i think so. i wouldn t go so far as saying conceal and carry for everyone on post for reasons, having served in command climate, maintaining discipline. that may not be what you need. but more officers carrying on a regular basis on a concerted rotation. everywhere you go where everyone knows everyone is not armed that makes everyone more vulnerable. in this particular case hadรง someone been carrying at this particular facility maybe someone would have been stopped. most americans don t realize it s a gun-free zone in many ways on these posts that weapons are locked up in the arms lockers unless they re training and that makes some people vulnerable. soft target. pete hegseth, thanks for being with us this morning. coming up, the story is also disturbing. a d.c. mosque with ties to a 9/11 hijacker has been reaching out to american prisoners for a decade. the man who blew the lid off the whole thing joining
the owner stopped him from doing so. that was in 2011. this as more and more military members like captain hegseth want soldiers to be allowed to carry guns on to bases. more staff duty nco s, more officers carrying on a regular basis, on a concerted rotation. anywhere you go where everybody knows everybody is not armed, that makes everyone obviously more vulnerable. in this particular case, had someone else been carrying at that facility, maybe something would have stopped. do i think there need to be more people equipped and armed to do that? yes. reporter: brian, steve and elisabeth, he bought it legally, but he wasn t allowed to have it on the post. that s right. he was able to murder three people and over a dozen were injured. what s the status of their injuries right now? reporter: i called the hospital just before our newscast this morning. they said out of the nine patients taken to the level one trauma is center, five have been
dress appropriately. because we had a bowling party and you wore a bowling shirt. remember when we had the bowling out in front of the building. they made us bowling shirts. i wore it on the other one. you had captain hegseth. maria molina. we take our bowling quite seriously, don t we, maria? there s kevin mcca it.id not do any actual and brian tully. and my reindeer sweater. wear that every year. and there you see kevin. that s my photo bomb.
effective generals at fighting and winning wars. character is incredibly important. everything i learned in the army infused character. you don t want to have toxic leaders in the ranks. it s terrible. at the same time i don t want my four-star general worried about what captain hegseth thinks about him. i m one tool in the toolbox for him in fighting and winning a war and i will follow his orders. he shouldn t be worried about how i m going to peer review him. brian: here s what general dempsey said about this. he says you can have someone who is intensely competent who is steeped in the skills of his profession but doesn t live a life of character. and that doesn t do me any good. you know, general eisenhower had a miss stress when he was world war ii in europe. he seemed to do fine over there. that is not conduct we want or like in our officers but it doesn t reflect his