our guest is seymour hersh. hersh is the pulitzer prize-winning investigative reporter who wrote this piece for "the new yorker" magazine entitled "the scene of the crime." piece it together for us -- tell us the day charlie company moved into my lai, and then what happened. seymour: that is the real thing. what i did about that story -- what happened that day, the massacres, they murdered everybody -- a lot of rape -- terrible stuff. then, what i did, because i was so aware of how much had been covered up, how deep it went, i spent another year and a half see more people, and writing a second book. i wrote a book called " my lai four" right away, but then i wrote a second book. at the time, there was very bad intelligence. intelligence was there was a battalion there, the 40th, and our boys were going to go in and kill them. there was going to be a big ambush, and when we went in, there was nothing but women and children. the intelligence was lousy, as it always was. they murdered everybody. they were told to k