which brings us to joey jones.uring his last deployment to afghanistan, jones disarmed and destroyed more than 80 improvised explosive device. and august 2010, he stepped on an ied, losing both legs above the knees. after the bomb was dropped in eastern afghanistan on thursday, he tweeted this. "i lost my legs because my government was afraid to use the tools they had and saw me as expendable and i wish had this administration" or that's pretty strong stuff. his point? bombs like this clear places where you should take life and limbs of those who had that job before. so using this tool, it's quite a shift. so we in the media, we are put off by big banks. but the bigger they are, the less likely we lose or injure heroes like jones. and it also sends a message that we not have the tools, but we will use them. it's a message heard not just by isis, but by north korea. remember, tomorrow is the founder of north korea's birthday, when their leaders usually try to show off with their own brand of fireworks, it's pretty e

his name is johnny joey jones, and he was in a twitter war with another amputee who was opposed to dropping the moab but this guy johnny jones wrote i lost my legs because my government was afraid to use the tools i had and saw me as expendable. i wish i had this administration. and i thought that summed it up, and he went on and said we begged to use the bombs on the mind field ghost town i lost my legs. but your rhetorically righteous tweeting. i think colonel peters summed it up perfectly. this was the right thing to do. this saved american lives, this saved afghan lives and, you know, i think this will be a major impediment to isis recruiting in that area in the future. trish: but of course, jessica, the left is painting him as a maniac that just wants to send us into world war iii. >> yeah. i'm not going to today, though. i thought in syria the strike was the right thing and this was as well. no civilians died, 36 isis fighters off the battlefield there and that's all did to the good. i think the most important thing to focus on right now, though, is what the strategy is going to be go

and we have this double amputee warrior his name is johnny joey jones. he said this. lost my legs because my government under obama was afraid to use the tools they had. they saw me as expendable. i wish i had this information. what's your reaction to all of this information we just gave you? >> i don't know mr. fox. i'm assuming he's probably a good guy. i mean, he's in a bubble where, you know, the whole love trump's hate. it's not the case -- look what this -- this is an ideology, a very violent ideology, they throw gays off of buildings, they have no rights for women, sex slavery, it's going on over there right now, and you're not going to go over there and give them a hug. i've dealt with these people before. it's not going to work. liz: could you have killed osama bin laden with love? it's not going to happen because i was too worried about him blowing himself up to be a mortar. it's not just about bombing alone, there needs to be education and one of the biggest problems we're having right now is saudi pakistan on the border, and they're teaching them hate off

marines bomb technician john joey jones joins us now. good to have you here. >> good morning.ring basically what is a mind field. we were trying to take a town that was a ghost town there were very low risk for civilian casualties, and only mission there was to clear that town and get the bad things, the ied components out of that town. we could have easily just wiped that town off the face of the earth. out in the middle of the desert. civilians had left. we gave them et opportunity and they abide you had. there was no real strategic reason to hold the town. we should have bombed it wiped it off the face of the earth. perhaps i would still have legs. perhaps some marines would still be alive. but i believe and we believed at the time the headline on the "new york times" saying u.s. bombs afghanistan was a higher political risk than even our lives and that's not a good thing to feel when you are deployed overseas. >> it wasn't just your legs. had you a buddy who lost his life in that particular explosion. >> absolutely. there were a few by the end of that week. we were very su

january jones. >> joey mcintyre. i have been a huge fan for a long time.e dolls, the pillow pillows i slept with you every night. >> it's pretty awesome. >> there are writers and a script and two other joeys lawrence and fatone, guest as themselves. but barrett is not an actress. >> i don't know how i would have got home. >> you could have got a ride home with the stripper. >> did you think, oh, gosh, she's never gonna go for this? >> i'm kind of a gamer so he probably thought -- this is not my thing. >> she's a rookie but she is amazing. >> little chicken go free. >> have you learned anything about your kids that you didn't know like, oh, my gosh? >> they're hitting their marks like crazy, not to get inside but you know when actors, you know, got that come into the scene got to get the right place they're doing really good at that. >> you do. nice to meet you. >> at first, it was like, do we want the family in in the end we said yes and it's been worth it. >> a adorable family. the new kids like to keep it in the family. because donny wahlberg and his wif

ainsley: here with veterans perspective retired staff sergeant johnny joey jones.morning. all right. what do you think about this where veterans have to pay in let's say 100 bucks a month so they can go to college and they do that for two years? >> well, first off, let me say that the biggest issue bar none affecting our veterans today is transition. it's not just the injuries. it's not just, you know, post-traumatic stress or physical injury. i'm an amputee. biggest issue in veteran community is transitioning. spend three months teaching them tore be a service member. six month six month deployment training. we spend 7 to 14 days training them to be a civilian again. that's where we need to focus. the goal here should be to help veterans transition into the civilian sector successfully. and we're not going to cut our way to a balanced budgets with $2,400 on every service member that finds their way into college. with that i will say too many service members are using the gi bill as a band-aid fix to an income problem because they didn't save to get out of the mili

. >> january jones? >> joey mcintyre. i've been a huge fan for so lodge.s you every night. >> that's pretty awesome. >> there are writers and a script and to other joeys, lawrence and fatone guest as themselves. >> you could have got a ride home with a stripper. >> did you think she's never going to go for this? >> i'm kind of a gamer. he probably thought this is not my thing. >> she's a rocky, but sheokie,t amazing. >> have you learned anything about your kids. >> they're hitting their marks like crazy. you've got to come into the scene and go to the right place. they're doing really good at that. >> aren't you cute. do you have a mom? >> yes. >> you do? all right. nice to meet you. >> at first, do we want the family in? at the end, we said yes, and it's been worth it. >> you know my favorite part of the day was? the kids had these huge animal pillows that we went and cannon balled on. >> you would like to be one of the kids in that family? >> i would. joey was like what have i let in my home? he's busy. he's heading out on the road with his new kids on t

jones spins chris buescher's car into the pit area, taking out one of buescher's crew. another of ty dillon's crew filled in. with 16 laps to go, jimmie johnson on the inside passes joeykes the checkered flag for the first win of the season. after the race he would need three iv bags before meeting with the media. and this abc 7 sports report has been brought to you by river rock casino. the giants back home tomorrow for their home opener. hopefully home cooking. >> usually you pop champagne but three iv bags will have to do. that's it for tonight. i'm eric thomas. abc 7 news continues tomorrow morning at 4:30. for drew tuma and rick quan, thank you so much for joining us. have a ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ to take advantage of this offer on a volvo s90, visit your local dealer. [ camera shutters clicking ] how's that? abby: perfect. no teeth? no teeth. so, after this announcement, you'll kiss the rings of the leaders of the senate rules committee, do a roundtable of soft-ball interviews with the press, and then, come thursday, congress will confirm you as vice president with an overwhelming majority. are you excited? more nervous. oh, that's only natural. cyrus: susan. how's my girl

he is retired staff sergeant joey jones. sergeant, so good to see you, sir. so first, i want to give the viewers your story. now, you lost both of your legs clearing dozens of bombs, i think, from a massive minefield in afghanistan. can you; is that correct? can you help me out here? >> well, we could call afghanistan a massive minefield in 2010 but, yes, i lost my legs above the knee, combat amputation. in afghanistan in 2010 working as a eod technician or bomb technician, and we were clearing a town that was turned into a minefield because we let them know we were coming to reduce collateral damage and do the ethical thing in war, if you believe that or not, which is what we do in this country. so, yes, i lost my legs. but that was one bad day and every day since then has been pretty good. liz: so i want to correct myself. it was a 52-year-old war veteran, not 15. he's 52. wh is your reaction to this 52-year-old war veteran in called anti-american by this mass protester? >> well, listen, it wasn't a mask protester, it was a school child and that's who these