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western perimeter and from our calculation it's about 766 yards away from the gunman's position at the mandalay bay hotel. so we're learning tonight he fired first. they believe he fired first at that fuel tank before he fired at the concert venue. that fuel tank we believe is about 766 yards away from his position. the spokesman for mccarron international airport telling us that two rifle rounds did hit that single fuel tank, and one of the rounds actually went inside the tank but did not cause any explosion. the spokesman reiterating that gunshots do not ignite jet fuel. so it did not cause an explosion. that was a 43,000 barrel tank, though, john that this shooter apparently took aim at before he fired on to the concert venue. the same source also telling us tonight about the note that was found inside the room. the source telling us that the note contained only numbers, not letters or words. they are not sure the meaning of those numbers.

they're analyzing that tonight. but only numbers on that note. no letters or words according to our source. >> and brian, we now know more about the timeline in the days leading up to the shooting. what have you heard about that? >> that's right. the under sheriff of clark county saying tonight that they now believe the gunman made several trips to and from his room with weapons and ammunition in the days leading up to the shooting. that of course speaks to the very meticulous nature of this attack and the planning involve. they say he did make several trips to and from, you know, and of course we have been reporting that he brought that -- those materials up in different suitcases. so, again, just kind of adding to the information that we're getting on his level of planning, his attention to detail, wanting to apparently sneak some of that material up to his room, those guns and ammunition. we know that they found about 23 guns inside the room, multiple clims of ammunition. we now know from the under sheriff of clark county that he

made several trips to and from that hotel suite with the guns and ammunition before the shooting. john. >> all right. interesting. brian todd, thanks so much. we have more also on perhaps the most troubling as speblt of the investigation so far, the fact that with everything else authorities have uncovered, they have yet to uncover a motive. cnn's alex march kwart joins us now with that. alex, did officials saying anything more about this motive at the press conference today or lack thereof? >> reporter: total lack thereof, john. that same under sheriff that brian todd was speaking about speak with reporters earlier today saying that now five days after this massacre they still have no idea what the motive behind this shooting of. they say that they have been digging into every aspect of his life from birth to death, they said, and that they have been coming up empty. one thing that they did confirm was that there was no other shooter in that room. that had been reported. that had been rumored. no one else in the room with the shooter. that he acted alone that night.

he didn't have an akplis. that's not to say somewhere along the line he dunt have help. police say given the amount of ammunition, weapons, explosives of preparation that the shooter had it's some point it's possible that the shooter did indeed have some help. we are learning over the past few weeks the shooter did try to buy what are known as tracer rounds. that was at a phoenix gun show several weeks ago. now, tracers would have allowed the shooter to aim with much more lethality. tracer rounds basically illuminate if they're fired. so if you're shooting into the dark you can see what you're shooting at. luckily he was not able to buy any of those tracer rounds. we have also confirmed that the shooter was a fan of cruises. that he took some 20 cruises, many of them overseas to europe and to the middle east. among those 20 he took his girlfriend marilou danley along on nine of them. now, it may just have been that he enjoyed cruises and he enjoyed consist. >> what about the explosive,

alex, that he had in his car? what more did we learn about that? >> reporter: we know that he had a lot of it. he had 50 pounds of an explosive called tannerite. that's a binary explosive which means it needs two ingredients. they have to combine to create 50 pounds, which is really quite easy to set off. you can fire a single round into the tannerite and it blows up. he had some of hundred rounds of ammunition alongside that tannerite inside the trung of his car at the parking lot here at the mandalay bay. so what was he planning on doing? was he planning on blowing up that car? using it as part of an escape plan or was he planning on carrying out an attack? -- another attack, i should say. the under sheriff said today that all he knows is that it was part of what he called the shooter's nefarious intent. >> that under sheriff also had more information today about the security guard at the mandalay bay, who was the first one to come across the shooter he. this man sounds like he saved a lot of lives. >> he did. the under sheriff wanted to make sure that we awe know his name,

that he is a hero in all of this. his name is jesus cam pose and he went up to the 32nd floor which is where the shooter was. and this was by chance because the mandalay bay has a system where if a door is left ajar an alarm goes off. there was a door that was left ajar in that hallway where the shooter was. so cam pose went up to check it out and there he was shot by the shooter. we know that he had cameras set up in the hallway. presumably he saw cam pose coming down the hallway. he fired some 200 rounds into the hallway, one of which struck cam pose in the leg. he was able to retreat, call his dpacher who then called the police. they were then able to pinpoint the location of the shooter. it was rather coins democrats, but he was able to save many many lives. >> one of the heroes in all of this. thanks so much. so clearly so much being learned but so many important questions remain. here to talk about it retired

fbi agent -- you know, phil, we've bin been talking all week. you've beenuggesting that investigators know much more than they're letting on. maybe only telling us five% of what they actually know. but after today when there was this public plea for help to all of the community. they're even putting up billboards with an 800 number asking the public for tips, do you still think they're in a good place in this investigation? >> it depends on how you define good place. look at where we would be. this is a substantial amount of time, this five days in an investigation with these amount of resources. they've interviewed i am going to tell you most of the people who they want to interview. they might even be starting secondary interviews, going back to people. if you're looking at the data they're acquiring, everything from the subject's google serchds to his telephone records, all of that at this point has been siftd through and that timeline has to come together. meanwhile, i suspect the girlfriend is cooperating.

she's adding color to that sort of two-dimensional timeline. but the gap here, john, is the difference between saying do they have ideas or avenues they're interested in pursuing on moefgs? i guarantee you they do and are they confident enough on their thoughts on motivation to reveal those to the press, no way, not at this point. >> james, the fact that they're putting up billboards, though, can you read something into that? can you read they're not getting enough on their own. >> john, i ran an update fbi and we used clear channel a number of times. if we had information we needed to get out taught public, it's a very effective tool. what is so baffling about this case is folks that i've talked to, law enforcement sources connected to the case have said to me there's no better description of this subject than an inegg ma. every day it seems like we learn more things and less becomes

clear. and the methodology, the planning, the things that he did, the military style tactics and meth olgz that he employed, they're becoming more and more clear and yet the motive seems to be sinking further and further into the distance. >> the enact that a motive is so hard to pin point right now, does that tell you something about this killer? >> well, it does and in part it's keeping with his incredible skraes with which he lived his life. as i watch this and follow this, this was really a tremendously amazing grand finale for him. and so now the question is this, was there something that triggered him out of anger or disgust or frustration with the hotel or with las vegas itself or was this really an act that he had been planning for many years, especially in his thinking, and then there was something that occurred that made him decide now is the time

to do this? and i'm wondering if that's really going to be the end result of all of this. >> 30 guns in the last year. maybe a year out is the right timeline there. mary ellen, the numbers, not a suicide note, not any kind of manifest oh, what do you make of that? >> i think the numbers are in keeping with who he is as an accountant and a numbers person. it could be something relative to gambling. it could be numbers relative to pick up this gun three times, do this three times. it could have been that kind of a reminder to himself. but he's a numbers man, and he operates on numbers. and i think that it's just in keeping with what he did probably every day. and his girlfriend will be able to either corroborate that or come up with a different explanation when they ask her did he keep messages or a pad of paper and did he write down numbers and what were those numbers? so they'll need to be that type of corroboration in order to make sense out of that. >> james, the reporting we got

from brian todd that the fuel tank was the first thing shot at before even the crowd. if in fact was aiming for the fuel tank there erroneously thinking he could below it up, what's that tell you about it. >> let's unpack a few things. first of all, the tracer rounds that he attempted to purchase, we know he went to a gun show and was not able to do so. tracer rounds have a little incendiary device on the end of them and they generally come in a four to one ratio, four regular rounds, one tracer round. now, it was very difficult to see the muzzle flashes from his firing from the windows on the 32nd floor because he appeared to be back inside. the tracer rounds would have helped his accuracy even from that distance, would have also helped law enforcement detect exactly where he was. now, could he have been firing them at the tanks as it conceivable because is he thought that he could have struck the tanks and exploded them? yes, but this is from what everybody says a very smart man and we know that a rifle round is not going to ignite jet fuel.

>> phil, security cameras everywhere and police say they have voluminous amounts of footage they're going through right now. exactly what will they be looking for here beyond just say, the shooters movements? >> this is a people game still right now. anybody he talked to, anybody he sat next to at a slot machine, anybody he passed in the hallway. i'm looking at those. and we've talked about the issues that are readily visible. people are saying how much stuff did he bring from the car. that's not the question i have. the question is i want to see every single face that said a single word and it to find them. when you think about that billboard question we had earlier, for example, are if there's someone who passed him in the hallway, i hope they see that billboard. every conversation counts especially when you're just a couple days before the act. >> mary ellen, you often profile suspects. but what about witnesses here, key witnesses, say the girlfriend, what can you tell about her based on what we have heard from her lawyer and based on what authorities have said?

>> well, there's a little bit of a conflict that may end up being far more significant. so for example in her statement she saw nothing, she heard nothing, was aware of nothing. but then she started -- she supposedly made a statement about him having sleeping problems and waking up in the middle of the night. that's something. and then there was the interview that was done with his hairstylist who commented supposedly that he was thinking about sending her back to the philippines two months prior to this, and she was in the same room when this comment was made. so that's a conflict in terms of what she knew, what she saw, what she heard, which again, would suggest to me that she's been with him. she's been on a cruise ship with him nine times. she spent time with him. knew where he went. that she is aware of more, and she may not know what she doesn't know. so they need to keep talking to her. >> all right. thanks so much, every one. you know, it goes without saying this has been such a long and

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cnn's tom foreman has more. >> i'm going to fire in a few seconds. >> what can 50 pounds of exploding target compound do? just watch. that's how much authorities say they found in the shooter's car and youtube is filled with videos of people setting off other large amounts. exploding targets were developed so marks men could see when they hit them at great distances. the chemicals to make them are sold by companies such as tannerite, combined by the user in relatively small amounts and set off by high velocity bullets. tannerite is often used aa generic term for exploding targets so the company says it's not sure if the vegas shooter had actual tannerite products or some other brand. but an official says the only proper use is as a shot

indicator. it's not designed to destroy property. still, the easy availability and potential for misuse triggered this bulletin four years ago. the fbi has identified multiple incidents where criminals and extremists have explored the possibility of employing the binary explosive picks mixture obtained from exploding targets to commit criminal ask troers acts. if the las vegas gunman had placed some of that material down at the street level and aimed at it with a scoped rifle. >> the binary explosives could have been detd natured with rifle slugs from those rifles, from the 32nd floor. one for the effect of creating chaos amongst the crowd and secondly, as a result of the explosion, widespread shrapnel raining on the crowd. >> the implications are

profound. considering how often these materials are simply used for unintended purposes, accidentally endangering and injuring people. a lawyer for the woman taking this video says she was 150 feet away from less than three pounds of explosive target material. not tannerite, but a similar product inside a refrigerator. a fragmented from the blast nearly rippled off her right hand. >> so how much potential destructive power was packed into this gunman's car? if he set off all 50 pounds of this stuff, which investigators say they found, it could have easily flung shrapnel the length of a football field in all directions, and that would likely mean that even today we'd be talking about more dead and wounded. >> all right. cnn's tom foreman reporting. and one more note on the las vegas shooting, earlier in the program we talked about the

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after so much damage, so much heartache, so many lives lost or changed forever, yet another dangerous storm is heading our way. this time it's new orleans that's getting ready and mobile alabama, the storm is named nate. it appears to have their number. we have new information on when it may hit and how bad it could be. cnn's allison joins us now from the weather center with the very latest. what's the forecast nor nate? >> right. so we just got the latest update, and there were some changes. first thing is the winds have increased now. up to 65 miles per how gusting up to 70 miles per hourment this to remember is basically going thu the yucatan channel and it will push out into the gulf of the hurricane watches and warnings as well as tropical storm and tropical storm watches and warnings. the latest is that not only is new orleans in the center of that hurricane warning, but cities like atlanta, birmingham and montgomery have now been

added to tropical storm watches as well. this just goes to show you how far this storm is likely to spread. now, storm surge is going to be one of the biggest concerns we have with this storm. areas like mobile, biloxi and new orleans are likely to get storm surge of five to eight feet. the surrounding areas on both sides about four to six feet from there. the question ultimately becomes that tied in with the amount of rain. widespread you're talking two to five inches, but there will be some areas in those outer bands where you get the downpours that could end up seeing as much as eight to ten inches of rain. even the lower end of that four to six is still likely to cause some pretty significant flooding. now, the track of this storm takes it up through the gulf and eventually making landfall just to the east of new orleans. >> how does this path compare to some of the other storms we've been seeing? >> right. so that's a great question because both florida and texas have been hit from this storm. but this is going to be a little bit different. for starters you have a huge high pressure system that's sitting over florida. that's essentially going to

block it from going too far east into the peninsula area. but what about further to the west? in theory if it just kept going in the same direction it would likely encounter texas. we have another problem. you have this jet stream that are coins siding with a cold front there which ironically at this point is actually causing some pretty bad severe weather across the plains that is not only going to steer naitd away from areas of texas, but it's also going to have to do with the long-term track of where nate goes. frafrm, take a look at this. after it makes landfall, john, it continues up to the north and east, impacting at least a dozen more u.s. states, including cities like atlanta, new york city, washington, d.c., as well as boston. >> allison, before you mentioned that the latest wind speeds, they tracked them at 65 miles an hour which is actually stronger than i thought it would be at this point. are they still forecasting this will hit as a category one or could it be even stronger. >> so the national hurricane center says category one, but

there are some models that indicate it could be slightly higher r potentially a category two. the real question is how much can it intensify when it gets out over that open water of the gulf. the warm water is there. the fuel is available. the question is does it have enough time to intensify more than just a category one before it makes landfall. >> and one unique aspect of this storm they only have one day to get ready at this point on the gulf does. not much time. they need to pay thaengs. thanks so much. all right. eon serious is a flight director. i spoke with him earlier by phone as he flew around the storm. ian, you've been up in the air now for close to seven hours tracking tropical storm nate. what have you been able to observe? >> we've been dropping these instruments called drop bombs all throughout the gulf of mexico and these are like weather balloons and what they're trying to do is they're going to paint a nice picture of what the shearing flow is and what the environment out in

front of nate is and that information is going to get into the hurricane models and the global models and what we're going to try to do is get the best information to the national hurricane center so they can best predict where nate is going to do, how strong and what the impacts are going to be and so everybody on the northern gulf coast and new orleans, the mississippi coast, mobile, all the way to pensacola, you need to be on the alert. this is a developing situation for sure. >> yeah. they are waiting to hear from you, it's safe to say. this is your second flight into the storm. how has it evolved since your last flight? >> yeah. yesterday evening it was kind of how we would describe as sloppy. the thunderstorms weren't very well organized and they weren't really centered around the core. and then tonight as we were flying around the actual hurricane or excuse me tropical storm, it was starting to really get its act together. the thunderstorms are starting to consolidate around the center and the winds are starting to respond to that. so i think they're up to about

60 miles per hour now. >> you say it's starting to respond to that, really getting its act together. by the measurements you've been taking, does it look like it's strengthening? >> yes, it has been strengthening over the last few hours. the pressures are dropping and the winds are coming up a little bit. and it's just a matter of time to see how strong is it going to be, and that's really why we're out here, to help the national hurricane center try to figure out the answer to those questions, how strong is nate going to be and what are the impacts going to be when it ax on the northern gulf coast. >> that will be tomorrow night. ian sears, thank you so much for your work and thank you for being with us. >> my american. thank you for having me. >> just ahead, exclusive new cbs reporting. what we've all been led to believe is mainly about the president as anger at the man who called him a moron, his secretary of state. instead as you'll see here it could have more to say about his chief of staff, john kelly and his relationship with the boss.

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the president's chief of staff is struggling to control the whts chaos after secretary of state rex tillerson reportedly called the president a moron. the question some are asking now are john kelly's days numbered and is he running into the same reality that his predecessor reince priebus faced that there's simply no controlling

president trump. so, gloria, new information about what happened wednesday morning between the president and the chief of staff, general kelly. >> yeah. it wasn't pretty and it wasn't easy. the president was so furious at the tillerson situation that john kelly, the chief of staff, found himself in a position where he had to navigate between two men who are completely fed up with each other. and sources familiar with the discussions between kelly and the president tell cnn that kelly suggested to the president, we were told it was in a nuanced way, that if tillerson left, kelly's own ability to do his job properly could be at risk. so this is generating a lot of whispers here in washington about just how long kelly is really going to last at the white house. >> a nuanced way and these whispers. what do you think it says about general kelly's standing in the west wing? >> well, i think clearly general kelly has had some problems in his relationship with this

president, john. i think that they are sometimes at odds with each other. just the other day the president, you know, criticized the military in front of general kelly. i'm sure general kelly didn't like that. and things were going to be smooth when kelly took over. everybody thought that kelly was going to impose kind of this military style of order in the white house. and what he did was he closed the president's open door. eliminated calls from all of his friends outside. and there are people in the white house who don't like that and some say the president doesn't like that. but in truth, kelly is running into the same reality that reince priebus faced, which is nobody can control donald trump. >> that's right. essentially the deck has been stacked against him from the beginning because of the way the president operates. >> right. well, you know, think of all the things that have happened since kelly took over. you talked about fire and fury

against north korea. the president said both sides are to blame in charlottesville. he stoked the nfl controversy. he tweeted about mitch mcconnell. and as somebody said, you know, it's a tough job and you're just not going to change this president. and i think kelly is finding that in every way that he can, particularly since trump still finds ways to talk to the people that kelly wants him not to talk to anymore. and, you know, some of those people say, look, kelly has brought some discipline to chaos and there is that point of view, but everybody also knows that only one opinion matter on this and that's donald trump. and on any given day donald trump can have a different opinion about what he thinks of general kelly and i think general kelly knows it. but sarah sanders was asked today at the white house whether the president has confidence in his chief of staff. she said yes, pretty

emphatically, but the fact that people are even asking that question after three months tells you an awful lot. >> gloria, thanks very much. >> sure. >> perspective now from cnn's senior political analyst david gergen, also retired army -- general, i want to start with you because you know how general kelly operates. so would it surprise you if the tensions between the president and the secretary of state were pushing the general to some kind of potential breaking point? >> don't know, john. but what i'll tell you is john kelly is a professional, and he's in this for his country and he's trying to establish processes for the good of the nation. he will continue to do that. he'll continue to try and lead up as best he can. but i'm sure it's frustrating at time of the i can only imagine some of the contests he's experiencing between the permits and the egos and the type of processes that mr. trump has brought to office that john kelly is not used to as a general working under several

other administrations. >> you know, david, there was this idea that if anyone could bring discipline and order to the trump white house, it was general kelly and on procedural matters, memos, the president's reading material, he seems to have been effective. but if you can fix that but you can't fix things like open fights between the president and the secretary of state, you know, what does that say about his capability to do his job as chief of staff? >> it says that maybe no one can be an effective chief of staff with a president whose temperament seems so ill suited for the job. it's not only that donald trump as we know is a massive nars cyst, but he -- what we're now learning overtime is how explosive a temper he has and how he choose out people in a way that's really undig any fied for a president and it's very demoralizing for the people on the staff. it was om a short time ago, after all that we woke up reading that general kelly had been in and the president chewed

him out and general kelly told him in 35 years of military service, i have never ever been treated like that. and i will not stand for it. so i think there is a limit to his patience. and what's interesting and poem don't quite know what the reality is that secretary of state tillerson and secretary of defense mattis and general kelly and perhaps mcmaster and maybe even chair of the joints chiefs of staff, they seem to have some sort of inforl alagreement about how to hold things together. you know, senator corker said this week that mattis and tillerson and kelly are what stands between us and chaos, between us and chaos. so this is serious that men of such heavy weights -- we ought to give credit to the president for bringing in heavy weights, but he has to learn how to live with them if this is going to have any semblance of order and is going to reassure our allies that we know what the hell we're

doing. >> it is interesting and if you buy the reporting and it is our reporting that the secretary of state called the president a moron that at least the president has heard that and is willing to keep him on. i think there are a lot of bosses who would not be willing to keep on a someday or even months someone who called him a moron. so there is that. general, i want to ask you something. gloria mentioned it briefly. the president this week seemed to criticize the military. he told these military leader, the generals, the add mishls that he wants battle plans and assessments from them at a much faster pace than he's getting. is it possible to hear that anything other than an admonishment of the pentagon. >> the way it's delivered is more important that than the message. it was behind closed doors. and they wanted a faster process in terms of of contingency plans and war plans. it's not something y say in front of a camera. you know, i'm judging the

president not from the president's standpoint. i'll let david to that. but from a leadership and a professionalism and a commander ship standpoint. and leaders build trust and confidence within their teams. when you're talking about criticizing in public, that erodes trust. and especially with the guys that are in the room, i fought with many of the people that were in the room with the president. i've been in combat with many of them. served in petitions time with others. and i tell you, those guys have seen the storm. they have seen the calm. and they also know what professional behavior looks like. and sometimes when you're admonished like that in public, it can do nothing but harm not only your moral but the soldiers and sailors and air men and marines that are underneath you saying, wow, my boss is getting his ass chewed by the president of the united states. this is want a good thing. so it just ruins the military atmosphere. it's want a good look. it's not good for a commander in

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all right. it is known in this great profession called television as the tease of the we do it before a commercial break to hint what's to come without giving everything away. it's a bit of a cheap trick but it's harmless. but what happens with the president and it should be former noted reality tv star donald trump employs the tease. it still might be a cheap trick but it has the potential to be anything but harmless, especially when a president does it surrounded by military commanders. >> do you guys know what this represents? maybe it's the calm before the

storm. >> what's your storm? >> calm before the storm. >> what storm, mr. president? >> we have a lot of great military people in this room, i'll tell you that. thank you all for comingment thank you. >> what storm rngts mr. president? >> you'll find out. >> as of yet we haven't found out, that is. at today's white house press briefing cnn's quintet acoa the president might have been signaling his unpredictability to -- >> there's a theory in washington and forgive me if you've been asked about it before that the president sub skriebz to this mad man theory that if he makes a lot of unsettling, off putting comments that sort of throw people off that he likes to keep his adversaries guessing, that that's sort of the point of making the comments like calm before the storm and so forth. what is your sense of that?

is there anything to that? does that -- >> i think the president has addressed this himself. he certainly doesn't want to lay out his game plan for our enemies. so if you're asking is the president trying to, you know, do that, absolutely. >> so was it that or something else? nothing else? or maybe the president was simply doing what he's done almost from day one in his campaign, namely whatever it takes to get people to stay tuned. >> health care and -- >> it will happen. we'll see what happens. >> mr. president, what will you do if the healthcare bill fails? >> we'll have to see. >> mr. president, are you considering military action in north korea? >> we'll see what happens. we'll see what happens. i'm not like the other administration that would say we're going into mosul in four months. we'll see what happens. i think you're going to find some very interesting items coming to the forefront over the next two weeks. i'm very disappointed with the attorney general, but we will

see what happens. we'll see what happens with mr. bannon. something could happen with respect to to the paris accord. we'll see what happens. there was a big problem in cuba, so we'll be announcing that very soon. we'll see what happens. mr. president, do you plan to stay in the iranian nuclear deal? >> we'll see what happens. >> we'll see what happens. or will we? what is the president up to this? joining us now, you know, scott, is there a storm? do you think the president is actually referring to a met for cal storm coming? >> well, i think he has to make the world of people that care about north korea believe there could be a storm. >> north korea -- >> well, i mean, that's the clear and present issue we have on the world stage right now. we're looking at i country that's trying to develop nuclear weapons and maybe aim them at us. he has to maintain the idea that we're serious about a military option over there because if we don't have that idea then we

lose all the lerm we have on negotiating. if that's the issue, i understand what he's trying to do. on the other hand, none of us sitting up here tonight have any idea what he means by that. and sometimes i think he's filling a vacuum of silence in these rooms. so we don't really know. we can all sit here and speculate, but if we're talking about nok, i do believe the united states has to continue to map taken the concept that we have military options. >> this is ridiculous. i mean, all due respect, the fact of the american military is obvious to everyone in north korea, south korea and 7 billion people on planet earth. we have the biggest military. the idea that people might forget that if the president -- part of the problem is we keep excusing the inexcusable. you are playing with peoples' lives, mr. president. if the president of the united states says to our adversaries with a plan or without a plan this may be the calm before the storm, we have assets out there who are going to be dealing with

the consequences of that if he creates a heightened sense of alarm with our enemies for no reason. so i just don't understand why we can't just say that was a nutty thing to say. if he's got something coming, it's nutty to signal it. if he doesn't, it's reckless to suggest it. this is not how you . >> but the president's administration has sent mixed messages whether there is a military option. his chief strategist said there is no military option. they have the internet in north korea, we can't let them believe there's no military option. >> you're assuming the president was talking about north korea. >> yes >> we have no idea if that's what he was talking about. >> i think what that assumes is a level of strategry that may or may not be there.

i think the reel you showed is telling. this is a tick, and it's also reminiscent of the tweet that the president offered up about the sort of wondering -- musing about whether or not there were tapes during the conversation between him and former fbi director comey. he puts it out there, you get the sense it was something he said but then he refuses to back down and he likes to drag it out. it went for weeks. there was a press conference, he was asked about it. he said you'll see. you'll be disappointed in the answer. and it was weeks before we got an answer on that. that's the same here. >> another way to say it, this is a president who says stuff. you say fill the silence in the room, he says stuff, doesn't necessarily mean anything and then likes the reaction he gets. this is the guy who wrote k

cofeoff and then stoked it more. >> this is a challenge to all of us who have grown up, taking all of these words not only seriously but with great weight. it's confounding to journalism the press secretary dealing with covfefe didn't know how to deal with it. >> it's hard for us in the bubble, it's hard on our military. that's the thing i don't want to lose track of if all he was doing is saying covfefe and we don't know how to say it or spell it, that's the least of the problems. we have adversaries that may believe the worst and that's a problem for our soldiers. >> we talk about the tease as if it's a reality show, but it isn't a reality show, scott. it's the life and lives of a million u.s. service members on the line right now. and the president, at times,

seems to be saying well, tune in to see in our next episode if i deploy our troops in korea. >> look, it's all putting to a lot of people who have never seen a president communicate this way. but we're going to be talng out this for the next however long he's in office because this is how he communicates. i don't necessarily think he sees it as putting lives in danger. he sees it as a way to communicate to the world his intentions may or may not be -- what they may or may not be. >> are you okay with that? >> i worked in a white house, the president i worked for didn't communicate that way and we made out just fine with him not doing it that way. we played a montage where he says we'll see, and often times nothing happens. >> you're dancing around the answer noting you worked for a president that didn't do it and it worked out fine without saying you prefer or like the fact that the president does

that. >> put me down in favor of boring, as mitch mcconnell would say. i prefer boring, but then again this president is not going to stop communicating the way he does. >> you're there in the white house, you see the cleanup that takes place after it, sarah huckabee-sanders comes up, no, no, he meant what he said and you're left to shake your head, which was? >> and what the press in the white house has gotten good at in the eight months we've been in office is not giving an answer because they don't really know or don't want to upstage the president. or they know if they say one thing he might come back and say something else. it's not just the press left guessing. it's also world leaders. that's part of the point. everybody around the world at all levels interacting with the president are having to figure out a new way of decoding what it is he meant. >> one thing we can hope, and we do hope, is the military leaders

with him in the room in the meeting know. if they are left guessing it's a problem. guys thank you for being here. i appreciate it. >> coming up the lost in las vegas. anderson has a special "360" report, honoring the 58 lives cut short. next we get an update from a scene in las vegas. 9 out of 10 couples prefer a different mattress firmness, so we created the only bed that adjusts on both sides to your ideal comfort, your sleep number setting. you can even see how well you're sleeping and make adjustments. does your bed do that? the most amazing part is they start at $699. that's $200 off our queen c2 mattress. and free home delivery on select beds only during our fall sale. ends monday. visit sleepnumber.com for a store near you. hey, it's me, your dry skin. i'm craving something we're missing. the ceramides in cerave. they help restore my natural barrier, so i can lock in moisture and keep us protected. we've got to have each other's backs and fronts.

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hal. in just a few minutes at the top of the hour we honor the 58 people whose lives were cut short in the las vegas tragedy. this airs uninterrupted, no commercials and anderson will talk about each victim, what we know about their looij lives. it's one way to remember them in this senseless loss. another way is the memorial. gary, i understand people are leaving mow men toes from all over the world. >> that's right. vegas is a top destination from all over the world. you have people from all over gathering a center for mourning. this is a median strip from las vegas boulevard, to my left is the mandalay bay hotel to my

right is the concert site. this is f the memorial put in place. you see the grief and tears on everyone's faces. you see the candles, flaur flours. here it says rest in piece stacee. a mother of two. many people are leaving these bibles. these are the bibles you get in your hotel room and many people left them here. you come here, children are leaving mow men toes. a child, god bless las vegas and people who died. from colorado, god bless las vegas. here a wret, cyprus police. it's dangerous with the cars whizzing buy so they'll have to be removed eventually but it's a beautiful display for the people who died.

>> making so many people feel connected to all that was lost. thank you all for watching this edition of "360" the 360 special report remembering the victims starts now. here's anderson. >> for the next uninterrupted hour, there will be no breaking news about the man behind the deadliest mass shooting in modern american history. nothing about the weapons he used, the tactics he employed or the motives he may have had. we're setting that aside deliberately to bring you stories that too often get lost in the moment-to-moment coverage. stories of the fallen, not the killer. now, as you know, we don't name the killers on this broadcast. we don't show you their picture. we don't believe history should remember the name of those who took the lives of others. we hope history remembers the names of all those who lost their lives. so for the next full hour, with no breaks in between, we'll do our best to make that happen. starting right now. the very first confirmed victim of the tragedy was sonny melton. his mom calls her son's smile