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Former assistant director of the fbi's criminal investigative division, chris swecker. i want to talk to you about your expectations here of what laundrie is capable of. what do you think he's capable of doing as you see investigators looking at this reserve? >> well, this is a very strategic move on the part of the fbi because it narrows down his options. i don't believe he's a great outdoorsman. i don't think he can survive in that part -- that florida wilderness area. it is full of mosquitos, he doesn't have the means to survive in there. so if he is in there, i don't think he's alive. so a...

Discussed. after the virginia tech shooting in virginia, at that time i was still in the middle of over a decade of work in the mental health system as a lawyer, and we realized that this is a guy, the shooter in the virginia tech incidents, actually passed through our mental health system and wasn't caught by our equivalent of the n ci c system in the same way the air force didn't transfer this information. we fixed that. only only that, it was an opportunity for us in virginia on a bipartisan basis to look at other ways we should be catching these folks from the various nets that we have out...

Version of i knew this guy was going to go some day. i knew this guy in the plain english was crazy. how many people have to miss how many signs for this horror we witnessed yesterday to happen? >> you know, brian, when you talk about the n ci c system for the national database that the fbi oversees to check these records, that database is critically important, but it's only as good as the data that's entered into it. and there was some administrative issue, somebody failed to enter, there was some backlog, perhaps, i mean, that contributes to what occurred here. but this comes down to your po...

Past several years, despite a conviction on his record. and as one official connected to the investigation said today, he shouldn't have been anywhere near a gun. tonight the u.s. air force is being blamed for not entering his criminal record into the national database. tonight the fbi field agent in charge of the case addressed the handling of this dead gunman's records. >> i know there's a lot of questions about the fbi n ci c system and how did the person get the weapons. i can tell you that for the four purchases he made, the n ci c system did their required checks and there was no prohibi...

He did to his wife. how do you explain the fact that he was still able after all of that to go out and apparently legally purchase an assault-type weapon and other guns? >> well, i'll tell you, wolf, i mean, first and foremost, it breaks my heart every time we have to sit here like this and talk about this particular tragic incident and how the shooter came upon getting the gun. what fell through the cracks. what kind of loopholes or work arounds exist in current federal law. keep in mind that there are literally thousands upon thousands of firearms transactions that occur every month. million...