shot, she was not dead and they tried to save her. i want the media to portray as somebody who did her research and why they were in that area, we don t know but she was not haphazardly out on the ocean just doing what, you know, loosely traveling around. martha: so sad. let s bring in mike barrett, former director of strategy for the white house, homeland security council and former intelligence officer for the office of the secretary of defense. mike, welcome. this is such tough news, and this is something we have not seen in this whole pirate story over the last several years. one of the pirates is quoted as saying it s never going to happen again that people get rescued and we get arrested. that is not the way we re doing things anymore. your thoughts. i think that s true. one of the trends that we re seeing here is that somalia is sort of an untkpwofp dollars area, there s a lot of lawlessness there. one of the challenges is that it basically used to be fishermen who didn t have
lawmakers. they exchanged punches through trash cans, yelled at each other and it started when the house speaker rejected request by the opposition leader to request a trade deal with china. we re happy to report, there were no serious injuries. that is going to do it for me. i m chris jansing. i ll see you back here at 3:00 p.m. eastern time. tamron hall picks things up now. much more at the top of the hour. waiting on a briefing from police in missouri regarding that little girl who was kidnapped earlier this week. the person of interest in the case turned a gun on himself. he is now dead. will they get answers? also, a modern-day pirate story. reports of machine gun welding pirates in the great state of texas? come on, there are cowboys in texas and now there s pirates. also, close call in the air. the faa is taking action after one control tower records almost two dozen potentially dangerous mistakes.