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Desantis as well. we have not yet heard from the fbi. it is not clear whether this is being investigated as a terror incident, that is still unknown right now. but they do say the suspect was a saudi foreign national in the united states for training. >> theres obviously going to be a lot of questions about, you know, this individual being a foreign national, being a part of the saudi air force and when to be here training on our soil, to do this and the fbi is working with dod, theyre working w...

For it, and we remain vigilant for it. >> do you expect theres going to be more changes? >> im not going to speculate. >> how are you confident that he was acting alone? >> im not going to speculate on the particulars of the investigation or exactly what happened. >> can you talk about the -- >> thank you very much. i appreciate it. thank you, everybody. >> i want to talk about the heroism of your deputies -- >> weve been following this news conference down there in pensacola. i think its ongoin...

Pressures on the guy from the school, the training, was there any discipline, and human pressures, family, money, theres all kinds of things that have to be looked at. weve had terrorist attacks on the military. fort hood in 2009. we had an attack in tennessee here where in 2015 where a terrorist killed four marines and a sailor at the naval reserve center and killed five of our military in 2015. weve also had nonterrorist attacks on naval facilities like the washington, d.c., naval yard which w...

This is the second shooting at a u.s. military base this week. joining me now from pensacola, florida, blain alexander, also with me, pete williams, tom winter and jim kavanaugh. what do we know so far? >> we have now on the record the governor saying what weve been reporting is the person who fired these shots was a member of the saudi air force in the u.s. to receive aviation training. weve reported his name. al shamroni. one point to make here is that when people come to the united states for...

>> i covered an incident where three afghan solders who were here for training, they left the air force base, they were found trying to enter canada through the border point. at that time, i talked to the then head of the massachusetts state police and we went through the vetting that occurs for these people to, you know, not only in the -- weathhether theye from the middle east or afghanistan, but i think to petes point, the vetting that occurs by the u.s. military here. this is an important re...

Symbolically, it would be a big deal too. thats a huge if and were not there yet. nobody that weve talked to is there yet. they dont know why this person did this. >> youre right to point out that it would be the first time since 9/11 and our relationship with saudi arabia is a complicated one. the president has tried to strengthen it. >> militarily, its always been an important one ever since the gulf war when it was strengthened and theres been lots of training between the u.s. and saudi arabi...

Life, including their medications and their appointments to the hospital as well as cross training, come back into play. we have social services that address some of the issues that are prevalent among veterans. >> shannon: do you think that the average american has any idea this is going around them in their cities and their towns all over the country? >> i would like to think that people are conscious. the american people are very generous and very, very consider rat in thanking individuals wh...

Life, including their medications and their appointments to the hospital as well as cross training, come back into play. we have social services that address some of the issues that are prevalent among veterans. >> shannon: do you think that the average american has any idea this is going around them in their cities and their towns all over the country? >> i would like to think that people are conscious. the american people are very generous and very, very consider rat in thanking individuals wh...

Sort of -- that interconnectiveness that im describing here. how do they processes, their practices, differ or how are they similar to that which we are used to seeing in the united states? >> well, some countries use a very much more militarized approach to dealing with terrorists like on the scale. so they would use the army, special forces, special operations units, not the police. other countries, like the united states or the uk use the police. and then, some countries have a combination of...

Have to. we dont have a choice. belgium, france, europe, italy, switzerland, all of these countries who could be effected, need to be making good with assad and fbi and vice versa. and they need to be cross training because we might have to deploy an international response or national european response like were seeing now where we have multiple agencies working to the and we need to make sure the tactics are coagulated so at the end of the day were better at saving lives. >> please say you will...