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In mexico. so we're hopeful that there is at least some dialogue between the united states and mexico about andrew's fight for freedom. he is being unjustly imprisoned and he needs to get home. >> i understand your son suffers from ptsd. he is in jail. how is he doing? >> this experience i believe was worse than his two combat tours in afghanistan. he was nearly killed in the la mesa penitentiary by who he called hitmen in the cell with him. then he was four points restrained to a bed for nearly 35 days. i would say this was worse than anything he experienced in my opinion in afghanistan. >> h...

Ptsd, which is real, and widely diagnosed, and multiple combat tours -- by the way, not necessarily related to combat -- but for sure we don't want military personnel to be perceived as dangerous, violent, armed. this is not normally the case. we have treatment modalities. we need them to come forward, and so, i think this was more serious mental health disorder, and access to guns, as jack jacobs says. >> he self-reported, colonel jacobs. he was not yet -- they had not made the determination whether he did or did not have ptsd. but, you know, we're talking about this, and colonel jacobs, ther...

Jenna: and those who support the nsa, that want the status quo, what are they saying? >> reporter: well, people like mike rogers, the chairman of the house intelligence committee, tried to remind his colleagues of what the september 11th attacks were like and questioned openly whether their memories of that day have faded. rogers says by passing this amendment, it would take the intelligence committee back to september 10th, the tools they had before the 9/11 attacks. meanwhile, a congressman who wore the army uniform in combat tours of iraq, in afghanistan made this passionate apal. >> this p...

In the back of the book segment tonight, as you know, "the factor" has been on a mission to get our wounded veterans high-tech track chairs. here to tell us about the difference it can make in a wounded vet's life are two heroes who use them. marine sergeant jack pierce, injured severely in afghanistan and sergeant first class john rogers, injured in between combat tours. gentlemen, thank you for your service. we love you here at the "o'reily factor" and across the country. jack, start with you. first of all, take us back to january 9, 2010, in helmand province. >> we were doing a resupply con...

Combat tours. gentlemen, thank you for your service. we love you here at the "o'reily factor" and across the country. jack, start with you. first of all, take us back to january 9, 2010, in helmand province. >> we were doing a resupply convoy, insurgents had buried 400 pounds of sentec under the road. i knew immediately i was paralyzed. i just was trying to get on the radios and let everybody know we were hit and get somebody in there to help us out. >> so you are immediately paralyzed. you certainly didn't know at that point what your life would have in store. fast forward, and a track chair,...