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Element to the idea of the government having class. they dont want to classify this as terrorism. in fact, i dont know if it was covered why the media because i was in the crowd yesterday at the purple heart ceremony. but, again they said lone gunman. they didnt recognize it as terrorism again. which it really infuriated the families myself and many others. >> yeah. i mean, what will it take the guy was screaming al akbar at the time. give us a sense of what kind of benefits are being denied sur...

Logan rushed to a washington, d.c. area hospital. she suffered from internal bleeding. she has a digestive disease which may have been brought on by treasure. the 43-year-old was forced to take a seven month absence in 2013 after she admitted in a report about the benghazi attacks was based on a discredited firsthand account. shes expected to remain in the hospital for several days. caught on camera a reporter using her head literally while reporting on the snowfall in south carolina. check it o...

Possible. >> you have contingency plans to evacuate them if necessary? >> of course we do. >> how do you do that? >> i wouldnt get into it on national tv. but we have the ability to come to their aid if needed. >> these are noncombat troops even though potentially theyre facing combat -- do they get combat pay? >> of course they do. >> theyre noncombat troops but getting combat pay -- >> theyre getting hazardous duty pay. they are getting extra special pay for the job theyre doing in iraq. again...

Take place overnight and we know, for example, chris, since 1995 over 18 school administrator, teachers, staff members have been gunned down, have been killed in schools, but of course, weve got upwards of 59 million students in america between k and 12. so the pool of likely killers or shooters is very small, but, chris, we always have what profilers and psychologists call leakage. we always have afterwards, people start nodding their heads and say i heard him say anything. i heard her say some...

Colonel osborne, is now banning any evidence that would prove that he had jihadi motives. >> brian: that really screws up not only one thing, his incredibly unthinkable that that would be okay, that of course was no reference to al-qaeda when he said i am from al-qaeda, thats what im fighting for and i want to be put to death and become a martyr, yelled allah akbar before he started the shooting. now this also messes up the men and women who have taken the bullets and who survived because this i...

Of the ft. hood shooting and spit in our faces. >> and this man said hes not even able to make ends meet. there are days where he and his wife dont have food on the table because hes not bringing in a check there. >> right. thats logan burnett, who was shot three times during the attack. what he was talking about there was the governments decision to not label this as an act of terrorism, and that has resulted in the victims being denied purple heart medals, combat pay, benefits they feel their ...

>>gretchen: 45 minutes after the top of the hour. if youre just joining us, quick headlines. sticker shock at the pump, gas prices jumped 12 cents in the past week. national average $3.67 this morning. triple a says increased summer demand and unrest in egypt are part of the reason for the spike. a fisherman in hawaii had to be rescued after a massive fish capsized his boat. he pulled in a 200 pound tuna but his boat couldnt handle the weight. the boat flipped over. he held on to the bottom un...

Were 18 of them through out the world -- basically if you were not at a direct threat of being killed imminently youre not going to get additional danger pay if youre a member of the military. a lot of people are like wait a minute, isnt it implicit in the fact that you serve youre going to be in danger. $35 billion from 2013 coming up on 2014, $52 billion. how is that going to impact our national security? >> first, its going to continue to hit another $50 billion everyear if we dont figure out...

Being cut. does this affect our national security? joining us is pete hegseth. good morning to you, pete. this is the result of sequestration, that big, long word that had to do with the fact that democrats and republicans couldnt get their act together to come up with how to cut our deficit and now this is the end result; right? >> absolutely this is the end result. this is directly how d.c. washington dysfunction acts our national security. because politicians left and right are unwilling to c...

About ten years ago it wasnt. were not going to get any notice when that becomes a dangerous area. >> steve: so there goes out of the average troops pocket, $225 a month. they wont get danger pay. however, we have plenty of money to pay for -- thats right -- the cupid shuffle! youve got irs employees screen right, and brave americans defending democracy >> brian: that woman is dancing with a sprained ankle. so she deserves some type of combat pay. >> gretchen: all right. coming up -- >> steve: i...