fort hood the. other regions main employer. this is where the army has set up shooting ranges at schools teaching students how to use guns. every morning an hour before these young fourteen year old takes practice shooting. about five hundred feet. teach adults because many adults. and rifles and especially other kids that have pellet rifle b.b. guns you know they don't have a lot of them haven't been to safety classes. pledge allegiance to the high states of america and carry elections and actually gets to be one of the many or is it. you are the future of america you want to control the type country we've continued to have fear is that they know that you can control. you know you know that right. you control fear not made a control you because of you at her to that on the ballot your courage to do what's right whether you're in the classroom and even on the battlefield coming you need tell you need three. ingredients and this once again it's like like other jobs you'd be like sitting in an office all day or some day you want

the most troops and also the most foreign back home nearby is the largest american military base fort hood the army and its supporting agencies other regions main employers. this is where the army has set up shooting ranges at schools teaching students how to use guns or five. every morning an hour before class these young fourteen year old texans practice shooting. they shoot about five hundred feet between five and six hundred feet. which changes . the whole when they leave here they can go and teach adults because many adults don't know how to safely handle rifles. especially other kids that have. you know they don't know a lot of safety classes. it's a big thing. is if. you are the future of america you want to control the. fear is that you can control. you know that right. you control fear not control you view. your courage to do what's right whether you're in the classroom. you've been on the battlefield. three. once he said like other jobs you'd be like sitting in an office saw there are some that you want to do would just get boring after a few years but i know the military will gi

and the fight for their heart starts in primary school every regiment of the fort hood base has set up a partnership with the school. this operation enticements the soldiers spend hundreds of hours every year with these children they read to them go to the school canteen with them and help them with their homework. that. because. it's. my time and i. like this i just. see. that you want to be. here like the last. forty percent of junior reservists enlist in the army after graduating. i'm pretty sure every. son or daughter in. military would be in there afraid for their. for their child. for me i'm pretty much more sensible for our little federal but then another. are such as are. so all this is all the good. so. it is one of the basic instruments to drive an economy but it can also lead to tragedy i did it. and meant that the textile came and it was. excessive to the banks gushing into. the banks but i didn't think of. creditors people see no future bad face have become ill. your relationship breaks down here become a casualty is a life long trip or is there a way. to ditch. cisco. for

so this didn't become a fort hood situation. i say the fbi did this, did that, you disparage them when it comes to the hillary or comey thing. but they are out there trying to protect innocent civilians radical islam. i also want to say another thing. people on the left are throwing around the word traitor a little too casually when they talk about someone like donald trump or his son. this guy is a traitor. this guy is. who is trying to help isis kill americans. not anybody in the white house. let's get that straight. >> dana: your thoughts on this, juan? >> juan: you have somebody here who is an active combat soldier for the united states of america. he was in korea, afghanistan, iraq, they say he was guilty of trying to transfer materials. i don't know what exactly that means. i don't know what materials. >> dana: photographs. >> juan: i don't know if it's intel beyond that but you would think it would had to do with navy information about patterns of u.s. aircraft coming and going that could allow for attack. but what i'm re

and the fight for their heart starts in primary school every regiment of the fort hood base has set up a partnership with a school. this operation enticements the soldiers spend hundreds of hours every year. with these children they read to them go to the school canteen with them and help them with their homework. that. kind. and i. like this i just. like. anyone to be. formal really nice and loving the last. forty percent of junior reservists enlist in the army after graduating. i'm pretty sure every as a son or daughter in the military would be in there afraid for their. child. from here on out i'm pretty much worse before our little federal but then another. are such as are. imagine being a six thirty five and you have a what a career and a career involves using your i phone in your computer and things like that in an office and perhaps you sort of getting fixed a circular. you could have to stop doing all this and this is tell you lou the minutes must be frightening my world became smaller and smaller and smaller until i ended up learning it in a box. or out at a very strong magnet

aleem maqbool, bbc news, in fort hood in texas.he news, newsday is coming up at midnight. now on bbc news it's time for newsnight. time was, you would never have believed we could exist without cars fuelled by oil. now it's official policy that we will. we'll look ahead to how motor transport will work after 2040. but do we need to worry a little more about our oil—polluted air in the here and now? what the government was required to do was to prepare air quality plans which would reduce the levels of pollution in the shortest time possible. something which works in the next 23 years is not going to reduce those pollution levels in our towns and cities in the next few months and weeks. we'll test the government's ideas for cleaning up our atmosphere. in the midst of a week of drama here at the white house, i'm joined by one of donald trump's key lieutenants, sebastian gorka. what has the president achieved in the last six months? ten years ago, anita roddick, the environmentalist and founder of the body shop died, one of the most h

lima bull bbc news in fort hood in texas. and for more on today's announcement i spoke a brief time ago with eric fanning the first openly gay secretary of the army hunter president obama. very fine english your reaction to president trump over tanning president obama and banning transgender people from serving in the us military. i i'm disappointed i think it's the wrong decision to have made we already have currently thousands of transgender americans serving in the military. with distinction and i think it was an important step of many. to open up opportunity for service in the military for a number of important reasons it. aligns with core american values of equality and opportunity. and it and it helps ensure that we can recruit from the best and brightest in all the country has to offer. however president trump says he consulted with generals and military experts and he cites the tremendous medical costs and the disruption not having transgender people in the us military would entai. what do you make of that well i don'

aleem maqbool, bbc news, in fort hood in texas.or the third day in a row, president trump has used twitter to attack his own attorney general. he questioned why jeff sessions hadn't sacked the fbi's acting director — andrew mccabe — because of his wife's political ties to hillary clinton. it's the latest in a flurry of critical tweets — since mr sessions stood aside from the russia investigation. so are the days numbered for the president's top law officer? the bbc‘s emily maitlis is in washington, and asked the new head of white house communications anthony scaramucci. i think this will resolve itself over the next week or so. certainly i think what i would say to colleagues and cabinet members is you must understand president's personality he's a straight—shooter, he likes to express himself, and let people know how he feels. sometimes those are tough conversations. why isn't he having that conversation, though, with jeff sessions? why is he tweeting, letting rumours take over? he is a very tough person, and i mean that in a good

aleem maqbool, bbc news, in fort hood in texas. we will have more on that in a few minutes. now some of the day's other news: taiwanese tech giant foxconn, one of apple's suppliers, has announced it is opening a factory in america. president trump said it was a boost to the us economy. today i am pleased to announce that foxconn, a world leader in manufacturing for computers, communications, and consumer electronics, one of the truly great companies of the world, will build a state—of—the—art manufacturing facility for the production of lcd panel products in wisconsin, investing many, many billions of dollars right here in america, and creating thousands of jobs, dollars right here in america, and creating thousands ofjobs, and i mean american jobs, that's what we want. also making news today: donald trump has used twitter to attack his own attorney general, jeff sessions, for the third day in a row. he questioned why mr sessions had not sacked the fbi‘s acting director because of his wife's political ties to hillary clinton. the parents of the terminally ill british baby ch

aleem maqbool, bbc news, in fort hood in texas.na in a couple of minutes i will be speaking on a transgender former pentagon employee. let's take a look at our other top stories. resident drama has attacked his attorney generaljeff sessions on twitter for the third day in a row. a short while ago, the white house director of communications defended his boss ‘s tone of communications defended his boss ‘stone in an interview with the bbc. i will not cut you off, i will talk about front stabbing. he has been front stabbed by some of the senators who voted down the repeal of obamacare. that is congressional setting, conversations go on, the team of rivals, it took president lincoln many times for the abolition of slavery, that was much tougher. even under president obama be voted to get rid of obamacare, only the president kept that going and under president trump... it took 22 months. we have six months so far with the president here and think of what we're trying to achieve withinjust one year, the president will make it so, we will

deployment at fort hood. she's a military wife herself. her whole family loves "the five" and fox news. hannity is next. >> this is a fox news alert. president trump restoring america on the world stage. the commander in chief is in germany for the g20 summit. he will meet face-to-face with russian president vladimir putin. earlier today, president trump was in poland. >> we've come to your nation to deliver a very important message, america love poland and americans love the polish peopl people. i am here today not just to visit an old ally, but to hold it up as an example of those who seek freedom. and those who wish to summon the courage and will to defend our civilization. it is unfortunate for them because they have experienced some very unfair problems. we don't want fake news. we urge russia to seize its destabilizing activities in the ukraine and elsewhere and its support for hostile regimes such as syria and iran. we must also confront the threat from north korea. president obama drew a redline and i was the one who made it look a

aleem maqbool, bbc news, in fort hood in texas.s herbst is mayor of the town of new hope, and the first openly transgender mayor in the state of texas. conservative people are concerned when people change their mind on a whim. whatever he thinks is what it does. i don't know how well it is playing. he tweeted this morning that he did it for financial reasons but according to the washington post, the coast for transgender medical procedures in the military is very low. they spend more on viagra. it is a total fantasy that he is doing this for financial reasons. it is not true. at least five more times than the military spends on trans people. you are not in the military but you are aware of the issues. we have seen different figures for how many transgender americans there are in the us military, anything from two and a half thousand to 15,000. do you know the realfigure? is around 15,000, including reserve and coastguard and just old military in general. i have many, many friends who have been in the military or are still in the mi

aleem maqbool, bbc news, in fort hood in texas. bombing two months ago and today the funeral of eight—year—old saffie roussos took place at the city's cathedral. she was a huge fan of the singer ariana grande and had been given a ticket to the concert as a christmas present. she was at the show with her mother, who was seriously injured in the attack. judith moritz reports from manchester cathedral. a moment of comfort on a painful day — lisa roussos is still recovering from the bomb which killed her daughter. she left her hospital bed to be with her family to say a final goodbye to saffie rose. to the sound of her idol, ariana grande, the eight—year—old was brought into the cathedral, her little coffin carried by her father andrew. honoured to be her dad. honoured. she's...was a superstar in the making. to become something in life, you need to have something, that something spark, that... charisma, that something, and saffie had that. she truly had that. the service was filled with emotion for those closest to the little girl, and

. >> dana: i first found out about this author during a deployment at fort hood.ilitary wife herself. her whole family loves "the five" and >> bret: g20 protest flareup. president trump fires up in eastern european ally and prepares to size up russian president vladimir putin. this is "special report" ." good evening. welcome to washington. i'm bret baier. president trump is in hamburg, germany. the streets are anything but quiet. you can see the video, massive protests in hamburg with the huge response by law enforcemen enforcement. it was expected. meanwhile tomorrow could be one of these signature days of the trump presidency. he will meet with world leaders at the

." >> dana: i first found out about this author during a deployment at fort hood.x news. "hannity" is next. >> laura: this is a fox news alert. president trump restoring america on the world stage. the commander in chief is in t germany for the g20 summit. he will meet face-to-face with russian president vladimiror putin. earlier today, president trump was in poland. >> we've come to your nation to deliver a very important message, america loves poland and americans love the polish people. i am here today

. >> eric: we saw that before in the fort hood killer in this sort of thing, finally, what should the military do, what should intelligence do to weed out these individuals allowed sooner? speak out we have to have of what they're doing before they're separated from military. i understand of the fbi in this case conducted a sting operatio operation, but the fbi and army simply does not have the investigative resources to spend this much time, five years, and every single case of potential radicalism. there has to be a cut off much earlier when the military says, thanks for your service, but you've grown too extreme, goodbye and by the way, we are going to the fbi know. >> eric: may be more than just a thanks for your service, but you're going to the clink. thank you for joining us on this troubling news. >> julie: a tragic accident takes the lives of 15 marines and one sailor. i had, an update on the crash to the military plane in mississippi. (baby crying) (slow jazz music) ♪ fly me to the moon ♪ and let me play (bell ringing) (audience cheering) tthat's why at comcast,t to be connec

so for 36 months i wanted to narrow the focus to fort bragg and fort hood, that's where the women are being assigned. and then i also insisted that we have leaders first so the sergeants and lieutenants had to go into units first. and the third one is that it's sort of a mantra, is that the military should be and is standards-based. so there's standards of performance, standards of conduct, standards of fitness and medical standards. if you're meeting those standards, pass go, collect 200 and move out. if you do not, then you're going to do some alternative, you know -- either in the military or we will get you out of the military, but it's a standards-based military and you rise to the level of success based on your merit sort of thing and your performance. that's inherent in the wearing of the uniform and we're very strict about it. that's where we are. right now, the women that are in the infantry have met the standard of the united states infantry and it's going ok. the numbers are very small. frankly, i expect they will be small for many years if not forever. the canadian army ha

i wanted to narrow the focus from fort brag and fort hood and that's where a variety of women are assigned. now, i also insisted that we had leaders first. so female sergeants and lunlts had to go in the units first. the last thing is, the military should and is standards based. so there's standards of performance, the standards of conduct, standards of fitness and medical standards. if you're meeting those standards than move up. if you don't, then you're going to do some alternative, you know either mo s within the military or we'll get you out of the military. but it's a standards-base military and you rise to the success level based on your merits thing of performance. that's inherent in wearing of the uniform and we're pretty strict -- we're very strict about it. so that's where we are. right now the women that are in the infantry has met the standards and is going okay. the numbers are very small. frankly i expect they will be small for many years, if not forever. the canadian army has had women in the infantry for 30 plus years, they have a very very tiny percentage of women. it did

so for 36 months i wanted to narrow the focus to fort bragg and fort hood and that's where the women are being assigned and it gives them a variety of options at those two bases. they also insisted we have leaders first so the sergeants and lieutenants had to go into units first, female sergeants. the third one is the military should and is be standards-based so there are standards of performance and standards of conduct and fitness and medical standards. if your meeting those standards then pass go, collect 100 and move out. if you don't you'll do some alternative position in the military or will get you out of the military, but it's a standards-based military. you rise to the level of success based on your merits and your performance. that's inherently, inherent of wearing the uniform and were very strict about it. right now the women in the infantry have met the standards of the united states infantry. it's going okay. the numbers are very small. frankly i expect they will be small for many years, if not forever. the canadian army has had women in the infantry for 30 plus years. t

isis and other terror groups have done terrorist attacks in fort hood, boston, san bernardino, orlando, st. cloud, new york city, columbus, and other places. uniformly these terrorist attacks on the u.s. show that the fbi needs the tools to protect against and investigate terrorism and other violent crimes in the homeland. these tools must preserve civil liberties while being adapted to changing threats and advances in technology. this provides government the ability to collect electronic communications of foreign outside of the united states. this received full support of bush, obama, and now the trump administration. many federal courts, the privacy and civil liberties oversight board have found section 702 constitutional and consistent with the fourth amendment. the fbi does face questions about that information and the impact on privacy and civil liberties. in addition, the fbi must have the tools to navigate the going dark problem is more terrorism use encryption. i look forward to hearing how he plans to handle these issues and protect the american people and keeping with the fbi

commission and the webster commission that convened after the fort had attack that for two at attack -- fort hood attack. law enforcement needs to be able to protect the american people. in addition, the recent fisa court administration that admonished the executive branch for failure to comply with the minimize asian -- min imumization--min as well. although these allegations haven't been directed for 702 specifically they are highly troubling. and leaks of classified information that damage our national security seem to continue unabated. i understand that no internal or external review to date has found any evidence of intentional abuse of section 702 for any reason whatsoever. nonetheless, it is important that congress made sure that it has not been so abused and it is equally important that we ensure that the justice department has all the tools that it needs to prosecute leaks of classified information. so taking all these things into consideration, one of the main purpose for having this, national security has to be at the top of the list. and so we welcome our witnesses and look forward t

isis and other international terror groups have directed or inspired terrorist attacks in fort hood, boston, san bernardino, orlando, st. cloud, new york city, columbus, and i i suppose other places that we tend and shouldn't forget, tend to forget but shouldn't forget. uniform only, these attacks on united states soil show the fbi most of the tools it needs to protect against and investigate terrorism and other serious violent crimes in the homeland. and these tools must preserve civil liberties while being adapted to changing threat streams and advances in whi technology. chief among these tools is section 702 authority. this authority provides the government the ability to collect the electronic communications of approved foreign intelligence targets outside united states with a compelled assistance of american companies.at section 702 receives the strong support of bush, obama and other trump administration, and it's up for reauthorization at the end of the year. many federal courts, the federap intelligence surveillance court and the privacy and civil liberties oversight board h

, 2001.ices and other international terror groups have directed or inspired terrorist attacks in fort hood, boston, san bernardino, orlando, st. cloud, new york city, columbus and i suppose, other places that we tend to and shouldn't forget. we tend to forget what shouldn't forget. uniformly, these terrorist attacks on the united states soil show the fbi must have the tools it needs to protect against and investigate terrorism and other serious violent crimes in the homeland. and these tools must preserve civil liberties while being adapted to changing threat streams and advances in technology. chief, among these tools is the section july -- outside the united states with a compelled assistance of american companies.section 702 receives support of obama and now that trump administration and is up for reauthorization at the end of the year. many federal courts, the federal intelligence surveillance court and the privacy and will liberties oversight board have founded, have found section 702 constitutional with the fourth amendment. the deepest questions about section 702 information in the