locations. meanwhile, the community here in shock and grief over the death of petty officer randall smith who succumbed to his injuries after two this morning. he was in his mid-20s, he grew up in ohio. the governor of that state tweeting that they have lost another hero. this as investigators continue to work around the clock, delving into the suspect s background, his social media habits. they say they ve uncovered nothing so far, no videos, no manifestos, nothing like that on electronic devices that would indicate he has been influenced by or directed by isis to commit these terrible crimes. those who knew him expressed surprise that he was the gunman behind this. they say he was friendly and nice. graduated with a degree in electrical engineering. it s a very stark comparison who the maen who allegedly opened fire on two military outposts killing five people four marines and one navy sailor. back to you. sarah, have you spoken to
it seems one thing we can be pretty sure of now he actually targeted two different military outposts military of some kind so maybe there s some relation there. seems to me it is important to find out whether anyone he knows has similar thoughts. in other words to try just in case there s someone else to find that person and fast before we start worrying about labels. well, you re absolutely right. one of the reasons that you saw all of those fbi agents start descending upon chattanooga yesterday after this happened, is to saturate the area, deal meetly in as fast as possible with the crime scenes, we searching his house doing neighborhood investigations and interviewing everybody and anybody in those areas and then pulling all the information together and during the day-to-day owns through late last night they were doing this with the information collected and trying to figure out if anyone else was involved in this and then as they eliminate that possibility to start
there was no one speaking during the last two hours of flight, that s what it tells us. if, on the other hand, there were conversations in the flight deck, it will tell us that too. it s going to tell us what it tells us. john cox, thank you so much. we will stay on this all morning. we appreciate your insight. moving on to other big news of the day. president obama has arrived in the netherlands this morning while the former soviet union is in deepening turmoil. russia has massed a sizeable force of ukraine s border and last minute meeting called for today which the president will attend. over the weekend russian forces overtook one of the last military outposts still under ukrainian crime in crimea and concern more of the country could follow. at the same time, the wall street journal reports russia may be evading u.s. eavesdropping. even as far back as the crimea invasion itself. the general reports u.s. attention was trained on troops on russian soil instead of
former president of the ukraine asked putin to send troops into ukraine to keep the peace. meanwhile, russian forces continue to surround key military outposts in the crimean peninsula in southern ukraine. the international community is scrambling before any blood is spilled or territory is taken. while the focus is on vladimir putin, some lawmakers are asking a different question, is this all a mess that president obama made. joining me is ed royce, congressman, thanks for being here. the white house says they are going to use every tool at their disposal to isolate russia diplomatically and economically. is that going to be enough? well, let s look at what they mean by economically. as you know, we in the house and in the senate are usually quite
in the cooler, george w. bush on the late night talk show circuit. lindsey vonn hurt again. and the sexiest people in tv news. and you know it s kind of a joke. i m not on the list. but morning joe folks are. we ll have details on that. but we want to begin with the news surrounding afghanistan tho this morning. drawdown of troops was supposedly a fait accompli in 2014, but new documents obtained show the u.s. is prepared to maintain military outposts in afghanistan for years. possibly until 2024 and pay to support hundreds of thousands of security forces. the papers which have not been signed would spend billions of u.s. taxpayer dollars. the agreement would allow tu.s. to maintain a security preparse.