party, to decide who the winner will be of their contested primary for the republican party s presidential nominated contest this year. and you know all that, but it s worth just sort of going back to brass tacks for a second. in a two party system, each party is important, right? in a two party system, the relative strength, skill, the organizational capacity, the financial status, the size, the health of each party is at least a little bit important in every single state in the country, even in states that are dominated by one party or the other, the health and the capacity of each party matters. it s particularly crucial in swing states, though, where one party doesn t dominate, and in places where it s likely gonna be a close race between the republican nominee and the democratic nominee and the general election this fall, it is particularly important how healthy the state parties are on both sides. and the battleground states, the swing states these days, it s a pretty f
response kicking into high gear across america s south. a weekend of violent storms and deadly tornadoes. officials saying a full recovery in places like mississippi could take years. volunteers and nonprofits, including the american red cross, salvation army and samaritan s purse flooding into the area offering assistance, food and shelter. they need a lot of all of it. welcome, brand-new hour starts now. i m bill hemmer. dana has time off this week. a big welcome to aishah. aishah: i m aishah hosni. search and rescue operations are officially over in mississippi. now comes the harder part. officials turning to longer-term issues. we are talking about housing, food, public services. a task made even harder with local government buildings destroyed. they aren t even there. the offices are gone. many neighborhoods reduced to rubble. no power, no phones, no gas stations, nothing. meanwhile survivors who lost everything telling their incredible stories. my husband opened the
that have forced evacuations of state capital buildings in multiple states. also, dozens of bomb threats to jewish institutions, particularly in california, nearly 100 in california alone, but also around the country. we are also seeing an epidemic of swatting calls to federal and state officials, these are 9-1-1 calls about nonexisting hostage situations or active shooter investigations. the calls are designed to provoke an armed police response to a targets home. nbc news reporting as of tonight that this includes the swatting of special counsel jack smith on christmas day, who is prosecuting the federal case against donald trump. the federal, the judge, also swatted at her own washington area home just last night. welcome to the kind of election year we are gonna have this year. why are we having this epidemic? what does it mean? what can be done about it? joining us now former justice department senior national security official, mary mccord. miss mccord, really glad you
individuals, three being children, she positioned herself in a way almost like in a sniper s position to really target these officers. if you look at some of the photos that have been released by the metro police you can see where she is shooting at the windshield. she wasn t just shooting to those two responding officers. she was also shooting at their backup as well. many people know that after the columbine shooting, officers really changed the way that they deal with these active shooter investigations. at that time they would go door-to-door to relieve children until they could make their way to the suspect. but after that, they noticed that the suspect would just barricade themselves in one location and then they wouldn t be able to save the other children s lives so they did something different. they said you go straight to the gunfire. there has been criticism of law enforcement in the past like
we are as we do in most active shooter investigations, work with the presumption that this was an act of terrorism, our main goal right now is to confirm whether he acted alone or was he a part of a larger network. heather: and fox news alert for you, the fbi confirms that they are investigating the pensacola naval base shooting as terrorism as we learn more about the deep-seated hatred that this gunman reportedly held for the united states, joining me now to react president of security studies and former member of the army special forces jim hanson, jim, thanks so much for joining us, we appreciate this. good to be with you, heather. heather: killed 3 sailers, injured 8 others, what do we know in terms of the very latest as to where the investigation is going? i think it s significant that the fbi has made it a terror