white passenger next to her did not want to set baxter. volunteerism was a big part of the war effort. hundreds of organizations existed to provide services to military personnel and to their families and communities across country. some offer civil defense glasses or conducted scrap drives. usually they groups were segregated by race. when black women were denied access to white organizations they sometimes form their own groups. there was the american women's volunteer service, the aw etf. there were chapters all across the country. and in 1942, the loss angeles chapter sponsored a boxing match between one cities and triple titleholder and a hurricane and hank armstrong. there is to for $4,000 for the cost. the women's ambulance defense corps of america, the wac dca was another. they had 54 chapters across the country. it included motorcycle and cavalier units, military trained and they jiujitsu. they're not as the glory gals, and the motto was the hell we can't. the red cross offered opportunities for civilians to volunteer for the war effort. the group organized blood drives and a trained nurse aides and ran clubs where members of the armed forces could re

[applause] eric motley, the vice president of the aspen institute and former head of the white house personneloffice. [applause] todd bernstein, president of global citizen. [applause] margaret spellings, former secretary of education. [applause] trent lott, former u.s. senate majority leader and cochair of the commission on political reform. [applause] vicki kennedy, cofounder of the edward m kennedy institute for the united states senate. [applause] karen hughes, former undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs. [applause] morvan, u.s. army retired and managing director of got your six campaign. [applause] you can read more complete biographies in the programs for our panelists. we invite everybody here at the national constitution center, our people watching on our webcast, to join our conversation. if you are physically here, you can select one of these cards at your seat with your comment or question, and if you are digitally here, send us an e- mail or a tweet. bpc_bipartisan. #engageusa. before we begin, here is a quick video of our colleagues at "usa today." it fe

white house. the presidential personnel office, which is responsible for identifying and nominating a candidate and ultimately the candidate goes through the confirmation process. for inspectors general, that confirmation process involve both the oversight committee as well as the government affairs oversight committee. so it's a dual committee process. so there are numerous points along the way where people need to have input, the process needs to run, and things, you know, can derail a nomination. >> have you read the inspector general handbook by joseph schmitz who used to be the inspector general at the department of defense? >> i'm familiar with its existence but i have not read it. >> i -- the act of 78 is in here. and i just want to read a paragraph talking about this independence thing. complaints by employers, disclose euroof identity and reprisals. it's paragraph b -- section 7. there's a lot in here that the layman can't understand. but this seems to be something that you could give us an answer on. the inspector general shall not at the receipt of a complaint or information of an employ

white house. we provided to the presidential personnel office and they nominate the candidates. ultimately, the candidates goes through the confirmation process which involves the oversight committee and the government affairs oversight committee. is a jewel committee process and there are numerous points along -- it is a dual committee process and there are a number of points along the way that can be real a nomination -- rail a nomination. >> have you read the inspectors general handbook? i want to read a paragraph that talks about this independence thing. is under complaints by employers. this is paragraph b. section seven. there is a lot in there that a layman cannot understand. this is something you can give us an answer on -- >> how much comfort as i give ifeone who wants to complain the inspector general can out someone who is a whistleblower? >> the subject is sensitive. andepend on whistleblowers we value their information. it is important that they feel comfortable coming forward and saying that they have and that they are concerned about reprisal and want their identi

personnel brought help like this park service helicopter airlifting the wounded to safety. the washington, dc and capitol police and the f.b.i. also sent officers. speaking at the white house this morning, president obama talked of yet another mass shooting. >> a shooting that targeted our military and civilian personnel and these are men and women who were going do work doing their job protecting all of us. they are patriots. >> this shooting rampage affected air traffic at reagan international airport with departures halted but it is back to normal. the president has ordered federal agents and police to streamline the investigations so they can quickly learn who the shooter was, why he turned to violence, and why three picked the washington naval yard. or shooters. >> coming up in 15 minutes we will take you near the scene of navy yard shooting in washington, dc, for the latest developments on a possible motive and the search for possible accomplices. >> san jose police are vetting -- investigating how a man died after finding his body in an r.v. near north 4th at 3:30 this morning after a call came to 9-1-1. the coroner says that the death looks "suspicious." they

about their bill oft would put members congress, their staffs, and the executive branch, the white house personnel, no more subsidies. this press conference that you have been listening to is a little more significant. is reporting that the house republicans have decided to send the continuing resolution back to the senate with provisions that would delay for one year the mandate on insurance and includes controversial language about coverage for members and staff, and the house rules committee, where all bills in the house have to go through the rules committee, it is meeting in about 15 minutes or so, and we will bring you live coverage of that, so the house rules committee is meeting. it is on the house floor. the senate is still in town, so chances are they will have some more votes and back and forth between the two chambers. which would deal with a stopgap spending plan added billions in sequestered spending and the individual mandate that was particularly the targets and president obama delayed the employer mandate, it would also include that mandate. it would roll back contributions provid

white bicycle was traveling downhill. the bicyclist was pronounced dead at the scene by manager person them -- by emergency personnel. >>> a major crackdown on smoking. a bill vote was being put forward that would ban smoking in all downtown areas. >> i think it's terrific. >> i don't think it's really fair for anybody to tell anybody what to do if it affects the health of other. >> it if it's affecting public health, people should be allowed to smoke, but people should also be allowed to have free reign of what they want to do. >> i don't enjoy -- free rein of what they want to do. >> i don't enjoy people smoke next to me when i'm in one of our beautiful restaurants. >> soon 24 could be illegal and considered an infraction in al nut creek. the proposed bill bans smoking any all recreation areas, any restaurant, sports fields, and smoking will even be prohibited at multiunit residential properties. that's apartment complexes, condos, and duplexes. spoking on balconies and patio wills be against the law. >> people who will are adjacent to people who smoke feel flapped their units. >> reporter: if approved, the ban would g

. >> reporter: still defense personnel will be furloughed until congress and the white house reach an. for out front, barbara starr, the pentagon. >>> all right. we are closely watching capitol hill. any moment now, it's quarter of the hour, we're going to be having that next crucial vote as you heard the republican congressman talk about. this vote, if it pass, essentially will shut down the government because whether it goes back to the senate tonight it will be dead on arrival. we have our special panel lined up. we will be back in just a moment (vo) you are a business pro. maestro of project management. baron of the build-out. you need a permit... to be this awesome. and you...rent from national. because only national lets you choose any car in the aisle... and go. you can even take a full-size or above, and still pay the mid-size price. (aaron) purrrfect. (vo) meee-ow, business pro. meee-ow. go national. go like a pro. identity thieves. they can find your personal information and do some serious damage. like your birthday or your mother's maiden name. you need a new friend. lifel

personnel are allowed back in the navy yard. danielle nottingham cbs news, washington. >> the white house says president obama plans to attend the memorial service sunday for navy yard shooting victims. >>> in other news, across the bay area, san jose just installed a new razor wire near part of interstate 280 to keep graffiti vandals away. it is by the railroad overpass. it's near bird avenue. the city says it was union pacific's decision to install the wire. chp recently cracked down on taggers in santa clara valley. there is now a special task force dedicated to arresting all the vandals. >>> all a blind minister wants it an apology from the driver who struck him and his seeing eye dog then took off. albert maklin was walking in palo alto monday night when a car backed into him and his dog. >> said are you okay? i didn't answer her. he was bending down picking up the dog and she said, let me move forward. and she moves forward. she keeps on going forward. turns around in the cul-de-sac, makes a u-turn towards me. she swerved around my body and keeps on going out the cul-de- sac. >> maklin and his guide dog were not hurt. neig

august 21st, we know that assad's chemical weapons personnel prepared for an attack near an area where they mix sarin gas. >> reporter: but the white house admits it doesn't have hard evidence president assad ordered the chemical weapons attack. it's a concern for u.s. lawmakers like darrell issa who has been in security briefings with top level officials including the director of intelligence james clapper. >> whether asking questions about specific evidence available, director clapper did not have those -- the answers to that, if you will, the evidence, but told me that they are still in the process of developing it. >> reporter: clapper's credibility has been questioned before. he's admitted he once gave false sworn testimony to congress about whether the national security agency was eavesdropping on americans. congressional briefings on the number of people killed in the august gas attacks may also be incorrect. when asked about the accuracy of the numbers, congressional sources report that administration officials told them they couldn't be sure. republican senator john mccain, who has been pushing for u.s. intervention in syr

white house officials telling us the president did speak earlier today with the secretary of the navy, ray mavis, expressing his condolences as well as commending the bravery of so many of the navy personnele has been briefed by his homeland security and counterterrorism adviser and he's asked for those briefings to continue. one other note i should let you know, in the last five minutes we're ools hearing about this tragedy from the former representative of arizona gabby giffords and her husband. i just reached out to them and they have put out a statement moments ago. remember kelly is a former navy combat pilot as well as a nasa astronaut. the statement reads as proud members of the navy family, we take note of the tragic attack on men and women who dedicate themselves to keeping america safe did not occur in a war overseas but in a mass shooting here at home. ed? >> peter, tomorrow is another work day. is there any conversation at the white house tonight about increased security at military installations tomorrow? >> reporter: it's a good question. there have certainly been shifts in terms of the way the white house has gone about its events of this day. while they kept the economic s

personnel. six local schools in and around that area now said to be on lockdown. we turn now to our white house correspondent, mike vicar ra. we're supposed to hear from the president this afternoon from the rose garden. what are they saying about this event that's unfolding across town? >> reporter: well, as far as the white house is concerned, we understand that the president has been briefed several times on the situation here. as you can imagine, this having ripple effects across the security environment across washington, d.c. being that it's the navy yard, i'm turning from m street and looking north at the united states capitol five blocks away. del, we have covered situations like this for many years. often conflicting information. i don't know that i've seen one more than two hours into this now. 8:20 a.m., two hours and 40 minutes ago, these shots were fired from what we understand from the police. still information extremely sketchy, extremely conflicted, and i think it's wise for us at this point to wait for the police. we're standing here on the corner of m street southeast an

know the inner workings of every military building under the red,white,and blue rick of the navy, but is this civilian or uniformed personnel or an even split? >> it's a combination of both. you will find in most of the military installations here across the united states and around the world, there is quite a heavy civilian workforce. again, we don't know if the shooter is navy or civilian at this point. once you get past the outer perimeter inside, there is not necessarily a high level of security in the building. it sounds as if it would have been somebody who would have had open access to the base somehow. a government id whether civilian or military. once inside, whoever it is. >> clint, the concern is going to be is he taking hostages and where is he holding himself up? is all of the situations in there are probably trying to identify him and given that he is likely to have gotten where he got with the government id, it should be fairly easy to identify him. explain everything that is going on. the ones that are trying to work to id who this guy is and dealing with the active situation. >> one of the things they will

personnel in nairobi. they are making sure the safety of u.s. citizens will be good in the days ahead. shannon, especially after benghazi, this is important for the whiteeen very much on defense about that, making sure that diplomatic personnel are safe in all these hot spots. >> how critical is this week for the president here in new york on the world stage with so many different leaders and so many different issues confronting the white house. >> he didn't have eye lot of one-on-one meetings diplomacy. they didn't want to the romney campaign on a missed word or syllable here or there. he's been re-elected but going through a rough patch, not only on the domestic issues but the other issues. he's gotten almost nothing on his doughestic agenda done, gun control, immigration reform. all of these national security challenges coming together at the same time, he's going to have to show that lindsey graham is wrong and he doesn't have a diminished hand on the world stage as well. >> good to see you in person. thanks, ed. >>> for a closer look at how the white house is handling the overseas terrorist attacks targeting christians and westerners, we have a fo

additional cars and personnel with extra security at the white house. here's what we're learning from a white house official telling us the president has been breached several times of the unfolding situation at the naval yard. deputy chief of staff, the president directed his team to stay in touch with our federal partners including the navy and fbi as well as local officials. urging to follow directions from the first responders on site. the president being kept up-to-date by local and federal officials. here in the d.c. region as it continues to play out. you would imagine the white house has the very latest on what is involved in what can be confirmed. you will remember the president was due to speak about 11:30 eastern time. it has been moved inside for weather concerns. as we understand right now those remarks are still going on as planned. we don't know if the president will address this particular situation if he will have additional information to share at that point but that is still an hour an and a half away and e expect the president will c

. >> emergency plan requires all off-duty personnel to report back to the duty stations immediately. >> they're trying evacuate the white house. >> the white house is being evacuated. that comes to us from one of our fox producers in washington. the white house is being evacuated. the pentagon as well. >> you have to pack up and go. >> what? >> a plane was hijacked 20 minutes south of here and headed to the capitol. jim angle, are you with us? >> the streets were blocked seconds ago around the white house. there are emergency vehicles almost every block around the white house. as you know, the white house is federal employees standing on street corners in and around the white house having left the building for fear of another attack. >> get back! get back! >> as they brought me out, i could see people running, people were crying, hurry up and get these people out because there's another one right behind. they must have had input on the pennsylvania airplane. >> by now we're firmly over washington d.c. and we're watching united 93 now start very gradually to take up a flight path flight towards washington d.c. we were ve

white house. the president said lessons would be learned, adding ruefully, as they were after so many shootings. >> it is a shooting that targeted our military and civilian personnel. these are men and women who were going to work, doing their job protecting all of us. they are patriots and they know the dangers of serving abroad, but today they face to the that theyle violence would not have expected here at home. >> the senate went into lockdown for a couple of hours with extra security all around and uneasy city. there are still lots of questions about who and why. bbc news, washington. >> a very tense day in the american capital. what tall are they looking at as they piece together what happened today yeah key -- today? us from newst joins york. what do we now know about the suspect in this case, aaron alexis? >> i think there are two real key questions that need to be answered and this is where the fbi and other authorities are going to be working diligently to find out the answers. number one, are there any other people involved? fore is still a search potentially another shooter, a co-conspirator, so tactical operations along with intelligence operations ar

white house. >> making it much more formal 506789. >> she played a role in personnel. he suggested someone. she tried to get rid of an ambassador from britain she didn't like very much and tried to get one in. she said i pulled every string i knew to pull to get you here. alas, she failed. she was a back channel to theodore roosevelt. for example, in the white house henry cab both lyons would talk to her about the post office scandal rather than talk to him about it. so she could be a pathway for roosevelt to discuss matters of diplomacy that he could not discuss with the diplomats themselves. we mentioned all of the time they spent together walking. she writes four newspapers a day. e. >> he didn't have time. >> she wrote newspapers and cut out stories and handed them to him. she made sure certain topics were in front of him. >> what about her influence? >> she favored the conservation policies. we have her on record for that. later on when he ran for president in 1912, she cries it day after he loses. she was really behind him. she edits his speeches and articles. he clearly talks with he

these mandatory pots into these other pieces and the white house could argue that a lot of the crucial positions fall into the bucket of essential personnelre protected during the shutdown. so, it wouldn't be ideal. implementation would move forward and it could get worse for republicans from there. obama care is first year, the it's just going to be full of glitches and hiccups and mistakes. things are going to go wrong. big things. that's just true for every big and complicated law. when john boehner was first made minority leader in 2006, he was asked about the implementation of medicare part d, which he and his colleagues just passed. he said, quote, the implementation of the medicare plan has been horrendous. now, the expectation for obama care, republicans are going to be able to take advantage of the problems. they'll use them to argue the bill is terrible, ha americans need to elect them in midterms and maybe they'll win a few more seats because of it, but if it's happening during an extended government shutdown, republicans might well get blamed for the glitches as in the media. would it have gone more smoothly if the gop hadn't

white soldiers. the army had built a new swimming pool for soldiers and red cross workers to use. a big grand opening celebration was planned for july 4th fairway personneland a separate for july 3rd. the black troops and red cross workers decided to boycott july 3rd party. she wrote to the right cross headquarters. july 4th is a daylong honored and did by negroes as well as other americans for a significance to democracy and the principles on which our government was founded. such a day celebration involving americans anywhere in the face of the globe become finance of two whenever a minority group is excluded from participation. african american entertainers and movie stars did their part for the war effort, just as their white counterparts did. but they face unique obstacles. no matter how successful they were come african-american entertainers were not immune to racism. hazel scott won acclaim as a broadway performer and a hollywood films are. she gained popularity combining training as a classical pianist with her love of jazz. traveling by car to the midwest in 1945, she stopped at a cafÉ along the way. when she went to the counter and asked for se

white house do agree that it is essential that social security and medicare benefits will continue to be paid. and those checks delivered by the postal service. some 1.4 million active duty military personnel will remain on duty worldwide with full pay. air traffic controllers and tsa screeners at airports will remain on the job for security and safety reasons and also not to harm a key sector of the economy. of course, the real harm to the economy depends on how long the government shutdown lasts. something lawmakers may want to think about between now and midnight. for nightly business report, i'm hampton pierson, in washington. >>> and there are others that could be hit hard by the shutdown because they depend on it so crucially for their sales, take lockheed martin, and ratheon, and general dynamics, and life sciences, as are providers of care like molina and well care, which rely heavily on government contracts. >> so joining us now to talk more about what a possible government shutdown could mean for the markets and how you should protect your investments, the chief investment strategist. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> how do you approach this possible government shutdown

white house. she made that a more formal issue. she played a role in personnel.e know that one time she suggested someone for the civil service commission. one time she tried to get rid of an ambassador to britain. she said i pulled every string that i knew to pull to get you here. she was a back channel to theodore roosevelt. henry cabot lodge for example would talk to her about the post office scandal rather than talk to him about it. she could eat a pathway -- it could be a pathway for roosevelt to discuss matters of diplomacy that he could not discuss with diplomats himself. all the time they spent together walking she sent newspaper stories to him. she read four newspapers a day. he did not have time and did not like to read newspapers. she read current stores and handed them to him. she made sure certain topics were in front of him. >> what would you like to add about her influence? >> she favored his conservation policies. we have her on record about that. later when he ran for president in 1912 she cries the day after he loses. she edits his speeches and

white house. but aside from that, we've been using it the whole time. today, something like 16,000 civilian and uniformed personnelat the washington navy yard. there are several entrances to the grounds. all of the entrances are guarded by u.s. marines and by other security personnel. the grounds are big. there's more than 2 million square feet of office space there, dozens and dozens of buildings. the building where today's shooting took place is called building 197. it's the headquarters of the naval sea systems command. on any given day, there is something like 3,000 people working in that one command alone. the naval sea systems command is responsible for designing and building and engineering ships and weapons for the u.s. navy. building 197 is described as a high-security facility, but interestingly, it also serves as an entrance for visitors who want to access the navy yard. so, if you want to get into other parts of the yard, you have to go through building 197. employees have to show i.d., they have to show their badges and they go through locking turnstyles. visitors have to go through security, and usua

faa personnel at both reagan and dulles airports notified the secret service. >> at the white house thed the vice president to the president's emergency operations center beneath the building. >> there were just a million things going on at once. it was literally like a beehive of activity. >> meanwhile, american flight 77 was headed in the direction of the white house. suddenly it made a 330 degree right turn and began a rapid descent toward the pentagon. at 9:37 a.m. american flight 77 crashed into the pentagon. >> we're looking at live pictures of the pentagon where there is billowing smoke. we are hearing again unconfirmed reports that this was the result of a plane crashing. >> i was 15, 20 yards from the point of impact. there was no way to describe for you the panic that just grips your heart. i was tossed around like a rag doll. i'm on fire, burning. the word terror is correct. >> at the same time in new york stanley remained trapped on the 81st floor of tower two. >> i saw somebody waving a flashlight all around and around their head. >> all of a sudden coming out of a hole if

personnel for the obama administration. rick stengel will be undersecretary of state for diplomacy and public affairs. he can join jay carney, now whites secretary. doesn't this make the mainstream media look bad? >> well, i think it does but i don't blame rick for this. he's just following in a great tradition of sort of a revolving door between politics and journalism. so it kind of makes me queasy, the whole thing. i wish people would pick one or the other. but some of the most legendary figures in this business from the sainted tim russert to sainted mr. pinkerton have done this so this is how the business works. >> did he disarm you with that? >> i would just say this. according to elsbeth reeve, this is the 21st journalist who has gone to work for the obama administration. i have to say, dana, you're right, given your performance on "hardball" earlier this week there's zero chance the administration ask you to join them. >> i have not had the phone ringing off the hook. >> i guess you were critical? >> i have occasionally been. >> no federal job for you. >>> but there is a long tradition of some people going from journalism into

white house. there's approximately 10,000 fighters on the free syrian army. they're the people who are generally secular, defectors from the army, and other personnel who have come. when you throw in men with rifles, al qaeda is generally about 25% of the entire opposition battle force. >> right. >> this is part of the problem. we have not yet created an opposition that's capable of doing what we need done in syria. i say we, because that would be the most expedient way to operate in syria. thomas friedman wrote as article that you're going to have to arm the rebels, because we're not going to put boots on the ground. you have to have a force that's organized, operates within legal authority, somewhat given the guidance that we've giving the libyan groups, but in the end, someone has to take over this battle. >> right. you know this is not the first time we've seen the kind of brutality that we just witnessed in that video. back in may, there was the infamous video of a rebel soldier allegedly eating the hard of a syrian soldier. i have to ask you how serious is the danger of these ruthless men with eventually ending up with this stockpile that assad currently h

personnel matters and other things. >> one of the other things we will be able to do is not just being with the first ladies but also some children of the whiteouse. we have a clip of one of the children. this is ford. as family you know well, having worked on the ford library creation, and we will listen and talk about intervention. >> dad led that intervention, and, you know, my memory of that is we walked in the door that morning, all the kids, and dad surprised mom, and he took her hand and said, betty, we are here because we love you. the kids want their mother back. i want my wife back. tough. is tough, hard, hard work. a lot of tears. a lot of crying. more raised voices and denial, not denial, and it goes back and forth. and it was a war, and dad never gave up. he said, betty, we love you. trust us. she did the work. that moment, that morning, nobody ever thought there'd be something called the betty ford center. we were strictly fighting to get our mom back. dad was fighting to get his wife back, so to see the other side of that, months, years later, for her after she had had sobriety for a while, sold comfortable enough to put her na

white house. thanks for joining us. if the u.s. should launch a strike, is there any country anywhere that would provide military equipment or military personnel to help us? >> it's important to see the statement released by the g-20 on friday where we had several countries joining us in calling for the syrian regime to be held accountable. >> but not supporting a u.s. strike. let's make that clear. >> to be held accountable for an instance that nobody is debating. nobody debates the intelligence which makes clear and we have high confidence about this that in august the assad regime used chemical weapons against its own people. a former iranian president has indicated that he believes that. the entire world believes that. we're talking to congress about that now. so congress has an opportunity this week to answer a simple question. should there be consequences for him for having used that material. there will be a lot of interest in the answer to that question in tehran, among hezbollah and in damascus. >> i want to ask about tehran in a minute. let me get to this point. right now the president has talked about it's the world's red line. the

white house either. it was more formal in thinking. so she played a role in personnel and suggested that someone talked about this. she tried to get rid of an ambassador for britain but she didn't like very much and said that i pulled everything that i knew and she was a kind of challenge that these. or roosevelt. many times they would talk to her about the post office scandal. so she could also be a pathway to discuss matters of diplomacy and then we mentioned briefly that all the time is spent together walking and so forth. and she had four newspapers a day, he didn't have time but she read newspapers and made sure that she favored his conservation policies. and later on she cries the day after he loses and she really was behind it. and so she edits this in an article and he clearly talks with her about political policies. but she was looking unobtrusive and they expressed what happening at the meeting. so she is a very active first lady. >> host: we have a call from minnesota. >> caller: hello, thank you for taking my question right after the presidency, was she act

white house. she made that a more formal issue. a role in personnel. we know that one time she suggested someone for the civil service commission. one time she tried to get rid of an ambassador to britain. she said i pulled every string that i knew to pull to get you here. she was a back channel to henry cabotsevelt. lodge for example would talk to her about the post office scandal rather than talk to him about it. -- ituld eat a pathway could be a pathway for roosevelt to discuss matters of diplomacy that he could not discuss with diplomats himself. all the time they spent together walking she sent newspaper stories to him. she read four newspapers a day. he did not have time and did not like to read newspapers. current stores and handed them to him. she made sure certain topics were in front of him. >> what would you like to add about her influence? >> she favored his conservation policies. we have her on record about that. later when he ran for president in 1912 she cries the day after he loses. she edits his speeches and articles. he clearly talked

many calls from the white house almost every day asking for different options, can you do this, what would it take to accomplish "x," "y," "z," if uf want to do "x," rescue personneleling options. the question i have for you given what you and david kay just outlined with regard to iraq, does that mean any kind of plan that's being made at the pentagon right now is going to real lie focus on iraq as well but maybe we won't be speaking so much about how much iraq will matter? >> they'll have a plan. if something happens, if we do something militarily against syria, there's a whole host of things that will happen and the pentagon has to plan for these, the evacuation of embassies and the personnel and even the ngos that david mentioned, they've got to take that into consideration. and going back to iraq, iraq is not this monolithic country anymore. it's over the last two years the civil order has almost broken down, you have the sunnis resurgent in the north and while the government is funneling official aid to syria we're also seeing in the north this is where a lot of the islamists are coming across as well, and iraq is the funnel that is causing all the problems.

white man with the handgun, the african-american with the long gun. both of these dressed, karg to eyewitness accounts, in navy-style uniforms although we do not know if they're naval personneler, president obama, who was previously scheduled to talk about the anniversary of the economy imploding five years ago, mentioned the shootings in remarks at the white house. >> i have been briefed by my team on the situation. we still don't know all the facts. but we do know that several people have been shot and some have been killed. so we're confronting yet another mass shooting. and today, it happened on a military installation in our nation's capital. it's a shooting that targeted our military and civilian personnel. these are men and women who were going to work, doing their job, protecting all of us. they're patriots, and they know the dangers of serving abroad, but today, they faced the unimaginable violence that they wouldn't have expected here at home. >> horrific. the worst mass shooting at a u.s. military base since ft. hood, tragedy, since the ft. hood tragedy where major nidal hasan killed 13 individuals, wounded dozens ort others. 12 are dead here. there was a conspira

personnel can wear skirts no higher than three inches above the knee. if you are above a certain age, the shorts were probably 36 inch usa buff the knee. the knee high socks. >> the white socks and the shorts that came to like maybe the bottom of your butt. >> and they were tight. >> you can tell -- >> i'm surprised there is no website devoted to that. baseball coaches in tight gym shorts from the 70s .org. >> you put that, what do you call it? >> y'all. >> it makes it -- >> you can't have an uh possible trough fee. >> now you tell me. >> unless you spell out apostrophe. >> this is what we do at "red eye." we solve problems and i think we solved a lot today. or maybe we caused a few. i don't know anymore. frankly i am about to pass out. when we come back we will talk about something. in the meantime if you haven't bought my book what is wrong with you? autographed copy go to g gutfeld.com. order one anyway. >>> is the cash abuse or just abuse? does giving kids an allowance help? a columnist addressed this this weekend. several studies they found. high school kids who received regular parental payment left skoal learning less about money than those who got nothing or we

personnel being allowed inside today. >> randall, we also know that capitol hill shut down. even the nats canceled their game. are things in the capitol slowly getting back to normal? >> the whiteouse canceled a music program scheduled for last night. we do know that congress did for a while shut down with an abundance of caution, there was never a threat on the congress itself, but of course, the chambers were closed down, people not allowed in or out. this morning, there is business as usual with respect to the senate at least. the senate and the house was not scheduled to be in session, so they can come and go as they please. the capital grounds are open, schools open, you have to know, del, since you are a resident of this area, that this is a city in shock, in mourning, still trying to figure out how this happened in a very, very secure facility where at every gate, there's an armed guard. >> randall pinkston joining us live. thank you very much. >> we are getting a clearer picture of the man behind the trigger, the man responsible for the shooting. we want to show you new photos of the gunman aaron alexis. >> friends of 34-year-old aaron alexis describe him as a quiet per

background checking on behalf of the office of personnel management, that massive government agency that deals with all the government employees. >> that's part of the whiteexecutive branch. >> exactly. they hire out a private contractor to look into the background of the person in question, find out anything in this person's background that might raise a red flag or deny them a clearance. they would report to the office of personnel management, which would turn it over to the department of defense, one of three possible offices in the department of defense that we're told about which would have been the entity to give him his final clearance. but you have what appeared to be three stages where they would have hopefully flagged some of this stuff in his background. somebody should have caught it. the attorneys we talked to who help people with these things say somebody should have caught it. the three arrests, two on gun-related charges, especially the one in 2004 where he shot at the construction workers 's carn a blacked-out rage. that should have been flagged if nothing else. but his arrest for disorderly conduct, other gun-related arrests in 2010 all

white house. thanks for being here. i want to ask you something right now. if the u.s. should launch a strike, is there any country anywhere that would provide military equipment or military personnel to help us? >> well, it's important to see this statement that was released by the g20 on friday where we had several countries joining us in calling for the syrian regime to be held accountable -- >> but not supporting a u.s. strike? let's make that clear. >> to be held accountable for an instance that nobody now is debating, which is interesting. nobody now debates the intelligence, which makes clear, and we have high confidence about this, that on august -- in august, the assad regime used chemical weapons against its own people. a former iranian president has indicated that he believes that. the entire world believes that. we're talking to congress about that now. so congress has an opportunity this week to answer a simple question, should there be consequences for him for having used that material. there is going to be a lot of interest in the answer to that question in tehran, among hezbollah, and in damascus, and we should be very clear about that. >> i want to ask about tehran

. >>> the white house hold all government agencies last week st they should get ready just in case there's a shutdown. behind me you can see thee website for the office of personnel management and on the page you see the dreaded words,, furlough guidance. click on that and it takes youts to a large report on whatrt happens in the event of aof shutdown because of a furlough. opm is dusting off the dine generalsy plans they first came up with in -- contingency plans they first came up first time a furlough happened. 8,000 federal work eanders the e country would be told to stay at home. emergency employees, 1 senior managers would be on the job anh they would be paid for the time that they work but that paychec may not arrive exactly when it's supposed to, that is because pay roll operations could be impacted by a shutdown. a lot depends on the agency that you work for. "the washington post" says if an agreement is not reached at capitol hill, workers would get an e-mail or phone call from the supervisors to stay at work. some will be allowed to go to work one day, to clean out e-mails, that is the federal government.ovn the state government is getting ready to wit