self-inflicted wound by the president on what should be a victory lap for him. i want to stay with foreign policy and what seemed to be a statement from the governor of florida, ron desantis, about a debt owed by saudi arabia after the shooting yesterday at nas pensacola. the suspected shooter, a member of the saudi air force. this is what the governor said. this is just a few hours after the shooting. the victims bodies still there in the classroom building on the base. watch. the government of saudi arabia needs to make things better for these victims. i mean i think that they are going to owe a debt here given that this is one of their individuals. kurt, saudis owe a debt. when i heard that, i immediately thought of the 9/11 victims families who have been trying for some time to sue the saudi government. what s your take on what the governor said here? my mind went right to jamal
this country, you re talking about thousands of people. if you want to take that risk, you can look at whether they have a criminal record overseas, whether there s any indication of things like drug use. you want to look at their online activity, what s their email address, is that person communicating with a known terrorist. but if you re talking about multiplying that risk to tens of thousands of people, the chance that one of them will be a bad apple is pretty high. this is risk mitigation. eventually somebody is going to do what we saw yesterday in pensacola. do you agree or not agree with some of the florida officials who we heard from yesterday who were calling for more scrutiny when it comes to this training program at the department of defense of foreign nationals? i don t agree. i think that that s an easy answer from people who don t realize that if we want to spend time training people after we sell billions of dollars of military material overseas, if we want to spend
people that we know of so far. potentially more and still an unknown number of injured. victor blackwell, i believe we have covering all of this with more details for us. victor, what can you tell us? we just received the update from an official at nas pensacola. as you said, the two victims in this shooting, there s two dead. in addition to those two, the shooter, we don t know if that person s death is the result of gunfire from law enforcement or others or if it was self-inflicted. and according to this public information official at nas pensacola, three injured. now we had received a number of five injured from baptist health. so we re getting and people who have unfortunately followed this type of incident, these mass shootings now and this qualifies as one, understand that in the immediate minutes and hours after an incident like this, the information is coming
in quickly from several different sources. but i ll tell you the latest we have from nas pensacola, two victims killed. the shooter dead and three others injured. of course, we know that atf, according to that agency there is a search of the buildings on this base right now. and the fbi has sent teams from pence coal ajacksonville, mobile, alabama, to assist in this investigation. those are the latest numbers from law enforcement, jim and poppy. that would put the casualty figure at six, shooter dead, two others killed, including three injured and no word on their condition. barbara starr is at the pentagon. do we know if any of the wounded or killed are service members yet? i know the information is coming in slowly. we do not know that at this time. on these large military bases, a number large numbers of people go in and out of the gate every single day.
sending agents from the pensacola office, the jacksonville office and the mobile, alabama, office as well as part of this investigation across this sprawling facility here, nas pensacola. let me bring everyone joining us up to date here as you watch the live pictures from our affiliates. as jim said, the shooter in this formerly active shooter situation is dead. in addition, one other person. we do not know the identities, as you would expect this early on in this type of situation, and we also don t know if the death of that shooter was the result of gunfire from law enforcement or others or a self-inflicted gunshot wound. we know that nas pensacola with 16,000 military employees, 7,400 civilian employees, that facility is on lockdown right now. we re getting that from the navy. we re also receiving from the spokesperson for florida