♪ my home sweet home >> brian: good evening everybody, i am brian kilmeade and welcome to "fox news tonight." we begin our story with some unfolding details about stephen paddock and what he might indeed have been up to. much worse than we ever would have thought. we also have to find out more about his history. we are beginning to open up thae book and why he would embark on the worst mass murder in our country's history. there's an incredible local report out right now. fox news has not confirmed thiss yet, the local paper is. paddock apparently tried to blow up aviation fuel tanks right near the site of the massacre. they were bullets, some of the bullets from his rifle are in that tank but it did not blow. or else this carnage would have been beyond description.

president trump meanwhile just arrived back in washington after spending the entire day in las vegas where he offered these words of encouragement to the victims and their families. >> we cannot be defined by the evil that threatens us or the violence that incites suche terror. we are defined by our love, are our caring, and our courage. >> brian: indeed, those words were right on the money. even his critics had trouble having something negative to say about that. meanwhile, out in las vegas, covering the story and moving it forward and just as transfixedme by the conferences i was was, trace gallagher. sheriff lombardo gave us more details and we were expecting, trace. >> and i got to tell you, brian. i'm looking over at the aviation fuel tanks. right here by mccarran airport. that would have been disastrousr

we have not confirmed that. the news coverage, one of the big -- the sheriff confirmed that stephen paddock rented a room a week before this concert, that hotel overlooked the "life is beautiful" concert. the sheriff said he was unclear if that was presurveillance or if that may have been the primary target. the sheriff also confirmed that aside from ammonium nitrate being found in his car at mandalay bay, they found 50 pounds of tannerite, an explosive that can be set off in a high-powered rifle experts tell us that would have taken a big chunk out of the hotel room. the sheriff also said that he believes that stephen paddock was planning to escape after this shooting. held would not say why, but he d say this. watch. >> more than 100 investigators have spent the last 72 hours combing through the life of 64-year-old stephen paddock. to produce a profile of someone i will call disturbed and dangerous.

what we know is that stephen paddock is a man who spent decades acquiring weapons and ammo and living a secret life. much of which will never be fully understood. >> never fully understood. they still do not have a motive. they say they are confident they at one point will get a motive. for five and a half hours today, marilou danley was talked to by the fbi. five and a half hours in los angeles. we have very little information about what questions were asked by the fbi and they would nott tell us if she is still inin los angeles and will undergo further questioning but her lawyer did come out after that interview and said she's fully cooperating and she grieves for the victims but she did not know anything about the attack. and she said this about the worst shooter in american history. watch. >> i knew stephen paddock as a kind, caring, quiet man. i loved him.

and hoped for a quiet future together with him. >> clearly that is not the man that we hadd been learning about for the past 72 hours. brian. >> brian: trace, so many things to talk about. when it comes to marilou, there's a gun store owner thatt said she was shopping around with him, the killer, before. that doesn't necessarily t mean anything but she possibly knewim about his passion for rifles. 30 of which he bought last year. number two, we find out that that sheriff speaking from the gut and his experience truly believes that he had help -- that stephen paddock had help

and/or an accomplice or else he is a superman. >> yeah, he said those exact words. a superman. he rephrased and said i don't want to call this guy a superman but he said it would be highly unusual for somebody to pull this off. getting all that ammunition, buying ammunition, explosives, knocking out the two windows. surveilling this place, the sheriff is stunned but he has no evidence to back up there is any accomplice or help. as far as them going into the gun store, brian, there was some conversation about whether or g not they were buying these -- what are the gun things? bump stocks. they go onto the things that mimic an automatic weapon. apparently he did not buy them at this point. he's bought them before and was going into stores looking for some information on how to use those so he could turn a semiautomatic weapon into a close to an automatic weapon. >> brian: trace, i know you're: getting fired up to do your show at 11:00.

too much information to do any taped programming. i am in all of the security guard. jesus campos.ug he walked in the hall because he heard the shooting. he gets to the door, bullets go through the door. h he gets shot. he stays in the hall. he could not go up the stairwell. he could only get there by going to the elevator. in 9 minutes, he's there and that's when the shooter stopped shooting and reportedly starts to worry about escaping. can you imagine if he wasn't there? >> his card key was used to get the other doors open on the floor so police could get anybody that would open on the floor out of there.pe t he was injured continuing to help police get people to safety until someone said you got to get help. yeah, that's a hero. we talk about the three cameras. two cameras on the room service cart outside the room and a camera in the peephole. the shooter was definitely surveilling the hallway. first person to come down the hallway was the security guard and one of the bullets caught him in the leg.

that's some people's opinion when the killer actually took a gun and put it in his mouth and pulled the trigger because after that, there was no more shooting. the sheriff seems to believe it wasn't at that point because he thinks stephen paddock would try to make his plan to get out of there, trying to figure things out until he realized the police were in the hallway and there was no way out. you want to talk about a hero? that guy is it. if he showed up and took the bullet that was meant for police in his leg and that's the point that the killer shot himself, imagine the number of lives he saved because he got there as he -- as you said, brian, seven or 8 minutes. the police got there 2 or 3 minutes after. you are talking about a lot of ammunition being unloaded from those two upper windows on 32nd floor. >> brian: all this information came from the people during the investigation. hats off to las vegas

investigators who are just being honest with the public and using the media as a mouthpiece for it. lastly before he let you go, what about the fact that they confirmed he did have a dry run at another hotel the week before? >> that's the frightening thing. we talked about that. it is right overlooking the venue where the "life is beautiful" concert. chance the rapper was the headliner at that concert. was this the primary target? people into the parking lot of this hotel. you've got 50 pounds of ammonium nitrate and tannerite and then you find out that you may have surveilled a concert that week before. very frightening for those people that attended that concert to think the same guy was in a hotel room overlookingn that very venue when around 20,000 people were in attendance. >> brian: we will see you in 52 minutes and you will bring us an entire life hour.r. i want to go to two experts. taking in what we are really into you and i want

to get their analysis. jim hansen. first off, what about the fact that the vegas journal report is true, he was shooting at these tanks on the side and they did not penetrate far enough to explode them, can you imagine if they did, aaron? >> yeah, it would have been absolutely devastating. brian, this has the entire mosaic of this attack, the amount of planning involved -- if those bullets were found inside jet fuel tanks if my sources are correct. that means that the amount of sheer -- the size of that blast had those gone off, those two or three rounds. if there was an ak up there, it would be surprised if there wasg

anything heavier, this is al qaeda level destruction. i'm sure jim will agree with me. the amount of planning here is what is absolutely baffling me when you guys were talking about the chief at las vegas metro believing there was someone else involved. i have to believe there was someone else involved. due to the basic profile, the lunacy of this thing. >> brian: what aaron is saying, jim. that's what the sheriff said. i don't have the proof. i don't have the guy or woman but i know he had help. do you agree? >> i would not want to guess that right now. he may be operating from information we are not privy to. i would say it's possible for someone to bring the amount of stuff he brought up to the hotel room just using the regular carts, help send vallets do and using multiple

entrances to make it so he's not walking past the same person. this seems to be a guy who is pretty paranoid and pretty much a loner. i don't want to jump into that and say there was but i agree with aaron completely. deeply planned and well orchestrated killing spree. >> brian: just over an hour ago when the sheriff said this about the possibility of him having help. >> when you look at the weapon obtaining, a different amounts of tannerite available. do you think this was all accomplished on his own? face value, and you've to make this assumption, he had to have some help at some point and we want to secure that that's the answer. >> brian: he's actually thinking out loud with us. which is so rare during a press conference. so buttoned up you have to read between the lines and then you have conjecture. he is speaking may be because he's also been fantastic with us, sheriff lombardo, speaking

from the gut as if he's running through all the possibilities. aaron, if you think about it, it looks like he wanted to survive and escape. i'm looking at the script right here, the way this is theat layout. if there's an explosion along with a hail of bullets, it's conceivable knowing you don't know what floor he's on -- there's a courageous security guard down the way. he could have gotten out, correct? >> not only could he have gotten out -- what sheriffin lombardo s saying, i certainly don't mean to put on my israeli spy glasses here but i'm looking very closely at the sheriff while he is speaking.e doing what i can to try -- his behavior, what is his conjecture, speculation and what is truly coming from the heart?w i deeply believe that the sheriff believes, again i agree with jim 100%. he doesn't have that specific information from the federal investigators who are doing their part.

i believe in his gut that he ve understands the complexity of this type of attack and the amount of planning.it adding jet fuel tanks, not that far away. if those tanks had gone off, the amount of destruction that would have been caused, not onlyto have made it that much harder for this guy to have been pinned down by that security guard but potentially every single person in that crowd or major chunk or larger chunk of that crowd could have been killed. i am hanging on by a thread. i agree with jim, we don't want to put the cart in front of the horse. there's too many guns. i'm not saying security wasn't in place. anybody before the wind put security down. can get weapons up to hotels,

you got, a great event every year. you've open carry in nevada. >> brian: let's get to jim for a second, aaron. i do want to add another fact. he said some of the rifles were jammed. he had 23 rifles. some were jammed. does that mean he tried them? there are huge gaps. you know about firearms more than i ever will. could that have happened? >> absolutely. one of the things that's going to happen when you use bump stocks to fire at an extremely rapid pace, those barrels are going to be smoking hot. as soon as he runs through one magazine, that barrel and action will be so hot -- it's quite likely to jam.--ly that's relatively common. it's very likely he would use one -- throw that down and go to the next one and have to be going between gun to gun. it's interesting he had that many weapons because maybe he knew that was likely to happen. i don't know whether he did test

runs with this i had the idea that he needed to do that but that would have been a reason te have that many separate weapon systems so he could continue to use them after they were unusable. >> this gentleman does not have military training. if you don't get on those guns and ars secure the platforms, tt keep those weapons cycling -- i think it's lack of training which probably made him gethi al those up there and i agree that the bump stocks probably caused a great deal of malfunction.ns not exactly sure what's going on inside the actual mechanism or what's causing that rapid-fire. if he doesn't have the training to get tight on those weapons, those will get really hot. >> brian: he sprayed 200 rounds in the hallway and theth brave security guard had to be yelled at to go back and get treated.d this is someone who is paid less than most law enforcement officials in all the apparatus and all the hierarchy there. what a salute to jesus campos.

who is still in the hospital at this hour. guys, thank you so much. moving ahead, democrats are demanding congress act on new gun-control measures but is that really the answer? especially with so many questions about what went into this attack. powerful analysis, straight ahead. this is "fox news tonight."ades ♪ " remember that accident i got in with the pole, and i had to make a claim and all that? is that whole thing still dragging on? no, i took some pics with the app and...

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>> brian: moments ago, the white house released these images. let's look at them for the first time together. this was about eight hours ago. at the photos revealing their emotional meetings with the victims of the las vegas mass shooting. in addition to the doctors and nurses working nonstop since sunday's massacre which took place around 10:06 -- democrats from almost the moment the first shots ring out in sunday, democrats and others in the media have been combining to talk about gun control and blaming. watch. >> before he was the candidate and marched in lockstep with the nra, donald trump expressed very reasonable positions on gun control. he said after sandy hit support of the kind of bills we support. let's hold him to that.

>> he could pivoting and say hold on, let's take a look at gun-control. why is it that we sell things like bump stocks and make things available to turn normal rifles into automatic killing machines? this is the moment the president could actually change. >> anything but nothing. doing nothing is cowardice.>> >> brian: joining us for reaction, that's just a small example. we could have gone on for another 45 minutes. in washington, man with a unique perspective on the issue. congressman steve russell. a republican of oklahoma who spent decades of the armed forces and owns a firearm manufacturing business end of this thing he actually helped capture saddam hussein when heui was in iraq. steve, your reaction to the reaction so far has been gun-control almost from the minute this shooting stopped in las vegas. in a way you are not surprised, are you surprised how loud this has been in some in unison with media?

>> it was expected because i think we have an opportunity here to actually deliberate in the house of representatives. i'm working with many of my colleagues. how do we get a solution? going after the implements and tools is not a solution. look at the restrictive gun laws in norway. scores of dead children at a youth camp. a horrific murder. all of the restrictive gun laws in france. did not help in the parise shootings. we've got to get to the solutions and we have to do it comprehensively. after 9/11, we looked at terrorism. like who are these people and how can they hurt us and how can we protect the public from these threats? we aren't asking thosese questions. who are these people that do these mass killings? what do they look like and how can they hurt us and how do we protect the public from them? that gets to solutions and that's the type of discussion we

have to have. >> brian: number one, we always heard especially with sandy hook -- what about background checks? mental health exams? look what happened in south carolina. they would not have passed a background check. this guy would. he also has no history of mental illness..th it would have -- think we are only three days in. that would have turned up already.re the gun is too powerful. are you all in to get rid of the bump stocks? >> to go back to my earlierr comments, there's got to be a comprehensive solution. we may have a trend or might be like this guy were we don't know why. he gave no indication. one of the reasons we've been successful against terrorism and a terrorist in this country has the same access to same tools and implements of firearms, the same freedom of information. we are a free and open society.

the same freedom to travel and do all the things we do as americans and yet we successfully defended ourselves against these terrorists here in our country. why? the public is engaged. if i were to do somethingor suspicious on an airplane, there would be 50 people reporting. this guy had all signs and no one perceived him as a threat. we have to get the public engaged. >> brian: between your service in the military, impact you made getting saddam hussein, come back and have your own weapons manufacturer. people listening right now saying why would the congressmet ever do something that would hurt his own business or the nra, being that he's a republican? >> we don't make bump stocks or try to circumvent any laws. we pay special operational tax. we work well with the atf. we know what the laws are. how about turn to folks like us that know the law, >> brian: know guns.

>> know how to -- after the st. valentine massacre in the 1934 firearms act, they try to address these public safety issues. they created a body of law than in 1986. to not eliminate but to provide restrictions -- >> brian: congressman, what are you proposing? >> those laws have been effective. virtually never been used in crimes. that body of law has been successful. what we have to do is examine the whole thing comprehensively and say how do we the public, engage the public, and we look at manipulation devices that try to circumvent the law. all of that is on the table.,gem >> brian: some bipartisan special select committee that you obviously would be a part of? >> that is the hope.

reaching for those that have expertise in law enforcement and medical field, combat veterans and also firearms manufacturer -- i know these laws. we've got to have the experts on this. not just people pontificating, retreating to their corners and shouting over one another. >> brian: thanks so much. meanwhile, straight ahead, we'll have more on the motive behind the las vegas massacre -- if we can possibly unwind it and discover it. nbc news is on defense after the trump administration says the story they reported on secretary of state rex tillerson is completely 100% wrong. will they apologize? next. wrong, the

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>> brian: welcome back, everybody. it is >> brian: welcome back, everybody. it is "fox news tonight." nbc delivering a potentially devastating and explosive report saying secretary of state rex tillerson with the trump administration was on the verge of very resigning in july and

even referred to the president as "moron." after a speech given to the boy scouts." he was so upset about this he called a press conference to clarify. >> the vice president has never had to persuade me to remain the secretary of state because i've never considered leaving this post. >> can you address the main headline of this story and if not, where these reports? >> i'm not going to deal with petty stuff like that. >> brian: because he didn't come out and say i never said it, people said he doesn't want to go over it again. that's not the case. secretary tillerson never said the word "moron."in saying he did not use that kind of language. he did not feel compelled to further define it. president trump responded to the story on his visit to las vegas today. >> reporter: any response to response to rex tillerson's

comment? >> i'm very honored by his comments. it was fake news. it was aa total phony story. thank you very much. it's made up by nbc. they just made it up. thank you all. total confidence in rex. i have total confidence. >> brian: if you think about it, the pressfe conference is vy unique in that rex tillerson outlined for the president's foreign policy and philosophy and then talked about putting america first translates to international diplomacy. he also talked about his relationship with secretary of defense mattis which is as goodh as anything you'll ever have between those two departments. joining us right now for some analysis, dan bongino, nypd officer -- and host of the republican podcasts. he has a great book out and in washington, david goodfriend. dan, nbc did not apologize. they said they still stand by

their story. your thoughts? >> yeah, do you know what that's found in the background is, brian? nbc flushing its remaining credibility down the collective national toilet bowl. the media has become a joke. this is nothing but tabloid journalism in the era of donald trump. i almost had to take notes with this segment about how many fake news stories the media has put out there. we have the dossier with buzzfeed. the trump wiretap story where "the new york times" had to refute own story. 90% of republicans don't trust the media because they haven't earned our trust. they've become a complete joke. >> brian: david, i don't think it's a big deal when the secretary of state and defensee have tension. sometimes they function at a higher level. do you think the fact that secretary state tillerson came out to define it -- where people thought he might be resigning, that he actually believes he was outraged by this and do you

think he might have struck the truth and felt he had clarify and do some damage control? >> it's interesting tell, to use a gambling turn, when a public figure comes out and has to address the public and correct the record, so to speak. i almost think it's like hect protests too much. maybe there's something else there. i want to go back and put this in context. let's not forget it was secretary tillerson who went on the sunday talk shows and distance himself from the president after charlottesville. it was secretary tillerson who over the weekend felt he was undercut by president trump saying don't negotiate with north korea or talked of rocket man. then the nbc story came out. it seems we're only talking about the nbc story without looking at the larger narrative. there have been public incidents, you can't really deny

it, or secretary tillerson and the president seem to be out off step with each other. there's nothing unusual about that. it's not unusual for any administration to be a little out of step. the president himself, donald trump, has said some things that really do -- to the casual observer -- make you say my gosh, does he have this guy's back or is he trying to undercut him? that's probably what motivated secretary tillerson to come in front of the cameras and do m se damage control because when he's negotiating with north korea, which is something we all should care about, he cannot afford to have the north koreans think he somehow isn't important or doesn't have the ear of the president. it's incredibly important. ronald reagan secretary of state said on npr today it's incredibly important for the rest of the world to think the secretary of state has the trust of the president. that's why he went to correct the record. >> brian: there's nothing he said that was relatively inaccurate. it's if they were linked. what do you think? >> the media is trying to create another fake trump-russia

x-files story. the new story is that there is discord in the white house. trump is running a chaotic operation. it is all falling apart. that's nonsense. lincoln ran a team of rivals. this has gone on since the inception of the republic.. a quickra example, if this wereo happen in the obama administration, they would praise obama and say look at, there are disparate voices. a he's open to hearing different ways to handle problems. under trump, it's being portrayed as a new narrative of chaos. it's nonsense. >> brian: we are up against a break, david. you had a thoughtful analysis but all the media jumped on one word, "moron." it goes the same thing with what michael che said on "snl," or what lebron james says to describe him -- call him a bum or a cracker. can you see how some people think they are getting up on the president?

>> i worked for bill clinton after the monica lewinsky story broke. every president thinks the press beats up on them unfairly. i promise you, every presidents feels that way. i've got to tell you, in this case, there are other things going on that we've got to pay attention to that feed into this narrative. my friend on the other side says they are making this stuff up. hey, some of the time it is retracted. most of the time, it's not. if you are a donald trump supporter, you should be rooting for your guy and i will be criticizing him and that's what makes americagu great. >> brian: we want fair and unnamed sources that say demeaning things -- we don't want them to do some damage. good conversation. good job, i appreciate it. i want to take the scene by myself. push them back. there we go. next, a hotshot author is blaming white supremacy on donald trump's election victory. more on this unbelievable story after this break, which i actually find depressing.

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not a significant part of vote against barack obama? >> yeah, i think it was revanche. an important part. it was revanche against the very idea of a black man leading the country. we should expect this. we have a long and regrettable history of white supremacy in this country. they election of a black man into this white house -- that we would no longer have to grapple with that, it's a bit naive. >> brian: as much as i disagree, i am more depressed.. he's an extremely bright man. a great writer. i couldn't disagree more. when president bush -- when he took over for bill clinton, a guy known for christian values, takingng over for a guy that was known for running a frat house. then a cerebral president obama to take over for somebody that they called a cowboy.

in comes somebody who maybe wasn apologizing for america and that you have an america first president. we see them trying to change the narrative, not because of the leader's skin or gender. joining us now to discuss is matt schlapp and when wendy osefo. wendy, am i wrong? >> no, but we have to set the narrative in context. when we are looking at donald trump, you're looking at the same -- the whole propaganda around president obama, he asked for the death penalty. he used harsher language on the nfl players that did not stand for the flag than the supremacists in charlottesville. and he has the various processes that result in a lawsuit. so launching the individuals that want to separate based on race. and while we cannot sit here and say that everyone who votes for donald trump is a white supremacist, no, we cannot sayy that s. but we can say is that the

white supremacists did vote for donald trump and that is a fact. >> brian: you have to say it's tough to win that third term, bush 41 did it. it was tough to get the eight years afterwards. that's what this is about, matt. wendy has some examples, if you're looking for that. for me, i look at the american leader and what they stand for. not the color of their skin. >> we can walk through each of these nefarious charges that got brought up with donald trump. the left wants to make this about race and they want to silence people like me who supported donald trump. the overwhelming political factor in the d most recent presidential campaign was really not about race, we took a veryu young, inexperienced person, put them in the white house, and they promised to govern -- barack obama said he would find a way to heal the nation after george w. bush. what he turned to was very radical policies on issue after issue after issue. fo so radical -- what donald trump

and bernie sanders and hillary clinton, three pretty old candidates demonstrated that the american people were scared to death by barack obama's inexperienced and radicalism. they wanted to try experience. even if they were left, they wanted the experience. >> brian: wendy, i want you to weigh in. what about president -- mitt romney? >> i want to touch upon matt's point. he talked about experience. donald trump out of all of the candidates has the least amount of experience. that'sou -- >> that's not true. >> it is true. he is a reality star, matt. >> he has 71 years of business experience and that's what the people wanted. >> is that what qualifies someone to be a president? clearly from the low approval rating, being that he has the

lowest in modern-day history, it's not how it is working. >> did you meet the founders of our country when they had a government? >> did you meet our founders? that'd be very interesting if you did.he did you meet our founders? okay. >> my point is this, the he dominant factor is politics -- it was not race. it was this idea that the insiders had screwed it up so radically. >> come on, matt. that's not fair. >> brian: wendy, if anyone else on that stage had won, do you think mr. coates or yourself would say this is a reaction to an african-american president? >> absolutely. the truth of the matter is youou cannot sit here and purport that we live in a utopian society. there are people that did not like barack obama because of the color of his skin. not everyone but there were people that did.ot we have to bring that to the conversation. >> brian: regardless if you agree or disagree with any or all of his opinions, he's a charismatic guy who held himself with tremendous class.

a great family man and a great husband. no one can argue that. a >> that's where we disagree. [laughter] >> brian: not personal. policy. and not racial. i hope we can agree on that. >> fair enough, brian. >> brian: up next, a closer look at the las vegas shooter, stephen paddock and why he might have targeted that festival. we have more news to share with you.u.br don't go anywhere. this is "fox news tonight." snao and got an estimate in 24 hours. my insurance company definitely doesn't have that... you can leave worry behind when liberty stands with you™ liberty mutual insurance.

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>> brian: one of the biggest questions around this mass shooting on sunday was why stephen paddock may have targeted the country music festival, did, that mean anything? for more of what we are learning tonight, we go out to las vegas. claudia. >> good evening. three days later, investigators are trying to get inside the mind of stephen paddock, still working to pin down why he wanted to kill as many concertgoers as possible. we do know he specifically asked for that suite at the mandalay bay hotel that overlooked the highway 91 concert venue. tonight we are learning that h e weekend before, he rented rooms at a different vegas hotel thatg overlooked another music festival, leaving some to wonder if that was his original target or presurveillance or if he had

a grudge against music fans? his brother and girlfriend described the real estate investor as a good man who just seemed to snap. paddock led a secret life that is hard to fathom. >> anything to indicate this individuals trigger points and to cause him to do such harm, we haven't understood it yet. i think it's important for us to get to there. you have to be patient with us. >> he added paddock intended to survive sunday's massacre but he refused to elaborate on any escape plans. paddock has no profile on social media. very unusual in this day and age and as an avid gambler, he preferred video poker. a game that requires noun interaction with a dealer or fellow gamblers. according to published reports in june, he was prescribed

valium, an antianxiety drug that can cause aggressive behavior. looking into whether something may have happened in october of last year that caused him to start stockpiling weapons. he bought 33 guns in the last 12 months. investigators tonight examining that arsenal as well as hist cell phone records and computers and they are following the money trail, tracing thousands of dollars he recently spent on casino chips and that he wired overseas.us paddock had no known financial problems or criminal history. tonight, the search for motive, amid growing frustration here in vegas. >> brian: let's bring in brian russell. a psychologist and attorney. that's what we know. what do you think? >> when we look at how meticulously this guy did everything else, related to this event, i have to believe that his choice of event, his choiceh of crowd and targets was not random.

this guy actually had other possibilities. other concerts he could have picked at that same venue. or that "life is beautiful" festival at the other venue. i have to believe and i am speculating here, i have to believe that there was something about the people he expected to be at this country music concert that he particularly despised. maybe patriotic americans were something that he had a grudge against. >> brian: 20 seconds, do you think he would tell somebody cr what he was about to do or he prided himself on secrecy? >> he went to great lengths to conceal what he was planning. he knew what he was doing and he knew it was wrong. i would not be surprised since he was a little bit older, not a social media guy.. if we don't get the manifesto in the mail to a media outlet or law enforcement outlet in the next couple of days. >> brian: part of his meticulous nature, he wiped out his social media footprint like

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brian kilmeade show, the radio show from nine to noon.n briankilmeadeshow.com. amongst our guests, chris wallace, who i've never met in person. it will be fun. don't miss a minute. thanks for watching. here's trace. ♪ >> tucker: well, good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight. we are awaiting a press conference out of las vegas tonight. take three steps back. it's hard to believe that almost three full days after stephen paddock's bloody rampage in las vegas officials looking into it still don't know why he did this. and, in fact, many people don't believe that officials don't know why you did it if you have been online recently the internet is humming with alternative theories on this case along with many allegations of a government coverup. in the absence of facts conspiracies fill the void. conversations we just had with people