i admire my friends still in the fbi and intelligence community working very hard to try to develop the case around this situation and see if there s anybody else involved. i myself am the father of a young marine. four weeks ago i dropped my son off at a marine recruiting station. he s going through boot camp. this hits close to home. what bothers me is we look at this big blue thing above our heads with white puffy things floating around and don t call it the sky because we re afraid to make assumption. when we look at this case an individual during ramadan shooting at multimulti -ible multiple
now we learn this was a muslim mohammad youssuf abdulazeez who pulled the trigger. fbi told us late last night they do not have motive yet. abdulazeez was not on the radar screen. they re going to spend the day going through crime scenes at the strip mall was the shooting was initiates and at the reserve center. there s so much to go through as they piece together what happened here and why. they re also going through a lot of material removed from the suspect s home in nearby hixson across the tennessee river, eight miles from where we are. police yesterday briefly detained a couple of woman at the home. that was for safety precautions. they do not have anyone currently in custody. special agents say the fbi will spend hours and days finding out everything they possibly can about abdulazeez. we re checking every possible place he could have resided, visited, where he shopped, where
free where he killed the marines and severely wounded the female sailor. fbi has no possible connections to outside terror groups. they also say it s early in the investigation and they ve got a lot today go through. john roberts from front of the strip mall where the shooting started yesterday in chattanooga. thank you. here to discuss this cia operations officer, mike baker. the fbi wants to be careful they go through every lead they have. do you believe this morning this was radical islam unleashing terror in america. absolutely. yeah from an investigative standpoint as the bureau pointed out, you ve got to go through everything and look at every possibility. you ve got that aspect. you don t want to wildly speculate. we ve gotten to a stage in this country we have a very difficult
thank you. describe how everything unfolded yesterday. well we got there about five minutes after the shooting had occurred. a marine was on the sidewalk been hit in the leg, gunfire, bullet holes sprayed all over the glass store fronts. went inside and took a look at offices, walls, tvs, furniture, gun bullet holes everywhere. just something like out of a tv picture. i bet it was. keith, you got there five minutes after the the shooting. you probably paused for a moment when you heard the news because your daughter works in that office? she might have been in there that day. your son was supposed to be there. tell us about that. well my daughter works in those offices three days a week. luckily yesterday was not her day to work.
colonel allen west is joining us. good morning. you say the administration has a great deal of responsibility for this attack. how so? when you go back to june 2009 you no he about carlos bledsoe who attacked at a army recruiting station killing one and injuring another. and we had another shooting where 13 soldiers were killed and then we had this incident and in between that you had the vicious, barbaric attack of the british machine gunner and we ve had plenty of instances to let us know that our men and women on military installations are in danger. it s a simple change of policy to be able to defend themselves. let s look forward as the