i want to extend a special thanks to the commander of the air force, district -- in 10 major general ricky raab. and commander of the 11th wing and joint days andrews, colonel az.rew pur thank you. and i am profoundly grateful to everyone of america's airfields. there is no greater honor than to serve as your commander in chief. i especially want to thank the incredible people that fly in .aintain air force one you are the best of the best. q you i very much for doing such an edible job. the 2020 andng of a is a watershed moment in the truest sense of the word. before i came into office, the military had endured deep and divisive cuts. our military was very depleted. as a candidate for president i promise to reverse these ourpling cuts and inter military remains unchallenged and unrivaled anywhere in the world. and right now, there is no one, no country that comes even close. >> the law i am signing in today b vides $738 billion with a in defense funding for the 2020 year. .hat is an all-time record and that is after $700 billion in our first year. 716 billion last year. and it is al

senator wicker, last week when you and i visited the air force base in mississippi, we met air force families who had been displaced from their privatized homes as many as four times in recent years. as these families prepared for thanksgiving, they wondedred whether they should decorate a christmas tree in their temporary homes. family disruptions are personal and impactful to these families and therefore to us. we owe it to our air force families to get this right. with your continued support we will. i look forward to your questions. >> thank you, secretary barrett. we're going to have five-minute rounds. we have more than a dozen contractors out there providing military housing to our services and some are better than others. there's one that's kind of notorious at one end of the spectrum and that's the i'm very familiar with that because that's where this whole thing started. in my opening statement i mentioned tinker air force base. and it might be unfair since you're the newest one, secretary barrett, but to give you the first question. you know, when does if you had a repeate

state of florida it's an air force base the patrick air force base which is on the atlantic coast in south east florida is being evacuated because of reports of a bomb threat received around 3 o'clock local time that's just over an hour and a half ago now police and fire services and also ordinance departments are investigating the scene has been evacuated to safety but of course this comes just hours after a deadly shooting at another base in florida the pensacola naval academy which is about a 100 kilometers away in the northwest of the state which as we heard earlier from our correspondent it's now thought that the shooter was a saudi national an air force officer who was training there that's not an active situation the situation of the patrick air force base is that's being investigated certainly nothing to link the 2 at the moment but right now 2 military installations in the u.s. state of florida that have had incidents reported there we'll keep you posted on what happens in both of those instances. that's your r.t.d. news for now thanks for watching your next update from us f

the jimmy she was a from an air force family. went to the university of new ampshire but air force rotc. she looks about 35, she is a couple of years older and was commissioned an officer and became what's called an air battle manager, the person hotels the f-15 pilots where they can go, so to speak and she ranks and ough the the school which is the real top gun school. if you are looking for the real sort of tom cruise and demi moore, this is the real thing until terms of the first one to do that as well as other accomplishments throughout her career. and she was one of the very few half dozen women in the u.s. women history to attain the rank of four-star general which happened in 2014 and had her first position with that rank as the air component commander and wing usly been advise commander and had a lot of commander experience in the broader iraq, and afghanistan theater and seen a lot of the world and on top of that, she finished her military career as the first women in american history where she commanded from 2016 to 201

force for decades until jeannie marie leavitt became the air force's first female fighter pilot just 16 years ago. >> those women that have blazed a trail for me, they're just regular people that were driven and stepped outside their comfort zone. >> do you think that's part of what you show is chase your dream, live outside your comfort zone? >> absolutely. living outside your comfort zone is something that can be scary, but that's what i found is the most rewarding. >> well, flying in an f-16 is flying outside my comfort zone. >> it will be fine. >> what i'm looking forward to showing you is what the performance the airplane is like. >> lieutenant colonel governor any, call sign miami, is in charge of flying civilians. >> 100 miles an hour. >> oh, my gosh, wow. amazing. >> he showed me a series of maneuvers the team performs during shows. >> woo! i like that one. >> nice job. that's my favorite. >> spinning so fast we created a gravitational force nine times our body weight. >> and now a little more pull. >> pilots call it pulling 9 gs. >> here come the gs. >> it felt like an eleph

last week when you and i visited the air force base in mississippi, we met air force families that had been displaced from their homes as many as four times in recent years. as the families prepare for thanksgiving, they wondered whether they should decorate a christmas tree in their temporary homes or rely on the promise they would return to their permanent homes in time for their holidays. family descriptions and the challenges are profoundly personal and impactful to these families and therefore to us. we owe it to the families to get this right with your continued support, we well and i look forward to your questions. >> thank you, we will have five-minute rounds. we have more than a dozen contractors out there providing military housing to our services and some are better than others. therthere's one at one end of te spectrum and i'm very familiar because that's where the whole thing started in the opening statement i mentioned at the air force base, but there's also representing dahlstrom, travis, fairchild, and it might be a little unfair since you are the newest one to give you

such a momentous statement. 70 years ago, the air force. with my signature today, you will witness the birth of the space force, and that will be now officially the sixth branch of the united states armed forces. that is something really incredible. [applause] space. a lot of things happening in space. because space is the world's newest war-fighting domain. amid the great threats to our national security, american superiority in space is vital, and we are leading, but not leading by enough, but very shortly we will be leading by a lot. the space force will help us deter aggression and control the ultimate high ground. i want to thank vice president mike pence. he was so involved in this with me, this was a real, with the spirit, with the love, i think i can say, mike, that we both had for this project because we realize how important it is to our military, to our future, to our defense. so important. and it is going to blending magnificently with every thing else we have, so i want to thank mike pence per mike, thank you very much. [applau

she went to the university of new hampshire but air force rotc. even though she looks about 35, she has a couple of years older than that. this was back in the 1980's. she was commissioned an officer. became what's called an air battle manager, the person who tells the f-15 pilots where they can go, so to speak and she does that. she moved up to the ranks. was the first woman ever at the nellis fighter weapons school, the real top gun school because it is the air force version of top gun. if you are looking for the real sort of tom cruise and demi g.i. jane, this is the real thing. in terms of the first one to do that as well as other accomplishments throughout her career. and she was one of the very few half dozen women in the u.s. military history to attain the rank of four-star general which happened in 2014 and had her first position with that rank as the air component commander previouslycommand been vice wing commander and had a lot of commander experience in the broader iraq and afghanistan theater and seen a lot of the world in her various

such a momentous statement. 70 years ago, the air force. with my signature today, you will witness the birth of the space force, and that will be now officially the sixth branch of the united states armed forces. that is something really incredible. [applause] it is a big moment. that is a big moments, and we are all here for it. space. going to be a lot of things happening in space. because space is the world's newest war-fighting domain. amid grave threats to our national security, american superiority in space is vital, and we are leading, but not leading by enough, but very shortly we will be leading by a lot. the space force will help us deter aggression and control the ultimate high ground. i want to thank vice president mike pence. he was so involved in this with me, this was a real, with the spirit, the love, i think i can say, mike, that we both had for this project because we realize d how important it is to our military, to our future, to our defense. so important. and it is going to blending magnificently with every thing else w

air force. he's talking about fighter pilots, he says this, they had no greater odds against them than these aviators. have to have the heart of a lion, wisdom of a serpent and speed and thought of mercury. not only are these guys heroes, they are kind of like the gods themselves. is what billy mitchell is saying. again, they see themselves this way. they're not necessarily living up to it. but the ways in which they express this individuality was a big part of it. you want to be a lone warrior. the early planes, some of the early fighter planes, they have two cockpits in them. you've got a pilot and a guy behind you with some sort of gun. a lot of pilots did not like that one bit. i don't want another guy shooting the gun for me. and they're all guys. so what can i do about this? now every nation was trying to -- they had recognized the problem. if you mount a machine in front of the cockpit you'll shoot your own propeller off. about one out of every ten bullets would hit the propeller. before

>> very secure at the air force iobase. like most military installations but especially there. dover is the biggest port of entry for our entire military. it's been the port mortuary for 50 years maybe 50+ years now. they go to the greatest lengths to make sure nothing will interfere with those operations and nothing will interfere with the dignified transfer just like we did as well. we would fly up on a aiblack à helicopter from fort delaware, the pentagon, that was if the weather was good. if the weather was bad were predicted to be bad at all we would drive up there was one occasion in the winter of 2008 when i had a mission you just have a duty roster so you know what base of the month will be on duty we had a mission coming in on thursday that was my duty day and on tuesday we left because they were supposed to be i storm intervening. it reflects just what a uspriority our nation and our military puts on our air fallen that they would take us out of funeral duty and send us to dover air force base 48 hours early to sit there to make sure when those remains arrive from ge

the saudi air force trainee opened fire in a classroom building at the u.s. naval station in pensacola where a couple of 100 foreign students are in training in washington president trump said king salmon of saudi arabia could call to express his condolences. said that i'm sorry people are going to be angered by the barbaric actions of the shooter and that this person in no way shape or form represents the feelings of the saudi people who love the american people so much the f.b.i. hasn't yet named the shooter or commented on his possible motives there are many reports circulating. that the f.b.i. deals only in facts but at the naval station florida's governor addressed latents concerns i think 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 then to be here training on our soil that to do this the station's commanding officer has defended the international training program saying it's important to train aviators of the united states partner nations. some pundits t

. >> from tinker air force base and igtd this was something that was unique to tinker air force base and it's also all the way around the country. and so that was the background of how this all started. we've come to learn that it's -- it is a problem nationwide. it's a national crisis of proportions we haven't seen since the scandal at walter reed about a decade ago. members of this committee, our staff and myself, we've all traveled and seen these problems firsthand. this is the third hearing this committee has had on this issue and i'm sure it's not going to be the last. we open that since our first two hearings in february and march that we would see more differences by now and be able to use this hearing, in fact, it was set up to discuss the progress that's been made. well, it is set up to look at the progress, but the progress has not been what we wanted. we continue to hear regularly from the families across the country about questionable practices, poor workmanship and about housing contractors not caring about the families they're supposed to be serving. additionally as rep

the saudi air force trainee opened fire in a classroom building at the u.s. naval station in pensacola where a couple of 100 foreign students are in training in washington president trump said king solomon of saudi arabia had called to express his condolences. i'm sorry people are greatly angered by the actions of the shooter and that this person in no way shape or form represents the feelings of the saudi people who love the american people so much f.b.i. hasn't yet named the shooter or commented on his possible motives there are many reports circulating. that the f.b.i. deals facts but at the naval station florida's governor addressed latent concerns i think 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 then to be here training on our soil or to do this the station's commanding officer has defended the international training program saying it's important to train aviators of the united states partner nations. some good as they go football now and the 15th matc

air force. he's talking about fighter pilots, he says this, they had no greater odds against them than these aviators. they have to have the speed of thought of mercury. not only are these guys heroes, they are kind of like the gods themselves. is what billy mitchell is saying. again, they see themselves this way. they're not necessarily living up to it. but the ways in which they express this individuality was a big part of it. you want to be a lone warrior. the early planes, some of the early fighter planes, they have two cockpits in them. you you've got a pilot and a guy behind you with some sort of gun. a lot of pilots did not like that one bit. i don't want another guy shooting the gun for me. and they're all guys. so what can i do about this? now every nation was trying to -- they had recognized the problem. if you mount a machine in front of the cockpit you'll shoot your own propeller off. about one out of every ten bullets would hit the propeller. before the war started every nation has

senator wicker, last week, you and i visited keisler air force base in mississippi, we met air force families who had been displaced from their privatized homes as many as four times in recent years. as these families prepared for thanksgiving, they wondered whether they should decorate a christmas tree in their temporary homes or rely upon the latest promise that they would return to their permanent homes in time for their holiday. family disruptions and health challenges are profoundly personal and impactful to these families and therefore to us. we owe it tour air force families to get this right with your continued support we will. i look forward to your questions. >> thank you, secretary barrett. we're going to have five-minute rounds. we have more than a dozen contractors out there, providing military housing to our services and some are better than others. there is one that is kind of notorious, one end of the spectrum and that's balfor beattie. i mentioned tinker air force base. they are representing lackland, travis, fairchild. and might be a little unfair since you're the n

air force protect our country from the outer limits. the president, will have continuing coverage in a moment. when he leaves here, he'll be going to the winter white house for the holidays. we hope your holidays are great. have a merry christmas and happy new year. i'm trace gallagher in los angeles. ♪ >> tucker: good evening, and welcome to tucker carlson tonight. the president currently delivering remarks at a signing ceremony at andrews air force base. joint base andrews as they say here. going to sign a national defense authorization act. going to keep an eye on that. don't have to tell you what's in it at one point. adds to the perception even among democrats in washington that donald trump is on something of a role. it wasn't always like this. just six months ago, trump's reelection seemed like a pretty tough bet for a lot of reasons, but let's boil it down. when both google and the chinese government consider you a mortal enemy, is not so easin

the saudi air force trainee opened fire in a classroom building at the u.s. naval station in pensacola where a couple of 100 foreign students are in training in washington president trump said king solomon of saudi arabia had called to express his condolences. said that sorry people are greatly angered by the barbaric actions of the shooter and that this person in no way shape or form represents the feelings of the saudi people who love the american people so much the f.b.i. hasn't yet named the shooter or commented on his possible motives there are many reports circulating. but the f.b.i. deals only in facts. but at the naval station florida's governor addressed latent concerns i think 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 then to be here training on our soil or to do this the station's commanding officer has defended the international training program saying it's important to train aviators of the united states partner nations. on a signal some of the

with the air force which is what that is, the air force is not a legal member of the llc like the navy or the army are in their projects. but the airport does have an investment in direct loans. they have a financial interest in the project and so there is a partnership. and of course none of these can conceded without a partnership. a partnership is mutual accountability and orcs for a wealthy air force. >> thank you and i yield my time. >> thank you just a follow-up, one of the aspects in the nda that we focused on is the important for a common tennant bill of rights. and i want to hear from each of you, and i'll start with you mre importance of your answer to my district. what rights are you proactively insuring that are afforded to our military families who are leasing your properties? and how do you measure that success? >> thank you congresswoman, the question we are working diligently with the services on a common bill of rights. we participated and put forward our suggestions and that's well documented and i think run away to a solution. but putting the ability for residents to

with the air force, which is what jvc is. the air force is not a legal member of the llc like the navy or army are in their projects. but the air force does have an investment in the form of government direct loans they have a financial interest in the project. so there is a partnership. and, of course, none of these can succeed without having a good functioning partnership and a partnership is both cooperation but also mutual accountability. it works very well with the air force. >> thank you, i yield the balance of my time. >> thank you. just to follow up. one of the aspects in the ndaa that we focussed on is the importance of a common tenant bill of rights. i want to hear from each of you. i'll start with you mr. hickey just because of the importance of your answer to my district. what rights are you proactively ensuring that are afforded to our military families who are leasing your properties and how do you measure that success? >> thank you, congresswoman. for the question. we have all been working diligently with the s

officials say the suspect is a member of the saudi air force who was there for training. gunmen and calls opened fire on protesters in central baghdad killing at least 10. police in india showered with flowers and praise after they shoot dead 4 men suspected of raping and killing a woman in hydroponics. and months off today ousted that long time president why algerians are protesting against next week's election to replace him. out in sport and that the josh was heading into his world title rematch leaner than avar a briton weighed in more than 20 kilograms lighter than his opponent and the police as they get ready to face off in saudi arabia. oh a very warm welcome to news story a shooting at a u.s. naval base in florida has left 4 people dead including the gunman u.s. officials say the suspect is a member of the saudi air force who was in the united states for military training . at least 8 people were injured at the naval air station in pensacola the gunman's motive is not clear the base remain sealed off while investigators search for evidence u.s. president donald tr

air force. >> right. colonel harvey, if you want to tell us a little bit about yourself. what do you want people to know about your service and about your time flying combat airplanes and then becoming a top gun. >> oh, boy. [ laughter ] >> i know it's a long list. >> never made any model aircraft or anything like that, never did anything as far as aircraft goes. i lived in a small town in northeastern pennsylvania called nangola station so you can imagine how big that is. anyway, i sat in my front yard one day and i saw this flight of p-40s fly over in formation. i said i'd like to do that and that was it. [ laughter ] so i got into the military. i was drafted. i tried to enlist in the army air corps in january '43 and they said they weren't taking enlistments at that time and i was out of the war and the reason they said that is they didn't want me. so i was drafted in march of '43, and i went to fort meade, maryland, and took my written exam, a physical, and had a uniform issued and went to jefferson barrack, missouri, for basic training and finished my basic training

air force officer. colonel, thank you for speaking with us. good to see you. >> good to see you, too, natalie. >> i want to get your reaction to hearing about this "new york times" report. the playing of mass shootings at a dinner party there before the saudi national began his mass shooting, he had someone apparently filming it and others watching it carry out. all of this on a base where they were serving and where we lost some heroes. >> yeah. that's a really tough thing to consider, the fact that if this, as reported, is in fact, true, that he viewed videos of mass shootings that is a difficult thing for all of us not only to understand you an indicator that should have been reported if it was noticed by others as should have been reported to authorities. that's something i think that investigators will have to take a serious look at, to what extent did this saudi air force hraupbt actually have connection with others in this regard and to what extent he actually acted on his own volition to carry out this act. >> okay. so let's look at th

military to be called space force, part of the air force like the marine corps is part of the navy. china and russia are endangering military satellites in space. we know the importance of space as a war fighting realm, but talk to us why it's important to have a separate organization created, why the air force

force and happened to be at a naval air station pensacola for training so we will of course await more details but obviously there will be an f.b.i. investigation and officials that were very conscious of that and so the the details that we have so far of course this the 2nd deadly shooting at a military installation at the naval base to take place this week. but we are also bringing new other stories in a breaking news story out of iraq this hour at least 9 people have been killed there by gunmen near a protest sign central baghdad dozens more wounded in the square the attackers were reported to have opened fire from cars. so yes we're getting reports there of 12 'd people killed in baghdad's killarney square but of course this comes after there have been protests taking place in the country that have led of course the prime minister to submit his resignation though that has done nothing to actually stop those protests from taking place going to bring you much more on that shooting in baghdad meanwhile people across in years been celebrating after police shot dead 4 men suspected of r

with his heritage and his unwavering commitment to the air force and the air force's mission to achieve reliable and sustainable lunch capability. although we all want to see this nation returned to the moon and go on to mars, having flown in space four times no one wants to see that more than me. we also recognize enabling the economic freedoms of this great nation depends on unsurpassed national security capabilities and to that end we are 100% focused on the air force mission first and recognize once operational omega will offer an affordable, high-performing option for commercial land exploration mission needs as well. omega is on track for first certification lunch in early 2021, impressive timeline for a major new system. we have ground tested the core booster that beats the air force need to replace the russian are 80. many of you watch their first ground test which verified essentially perfect trust and performance. the results of that test rather help engineers refine and validate our models increasing readiness for flight. the upper stage engines were first flight are ready an

you may find some of this video we obtained overnight disturbing but an air force veteran fights back against a robber in contra costa county. he ends up killing that robber. we'll have a live report up next. >>> plus -- >> this email is explosive. a top administration is saying stop the aid. >> as lawmakers on capitol hill take a holiday break new developments are released what, newly released white house emails say about the u.s. withholding aid from ukraine. >>> and patchy fog in parts of the bay area this monday morning. its it may impact your travel. kari hall tracking what's coming next form the holiday week, after a somewhat foggy weekend depending on where you were. "today in the bay" continues right now. >> soggy. >> it was wet. >> i'm kira klapper. we'll get to mike with the holiday wet and the science if you were rained on, you were soggy. kari hall has the meteorological degree so we'll check with her on that one. >> we did see some rain this weekend and what we have left, a lot of humidity and some fog. it's been very patchy and that's a look at dublin. i know it's hard t

force, and somebody asked the air force a question, and the air force just funded 25 or 30 f-5s to a dedicated adversa adversary squadron, and i noticed in the press that they took the f-35, the new ones from tindall that was devastated by the hurricane and moving that up to nellnellis and they are goin try to form an adversary squadron out of those plane, but try to figure that out. that is the building. that is home [ laughter ] and there's the a-4s. we started a study and we painted each airplane a little different camouflage. went around the world and took a look at the various color schemes. some of those airplanes were so good that you could not see them from a mile away, you know. then you think about the merge coming head-on 1,000 miles per hour. anyhow. there he is. that is the guy i borrowed the a-4 and that guy in the back is j.c. smith. he is pretty famous. he relieved me to be in charge of topgun, and he got the first mig of the war, the first one shot down before the school even started. he a wild man. he is from san angelo, texas. and this is going to break you up. i c

lend air force air force equipment land military equipment and all sorts navy military equipment so if d.n.a. the government of national accord to gets these advances weapons that could make a change on the ground in the favor of the forces loyal to the government of national accord now yesterday the government met with the military commanders here in tripoli and they have decided to activate to put in place the agreement the military agreement signed with the last month and that as a said includes the air force or military equipment and also all. infantry military equipment and navy military equipment so. on the in the other hand today the front lines in southern tripoli have witnessed clashes again with heavy weapons especially of tillery from both sides in and in and around earlier and more could military camp in southern tripoli and we're going to just wait it out now that for fighters loyal to the government of national called have been killed by airstrikes lunch and by fighter jets loyal to the world for have to and meanwhile the government forces are trying to open a new fron

officials say the suspect is a member of the saudi air force who was there for training. hello i'm maryam namazie in london you're with al-jazeera also coming up on the program gunmen in calls opened fire on protesters in central baghdad killing at least 10 people. police in india are showered with sweet flowers and praise after they shoot dead 4 men suspected of raping and killing a woman in hyderabad. and months after they ousted their longtime president why algerians of protesting against next week's election to replace him. welcome to the program our top story a shooting at a u.s. naval base in florida has a 4 people dead including the gunman u.s. officials say the suspect was a member of the saudi air force who was in the united states for military training at least 8 people were injured and injured at the naval base in pensacola the gunman's motive is not clear and base remains sealed off while investigators search for evidence u.s. president donald trump says the saudi king called him to send his condolences and said he's directed his security services to cooperate

air force law. colonel harvey if he wanted to also little bit about yourself, what do you want people to know about your service in about your time flying combat airplanes and then becoming a top gun? >> oh boy, >> i know it's a long list. >> i never made any model aircraft or anything like that, never did anything as far as aircraft goes, i lived in a small town in northeastern pennsylvania. anyway i was standing in my front yard monday and i saw this flight of p forties flying over information, i said i would like to do that, and that was it. so i got into the military, i was drafted, i tried to enlist in the army air corps in january 43, they said they weren't taking enlistments at that time, that was the head of the war. the reason they said that it is they didn't want me in the army air corps, so i was drafted in march of 43, so i went to four main maryland, took my written exam, my physical, and the uniform mission and went to jefferson missouri for basic training. finished my basic training,

the saudi air force trainee opened fire in a classroom building at the u.s. naval station in pensacola where a couple of 100 foreign students are in training in washington president trump said king salmon of saudi arabia had called to express his condolences. he said that the saudi people are greatly angered by the actions of the shooter and that this person in no way shape or form represents the feelings of the saudi people who love the american people so much the f.b.i. hasn't yet named the shooter or commented on his possible motives there are many reports circulating. that the f.b.i. deals only in facts but at the naval station florida's governor addressed leighton's concerns i think 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 then to be here training on our soil that to do this the stations commanding officer has defended the international training program saying it's important to train aviators of the united states partner nations. so i'm going to think

force officer at an air base in florida last week. she is set to lead her country's defense against allegations of genocide they stem from the 27000 military crackdown which force 70000 mostly rango muslims to flee to neighboring bangladesh. the volcanic activity has significantly increased on new zealand's why fall into what could be a blows to efforts to recover the 8 people who are still missing but believed dead erupted on monday killing at least 6 people 1st. others are in hospital 25 a veteran are in critical condition there's mounting pressure from relatives to find the 8 people who remain unaccounted for but police say safety is paramount we've got to be suitable the environmental. situation in iran the oil and. then we can like senator sessions once we've got all the information. so the. huge priority for us we've got to get this right we cannot put other people. to go out there into. the oil and actually. correspondent jessica washington is on the coast near to white island and she's been speaking to people who helped the su

with the air force, which is what jvc is. the air force is not a legal member of the llc like the navy or army are in their projects. but the air force does have an investment in the form of government direct loans they have a financial interest in the project. so there is a partnership. and, of course, none of these can succeed without having a good functioning >> partnership and a partnership is both cooperation but also mutual accountability. it works very well with the air force. >> thank you, i yield the balance of my time. >> thank you. just to follow up. one of the aspects in the ndaa that we focussed on is the importance >> of a common tenant bill of rights. i want to hear from each of you. i'll start with you mr. hickey just because of the importance of your answer to my district. what rights are you proactively ensuring that are afforded to our military families who are leasing your properties and how do you measure that success? >> thank you, congresswoman. for the question. we have all been working diligently with

thfallen were transported to dover air force base in delaware. david begnaud has more now from the fbi investigation. >>> we are as we do in most active shooter investigations, work with the presumption that this was an act of terrorism. >> reporter: the shooter was a 21-year-old second lieutenant in the royal saudi air force. mohammed saeed alshamrani. he was a naval flight officer in training here. >> there are a number of saudi students who were close to the shooter and continue to cooperate in this investigation. their saudi commanding officer has restricted them to base, and the saudi government has pledged to fully cooperate with our investigation. >> reporter: the "associated press" has reported that the shooter held a dinner party days earlier where he watched mass shooting videos with three other saudi students. according to the "ap," one of the three who attended the dinner party recorded video outside the classroom building while the shooting was taking place. >> as much as i would love to answer any questions about the videos or any o

the air force, their senior leadership, they would not change the tactics. we brought him down to fly. he is living proof of what should have happened. they later went on. after they got started, he retired or something. the air force kamala. i will say they are joined at the hip. they shared information. they are both american fighter schools. they share information. air force, i never said a bad word about them. they built it hundred of those planes. that is one of the reasons that i had buried with me. they lost 347 340-something airplanes. those guys were as good as anybody in the world. yesterday yes, sir, right here. >> >> i salute you for all your service. i thank you for that. they took the bull out of the aircraft. did they take the bullets out of the aircraft's that were giving ground support to the infantry? >> >> i think he is asking about the comment that you made earlier. the navy took the bullets out of the sky right sky raid. with it did they take the bullets out of any of the ones helping those on the ground? >> >> they never had a gatling g

now we will go to whiteman air force base. who would like to speak at whiteman? is that whiteman right there? that is whiteman. go ahead, please. >> hello and on behalf of all of the white tack hell hounds and the families, very merry christmas. we appreciate you taking time out of your schedule to talk with us. that you would single out the 20th to speak, thank you very much. three of our youngest crewmembers, as you know, were flying combat operations every day of the year our planes are over afghanistan. we have a first you tenant and -- the youngest 19 years old, missions around the clock in afghanistan for you every day. thank you for taking the time. it is an incredible honor, and merry christmas. pres. trump: thank you very much, lieutenant colonel. i have to ask you a question. we spent a lot of money on brand-new airplanes, as you know. three years ago, you did not have brand-new airplanes, you were not doing well. are you seeing the big difference, they are already arriving? are you seeing the big difference? >> sir, the air force is thriving, the 30's

i'm richelle carey this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up what drove a saudi air force officer training at a u.s. naval base to shoot 3 classmates investigators are searching. thousands of afghans are forced to return from iran as u.s. sanctions bite and the work runs out. tell you how climate change is wrecking the once thriving fishing industry along the u.s. east coast. an attack by an identified gunman on protesters camped in iraq's capital is killed at least 20 people the shootings happened late friday night around kalani square a focal point in the weeks of gover anti-government protests more than 70 others were wounded we'll be live in baghdad in a moment 1st dorsetshire bari has more on how things unfolded. panic among crowds as gunfire echoing around the square in central baghdad moments earlier gunmen had pulled up in cars and trucks at a building where protesters have based themselves since anti-government rallies began in october medics struggle to treat the dozens injured there's been concerns that the rallies gathered around tahrir square could spiral into chaos.

what was a saudi air force officer doing on a u.s. navy installation? >> there's always been international students training here because it's a good place to train and it's good, quality training. >> u.s. allies such as saudi arabia often have members of their military come to the u.s. for training, a practice that may now come under scrutiny even as investigators talk to those who knew the shooter. the saudi news agency says the king has ordered saudi security forces to cooperate with american investigators. barbara starr, cnn the pentagon. >> a pentagon spokesman says there are more than 5100 foreign students in the u.s. for security related training. 852 of them are from saudi arabia. how does the selection process work for letting these troops train in the united states? >> the types of selection processes that a country like saudi arabia has, we're dependant on those before we allow them to come into our country. and the fact that these kinds of procedures did not catch this individual, we have to figure out, you know, did he radicalize himself du

the saudi air force trainee opened fire in a classroom building at the u.s. naval station in pensacola where a couple of 100 foreign students are in training in washington president trump said king solomon of saudi arabia had called to express his condolences. and sorry people are greatly angered by the actions of the shooter and this person in no way shape or form represents the feelings of the saudi people who love the american people so much the f.b.i. hasn't yet named the shooter or commented on his possible motives there are many reports circulating. that the f.b.i. deals only in facts but at the naval station florida's governor addressed latent concerns i think 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 then to be here training on our soil or to do this the station's commanding officer has defended the international training program saying it's important to train aviators of the united states partner nations france is reeling from the largest strikes in

so why would germany's air force want to use nuclear weapons at all. those highs. on the one hand we have to make an appropriate conventional contribution so that we can continue to have an influence on policy. but we must also be prepared to bear the burden and it is a burden of having nuclear weapons stationed on our territory or if necessary delivered by our aircraft. i think is. but it's extremely important to understand the situation as part of our overall nuclear strategy. and our ability to help shape policy within the nato alliance this is. in short germany can continue to have a say in nato as nuclear strategy only if it's prepared to use these weapons. this also applies to nuclear weapons modernization programs there are several nato member states that say existing stocks of weapons are outdated and need to be replaced. christensen points out this process is already underway. as far as we can figure out the increased accuracy is about 3 times better then than it is with the existing weapons now what that means is that not only can you strike targets facil

the effectiveness of the air force have been tremendous. there are success stories that are contributing to a lack of a dependence and ability to take over the fight on their own. i was pleased with the willingness of the afghan's attack of these issues. >> i know you didn't serve in iraq personally. i'm curious as i think all of us are veterans of these lunches and conversations, if you move this time line back a bit and talk about iraq people wouldn't have present districted how those forces withered in the faces of the challengeses they faced and policy makers were set back when they did. i'm curious what you sort of see as the key distinctions here. clearly you think the afghan forces have done well and admirably. what have we done better? what is the cultural distinctiveness? what are the key components we should be learning as a country? >> i never served in iraq and can't speak firsthand. i served six years in afghanistan. but i can tell you about the perceptions that existed in afghanistan. when people saw what was happening in iraq

when the air force times, a fine organization, the air force times reported on these drone shootings and they started off their story not talking about 5-15s or drones but a paragraph about the red barron and his legacy. did those somehow fit into that legacy. the idea of world war i and the fighter pilots that we see there are very much in the minds of fighter pilots today. and so let me define what i'm talking about a little bit. when i talk about the fighter pilot mithos and the culture, there are basically five characteristics that this fighter culture has. here's what i'm getting at. individualism. they see themselves as individual fighters, and that includes being so individualistic that they are resistant to authority figures. they don't like their c.o.s, they feel okay sometimes dibeying orders if they can get away with it. aggressiveness is part of this. they see themselves as longing for combat, they want to get into fights, it includes a sense of competitiveness with each other. we'll get into that, the use of heroic and mythological imagery to describe themselves. the ver

the saudi air force trainee opened fire in a classroom building at the u.s. naval station in pensacola where a couple of 100 foreign students are in training in washington president trump said king solomon of saudi arabia had called to express his condolences. i'm sorry people are greatly angered by the actions of the shooter and this person in no way shape or form represents the feelings of the saudi people who love the american people so much the f.b.i. hasn't yet named the shooter or commented on his possible motives there are many reports circulating. that the f.b.i. backs but at the naval station florida's governor addressed latent concerns i think 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 then to be here training on our soil that to do this the stations commanding officer has defended the international training program saying it's important to train aviators of the united states partner nations. but when rolled out the red carpet this weekend as it hos

air force. more and more nato aircraft are taking part in interception missions including going to spare planes. germany is making a substantial contribution to nato is program to help protect the baltic states. but such busy skies are not without risk. that. we're still uses more fool by snows imagine what would happen if for example a russian military aircraft crossed the border there by accident or deliberately and was shot down by a western or american forces like. that there's a big danger such an incident could lead to an escalation that quickly spirals out of control. so the tensions present here in europe today are a major cause for concern. good to. see a bidding cliff. these u.s. b. 52 bombers are preparing to take part in a training exercise in the baltic states. many see this deployment as a message to russia. and it isn't the only message. we've seen and types of exercises that we haven't seen since the cold war where american be 52 bombers to fly up over the north pole to the launc