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>> were all waiting. were anticipating. we had buses lined up to receive everybody. >> he stated he received a message from god instructing him to wait. >> any doubts about who is calling the shots is suddenly gone. >> now we knew when we had a person who said he was speaking directly to god and god had told him to wait that this was not going to be normal. >> that was one of the first and more significant glimpses of the disingenuous nature of how david was dealing with us as far as promises an...

Compound. he asked a mail carrier for directions, and indicated there might be some kind of raid. the mailman was a branch davidian. undercover agent robert rodriguez was at the compound when koresh received the warning. >> robert immediately excused himself. i had to leave. david said, no, stay. robert said, no, i got to go. as robert tells me, he walks out the door and says, i was just waiting for them to put a bullet in my back. >> agent rodriguez went straight to his commanders. >> he said t...

Accomplish that. >> 27 children remained inside the compound. >> we continued to press david on that. david finally became very upset with the negotiator, and he stopped and yelled at them. he said, hey, you dont understand. the rest of these children are my children. theyre not coming out. the battle of armageddon was on. moderate to severe crohns disease is tough, but ive managed. except that managing my symptoms was all i was doing. and when i finally told my doctor, he said humira is for adu...

>> clive doyle is a branch davidian survivor, and to this day a believer in david koresh. >> david was constantly talking to god. god told me to do this. god told me to do that. we accepted that. >> god speaks to me. i have a message to present. >> to outsiders koresh soon transformed the davidian church into a cult. >> the most important element of the cult is the leader. and they always describe the same way as being charismatic. >> i mean, there are some things that god has concealed in his w...

Day. i didnt know that they were going to do that. and i thought, wow, well, theyre going to gas them out. >> exit the compound now. submit to the proper authority, david. you are under arrest. this standoff is over. >> i dont think we, the fbi, atf, anybody else ever had any control over how this was going to end. i think the only control we truly had was when it was going to end. >> koresh had his playbook already decided in advance. that he would destroy his followers rather than to give up t...

>> we went 27 days with nobody being released. david koresh became more violent in his rhetoric. >> he has made such statements as we are ready for war, lets get it on. >> finally, on about the 18th of april, the decision was made that weve had enough delays, weve had enough disingenuous lies coming from these individuals. it was time to exercise a tactical resolution. >> on day 51 of the siege at waco, the fbi initiates its tactical plan to end the standoff. >> david, individuals inside the bra...

>> after the attorneys went in, there was -- david said that he was going to write his manuscript of the meanings of the seven seals. >> supposedly the manuscript will be koreshs proof that he is the lamb of god. at first koresh says it will take him two days to write about each seal. then it becomes two weeks, and then he says it will take a year. >> had there been serious preparation of the manuscripts, we would have waited. but there was none. >> on the 49th day of the siege, attorney general...

So i said, wait a minute, you dont want to come out or david doesnt want you to come out? he says, well, david doesnt think its necessary. >> for agent sage, a heated phone conversation that follows provokes a crucial realization about koresh. >> at one point he is talking about my salvation and i said, david, i am absolutely confident in my salvation as a christian. and you, partner, are not in a position to judge me. now, that was a very calculated move because stop and think about it. if this...

>> we went 27 days with nobody being released. david koresh became more violent in his rhetoric. >> he has made such statements as we are ready for war, lets get it on. >> finally, on about the 18th of april, the decision was made that weve had enough delays, weve had enough disingenuous lies coming from these individuals. it was time to exercise a tactical resolution. >> on day 51 of the siege at waco, the fbi initiates its tactical plan to end the standoff. >> david, individuals inside the bra...

>> 27 children remained inside the compound. >> we continued to press david on that. david finally became very upset with the negotiator, and he stopped and yelled at them. he said, hey, you dont understand. the rest of these children are my children. theyre not coming out. the battle of armageddon was on. [ as schwarzenegger ] show me the movies with the arnold schwarzenegger