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Desantis as well. we have not yet heard from the fbi. it is not clear whether this is being investigated as a terror incident, that is still unknown right now. but they do say the suspect was a saudi foreign national in the united states for training. >> there's obviously going to be a lot of questions about, you know, this individual being a foreign national, being a part of the saudi air force and when to be here training on our soil, to do this and the fbi is working with dod, they're working with the escambia county sheriff's to answer those questions. one of the things that i talked to th...

For it, and we remain vigilant for it. >> do you expect there's going to be more changes? >> i'm not going to speculate. >> how are you confident that he was acting alone? >> i'm not going to speculate on the particulars of the investigation or exactly what happened. >> can you talk about the -- >> thank you very much. i appreciate it. thank you, everybody. >> i want to talk about the heroism of your deputies -- >> we've been following this news conference down there in pensacola. i think it's ongoing. we're going to go right back to it right now. >> to see the officer and is their families an...

Pressures on the guy from the school, the training, was there any discipline, and human pressures, family, money, there's all kinds of things that have to be looked at. we've had terrorist attacks on the military. fort hood in 2009. we had an attack in tennessee here where in 2015 where a terrorist killed four marines and a sailor at the naval reserve center and killed five of our military in 2015. we've also had nonterrorist attacks on naval facilities like the washington, d.c., naval yard which was not a terrorist attack. so we have to look at all those. the commanders will look at those and...

This is the second shooting at a u.s. military base this week. joining me now from pensacola, florida, blain alexander, also with me, pete williams, tom winter and jim kavanaugh. what do we know so far? >> we have now on the record the governor saying what we've been reporting is the person who fired these shots was a member of the saudi air force in the u.s. to receive aviation training. we've reported his name. al shamroni. one point to make here is that when people come to the united states for this kind of training, they are vetted by not only their host country for us but by the u.s. mili...

>> i covered an incident where three afghan solders who were here for training, they left the air force base, they were found trying to enter canada through the border point. at that time, i talked to the then head of the massachusetts state police and we went through the vetting that occurs for these people to, you know, not only in the -- weathhether theye from the middle east or afghanistan, but i think to pete's point, the vetting that occurs by the u.s. military here. this is an important reason why we don't want to jump to terrorism. of course it could certainly be a concern. but we don'...