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I believe that's a term kristen welker used earlier. via tweet a few hours ago, the president announced his pick for the fbi. what do we know about christopher wray? >> reporter: quite a it wibit. he has experience in federal law enforcement. he served as a u.s. attorney in atlanta, where he worked with local fbi officials and he had a number of different positions up here in washington, at the justice department headquarters, from 2003 to 2005 he was the assistant attorney general in charge of the criminal division. and when he was there, that was the only dion that dealt directly with the fb...

Back with me michelle sinnedor of the "new york times" and shane goldmacher of politico. this is not our industry is what he says, doug. is he right? >> by and large he is. any business, you try to be on good terms with your customers. but the airlines have been pushed, as you said, pretty much to the limit. they are flying full flights. they've cut back the number of flight attendants that are on the plane so that everybody is working that much harder. there is a lot of pressure to get things done, to get out of the gate on time. >> people do seem exhausted. you go on the flights and sometime...

>> is this leading or training or would it be engaging? >> well, i think that it is a combination of all of the above. if anything, i think that this administration has been very modest in the efforts, and even in the introduction of these 50 or so special forces elements into northern iraq that we are told only operating at the headquarters level. and in order to be fully effective they have to be out there at the tactical level ord fairly providing the assistance to the u.s. air forces that are providing those forces. and now, you have headed the facilities that are training the special ops,...

Refugees there in syria. what's your thoughts on these moves? will this actually move things? >> well, i would draw your attention that first, this is the first time the administration has committed to an open ended mission involving our troops on the ground. they don't have a combat mission, it's advisory, it's at the headquarters level, it's not even advising on calling in aircraft strikes to improve the quality of those strikes. but it's significant, the timing is significant, that it happened, it was revealed today that the major conference started up in vienna to signal to the russians, w...

Care they deserve. so i don't -- we recognize how fabulous so many of our men and women are. i think what so many people want to know with these numbers rising and seeing a report like this that's devastating to know that our men and women are having to turn to drugs to find peace, alcohol to find peace, and dying by suicide because they can't find peace, what are you going to do to try to prevent this? >> you know, the value of this report is that you have got clearly nine chapters that talk about recommendations to deal with the effects of not only this tremendous uptempo and am of stress we...