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The National Defense Policy Initiative hosted Juliette Kayyem for a discussion on Department of Defense leadership during times of crisis.

Before the next 'boom' comes, Juliette Kayyem says in her new book from Hachette's Public Affairs, 'We need to stop being surprised.'

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Come take the guns. thats going to continue to be a problem for democrats. >> it does seem as if when we talk about the suburbs that essentially were going to have unusual swing voter groups. everybody loves the soccer mom, the security mom, the office park dad, all that stuff. but it feels like in the trump era, its based open the suburb, its college-educated white women -- non colleged had educated white men e women and college-educated white men that those are the two swing votes sitting ther...

A barrier, they need technology, they need more officers and agents. you have the members of the house and the senate saying, we are not going to give it to you. now what does that do for the security of the people of this country? every woman that i talked to has the tendency to identify themselves as a security mom and say, i want my children safe when they go to school, i want them safe when they are traveling, i want them safe and sporting events and public events and i want them to have a s...

Im seeing these kids do just these gut-wrenching testimonials. trust me, this is hitting me like a gut punch. but i appreciate and respect director wray getting out in front of this and acknowledging and admitting that the fault was ours, we have to find out was it a person or a processor protocol, get to the bottom of it and fix, it don. its not going to bring back those 17 precious lives, but maybe it helps us prevent the next one. >> listen, juliet, i have the utmost respect for the men and w...

Conversation. i spoke to my six-year-old son about this last night. i also texted my daughter about this. how do you explain this whether you live in parkland, florida or anywhere in the country? >> ive been in this field a long time. i have three children. i wrote a book called "security mom." the fact is your kids know whats going on. there is no way to protect them from this if theyre over the age of five or six. you dont need to explain it. this may be inexplicable. its the parents job to pr...

Family unification area where theyll take the kids and get the family members there. of course, as we know, some family members are also then going to have to be taken elsewhere for -- to find their child or brief or get to a hospital. and the hospitals are taking an inventory of who is coming in so that notification can go to the parents. a school this size, im pretty confident they know how to reach people pretty quickly. your going to want to get the parents to the hospitals if they need to. ...

They were trying to get in contact with the kids. it was awful. awful thing to witness. >> reporter: an awful thing to witness. in some cases for mothers and daughters alike. out for what had promised to be a memorable night together. for sure now they will never forget it. >> shes been crying. shes saying, why do these things happen to people? why do they keep doing this to people? >> reporter: some too young, too innocent to likely even understand this new reality their parents know all too we...

Daughters alike. out for what had promised to be a memorable night together. for sure now theyll never forget it. >> shes just been crying. shes just saying why do these things happen to people? why do they keep doing this to people? >> reporter: some too young, too innocent to likely even understand this new reality their parents know all too well. >> i feel sad that concerts have to be ruined by people that are so mean and that ariana grande cant do a concert. >> reporter: randi kaye, cnn, new...