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we have no one telling the world our side watching it lies that the federal agents have told it's astounding before
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you judge make sure your own life is clean during the early stages of the negotiation we are concerned about the
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welfare of everybody in there so we asked them if they'd be willing to send out a videotape and David kind of seized
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on the opportunity roll the tape let's take a look David anything they'd like to say first of all I'd like to thank
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the negotiators I'd like to share with you some of my family and we just thought we'd kind of break the ice and
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allow people to see just exactly you know what kind of people we have here I just start off first of all with my
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oldest son his name is Cyrus come sit over here son how old are you say hello everybody hi
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little camera right there it's Cyrus survived nobody on this tape survived later in the tape he actually brings out
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the daughter that he David had with Steve Schneider's wife but Steve's behind the camera a filmer this whole
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thing and we were all just kind of taken back finally registered the magnitude of
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how much control this guy exerted over those people there was some criticism that this video was not made public at
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the time and the the notion is among critics that the FBI didn't want people to see what appears to be happy children
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inside this compound is there anything to that I don't think so first of all we don't conduct our
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investigation in the in the media so if there was a delay at releasing the tapes
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that probably was because of the ongoing investigation ATF you boys are wrong and if there's
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any question whatsoever the kids are women are involved damn you I tell you what you keep your damn gun
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in your holster you got art with me you catch me on the side of the road somewhere you come and argue with me you
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come point guns in there in the direction of my wives and my kids I'll meet you there
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any time and I'm sorry some of you guys got shot but uh hey God we'll have to sort that out only