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Deteriorating, turns ashen, his lips go blue. he had some problems, you know, white frothy belowed appears on his lips and jerry par knows, it must have punctured a lung. this is really bad. we need to get to the hospital right away. >> one of the things, big revelations in the book, too and we teaseed it a few seconds ago. president reagan may not have been the first target. that's, i think, surprising to all of us. who was? >> jimmy carter! actually what john hinckley what we fail to remember is john hinckley, it's kind of infamous he was stalking ronald reagan to impress jodie foster. obses...

Secret service agent who you talk about is at first they didn't know if the president had been hit. they couldn't tell if a bullet had actually gone in but they saw a little bit of blood on his lip and didn't know where it was coming from and that's when they made the split second decision, we're not going back to the white house that is safer, we're going to the hospital. >> imagine this, you guys have been stuck in traffic before in presidential motorcades, they go on forever. there's a shooting at the hilton, gunfire is down. they're in the presidential limousine, just the driver, jerry par...

Country kind of rallied around reagan and made him politically stronger and i think his friends will tell you as they did in our documentary, it really did make him a better president. >> what was the one thing that you took away from the documentary that you really learned that perhaps you didn't realize before? >> there's a couple of things i think will surprise people. we talked to the doctors who had him on the operating table, how close ronald reagan came to dieing in those minutes and how two or three split-second decisions saved his life. jerry par, the secret service agent saved his li...

The back. >> i said jerry, get off, i think you have broke an rib. and he got off very quickly. >> inside the limo, he checked whether reagan was all right. >> i didn't know i was shot. >> i ran my hands up under his coat, i felt for blood. i ran my hands up under his arm and felt blood. >> and just then i coughed and i had a handful of bright red frothy blood. >> he took out a napkin out of his pocket. he took it out and he spit up on it, and there was a lot of blood that got on my london fog raincoat. he said i think i've cut the inside of my mouth and i said let me look, and it was pretty p...

Close to ending. what would the world look like? i just -- that's a question that is a great academic one. i just don't know. >> we all know what was happening at the white house with al hague and everything else and richard alan's reminiscent as the national security adviser, there was a great deal of controversy over that as well. >> oh, yes. >> thank you so much. the book is "raw hide down" a great detective story. congratulations to you on that. jerry par, we don't know how to thank you for everything you've done, for your lifetime of service and dr. giordano, whose team saved the presiden...