In an interview with Scott Pelley, D.C Mayor Muriel Bowser defends her decision to bring in the military ahead of Wednesday's inauguration of President-Elect Joe Biden, because "too many Americans have pledged allegiance to Donald Trump." Meanwhile, Ken Cuccinelli, the Department of Homeland Security's acting deputy secretary, tells Bill Whitaker the idea that President Trump would order a halt to the National Guard's security mission for next week's presidential inauguration "unimaginable." And Alex Smith, who overcame a catastrophic leg injury to play again in the NFL, ends his remarkable comeback season with an interview with Norah O'Donnell. Those stories on this week's "60 Minutes."
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terrorism. I was very hard
to see the joint chiefs of staff issue, a statement that the united states army would be there to support the mission of a smooth tray
vision of power. It's a hill
thing for the pentagon,
to feel like it has to issue a statement that it is
supporting the constitution. It is
But it is necessary what we saw in January. Sixth, in DC
in some ways may have been the most predictable
terrorist incident in modern
american history,
it was a day no american will ever forget frenzied mob broke into the capital
putting the electoral vote count chasing legislators from their constitutional. Do it leaving five dead and more than sixty injured police office right there.
archway entrance to the capital. There was a pitched now there was a.
Which battle that went on for hours for hours,
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president be inaugurated at noon on Wednesday. That's an unthinkable question
the constitution, demands it. But
on the other hand, the law
also required congress to count the electoral votes january, six, which the attack
capital delayed this week
washington is an armed camp with president again,
each for inciting insurrection. Tens.
thousands of troops or on route to the capital to join
Thousands of police officers and federal agents all
pairing to uphold their oath to defend the constitution,
against all enemies. Will
Joe Biden, be inaugurated at noon on January. Twentieth absolutely
this nation will have its forty six president, Joe Biden
and calmly harris will take the oath of office right here, Washington dc on january, the twentieth in our city, muriel, belgium, is the
credit mayor of washington. She took off
to the ground trampled by the mob and to show us
capital and tradition restored. You see the balconies
here, and that is where the next president will take the oath of office. You see the the red drapes just behind the podium, that's where the president
special guest will will enter ritual.
returning after the greatest
check on the capital and two hundred and six years in the after
of january. Six mayor bows
as the federal government to reassess security
their adding reinforcements and impose
A larger earlier locked down around the white house capital
and national mall
this,
exclusion zone of seven foot, fences and military roadblocks was rushed in six
sooner than plan what we
oh, is that not only is the inauguration itself or target for these extremists, storm these capital steps and put five hundred and thirty five members.
contests and the transition of powerful country in danger? We know that there are planning events leading up to it. So was very import.
That we have a posture of that discourage people from coming all people, but also
scottish these extremist groups from thinking they can come back
earlier plans called for ten thousand national guard troops. Now, twenty
Five thousand are being deployed more
groups in washington than in wars over things there gear include shields, recovered and combat,
many of the troops are being mustard in the corridors of the capital itself.
as they were in eighteen, sixty one during
civil war
I was also very heartening to see the joint chiefs of staff issue a statement that the unit
it states army would be there to support the mission of a smooth train.
vision of power, it's a hell of a thing for the pentagon defeat
like it has to issue a statement that it
supporting the constitution. It is
but it is necessary- and I am glad that it happened
We as americans have to stop thinking that we can take for granted that every american has passed
does allegiance to the constitution. What we saw in plain view,
our too many americans who have pledged allegiance to donald trump.
The military has taken the decision to give combat weapons to the national guardsman, who will be providing security for the inauguration? Are you glad about
that or you worried about it. It's a play
in our history- that I'm sad that we come to
american troops should not have to be armed
hence their fellow americans, but what we saw
was an unprecedented attack on our democracy in the cradle of that democracy, the
great service is in charge of what the government calls a national special security event. A designation
for high risk gatherings, for example, this
verbal after nine eleven and political conventions.
The secret service leads it, but there
eligible to them tend to
A thousand security personnel
ken could, you know, is acting deputy secretary of the department of homeland security, which
overseas, the secret service, he told us inauguration. Security planning has been going on eight months,
on social media, the terrorist
seemed to see the attack on the capital is with, and I wonder if you're picking
up intelligence that their emboldened by that
There is a lot more online chatter, if you will, that has come up since january six, but I would point
that a lot of that chatter isn't capital night nations capital
focused its more general across the country has the suspect to plan
to pipe bombs. Do
the attack on the capital than cod.
as you and I sit here speaking the answer. That is no sir. You have him to worry about. Of course. Yes
is tac, intercepting known suspects before they get on planes for washington if they had
a fine individual, like you describe. They will keep first of all, keep that person from flying
and if there is a legal basis to do so, they will
season hold that person for delivery to the fbi or local authorities. The local authority in washington is the metropolitan police.
January six, the mp helped rescue the capital police and break the siege
ones working very hard to ensure that that never happens. Again later we met acting chief,
Robert country in his command centre, which on inauguration day, will be filled with reference
introduce of the fbi, secret service and defence department, while the world
focused on the podium at the capital law? County
still have to cover his city of me
more than seven hundred thousand people chief
will the impeding have deployed on inauguration operational
every available resource that it that's our entire department, our total department will be activated, will have support of law enforcement officers from all across our country to the tune of about twenty five hundred. That,
be here to support us in this effort. You been with
impeding for thirty one years. Is this
the tightest security you ve ever seen in Washington? The tightest security that I've ever seen absolutely but
Security faces unprecedented chaos at the top. Both
the attorney general and director of homeland security recently resign. The defence sector
harry was recently fired. Dinner
even homeland security, deputy secretary kin kuchma, nellie is stand in. He was
were confirmed by the senate data
has had six so
retirees in four years. Why
The american people have confidence.
Federal law enforcement when
The leadership is not in place because the profound
signals we have in long.
Horsemen in the federal government, the secret service and across the department of homeland security and beyond deal J and all the rest that we work with our lifelong career professionals.
That's. Ninety nine point: nine percent of the people creating in executing the plans to ensure the safety of incoming president elect Biden, and none of them are goin anywhere. We will never give up. We will never see it, but
also the dilemma that
security is commanded by president trump. Who encourage
tat on the capital and
relentlessly work to stop the inauguration of Joe Biden
This national guard answer to they answered through
yo d. They can have the president.
That's the chain of command. The executors they'll go down really stand down.
well you're gonna have to ask them, but that's unimaginable if the press
and orders dna tests to stand down where you stand down, we're going
complete our jobs. There's not a there's, not a stand down. We have a statutory mission were going to perform under all circumstances, and I think that I pathetically is
going to happen. Its unimaginable a lot of things are unimaginable in washing
in these days and we don't have a very good track record on the departing land. President word on insomnia, home and secure. Might we really annoyed ass or you can follow the resident or you going to follow the constitution? We are all now we all sworn after the constitution. That is first and foremost, and we take
when security very very seriously. We deal
The latter curve, balls of all kinds and yet
March forward to keep the american people as safe as we possibly can, we must go forward. We must make it as safe as possible, but we must go forward.
Much of what happens in washington after inauguration days in the hands of democratic chuck, shimmer of new york, who will
the new majority leader in the senate he's making plan
As for the trial of president trump after last week's impeachment, why put
donald trump on trial.
when he'll be out of office anyway. What donald trump did is
the most despicable action any president has ever taken and he should be convicted at this trial. In addition, if we convict him, we can then, by only fifty one votes
remove him from ever running for office? Again, I know we want a heel, but when
something. This awful happens to just push. It off will not heal
who convict him. You need a super majority, which means seventeen republicans would have to vote to convict doesnt seem likely. I just believe
that our republican colleagues, when they look at this
we'll see how awful this was
means in history
join us in convicting her house
Would you like to trial to begin
We feel that it is important to get part of president elect burdens agenda
pleaded in the senate. First, we have the trial of the present,
and that's mandated by law. Second, there's a very
very real need for president buying
have in place key people in his cabinet. The people in charge of national security, the people in charge of domestic and securing the people in charge of making sure everyone gets vaccinated as quickly as possible and further
countries in the greatest economic.
crisis, since the depression, the greatest tell
care crisis since the spanish pandemic flu a hundred years ago, and we must pass more relief for the american people. We must do all three and we have to do them
Well quickly. One cannot stand in the way, the other on Wednesday
didn't trump will not be on the podium. The first press
to snub his successors inauguration in one
hundred fifty two years also
not attending will be the usual inauguration multitude on the national mall,
The two mile long park is closed
fine. I guess, members of congress, family and dignitaries will be
socially distanced on the stage and in
few chairs on the capital grounds, and I doubt.
Mayor Muriel bouser is telling the general publicly not to come
diversity
she's, even ass, the interior department, to revoke her.
She already issued to demonstrators for a couple of reasons for the security,
the event in less. Let's keep my what we just saw here. One week ago, people storm these steps and put our democracy in danger, but we are also concerned about people travelling in gathering celebrating in
the groups because of twelve it. What is the best guarantee that you can make to the american people?
for sure that the united states secret service that
responsible for the security of supply.
I don't the united states if they thought this couldn't be a secure event. They wouldn't let it happen.
But security comes at a cost to a ritual celebration.
institution avenue the spy
a federal washington is vacant for miles.
from the lincoln memorial to the white house, pass the washington monument and to the capital, the miller
harry cordon has the feel of some other
Treat one way:
tenuous grass on the rule of law halfway up the avenue,
constitution itself has been locked,
out of sight in the national archives to protect the parchment for future reference
The fbi has spent much of the weekend. I do.
Fine and hunting down more than three hundred suspects from the attack on the united states capital on January six,
into a seditious frenzy at a rally behind the white house south
of pro trump demonstrators, marched on the capital to stop them
sectoral vote count presided over by vice president by pence,
True believers proud boys and boogaloo boys joint costs.
I and on conspiracies
There were new nazis and other white supremacist. Some
armed or wearing tactical gear or capes impulse.
I'm from trump flags. What was
once the fringe had become a threat
one american democracy- they came with
body armor? They came with helmets, they came with respirator, they came with baseball
it with pipes. They came with bare spray thinking with their own explosives. Aching with climate year
They came well prepared and coordinated. This was no less than a coordinated, violent attack on the united states capital.
On january, six Stephen son was chief of the capital police he'd held
host a year and a half buried spent almost thirty years in law enforcement in the nations capital.
he'd seen massive, sometimes violent protests before and from the entire. He says he received son.
was confident. His plan for deploying his officers was
boston off to handle the pro trumped demonstration. It was
the tragic miscalculation, the when insurgents filled, the capital's grand halls with rage and rancor chief's son was scrambling to mount a response from his command center. Two blocks away the watching the defilement of the people's house on security cameras. You
offered your resignation in the wake of this is why.
I understand how things work
on the chief,
the visuals of what I watched.
We're alarming five people died as a result of the siege, including
capital, police officer, Brian sickness good afternoon,
The next day house
your nancy pollution, said she had lost confidence in the chief I appointed
as a nation of the capitals, the chief of the capital police, MR son, he's too
carriers. The sergeant at arms of the house and Senate resigned as well. I shall go on to our national tv and basically made everybody feel that
Failure on my part
If that's how the leadership feels, then I have no problem.
And I will step down, did lead.
to pardon move forward. You said that you look
officers down
no leader wants to see their officers go through what you went through
You know it's it's heartbreaking to see that three.
Days before the siege and internal report by sons, own intelligence unit obtain
by the washington post and confirmed by sixty minutes, warned the rally of angry trump supporters, white, supremacist and militia members January six. Could you
opt in violence. Their rage focused on congress. We're
acting awesome, large crowds are going to come down to the agreements were beyond the capital and the counting of the votes. We expected altercations between some of the counter protests. We may have some people within the group that may be armed. We had contingency
any for that, but
thing about a armed, violent attack,
on the united states, capital building, but
I'm sitting in new york, and I was aware that this was
likely to be a day of violence. We expected demonstrators with some potential for violence, not a directed coordinated, violent attack for the nations capital make
I consider this two different things?
told us. He thought he had everything under control, but
was concerned enough to get additional helmets for his officers and widen the perimeters. He
the sergeant at arms to activate the national guard, but they wouldn't
prove a formal request
a decision he told us he came to regret before.
Don't from finish speaking to his strong supporters, away
well pipe bombs were a vehicle with some explosives and weapons in it. How far away from the capital, where these bombs just a couple of blocks- and I believe those were purposely done to draw resources away from our perimeter
and told us, while some officers were diverted by the bombs, the seditious mobs storm. The bike wreck barricades on the west side of the cap described that scene for me that when the mob first got to the the perimeter, they tore part
no, he tore part the bike. Rag literally started, throwing the officers heads
dozens of officers were fighting
with them. The austrian you hit with pipes bats. The time
You name, it sounds like you're describing the military operation. It was
well coordinated
chief sun made an urgent call for help to the decent metro police about a hundred offices responded immediately right. There
archway entrance
the capital. There was a pitch bell. There was a
battle that went on for hours for hours.
both capitalist much wild, please defended that door.
With everything they guy with the mob battering, the dew son
called on the national guard. He says
took him a half hour to make his way up the chain of command to the office of the secretary of the army, which
Fourth, the dc national guard. I was pleading
absolutely pleading for
from our assistance as quickly as possible.
The with the secretary of armies representative,
tell him I need boots on the ground. Now he kept saying quote. I don't like the
takes a national guard standing line with the capital
falling behind them, and this is why the sieges under this is: why does he just under way? What's going through your head begging, literally
begging for support from my men and women, and that's what I'm here, the
we told us there was no discussion of optics, but the chief
the deasey metro police, who was also on the call confirm to us sons account.
It took another three hours in fifteen minutes to mobilise and deploy the national guard. It was
p m, when the combined forces of police and national guard cleared the capital
making it safe for law makers to return to the floor to serve
the election of Joe Biden.
in common with errors. As the next present,
and vice president of the united states. We have six
law enforcement officers injured? Fifteen went to
hospital capital, police lost. Two of their officers that weak they did
the fail information, they need someone to to really stand up and let the american people they didn't, feel it's hot
understand how
can describe
but we all saw as successful.
No, I didn't, I didn't look pretty, but the number one goal is to protect the members
congress they pay
did the members of congress and they need to be recognised for that officer. Eugene goodman led the mob away from a corridor where, vice
my parents had been hustled to safety by his security detail just moment.
before
since the siege on the capital, federal and state law enforcement have made a risk every day,
because cell phones were so ubiquitous authority.
I have a cash digital evidence about one hundred, forty thousand pictures and video. So far many
people who rampage through the capital revealed themselves poe
Thing their actions on social media
now facing federal criminal charges, Kevin see, free them
and with the confederate flag.
Johnson who walked off
with nancy policies lectern
the man with his boot on a desk in the speakers office rich
barnett? This is only the beginning this past week, the acting? U S, attorney for the district of columbia, said
That more a rest and charges tied to sedition and conspiracy in the days ahead.
What we saw in January. Sixth, in dc-
in some ways, may have been the most predictable
terrorist incident in modern
american history,
orange. Siegel runs the centre on extremism for the anti defamation league. He
the team of researchers scour the web ma
during hate groups and share what they find with law enforcement, see
we'll told us he was raising the alarm to federal state and local authorities for months before the siege on the capital. What he's
watching violent extremism grow for years built,
grievances and a sense of loss for white supremacist, they believe that their culture, their race, is being take.
the way that they're gonna go extinct, immigrants,
are coming in the browning of america for militias. It's off
their guns are going to be taken away and conspiracy theories like you or not
government is trying to take away their freedom, so here
have all those factors coming together:
telling you your election is being stolen. Is it a surprise that people reacted the way that they did? You call this terrorist?
is it not a protest, not a riot, but a terrorist offences
One of the lasting impressions
What we saw at the capital was not so
supremacists militias dressed up in their gear, but it was
on cue citizen who got wrapped up in that
Is that more frightening or less to me? The idea that people who
not necessarily card carrying members of any extremists. Movement would get wrapped up in
Mr activities is more frightening. Oren segal says: extremism has been growing in plain sight on social media like facebook and twitter now
These platforms are curtailing hate groups, extreme
have retreated to distant corners of the internet? These people are still out there.
their grievances are still real,
to them
They have a narrative that is wrapped up in a bow.
next for years. The belief
in an illegitimate government that was stolen from
its rightful leader, donald trump, and if they
perceive to be stolen. They hear people who enemy
those thoughts and support it then, there
bold and
and when you have extremists were emboldened over a period of time, you end up
with mass shootings in EL paso in pittsburgh and polly. You end up with people
me capitals in michigan, and you end up with january sixth
past week. The fbi sent warnings to local law enforcement across the country that extreme
conspiracies and he groups plan armed
tests in all fifty states capitals in the days before the inauguration and
and violence. If president trunk is removed from office to denmark,
Dana nestle michigan attorney general. It's like
recurring nightmare
when you saw the siege on the capital unfold
on the sixth. What what did you think I've quit? I was horrified
There was a part of me that wasn't actually surprised, because
I've seen the threats of domestic terrorism in our own state. When governor
gretchen, Whittemore. Also a Democrat shut down. The state too
the spread of the corona virus president trump tweeted
liberate, michigan
and militia members armed with assault weapons occupied the capital in lancing
several months later. Fourteen militiamen, at least five of whom had occupied the capital, were charged
connection with a plot to kidnap governor Whittemore,
a lot of these same individual saw what
been in lancing michigan last april,
and decided that they might be able to do the exact same thing and wash.
Didn't you see entrance
They were right. Michigan
Taking the fbi warning seriously
Turning general nestle urged state law makers to cancel their session this week they did
is that serious. I have recommend
two
legislators that I know that they go to you know an army shore and purchase
large bass
just helmets, perhaps gas mass- and these
the kinds of items now that our state legislators are having to purchase just
who provide some sense of security to themselves, so they can feel at least a little bit safer while there in session,
if lancing michigan in Washington dc have shown us anything. It's that way.
in a battle for the soul of america, and it requires
each of us to answer one basic question: who are we
If you are looking for a strengthened character and the nations capital these days, look no further than the story of Alex Smith just
for two years ago, the washington quarterback suffered a crippling injury and almost led to the amputation of his right leg. It would have
in a brutal end to the long career of a man who was once the
First overall draft taken the nfl and a three
pro bowler. Instead,
smith defied expectations by re. Having the way injured, special forces do tonight a look at
of the greatest comebacks in sports history.
It all began a little over two years ago november,
tina, two thousand, a eighteen when Alex Smith led washington as quarterback against the houston texans and
russia's corinne Jackson and j J. What crashed through his offensive line, while those play
a quarter of an they got us secure
appalling and just gonna get down immediately knew that it was broken. You could see it or you felt it
the visual was the most alarming thing for me to look down and know that my leg was broken. It wasn't straight.
Being in a place, it should be banned,
access and a guy who goes down the line he
I had never on the field for him
doktor robin west. Is the washington football teams head physician? This is
eighteen season in the nfl. When I realized quickly
that the injury was persevere.
When I got out there just
People understand what is a compound spiral fracture. He had afresh
that extended from his ankle joint up to his knee joint, so spiraled all the way up the tibia, and then he had.
It's bone sticking out of his skin,
often do injuries like this happen in football like this
very, very rarely. After
She from the stands, Alex Smith, wife, Elizabeth rushed down to be with her husband.
do you remember what he said to you in the ambulance? Yes, you are
made a pull the game up on my phone. He wanted,
score? You want to know how the athens was doing. He was now
even worried about his leg whatsoever. He was worried about his team
A team of orthopedic trauma surgeons was waiting to operated a nova fairfax hospital in Virginia. They puts
his leg back together with three plates and twenty eight screws and pins
after surgery, the x rays looked good, but what doktor
asked, and her colleagues could not see, was bacteria sheet
Thanks from Washington's football field, had infected the open one
and on smith's leg therein, those
four days after is when you know quickly,
quickly. Gus sideways his light pressures drop
His fever was skyrocketing, and
when I knew it was
a lot worse than we ever anticipated
Many diagnoses sound worse than neck retiring fashionitis, more
commonly known as flesh eating
Acta as yet
action ravage smith leg, his body
acted by developing stage, two sepsis a danger
condition that can damage organs and lead to death.
His infection just keeps getting worse. Let's go,
through your mind, I'm
obviously more worried about his life? He is septic, and you know here all these staggering numbers on when people go cept, it
point Elizabeth smith asked to speak to doktor west privately his men
team was already considering the amputation of her husband.
Right leg. She said
get rid of it. I just want to live and walk out of here, so
talk to his family and his father
had a similar view, and then we went to Alex, but he said: do what you can to save my leg. Do anything
save it so
thunder went eight operations in ten days to come
fully remove all the dead or infected tissue. What it
smith's like look like bone, basically doll
as was calf muscle and tibia.
if wherein awesome,
Presently a month they had to remove quite a bit.
One tissue from my lord leg. In order to get the unfair
and under control, and then
without in any way, we can always be still
to cut off your leg
and for me that,
Did your those words
hard to deal with. As
precisely in someone really, I mean I think I took it for granted for so long
body. My health, the most basic thing
that take for granted. No doubt
just wondering I am would ever be able to go on locks with my life. What every put my kids
crazy reality and say I really really thankful beer
Surgeons covered smith's bones, so they would heal
hardly by removing a portion of his left, thigh muscle,
placing it on his lower right leg, necklace how's it
it's just waiting,
His leg was also fitted with a piece of hardware called an external fixate. Her.
It looks mediaeval, but it's really advanced orthopedic,
and so I wear this metal cage, that's bolted into and to my leg, and it holds my leg and bone in place while it heels
How long did you have to wear the fixate her? There was almost ten months
or this bolted in my legs. It was a long process.
The centre for the intrepid in San antonio was specifically built to help wounded warriors through that process. Doktor west reached out to her friend johnny owens, who for ten years had been the sinners chief physical therapist. Had you seen a lot of injuries that were similar to what Alex had I have
That was the hallmark injury.
of the wars. Was these lower leg injury?
from blast dramas boom, stepping on landmines smith,
westward and receive special permission from the pentagon to visit and consult.
With the centre for the intrepid staff.
We saw hundreds of Alex smith
through this door with those type of injuries and and said,
you're gonna, be all around you're going to do all these type of things that that
people told you weren't gonna be able to do now. Mohammed.
Now on the gas performing doktor Joe elder ready is a west point graduate and chief of orthopedic reconstructive surgery at the center. From the moment we win,
you could tell him to look behind his eyes.
Can be so many of my patients, either black
stingy, roadside bomb cancer. That look is
I'm sorry, it's you will succeed or you will fail and alex
look of success. Everything stable have got into during smith, first trip to the centre for the intrepid just a few months after his injury, but yes, p.
Programming, sixty
ordered a major milestone in his recovery.
First throw since november. Eighteen
What happened when you tossed alex a football for the first time?
Two things he almost broke, my ribs, because I didn't catch the ball right and second, their results.
that spark in his eye it was so cool.
I think it was like a light went off.
smith says he was humbled and inspired to be around service members. Some,
injuries similar to his own, who were not only running but
turning to duty.
The world was telling me tat, yeah
happy with the rest of your life, and hopefully you save your leg and in that programme
You know whatever's,
can do beyond that is. Is it is a icing on the cake and
that was not the mentality down there
Finally, I was the exact opposite that is located.
about playing again. It was ok for this.
Many women if they wanted to go back and try and serve
do try to london and be italy to go chase it and that
No mental limitations now now
through thousands of ours of physical therapy and with it.
of various braces and orthodox smith,
would we learn to walk, then run and eventually move like a quarter back again. Sometime
with the help of his wife, Elizabeth Alex smith first through
ball is a toddler. He says he
We wanted to be a quarterback and, despite being recruit
by harvard in Princeton, Alex Smith chose to play, for
all at the university of utah after being selected by the forty niners as the first overall pick and the two thousand five draft ahead of court.
back, Aaron, rodgers smith's struggled with injuries inconsistency, but after a move to Kansas city in two thousand, thirteen played the best football
his career
the team drafted a young quarterback from texas tech,
What's the name of a guy again to replace kansas city,
Pretty good player rain,
super bowl, mvp, Patrick my home spent. The two thousand and seventeen season, as Alex Smith's backup an understudy- he didn't hold anything back right now, meaning he taught me that that person he was- and that is an attribute, a lot of my success now. I think the thing that,
how to me,
from our relationship, is from day one the mutual respect and end. I think just you know
a good person. He was.
And how did you meant her him? I was going.
You can t make. I wasn't gonna be selfish in I signed up to play team sport.
And I was gonna- do my part
this past summer at the age of thirty six after sir
in surgeries and twenty months out of the game. Alex Smith was medically clear to rejoin the washington football team. Despite the fact,
it is to be a bone was not yet one
hundred percent healed but after everything that you ve gone,
why would you risk it,
crazy, I will I was going to do this if I didn't ya measly here from the experts in
so the year. Finally, from the experts that ok, you can for me
a good check. You know. Do I really
I do this. Do I put my
at their luck across those white lines, potentially again
in live action, exhilarating or nerve racking. Both
he wouldn't actually play a game until weak five, when the star
quarterback got hurt against the los angeles rams. Three
plays in smith, was sacked by all pro tackle. Erin donald
and then he got right back up
watching on tv, while deployed in Iraq, was
Joe already. I was so proud about sorry.
And in all that he had achieved. You are emotional, then, watching that I was I was
totally blown away. I didn't know whether I will I wanted debt cheer
throw up
scared me to death, but I just loved
acting alex achieve
I thought, maybe go doktor already says the only other patients he seen achieve. Similar outcomes are them
to leave special forces, so you worked with almost a thousand.
limb, savage patients, how many have been able to get back to the type of functionality that Alex
It has less than a dozen alex
is my capstone patient. If somebody you absolutely knocked out of the park
It went on to record a five in one record as a starter,
washington, eat hearts, rivals the cowboys on thanksgiving day and
next game ruin the steelers undefeated season
I will resist from your he'll running the day after he helped washington clinch the end of sea east in a spot in the play ass. If the smith was sore needed. Some,
physical therapy, he admits,
the prior to games because of a bone bruise on yes, his salvage right leg, zephiel pain at that spot year, wash
tens coaches decided not to play him last week against Tom Brady in temper bay, which won the game afterward,
The greatest of all time made it a point to pay his respects to the triumph,
Alex Smith's come back in
by the end of his season, the come back. My
not be over. Yet this year's zoning
bold and for me that I can play at this level
I feel, like I've, got a lot of people reach out to me
saying they feel, like my mom.
and playing on how concerned they hard for me, I understand
people's apprehension, I have the same apprehensions, but I think it's bigger than football. So I tell people,
not about the game. It's about what happened in guinea,
on your feet, dusters yourself off, no matter what the obstacle is
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