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In a sense everybody is right but everybody is so wrong at the same time. what youre looking at is a small black and white video of a much larger issue. >> following the apache incident, specialist mccord served for eight more months in iraq before he was wounded in this ied explosion. >> i learned how to live without a lot of things in iraq. when i looked in and i saw those children, the one thing i couldnt live without was my own humanity. i couldnt self-justify what i was doing in iraq anymor...

Right now attempting to make sure that the epa can not regulate ammunition. it failed last year. house gop is trying again this year. patti ann? patti ann: shannon bream, live in washington. thank you. jon: a fox news alert. going to take you down to baltimore now and the team that performed the first double arm transplant on an iraq war soldier, a veteran who lost two arms and two legs in an ied explosion. lets listen in. >> this is complicated arm transplant before. on the right side, as the d...

Carisa coony our research manager. cindy cohen and kate knots, our transplant coordinators. mary grace hands sell, operating room nurse manager. jon: if you want to continue watching the news conference well have it streaming live on foxnews.com. doctors at john hopkins hospital in baltimore announcing they have down a double arm transplant on a very brave army soldier, brandon marrocco. he was the first american soldier to survive the loss of two arms and two legs. it happened in an ied explosi...

Engaged by anybody. that never offered a threat. again, let me be very clear here. the presence of a weapon in the battlefield does not constitute a threat. it constitutes a weapon. you got to determine if the weapon is tied to someone who is threatening you. >> everybodys fighting over it, whether or not they had weapons. well, they had weapons, no, they didnt. this was murder, no its not, its war. in a sense everybody is right but everybody is so wrong at the same time. what youre looking at i...

With that said, there are very clear criterion set up for the use of deadly force. the idea is minimum use of force necessary to counter an adversarial threat. ive seen the video several times. that van should never have been engaged by anybody. that never offered a threat. again, let me be very clear here. the presence of a weapon in the battlefield does not constitute a threat. it constitutes a weapon. you got to determine if the weapon is tied to someone who is threatening you. >> everybodys ...

Arizona area today and seattle has been dry for 49 days in a row. by tonight a few showers moving on in. in general behind the front it feels great for almost everybody. people on twitter and facebook saying it feels like fall down in places like atlanta and down towards the south. 79 is all in new orleans. and this they arent just good temperatures, it is not humid either. dry nice first taste of fall for people. a lot of people getting a pumpkin spice latte right about now, shannon. >> shannon...

>> right now, the v.a. has a ban on paying for fertility treatments. to me that is just wrong. we have over 600 service members and their spouses who have one of the signature wounds of this war from an ied explosion or otherwise where they have genital or urinary tract injuries that prevent them from having a child. providing fertility services is the difference between them, their lifes dream of raising young children and having that taken away from them. to me, its just no nonsense common sen...

Both his legs in an ied explosion on the third deployment to afghanistan. we tracked his journey from the beginning. the april 10th attack to his time spent overseas where he endured five surgeries and walter reed army medical center in d.c. where he went through five more surgeries. there you see him with his daughter by the way. we watch him zipping around in his wheelchair making his little girl chloe laugh and mastering the use of a new prosthetic arm that can rotate and there he is with his...

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Sergeant mills was on his third tour of duty in afghanistan when he was injured by this ied explosion. hes already had emergency surgery in germany, hes back in the united states at walter reed army medical center in washington, and joining us now on the phone from washington is a family friend, david pratt whos now running, by the way, travismills.org. and we were able to speak to kelsey, travis wife, on monday. the familys getting a briefing right now on how hes doing, what can you tell us abo...