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Studied at the pensacola base. although guns are banned on base, not every car that enters is checked x investigators say al-shamrani brought a gun into a classroom building and opened fire. saudi arabia has pledged its full cooperation with the investigation. >> i spoke with the king of saudi arabia. they are devastated. well find out, well get to the bottom of it. >> reporter: and the u.s. northern command is calling for an increase in random security checks at its bases in the wake of not onl...

Students from ally countries who studied aviation at the base. a u.s. official says the suspect hosted a dinner party last week in which he showed videos of mass shootings and that authorities are questioning several saudi students, at least one who was seen recording video as fridays attack unfolded. florida senator marco rubio, who met with faith officials, tweeted today: investigators worked through the night here in pensacola. its important we learn how and why this attack happened so we can...

Other way and overlook the presidents behavior and his misdeeds, who would overlook his unrelecting attack on the free press, overlook his kind of vicious character assassinations, sometimessometi gratuitously, in the case of ambassador yovanovitch. >> i maedz you have tried to strike up this conversation with many members, particularly those on the other side of the aisle. how many relationships realistically are there now across party lines. >> theres still a good number because we live in a p...

A military base this past week. here is the u.s. secretary of defense, mark esper, and his response. >> yesterday i directed that we look at our security precautions across the services and all of our installations and bases and facilities to make sure that we get the appropriate degree of security. i also directed that we look ot our vetting procedures within dod for all the many foreign nationals that come for good reason to our country to train. >> joining us on set is msnbc analyst colonel j...

Committees that were listening to the witnesses that testified it seems clearly that he obstructed the congress investigation without question to that. clearly he abused his power. he withheld money to our ally ukraine for his own personal utilization, trying to get individuals to do dirt for him to impede the 2020 elections. from all of the testimony that weve had from very credible witnesses, these are witnesses who are from the state department, from our intelligence agencies and our military...

This could happen? are guards armed? you know, deputies were called in. i assume theres not a lot of military personnel with weapons. >> its one of our largest naval bases in the country. its primarily designed to help train aviation -- people in the navy, either aviators or maintenance and air crews. theres about 20,000 or so people on the base, and of course families live on the base. i lived on the base with my two kids when we were down there in the mid-90s, so its a very family-friendly env...

Harbored what is being described as extreme anti-american views. the group found other things it believes the shooter wrote online. this is also the day we learned the name and some of the details about one of the victims of the senseless violence. ensign joshua kaleb watson was just 23 years old fresh out of the naval academy working on his goal to become a naval aviator. his family released a heart breaking statement today calling him a hero, praising his courage, and expressing how proud they...

Were a lot of people who did not know that the u.s. trained so many foreign nationals. tell us more about maybe the numbers of people who are here in the u.s. from other countries being trained by u.s. military? >> yes. thousands of foreign nationals who are going through various types of military training across the country. at bases from all the services that do training. this one, naval aviation, is the core naval aviation training is at pensacola. so the saudi nationals were talking about ar...

So i would suspect quite a bit of internal naval gazing here by the defense department about this entire program and access to bases as a result and i think thats appropriate. i dont know what theyll find or what changes they might make. i will say this, though, fred, the training program is important. we sell a lot of these weapons and platforms to these foreign governments. we need to be able to expect they can operate them safely and effectively, not just for their own national security inter...

This was someone who was embraced and had been vetted through the process that exists, nearly a thousand saudis are in similar positions in bases across this country. now theyre wondering whether this was possibly terror related. what was your take given right now what you heard the sheriff say that the head of the fbi has been briefed and the fbi the lead agency tonight. >> obviously, the question is, of course, motivation and heres whats interesting about this case, is hes been here for two ye...