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Retired marine corps ral kyle carpenter, extensively injured in helmund province in afghanistan 2010 when he threw himself on to a grenade to save a fellow marine. colonel jack jacobs, you uniquely have had this experience. a pretty cool thing. tell us a little bit about what this young man must be feel right now. this is actually a rare and wonderful experience. >> yeah, he's going to feel -- he does feel, because i spoke to him last week, overwhelmed. he does realize the responsibility that he carries and that is that he's representing all those people who are not wearing the medal who deser...

We wear it for all those people would can't. i'm going to show you, i've got my medal. i don't typically carry it around, but i brought mine with me. and this is the army version. you're going to get the marine corps version, which is actually the first version that was created in -- during the civil war. if you can't touch it, it has less meaning. so i think you're supposed to. that's mine, but you'll have yours. and remember, that has nothing to do with me. it has to do with all those soldiers who never came home with whom i fought, all the marines you fought with that didn't come home and e...

But colonel jack, unpack a little bit of what you heard from the president today. you still did get questions from the gallery about whether or not we are creeping and whether there could be missions people, military missions. but what i thought i heard was absolutely we are not doing a combat mission. what did you hear? >> there are going to be combat missions, but they're not going to be done by combat forces. when people think about boots on the ground, they're thinking about the first armor division, the 82nd airborne division, large formations of troops. we are having troops on the ground...

Isis. they prefer to do something you're already starting to see. that is a terror campaign in an isolated baghdad. ultimately you can see how close the airport is to downtown baghdad and where the american embassy is located. ultimately may come down the following, the requirement to get americans who are in the green zone and in baghdad over to the airport to get out. and then all the talk about not having any air strikes all bets are off. we don't want to have any collateral damage. if it comes down to the unlikely event we're going have to get americans out and to the airport, we'll use ai...

They c it's because of on star elsha ree ya. before i get to colonel jack. try them in the civilian court versus sending him to guantanamo bay. the thinking. >> the thinking is obvious. if we can try him. the son-in-law of bin laden here in federal government why can't we try somebody like this? i think there has been some arguments suggesting that guantanamo is more appropriate because he's a dangerous individual or the fact the involve in the attack other seas. we have consistently seen how u.s. federal governments are certainly very appropriate place to be trying these kind of cases and we ...