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As we have been reporting, detai decontinue to emerge this morning about the risky rescue mission yesterday to recover american hostage luke somers from al qaeda captivity. military officials saying the rescue effort "lost the element of surprise before it even began." colonel jack jacobs joins us from the big board. he is going to take a look at the challenges that this particular mission faced. colonel jack what kind of planning went into this operation? >> what's supposed to happen there is a lot of planning, meticulous execution and in order to do that, lots and lots of rehearsals but they...

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How much, how symbolic is this honor for everyone that was involved, and how much responsibility does he now feel to carry that on? >> it's a huge responsibility. i may have told this story the last time we talked about a medal of honor recipient. after i was decorated, i went to a dinner of the medal of honor recipients. they used to get together every other year. jimmy doolittle told me your life is changed and you have a responsibility you didn't have before. >> indeed. thank you so much for that, colonel jack. the president is entering the east room now. this is the medal of honor ceremony...

Action and the actions of all of his comrades, i'll repeat what the president said. we have to be astonished at the skill and the commitment and our enormous luck of these -- that we have kids like this who are willing to do whatever it takes to defend the country and protect us and take care of each other. >> well, john, to the point that colonel jack just made and made earlier in the segment, the reason why people like staff sergeant pitts are able to do such courageous and selfless things is because of the love that they have for the men and women who are fighting alongside them. i'm sure y...

Made so the rest of us could come home. and i'm not going to waste this gift that i have. i don't feel it's that day or the award or any of that has changed me as a person. but it's changed, i think, my responsibilities a little bit. i feel a responsibility to tell our story because there's nine guys who can't. >> colonel jack jacobs joins us now along with iraq war veteran john sultz. colonel jack, you talked with staff sergeant pitts and his wife, of course, there. my goodness. to suffer such a serious injury and yet keep going, it's so inspiring. it's so courageous. it makes me think about ...