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Going to help afghanistan defeat al qaeda, isis, and similar groups and keep them out after the long term. >> heather: i know one of your big concerns in terms of numbers are additional bases and how many would be opened. >> there are a lot of factors that go into determining how many forces you need. i'm concerned about the footprint, the draw down this president obama ordered left us without significant positions from the country. i think it will be necessary for us to reopen some of those positions and unfortunately when you go to open a new base, it requires a fair amount of force so that ...

Anti-terror techniques, it's how you do it. if you take a lessen from what we're learning in san bernardino, what is it? >> well, the lesson is this. what we're seeing in just about every mass shooting of late is explosive devices being utilized. now, the typical scenario is a s.w.a.t. team will go in, clear the facility, looking for bad guys, looking for victims, and then usually, if a suspect package is found, they'll pull out or stop, a bomb tech will go in. we're changing. we're evolving. for the last 12 months, we've been working on a program called the tactical bomb technician. basically...

Before you give the big video of the day answer, what have people been saying? questions and ideas giving all day long on web site? >> we've been telling you over the last hour. i wanted to end the show with this. this powerful picture a tweet from johnny joey jones says carried by segment of the sets at world war ii memorial for pt today. let me show thu picture. very moving. look at that. and he was a former bomb tech. his profile says former bomb tech now just a bomb. >> now you get to throw video of the day. >> excited about this one. first time doing this, yes. i do. media research center...

They directed the nypd to a locker in grand central that had a similar pressure cooker device. that device unfortunately exploded, killing a bomb tech. we've seen that around a while. we've seen that particular type of device used more from an international perspective where by and large, when we see a strictly domestic u.s.-born terrorist, we look at pipe bombs. i'm not pointing us in one direction or the other. but you have to look at the evidence and say, where is that taking you? while you keep your investigative options wide open. >> okay, clint van zandt and adam lankford. thank you. u...

My opinion, and this is just opinion, i am not a bomb tech, but if we had seen devices that were more sophisticated, i think we would see a lot more casualties and it would have been a lot worse. >> and a more narrow sense of possible -- >> possible, but that's -- that's only based on the video and just kind of in my amateur assessment. >> let me ask you this other question, and we have an eyewitness who was in the medic tent today when the explosion went off that i want to bring in, before we do that, what is the rule of law that currently operates guiding the investigators? i think this is a...