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Basically possession of contraband items. >> what did you have? >> lighter, tobacco. one time i got caught with pornography. >> okay. you admitted to a drinking problem. what drugs besides alcohol do you use? >> ive experimented with methamphetamine, cocaine, marijuana. >> not a member of any gangs? >> no. >> oh, no, no, no, no. >> youve taken fiber-optic classes, a copper-based class, intro to telecommunications. youve done quite a bit. what kind of work history do you have? i know you have pri...

Everything before it is all said and done, shepard. >> shepard: adam housley in los angeles. thanks very much. the first living u.s. marine to receive the medal of honor for heroism in iraq and afghanistan says he is now out of a job. he says the reason is his former employer called him mentally unstable and suggested he had a drinking problem. so he is suing. dakota meyer received the nations highest honor in september two years after he saved 36 people in ambush in afghanistan. he ignored comm...

Lawsuit against his former employer? >> reporter: jon, the defamation suit was brought in texas and dakota meyer says his former employer, bae systems, a defense contractor, essentially defamed him and told another employer that he was not fit, fit to be employed, suggesting that he had, as you mentioned, some sort of mental instability as a result of his service in the military and a drinking problem. the tension with his former employer, bae, erupted over a string of e-mails that meyer sent to...

Ambush five times, saving 36 lives in afghanistan. after he returned home he spent three months working for a defense contractor called bae systems. that was until he complained about bae systems selling top of the line technology to pakistan while u.s. troops got outdated equipment. he decided to leave bae systems an was on the brink of a new job until bae allegedly told the new employer he was mentally unstable and had a drinking problem. now the 23-year-old meyer is suing. dose have a case in...

Quit the job. he got so upset about what they were doing that he quit the job. megyn: hes not stiewg get his job back. hes suing because when he submitted -- he wanted to get a new job and they needed a recommendation from his old employer. instead of giving a good recommendation, they maligned him. this is why so many employers say even though you were the greatest employee ever, we are not giving you a letter of recommendation. we dont giver them when you are good, we dont give them when you a...

Mentally unstable and on and on it goes. >> if hes mentally unstable i want to be. that man has had some extraordinary accomplishments in his life. and on a scale of 1-10. this an 11. there is no question about it. there is no evidence he has a drinking problem. his family members commented the exact opposite. hes an in control personality. as far as his mental instability goes. no evidence of that whatsoever. and do you think they vetted him and did a background check before they awarded him th...

This is going to be a slam dunk. my guess is there will be a settlement, make this go away quietly because this guys an air can hero. megyn: could this become a spectacle in the guy who fired him at bae is a former derek rated marine sniper. so you are going to have a decorated marine sniper up against a medal of honor recipient. does it cancel each other out? this former marine sniper can back up his claims, then the defamation suit will go away. >> truth is a defense always. i would hate to se...

Disturbing facts to the whole thing is that we are still going forth with the paf-13 optic and issuing the outdated subpar optics to our own u.s. troops when we have better optics we can put in their hands right now but we are willing to sell it to pakistan. he added we are taking the best gear, the best technology on the market to date and giving it to guys known to stab us in the back. these are the same people killing our guys. that complaint set him on a collision course with his boss, anoth...

On the ground! get on the ground now! >> okay, theyre opening, lower tier. once theyre strip searched theyre going into the rec yard. straight down the middle. straight down the middle. >> though the goal of the raids is to neutralize threats, some inmates are less threatening than others. >> we go through this about once a month. and usually theyre looking for things were not supposed to have. >> 68-year-old patrick stanwick has been at the 4th avenue jail for the past eight months and is one o...

Its that closeness that youre not going to have out in the yard. i believe music is very therapeutic. im not very sports oriented. but music takes me to the point where i dont have to get out on the yard and run the risk of getting stabbed or in the hole, because there is no hate in music. so i dont have to deal with that. >> ive never been in a relationship with somebody who didnt have a drinking problem or a drug problem. >> tex fetzer was convicted of murder and robbery. hes been incarcerated...