>> [ inaudible ] >> i understand you've been wounded. will you describe your position? >> weakening. >> are you shot, sir? >> yes, i am. >> well, communications opened up pretty quickly. he loved to talk. he loved to hear himself talk. >> how is government going to talk to me in the later days? so there will be no excuse! >> so there was no lack of communication. there was a lack of productive communication. >> there's a lot of children here. i've had a lot of babies the last few years. >> is it true, david, that one of the children, a 2-year-old, is dead? >> yeah, that's true. >> he was so calm where he began immediately questioning what kind of personality are we dealing with? >> here we are, the day of the lord. god will be in the position for blood. >> koresh and the davidians were well supplied for a long siege. in addition to their arsenal, they had stockpiled military mre's. >> what we ultimately had come to realize is that we had well over 100 individuals inside of a heavily fortified compound that were there voluntarily