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Philadelphia suburbs and attended an elite boarding school. a classmate of john kerry. then to princeton. but the combat death of david hackett in vietnam inspired mueller to join the marines. >> he was wounded in combat. shot through leg. received a bronze star with valor, purple heart, and was right back in the fight a couple weeks later. >> in some sense, you feel youve will been given a lease on life and you want to make the most of it. >> after graduating from law school, mueller soon found...

School, a classmate of john kerry, then to princeton. but the combat death of college friend david hackett in vietnam inspired mueller to join the marines, he w marines. >> he was wounded in combat, shot through the leg, received a bronze star with valor, purple heart and was right back in the fight a couple of weeks later. >> in some sense you feel youve been given a second lease in life and want to make the most of it to kribcontribute in some. >> reporter: mueller soon found his way to the de...

Professional choice, thats his dna today. whats going on today, what have you got. i dont want to hear noise, i want the facts. lets talk about it, whats your >> showing up at the special counsel nondescript office at the same early time, avoiding the spotlight, so much so that spotting mueller anywhere became a bit of a washington parlor game. mueller grew up in the wealthy philadelphia suburbs, attended an elite boarding school. a classmate of john kerry, then to princeton. but the combat deat...

>> reporter: would you assume he is managing the special counsel investigation the same way? >> heck yes. i wouldnt assume it. its not like a professional choice. that is his dna. what is going on today? what you got? what you got? i dont want to hear a lot of noise. what are the facts and what is your judgment? next. lets move on. i never saw a security -- never. >> reporter: ever? >> never, ever. >> reporter: mueller grew up in the wealthy philip suburbs and a classmate of john kerry. then to ...

Children, theres no fundamental right to be protected from climate change. >> in this case, the government, ironically, is on the defense. >> reporter: legal analyst david hackett is surprised the case made it this far. >> the plaintiffs bucked the odds. >> reporter: a highly unlikely case thats a personal cause for 21 young people. >> i just hope i can inspire other young people, other youth, to take action. its everybodys future. if i wouldnt have a home on this barrier island, then i have to ...

Survived vietnam. many others didnt that he served with. the marines actually inspired him to join. his princeton classmate david hackett was killed in vietnam just as bob mueller was beginning officer candidate school. this was a time where mueller sort of feels incredibly grateful for having survived and he also feels that sort of no pressure that he has ever faced since being a marine in combat in vietnam compares to the stress of leading men in combat. one of his sort of dark jokes, lines af...

Another marine and i found a marine in texas that he rescued that day in battle. >> you talk about him under pressure. >> this is sort of one of the things that really -- you see how important vietnam was to the bob mueller that we know today, which is mueller considers himself incredibly lucky to have survived vietnam. many others didnt that he served with. the marines actually inspired him to join. his princeton classmate david hackett was killed in vietnam just as bob mueller was beginning of...

Enrolled at his fathers alma mater, princeton. as he had at st. pauls, hes on the lacrosse team and becomes friends with an upper classman named david hackett. it will shape the rest his life. >> he was not necessarily the best on the team, but he was a determined and a natural leader. >> david graduated that spring and was far from our thoughts and we went to our senior year. >> in 1965, he graduates and volunteers to fight in the burgeoning conflict there vietnam. after volunteering for a seco...

>> one would have naturally thought that the life of a marine and davids death in vietnam would argue strongly against following in his footsteps. many of us saw him, the person we wanted to be, even before his untimely death. a number of his friends and teammates joined the marine corps because of him as did i. >> while many of his peers avoid serving, bob mueller decides to enlist. >> it is well-known that it was in some ways a poor persons war. the idea of a st. pauls and princeton person bei...

More forceful or more visible character in the school. but bob mueller got sort of outsized level of respect for how quiet and unpretentious he was. >> after graduation, mueller enrolled at his fathers alma mater, princeton. as he had at st. pauls, hes on the lacrosse team and becomes friends with an upper classman named david hackett. it will shape the rest his life. >> he was not necessarily the best on the team, but he was a determined and a natural leader. >> david graduated that spring and ...