are vetted before coming to the u.s. today the community is grieving together as a vigil, family members identifying one of the victims who was killed, joshua kalew watson, a 23-year-old recent graduate of the u.s. naval academy. his brother wrote on facebook: after being shot multiple times, he made it outside and told the first response team where the shooter was, and those details were invaluable. he died a hero, and we are beyond proud, but there is a hole in our hearts that can never be filled. one deputy who was wounded in the shootout was released from the hospital this morning. seven others are still recovering from their injuries. kristin? kristin: jacqui heinrich, thanks. leland? leland: all right. democratic maryland congressman, vice chair of the house armed services committee also a retired colonel in the u.s. army reserve, anthony brown joins us from the reagan defense forum, simi valley, california, where there s obviously a lot of discussion about this going on right no
he idolized him. ed: and that s why we played the song i am . and his wife talks about that and neil diamond, thurmon was supposed to go on tour with him and if diana would have given him permission. ed: she would have given him permission. he died in august of 1979. and some may get the call. why thurmon? i witnessed the beauty of the man, who he was, he was a hall of fame guy and when the kids go to cooperstown, they say daddy, granddad, who was he? they re going to say one of the greatest men you will ever know in life. ed: we ll find out tomorrow. ray, thank you for coming in. thank you. ed: when we come back, a tribute to survivors and fallen heroes of pearl harbor.
still suing the saudi government. they want basically them to pay up and now you have the governor of florida an ally of the president, saying saudi arabia has to do more here. what say you? well, i agree with governor desantis, he and i served in the jag corps together. if saudi arabia had knowledge, then we knead need to look and see if they did, if the individual was radicalized, whether he was radicalized in the united states or before he came to pensacola. ed: okay. i m sorry, i didn t mean to interrupt you, congressman. we re going to have you back in a minute to dive deep on impeachment as well. currently right now my colleague jennifer griffin is out at the reagan defense forum we re a big part of and interviewing a top military official and let s dip in live and get a flavor. the fact that we had an incident this same week in pearl harbor at the ship yard and then
recover and be released from the hospital within the next few days, ed, back to you. ed: thank you for that report. defense secretary mark esper put out a statement, i want to make sure we re doing our due diligence, what are the procedures and screening people coming in to make sure they have their life in order. and coming in, guy reschenthaler. thank you for having me on. ed: and let s talk about vetting and we have partnerships as i understand it with over 100 countries supposed to be allies like saudi arabia where we train some of their military pilots and others. you ve searched in the military as we noted. do we need to step up vetting to make sure we re geg the best and brightest. we do need to increase our vetting process. i don t want to speculate, but taking a step back when we train
disturbing. i think it s been a pre-determined outcome from the beginning and it s a political hit job. ed: congressman on that point, you say that the president hasn t gotten due process rights. jerry nadler, the democratic chairman is saying he s offering that, he s saying bring up the white house counsel and rudy guiliani and mr. president, if you want to come up, how is that not due process. it s completely disingenuous. the outcome was predetermined and the time for the president to call exculpatory witnesses, and witnesses that the democrats would not bring out, were in the secret hearings in the basement. capitol and now saying that the president can call his witnesses. we cannot call our own witnesses and to call this a judicial proceeding where it s fair and neutral is a joke. it s a political hit job and politics is driving this entire process. ed: quick last question, you is