Sergeant Dan Rodriguez, a young former Army infantryman wounded in Afghanistan, rehabilitates himself for a chance to play college football. In this clip he shares the harrowing story of how he lost his best friend in combat. A Fighting Chance airs February 7, 2012. Dan Rather Reports airs every Tuesday at 8pm ET on HDNet.
Host Dan Rather presents hard-edged field reports, in-depth interviews and investigative pieces that emphasize accuracy, fairness and guts in their reporting. The program covers topics including, but not limited to, politics, the environment, the global economy, and international affairs and conflicts. Our format is dictated by the needs of individual stories and each show typically consists of multiple stories, but some shows are devoted to a single, hour-long report. Dan Rather Reports airs Tuesdays at 8pm ET on AXS TV.