Hours after a man was shot dead and his sons were arrested in Oregon, defiant rancher Cliven Bundy discussed the incident in an exclusive video interview with the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

Cliven Bundy talks about his sons' arrests in Oregon. "This will be a wake-up call to America." (Keith Rogers/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

Cliven Bundy sits inside his ranch house 10 miles south of Bunkerville during an interview Tuesday night, Jan. 26, 2016, about the arrest of his sons and death of LaVoy Finicum, of Moccasin, Ariz. Keith Rogers/Las Vegas Review-Journal

Hours after a man was shot dead and his sons were arrested in Oregon, defiant rancher Cliven Bundy discussed the incident in an exclusive video interview with the Las Vegas Review-Journal.



“This is a total disaster to be happening in America,” he said standing in the kitchen of his home, south of Bunkerville. “My sons were there to do good.”

Oregon Arrests

Ammon Bundy, 40, Emmett, Idaho

Ryan C. Bundy, 43, Bunkerville

Brian Cavalier, 44, Bunkerville

Shawna Cox, 59, Kanab, Utah

Ryan Waylen Payne, 32, Anaconda, Montana

Joseph Donald O’Shaughnessy, 45, Cottonwood, Arizona

Peter Santilli, 50, Cincinnati, Ohio

Check out the video above.