easy for anybody to deal with. >> no, i think given the privilege to be treated by military was also what got me through this. for 20 years, they treated people like me, with exactly the same kind of injuries. they call it poly trauma. after explosions, you uh have the same, you have limb loss, burns, eyesight loss, you lose various limbs. they have the facilities set up. i heard some of the stories from the height of the wars where there were more people and patients than there were rooms. and there were people worsely injured. and i was there, we started to talk about what the future was, what could they do with the family. how they could come. my wife was there quickly. we talked about it. what's best for us. how to we do this. the discussion was, to go to either walter reed or to san antonio in texas. and the decision was taken to san antonio because of the burns. the burns were some of the big problems i had.

that had to be solve first. >> sean: my sister was a burn nurse. one of the more difficult jobs psychologically in the medical profession you have to keep changing the bandages. when you take off the old ones, the pain is excruciating for the patient that you're taking care of. you lived through that. that is painful. >> that is painful. i was on this battle every day. when i was on a lot of painkillers, i was having bad dreams. every night, i'd wake -- every morning i'd wake up and i would say, no more painkillers, i can't go through that again. take me off of the painkillers. they'd take me off of some of them. by the evening, i would say, put me back on the painkillers, you know? which do you want? do you want to be clear with your mind? or do you want to get rid of the pain. and i fought that a lot, every day. what's the balance to find? but, yeah, the burns were hard. and the skin graphs were hard.

nonstop, again and again. they rebuild your body and legs. so, yes, the burns still are a big problem. >> more of my interview with

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with friend and colleague, benjamin hall. >> when you first saw your wife. and she has to also now -- she's going through a lot herself. you have three children at home. three young girls, beautiful girls. heifer world has been rocked. she's scared to death. for long periods of time, she doesn't know if you're dead or alive.

she had to go through that. but let's talk about when you first set eyes on her? where were you? >> i was in germany at that point in the -- in the hospital. i remember trying to hug her. but i had so many tubes and wiring, we couldn't be p if ugh euroout how to do so. she said, it's going to be all right, it's going to be fine. we're going to get through this. i apologized, you know? i'm not sure what for. putting her in that position. being in that place. i think it was more for what she was about to go through. because people tell the story of what happened to me and how hard it was to me, how brave i've been. my wife and family have gone through just as much. they have. she's been the one who picked up all of the pieces, the strength behind me who willed me on, who kept the children together. >> you said something else that really struck me too. you said, you remember pierre, i talk about the story of pierre and you and the horses in

afghanistan. you say when you're alone, you think about pierre. and you believe, again, that he laid down his life to save you. i should have been the first person kill in all of this. and that day, he saved my life. seems like you think about him every day. >> i do, every single day. we have pictures at home. we talk about him -- we talk about the incredible things he did, the amazing things he did. what a great person he was. and i won't let what happened, the horror of what happened to take away the incredible person he was. and i won't think of him as someone lying in a coffin. i think of the incredible person who helped so many people, who saved my life, who taught me so much about the job i really love now. and that's how i have to remember pierre. i think anyone who dies, you look, commemorate, you remember their lives, the great things they did, you remember the affection. you hold them there and keep

going. don't let them drag you back. do more because of them. that's how i feel now. that's another reason i think i was given a gift. i realize that, not going to waste a single moment ahead of me. no time to wait for the next week or the week after, do it now. i think i'm going to do something. i feel tired. no time for being tired, get up and do it, do it for pierre. do it for everyone else who's gone. find the drive to do things. that go in an instance. pity to miss things you wanted to do because you're too caught up to do them. do them, do them now. >> the wisdom behind this this came out of trauma and pain is inspiring. to say the least. and what would you like to do? you think about the future. would you want to go back and be a war correspondent again? >> no. i don't think so. i thought a lot about it. it's not because i don't think i

love doing it. it's an incredible job. but i don't think i could put my family through it again. and it's for them. i talked before ukraine about pulling back from the war zones. i had moved to dc, covering the state department, travelling with the secretary of state. ukraine was the one war that drew me back in. i wasn't planning on doing it. sometimes it's not what you want to do, how passionate i was about the job. people need to do this job. i encourage everyone to go out and do this job. it's essential. we need to go out. it can affect you. i encourage people to go out. know how you're going to do it. keep doing this job. when i get back to ukraine -- i'm sure i will go back to ukraine at some point. will i go to the front lines? no, i don't think i will right now. >> did you ever speak with zelenskyy. >> i've opinion in touch with his office. he's happy to have me come back

and speak to him. >> yeah, as the people i think are watching and listening to this, and they see an inspiration, what are they -- we're about a full year now, right? that you -- you've had this. and you're out there telling your story. and you're saying this with incredible positivity. and an attitude that's inspirational. everybody in life i think seems to think they have troubles. and i don't think there's anything more difficult than this. so i think that's a more aspiring thing. i'm suggesting that we turn this into a movie. i don't know if you've ever watched or read any of the books about life after death or near death experience. i happened to personally like them. and one was 90 minutes in heaven down in piper. it was a preacher. had a horrible car accident. declaring them dead at the scene. and lo and behold, a preacher came by, prayed over him. and he came back from life. but he described his experience in

heaven. and how that changed his life. another book. heaven is real by a young child, same thing, i saw jesus, i was in heaven. did this impact your spirituality in life? in other words, you said you believe in god, is it deeper? do you believe god kept you here for a reason. >> i think it's a question -- anyone who's seen horror would ask themselves. how could horrible thing have? i think the same way -- answer back then, answer it the same way now. there's more evil -- more good than evil. there really is. >> you've seen horrible evil. >> i've seen a lot of it. i've seen horrible things in war, absolutely. but i've seen more good. the people who came together to help me. a more powerful force. i know that. we have to fight on the side of good. >> which a's next for you? besides being the most positive person i've ever met?

with the greatest attitude i've ever met. >> i love work, i love the stories i tell. the people i get to meet are fascinating. i want to meet incredible people. what i want to do, the stories i want to tell, the incredible people. the heroes that came to save me. the story of hope and optimism. i spent my whole career talking about the horrors and the wars and the bad things, i spend time telling stories about the incredible people out there, people we need to hear more of. so maybe at first i'm going to focus on that as well. i want to talk to people who have gone through injuries. see how they fought through it. try to help them through it. keep meeting people, keep telling stories, keep trying to make -- oh, it sounds corny, try to make the world a better place. make people do something every day something that is good. >> sean: that's not corny. that's goodness. >> you know, what i learned about the story behind the story. and everybody from jennifer griffin, the polish prime

minister, the save our allies, the group that risked their lives to save you, ( everybody involved in the hospital, all of the people that you write about to work to help you and save you at this point or that point, magically, you know, getting saved and getting out of that war zone, that car magically turning around and coming back. your daughter coming to you. now you see the blessings in life. there's something deep and profound in this story. there's -- this book, you know, i don't tear up a lot. i like to project toughness. but this book brought more than a few tears to my eyes. your story is beyond inspirational. i love the fact that you told it. and i think all of us can learn a lot from it. and i'm glad you even answered a couple of my texts. he's not going to talk to me. he's got a million people

writing him. but they were always positive. and i would remember, i would stop and i would say, wow, this is incredible attitude. you are -- you're an inspiration to everybody. and also a friend and colleague and i'm so glad that the fox family did everything in their power to help you. i'm proud of every one of them for doing that. it's been an honor to spend time with you. the book is called "saved, a war reporter's mission to make it home," by the way, welcome home. >> more of this special edition of hannity right (psst psst) ahhhh... with flonase, allergies don't have to be scary spraying flonase daily gives you long-lasting, non-drowsy relief. (psst psst) flonase. all good. bring you this she■s a hero moment. new york city. you have to have the skill and the drive to make it here.

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>> unfortunately that is all the time we have left this evening, thank you again to my colleague, my friend benjamin hall, general ier griffin, so many people at fox that worked so hard getting him to safety and working with him on his recovery. and benjamin, thank you for sitting down with me for the full hour.

"saved." available for preorder on amazon.com. bookstores everywhere on march 14th. documentary version sacrifice and survival, debut at 9:00 p.m. on march the 19th right here on the fox news channel. let not your heart be troubled shannon: i am shannon bream. overspending and debt. ♪ oxon presidents has assigned to tax the rich to read in the deficit. and even the playing field. >> note billionaire should be paying a lower tax and somebody working as a schoolteacher. >> republicans say it's time to/spending and called biden's budget more of the same spirit clicks massive tax increases, more spending. state now expressing