saturday, 58 minutes before crooks opened fire. in this image, you see him with his cell phone. 14 minutes later, at 5:28, police taking this picture of what authorities believe is crooks' bike, with it, a backpack and duffel bag. 5:32, a sniper spotting crooks looking at news feeds on his phone, noticing he had a rangefinder, a device used to determine distances to targets. that sniper flagging the suspicious activity in a group text, receiving a response to call in to command. at 5:41, that sniper sending out a description of crooks, lurking around the building. around 6:00 p.m., 20 minutes later, local police asking where the suspect was headed. at 6:05, crooks was then spotted near picnic tables carrying a backpack. then at 6:06, the sniper who first noticed crooks leaving his position, meeting patrol officers, telling them the suspect was near the building. >> he's got a gun! >> reporter: six minutes later at 6:12, shots fired. [ sound of gunfire ] what's still not clear tonight, is whether local authorities alerted the secret

at 5:52, crooks was spotted on the roof by the secret service. a full 20 minutes before the shooting. 6:02, trump takes the stage. 6:12, crooks fires those shots, killing one man and nearly taking trump's life. a sniper killing crooks 26 seconds after he fires the first shot. >> it is a split-second decision, and they have the ability to make that decision on their own. >> reporter: but how crooks was able to get on that roof undetected still sending shockwaves through law enforcement. and local authorities in butler, pennsylvania, starting to push back. >> the deputies under my control did their job and went above and beyond after the shooting stopped and the chaos began. >> reporter: and sources telling abc news that before the rally, local authorities warned the secret service that they would not be able to provide enough police personnel to cover all the buildings. sources say the secret service asked for a police cruiser to be stationed at the building, and that the request was denied. officers were stationed inside the complex of buildings,

>> reporter: and fbi analysis of crookes' laptop found he took the search on the same to he registered trump's rally. it references lee harvey oswald, who assassinated president john f. kennedy in 1963. >> guess who the guy... >> reporter: investigators are still looking into whether the gunman hit his firearm head of the rally. >> the weapon had a collapsible stock, which could explain why it might have been less easy for people to observe. >> reporter: a cbs news analysis found crooks fired eight bullets in less than six seconds before being shot and killed by a secret service sniper. >> why was crooks allowed to get operate shots? >> well, that is something i think we are still digging into. >> reporter: in his testimony today, wray also detailed what crooks did to prepare ahead of this assassination attempt. jen borrasso with our cbs station in pittsburgh has more from butler, pennsylvania. >> reporter: hours before shots rang out, 20-year-old crookes flew a drone roughly 200 yards from where we're standing right now and from where president trump was standing on july 13th. >> repo

saturday, 58 minutes before crooks opened fire. in this image, you see him with his cell phone. 14 minutes later, at 5:28, police taking this picture of what authorities believe is crooks' bike, with it, a backpack and duffel bag. 5:32, a sniper spotting crooks looking at news feeds on his phone, noticing he had a rangefinder, a device used to determine distances to targets. that sniper flagging the suspicious activity in a group text. receiving a response to call in to command. at 5:41, that sniper sending out a description of crooks, lurking around the building. around 6:00 p.m., 20 minutes later, local police asking where the suspect was headed. 6:05, crooks was then spotted near picnic tables, carrying a backpack. then at 6:06, the sniper who first noticed crooks leaving his position, meeting patrol officers, telling them the suspect was near the building. >> he's got a gun! >> reporter: six minutes later at 6:12, shots fired. what's still not clear tonight, is whether local authorities alerted the secret service commanders on-

at 5:52, crooks was spotted on the roof by the secret service.the shooting. 6:02, trump takes the stage. 6:12, crooks fires those shots, killing one man and nearly taking trump's life. a sniper killing crooks 26 seconds after he fires the first shot. >> it as split-second decision, and they have the ability to make that decision on their own. >> reporter: how crooks was able to get on that roof undetected still sending shockwaves through law enforcement. and local authorities in butler, pennsylvania, starting to push back. >> the deputies under my control did their job and went above and beyond after the shooting stopped and the chaos began. >> reporter: sources telling abc news that before the rally, local authorities warned the secret service that they would not be able to provide enough police personnel to cover all the buildings. sources say the secret service asked for a police cruiser to be stationed at the building and that the request was denied. officers were stationed inside the complex of buildings, but somehow, everyone missed crooks

they want to get rid of crooked joe biden.— rid of crooked joe biden. this is a most united the _ rid of crooked joe biden. this is a most united the party _ rid of crooked joe biden. this is a most united the party has - rid of crooked joe biden. this is a most united the party has been i rid of crooked joe biden. this is a i most united the party has been fun decades. questions continue about the future ofjoe biden. near three dozen democrats have called for mr biden to withdraw. he says that he will continue to campaign next week after isolating with coving. he insisted he is staying the race. officials investigating the attempted assassination of donald trump last saturday have told american media that they believe the gunman flew a camera—equipped drone over the pennsylvania rally site ahead of the shooting. they say they think thomas crooks used it to help pick the best line of sight for the podium. our correspondent in washington david willis has more details reports show that thomas crooks may have surveyed the area from the sky. he had a bullet

at 5:10, crooks is identified as a person of interest. at 5:30, crooms was spotted with a range finder, which can be used to determine distances for target practice. sources telling abc news he's able to get on that roof by climbing over air conditioning units. at 5:52, crooks was spotted on the roof by the secret service. a full 20 minutes before the shooting. 6:02, trump takes the stage. 6:12, crooks fires those shots, killing one man and nearly taking trump's life. a sniper killing crooks 26 seconds after he fires the first shot. >> it is a split-second decision, and they have the ability to make that decision on their own. >> reporter: but how crooks was able to get on that roof undetected still sending shockwaves through law enforcement. and local authorities in butler, pennsylvania, starting to push back. >> the deputies under my control did their job and went above and beyond after the shooting stopped, and the chaos began. >> reporter: and sources telling abc news that before the rally, local authorities warned the secret service

. >>> stunning new details about thomas crooks. a law enforcement agent saying a local police officer was on that roof and confronted the shooter seconds before he opened fire on donald trump. reports the officer then fell. the shooter then turning back to open fire on the former president. pierre thomas standing by in washington. >>> authorities tonight searching for a motive behind the attack. what they have found already. and what we're now learning about the gun. an ar-style rifle. who owned it? >>> and the takedown of the gunman. it is the first time a secret service sniper has taken out a would be assassin. all of this coming on the eve of the republican national convention. donald trump saying he considered not going to milwaukee today. tonight on his way. jonathan karl in milwaukee for us. >>> and president biden addressing the nation tonight from the oval office, condemning the attempt on donald trump's life. the president tonight urging unity. a special edition of "world news tonight" starts now. ♪ >>> from abc news, this

thomas crooks this is 20 year old thomas crooks graduating from high school two years ago. a classmate, jason kohler, tells nbc. crooks was bullied a lot. he would sit alone at lunch. i mean, he was just an outcast. and you know how kids are nowadays. records show crooks was a registered republican, but at 17, he made a $15 donation to actblue, a group that encourages democrats to vote. this november would have been the first time he could vote in a presidential election. somebody put him up to it, you know, was his anger because of social media? the fbi believes the gun was bought legally by crooks dad. preliminary info shows crooks fired eight shots and was killed immediately by secret service renee white traveled from north carolina to stand behind trump yesterday. boom. and then boom. i turned and i watched him look and go down, and i was like, this is happening. like something seriously happened here. investigators today identified the three rally goers who were shot, including 50 year old corey comparator, who was kille. corey was an avid supporter of the former presi

crooks returned to the site about 3:45, and flew a drone for roughly 11 minutes.he fbi says it's working to determine whether crooks was viewing drone footage which would have revealed insights into the security posture. texts from local security show they noticed crooks at 2:00 p.m., nearly two hours before the event. you see me go out with my rifle so he knows you guys are up there. by 5:14 p.m., they grew suspicious. >> he was looking up and down the building and just wandering around. it seemed out of place. >> reporter: nichols' suspicions grow further when he noticed crooks pull something from his pocket. >> i had my binoculars and zoomed in. that's a range finder. >> reporter: nichols snapping these photos of a shooter, which had a text group between the local snipers that were onscene. i sent the pictures out the that group and advised them of what i noticed and what i'd seen. >> reporter: what do you think is transpiring once you have sent in what you sent in? >> i assumed there would be somebody coming out to speak with this individual or find out what's

a photo of crooks to _ crooks, that they texted a photo of crooks to the representative at the commandrelayed to the us secret service. they— relayed to the us secret service. they asked that it be texted to sonreone — they asked that it be texted to someone else. that was many minutes before _ someone else. that was many minutes before president trump took the stand _ before president trump took the stand. why were they not keeping him off the _ stand. why were they not keeping him off the stand? we know it is a criminat— off the stand? we know it is a criminal investigation and you have to wait— criminal investigation and you have to wait for— criminal investigation and you have to wait for it to develop, but do you have — to wait for it to develop, but do you have any reason or any other target _ you have any reason or any other target of— you have any reason or any other target of your criminal investigation other than crooks, who is dead? _ investigation other than crooks, who is dead? tide— investigation other than crooks, who is dead? ~ ., investigation other than crooks, who is

it flashes several times trump shooter thomas crooks. for one of the world's largest investment companies, black roll. it manages more than $6 trillion. investors are actively involved in pumping arms into ukraine. in the states, blackrock is associated with the same deep state. numerous models show how a miracle saved trump. turning his head for a split second saved his life. fans see god's providence in this, that this really happened, congress is going to find out, and on monday the director of the secret service was summoned there for questioning. denis davidov, anna lvova, dmitry deneshkin and maria poderina, lead. and urgent expected news from the united states. joe biden is withdrawing from the election race. the document is published by the white house. biden explains that he is withdrawing his candidacy for the presidency to focus. fulfilling his presidential obligations for the remainder of his term, which is until january next year when the next head of the white house takes the oath of office, biden is expected to address the

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crooks then pulled out a rangefinder and the sniper alerted his team. at that shooter then climbed to an air-conditioning unit onto the building near the snipers position. at 5:51:00 p.m., state police alerted the u.s. secret service about a suspicious person, and radioed a description within one minute. at 6:00 p.m., the former president was allowed to take the stage. 10 minutes later, secret service neighbors were alerted about an issue unfolding to trump's right, but it's too late. at 6:11 p.m., shots ring out. [gunshts] and chaos erupts in the crowd. >> someone got shot over here. >> reporter: at the republican national convention last night, republican senators directed kimberly cheatle demanding to know why the president was even allowed to take the stage. >> we want answers. >> reporter: former secret service agents charles marino says trump should never have started his speech. >> he should be held in a secure area until the threat is resolved and that it's concluded there is no additional other threats. >> reporter: today hundreds of people tur

this new timeline comes as an fbi investigation refills thomas crooks carefully planned his moves. fbi says kirks' internet history reveals he researched power plants, explosive devices, how far lee harvey oswald was when he assassinated jfk, and even the assassination attempt against the slovak prime minister earlier this year. they say he made more than two dozen firearm-related purchases and bought chemicals in the year before the shooting using aliases. fbi agents have included approximately 450 interviews and searched date on the shooter provided by 86 companies. >> seems this has played out, look kind about lone wolf scenario where an individual doesn't have a lot of friends. he's not sharing information with friends or family, and he's just keeping everything to himself. maybe internalizing it because he's got this ultimate goal. >> reporter: meanwhile secret service acting director ronald rowe is in the hot seat tomorrow the u.s. senate hearing to explain the agencies internal probe into its failures july 13. yet another investigation has just launched. u.s. house has a 13

sniper greg nichols says he recognized crooks as suspicious, taking these photos of him. he said his suspicions grew when he noticed crooks pull something out of his pocket. >> ended up being a range finder. at first i was like, that can't be a range finder. i thought maybe it was a monocular. i had my binocular so i zoomed in. i was like, that's a range finder. >> that sends up flag in your head? >> absolutely. >> reporter: today, "the washington post" reports members of trump's secret service detail complained they were never made aware of the warning. >> was this a failure of communication? >> i believe so in a lot of respects. multiple agencies working together is always taxing, no matter what the problem. i know that we could not communication with secret service or pennsylvania state police or really in effort the patrol directly. >> reporter: the secret service declined to respond directly to the comments from beaver county authorities but said in a statement, the agency is committed to better understanding what happened to insure it never happens again. >> linsey:

crooks saw him.rst time from what our understanding is that law enforcement acquired a full picture of crooks and that appears to have rushed crooks' actions. that officer dropped down when crooks pointed the rifle at him. he got on the radio -- radioed in on the attack com that there was an unfriendly in the location with an ar, an ar15 that looks to have been stashed behind the ac unit. and that is exactly when, it looks like crooks started shooting. so as a result, you can understand why the people here on the ground and some of the law enforcement here feel a little bit hard done by, by the narrative that the locals blew the area perimeter. >> jonathan: so the local officer being criticized in some corners, simply the fact of him disturbing crooks, forcing him to rush the shot might be a contributing factor in not hitting trump with a kill shot. >> we are going into analysis here, and less for fact, but i would go there. because that takes the the shooer out of his comfort zone. according to ever

by 5:14 they identified crooks at suspicious and then saw him poll a range finder from his pocket and tonight that team sitting down with us for an exclusive interview. >> he was looking up and down the people wandering around. just seemed out of play. >> reporter: sniper greg nicol took these images of the shooter. >> we had a text group between the local snipers that were on scene. i send the pictures out to that group and advised them of what i noticed and what i had seen. i then was texted back and said call it into command. i then called it into the command via radio, and -- and they acknowledged. >> what do you think is transpiring once you send in what you've sent in? >> i assumed that there would be somebody coming out, to you know, speak with this individual or, you know, find out what's going on. >> how do you know if greg's concerns about crooks are being relayed properly? >> we don't. >> reporter: it's not clear whether the cirque seek received those warnings from. where they were, the beaver county swath team says they had no view of the roof. >> use this ladder. >> greg

thomas crooks. >> crooks is a 2022 graduate, a bethel park high school in more than one person. we spoke to described him this way. >> i knew him from school just because he was bullied. i mean, he was bullied. he's outcast, really had no fans. he always had just that that bland most not his face, just so serious. >> but according to the associated press, crooks had no known military background raising more questions about how he was able to make it on that roof and fire those shots, even as people outside the venue said they were trying to alert authorities that he was up there. pennsylvania's governor was asked about those issues at a news conference sunday. >> other a lot of hoops starting atk the tough questions about whether that building that the shooter access should have been secured. >> should it have been secured? pennsylvania state police have any responsibility to have secured. >> i'm not going to get into any questions regarding answer any questions regarding the ongoing investigation. i trust that the fbi, the pennsylvania state police. we'll keep you posted throug

the fbi says it's confident crooks acted alone, but they don't know why he acted at all. he wasn't on their radar. he has no criminal record and what they've seen so far of his digital history offers no useful clues as to why he would do this. andrew. rhiannon. >> all right. alison kosik, thank you for that. three other people were shot at that trump rally, including corey comparator, a firefighter who was killed trying to shield his family from the bullets. doctor james sweetland was nearby, and he tried to save his life. >> i heard a woman screaming ou, he's been shot. he's down. i heard his voice in my head saying, go, go, go. what's taking you so long? get to that person. go. and then when i got to the scene, my training kicked in. >> the two others who were shot are both in stable condition. >> and we want to get to abc's perry russom in milwaukee, where the republican convention kicks off today with some changes. perry. good morning. what can you tell us about the expected shift in tone. >> yeah andrew, good morning to you. overnight former president trump making so

thomas crooks.to be good at maths, and later worked as an assistant at a nursing home. now the eyes of the international media are on the house where thomas crooks lived. hi, handsome! kelly was one of a number of neighbours evacuated as police investigated a suspicious device at his home. we were overrun with law enforcement agents from literally everywhere and given no explanation. and your neighbour, what was he like? he would just avidly walk the neighbourhood, um, and always had on like beats style headphones and kind of seems like your average american dorky young man. atjust 20 years old, this would have been the first presidential election that thomas crooks was old enough to vote in, and there are still many unanswered questions about why he left this quiet neighbourhood, ended up coming inches away from killing donald trump. what we do know is that thomas crooks was a member of this gun club, which has condemned what it called the senseless violence. how typical is it for people to own gun

, part of crook's eye and forehead. we're told the roof's lip was blocking the secret service sniper's view and the source describing the shot to fox as "one in a million". >> there should be multiple snipers on every roof and all throughout that terrain. they shouldn't even be in a position where they have to be that perfect if they're not able to take that one in a million shot, the details will come out on that later. reporter: crooks reportedly flew a drone over the rally site hours before he open fire. alicia. alicia: cb cotton, thank you. griff. griff: congressional hearings into the assassination attempt into former president trump set to begin on monday in the head of the secret service confirms she's coming. senior con depressional correspondent -- congressional correspondent chad pergram drills into what's ahead. >> marquee hearing comes monday before the house oversight committee with kimberly cheatle and lawmakers are raging at cheat l over a lack of transparency. >> they spent an hour telling us nothing. >>

thomas crooks. he'd graduated from high school two years ago, said to be good at maths. in this classroom video. now the eyes of the international media on the family home where thomas cross cs lived. the fbi say they are investigating this as potential domestic terrorism. kelly was one of many neighbours evacuated as police dealt with a suspicious device at thomas crooks' address. we were overrun with law enforcement agents from literally everywhere and your neighbour, what was he like? he would just avidly walk the neighbourhood, and always had on, like, beats—style headphones, and kind of seems like your average american dorky young man. atjust 20 years old, this would have been the first presidential election that thomas crooks was old enough to vote in, and there are many unanswered questions as to why he left this quiet neighbourhood and came inches away from killing donald trump. what we do know is that thomas crooks was a member of this gun club, which has condemned what it called the senseless violence. how typical is it for people to own guns in this area? yeah

and then crooks opened fire on 45. fbi is denying that report which is weird because the fbi never comments on active investigations. many other people notice the shooter on the roof. >> we notice the guy crawling army, bear crawling up the roof of the building beside us. 50 feet away from us. so we are standing there pointing at the guy crawling up the roof. >> he had a gun, right question can be had a rifle we could clearly see them with the rifle absolutely. we are pointing at hampering the police are down there running around on the ground but we are like hey man, there's a guy on the roof with a rifle the police are like a hawk, or what? they didn't know what was going on. where like right here on the roof we can see him from right here we see him. he is crawling. the next thing you know i'm thinking to myself why is trump still speaking? >> the crowd quieted the crowd knows issue before law enforcement's job it is to look for shooters? he's got a gun. he's got a gun. he's on the roof, he is on the roof. >> multip

crooks fired the shots and that eight showcasing for recovery. did i hear that?>> yes, sir. >> were the only covered in the facility of his body? >> i am told that they were. >> when the information, let's see, the information concerning, having identified crooks as a suspicious figure was relayed and the text message was sent to the secret service command center. psp was present i understand, is that correct? >> psp member who received those from public him yet. >> that's what it want to clarify. was it a psp member who receives -- >> i can comment it was a psp member who received that come butler esu. >> and passed it and then advise secret service -- >> initially fis secret service and passed it at the direction forward to a telephone number. >> text of the information to telephone number. >> that's what i i was briefe. >> that was given by the secret service representative. did the secret service representative indicate to whom that come whose banks of the information via that never? >> i i do not know. our understanding was from interview we conducted that i

did crooks work alone?s back to you. >> brian: hey, chad, do you believe this is going to be true bipartisan committee? you talk to the people that they're going to be equal on it. there should not be any politics involved in. this are they going to approach this from a bipartisan way when they come down to it? >> so far this has been pretty bipartisan and there is kind of two or three inquests here. you have the co-hearing today with the homeland security committee and also the judiciary committee. and what you are referring to there is the house task force. this is something that the house voted on last week. it does slide a little bit in the favor of the republicans. there is 13 members on that committee. it's 7-6. that's the membership breakdown but almost every member i have spoken to to a t democrats and republicans want to get to the bottom of this. >> steve: indeed. >> steve: chad, unlike the secret service director who testified last week and then had to quit, this guy actually went to butler. and

david dutch and james copenhaver were critically wounded before a sniper shot and killed crooks. among the many unanswered questions, how did the 20-year-old get on that rooftop? and why wasn't it better secured? he had a vantage point just 148 yards from the podium where trump was speaking. snipers took up positions nearby, but the secret service says the rooftop was outside their security perimeter. crooks' father, who according to the fbi, has been cooperating with the investigation legally purchased the rifle his son used. and nbc news has learned crooks purchased ammunition at this store near his home just hours before the rally. senior officials say more than a dozen firearms were found while searching the family's home. after the shooting, they say his father called police, worried his son and a ar-tilestyle rifl were missing. crooks was a member of a shooting club at a firing range. >> he was a normal kid to me, walking around the neighborhood. i mean, he was just a bit odd, that's all. >> reporter: but authorities still have not identified a motive, even after analyzing

>> reporter: -- racing to put together a profile of would-be assassin thomas crooks.sources confirming to abc news crooks bought dozens of rounds of ammunition from an online source and a local gun store, in the days and weeks before the attack. and on the day of the rally, sources say crooks, who had a membership at a local gun club, told his father he wanted to go to the shooting range. and that's when his father gave limb the semiautomatic rifle thinking nothing unusual about it. investigators are still here in the neighborhood. you can see the hooter's house remains blocked off, but they've been going door-to-door, interviewing neighbors to see whatever they can learn. the fbi has conducted more than a hundred interviews. liam campbell lives across the street. >> the parents i'd say, they're nice people. like i've said "hi" or "bye" to them walking past. but the kid i just haven't talked to him much, like nobody really knows him. he sticks to himself. >> chris is a registered republican, david, though thomas crooks also donated $15 to a progressive group. he had n

the top one peeks up over the top of the roof, sees crooks with an ar. with the gun, the cop lets go, drops to the ground, immediately radios it in. the thinking here is that that precipitated crooks rushing his thought, took him out of his comfort zone. he knows at that point he's been discovered. the call has gone in to the command center that crooks has been seen, and that could very well have played a significant role here in the way things worked out. could have been a lot worse. pete: paul, do you have a sense of the timing of that? was that mere minutes before the shots were fired? that's what's hard -- trying to get my arms around the timeline. >> i actually think it could be seconds. pete: seconds. >> i think he hit the ground and called it in, and crooks realized, okay, i better get set and do what i gotta do here. the question is very perfect acceptive because that really the issue. how long did they know that threat was there? they reportedly had acquired him as suspicious 10-11 minutes earlier. why was donald trump still brought out onto sta

and he takes a photograph of crooks.er number one takes a photo of a bicycle and two bags located outside a building, they take a photo of it and broadcast messages on the radio, and the trump team, donald trump's immediate team, does not receive any of these messages. the easiest thing would be to say, hey, let's check this guy out before we take the president out on stage, they never did conveyed the message. yeah, i think, unfortunately, i mean, i think, you know, there was something at the convention that i didn't want, i wasn't ready to say publicly yet, it's so terrible, i know, i talked about it on the show, and it was a bright event, you were there, it was fun, optimistic, it was fun, but at the same time, deep down i thought, this should not have happened. gold will remain the metal that the country, the state, the people will always need, it is just an absolutely bare metal from the periodic table. four nines, which begins to travel throughout the planet, humanity urgently needs something to be reliable, this s

that text message was a picture of crooks. wasn't a picture of him pointing the rangefinder or of him just looking suspicious? >> i have not seen the picture that was sent so i don't know. >> the best of my briefing, the pictures that were initially taken. >> that was the 62 minute prior, okay. at 25 minutes prior, someone saw him pointing a range fire and taking range estimation or range readings, right? >> i don't want to speculate as to what he was doing with the rangefinder but the rangefinder was the heightened suspicion. >> he was pointing. the rangefinder. you can have it digital and do it like this but there are also rangefinders you look for room. do you know -- >> it was not briefed to me. >> there was concern and that was relayed to the command post and that was a psp guy in the secret service command post via a text message 20 minutes before and you think it included the fact the guy had a rangefinder. >> i understand that. okay. then you mentioned the two esu guys that were in the second story, honestly, in truth,

the fbi director said that thomas crooks visited the site of the rally a full week before the attemptthe former president's life. tonight, we are learning the gunman who nearly assassinated former president donald trump entered a chilling google search a week before the shooting. >> on july 6th, he he did a google search for "how far away was oswald from kennedy." >> reporter: an fbi analysis of crooks' laptop found he did the search on the same day he registered for trump's rally. it references lee harvey oswald, who assassinated president john f. kennedy in 1963. investigators are still looking into whether the gunman hid his firearm ahead of the rally. >> the weapon had a collapsible stock, which could explain why it might have been less easy for people to observe. >> reporter: cbs news analysis found crooks fired eight bullets in less than six seconds before being shot and killed by secret service sniper. >> why was crooks allowed to get off eight shots? >> well, that is something i think we are still digging into. >> reporter: in his testimony today, wray also detailed what crook

the fbi later confirmed that crooks rode a bicycle to the scene.ey found a phone, a flash drive and... from an explosive device, the explosives were in the car, which he left several kilometers from the place, but how yesterday's schoolboy, who was not interested in chemistry, did not look for information about explosives on the internet, was able... to assemble a bomb, one of the questions that is multiplying. there was so much negligence, so many mistakes that were made at the scene of the assassination attempt that it seems to me that this was done intentionally and not out of irresponsibility. wait, what do you mean by intentionally? look how things got heated, they tried to silence trump, then they tried imprisonment, now an attempt to kill him. wait, wait, the sniper who passed the hot spot is not allowed by the presenter of cnn, loyal to the democrats, to develop the topic of what would have happened if trump had not turned away for a split second, showed a model with a sight and a turn of the head, why the presidential candidate was saved b

crooks graduated from community college and worked as a dietary aide at a nursing home. he was also a member of a shooting club at a firing range. >> he was just a normal kid to me. walking around the neighborhood. i mean, he was just a bit odd. that's all. >> reporter: but authorities still have not identified a motive. even after analyzing crooks's cell phone, according to a senior law enforcement official. while the small, rural town of butler struggles with what happened here. >> right now i think it's more the feeling of numbness in the city. >> stephanie, where does the investigation stand tonight? >> reporter: well, lester, the fbi says they've conducted over 100 interviews. they continue to pore over the shooter's electronic devices as well as photos and videos from that day of the rally. they are also asking the public to please come forward if you have any information you think could be useful. lester? >> stephanie gosk, thank you. >>> now to the stunning decision in florida. a federal judge throwing out the classified documents case against the former presiden

we have recovered eight cartridges —— did crooks — have recovered eight cartridges —— did crooks fire did crooks fire eight shots? why was he allowed to get off _ did crooks fire eight shots? why was he allowed to get off eight _ did crooks fire eight shots? why was he allowed to get off eight shots? i he allowed to get off eight shots? that is something we are digging into _ that is something we are digging into. maybe this is a good place for me to _ into. maybe this is a good place for me to make — into. maybe this is a good place for me to make clear the different investigations that are going on. given— investigations that are going on. given that — investigations that are going on. given that i have only got three minutes left, i appreciate that you said you are prepared to disclose things as questions are asked, so i don't want to waste time, i just want to get to the questions that you will answer. i would be glad for you will answer. i would be glad for you to go on a soliloquy and tell us what you know. i think the american people want to know, why was president trump not ke

rally in butler, pennsylvania in the shooter come up of male from the park pennsylvania, thomas matthew crooks heard mr. trump seems that the former president was shot in the upper part of his ear, then he is, fine and hello everyone this is continuing coverage but the fbi calls an attempted assassination of the 45th president, our north help hello eric. >> think you for joining us and secret service did shooting to the government, 20 -year-old thomas matthew crooks and for the park pennsylvania authority say several people attending the rally also shot and one person was killed. >> we confirm from you that we do have one individual killed, and i know that i heard the two of their were three in total besides the former president, so to critically were hundred and one was killed. >> we have reaction coming in from the president of france it, emmanuel micron tweeting my thoughts are with president donald trump and that victim of an assassination attempt and i sit him my wishes for a speedy recovery and spectator has died in several art injured and it is a tragedy for our democracy france, they s

one of those who knew thomas crooks _ with him. one of those who knew thomas crooks at _ with him.crooks at school. - richard painter is the former chief ethics lawyer at the white house for george w bush. he's currently a law professor at the university of minnesota. welcome to the programme at what is a time of shock for the us nation. thank you for inviting me today. this is indeed a shock. and we have had of course political assassinations before. assassination attempts and assassinations. president kennedy lost his nightlife. we had attempts on the life of ronald reagan. and we have had presidents from canada shot, george wallace in 1972. and this is a very tragic day for the united states, and we really need to come to grips with the fact that there are those who are so mentally ill that they would do something like this. and that our gun laws allow people access to guns who really shouldn't. here, apparently his father bought the gun. there needs to be an investigation into what kind of safety there was with the gun there. but once again, the united states has a terrible pro

she said: the fbi named the attacker as 20—year—old thomas matthew crooks.was from bethel park in pennsylvania, around one hour from where the rally took place. crooks was a registered republican according to state voter records, but according to reuters, when he was 17, he made a $15 donation to a political action commission that raises money for left—leaning and democratic politicians. the weapon used is believed to have been purchased legally. it is also thought that police may have found explosive materials at the home of thomas matthew crooks. he was always getting good grades on tests, everything like that. he was very passionate about history, and from what i knew from my friends, they said he was good in government—type classes, so anything in government or history, he seemed to know what he was talking about, but it was nothing out of the ordinary. he was a nice kid and i had never had an experience with him where i was like, you know, "he is not nice." he was always nice and i was always friendly to him. the man crooks shot dead was named by the pe

thomas crooks.ot dead by secret service agents, but his motive for the attempted assassination, is unclear. so what do we know about the gunman? here's emma va rdy. what was in the mind of this young man is still unknown. thomas crooks. he'd graduated from high school two years ago, said to be good at maths, and later worked as an assistant at a nursing home. now the eyes of the international media are on the house where thomas crooks lived. hi, handsome! kelly was one of a number of neighbours evacuated as police investigated a suspicious device at his home. we were overrun with law enforcement agents from literally everywhere and given no explanation. and your neighbour, what was he like? he would just avidly walk the neighbourhood, um, and always had on like beats style headphones and kind of seems like your average american dorky young man. atjust 20 years old, this would have been the first presidential election that thomas crooks was old enough to vote in, and there are still many unanswered q

moments before thomas crooks targeted the podium, a butler township police officer locked eyes with him, according to township manager tom knights. >> he was able to pull his head up over the roof. he did in fact see an individual on the roof with a weapon. >> reporter: the officer was responding to a report that someone suspicious was on the roof. fellow officers boosting him up to check it out. and what did the shooter do? >> turned towards him, had the barrel of his weapon pointed at the officer. >> reporter: and at that point, the officer's hanging on to the side of the roof? >> yes, yes. >> reporter: unable to pull a gun out? >> unable -- >> reporter: unable to defend himself. unable to reach his radio? >> any of that, yeah, yeah. strictly defensive movement for him to lower his head, duck. lost his own grip, right, fell approximately eight feet to the ground. >> reporter: knights says the officers radioed a message on a channel that included the secret service to say the suspicious person was in fact a gunman. he does not know how much time passed before the shooter opened fire. t

this morning the fbi identified the gunman as thomas matthew crooks.from the rally site in bethel, pennsylvania. he'd graduated with an engineering degree from a community college but worked at a nursing and rehabilitation center. he was a registered republican. a classmate told cbs news that crooks had tried out for the high school's rifle team but failed to make it. throughout the night and morning investigators searched crooks's home and car, where they say they found explosive devices. this afternoon former president trump released another statement on social media. "i was going to delay my trip to wisconsin and the republican national convention," he said, "by two days but have just decided that i cannot allow a shooter or potential assassin to force change to scheduling or anything else. therefore, i will be leaving for milwaukee as scheduled." he departed from newark airport in new jersey and traveled to milwaukee for the convention, where he will officially be nominated as his party's candidate for president. >> that was maurice dubois. this is

the fbi is currently looking into thomas crooks' laptop.h history , photographs of former and current presidents. information about the republican convention and trump's rally with supporters, where the assassination attempt took place. the shooter also had two phones. in one of them, 27 contacts are all being questioned by the fbi. particularly interesting. listen to his parents. his parents were looking for him on the day of the assassination attempt. several hours before the shooting, they did not call the police and report they are worried that crooks is missing. we don't know what exactly bothered them. they were worried that he took weapons from the house or that he went to kill the president of the united states. we don't know the details. even in the laptop of twenty-year-old crooks, they found his page on one of the gaming platforms. fbi sources told reporters that before the assassination attempt , he left a message there: july 13 is my premiere. watch how everything will happen. after the information hit the media, hundreds of pa

the latest details on crooks with text messages with local counter snipers and crooks spotted 90 minutested. for the first time ever, those local counter snipers reveal what they saw that afternoon. >> he was looking up and down the building and just wondering and sticking out the place. i would assume somebody would be coming out to speak with this individual or find out what is going on. >> the fbi says crooks used in hvac unit to get on top of the roof and carried a backpack with a firearm and its collapsible stock europe of the fbi is still trying to determine how crooks conceal that weapon until just moments before the gunfire, harris. >> harris: cb cotton good reporting today. thank you very much. we got a lot of detail, morgan, but what we need is the context. president trump's victim interview will be important to kind of give all of that transparency about the emotions of the moment and all of that. this shooter would have seen what was playing out on stage now we know for quite some time. >> morgan: it is important to get this right, not only for former president trump and now

my name is thomas matthew crooks. i hate republicans, i hate trump. pennsylvania voter records has listed thomas matthew crooks with the same address and birthday as a registered republican. investigations are underway to find a motive and determined whether a shooter had accomplices, the fbi is investigating the incident as an attempted assassination. reacting to the shooting, president joe biden described it as sick and denounced political violence, biden said he was grateful that trump was safe and doing well. oh, there's a long history of shootings in u.s. politics, including those targeted presidents and presidential candidates. the following report takes a look at some of these attacks. in 1981, republican president ronald reagan was seriously wounded in a shooting as he left the hotel in washington. the incident left him hospice for 12 days. in 1975, republican president, gerald ford was targeted by two separate assassination attempts, both in california and 17 days apart. ford escaped unscated. in 1972, george wallace was short four times and

crooks was later spotted for a second time. this time by a sniper looking up at the roof, observing the building he scaled and shot from. this was radioed into the command center. at one point a sniper saw crooks sit down and start scrolling through his phone. and investigators believe he may have had two phones. more on that later. this is when crooks looks so suspicious that a local sniper team took this picture of him an hour before he opened fire. all of this information was being sent to the secret service command team at the rally. a trump supporter in the crowd then caught him on camera lurking around. watch this. >> if you take a closer look, you will notice someone in the background. the time stamp's 5:06 and the video appears to show 20-year-old thomas crooks lurking near a building just passed a perimeter of the event itself. as the video pans to the crowd, you will notice law enforcement vehicles stationed in the area as well. as the camera moves back towards the building, crooks appears to be seen again, blink and