sort of totalitarian state. can a country function when the civilian population is armed better than the police? that s a good question. i take it back to 2002 briefing that some members of the state department and i had after the tragic i vents of 9/11 at fort brag. one of the things the individuals there who were conversing with the situation in the world with regard to terrorism that alarmed them and us majorly. this is as the ruins are still smoldering from 9/11. their pronouncement that domestic terrorists warned them more than foreign terrorists. they said we only know about these people when the carnage is around us. we know about the international terrorists. we know about their intent, their capabilities. we can track them. the nsa can listen to their phone calls, but these people just show up in oklahoma city
which could fair better or worse and why? it s tough because the military juries these days i would guess, specifically those at fort brag, all of them deployed probably multiple times both to afghanistan and iraq so you re really having battle hardened commanders and ncos, so i don t know if i was his defense counsel or versus a a military judge could look at the case a little more dispassionately and lock at the elements and see if they match up. . if i had to make a decision today, i might lean towards military judge. and the colonel who will be his military judge has a good reputation. he s done other high profile cases like the kandahar massacre. so he s well known and a known commodity. he won t let either side get away with anything. so today, i might go judge alone. thank you both so much.
be tried by the jury or a military judge. the hearing lasted just 11 minutes. bowe bergdahl could face more than ten years in prison. his next court date is january 12th. nick valencia is on the case for us at fort brag. also joining me is former federal prosecutor anita robins. nick, to you first. a a very short hearing. tell us what happened. reporter: it was over just about as fast as it began. 10:00 p.m. sharp, ten minutes before it started, bowe bergdahl entered the courtroom relatively incon speckously. we didn t see any family or friends inside the courtroom. 50 people inside even split between military personnel and members of the media. had he showed up wearing military dress. you could see a small scar on the back of his head. when walking in he had a slight limp on his right side the
why not, a lot. chase sapphire preferred. attorney general makes history the not so good way, he s held in contempt. let s go to our income news and we have the other headlines. mary ann. a massive wildfire continuing to burn out of control in colorado. it s said to be the most destructive in state s history. it s burned more than 350 homes in colorado springs and has forced more than 30,000 people to pack what they could and get out. it s already scorched 29 square miles and is still under investigation. contained. only about ten and a u.s. soldier shooting and killing a member of his unit before turning the gun on himself. it happened at fort brag in north carolina. there was a safety meeting and he turned and killed a commander