tonight, we have breaking news. cnn confirms the identity of the man accused of murdering 16 afghan civilians in a house to house shooting spree last weekend. 38-year-old staff sergeant robert bails, an 11-year veteran. let s get to chris lawrence at the pentagon. what can you tell us? well, i can tell you he s originally from the midwest and he was living in ohio until about 2001. after 9/11, that s when he joined the army. he s been based out at joint based lewis mcchord for the majority if not all of his military career. did about three combat tours in iraq. this was his first in afghanistan and as his lawyer has pointed out to cnn earlier today, apparently, he did not ever think he woul get a fourth deployment. a fourth caught him by surprise. get a combat veteran. we know he s been decorated for his service having served three tours in iraq already, but apparently from his lawyer we re learning, that he did not expect to be deployed for this fourth deployment to afghan
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morning. ets it s going to go like that today. also joining us is jeff toobin the cnn senior legal analyst. thank you for joining us and hank of political strategist, iconic political strategist. nice to have you joining us. thank you. lots to get to. the afghan man who hijacked a car and then breached security, drove on to the runway in kabul just as the pentagon chief leon panetta was landing. that man has died. he died from burns he received after he lit himself on fire. we learned that he apparently was trying to run over a group of marines who had assembled to meet the defense secretary. the british soldier was also injured in that incident. leon panetta is in the capital and he s going to be meeting with the afghan president, harmid karzai and that comes days after a u.s. army sergeant apparently went on a violent attack and went door to door in the middle of the night killing 16 afghan civilians and most women and children. this morning, that suspect, a father of t
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