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Accepted him as having a message from god. >> 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 ...

Four atf agents are dead, 16 wounded, with an unknown number of casualties inside the compound, including david koresh. >> at this hour fbi agents are negotiating with the cult leader. he reportedly believes he is jesus christ. >> mr. koresh, how are you doing? >> fair to middling. >> i understand youve been wounded. can 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. ...

>> im hopeful that this is some real progress and that we can bring this thing to an end real quickly. >> 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 m...

That morning a local news cameraman got lost trying to find the branch davidian 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 have to leave. david said, no, stay. robert said, no, i got to go. as robert tells me, he walks up out the door and he says, i was just waiting for them to pu...

Be eternally grateful for the fact that we were able to 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 him. he said, hey, you dont understand. the rest of these children are my children. theyre not coming out. >> the battle of armageddon was on.

In the process of placing tear gas into the building. >> i learned of the gas that 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 alrea...

>> he indicated that david didnt think it was necessary, 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 follows and provokes a crucial realization about koresh. >> at one point hes 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 c...

With an unknown number of casualties inside the compound, including david koresh. >> at this hour fbi agents are negotiating with the cult leader. he reportedly believes he is jesus christ. >> mr. koresh, how are you doing? i understand youve 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? s...

Minutes of fame. its time to leave the building. >> we banked on the fact that a parent if they found their children exposed to that kind of discomfort would move heaven and earth to get them to a position of safety. we were wrong. >> the beginning of the end comes just after 12:00 noon. a wisp of smoke floats from a compound window. >> my instructions over the loudspeakers went from instructions to, please, david, dont do this. >> david, dont do this to your people. >> all of a sudden you see b...

Point, though reason know dreno leaves it to the fbi to decide when to take action. >> 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 i...