position, and i think actually getting more of them out will be harder now because of congressional reaction to the president s release in this case. there are still many people there who we cannot let go. michael, thanks so much for your expertise. i m joined by paul rieckhoff and founder and ceo of iraq and afghanistan veterans. and adam kinzinger, republican congressman from illinois. he s an iraq and afghanistan veteran, still serves as a pilot in the air national guard. i have you both here to talk about the fallout from the va scandal, shinseki s resignation. congressman, let me start with you, though, on the key point of the release of the taliban prisoners. as a member of congress, a republican, do you oppose what you just heard from secretary hagel and his rationale for releasing them. let me say this, welcome home, bowe. there are a lot of questions about why he got captured. as you tried to get an answer to, that you did not get an answer to, in terms of abandoning his p
bases, it s really no harder than walking into almost any other office building anywhere in the united states. in that sense, the military remains vulnerable to its own personnel that has already given a card of trust to. it s not immune from the pressures that lead to violence or the presence of guns in these sorts of facilities. michael lighter, again, i should mention was deeply involved in the nadal hassan investigation in the 2009 ft. hood attack. thanks for being with us. we are awaiting the press conference which will be the first press conference. the first opportunity to explain things and answer questions from personnel at ft. hood itself. the ft. hood press conference we are expecting. stay with us, we ll have it here live. around here you don t make excuses. you make commitments. and when you can t live up to them, you own up, and make it right.
this same base. after those investigations into what went wrong in 2009 at the same base. how is it possible that this happened again. at the same base. did the u.s. military succeed in what they said would make these what was aimed at making their bases safe? i want to bring in the former director of the u.s. counter terrorism michael lighter, he served in the bush administration and obama add men trace station. it s too soon to try to take a big look at what has happened because we re not sure what has happened yet? that s right looking back at 2009 did that change the shootings. i have to say up front. i think what it did show,
holt and greg and michael lighter in washington, d.c. appreciate you re weighing in. all right, stick around, later this hour, we re going to look at the science behind that search we just discussed with renoned author. look at this video right here in the united states. evacuating the plane, oh, my god. the plane is on fire. oh, my god. my plane just crashed. you re looking at dramatic moments in philadelphia where passengers had to evacuate a florida bound plane last night after the front tire blew and the plane bounced and skidded down the runway leaving terrified passengers running to escape the smoking plane. this cell phone video captured the dash down the emergency slides and out the window exits. it was carrying 149 people and
process of difficult anguished searches for them. we have nbc news anchor lester holt. thank you for joining us. i m a big fan and greg fife, ntsb investigator and michael lighter. i ll start with you, mike, this story has been a reminder of how precarious international travel security can be. what are the specific vulnerabilities that are revealed here? one thing i would stress, ronan, we don t know if any of those vulenerabilities led to the result that we have but clearly highlighted weaknesses in how lost and stolen passports are reported and the extent to which that information is really used in a dynamic way to keep people who we don t want on airplanes out. this is really strong in the u.s. post 9/11. and it gets progressively weaker as you move away from the united states and areas like malaysia,