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>> ah -- it was a handgun. >> are you able to address whether or not the shooter's room was raided? >> i will not. >> was his name mohammed als alsharrami. >> i am not answering because i am not the cognizant authority for this investigation. the fbi, atf, ncis on base are lead agencies on this. we are a support element. so while i have the answer to your questions i am not at liberty to answer them. >> are you going to clarify the numbers, please? >> an additional person. >> additional person listed? >> yes. >> folks -- we're going to stop the press conference now. more information will come ...

>> it was a handgun. >> are you able to address whether or not the shooter's room was rated? i will not confirm that. i know the answers to your questions, i am not answering or confirming it not just because i am attempting to be trite, i am not the cognizant authority for this investigation. the fbi and ncis on base are the lead agencies on this, we are a support element. i am not at liberty to answer then. we now have an additional person wounded. >> we are going to stop the press conference right now and as we have more information will be sure to share that with everybody. thank you so mu...

Injured. >> what type of weapon? >> it was a handgun. >> are you able to address whether or not the shooter's room was raided? >> i will not. >> was his name -- >> i will not confirm that. i know the answers to your questions. i am not answering or confirming it not because i'm attempting to be trite. it's because i'm not the cognizant authority for this investigation. the fbi, the atf, the ncis on base are the lead agencies on this. we are a support element. and so while i have the answer to your questions, i'm not at liberty to answer them. >> i'm a little confused -- >> we now have an addit...

Attack. that means a friendly afghan soldier turned his weapon on our troops. another american soldier also injured. the taliban claims it was one of their own who infiltrated the afghan army and carried out the attack. let's bring in retired arm it lieutenant, and former counterterrorism advisor vice president cheney and also fox news contributor. it is great to see you. this was an inside job by the taliban. it is happened before, and marce injured, the same thing. how do we put a stop to this? canopy stop? >> i do not know that you are ever going to stop it completely. our main effort is to...

Command. and within that support element, you could have logistics, you could have attack aviation, you could have training and equip missions so we could put some the additional firepower into those forces on the ground that are willing to fight. we can conduct medical, we can conduct a whole bunch of operations that would allow for a really proximate and persistent presence that would allow operations to be conducted. we could use that as a staging base for joint special operations, into specific targets. so you could build that, help train and equip, and take it it to the next level. it's n...