action. my great-grandfather s brother. he was 19 years of age and never came home. i had several soldiers that i lost when i was a task force commander in iraq and many were 19 so there s a lot of, just a lot of different feelings that you feel during memorial day that it s great that we have our freedom and we do the outings and the barbecues, but it really about those that didn t come home. elizabeth: and you probably associate yourself more so as a person who serves our country on the military side than you do, obviously now a congressman. that being said, there was big news this week. this was a $55 billion overall. you ve been critical in the past, you said the va needed to be blown up. we need to start with ground zero. are you happy with this? it s a start. we had a situation where there was a lot of corruption, there was a lot of waste, a lot of, you know, senior executives and service officials, secretary
so they have to keep on this. it s getting massive publicity at this point. they need people to give information. i haven t heard a mention of a reward but as the hours tick on, it is worrying time if they don t have leads. the caveat here is you don t know what they have inside of the investigation. well, i know they were also speaking about the possibility of surveillance video. they wouldn t comment on whether there s dash cam video and cameras from around the area and the town and this is the officer talking about that. let s listen. there s video throughout the area as you know it s pretty common nowadays not only for businesses but private residents to have fairly sophisticated video systems so we have been, quote, canvassing throughout the area and trying to identify specific locations and collect that video. that task force commander speaking really reluctant in giving out information when it comes to the evidence. knowing that they re asking the public to help, why would
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act of war? reporter: they re not calling it that necessarily, wolf. but any time you fire tomahawk missiles at ground sites in a country, it does constitute a hostile action. i mean, these tomahawks fly very close to the ground. they are programmed with a target before they re launched and they have an ability to go around both natural and manmade obstacles. and when they hit their target, they explode. so when these tomahawks hit, it is by its very nature a very violent action. as of right now, chris correct me if i m wrong the u.s. military is in charge of this entire operation but they re hoping over the next few days to hand over command and control primary responsibility to other nato allies? reporter: correct. there is a joint task force commander so to speak. he s on the uss mt. whitney which is sort of a command and control ship that allows a lot