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Seventh fleet? is this about training? is it about budgets? is this normal and were just maybe focusing on it more now? whats happening? >> the training issue continually comes up. that is a continual need of the military and our navy training capacity continually needs to be refined. thats been cited already in investigations. at a broader level, the american military is stretched, overstretched frankly and has been operating at a pace for years now -- just as we saw in afghanistan, weve been i...

Typically see after -- and i think history will probably dictate what -- the decisions that the -- that people in positions of power made, but i think as far as operational concerns, you know, lack of resources and planning is something that we have tried to bring to the attention to the city for quite some time now. >> so give me some specifics though. when you say lack of resources and planning, what have you seen on the ground there that has just not gone right at all. give us specific exampl...

Exclude all possibilities and that includes a cybertech. i talked to folks i trust with av backgrounds and other backgrounds, most think it is likely training but a cyberattack is a possibility. dont forget iran hacked into the program in 2013. they had some challenges but what this should remind us of is cyberwarfare is the fifth dimension of warfare after land, sea, air and space. the most obligated to carry challenge america ever faced that we as a nation are most unprepared for. rob: lets go...

Sure that if we do have a systemic problem here, if theres something deeper going on, if theres a thread to pull through all these incidents, that we find out what it is and try to eliminate it. >> four collisions or groundings this year, is that just a coincidence? or is it a possible indication of some sort of systemic training issue or overreliance on high tech? >> yeah, we dont know. its interesting that theyre all happening in the forward deployed naval forces, which is the western pacific ...

On, if theres a thread to pull through all these incidents, that we find out what it is and try to eliminate it. >> four collisions or groundings this year, is that just a coincidence? or is it a possible indication of some sort of systemic training issue or overreliance on high tech? >> yeah, we dont know. its interesting that theyre all happening in the forward deployed naval forces, fdnf, which is the western pacific naval forces that are home ported there. thats kind of interesting. all in o...

This happen. i dont know if it could be something as simple as a training issue. this is really disheartening. >> lisa: especially the fact that we have ten sailors missing right now. we pray we can find them. god only knows what happened. they are doing a review, so i think its important to not get too ahead of ourselves in what happened. i think we need to see what happens and then there might be potentially a role for congress to look into it as well depending on what the investigation turns ...

Chest, and he is standing there motionless. i thought i wonder if is he on pcp. >> why did that cross your mind first? >> because it was odd behavior, zombie-like is the best i can -- zombie like. brian: he did have pcp in his system. does that mean anything to you? >> not necessarily so. obviously if a person is high off of a drug like. cp they have this enormous amount of strength. again as police officers, brian, we are challenged and we are given the responsibility to use the right amount of...

Thats somewhat suspect. heres the thing we also have to remember in all of this. >> ten seconds. >> training issue and policy. how we train and how we enact policies with police officers. if this is the case, appears to be poor training and brings up issues about policies inside of that agency. these things have to be addressed but slager is going to have a challenging time trying to convince that jury. >> have to leave it. >> don, if i might. best case justifying body cameras on every cop. with...

Of this area. theyve got some of the best equipment. theyve got the manpower issue, training issue like a lot of major cities around the world do. the investigation is going to focus probably beginning on the 20th floor where we have the reports that thats where the fire initially broke out. youll always go to where you got good intel to try to see what happened. then the investigation is going to extend to the fire itself and how it was able to extend so dynamically, so rapidly up the side of t...

Those smaller police departments? >> generally speak, and im really speaking generally, yes, it is. but there is a training issue that is occurring throughout the nation. ive said this before, that until we get to the point where were willing to -- where we demand that there are national professional standards for policing and there are certain things that will occur across the board, well always be faced with these conflicts of technical terms and conflict of procedural issues, et cetera. we ne...