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Voice. >> put those weapons down. >> unarmed, wheeler and a group has been stopped by the military. >> we're like, we're the victims. what are you pulling guns on us for? >> then she saw the three star commander who ordered to guns lowered. general russell honore who led the response after katrina and rita is also the man she credits with saving their lives. >> come on, come on. >> it's a moment cnn captured as it happened, the general personally coming to wheeler's aid. >> what do you think would have happened if you did not run into the general? >> we would have died. no question. we would h...

Me lifting my leg up. >> reporter: by the time wheeler made it to the convention center, she and her boys were starving, dehydrated and exhausted. that's when she first heard his voice. unarmed, wheeler and a group had been stop bped by the military. >> we're like, we're the victims. what are you pulling guns on us for? >> reporter: then she saw the three star commander who ordered the guns lowered. general russell honore, the man who led the military response after hurricanes katrina and rita is also the man wheeler credits with saving their lives. >> grab the babies. come on. come on. >> rep...

Precised high target hit. and much like what we saw in yemen very specifically. we have a very high interest. we want to know what's going on because those actions will ultimately effect actions elsewhere. so what we want to be able to do is push that authority down so that the president is certainly going to be involved in the information certainly will be notified. will be informed but what you don't have is this very difficult process while you might be visiting some international body. he may be 12 time zones away. we have to find him. we have to give him the information. you keep the pres...

Talk so those wearing the uniform would prefer to have their leaders use a little bit more precise language and make sure you know what you're doing before you get into it, so tough talk is important, but these kind of epithets and provocative things going around, i have to ask does the commander know, know that mike flynn was about to send this message, or was he sort of like some of the thing we have seen in the last few days under cut and surprised by this. you don't want a four star commander to be shocked by the statement from the white house