Chuck Bryant

Yeah, and I think the other thing those videotapes did was it sort of sent a chill through the FBI because it was really clear when you watch these videotapes that no one was being held hostage.

Nobody was being held against their will.

They all believed that what they were doing was right and was God's plan.

In the end, like Janet Reno never saw those tapes.

So there's a lot of speculation on what information she was being fed because she had been on the job for like a week or two.

And so they are basically saying like, no, they kept those tapes from her.

Because it showed a different picture of what was going on inside.

And he was painted to her as like, you know, a sex offender illegally selling guns.

They killed four of ours.

And it's a cult that's holding like he's kind of holding all these people hostage inside.

Yeah.

Which apparently was never the case.

Yeah, they weren't communicating well either.

It was just a real mess.

At one point, a very sort of legendary criminal defense attorney in Texas was called by Koresh's mom and said, I need you to go get my son out of there and do this in court.

And so he went out there.

He managed to talk the FBI into letting him

walk up and knock on the front door.

And he went inside.

He's the only one who ever got inside and met with Koresh and was like, hey, listen, man, I'm a criminal defense attorney.