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From god. >> clive doyle is a branch davidian survivor, and to this day a believer in david koresh. >> david was constantly talking to god. god told me to do this. god told me to do that. we accepted that. >> god speaks to me. i have a message to present. >> to outsiders koresh soon transformed the davidian church into a cult. >> the most important element of the cult is the leader. and they always describe the same way as being charismatic. >> i mean, there are some things that god has concealed in his written word that are to be brought to do right before the end of time. >> ko rechld -- kor...

With an agent pleading for his life, and i had this guy on the phone who thought he was god. david keresh was dangerous, irrational, and probably insane. >> you have had your 15 minutes of fame. you are under arrest. this standoff is over. >> it went horribly. it was a total disaster. >> the siege at waco. next. >> waco, texas, is a quiet, modest city surrounded by sprawling cattle ranches located halfway between dallas and austin, it's an unlikely place for a modern day armageddon.

David, you have had your 15 minutes of fame. it's time to leave the building. >> we banked on the fact that a parent if they found their children exposed to that kind of discomfort would move heaven and earth to get them to a position of safety. we were wrong. >> the beginning of the end comes just after 12:00 noon. a wisp of smoke floats from a compound window. >> my instructions over the loudspeakers went from instructions to, please, david, don't do this. >> david, don't do this. >> all of a sudden you see bursts of flames. i'm, like, my god, i hope they allowed the children to leave. >> th...

>> we're all waiting. we're anticipating. we had buses lined up to receive everybody. >> he stated he received a message from god instructing him to wait. >> any doubts about who is calling the shots is suddenly gone. >> now we knew when we had a person who said he was speaking directly to god and god had told him to wait that this was not going to be normal. >> that was one of the first and more significant glimpses of the disingenuous nature of how david was dealing with us as far as promises and truthfulness. >> are you a patient person? >> yeah, i'm really patient. >> you're going to see p...

That morning a local news cameraman got lost trying to find the branch davidian compound. he asked a mail carrier for directions, and indicated there might be some kind of raid. the mailman was a branch davidian. under cover agent robert rodriguez was at the compound when koresh received the warning. >> robert immediately excused himself. i had to leave. david said, no, stay. robert said, no, i got to go. as robert tells me, he walks up out the door and says, i was just waiting for them to put a fwhult my back. >> agent rodriguez went straight to his commanders. >> he said they're looking at u...