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If shinseki did offer his resignation, that the president would accept it. >> colonel jack jacobs, at this stage what would you do if you were advising the president? >> i would tell him to do exactly what hes doing for the time being. dont forget that he is a lawyer and he will wait until the investigation is over before he does something. hes the kind of person who doesnt like to do anything precipitously. but he does have a serious political problem. one thing that chuck said really resonates...

The testimony last week in reguard to the specific questions asked by senators on the senate veteran affairs committee about what was going on in the various hospitals of where the allegations were raised, secretary shinseki punted it or he said that he is not aware of it or didnt know, and again, that kind of detail may not find its way normally to the top, but when your entire o organization is under scrutiny, one has to wonder why wouldnt you know? you are the secretary. and it is your vetera...

Timothy owens, an army counselor, who served in iraq and hailed from central illinois. his mother called him soon after learning of the shooting, fully expecting him to pick up the phone, and later learned her worst nightmare had come true. 16 other people were hurt in this tragedy, all of them military personnel. today our nations commander in chief, president barack obama, honored all of them and memorialized those we lost along with millions of us. as we continue our coverage, we have nbc sar...

Media, the fact of the matter is were living in a revolution of in the distribution of information we have not seen since the invention of the printing press. everything and anything that happens is immediately available to everybody. we dont expect this sort of stuff to happen in the military. but we can see it because of the nature of the distribution of information and were shocked by it because we know it whereas before we didnt. >> colonel jack jacobs, barry mccaffrey, thank you for your in...

Installation, marine, army, navy, air force, are the safest communities in america. people dont lock their doors. theres a handful of incidents on a given week. and to have something like this strike out of the blue, is really a punch in the gut. but again, theyre really tough people. im glad the chain of command showed up. texas is a wonderful supportive environment for the armed forces. so theyll get through it. >> colonel, what do we do to ensure events like this dont reduce the ability of pe...

Our soldiers to register their weapons, we can control the gates to some extent, you know, not effectively with 150,000 people coming and going, but we have the legal authority to do all that. now in a country at large, half of us are armed and a significant number of us, 5%, pick a number you believe, have mental health. so how you get law enforcement and the mental health community to talk to each other and not violate the law, pretty tough challenge. this guy was not off gassing tremendous si...

Ivan lopezs mental issues which included depression and anxiety but are stressing the importance now of reaching out to those who suffer from those problems and getting them the help and the support that they need. military investigators have confirmed that there was an argument about leave shortly before the shooting and during that eight-minute rampage, ivan lopez allegedly fired more than 35 shots, some of the victims they believe were targeted. at least one of the dead was involved in that a...

Leadership of the entire chain of command to make sure that everybody comes together. and thats exactly whats going to happen in this particular case. like general mccaffrey says, theyll get over it, but get over it because they are all together, theyll feel theyre all together in this and the commanders and subordinate commanders will make sure that happens. theyre close to their troops. they may have to get even closer to their troops, but thats -- that closeness is whats going to take them ou...

Ensuring that the people are taken care of and that anybody who has a problem is immediately identified and taken care of. that somebody with a problem like this who could cause this much damage could go untreated. it its -- well, well get more about this when we hear exactly who this guy was and his relationship to the people who were shot. its always shocking when people who depend on each other, wind up in a circumstance like this. >> thanks, colonel jack. nbc news is citing military offici...

Were told that under military regulations, had he been considered a threat, that psychiatrist would have been required to warn and protect by revealing that condition but since the psychiatrist didnt see any potential threat that was not passed along to anybody else, any of the military commanders. >> colonel jack, we know from the general last night who gave i thought a brilliant briefing in real time as this thing just evolved and were dealing with the victims. he was very, very direct and ver...