questions at the base, as well as the mental health questions for our returning veterans with admiral mike mullen, former head of the joint chiefs of staff. also this week, there's an important supreme court ruling, does it open the floodgates to the rich having even more influence over our elections? the alabama businessman who won the case debates if american democracy is for sale. >>> and unique insights into an environmental fight over the keystone pipeline. our "meeting america" feature takes us to a tiny nebraska town with a big staking in president obama's decision. plus, he sparked a huge wall street firestorm this week. author michael lewis joins our roundtable to talk about why he thinks the markets are rigged for the benefit of insiders. >>> from nbc news in washington, the world's longest running television program, this is "meet the press" with david gregory. >> we're going to get the latest on the fort hood tragedy in a minute. first a little news. as time is running out, there are some big developments in the search for the black box from that flight 370. for the latest on the sear

i'm joined from sarasota, florida, by admiral mike mullen, former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. he served presidents bush and obama as their top military advisor overseeing the campaigns in afghanistan and iraq. admiral, welcome. always good to have your perspective. >> good morning, david. good to be with you. >> i want to talk about the mental health aspects that are troubling in this case and beyond for our returning veterans. let me ask the specific security question. just within the past couple weeks in the independent review after that navy yard shooting here in washington, secretary of defense hagel said there are still troubling gaps when it comes to security on our military bases. and at fort hood, a second shooting spree in five years, different circumstances but two in five years. something's not working when it comes to securing our bases. >> well, i would certainly agree with you, david, in the sense that we've got challenges that we have to address as a result of this incident. first and foremost, i just -- my thoughts and prayers go out to the families of those t

bush, and admiral mike mullens under george w. bush. this is not a bunch of fruit cakes trying to take away guns. -- >> i think we have -- we have a full screen, i'm going to put up. i think this is probably a lot of motivation right here. bloomberg says if there is a god when i get to heaven, i'm not stopping to be interviewed. i'm heading straight in. i have earned my place in heaven. it's not even close. >> that is so wow. >> the guy has got something like $30 billion. it seems to me like he's trying to shore up his legacy. >> one of the things they look for in the checklist, are you bracking -- bragging about getting into heaven that would be so -- >> you are talking about the club in the village. the heaven. it's really hard to get into. >> you just walk right in. >> well, you know what -- >> it's weird that he would say it. here's the thing that gets me about it, if he's going to do that and says if there is a god, i'm not sure if you should be talking about heaven if you don't believe there's a god. >> and then saying you are get

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i'll be joined by admiral mike mullen, former head of the joint chiefs of staff. >>> then big money in businessman who won a supreme court case on whether or not american democracy is >>> good morning. i'm kris sanchez. coming up next on "today in the bay" an exclusive interview with the father of a teenager who is charged with the murder of a friend who police say was killed by someone else. more on the provocative act doctrine. >>> plus two bay area store clerks take matters into their own hands. the video you have to see of their takedown. >>> plus a summer-like warmup headed to the bay area. if you're thinking of going to the beach, you'll want to harry what anthony slaughter has to say about a warning this morning. this is "today in the bay." >>> and we are waking up in oakland this morning. we see the city in the distance. it's fog-free just about everywhere around the bay and we're exp

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the independent accountability review board headed by admiral mike mullen and ambassador thomas pickeringve review of the situation and issued 29 recommendations. the government is implementing those recommendations especially when is it comes to increasing security. we in congress have combed through every aspect of this tragedy. we run down every allegation and every theory no matter how farfetched. in this committee alone we reviewed thousands of classified documents, watched frame after frame of security video and interviewed key intelligence individuals on the ground. we found areas that can and must be improved to prevent further tragedies but to date we found absolutely no inappropriate motivations. specific to today's hearing we also found no conspiracies in the editing of the talking points, only never ending conspiracy theories. i was one who asked for talking points days immediately following the tragedy. i asked for them to aid our ability for this committee to communicate with the american people without revealing a classified information and what we knew would be a very medi

questions at the base, as well as the mental health questions for our returning veterans with admiral mike mullen> also this week, does an important supreme court ruling open the floodgates to the rich having even more influence over our elections? the alabama businessman who won the case debates if american democracy is for sale. >>> and unique insights into an environmental fight over the keystone pipeline. our "meeting america" feature takes us to a tiny nebraska town

the independent accountability review board by mike mullen had a comprehensive review of the situation. the government is implementing recommendations especially when it comes to increasing access security. we in congress have also gone through every aspect. we've run down every allegation i matter how many far-fetched at this committee alone has reviewed thousands of classified and washed frame after frame of video to interview the intel of the ground. we've also found areas that cannot must be approved for a further tragedy. today we found absolutely no inappropriate motivation. we have also found no conspiracy is. the editing of the talking points in the never-ending conspiracy theories. i was the one who asked the talking points today following the tragedy. i asked for them to aid our ability for this committee to communicate with the american people without reviewing classified information and what we now would be a very neat feature of an issue. the exhaustive review we have found evidence that the talking points are edited to ensure accuracy to check classification and safeguard

today's guest includes -- robert weissman, president of the public citizen, and mike mullen. at 1:00, it is this week with the democratic senator on the recall and representative john carter a texas republican. at 2:00 p.m., fox news sunday with the chairman of the house homeland security committee virginia senator, and michael hayden, former director of the cia. the cnn state of the union follows at 3:00 p.m. eastern with nancy pelosi, mike rogers, and that committee's ranking democrat. another appearance by the republican congressman. the talk shows are on c-span radio and brought to you as a public service by the rebroadcast again at noon eastern, meet the press at 1:00 2:00 p.m., fox news sunday. cnn state of the unit 4:00 eastern, face the nation from cvs. into them all on c-span radio. across the country channel 120 download our free at-- app. >> it gets to me because i get to know these young men and women when i get out there. i want out of there as fast as anybody else and let the afghan death afghans fight their own fight. we can't get too hung up on the defense of

we have things like our chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, admiral mike mullen, saying you can't win a war by killing the enemy. wait, that is what war is all about. we can't get so refined that we believe that we forget what war is. war is the act of destruction, violence and killing. the people at the top have to be more like this general, sometimes he is called mad dog, commander of our troops, central command, where they don't flinch from it, you go forward in the battlefield, i expect you to lisa ferocious that you will continue to kill and destroy until you defeat the enemy. >> host: who is the kota flyer? >> guest: a wonderful example, the reason i'm smiling as he is a great example of young americans today. a 21-year-old corporal who came from the farmlands of kentucky, graduated from high school and came into the marine corps, he is a big kid. session to use the word kid that he is 2425 and he was in a battle where some of the other marines who were advisers were trapped. the cut was off the field of battle, and he rushed onto the field of battle to try to save his comra