inappropriate training sessions or other kinds of commentary or misplaced priorities in our military. i raised this with military leadership and tried to address it and i write about it in my book only the strong. the liberal progressives have an effort to neuter the military not just by cutting the budget but engaging in left wing social engineering. a lot of progressives seem to worry more about training social justice warriors than warriors trained to kill or whether drill sergeants are teaching the right pronouns rather than tactics. it is dangerous for them to put them in the fight unprepared and dangerous for our country because we rely on these young men and women to keep us safe. dana: do you think it is hurting recruitment? i think there is no question it is hurting recruitment. i heard it from recruiters not just in arkansas but across the country. when you have a recruiting base in particular that comes from rural america or working class
together in a big way to move to a city. they ve had to build defensive positions, which become tarts. we have been able to go after their leadership their financial infrastructure. their ability to expand their recruiting base. we are doing everything we can to degrade them to delay them until we get a ground force to go if and control and in state. to put a counterargument, there are serious limitation you will be bombing for nine months now. they haven t been that degraded much in syria. they have gone back and forth and they are managing to recruit and to some extent they have been degraded more by the oil price than anything else. so at some point this has to transfer, doesn t it into a more serious ground operation? clearly it does. that has been the intent from the beginning. this is a long term effort. it s not going to happen fast if we have to train a ground force. training is now beginning. people are actually in the
possibly to get a good shower. yeah. we all like bottled water but it can get pretty expensive. i know there is going to be a news conference coming up in ten minutes or so where they are providing new information. you ll monitor it and we ll monitor it and get the latest information to our viewers. this is a shocking story out of with he is west virginia right now. elizabeth cohen, thank you very much. unemployment falls to a new low but where are the jobs? and new concerns that al qaeda may be using syria as a recruiting base for american extremists. we have disturbing details. that s coming up. stay with us. you re in the situation room. welcome back. how is everything? there s nothing like being your own boss! and my customers are really liking your flat rate shipping. fedex one rate. really makes my life easier. maybe a promotion is in order.
custody. this is a google maps view, if you will, of the location where the shooting has taken place on this navy base. jim was on with us just a short time ago with this breaking news. basically, this base is a recruiting base, and we re hoping to get better images in so that you can see where this base is located and kind of the layout of what we re discussing. right now there are reports that at least four people were shot on millington navy base. the base itself is on lockdown. according to the latest information, a shooter is in custody. on the website for the base itself, they consider themselves part of the navy region midwest. it is a navy installations command. we are working to get more information. jim may be able to join us here with more details on this
least four people have been shot at that u.s. navy base, which is a recruiting command for the u.s. navy. details are very sketchy at this time. navy officials are describing this as an ongoing shooting standoff. mick, i need you to stick around. to your point, we re waiting for confirmation. you ve been able to get this confirmation of this shooting. millington navy base. can you tell me more about this base and any other details? i know we re just getting this breaking news. again, how many people believed to have been shot? well, reportedly, according to police reports, as many as four people have been shot. no idea on the conditions, no idea on if there s one or more shooters on the base. it s all very sketchy. it s evolving as we speak. millington, it s landlocked there in tennessee, is the recruiting base, recruiting command for the u.s. navy. again, we re just getting all