Chuck Bryant

They see them pulling up with Bradley fighting vehicles, like clearing obstacles and setting up a perimeter.

So they see some of the kids get let out and immediately like are kind of jumped on and having all their stuff searched right in front of them.

They see Kathy Schroeder leave and get arrested and like see her in an orange jumpsuit on the news.

And so they're getting all these mixed messages.

Eventually, they see two Abrams tanks pull up.

That's the...

The mother of all, I think it's the largest war vehicle in the U.S.

fleet is an Abrams tank.

And at one point, one of the guys is bragging.

He's like, you know, I could take one of these tanks and drive through this house from one end to the other.

And the FBI negotiator said, why would you do that?

Like, what are you even talking about?

So it just kind of puts a pin on like how in conflict they were.

Yeah, for sure.

Like they were, I think on March 21st, they were close to having this resolved again.

I think Koresh was in the final stages of his book of revelation and they were negotiating like fairly successfully to get more people out.

I think they got five people out on March 21st.

The guy in the documentary said a two dozen more were set to be released.

And that's when the hostage, the HRT team, started unilaterally just making decisions, like playing that music.

They played These Boots Are Made for Walking 24 hours a day.