i want to go to chris swiker former fbi director for the criminal investigative division. used to work in municipal building and has spent a lot of time living and working in virginia beach as well. chris, what s your reaction so far? zbloots yeah, i m very familiar with the complex. it s a massive 20-building plus complex. and it s it s a very difficult scenario to respond to as a first responders. but what we saw here is that the current paradigm which is first responders go straight to the shooter. in the past that s not been the case. they would form a the perimeter but in the last couple years appear they would do a static sbroe. now they do dynamic entries go straight in straight to the shooter and try to nierltize it. the second thing is 11 fatalities and six wounded tells me that this this was a rapid fire weapon whether a pistol or rifle. they re designed to kill a lot of people in a short period of time. when you combine that with
might be a workplace type incident that the workplace was targeted. so you know, it s hard to read anything that other than that one thing. all right. chris, thank you very much. i appreciate your time. all right erin. thank you. and next more on the preying news we hear from the mayor of virginia beach after the deadly shooting in this city. [farmers bell] (driver) relax, it s just a bug. that s not a bug, that s not a bug! (burke) hit and drone. seen it, covered it.
time line starting to emerge rb right, right before 40. and it happened rapidly the lockdown was 45 minutes or so as he understands it. of course chris was saying this was certainly a rapid fire weaponen yeah, i d greed with chris. another couple things i d point out, chris was talking about the fact about whether this was workplace violence, which is what shimon was talking about. you have to wonder whether there was a trigger event today. you are also talking about right before the workday ends. one of the lines of inquiry has to be if he was trying reported so quickly i have to sit become and say if it s right before the workday ends that person was vigored so significant willy they couldn t manage to wait a weekend. i think we will have learned i m guessing the police learned already what the triggers event was. then the other equally significant question we spoke about, whether there is anybody else who spoke with the individual about the act before it happens. but i would thi
closed doors at the sin senate intelligence committee. let s bring in chris swiker. he is the former assistant directory of the fbi. nice to see you. nice to see you. heather: what about the timing of this in terms of the testimony happening on wednesday? we know there is a potential for the special counsel to drop his report sometime over the next week or two. i think he will let the attorney general get his sea legs over him before he did you. we have the testimony coming up. it does have some parameters set around it. it is going to be interesting to see what he is allowed to testify to or what the committee chair, whether he will respect those parameters, the russia testimony. heather: some of the republicans have said they are not going to stick to some of the parameters mentioned. not a surprise. it will be a pretty free-wheeling hearing. it is going to get interesting. heather: why are they doing that happening while the president is overseas dealing