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Who killed the shooter. authorities are not naming the three other people who died. laura? >> laura: thanks so much. florida senator rick scott today demanded a full review of military programs the train foreign nationals in the united states. he joins me now. senator, this is a horrific day. unbelievable that this happened yet again. why is the u.s. military training foreign nationals here in the first place? they cant train in saudi arabia? they have a lot of money over there. im not following...

Six saudi nationals were taken in for questioning, and "the new york times" attributing to a source briefed on the investigation that three of the six were seen in the area taking video as the shooting attack was unfolding. a senior u.s. official tell fox news the gunman was an aviation student from saudi arabia maimed mohamedside al-sham ranny. "the new york post" says a twitter county criticized -- account criticized involvement in muslim countries. the attack which left four people dead inclu...

And bases like pensacola which trains some of our best fighter pilots, we have people that come back and retire so theres a huge retired community near the base. >> were training saudis to be pilot, one of which decided to turn a gun on our own people. what went wrong here? >> well, to sit here and say what went wrong, im probably a few pay grades below the person that knows that information. what i can tell you, 30,000-foot view, we train a lot of countries in a lot of ways. boeing or lockheed ...

Effectiveness of the maximum pressure campaign, given whats happening in the streets of iran these days, you see a regime under stress. its a good thing the iranian people are also seeking the prosperity, the liberty, the freedoms that we enjoy in this country. thats something we believe, as i talked about promoting american values abroad, thats what we do. you see a regime under stress. we need to be prepared for any contingency. >> are you seeing evidence of missiles going into iraq from iran ...

Osama bin laden. there have been multiple arrests. any other light you can shed on this investigation? >> not at this time. like i said, my view is let the investigators do their work. in the meantime, we have taken precautions, yesterday i directed that we look at our security precautions across the services in all of our installations and bases and facilities to make sure weve got the appropriate degree of security to protect our service members and their families and our communities and thats...

Our bases. i served on the navy. you expect when you get on your base, youre safe. weve got to have a complete review. every indication is this is clearly terrorism. weve got to understand why these people are on our base, are they vetted, and clearly weve got to change what were doing. we have got to take care of americans first. i love that we have allies that want to train with us and be with us, but weve got to take care of american citizens first. >> how did the guy get a gun? if youre a sa...

Military base. the second in just three days. >> whenever you have two shootings on military bases, naval bases in proximity, time, the naval commanders need to tighten up and will until they can get the full scope of what might have happened. >> reporter: earlier today, at patrick air force base in florida, an evacuation because of a bomb threat authorities found nothing. tonight because of what happened here, all threats taken seriously. lester >> kerry, thank you. >> also this evening, troubl...

Since the ft. hood shooting in 2009 where a gunman killed 13 people and again in 2015, another gunman killed four marines at an installation -- two installations in tennessee. the military has not been anxious to have any loosening of the policy. the army has very strongly argued against it. and what they dont want is -- and theres been discussion about it. should people just be armed? is that a better way for them to defend themselves? the military very opposed to that. i think now having two s...

House on the was, theres all kinds of regular lace about how to do that. generally speaking, the only people that are supposed to have weapons on bases are security forces. nps. people who need a weapon to do their jobs. can cyou have a personal weapon? yes, but this is very tough business thousand this week now to see two shootings. this has been going on for years. it date back 2009, ft. hood. the mass shooting here in washington at the navy yard. chattanooga, tennessee, four marines killed at...

If you are going to bring a weapon aboard a base, you have to have authority, permission. if youre going to store it at your home on a base, there are strict rules about storing it, but still the u.s. military for years now has been very concerned about the number of weapons on bases that people do have that are not part of their own military security duties. theyre not military police necessarily. there are people who have the right to bear arms in this country, but a lot of concern in the pent...