I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.

I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.

In my first book, Under Fire, I wrote that I revered Ronald Reagan. That was a dozen years ago. I still feel that way. I think he changed the world for the better for my children and my children's children.

I don't think there is another person in America that wants to tell this story as much as I do.

I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of the Marines that I served with for a quarter of a century.

I'm like John Wayne. I only play good guys. Describing his cameo role on a TV series.

We don't need a head of state who guts our defenses and draws phony red lines with a pink crayon.