March 14, 2023 • 31 mins
Benjamin Hall, author of Saved: A War Reporter's Mission to Make It Home, out today, out today, talks about his survival through his most harrowing experience in life to date; surviving the attack in Ukraine.
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the program. You know, one of the things Jim Jordan's committee,
the Judiciary Committee, is looking into is whether or not
the FBI has been politicized and whether the DOJ is
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being weaponized. Now I know this case. We keep reading
day after day after day that an indictment in New
York against former President Donald Trump seems fairly imminent according
to sources left right, sideways, the New York Times, here, there,
and everywhere. And this was a case that was dismissed
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pretty much on the federal level. This was a case
that even the prior ag Cyrus Vans passed on. This
is now seven years later, you know, like for example,
Latitia James brought this case against the Trump Company, etc. Etc.
But remember what she said when she was running for office,
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because to me, justice should be blind. I will never
be afraid to challenge this illegitimate president when our fundamental
rights are at state. I believe that the president of
these United States can be indicted for criminal offenses. We're
going to be a real patent, that man in the
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White House who can't go a day without threatening our
fundamental rights. Yes, we need to focus on Donald Trump
and his abuses. We need to follow his money. We
need to find out where he's laundered money. We need
to find out whether or not he's engaged in conspiracy.
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And that is somebody running to go against the one man,
one family, one organization. That scares me a little bit,
scares me a lot. Dan Abrams had a good piece
on media today about this very issue. He said it
would be a big mistake, both legally and politically, to
indict former President Trump over the Stormy Daniels quote hush
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money scandal. This is what he said. He said the
law that Trump allegedly violated his quote a misdemeanor, potentially
charging the former president for an incident that occurred almost
seven years ago. It's minor stuff, falsifying business records by
claiming that the one hundred and thirty thousand dollars payoff
to Daniels for keeping or quiet about their affair was
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actually legal expenses. He said, Now the DA may try
to elevate the crime to a felony by claiming the
intent to defraud included an intent to commit or conceal
a second crime, and that one being a violation of
New York state election law. They would argue that the
payoff was done to protect the campaign and effectively became
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an improper donation, he said, Putting aside how long ago
this happened, he said, put aside the fact that the
Manhattan DA's office under a different DA examined the case
in twenty eighteen and decided not to move forward with it.
Putting aside the fact that the new DA, Alvin Bragg,
was in office for over a year before he seemed
to suddenly become interested in this old case. Put aside
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that it would also be really hard, a really hard
legal case. The effort at making it a felony would
be a novel legal theory, and proving that the payment
was made for the purposes of protecting the campaign as
opposed to say, protecting him from his wife Malania finding
out would be difficult. Joining us now as the President's
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attorney on this case. And that's Joe Takapina's back of us. Joe,
thank you for being with us absolutely, And you know
what I listen what you just said. Abrams was writing
a lot of things, but but there's one thing that
needs to make clear. It's not a misdemeanor. It's not
a clime. You know, it's it's not like, oh, it's
a misdemeanor, and they're trying to elevate to a felony
by by cobbling together a couple of misdemeaners. There's no misdemeanor,
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there's no crime. And that's what really makes this outrageous.
I mean, by pursuing this matter, this day's officers once
again weaponsize this office to influence the next presidential election period,
end of story. Are you convinced that these reports are real,
that they are planning to go forward with an indictment
of the former president? You know, we talked about this
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last night. I mean, the reports are picking up steam.
It seems to be something that's becoming more realistic. But
I still believe somebody in that office is going to say,
like they have done before, like the United States Attorney's
Office has done, the federal prosecuts have done, that this
is a case that is untriable. You can't win this case.
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It won't survive motions because there is no crime. There's
no I mean false. Explain exactly what you mean when
you say there's no crime. What does that mean? Nothing
was done wrong. Let's put it this way. Let's start
out with the basic fact that, first of all, campaign
financi laws are murky to begin with, and all the
underlying legal theories are on tests that have never been
utilized in this manner ever shown legal scholars. Most legal scholars,
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including a lot of former members of the Federal Election Committee,
have publicly stated in the past that there is no
campaign law violation. Any good prosecutor knows that you can't
bring a criminal case when the laws unclear, because you
need to show intend to commit a crime, and you
can't show intent. Even when legal scholars agree, you can't
agree on with the laws. Now, here's the thing, here's
the crucial distinction this two in this case one. First
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of all, let's let's start out with this basic fact.
Donald Trump was an extortion victim. Okay, when someone says,
it doesn't have to be Donald Trump. When someone says,
I am going to go forward. Now he adamantly denies
this affair ever happened. I believe him. I think the
evidence is clear on that, okay. But that being said,
it's regardless of whether it did or didn't happen. If
someone says you give me money or I'm going to
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go to the press and say these bad things about you,
true or not true, it doesn't matter. And that that
was said by Stormy Daniels, you're saying to him, and
that's it was, and that's you know, on the heels
of the election, this happened. So Donald Trump followed his
advice as counsel's advice at the time. You know, Michael
going not knowing what a what a really treacherous dog
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he was, and urger and a lawyer he was, but
followed his lawyer's advice, which is just make this go away.
It's a nuisance settlement. It's you know, nothing to him,
and then then she'll shut up. You know. That's what
he did. He follows his lawyer's advice. He did that.
And he was a victim of extortion because that is
black let a law when someone does that. But he
paid it off just to prevent, as Michael Cohen said
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in his plea allocution, embarrassment to himself and his family.
So the fact that it's embarrassment to himself and his family.
Makes this not a crime. And here's what I mean.
So his own lawyer said that already, and he's on
record as saying that he played guilty when his lawyer
played guilty to something that wasn't even a crime, by
the way, this idiot, when he pled guilty, Michael Cohen,
he said that on the record, the elocution was that
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he did it to influence the election and to prevent
embarrassment to himself and to his family. When you say that,
those last words mean everything, because personally use funds when
spending money to fulfill any commitment, obligation, or expense of
a person that would hear the key word exist irrespective
of the campaign. It takes it out of the election.
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So this goes to the answer. I watched you on
George Stephanopolas yesterday and he asked you three questions. Did
Trump authorize the payments to Storey Daniel? Two? Was the
payment properly recorded? Three? Was it connected to the election?
And you're saying that his own lawyer, which I assume
would be the prime witness in this case, that that
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that the lawyer himself acknowledges that it was to protect
against embarrassment for himself, his family on the on the record,
which why you cannot bring this case. So then what
is the law. What is the law under which they're
going to bring this case. I'm trying to understand that, Well,
join the party, show joy, join the party. We're all
trying to understand that. It doesn't make sense they're going
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to trump up maybe some false record keeping. There's unless
it's tied to an election or a tax purpose or
a campaign violation. There's You could write what you want
in your own personal checkbook. You could buy a car
and rite I bore a horse in your personal checkbook.
It's not a sense, not a crime. You can write
whatever you want to cover it up from your your
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your brother or your sister, your wife, it doesn't matter.
It's not a crime. Or you could just write you
know or something wrong in your personal ledger. It doesn't
make it a crime. Unless we're kicking into the election laws.
Here and here, the campaign finance laws make it very
clear that if something was paid and that obligation existed
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irrespective of the campaign, it is not a campaign law
violation period. End of story. This was paid with his
personal funds, not campaign funds. It clearly had nothing to
do with anything other than protecting himself, in his family
and his young son Baron from embarrassment. And that's what
makes this even more sick, to be honest with you,
For three years, this DA's officers scoured every aspect of
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president from his personal life and business affairs going back decades,
and hopes of finding some legal basis, however far fetched,
novel or convoluted to prosecute him. Okay, these actions constitute
prosecut miscontexts. I wrote on my letter to the Department
of Investigation. I've asked the Department of Investigation to investigate
this DA and this DA's office. It's an abusive power
and shown it's purely Unamerican. We do not do this
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in this country. We never did this southern country. I mean,
government officials should not be stretching laws beyond their normal
meaning to get people just because they don't like these people,
or because they want to get a nice scout, or
in this case, because they want to influence the next
presidential election. It's despicable. It shouldn't happen. Is this where
we are? Is this really where we're at now as
a country? All right, quick, break more with President Trump's attorney,
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Joe Takapina in the New York case reports a widespread
that possible indictment as it relates to the Stormy Daniels issue.
Will continue more with Joe on the other side, straight
ahead at nine pm. Do you know where your president is? Yep,
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he sounded asleep with a lot of care in the world.
Must be nice, Joe. The rest of us will keep
working York on the sewn Edy Show. Are we continue
with President Trump's attorney all these reports that they're possibly
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in New York might be an indictment imminent against the
former president as it relates to the Stormy Daniel's case.
Let me read it was picked up by MSN. It
originated in the Washington Post, and the headline itself is interesting,
but when you get into the meat of the article,
it's even more interesting. It says prosecuting Trump for Stormy
Daniel's money would include hurdles according to experts, and at
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one point it says that if Bragg seeks to charge
the former president, a move that appears likely based on
his recent invitation for Trump to appear before the grand jury,
he will face several potential hurdles according to legal analysts.
They said it would be unusual for a state prosecutor
to use an alleged violation of a federal law rather
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than a state campaign finance law, has grounds to elevate
a false paperwork case from a misdemeanor to a felony.
We're back to that part again. I don't want to
ask you about it, but it would also be unusual
to prosecute a presidential candidate for violating state as opposed
to federal campaign finance laws. So that argument keeps coming
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up that that's what their argument is going to be.
But you're arguing, what there's those state violation neither. There's
no misdemeanor violation. There's no crime he literally did. I'm
telling you there is no violation of any criminal statute, misdemeanor, felony, state, federal,
you know, statutes from from by don't know, Jupiter, There's
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no violation of any statute. I have them all in
front of me, I've studied them all myself and Susan Nicklas,
who's you know, been running lead on this case. And
then speak with the DA's office. There is nothing there is, Well,
what are they indicating to you, because usually there are
a lot of conversations that go back and forth between
das and defense attorneys. What are they indicating to you
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that they're looking at the hardest at or or is
there anything else that they're looking at. They've been very vague,
and again this with Susan, but they've been very vague.
And it all has to do with hush money payments.
So it is only this, you know, I mean, people like, oh,
it has to be something more, it has to be No,
it's not. And the funny part about this is even
Mark Promer, It's the guy who who violated every ethical
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consideration when he was appointed prosecutor and decided to resign
because there were prosecuting Trump and he decided he's gonna
quit instead write a book. Is this the guy that
wrote a book? Okay, wrote a book in violation of
New York State penal code. Okay, because any information received
from the guard injury, which he signed a document acknowledging
that the information was gonna get was going to come
from a grandary investigation. By the way, are you gonna
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are you gonna go after him on that allegation? But
but we've already I've already sent the letter to the
New York State Bar to Gavin Disbard. Um, I've asked
Alan Braid to if you know, Alan brags always want
to say there is one standard for all. Well, if
there's one standard for ROLL, makes one standard for all,
including Mark Palmerz. He should be prosecuting him. He violated
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that officers trust. So it shouldna be one standard for ROLL,
but one standard for ROLL except for Donald Trump. It
should be one standard for all. I'd asked the DA
to prosecute him. I've asked the deal why to investigate
the DA's office. I've asked the bar to disbar him. Um,
and and we're going after him. And what is the
law that he you think he violated? Oh, it's not,
it's not even I think it's clear he violated. And
I said to my loved, there's a New York State
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penal code law that's a felony. That is what's called
the grand jury secrecy laws. In other words, if you
reveal information gained from a grand jury subpoena or grand
jury investigation, which this is, to a third party, so
you've committed celony, Okay, and he's done it because that
grandjury is still sitting. It's still an open grand jury investigation.
As alam Alang went crazy and was complaining. Now, you know,
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you would think that would give him pause to even
think about going forward here, but apparently not. And I
hope he's not stupid to that level. But here's the
thing about the Stormy Daniels hushmoney case. It was referred
to even in this guy's book that as a zombie
case because it kept coming back from the dead. He
said that they would trying to find any legal theory
to prosecute Trump. Do you want to stand how sick
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that what I just said is they literally this guy
wrote in his book admitted it, which was shocking. That
book was actually one of the best things that ever
happened to President Trump. But he admitted in his book
that they took the person and they were trying to
find a crime, not that they had information of from
anality a complaint made and they were investigating the person
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because they had information about a crime. They took the
person that he despised. This guy said, not only the
teller's wife. He wasn't going to get paid for being
a special prosecutor, leaving his big way job where he
was getting money. He actually said I would pay to
prosecute Donald Trump. I gotta, I gotta leave it there.
But um, we're gonna be watching in the days and
weeks ahead for sure, and following the case closely and
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as things developed. We'd love to have you back on.
We appreciate you joining us Joe Takapina, President Donald Trump's
attorney on this New York issue. Thank you so much
as always for being with us. Appreciate it. Thank you.
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it was about a year ago I'm honored to call
this man a friend and a colleague, that Benjamin Hall
had been reporting the beginnings of the war in Ukraine,
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and this is not his first rodeo. He had covered
many conflicts, many wars around the world. And then, of course,
one day I got a call from a mutual friend
of ours that it looked like something very bad has
gone wrong and that that Benjamin Hall was hit. We
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didn't know the extent of the injuries at that time,
and slowly over the days we began to understand the
severity of the injuries. He lost a leg, he lost
a foot, he severely damaged his left hand, partially or
mostly blind in one eye, now had shrapnel all over
the place. He was the only survivor. Three missiles were
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fired at the car that he was in. And his
story and of heroism and courage and more importantly the
most infectious positive attitude is beyond inspiring ben Hall. Benjamin
Hall joins me, Now, how are you, sir Sean. I'm
doing really well. Thank you. It's as you said, it's
exactly one year to the day that has happened. So
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it's a day where, you know, this morning I've had
to really think about everything that happened and then get
moving again, just get living again, make the most out
of it. So that's what we're doing. You know, I've
met a lot of people over the years with similar injuries,
especially men and women that have gone into battle and
conflict and they lose legs, or have they lose their arms,
or they lose their sight or they're burned over, you know,
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sixty seventy eighty percent of their body. And I have
met some people that have not taken it as well
as you have. What do you attribute that too? The
fact that you were able to psychologically, spiritually, you know,
sort of transcend what is the most difficult scenario, your
entire life turned upside down, and do it with such
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a positive attitude. Yeah, you know, it's hard, Sean. I think, firstly,
I'm blessed with an optimistic spirit, and I knew very
early on within, you know, when I woke up after
those first initial operations and I was still stuck in
Kiev and had to find a way to get out
of the country, that there were two ways to look
at it. One was to bury it, to let it
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get the better of you, and the other one was
to realize that every day from them was going to
be better than the last, That if I could move
a tiny little bit one day, I would move a
little bit further than next. That I had something really
amazing to fight for, and that was to get back
to my family, to hold my children again. That I
had been blessed to stay alive that day. You know,
the other four died, and I was in the one
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middle seat of that car, the death seat, and somehow
I came out of it with my mind intact. My
body might be badly injured, but my mind is intact.
So I think I was blessed that day. And I
put all of those things together, and I realized that
if I don't make the most of every single day,
if I don't do it in the names of Pierre
and Sasha who died that day, then what a waste
life would be. And so that's what I think every
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single morning to this day. When I wake up, I think,
let's channel that, let's make sure that today is a
better day than yesterday. Let's do more good today, and
we did yesterday. And I'm very lucky to have done that.
And might I also say that I was blessed to
be treated in military medicine. I was down to San
Antonio at Bamsey, and I was surrounded by other people
who had had similar injuries and talking to them every
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single day, listening to the difficulties they had faced, talking
about how they got through it. So that helped me
a lot as well. So it was about the team
who was around me. It was talking to other people
who had gone through something similar, and it was about
fighting hard for what I believed in that got me
to where I am today. Let's talk about that day
when this whole went down and Pierre happened to be
a very close friend of yours. You told the story
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when you were covering and you've covered wars in Syria
and Afghanistan and Iraq. You mean, you've been to a
lot of war zones, and one particular moment in Afghanistan,
you were both you know, watching the locals, you know,
riding their horses and you asked if you guys could
good ride them. I mean, you had a very close
relationship and you talked about, you know, in the midst
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of you know, war, there are places of peace, and
that stuck with you. Pierre did lose his life that day.
Sasha did lose her life that day. And let's tell
everybody exactly what you remember in terms of, you know,
the first thing you heard was the whizzing of a
missile about to rain down on you. Yep, we had
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just finished filming in an abandoned village, a demolished village,
one that had been almost flattened. We saw church totally destroyed,
schools all gone, and we were heading back into the
capital city of Kiev. We hadn't seen anyone in a
long time. It was abandoned. We pulled up at this
one empty check point and as we slowed down, out
of nowhere, right out of the sky came this missile
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and we heard that with their pure and then right
in front of the car, maybe thirty feet the first
bomb hit and one of the trees that hit started
to fall over as well. There was a mad dash
to try and reverse the car to get out of
that situation, and a few seconds later the second one
hit right next to the car, right on the left
of the car, and that one was so close that
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it I blacked out at that point. I suffered all
the facial injuries at that point, a shrapnel in the eye,
a big matchbox size in my throat, and I was
at that point gone. I mean, I was as close
to death as you can imagine. And I was totally
black in a dark place, and it was into that
dark place. It was into that moment. Then out of
nowhere came my daughter, My eldest daughter called on her
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and she by the way, so people understand, because you
do have an accent. Your daughter's name is Honor, which
I love. I love that name all right. But so
you're when you say you're like blacked out, were you
conscious at all or were you just unconscious? Oh? I
was unconscious. I was. I'd be knocked out and been
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taking part of my skull out as well. So I
was badly injured. But I saw my daughter and she
came to me and she said to me, Daddy, you've
got to get out of the car. And somehow it
came back to me. I came back to myself, and
I opened my eyes, and I immediately just reached for
the car door and I started to crawl towards the
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car door. I got a couple of steps out of
the car and booed. The third one hit the car itself,
the third missile. So if if your daughter didn't come
to you and sort of wake you out of the darkness,
the state of unconsciousness. She's saying, Daddy, get out of
the car. You got out of the car. Had that
point had did you had you lost your leg, did
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you had you lost your foot? Or did that happen
with the third blast? I happened with a third one.
So I'd taken two steps out of the car and
the third one hit and that threw me away. And
the next thing I know, I wake up and I'm
on fire. The leg's gone, and that's when I was
badly injured. But you know, Sasha and the two Ukrainians
hadn't got out of the car in the same way
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that I was in the car, and they died in
the car. So my daughter coming to me in that moment,
my angel coming to me in that moment that brought
me back, that saved my life. Pierre had opened the
car door and he had managed to get out as well,
so he also allowed saved my life by giving me
that path out. So I look back at that moment,
I'd know that I was saved. I was absolutely blessed,
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and that's one of the reasons I feel strong today.
But I woke up on fire. I had to put
all the flames out. I was rolling around on the
floor and trying to hit what was left of my legs.
And it then took about forty minutes till we were found,
no cell phone reception in the area, no way of
telling anyone we had been hit, and sat there just
very badly injured, trying to think how am I going
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to survive? How will I get home? And the way
I what it is that I would crawl if I
had to, I would crawl to get home to my family,
no matter what it took. And in the end, I
did crawl. I crawled for a little bit to reach
up to a car that we had seen passing. And
finally that car came back and I was closer, and
I threw rocks at it and dirt at it, and
I waved as best as I could, and that was
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the moment that I was finally saved. But those forty
minutes were the forty minutes that changed my life, which
I learned an awful lot about myself. And again I
used those everything I learned then every day to get
through this. Let me ask you this, at that moment,
when you're looking at the severity of the injuries and
a leg that I'm sure you knew at that point
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was gone, and a foot that is likely gone, and
all the other injuries you sustain psychologically, how do you
deal with that? How did you stop the bleeding? How
did you not bleed out in a situation like that?
You know, I was very lucky. I wasn't feeling pain
at the beginning. The adrenaline was rushing. I was looking
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at my legs. I knew I was really badly injured,
but I didn't feel it. I was so hyped up.
And it was towards the end that I knew I
had to be saved. I knew how badly injured I was.
Bet if some of the veins had been quarterized as
well burnt shut. So that kept me going as well.
I mean, really lucky. And it was only when I
was finally found and the soldier who found me grabbed
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hold of me and pulled me towards his van that
I suddenly felt all the pain. And I think that's
where a lot of the skin that had been burned
badly burnt, just kind of peeled off. And so that
was the first pain I felt then, and in the
next couple of days when we were trying to evacuate
from the country with the hardest parts. Now, I can't
go into all the details of all of this, but
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a series of events then were unfolding where you were
able to get into a you got into a hospital,
one doctor that saved your other leg. You told that story,
but then the effort to get you out of Ukraine
and into Poland was very, very difficult. There was the
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Prime Minister of Poland, you know, was getting on a train.
They offered you a spot on it. You had to
make a long journey to get there, then a long
journey on their train to get to Poland and where
US officials met you. I mean, everything had to work
out perfectly, and it did. Yeah, and so many times
that if something hadn't happened within a specific minute, I
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wouldn't have made it. This was you know, US intelligence
let us know that the Polish Prime Minister was there.
Polish intelligence. It basically allowed us to get onto their
equivalent of Air Force one, you know, their prime Minister's train.
Ukrainian intelligence, you know, helping us to try and get
through all these checkpoints, at which point every in these ambulance,
every checkpoint they came out with their guns drawn, getting
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us out of the car, checking my wounds because they
thought we were a Russian team coming in to get Zelenski.
But then I finally, with minutes to spare, got onto
the Polish Prime Minister's train. He had been on a
covert mission to visit Zelenski and those next hours without
pain killers or when I had to really push on through,
knowing that if I could make it to Poland, the
Americans and the military would be there. And as soon
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as we crossed the boarder, there was a black Hawk
waiting for me. And I was amazingly lucky that the
Sexty of Defense Austin had allowed me to be treated
within the military medicine, and so I had flown straight
away to Launch School in Germany, the US air base there,
and that is where so many hundreds of you know,
American servicemen had been treated after their injuries in Afghanistan Iraq,
and so I was with the people who knew these
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kind of injuries the best. And that's when I knew
that I was really saved. When I was past yea,
let me ask you this final question only because of
the constraints of time. This all sounds like a god
thing to me. Has this impacted your life, your faith,
your belief system? You know, I was Someone pulled me
over earlier today in the office. She came up and
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she said, I had to stop you because God came
to me last night and he wanted me to tell
you that it wasn't your time. That You've got so
much more good to do in this world, and that's
what you're here for. And it just struck so much
that this lady came up to me, and the messages
I'm getting online, people who say, you know, listening to
your story has helped me pull through, has helped me
get too difficult situations. It has changed me. It's changed
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me in a number of ways, and that's the most important.
Believe in what you believe in, fight for it every day,
and it will get you through the hardest moments that
you have to. I believe that wholeheartedly, and I am
the same person I used to be, but I'm a
totally new person as well, and I continue to learn
more about myself and my own faith every single day.
By the way, the book is called Saved a War
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Reporter's Mission to Make It Home instantly became a number
one bestseller, which was awesome. Listen, Benjamin, it's an honor
for me to be able to call you a friend
and a colleague. Your story is beyond inspiring to me
and so many others, and I see the trajectory of
your life. I agree with that woman. Whoever you spoke
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to that God has going to use this story of
yours to help so many others. It already is, and
I hope everybody one gets a copy of the book.
It's on Hannity dot com, Amazon dot com now on
bookstores all across the country. Saved a war reporter's mission
to make it home. My friend, Benjamin Hall, thank god
you got back. Thank God you have the attitude you have.
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You are, You're a courageous, You're inspirational and a good friend.
And Sean, you've been talking to me and willing me
on every day since has happened. So I've got to
thank you too for all your support. It was sad
among many things that got me through, So thank you
too for being such a great friend, Sean. And there's
so many great people at Fox. I can't forget Jennifer
Griffin and Fox Management and they were all involved to
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do everything within their means to help you too. And
thank god you're back with your family and we wish
you the best and hope to see against sue my
friend looking forward to Sean. Thank you, Thank you. All Right,
that's gonna wrap things up for today. We'll have the
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the program. You know, one of the things Jim Jordan's committee,
the Judiciary Committee, is looking into is whether or not
the FBI has been politicized and whether the DOJ is
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being weaponized. Now I know this case. We keep reading
day after day after day that an indictment in New
York against former President Donald Trump seems fairly imminent according
to sources left right, sideways, the New York Times, here, there,
and everywhere. And this was a case that was dismissed
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pretty much on the federal level. This was a case
that even the prior ag Cyrus Vans passed on. This
is now seven years later, you know, like for example,
Latitia James brought this case against the Trump Company, etc. Etc.
But remember what she said when she was running for office,
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because to me, justice should be blind. I will never
be afraid to challenge this illegitimate president when our fundamental
rights are at state. I believe that the president of
these United States can be indicted for criminal offenses. We're
going to be a real patent, that man in the
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White House who can't go a day without threatening our
fundamental rights. Yes, we need to focus on Donald Trump
and his abuses. We need to follow his money. We
need to find out where he's laundered money. We need
to find out whether or not he's engaged in conspiracy.
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And that is somebody running to go against the one man,
one family, one organization. That scares me a little bit,
scares me a lot. Dan Abrams had a good piece
on media today about this very issue. He said it
would be a big mistake, both legally and politically, to
indict former President Trump over the Stormy Daniels quote hush
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money scandal. This is what he said. He said the
law that Trump allegedly violated his quote a misdemeanor, potentially
charging the former president for an incident that occurred almost
seven years ago. It's minor stuff, falsifying business records by
claiming that the one hundred and thirty thousand dollars payoff
to Daniels for keeping or quiet about their affair was
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actually legal expenses. He said, Now the DA may try
to elevate the crime to a felony by claiming the
intent to defraud included an intent to commit or conceal
a second crime, and that one being a violation of
New York state election law. They would argue that the
payoff was done to protect the campaign and effectively became
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an improper donation, he said, Putting aside how long ago
this happened, he said, put aside the fact that the
Manhattan DA's office under a different DA examined the case
in twenty eighteen and decided not to move forward with it.
Putting aside the fact that the new DA, Alvin Bragg,
was in office for over a year before he seemed
to suddenly become interested in this old case. Put aside
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that it would also be really hard, a really hard
legal case. The effort at making it a felony would
be a novel legal theory, and proving that the payment
was made for the purposes of protecting the campaign as
opposed to say, protecting him from his wife Malania finding
out would be difficult. Joining us now as the President's
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attorney on this case. And that's Joe Takapina's back of us. Joe,
thank you for being with us absolutely, And you know
what I listen what you just said. Abrams was writing
a lot of things, but but there's one thing that
needs to make clear. It's not a misdemeanor. It's not
a clime. You know, it's it's not like, oh, it's
a misdemeanor, and they're trying to elevate to a felony
by by cobbling together a couple of misdemeaners. There's no misdemeanor,
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there's no crime. And that's what really makes this outrageous.
I mean, by pursuing this matter, this day's officers once
again weaponsize this office to influence the next presidential election period,
end of story. Are you convinced that these reports are real,
that they are planning to go forward with an indictment
of the former president? You know, we talked about this
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last night. I mean, the reports are picking up steam.
It seems to be something that's becoming more realistic. But
I still believe somebody in that office is going to say,
like they have done before, like the United States Attorney's
Office has done, the federal prosecuts have done, that this
is a case that is untriable. You can't win this case.
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It won't survive motions because there is no crime. There's
no I mean false. Explain exactly what you mean when
you say there's no crime. What does that mean? Nothing
was done wrong. Let's put it this way. Let's start
out with the basic fact that, first of all, campaign
financi laws are murky to begin with, and all the
underlying legal theories are on tests that have never been
utilized in this manner ever shown legal scholars. Most legal scholars,
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including a lot of former members of the Federal Election Committee,
have publicly stated in the past that there is no
campaign law violation. Any good prosecutor knows that you can't
bring a criminal case when the laws unclear, because you
need to show intend to commit a crime, and you
can't show intent. Even when legal scholars agree, you can't
agree on with the laws. Now, here's the thing, here's
the crucial distinction this two in this case one. First
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of all, let's let's start out with this basic fact.
Donald Trump was an extortion victim. Okay, when someone says,
it doesn't have to be Donald Trump. When someone says,
I am going to go forward. Now he adamantly denies
this affair ever happened. I believe him. I think the
evidence is clear on that, okay. But that being said,
it's regardless of whether it did or didn't happen. If
someone says you give me money or I'm going to
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go to the press and say these bad things about you,
true or not true, it doesn't matter. And that that
was said by Stormy Daniels, you're saying to him, and
that's it was, and that's you know, on the heels
of the election, this happened. So Donald Trump followed his
advice as counsel's advice at the time. You know, Michael
going not knowing what a what a really treacherous dog
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he was, and urger and a lawyer he was, but
followed his lawyer's advice, which is just make this go away.
It's a nuisance settlement. It's you know, nothing to him,
and then then she'll shut up. You know. That's what
he did. He follows his lawyer's advice. He did that.
And he was a victim of extortion because that is
black let a law when someone does that. But he
paid it off just to prevent, as Michael Cohen said
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in his plea allocution, embarrassment to himself and his family.
So the fact that it's embarrassment to himself and his family.
Makes this not a crime. And here's what I mean.
So his own lawyer said that already, and he's on
record as saying that he played guilty when his lawyer
played guilty to something that wasn't even a crime, by
the way, this idiot, when he pled guilty, Michael Cohen,
he said that on the record, the elocution was that
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he did it to influence the election and to prevent
embarrassment to himself and to his family. When you say that,
those last words mean everything, because personally use funds when
spending money to fulfill any commitment, obligation, or expense of
a person that would hear the key word exist irrespective
of the campaign. It takes it out of the election.
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So this goes to the answer. I watched you on
George Stephanopolas yesterday and he asked you three questions. Did
Trump authorize the payments to Storey Daniel? Two? Was the
payment properly recorded? Three? Was it connected to the election?
And you're saying that his own lawyer, which I assume
would be the prime witness in this case, that that
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that the lawyer himself acknowledges that it was to protect
against embarrassment for himself, his family on the on the record,
which why you cannot bring this case. So then what
is the law. What is the law under which they're
going to bring this case. I'm trying to understand that, Well,
join the party, show joy, join the party. We're all
trying to understand that. It doesn't make sense they're going
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to trump up maybe some false record keeping. There's unless
it's tied to an election or a tax purpose or
a campaign violation. There's You could write what you want
in your own personal checkbook. You could buy a car
and rite I bore a horse in your personal checkbook.
It's not a sense, not a crime. You can write
whatever you want to cover it up from your your
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your brother or your sister, your wife, it doesn't matter.
It's not a crime. Or you could just write you
know or something wrong in your personal ledger. It doesn't
make it a crime. Unless we're kicking into the election laws.
Here and here, the campaign finance laws make it very
clear that if something was paid and that obligation existed
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irrespective of the campaign, it is not a campaign law
violation period. End of story. This was paid with his
personal funds, not campaign funds. It clearly had nothing to
do with anything other than protecting himself, in his family
and his young son Baron from embarrassment. And that's what
makes this even more sick, to be honest with you,
For three years, this DA's officers scoured every aspect of
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president from his personal life and business affairs going back decades,
and hopes of finding some legal basis, however far fetched,
novel or convoluted to prosecute him. Okay, these actions constitute
prosecut miscontexts. I wrote on my letter to the Department
of Investigation. I've asked the Department of Investigation to investigate
this DA and this DA's office. It's an abusive power
and shown it's purely Unamerican. We do not do this
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in this country. We never did this southern country. I mean,
government officials should not be stretching laws beyond their normal
meaning to get people just because they don't like these people,
or because they want to get a nice scout, or
in this case, because they want to influence the next
presidential election. It's despicable. It shouldn't happen. Is this where
we are? Is this really where we're at now as
a country? All right, quick, break more with President Trump's attorney,
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Joe Takapina in the New York case reports a widespread
that possible indictment as it relates to the Stormy Daniels issue.
Will continue more with Joe on the other side, straight
ahead at nine pm. Do you know where your president is? Yep,
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he sounded asleep with a lot of care in the world.
Must be nice, Joe. The rest of us will keep
working York on the sewn Edy Show. Are we continue
with President Trump's attorney all these reports that they're possibly
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in New York might be an indictment imminent against the
former president as it relates to the Stormy Daniel's case.
Let me read it was picked up by MSN. It
originated in the Washington Post, and the headline itself is interesting,
but when you get into the meat of the article,
it's even more interesting. It says prosecuting Trump for Stormy
Daniel's money would include hurdles according to experts, and at
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one point it says that if Bragg seeks to charge
the former president, a move that appears likely based on
his recent invitation for Trump to appear before the grand jury,
he will face several potential hurdles according to legal analysts.
They said it would be unusual for a state prosecutor
to use an alleged violation of a federal law rather
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than a state campaign finance law, has grounds to elevate
a false paperwork case from a misdemeanor to a felony.
We're back to that part again. I don't want to
ask you about it, but it would also be unusual
to prosecute a presidential candidate for violating state as opposed
to federal campaign finance laws. So that argument keeps coming
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up that that's what their argument is going to be.
But you're arguing, what there's those state violation neither. There's
no misdemeanor violation. There's no crime he literally did. I'm
telling you there is no violation of any criminal statute, misdemeanor, felony, state, federal,
you know, statutes from from by don't know, Jupiter, There's
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no violation of any statute. I have them all in
front of me, I've studied them all myself and Susan Nicklas,
who's you know, been running lead on this case. And
then speak with the DA's office. There is nothing there is, Well,
what are they indicating to you, because usually there are
a lot of conversations that go back and forth between
das and defense attorneys. What are they indicating to you
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that they're looking at the hardest at or or is
there anything else that they're looking at. They've been very vague,
and again this with Susan, but they've been very vague.
And it all has to do with hush money payments.
So it is only this, you know, I mean, people like, oh,
it has to be something more, it has to be No,
it's not. And the funny part about this is even
Mark Promer, It's the guy who who violated every ethical
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consideration when he was appointed prosecutor and decided to resign
because there were prosecuting Trump and he decided he's gonna
quit instead write a book. Is this the guy that
wrote a book? Okay, wrote a book in violation of
New York State penal code. Okay, because any information received
from the guard injury, which he signed a document acknowledging
that the information was gonna get was going to come
from a grandary investigation. By the way, are you gonna
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are you gonna go after him on that allegation? But
but we've already I've already sent the letter to the
New York State Bar to Gavin Disbard. Um, I've asked
Alan Braid to if you know, Alan brags always want
to say there is one standard for all. Well, if
there's one standard for ROLL, makes one standard for all,
including Mark Palmerz. He should be prosecuting him. He violated
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that officers trust. So it shouldna be one standard for ROLL,
but one standard for ROLL except for Donald Trump. It
should be one standard for all. I'd asked the DA
to prosecute him. I've asked the deal why to investigate
the DA's office. I've asked the bar to disbar him. Um,
and and we're going after him. And what is the
law that he you think he violated? Oh, it's not,
it's not even I think it's clear he violated. And
I said to my loved, there's a New York State
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penal code law that's a felony. That is what's called
the grand jury secrecy laws. In other words, if you
reveal information gained from a grand jury subpoena or grand
jury investigation, which this is, to a third party, so
you've committed celony, Okay, and he's done it because that
grandjury is still sitting. It's still an open grand jury investigation.
As alam Alang went crazy and was complaining. Now, you know,
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you would think that would give him pause to even
think about going forward here, but apparently not. And I
hope he's not stupid to that level. But here's the
thing about the Stormy Daniels hushmoney case. It was referred
to even in this guy's book that as a zombie
case because it kept coming back from the dead. He
said that they would trying to find any legal theory
to prosecute Trump. Do you want to stand how sick
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that what I just said is they literally this guy
wrote in his book admitted it, which was shocking. That
book was actually one of the best things that ever
happened to President Trump. But he admitted in his book
that they took the person and they were trying to
find a crime, not that they had information of from
anality a complaint made and they were investigating the person
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because they had information about a crime. They took the
person that he despised. This guy said, not only the
teller's wife. He wasn't going to get paid for being
a special prosecutor, leaving his big way job where he
was getting money. He actually said I would pay to
prosecute Donald Trump. I gotta, I gotta leave it there.
But um, we're gonna be watching in the days and
weeks ahead for sure, and following the case closely and
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as things developed. We'd love to have you back on.
We appreciate you joining us Joe Takapina, President Donald Trump's
attorney on this New York issue. Thank you so much
as always for being with us. Appreciate it. Thank you.
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it was about a year ago I'm honored to call
this man a friend and a colleague, that Benjamin Hall
had been reporting the beginnings of the war in Ukraine,
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and this is not his first rodeo. He had covered
many conflicts, many wars around the world. And then, of course,
one day I got a call from a mutual friend
of ours that it looked like something very bad has
gone wrong and that that Benjamin Hall was hit. We
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didn't know the extent of the injuries at that time,
and slowly over the days we began to understand the
severity of the injuries. He lost a leg, he lost
a foot, he severely damaged his left hand, partially or
mostly blind in one eye, now had shrapnel all over
the place. He was the only survivor. Three missiles were
(18:03):
fired at the car that he was in. And his
story and of heroism and courage and more importantly the
most infectious positive attitude is beyond inspiring ben Hall. Benjamin
Hall joins me, Now, how are you, sir Sean. I'm
doing really well. Thank you. It's as you said, it's
exactly one year to the day that has happened. So
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it's a day where, you know, this morning I've had
to really think about everything that happened and then get
moving again, just get living again, make the most out
of it. So that's what we're doing. You know, I've
met a lot of people over the years with similar injuries,
especially men and women that have gone into battle and
conflict and they lose legs, or have they lose their arms,
or they lose their sight or they're burned over, you know,
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sixty seventy eighty percent of their body. And I have
met some people that have not taken it as well
as you have. What do you attribute that too? The
fact that you were able to psychologically, spiritually, you know,
sort of transcend what is the most difficult scenario, your
entire life turned upside down, and do it with such
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a positive attitude. Yeah, you know, it's hard, Sean. I think, firstly,
I'm blessed with an optimistic spirit, and I knew very
early on within, you know, when I woke up after
those first initial operations and I was still stuck in
Kiev and had to find a way to get out
of the country, that there were two ways to look
at it. One was to bury it, to let it
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get the better of you, and the other one was
to realize that every day from them was going to
be better than the last, That if I could move
a tiny little bit one day, I would move a
little bit further than next. That I had something really
amazing to fight for, and that was to get back
to my family, to hold my children again. That I
had been blessed to stay alive that day. You know,
the other four died, and I was in the one
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middle seat of that car, the death seat, and somehow
I came out of it with my mind intact. My
body might be badly injured, but my mind is intact.
So I think I was blessed that day. And I
put all of those things together, and I realized that
if I don't make the most of every single day,
if I don't do it in the names of Pierre
and Sasha who died that day, then what a waste
life would be. And so that's what I think every
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single morning to this day. When I wake up, I think,
let's channel that, let's make sure that today is a
better day than yesterday. Let's do more good today, and
we did yesterday. And I'm very lucky to have done that.
And might I also say that I was blessed to
be treated in military medicine. I was down to San
Antonio at Bamsey, and I was surrounded by other people
who had had similar injuries and talking to them every
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single day, listening to the difficulties they had faced, talking
about how they got through it. So that helped me
a lot as well. So it was about the team
who was around me. It was talking to other people
who had gone through something similar, and it was about
fighting hard for what I believed in that got me
to where I am today. Let's talk about that day
when this whole went down and Pierre happened to be
a very close friend of yours. You told the story
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when you were covering and you've covered wars in Syria
and Afghanistan and Iraq. You mean, you've been to a
lot of war zones, and one particular moment in Afghanistan,
you were both you know, watching the locals, you know,
riding their horses and you asked if you guys could
good ride them. I mean, you had a very close
relationship and you talked about, you know, in the midst
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of you know, war, there are places of peace, and
that stuck with you. Pierre did lose his life that day.
Sasha did lose her life that day. And let's tell
everybody exactly what you remember in terms of, you know,
the first thing you heard was the whizzing of a
missile about to rain down on you. Yep, we had
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just finished filming in an abandoned village, a demolished village,
one that had been almost flattened. We saw church totally destroyed,
schools all gone, and we were heading back into the
capital city of Kiev. We hadn't seen anyone in a
long time. It was abandoned. We pulled up at this
one empty check point and as we slowed down, out
of nowhere, right out of the sky came this missile
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and we heard that with their pure and then right
in front of the car, maybe thirty feet the first
bomb hit and one of the trees that hit started
to fall over as well. There was a mad dash
to try and reverse the car to get out of
that situation, and a few seconds later the second one
hit right next to the car, right on the left
of the car, and that one was so close that
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it I blacked out at that point. I suffered all
the facial injuries at that point, a shrapnel in the eye,
a big matchbox size in my throat, and I was
at that point gone. I mean, I was as close
to death as you can imagine. And I was totally
black in a dark place, and it was into that
dark place. It was into that moment. Then out of
nowhere came my daughter, My eldest daughter called on her
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and she by the way, so people understand, because you
do have an accent. Your daughter's name is Honor, which
I love. I love that name all right. But so
you're when you say you're like blacked out, were you
conscious at all or were you just unconscious? Oh? I
was unconscious. I was. I'd be knocked out and been
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taking part of my skull out as well. So I
was badly injured. But I saw my daughter and she
came to me and she said to me, Daddy, you've
got to get out of the car. And somehow it
came back to me. I came back to myself, and
I opened my eyes, and I immediately just reached for
the car door and I started to crawl towards the
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car door. I got a couple of steps out of
the car and booed. The third one hit the car itself,
the third missile. So if if your daughter didn't come
to you and sort of wake you out of the darkness,
the state of unconsciousness. She's saying, Daddy, get out of
the car. You got out of the car. Had that
point had did you had you lost your leg, did
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you had you lost your foot? Or did that happen
with the third blast? I happened with a third one.
So I'd taken two steps out of the car and
the third one hit and that threw me away. And
the next thing I know, I wake up and I'm
on fire. The leg's gone, and that's when I was
badly injured. But you know, Sasha and the two Ukrainians
hadn't got out of the car in the same way
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that I was in the car, and they died in
the car. So my daughter coming to me in that moment,
my angel coming to me in that moment that brought
me back, that saved my life. Pierre had opened the
car door and he had managed to get out as well,
so he also allowed saved my life by giving me
that path out. So I look back at that moment,
I'd know that I was saved. I was absolutely blessed,
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and that's one of the reasons I feel strong today.
But I woke up on fire. I had to put
all the flames out. I was rolling around on the
floor and trying to hit what was left of my legs.
And it then took about forty minutes till we were found,
no cell phone reception in the area, no way of
telling anyone we had been hit, and sat there just
very badly injured, trying to think how am I going
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to survive? How will I get home? And the way
I what it is that I would crawl if I
had to, I would crawl to get home to my family,
no matter what it took. And in the end, I
did crawl. I crawled for a little bit to reach
up to a car that we had seen passing. And
finally that car came back and I was closer, and
I threw rocks at it and dirt at it, and
I waved as best as I could, and that was
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the moment that I was finally saved. But those forty
minutes were the forty minutes that changed my life, which
I learned an awful lot about myself. And again I
used those everything I learned then every day to get
through this. Let me ask you this, at that moment,
when you're looking at the severity of the injuries and
a leg that I'm sure you knew at that point
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was gone, and a foot that is likely gone, and
all the other injuries you sustain psychologically, how do you
deal with that? How did you stop the bleeding? How
did you not bleed out in a situation like that?
You know, I was very lucky. I wasn't feeling pain
at the beginning. The adrenaline was rushing. I was looking
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at my legs. I knew I was really badly injured,
but I didn't feel it. I was so hyped up.
And it was towards the end that I knew I
had to be saved. I knew how badly injured I was.
Bet if some of the veins had been quarterized as
well burnt shut. So that kept me going as well.
I mean, really lucky. And it was only when I
was finally found and the soldier who found me grabbed
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hold of me and pulled me towards his van that
I suddenly felt all the pain. And I think that's
where a lot of the skin that had been burned
badly burnt, just kind of peeled off. And so that
was the first pain I felt then, and in the
next couple of days when we were trying to evacuate
from the country with the hardest parts. Now, I can't
go into all the details of all of this, but
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a series of events then were unfolding where you were
able to get into a you got into a hospital,
one doctor that saved your other leg. You told that story,
but then the effort to get you out of Ukraine
and into Poland was very, very difficult. There was the
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Prime Minister of Poland, you know, was getting on a train.
They offered you a spot on it. You had to
make a long journey to get there, then a long
journey on their train to get to Poland and where
US officials met you. I mean, everything had to work
out perfectly, and it did. Yeah, and so many times
that if something hadn't happened within a specific minute, I
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wouldn't have made it. This was you know, US intelligence
let us know that the Polish Prime Minister was there.
Polish intelligence. It basically allowed us to get onto their
equivalent of Air Force one, you know, their prime Minister's train.
Ukrainian intelligence, you know, helping us to try and get
through all these checkpoints, at which point every in these ambulance,
every checkpoint they came out with their guns drawn, getting
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us out of the car, checking my wounds because they
thought we were a Russian team coming in to get Zelenski.
But then I finally, with minutes to spare, got onto
the Polish Prime Minister's train. He had been on a
covert mission to visit Zelenski and those next hours without
pain killers or when I had to really push on through,
knowing that if I could make it to Poland, the
Americans and the military would be there. And as soon
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as we crossed the boarder, there was a black Hawk
waiting for me. And I was amazingly lucky that the
Sexty of Defense Austin had allowed me to be treated
within the military medicine, and so I had flown straight
away to Launch School in Germany, the US air base there,
and that is where so many hundreds of you know,
American servicemen had been treated after their injuries in Afghanistan Iraq,
and so I was with the people who knew these
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kind of injuries the best. And that's when I knew
that I was really saved. When I was past yea,
let me ask you this final question only because of
the constraints of time. This all sounds like a god
thing to me. Has this impacted your life, your faith,
your belief system? You know, I was Someone pulled me
over earlier today in the office. She came up and
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she said, I had to stop you because God came
to me last night and he wanted me to tell
you that it wasn't your time. That You've got so
much more good to do in this world, and that's
what you're here for. And it just struck so much
that this lady came up to me, and the messages
I'm getting online, people who say, you know, listening to
your story has helped me pull through, has helped me
get too difficult situations. It has changed me. It's changed
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me in a number of ways, and that's the most important.
Believe in what you believe in, fight for it every day,
and it will get you through the hardest moments that
you have to. I believe that wholeheartedly, and I am
the same person I used to be, but I'm a
totally new person as well, and I continue to learn
more about myself and my own faith every single day.
By the way, the book is called Saved a War
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Reporter's Mission to Make It Home instantly became a number
one bestseller, which was awesome. Listen, Benjamin, it's an honor
for me to be able to call you a friend
and a colleague. Your story is beyond inspiring to me
and so many others, and I see the trajectory of
your life. I agree with that woman. Whoever you spoke
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to that God has going to use this story of
yours to help so many others. It already is, and
I hope everybody one gets a copy of the book.
It's on Hannity dot com, Amazon dot com now on
bookstores all across the country. Saved a war reporter's mission
to make it home. My friend, Benjamin Hall, thank god
you got back. Thank God you have the attitude you have.
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You are, You're a courageous, You're inspirational and a good friend.
And Sean, you've been talking to me and willing me
on every day since has happened. So I've got to
thank you too for all your support. It was sad
among many things that got me through, So thank you
too for being such a great friend, Sean. And there's
so many great people at Fox. I can't forget Jennifer
Griffin and Fox Management and they were all involved to
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do everything within their means to help you too. And
thank god you're back with your family and we wish
you the best and hope to see against sue my
friend looking forward to Sean. Thank you, Thank you. All Right,
that's gonna wrap things up for today. We'll have the
latest on the Biden billionaire bank bailout issue, and how
we the people end up paying for all of this.
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We have shark tanks, Kevin O'Leary will on us tonight,
David Asman, we'll check in with us. That's nineties durn
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