he spoke with abc news' george stephanopolous, an extended portion of the interview. this is the first time anybody has publicly heard from darren wilson. >> i'd gone to open the door and get out of the car. as i was opening the door i said, hey, come here for a minute. and that's when he turned and said, what [ bleep ] are you going to do about it and slammed the door shut on me. i used my door to tray to push him back and yelled at him to get back. again, he just pushed the door shut and stares at me. as i looked back at him, punches start flying. >> he threw the first pun much? >> yes. he threw the first one and hit me in the left side of the face. >> some of the witnesses have said they saw you trying to pull him into the car. >> that would be against every training ever taught to any police officer. i don't know what or how many hit me after that. there was a barrage of swinging and grabbing and pulling for about ten seconds. >> and then what? >> i reached out my window with my right hand to grab on to his forearm to try to move back and get out of the car where

. >> reporter: darren wilson speaking out for the first time exclusively to abc's george stephanopolous. he described a very physical struggle with michael brown inside his police suv. >> as i'm holding him i see him coming back around with his left hand and it's in the shape like this and it comes through the window and just a solid punch to the right side of my face. >> reporter: you're still sitting there figuring out how do i get out of this. >> yes, the next thing was how do i survive. >> reporter: how do you survive. >> yes. i didn't know if i would be able to withstand another hit like that. >> reporter: is there anything you could have done differently? that would have prevent they had killing from taking us. >> no. >> reporter: nothing. >> no. >> reporter: in dozens of cities around the nation last night, large crowds of peaceful demonstrators took to the streets demanding justice for brown. president obama last night in chicago said he had no sympathy for demonstrators who destroyed their own communities. >> i've never seen a civil rights law or a healthcare bill or an immigra

the center of this unrest officer darren wilson spoke exclusive to good morning america's george stephanopolous why he shot and killed michael brown. wilson said the confrontation started when he pulled his patrol car up to brown and told the teen to come over to him. then as wilson was trying the get out of his patrol car, he said brown yelled at him and slammed the patrol car door shut on wilson. shortly after that wilson explained to george brown started hitting him. >> reporter: he threw the first punch. >> yes he threw the first one and hit me in the left side of my face. >> reporter: some of the witnesses have said that they saw you trying to pull him into the car. >> that would be against every training every taught to any law enforcement officer. i don't know what or how many hit me. >> wilson says brown hit him repeatedly and says he shot the 18-year-old because he thought brown might kill him. hear more of this exclusive interview on "good morning america" at 7:00 a.m. >>> religious minister led prayers and processions in our area in solidarity with the people of ferguson. dozens of p

there was one point he did an interview with george stephanopolous he read him the definition of a tax rejected it. he said it is not a tax. we know from jonathan gruber they knew from the beginning it was a tax. think about what he said. he said he knew it wwe knew it . we knew the bill would die. he took the stupidity of the american people and crafted a bill with tortured hang wauj. >> head to our facebook page right after the show and join in the conversation ha#keep talkin. >> for the first time we are hearing from a navy seal who killed osama bin laden. roberto kneel says he was certain they would not survive the dangerous mission. >> the more we trained on it the more we realized this was going to be a one-way mission. we are going to go and not come back. we are going to die when the house blows up. we are going to die when he blows up or we are going to be there too long or get arrested by the pakistanis and spend the rest of our short lives in a pakistani prison. >> you can hear from o'neil in his own words in a two-part special starts tonight at 10:00 eastern time on the fox

darren wilson broke his silence about the shooting in an interview with a.b.bc news, telg george stephanopolous that he was doing his job and described what happened when he got out the patrol car. >> i gave myself a question "can i shoot the guy?" legally can i. my answer was i have to, he'll get to me, he'll kill me. >> even 30-40 feet away. >> once he's coming that direction, if he hasn't stopped yet, when is he going to stop. after he's coming at me, and i decided to shoot i fired a series of shots and pause. >> what did you see. >> i saw one hit him. i don't know where. i saw his body flinch. after that i paused. giving him the opportunity to stop. and he ignored all the commands and kept running. after he ran again. i shot another series of shots. this time he's about 15 feet away. i start to back pedal. he's too close. he gets to 8-10 feet. he'll tackle me and i look down the barrel of my gun and i fired. >>> the grand jury decision in ferguson, missouri is reaching behind the city. protests broke out. more under way tonight. allen schauffler joining us live from seattle. >> we have seen

. >> daryn wilson the officer exonerated by the grand jury sat down with abc news anchor george stephanopolous and rae veal if you details about the deadly encounter. >> i had gone to open the door and get out of the car when i did so as i opened the door i said come here for a minute. and that's when he turned and said what the (bleep) are you going to do about it and slammed my door shut on me. >> slammed the door shut. >> yes. >> i used my door to try to push him back and yell at him to get back. again he push the door shut and stared at me. as i look back punches start flying. >> he threw the first punch. >> yes. threw the first one and hit me in the left side of my face. >> some of the witnesses have said that they saw you trying to pull him into the car. >> that would be against every training ever taught to any law enforcement officer. i don't know what or how many hit me but barrage of swimminging grabbing and pulling for about 10 seconds. >> then what. >> i had reached out my wind of my right hand to grab on to his forearm. i was going to manufacture him back and get out of the car so

this evening, wilson told george stephanopolous of abc news that brown struck him, grabbed for his gund finally, charged him. i thought, can i legally shoot this guy? the question i answered was i have to, he'll kill me if he gets to me. >> even though he's 35, 40 feet away? >> once he's coming that direction, if he hasn't stopped yet, when is he going to stop? >> woodruff: meanwhile, authorities braced for more potential trouble. missouri governor jay nixon tripled the number of national guard troops on duty in the area, to 2,200. >> woodruff: and that's the newshour for tonight. on wednesday, we'll talk to the director of the new documentary "happy valley," a look at penn i'm judy woodruff. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill. we'll see you on-line, and again here tomorrow evening. for all of us here at the pbs newshour, thank you and good night. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from vie

here is officer darren wilson's explanation today to george stephanopolous of why he shot and killed michael brown. >> you say he started to run. >> i gave myself another mental check. legally can i shoot this guy? and the answer was i have to. if i don't, he will kill me if he gets to me. >> even though he's 35, 40 feet away? >> once he's coming that direction, if he hasn't stopped yelt, when is he going to stop? >> if american police officers shot every unarmed person who runs at them, we would have thousands and thousands and thousands more dead americans killed by police every year. darren wilson knew that michael brown was unarmed. he knew michael brown was wounded. he knew or should have known that michael brown was no longer physically capable of being a threat to his life. and that is the legal obligation he knew he haed to meet in order to con convince the grand not to indictment him. he had to make the grand jury believe that in his mind that unarmed michael brown, even though he had already been shot four times was somehow going to kill darren wilson from a distance of 35

goodness, tonight the man who used deadly force against michael brown spoke out talking to george stephanopolous. >> is there anything you could have done differently that would have prevent that had killing from taking place? >> no. >> nothing? >> no. >> and you're absolutely he convinced when you look through your heart and your mind that if mikally brown were white, this would have gone down in exactly the same way? >> yes. >> no question? >> no question. >> officer wilson's status remains the same on paid administrative leave. earlier i spoke to his attorneys. let me start by asking, as you saw the images last night of what happened after the announcement, what went through your mind having been so closely involved with this? >> it was profound sadness. as i watched what should have been a happy day for darren and for the outcome of the case, was all lost. i couldn't watch it and not just feel -- i felt it so deeply. i wanted to cry. it was awful to watch. >> how is darren wilson doing? >> we were with him for several hours. he's relieved so there's been this huge weight lifted off his shoul

. >> let's talk more about what officer darren wilson told george stephanopolous. joining me paul callan, and patricia bynes and chuck drago, a former police chief in florida who trains police officers in the use of force. good morning to all of you. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> thank you for being with me. patricia, i want to start with you. i'm sure much of ferguson was glued to wilson's account. michael brown's parents, however, well, officer wilson's interview very much upset them. listen to what they told cbs this morning. >> he didn't do what he had to do. he did what he wanted to do. >> what he wanted to do? >> yes. >> you're thinking he wanted to kill your son? >> i don't think he wanted to kill my son but he wanted to kill some one. >> at the end of his statement he said he'd do it again. >> his conscience is clear. how could your conscience be clear are killing somebody even if it was an accidental death. >> and to allow the body to lie there for four hours. >> we can't even have my son's organs donated. you understand that? >> keep in mind this i

he told george stephanopolous he feels he did his job right.as the first time he fired his gun as a police officer. he also explained that he told his supervisor who arrived on the scene after the shooting. >> i told him high to shoot somebody. he asked me why. i said well he grabbed my gun and he charged me and he was going to kill me. >> reporter: so you killed him first. >> yes. >> reporter: is there anything you could have done differently. >> you can see more from wilson coming up in minutes on "good morning america." >> 6:47. the accuweather team will be tracking this storm all day mobile6 is out and about on the schuylkill expressway. got the wipers going. see that spray coming up from the other side of the highway. we'll be right back with weather and traffic. >> okay, guys, we have umbrellas on the kids both on the way to school and on the way home. we'll see a change over to wet snow this afternoon, umbrellas still might be a better idea -- or a good idea. south jersey going to see a lot of rain today and it gets a little colder too s

interview together dor ren wilson decided to do an interview with my colleague over on abc, george zef n stephanopolouswe'll watch that and talk about it on the over side. here is darren wilson. >> it was like hulk hogan. that's how big this man was. >> hulk hogan? >> very large, very powerful man. >> you're a pretty big guy. >> yeah, i'm above average. >> so you try to grab him and you feel that force? >> yes. as i hold him, i see him coming back around with his left hand. it comes through the window and just a solid punch to the right side of my face. >> you're figuring out how do i get out of this? >> how do i survive. i didn't know if i would be able to withstand another hit at that point. >> where is your gun at this point. >> i come out and i point it at him. i said get back or i'm going to shoot you. he came at my gun. that's when i pullfired for the first time. it didn't fire. i tried again, another click. i thought i'm going to be dead. so i pull a third time and it finally goes off. >> that was the first time you had ever used your gun, right? >> yes, it was. >> in all your years as a police