Chris Jennings

You're not going to lose your land.

But it's part of the nature of the American legal system that

Once a warrant's been issued for your arrest, it's almost impossible for a judge to waive it away.

In fact, at one point, the marshals did go to the U.S.

attorney in Idaho and say, is there any way we can just dismiss these charges?

The situation is a mess.

It doesn't make any sense.

This guy is kind of scaring us and he didn't really commit a major crime.

And the U.S.

attorney says no judge would go for that just because someone doesn't want to go to court doesn't mean they get to stay home.

So things just kind of slowly ratchet up and the Weavers are not sort of silent during this period.

They're sending down increasingly caustic warnings to stay away and –

You'll never capture us and even our kids will die in this cause.

So eventually the marshals move towards a more – what they would say a more dynamic way of arresting Randi.

Yeah, everything they had been saying for more than a decade seemed to be being fulfilled on a daily basis.

It was almost shocking the extent to which their longstanding belief that the feds were going to come and get them in some sort of effort to snuff out true believing Christians.

was all coming to pass.

So they were really dealing with two very different realities.

You know, I don't want to relieve the government of its culpability in what happened.

It was a terrible tragedy and there were catastrophic mistakes made by the government.