nichols' brother, terry, has been close friends with mcveigh since they served together in the army. mcveigh, nichols is known to harbor anti-government views. >> terry nichols, just four days before the blast, took out a new insurance policy on his pickup truck. >> an arrest warrant is quickly issued, and later that same day nichols turns himself in. by now, the rescue operation at the murrah building has become a recovery effort. >> authorities in this building behind me are coming across more bodies. >> the search for bodies will last for two full weeks. >> most of the survivors wanted to go to most of the funerals, and that's tough going to 16 funerals, let me tell you. that was really hard, but we needed to do it. >> two women are believed to be still in the building with an elderly man. >> finally, on may 5th, 1995, with three victims still buried in the rubble, the search came to an end. >> this was not two or three people from this city or two or three people from that city. this was oklahoma city. the terrorism was directed at the city. the terrorism was directed at its peopl

patriotism and we see it with these groups that have contained people like timothy mcveigh and terry nicholsrom the oklahoma bombing. they operate with the sense that the laws of the united states and the laws of other government entities do not apply to them, that they operate outside the traditional framework and that the government itself is lawless. that is where this is all coming from. >> and every legal expert that i've spoken to said they are taking over a building that is not theirs, they are armed, it's fair to say that it is illegal, the constitution does not allow for that to happen. so, chris, why would someone in this group think they are within their legal rights to take over a federal building armed? >> well, i don't think they have any legal basis whatsoever. they seem to think that they have the absolute right to free graze on federal lands and if they don't get what they want they can simply do an armed takeover of government buildings. so there is no legal basis for it. but all these groups, they've grown from 300 groups to over a thousand groups during the obama administ