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Rehema, first question for you. the crisis that i believe is a crisis of the lack of men in the classroom these days. >> 70% of the teachers in our classrooms in america are women. my son has no female teachers whatsoever. he would not see a male in his classroom at all were it not for his principal and the janitors. it is real crisis. one of the things is that the profession is not attracting men who are looking for higher paid jobs who are looking for the kind of jobs that have greater stabili...

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We asked and you answered. question, mental health and gun control, should public safety trump privacy? claire weighing in. mental health is subjective. guns are bad. argument over. chase saying, if people would like to live in a nanny state, there are many countries to live in. and this one from michael. we wouldnt need to balance privacy if we focused on the real problem, mental health, and not the red herring of gun control. keep the comments coming. we are on twitter and facebook. meanwhile,...

Said this morning on "morning joe" about the mental health component of this tragedy. >> background checks, criminals, thats easy as far as im concerned. terrorists, yeah. thats easy. you move over into this mental health range, where its so critically important that we encourage people to go get treatment. when does the red flag go up and when does the psychiatrist go, my gosh, psychologist, my gosh, this person -- and then sudd suddenly, they are punished for getting the type of treatment they...

Paranoid delusions, so motivating to him that he was calling police and staying up all night and moving three times in a night to three different hotel rooms. this happened apparently while he really was traveling for work to various us navy insulations as a contractor for the united states navy who had a security clearance and a background check. since july, aaron alexis worked at naval insulations in arlington, virginia, in cherry point, north carolina, in stafford, virginia. and of course, at...

Reviewing physical security at military insulations all over the world and more specifically, heres the highlight, also reviewing the practices for granting and reviewing these security clearances as well. michael isakoff stuck around for us. our national investigative correspondent. might the folks who arent familiar with this clearance process, walk us through how these clearances are granted and the initial granting of it and then what the renewal of that clearance as well. >> exactly, and th...

Aspect. the security of physical premesis, the security clearance, standards of that security clearance. are they strong enough? why do we do certain things the way we do? we need answers. and well find answers. >> well, i just add to what the secretary said. in terms of what we changed after some of those earlier incidents, early indications are actually contributed to the, to a less horrific outcome. more alert notices, coordination in advance of crisis with other agencies of government. train...

Referred to that. and said you know, are the standards tight enough? thats certainly a question that arises in light of the alexis matter. >> michael, thank you so much. again, alexis, hasan, manning, first question posed there. all of these names, these folks that on some level has been able to seemingly penetrate this clearance system to a certain extent, much of the investigation today will be focusing on the warning. this specific warning that rhode island police gave to the navy about hallu...

Very clearly have to take note of and the secretary directed us to do so. >> do you believe that the security clearance procedures and investigations are not rigorous enough or that for the lower level security clearance that ten-year time frame may be too long and again, a question for you, general, on syria. you have expressed concerns before about the did i feel difficulties in securing chemical weapons sites in syria, even in a nonhostile environment. if syria should agree to open up its sit...

Entire specifics and components of security clearance, time frame, the depth of the clearance, kind of clearance, access different clearances give individuals, were going to give all of that. obviously, the longer clearances go without reviewing. theres some jeopardy to that. theres tho question about it. so, were going to take a look at every one of those components. >> on syria, my current role an the current role of the military is to provide some planning assistance to the prevention of chem...