futures looking steady earlier on the heels of moves last week with the tense situation in ukraine. as always, i ll keep an eye on things for you. but we begin this half hour with the search for the malaysia airline jetliner. new developments that may down play terrorism. police identify two men that use stolen passports to board the plane. both are iranian, neither tied to terrorism groups. let s get the latest from pamela brown. we learned the second passenger that boarded the doomed flight was a 29-year-old man by the name of delavar seyed mohammad reza. he was traveling with a 19-year-old iranian who was traveling to germany where his who are lives, according authorities. the two men tried to get to europe as part of human smuggling not terrorism.
use this treaty as a back-door method to impose gun control in the united states. so they explained the treat use would violate the second amendment and infringe upon or constitutional right to bear arms, except that this is simply factually wrong. here are the compact words from the treaty as it stands. the treaty affirms, quote, the sovereign right of any state to regulate and control conventional arms inclusively within its territory pursuant to its own legal or constitutional system, end quote. sounds pretty clear to me. the issue is not about gun control. this is about stopping dictators from acquiring tanks, missiles and attack helicopters that can kill tens of thousands in a day. it s about making it harder for terrorism groups to buy extremely dangerous weapons. the other broader is that treaties are not enforceable,
would violate the second amendment and infringe upon or constitutional right to bear arms, except that this is simply factually wrong. here are the exact words from the treaty as it stands. the treaty affirms, quote, the sovereign right of any state to regulate and control conventional articles exclusively within its territory pursuant to its own legal or constitutional system, end quote. sounds pretty clear to me. the issue is not about gun control. this is about stopping dictators from acquiring tanks, missiles and attack helicopters that can kill tens of thousands of people in a day. it s about making it harder for terrorism groups to buy extremely dangerous weapons. the other broader critique is that treaties are not enforceable. but they do make it harder for really bad guys to get guns.
talk about this too much. shepard: a car bomb ripped through a police station in pakistan s largest city and killed 15 and injured dozens. the area is home to the united states consulate and luxury hotels. officials say militants blew up the bomb near the office of criminal investigation office which leads efforts to capture militants linked to terrorism groups. sources tell us that the director of the agency was likely the target. the blast damaged self hopes and left behind a 10 wide crater in the road and the u.s. consulate was not damaged. folks in brazil elected a clown to congress last month and his name is grumpy, but he may not be qualified to serve, not because of the work history.how because of the work history.how stay tuned.
we are going to keep radical islamic terrorists the hell out of our country. trump is already facing some dissent from his newly appointed national security adviser, lieutenant general h.r. mcmaster, who says using the term radical islamic terrorism, doesn t help the u.s. in working with its allies to defeat terrorism groups. i m joined now by colonel peter mansour. he is a retired u.s. army colonel and a former aide to n general david petraeus. h.r. mcmaster wrote a very uninfluential book called dereliction of duty. in it he says, quote, the war in vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the present pages. new york times or the college campuses. it was lost in washington, d.c. so explaining that the generals in the war failed to speak up to president johnson in particular.