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Staff sergeant travis mills shares his story in his book "tough as they come." colonel tell us more about sergeant mills, a true hero. >> he is a man who donned the uniform because he believed then and still believes today that service to others is what really makes us free. a couple of weeks ago i spoke to him in new york. >> i'm on my third deployment in february of 2012. two months later on april 10th, 2012, i sat my bag down on an ied. >> what was the first thing that went through your mind? >> i looked over and this was gone, that was gone. i was like oh, no. when i got on the operating t...

>> yeah, sat my bag down. about 110 pounds. and it blew -- >> 110-pound bag. >> full of ammunition, a little bit of water and stuff. it blew from my right side immediately right arm, right leg disintegrated, never found. severed artery. lost a lot of glove. right arm, muscle and tendon, they duct taped it to my thigh. the left hand was there. my ring and pinky finger were gone. i radioed, i hit a bomb. meds came running up to me. >> were you that casual? >> actually i was. at the end of the day i can't change the situation. i was conscious. my flight crew, ambulance, arrived at the operating t...

Including republicans. >> all right. and i know you'll hold them to that. >> i will. now, let's talk about your brand-new book. it's actually "killing reagan" on top of the "new york times"7 best seller lift for nonfictionñ of course. you've written now a series of these. >> five books. >> them. what was different in your mind about this one? because it wasn't like he was murdered. >> almost. >> yes, almost. >> a whisper, that close. >> yes. >> 70 years old, and he's on the operating table and the doctors think he's going. and miraculously, they bring him back. through very skilled doctors....

Instead, santilli says he decides to recreate it with the help of john humphries, a well-known hollywood sculptor. >> we had frames. we had a lot of images. john was given the responsibility of creating exactly what was on film so that we could dovetail it into the film. and sort of create what would be a seamless 20 minutes. so we plugged the gaps, basically. >> the alien in the film i saw looked like it had been very badly injured in some kind of incident. there was a big tear around the knee and burns here and there and bruising. i was very shocked, very shocked. >> humphries says he viewed...

Of tea party hero and because it's a role he's playing seems to kind of over or misstep a lot. part of what's strange about this also is here you have this guy who had this whole career. he was unquestionably a brilliant pediatric neurosurgeon. he had to know what he was doing when he had people on the operating table. then you take him out of that domain, he's getting asked about the debt limit the other day and he very clearly has no idea about the basic mechanics of how it works. >> of course. and most americans don't have any idea about the basic mechanics -- >> most americans aren't at 17...