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Highly-skilled bomb technicians has never been greater. katherine herridge has that story >> from car bombs to high risk hostage rescues, an operating robot, the demand for highly-skilled bomb techs has never been greater. >> theres remote control bombs. theres command bombs. theres victim initiated bombs. all of that we have to practice and train on here because we dont know what were going to encounter. >> john stewart is the director of the fbi hazardous devices school in huntsville, alabama....

Measures. in texas hopefully they will do the same. we on capitol hill need to follow suit. >> shannon: one commentator said none of is this easy to do but worth discussing. everybody agrees there is a problem. to agree on the solutions there is work to be done. >> we have to do it in a bipartisan way. >> shannon: great to have both of you with us tonight. disturbing twist to todays mass shooting. various explosives found at santa fe high school and the surrounding area. as the search continues,...

People. children gasping for air. its so heart breaking to see. you think about the combination of chlorine and sarin chemical gas. talk to us about that combination and how it impacts hermine when we see these videos here. pete: you are a bomb tech. you know these things. have you dealt with order nangs. >> absolutely. to give you perspective. did you go to about 10 to 12 month school 12 hours a day with study hall to become a bomb tech. the hardest course in bomb school is biological and chemi...

Superintendent or principal didnt see this come. he is incendiary guy and for whatever reason they keep him around. brian: maybe the unions wouldnt let them do anything different. if you put on a war movie and thing about "american sniper" and now 12 strong. out doing quite well. intercept online magazine says. this look at this headline. its time to wage war against war movies that outdated models of masculinity. where does that come from? >> well, if its outdated its because we live in a cacoo...

Coloring book. >> johnny: this is blown away and thats a parity on me. i was a bomb tech. i was blown up. hopefully some of the stories i have to tell will blow you away. me telling you i had one bad day in my life. i got hit because someone else was killed that day. i had an amazing eight years of service to the marine corps, these are my favorite pictures from my time on deployment, my injury and my recovery and cool things happened like when i met george w. bush and he said how is your head o...

Going to help afghanistan defeat al qaeda, isis, and similar groups and keep them out after the long term. >> heather: i know one of your big concerns in terms of numbers are additional bases and how many would be opened. >> there are a lot of factors that go into determining how many forces you need. im concerned about the footprint, the draw down this president obama ordered left us without significant positions from the country. i think it will be necessary for us to reopen some of those posi...

Anti-terror techniques, its how you do it. if you take a lessen from what were learning in san bernardino, what is it? >> well, the lesson is this. what were seeing in just about every mass shooting of late is explosive devices being utilized. now, the typical scenario is a s.w.a.t. team will go in, clear the facility, looking for bad guys, looking for victims, and then usually, if a suspect package is found, theyll pull out or stop, a bomb tech will go in. were changing. were evolving. for the ...

Before you give the big video of the day answer, what have people been saying? questions and ideas giving all day long on web site? >> weve been telling you over the last hour. i wanted to end the show with this. this powerful picture a tweet from johnny joey jones says carried by segment of the sets at world war ii memorial for pt today. let me show thu picture. very moving. look at that. and he was a former bomb tech. his profile says former bomb tech now just a bomb. >> now you get to throw v...

They directed the nypd to a locker in grand central that had a similar pressure cooker device. that device unfortunately exploded, killing a bomb tech. weve seen that around a while. weve seen that particular type of device used more from an international perspective where by and large, when we see a strictly domestic u.s.-born terrorist, we look at pipe bombs. im not pointing us in one direction or the other. but you have to look at the evidence and say, where is that taking you? while you keep...

My opinion, and this is just opinion, i am not a bomb tech, but if we had seen devices that were more sophisticated, i think we would see a lot more casualties and it would have been a lot worse. >> and a more narrow sense of possible -- >> possible, but thats -- thats only based on the video and just kind of in my amateur assessment. >> let me ask you this other question, and we have an eyewitness who was in the medic tent today when the explosion went off that i want to bring in, before we do ...