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You could quite literally feel the crosshairs on him from the branch davidian compound. as i'm sure steve snyder and wayne martin could feel from our tactical teams that had everybody covered. >> the meeting is positive. the fbi negotiators arranged to meet again in two days and deliver written assurances requested by koresh, but schneider abruptly cancels the second meeting. >> he indicated that david didn't think it was necessary, so i said, wait a minute, you don't want to come out or david doesn't want you to come out? he says, well, david doesn't think it's necessary. >> for agent sage, a...

Of the leadership of the church that were living at mount carmel accepted him as having a message 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. and 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 are always described the same way as being charismatic. >> i mean, there are some things that god has...

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 to him and says i was just waiting for them to put a bullet in my back. >> agent rodriguez went straight to his commanders. >> he said they're looking at us. t...

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. >> this is not the way to end this. leave your people out, david. be a messiah, not a destroyer. >> i will never forget the exact thought that...

>> 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 patience because the only thing that we're going to do is sit and wait. >> i believe that was our last best chance to get him to ever come out. he was fatigued. he was wounded. he was hurt. we had been working on him fo...