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marines so brezler's warnings were correct.t night it was reported -- a lot of people are raising -- scratching their heads and saying why are they basically trying to court-martial or kick out of the military the one guy who tried to warn about the dangers here, and she suggested it could be is that those who did not heed the warning on the other side, we're not talking about the three victims, are better connected politically in the military than is major brezler. let me put that question to you, mary liz. do you believe that is the case, that that's why this is happening? >> i do believe that's the case, and i also believe going after brezler is a smoke screen. clearly somebody dropped the ball. we still have not heard anything about who was the last or the highest command that received the communication from brezler and we do know it went up the chain. we do not know who made the decision to do nothing, to ignore it, and that's the person that the marines should be going after. that's the person that should be held accounta

general mills is the guy pushing for the case against brezler. why?arine but was an fbi agent. i have investigated many cases. general mills was close with his predecessor, the former deputy commandant. the marine that asked for the information and failed to act on it is the son-in-law. >> the theory is general mills may be acting to protect his predecessor's son-in-law. >> that's one part of it. the other thing is also to take the spotlight away from why wasn't this information acted on and could it have prevented three marines from being murdered. >> they are saying, get him off the base. bad guy, child molester with ties to the taliban. sure enough, one of his child victims opens fire and kills three marines. there is a separate inquiry for that. why this athe tension on getting him kicked out of the military? does general mills have that much power. >> what you mentioned is key here. it wasn't until there were other investigations into why this information wasn't acted on. the circumstances surrounding the murder of the three marines that there wa

major jason brezler saying he was trying to do the right thing but the brass didn't like how he did it. listen to this. catherine harris has the explanation. >> on the eve of his hearing fox news with with with a letter from six members of congress who served in the marines questioning why he could be discharged for trying to help fellow marines in afghanistan. it reads his battalion commanders during the event in question and today support him completely. who requested that he be criminally investigated and why. the marine corps reservist and new york city firefighter is facing a board of inquiry, the equivalent of an administrative hearing for warning marines of an insider threat in august 2012 an afghan police chief who brezler knew to be linked to the taliban and was a child predator. he's accused of passing classified information through unclassified channels -- an e-mail account. his warning was ignored and three marines were killed by one of the afghan police chief's child victims. reporters say he's singled out to shield the marine who ignored the warning and expose it is under

major jason brezler was being investigated for sending classified document on his personal e mail. military investigators recommend an honorable discharge. he has ten days to appeal that. >>> hundreds of theatergoers faced the collapse of a ceiling last night. it injured nearly 80 people and panicked the entire audience. charlie d'agata is outside the apollo theater in london. good morning, charlie. >> reporter: good morning, norah and charlie. we spoke to officials this morning who told us that they say 100 square foot chunk of ceiling and some supporting timbers fell four or five stories on to the audience below. structural engineers have been inside and say it's safe necessary for the investigation to begin. one area they're looking into is whether torrential rain may have had something to do with it. eyewitnesses describe scenes of chaos and panic as the ceiling cracked, crumbled, and then collapsed onto the audience. >> it was, crash, that quickly, and then it was -- as soon as it hit the floor, a massive pile of dust straight up. you couldn't see anything in front of the balc