radicalized, public speeches to his colleagues on the base radical islam and how to carry out jihad and on the attack, shouted out allah akbar and carrying out on the name of his faith and islam. it s clearly a terrorist attack and what they re saying is, look, we just want proper medical care and want our benefits due to us and we cannot get them. megyn: they re getting medical care and they re getting benefits, but there s a difference in the way you get care and benefits if you re wounded in combat or as a result of a terrorist act versus just a veteran who didn t serve overseas. that s right. megyn: so kirsten, here is the thing the from the army, to award a purple heart and want it declared a terrorist act. we have to declare it a foreign terrorist element this guy. but says to declare this soldier a foreign terrorist, we re told that it would have a profound effect on the
left on his person. reporter: she s since been laid off and says the president broke the promise he made, that the ft. hood shooting victims would be well taken care of. not to the least little bit have the victims been taken care of. in fact, they ve been neglected very badly. reporter: so the president s promise was not fulfilled? no. reporter: what has so upset her and other victims and led them to file a lawsuit is the decision to deny the injured soldiers a purple heart, terming the ft. hood shooting workplace violence. retired staff sergeant shawn manning says that means lower medical care and a loss of tens of thousands in benefits. basically they re treating us like, you know, i was downtown and got hit by a car. reporter: the army says it s not true that victims are being neglected and secretary of the army john mchugh told abc news the purple heart can only be awarded if the attack involves a foreign terrorist element.
question now. but you have turkey watching this southern border for some time. there is iraq and there has long been suspicion the airways over iraq is being used to supply the government. israel below that and jordan to a lesser degree to the south. the point you make about the weapons falling into the hand of the wrong people, what concerns you the most? syria has a large supply of chemical weapons and chemical agents. so if these chemical weapons were to fall into the hand of the terrorist element, the al qaeda element among the opposition the risk would be not only they could be used in the conflict in syria, but they
before the people and use that statement, did. i have read every one of the five interviews she did that day. she was within the context of that statement. and for this, she has been pillaried for two months. i don t understand it. it has to stop. if it continues, it s going to set up once again a partisan divide in these the house and the senate, which congressman rogers and i have tried to overcome and have overcome with some success with respect to the intelligence committees. congressman rogers, to my understanding, talking to government officials, is that what susan rice said on meet the press five days after the attack and other programs as well, was very similar to what then director petraeus said privately on september 14, that there appeared to be a terrorist element to it but that it appeared first to be spontaneous but it became a terrorist attack, and that that was his belief.
i have read every one of the five interviews she did that day. she was within the context of that statement. and for this, she has been pillaried for two months. i don t understand it. it has to stop. if it continues, it s going to set up once again a partisan divide in these the house and the senate, which congressman rogers and i have tried to overcome and have overcome with some success with respect to the intelligence committees. congressman rogers, to my understanding, talking to government officials, is that what susan rice said on meet the press five days after the attack and other programs as well, was very similar to what then director petraeus said privately on september 14, that there appeared to be a terrorist element to it but that it appeared first to be spontaneous but it became a terrorist attack, and that that was his belief. so were they not speaking basically in the same way?