Kyle and the blockbusterr movie about his Life American sniper. Do you ever think that you might have seen things or done some things over there that you wish you hadnt . Oh, thats not me, no. Whats not you . I was just protecting my guys. They were trying to kill our soldiers. And im willing to meet my creator and answer every shot that i took. American sniper, the blockbuster hollywood hit details the life of navy s. E. A. L. Chris kyle, the most lethal sniper in u. S. Military history. You have a green light. Your call over. Having accumulated 160 confirmed kills. Tonight, youll hear from chris kyles father. An emotional interview youll only see right here on hannity. He volunteered. He wanted to do this. I knew he was doing something that he loved to do. Plus tonight youll hear from chris kyles widow and what she thinks about this hollywood hit film. They did such a good job making it so authentic that i got to relive some of it which is beautiful and wonderful and painful. A onehour special on the life of one of our greatest american heroes starts right now. The movie american sniper focuses on the life and legacy of one true Great American hero. Joining me now are some of the people that knew chris kyle and were lucky enough to call him friend. Joining us now is the author of lone survivor, former u. S. Navy s. E. A. L. Marcus luttrell former u. S. Navy ranger sean parnel and jason redman. Marcus you had a great movie too. I loved your movie as well. Wish you got an oscar. This got six nods. Thanks for being with us. Absolutely. Chris and i came up together in the teams from basic training best way to put it all the way through our whole careers to the time they retired us and we came back home to texas. Yeah. I loved your movie as well. It was pretty fantastic. He has more confirmed kills than any soldier in u. S. History. Did he ever talk to you about it . In a sense relatively i guess is the best way, its not what we talk about. We dont sit around talk about the number we have down or what happened. Im sure sometimes things go down that bother us and just kind of want to get it off your chest. Sure, that happened all the time. Excuse me, not all the time, but every now and again. But for the most part its one of those deals where you put in the back of your head and push forward. Do you feel because i love the movie as you know lone survivor, i love this movie too. I assume you saw the movie. Do you think this accurately portrays chris . Do you think this captured who he was . I went and saw it. I came up to new york for the red carpet deal. And i do. I think it portrayed chris. I think it captured his spirit the best that it could. I think bradley did a fantastic job. I think he worked hard. I mean, you saw how he bulked up and same with taya. Sienna did a great job with taya. I think whats best is the family signed off on it. Careless what i think. Sean, were going to talk to chriss wife and wayne chriss dad later. Tell us wa you knew about chris and your relationship and what you thought of the film. Do you think it portrays him . To have more kills than any other person in history and Pretty Amazing. I had the honor and privilege of meeting chris in 2012 when american sniper came out. I met him at a Boot Campaign charity shooting event. We both felt like we knew each other for a long time. And we hit it off. And he was just an incredible guy. But, you know american sniper, i think the important thing for people to realize and recognize is it captures the totality of war not just life on the battlefield for our troops. And for the most part, you know our journey truly begins when we start coming home. And i think american sniper captures that. And i think everyone watching tonight should seek to make it the number one movie in the country because its going to educate future americans on what its like to be in iraq and afghanistan and more importantly its going to show americans the true heroes that fought there. Chris kyles definitely one of those people. And lone survivor i think did the same thing, marcus, i felt for you. Let me go to you. Jason, how well did you know him and what do you think . Did this really capture life for the people out there op the front lines fiekting these wars for us every day . Yeah absolutely. I think its a sense of movies like this get out there. I think American People sometimes have a misconstrued idea of what happens on the battlefield battlefield. I also think they paint warriors as thee guys all they do is thirst to go into battle. One of the things i like about american sniper is it shows the person chris was. He was an amazing sniper. He was an amazing warrior. But bigger than that he was just incredible father and brother and teammate to all of us. And i think the American People need to see that. These are the warriors that are going out there defending the freedom of this country. And theyre doing it not only for their country but bigger than that theyre doing it for their families and their doing it for their fellow american citizens. You know, marcus, when i talk to wayne, chriss dad, hes coming up in the next segment and then his wife is coming up, he actually sat down with Bradley Cooper and Clint Eastwood and said if you dishonor my son i will open up the gates of hell against you. And i ask you because lone survivor survivor. That sounds about right. I guess you know wayne then. I love his dad. I honestly think the world of him. When you had to go through you went through the process. I saw a behind the scenes where you were working with Mark Wahlberg. You were on the set of lone survivor. Were you feeling the same way you had to honor those people that died you were the only guy to come back from that mission, did you feel the same sense of responsibility . Absolutely. I mean, you got to understand, 19 of my teammates died and 19 families when we had to make sure that when lone survivor was made it didnt really matter what i thought. It was whether or not the families gave their blessing and whether or not they signed off that pete did a good enough job and mark and ben and all those guys pull through to bring and to capture the life of each one of those guys who died. And thats i guess, the sole difference between lone survivor and american sniper, it is about chris and his family life. That obviously wasnt portrayed in lone survivor. Its a pure i mean, its war. Its on the battlefield people dying. Chriss movie american sniper, i mean, it gets into the stuff that jason talked about the family part of it. I wasnt married. And, mike, he was engaged, and matt he was married. Thats part of our world that nobody gets into. I mean, we really dont talk about. And american sniper brings that out and gives you kind of a snapshot of what its like to be married to a team guy to go through war. And i think that they did a great job of capturing that part of it. Jason what about hollywood for a minute here . I was a little ticked off when lone survivor, i think they deserved some nods. They didnt get it. But we got six nominations here. You think maybe hollywoods waking up to the fact the American People theres a market and an appetite for real life heroism, because thats what this is. Its batman, superman, spiderman, but americans want to hear the true stories of real americans protecting their freedoms. Yeah. I mean, thats an essential element of what built this country into what it is. And unfortunately i think theres some on the left that want to paint our warriors as warmongers, i think they have these ideas that our commandos and some of our military members sit in a darkroom at night sharpening a knife praying for war. And thats just not the case. I mean these guys are heroes because theyre willing to step up and stand for something they believe in. Thats what chris was willing to do marcus sean, myself. Every veteran thats out there thats true heroism. Going out there and having the courage to face something. And when you go home and ill ask taya later, is it that hard . In other words, youre in a war zone, you go home, is there a switch you get to flip . I dont think so. I would think thats hard. Here he is having to make life and death decisions and maybe killing kids and women that are about to kill or hurt his troops is it that hard as they depicted in the film . You know, wars a horrible thing. But i do think that most of us have the ability to compartmentalize in those moments. You are focused on the mission, bigger than that youre focused on the guys around you. And you make those decisions to accomplish those two things, accomplish the mission and protect your men. And, you know, every mission that i was on we took out people that deserved to be taken out. They were people that were evil. They were people that would be glad to do harm to americans. When you come home, you know, i wont say that you cant put it in a box and just lock it away. But you do your best to manage it knowing that youre doing it for the right reason and doing it for the right people. Sean, well give you the last word here. Yeah, i totally agree. I mean when i was in afghanistan i was a regular infantryman. Our job was to day in and day out. We held our ground and we killed 350 bad guys that i dont regret a day of it. The real journey for me started when we came home and when i came home. My men struggled every single day. I know that marcus and j understand that, but its a fight thats worth fighting but were glad to bear that burden on behalf of america. All right, guys, appreciate your time. The movie is phenomenal. Youre going to be on the edge of your seat the whole time. Appreciate it guys. Coming up next tonight on this special edition of hannity. Im here to tell you that you never get over it. You learn to live with it. And thats what were struggling to do right now is just trying to learn to live with it. My emotional interviews with both chriss father, wayne, you saw right there. And his wife if youre suffering from constipation or irregularity powders may take days to work. For gentle overnight relief, try dulcolax laxative tablets. Ducolax provides gentle overnight relief, unlike miralax that can take up to 3 days. Dulcolax, for relief you can count on. Startupny. Its working for new york state. 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The first thing i said to you i saw the movie american sniper, i would urge everybody to see it. I knew the story of chris ahead of time. I send my condolences, my thoughts. How Many American soldiers lives were saved because of your son . Its probably incalcuable, right . Yeah, he would rather know how many lives he saved than how many lives he took. Its an unknowing number. Its amazing. What i really liked about the movie is that it literally brings you into a situation the movie opens up and i wont give away the plot in any way, where your son and this is a true story theres a muslim woman and theres a young child, the woman takes something out of her clothing, hands it to the son. And your son whos way far away has to determine whether or not thats a bomb that theyre about to use on american soldiers. I wont tell the outcome of it but thats a true story, isnt it . Yes, sir. It sure is. And he you have grand kids. He had his own kids, right . Yes, yes. He has a son and a daughter. He had both of them he may have only had his son at that time. And that was the type of decision that was what he was asked to do every day. When you had talked to him about the things that he did, how did you react as a dad knowing the situation and the moral quandaries and dilemmas that he had to deal with. How would you react to that . Well, things like that really didnt bother me because i knew chris was doing a job. And he volunteered. Thats one thing about our military today its all voluntary. He volunteered. He wanted to do this. And i knew he was doing something that he loved to do. Yeah. And he would put his fellow warriors, you know ahead of Everything Else and save their lives and not worry about the lives that he had to take. Yeah. You met with Clint Eastwood and Bradley Cooper before the making of this movie. And i got to chuckle. You actually told them if they dishonored your son ill let you say it in your own words. Well, i told them, i looked both of them in the eye and i said if you do anything to dishonor my son, ill unleash hell on you. I came away being thankful and appreciative that there are people like your son in this world that protect our freedoms every day. Whatd you think about the movie . First of all, mom and dad are probably the worst critics in the world but i think both debbie and i feel that Bradley Cooper did an outstanding job. He put his heart and soul into it in trying to learn chriss mannerisms his speaking. I think he spent about four months constantly studying. And you cant learn something in four months that it took chris 38 years to perfect. And he had asked me ahead of time or i guess he said he felt like the movie would be successful if debbie and i would look at the screen and see chris there. And i told him ahead of time, i said, bradley, thats not going to happen but that doesnt make you a failure. And i called him right after we saw the movie and told him how we felt about it and thanked him for what he had done. And there was several times of the way chris or that he would look we could see chris you know, in his mannerisms. So we feel like bradley did an outstanding job. You know, wayne, i said this to you privately. Ill say it publicly. I cant imagine, you know, your son had more confirmed kills than any other you know, person in our military in history. He is a true hero. He saved likely thousands and thousands of fellow soldiers lives. I cant imagine the pain that you and your wife have gone through. He is a true inspiration to me, a real life modern day american hero. The movie for me captured that about your son in every way. And i am so sorry for your loss. Thank you, sean. I appreciate that. From both myself and my wife. Its been a struggle. Its kind of bittersweet because were happy and glad that people still are aware of chris and see the man that he was and still is to us. But yet it hurts that, you know, theres always that constant reminder. We have reminders in our house, but when you turn tv on or you go out in public theres always that reminder. And that pain will probably never go away. Its not i had a gentleman tell me just a few days after chris was killed, he said im here to tell you that you never get over it, you learn to live with it. And thats what were struggling to do right now is just trying to learn to live with it. We have another son and his family that you know, we enjoy being with and take pride in them as well. Wayne, i can see where your son chris got his strength from. He got it from you and his mom. Thank you, sir for being with us. And your son is a real tribute to what courage and heroism is. Thank you for being with us. We really appreciate your time. Thank you, sean. I appreciate you. 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Taya thanks for being with us. I really appreciate it. I guess if i was going to be portrayed movie Bradley Cooper would be pretty good and Sienna Miller how do you think they captured your relationship . Was that a real clip . I think they did a phenomenal job obviously. And taking a persons life and putting it into two hours you have to condense some things and portray some things with the right sentiment and maybe not the exact verbiage. But honestly even the words are probably accurate over a long period of time if you condensed it. Certainly it gets sentiment right and bradley and sienna both did a phenomenal job of dialect and manners and heart and soul. It could not be more spoton. Honestly i know that chriss dad wasnt as happy as you are with the film. Lets talk about life a