lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink. stay tuned for "hannity" live in las vegas right now. >> sean: fox news alert. reporting live tonight from las vegas. we are >> sean: we are learning new information about mass murder, stephen paddock. his motive is a mystery, but according to reports, the gunmen research and study for possible attacks in chicago and in boston and he did in fact into a room in vegas overlooking a separate music festival a week before carrying out his rampage. the "associated press" is reporting investigators are trying to figure out whether he was planning a car bombing. thereepl are major questions tht we need answers to. democrats, celebrities, members of the mainstream media continue to politicize this tragedy and push for gun control and more.

some are now even saying it's time to get rid of the second amendment altogether. nra executive vice president and ceo wayne lapierre will react tonight. newt gingrich will weigh in on the impulse of the left to politicize this event before we have any facts on or more information. a heartwarming moment between president trump and a shooting victim that is now going viral. we visited thomas gunderson in the hospital. he is the one that stood up to greet the president even after of course being shot in the leg. after meeting the president, he wroteve on facebook... "i will never lie down with the president of this greaten county comes to shake my hand. there may be plenty of issues in this country, but i will always respect my country. my president. my flag. shot in the leg or not, i will stand to show my president the respect he deserves." we will have that interview for you a little bit later. if you are associated with the nfl, i hope you are watching. i also spoke with the hero

doctors that saved hundreds of lives after this vegas shooting. but first, tonight'ssa very important news breaking opening vegas monologue. ♪ as authorities continue to search for a motive in the vegas massacre, we are learning chilling the details about this investigation. stephen paddock may have been a scouting out other potential mass shooting targets. in august, he proof reportedly booked hotel room in chicago. that overlooked the lollapalooza music festival, but never set foot in the city. chicago police areut telling fox news that they believe stephen paddock did in fact book the room. also reports tonight that paddock researched hotel rooms in boston near fenway park where the red sox play. "the las vegas journal review" reported that paddock shot at jet fuel tanks nearby mccarran international airport during the massacre. two of the bullets hit one of the tanks and one bullet actually penetrated the tank.

thankfully, that did not cause an explosion. according to "abcc news," paddok was seen with a woman, who is not his girlfriend in the days before the shooting. nbc news reporting the girlfriend marilou danley has now told investigators that paddock would lie in bed moaning and screaming andnv according to clark county sheriff, joseph lombardo, the weekend before this mass shooting, paddock rented and checked into a las vegas high-rise condo that overlooked yet another separate music festival. sheriff lombardo also revealed last night that he thinks paddock had to have received help and plan to survive this attack. the sheriff added that's 50 pounds of an explosive called tannerite was found in the suspect's car.'s along with 1600 rounds. "the ap" is also reporting that in addition to other possible planned attacks, paddock may have also plotted a car bombing. that information is beyond troubling.g. tonight, we have questions that

need to be answered. who if anybody helped paddock carry out thisne operation? what was paddock planning to do with a car full of explosives that could be used to make bombs? how did paddock plan to escape this shooting, and why did paddockis rent rooms in chicago and vegas during other concerts? was he planning to do this multiple times and tried to escape? most importantin question today, of course, it remains unanswered. why? what wouldrs motivate this individual to commit such evil atrocities against innocent men, women, and children?to we need answers to all these questions and also tonight, the left, liberal celebrities in the media continue to play politics, trying to useme this tragedy to get a policy with the gun control agenda. some are even calling for the shredding of our constitution and eradicating e a bar second amendment, and our right to bear arms. take a look at the so-called conservative "new york times" writer bret stephens who is also

a contributor over at that conspiracy so-called news network, msnbc. "repeal the second amendment." stevens goes on to write, "repealing the amendment may seem like political mission impossible today but in the era of same-sex marriage, it's worth recalling that most great causes began as improbable ones. gun ownership should never be outlawed. just as it isn't outlawed in britain and australia but it doesn't need a blanket constitutional protection either." good luck in those countries getting a gun. as i showed you in great detail last night, banning guns does not prevent crime. just the opposite. more guns prevent crime. more guns save lives and by the way, it appears these people on the left don't care about the constitution.t all banning guns will do is prevent good people from having the ability to protect themselves and their families from those that do us harm. i like a lot of the celebrities and politicians, they do not have armed guards.

they don't have big houses with expensive security systems and people out there protecting them among bodyguards everywhere they go. if people like michaelar moore, brett stevens, if you really believe in repealing the second amendment, here's a simple question i need you to answer.. god forbid someone breaks into your home. you have your family, wife, children. would you want a gun and have been trained in the use of a firearm to protect your wife and family?en what brett stevens is doing is shameful. he's using this massacre, here in vegas, to push a liberal agenda. one that is n not constitutiona. it's pretty obvious at this point that he's only pretending to be a conservative. by the way, that "the new york times" conservative. he isn't. hollywood liberal, michael moore wants to repeal what he now calls the ancient and outdated second amendment and put in place european-styleth restrictions that essentially ban you, the american people, from buying arms to protect yourself and your families.

liberals like moore are such a huge hypocrite when it comes to the issue. how they live in those gated communities and how many can afford private security? how may buy the best andy? most expensive security systems but yet disarm law-abiding citizens who can only rely on themselves to protect their families? you want an example, look at this video security from the emmys last year. the american taxpayer, you foot at least some of the bill to keep these prima donna celebrities safe at their self-congratulatory red carpett award shows one after another. security was extra tight last year because of terror threats. takeas a look at some of the headlines. no expenses spared to keep the celebrities safe and happy. variety, oscars, l.a.p.d., plans for multiple scenarios for three-tiers of security. golden globes, ramped up security. leading to longer waits for the celebrities. here's another headline from hollywood. emmys security will be severely

enhanced after london subway attack. as you can see, it's beyond the height of hypocrisy. here's another thing these people on the left and members of this biased, abusive press in this country will never tell you. the left does not believe in the secondll amendment. you heard michael moore say it. he thinks part of the constitution isay outdated. that's why every time that tragedy strikes, the left races rushes to judgment. pushing an agenda. you have a r right to protect yourself, your family, your wives and children? these new examples from the liberal mainstream media, take a look at this. >> we have to turn to renewed calls. shouts, thanks for gun restriction in the wake of the las vegas mass shooting. the second amendment is there i for a reason. you can own your gun but it does not extend to allowing an individual to ownua 47 guns, high-powered semiautomatic weapon guns. >> they are going to rouse themselves to action on bump

stocks. that's putting a band-aid on a broken leg. there's so much more that could be done. >> do you want to buy a gun, handgun, along gun, do you want to buy 49 of them? feel free. you also have to buy an insurance policy. minimum of 25 grand. t >> 90% of the public, democrats and republicans, favor closing all and private gun show loophole that exist. >> does he value the first amendment as much as he values the second amendment? >> sean: watch what nancy pelosi -- oh, doesn't shen have security? what she had to say about bump stocks. the attachment that stephen paddock did used to make a semiautomatic rifle move at a faster pace. firing more like an automatic weapon. watch what she says. >> many people who are serious gun owners say, i have a background check, they should have a background check too.

in an event like that, so what? bump stock, it's going to be a slippery slope. i certainly hope so. i don't think bump stocks should be a substitute for the background check. by the way, the background check is a compromise. there are many more things members want to do. >> sean: nancy pelosi, she's not even trying to hide the left's true intention. they want to ban all guns. democrats come in the media, which is so corrupt and so. what are they conveniently not telling you is that it was the obama administration that originally approved the sale of those bump stocks back in 2010. democrats, serious about looking into bump stocks? okay, let's do it. the nra came out today. they said those products should be subject to regulation. let's come up with common sense solutions and have the debate but don't take away the rights of law abidingom citizens. with the left should not be doing is using a tragedy while people arein still in the hospil

and parents, i was there today. they are waiting and hoping and praying that their children will recover from the injuries. the left has a rigid, radical anti-gun agenda. wanting to disarm many of law-abiding american citizens and that would prevent them from being able too protect themselves, their children, their wives, their families. here with reaction now, national rifle association executive vice president and ceo. wayne lapierre. >> we are in shock and mourning probably like everyone else out there. it's an unimaginable tragedy. a lot of our members are out there. we have friends that had family there that were wounded. we've just been praying liket everybody else w in the country. for this unimaginable tragedy. that being said... the other side has been so outright trying to politicize this tragedy that we did feel

the need to speak out today on this whole bump stock issue. i for years have tried to correct the media on semi automatics. when they said they were fully automatic firearms, when dianne feinstein, schumer and the rest that they were machine guns -- for years, i set the record straight. then the obama administration a couple years ago approves this device called a bump stock. if you take a look at it, any look at it, it takes a semiautomatic firearm and makes it perform like a fully automatic firearm. it makes it function like one. what the nra has said is we ought to take a look at that and see if it is in compliance with federal law and additional regulation. we didn't say ban or confiscate.

>> sean: wayne, in a lot of ways, people like brett stevens and michael moore, nancy pelosi, they are just revealing what their true intentions have always been. they really don't want the average citizen -- they don't believe in the constitution. they don't believe in the right of law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms. i just pointed out the great hypocrisy -- most of these people have security guards. they have their fortresses at their house. they have people at the self-congratulatory events like oscars and emmys. the average american usually have themselves to rely on. great hypocrisy or no? >> one thing the american public knows is that the elite always protect themselves and protect themselves with guns, and then they lecture the american public about how you shouldn't do that. in the heart of the american public all over this country, they see these monsters, and they do not want to be alone out there. they want to be able to protect themselves. one ofan the things that happend in las vegas when they said shelter in place, the first

thing that came up when they they said tod, somebody have a gun? we solved the hurricanes this past week in texas and florida. louisiana. when the water is rising, when it goes dark, the american public values, its freedom to protect themselves, and now you have dianne feinstein and schumer in the media to take this horrible tragedy and piggybacked their whole agenda to ban guns, restrict law-abiding people for the last 20 years. this circus on the back of this tragedy. what the nra is fighting for is reciprocity, enforcing existing federal gun laws. protect the american's to protect themselves. >> sean: wayne, when you crunch the numbers and you look at chicago and the homicide rate which we've talked an awful -- one night, we scrolled the names of all the people. nobody was paying attention. this is obama's adopted

hometown. one vegas massacre a month. 3900 people killed in chicago while obama is president. 18,000 shootings in just the last six years of his presidency. where were these liberal voices then? i did not hear word out of them. >> that is right. these monsters that were doing it in chicago, they don't care about the laws. what you've got to do is go in and take them off the street and put them in prison. if legislation were, the boston massacre would not have happened. san bernardino, california, has every gun law onen the books. that would not have happened. in paris where they have complete gun bans, that wouldn't ininhave happened. brussels, all over the world. where the people are disarmed. these monsters. these bad guys go about their business. they could care less what laws are on the books. the good people want to protect himself. that's why we are fighting for reciprocity.

they want to preserve this freedom that they know to protect themselves and it would take away from the honest people. the average people. by gosh, the nra is not going to let that happen. >> sean: wayne, the nra gets a bad rap, and i am a proud member. it's just the facts. how many people a year do you teach gun security and safety to?e how many people a year have y protected the lives of loved ones, because they had the ability to defend themselves with a weapon? >> that's exactly right, sean. we teach millions of people and spend millions of dollars every year teaching people safety and responsibility. this hollywood crowd makes billions of year every single day teaching gun irresponsibility to the american public. the hypocrisy is beyond belief. they criticize me for saying people ought to protect themselves from murderers,

rapists, and robbers.s. and then they make billions depicting every night -- those same situations. the hypocrisy coming out of hollywood is h beyond belief. the american public does not buy intoto it. thees american public wants to protect -- to be able to protect themselves from these elitists. who protect themselves with the very firearms that they would ban from theld average citizen. >> sean: if they want to learn safety and security of firearms, the nra does help a lot of people. wayne, thank you for being with us. we appreciated. when we come back on this busy breaking news night, newt gingrich will join us. we had the honor earlier today, we went to the university medical center of southern nevada. we met one of the shooting survivors, thomas gunderson. you saw the video of him meeting the president yesterday. it went viral after thomas got out of his bed despite being shot in the leg, to meet and honor the president.

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name? >> [indistinct] >> sean: what's his name? >> georgie. >> sean: give me five? ow! e?again. what is your dad crushing, "new york times"? speak what you me, sir. >> sean: you look so pretty and nice. will you shake my hand? do you want to give me five again? ow!! here with reaction, an unusual introduction. former speaker of the house, newt gingrich. i know that's not the usual introduction, mr. speaker. i could not exist. as you've been watching this, i want to get your take on everything. on the politicizing. your take on those that literally have no respect for our constitution nor any understanding for what real

americans live under. homey invasion, crime, murder, rape that goes on in this country at times. >> i will divide into three erdifferent things. i said this to you on your radio show, i haven't got my head around what happened. i am a little surprised. we haven't heard more from his facebook, from his tweets. from his emails. i mean, it strikes me that there is a lot of stuff that is not cominglo out. i'd be very curious to learn. what the police are learning that we are not learning. one, i do not get what actually happened in terms of the killer. and what drove him and why it happened. it was clearly premeditated and thought through, and then deliberately done. second, i think the reaction from thenk left is pathetically normal.

they know they have a chance. they go back to their chant. nothing they've said would have changed what happened in las vegas. the second amendment is there for a very powerful reason. i have an entire section on the second amendment. why the founding fathers put it in. why they thought it was the heart of our freedom. and why they would not give it up.p. i think nobody on the left gets that anymore. they live in a lala land where they trust government and where all the bureaucrats are good guys. so forth. as wayne lapierre was pointing out, the fact is, we live in a dangerous country. i was intrigued with your numbers. but have never quite heard before. if you look at the disaster of the obama administration in terms of safety, particularly in chicago, it is staggering that we've never had a national

debate about the failure of the system in chicago to protect innocent people.. by the way, virtually all of them are african-american. you would have thought if "black lives matter" cared about blackh lives, one of the places they would have targeted would have been southsidela chicago. and the terrible death rate that occurs there and yet we cannot have an honest, open conversation about these kind of practical problems. >> sean: mr. speaker, we know the answer, because we know what rudy giuliani did in new york. he brought the murder rate down from about 2500 to less than 500 sea year. through targeted, tough policing. targeted meaning the areas that needed more policing. when 3900 people die in the course of obama's presidency and he mentions that three or four times at most, there's something radically wrong.o 18,000 shootings in just the last six years of his presidency, why the silence there? we ran the names of the victims on this show. we scrawled them. it went on for the whole show.

>> yeah, i'm trying to work onw. how to put this together in an understandable package. you ought to look at the number of children in baltimore who failed their eighth grade math and science test. about 13%he passed. 87%7% failed. if you add up the eight years of failure under obama with no effort to save the lives of these young people. look at what you just pointed out. southside chicago. there isis a small part of st. louis that is more violent than any other area in the united states. in fact, it's about as violent as the most dangerous cities ina honduras, which are routinely ranked as the most dangerous in the world. for some reason, none of this penetrates the elite news media. it does not fit their particular narrative. >> sean: mr. speaker, i've had a chance to spend some time today at the hospital and later on, we actually interview

doctors. they set up like a military triage. they saved hundreds of lives on this night. it was all hands on deck.k. there is this youngg man. thomas gunderson. i met him and his parents. he stood for the president even though hehi had been shot in the leg. i was thinking about comments he had made about the nfl and taking on me. the people that fought, bled, and died fighting under our flag. i was thinking thisie young man could really teach a lot of people a lesson here. you've got to wonder if maybe now we will remember what police do for us. we remembered on 9/11. these people going to the 32nd floor and facing an automatic weapon. this young man will stand for hiss country and his flag. do you think the nfl will learn from this? >> i don't know, they might. some of the most stunning single thing i saw on social media -- a

veteran from afghanistan who had lost his leg att the knee. he posted a picture and said for all the guys at the nfl, this is what taking knee for your country means. and i thought, wow. what a distinction between a guy who had risked his life for america, wearing a uniform with the americanh flag, who was stil proud to be an american. and these guys are making millions of dollars a year who don't mind disrespecting the national anthem and the american flag. i thought it was the most devastating single thing i saw about theut whole nfl controver. >> sean: i want to go back for minute to what's going on here. it seems almost impossible in this day and age of social media, this enigma, this man is like a ghost. we can't find out anything about him. it just makes me wonder, does your gut tell you -- my gut tells me there is something

much, much deeper going on here. that we haven't even begun to touch the surface on. your thoughts? >> i don't understand what the fbi and local police are doing. you go back where you have killings, santa barbara. within a day or two, we begin to learn things about the social media. i don't get any sense of this guys social media. i don't have any sense of his political contributions. i don't have any sense of who he emailed with. the websites he went to. i don't understand the total absence of understanding whati motivated him, what created this moment.ab yet, you know. he was deeply enough determined that he went in there for days in advance. talk all i of those weapons in they there. he set up cameras into the

hallway. there's something that doesn't match up here. >> sean: yeah. all right, mr. speaker. thank you as always for being with u us. when we come back, earlier an it.reciate today, i went to the university medical center here in southern nevada and metsi thomas gundersn who was shot during the sunday night massacre. he met the president. the video of him greeting the president went viral because he refused to stay in his bed despite his leg injury, to shake the president's hand. you will meet tonight the hero doctors that have saved hundreds of ha lives. incredible people.on "hannity" continuesed tonight fm vegas. ♪ business has been great. they're affordable and fast... maybe "too affordable and fast." what if... "people" aren't buying these books online,

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he was shot in the leg on sunday night but despite his injury, thomas made sure he got out of bed to greet the president. he explained this on facebook. he said i will never lie down when the president of this great country comes to shake my hand. there may be plenty of issues in this country but i will always respect my country, my president, my flag. shot in the leg or not, i will stand to show my president the respect he deserves. earlier today, we did in fact have the honor to go to university medical center in southern nevada. we spoke with thomas gunderson. watch this. thomas. >> how's it going? >> sean: how are you? >> doing well. >> sean: i know i'm not the president. i apologize in advance. [laughter] how are you doing? >> i'm doing all right. >> sean: can you believe -- the president comes here yesterday. i am very, very sorry. how are you feeling? >> can't quite walk yet but i'm going to get there. >> sean: was it the president or the first lady that got you

to walk? >> the first lady, if i am being honest. i told my family, the president of the united states comes in the dream, no matter who the president is, you stand up and shake their hand and show them the respect you deserve. >> sean: it's a little bit hard when you were shot in the leg. >> it wasn't easy. it wasn't like us to the whole time. i just wanted to show them respect. >> sean: that went viral and i agree with you. 100%. you were out having fun, i love country music too. you were at the concert. you remember, obviously, what happened. >> i remember everything. when it first started going off, everybody thought it was fake. i shouldn't say fake, it sounded like it was speakers that were somebody sending off firecrackers. even jason aldean played for another 15-20 seconds. the moment he started to run, the crowd started screaming.

that's when i realized what was going on. >> sean: where were you in relation to the stage? >> pretty far. the east side of the stage. there were a lot of railing and bars and stuff like that in between. i was probably one of the last people to get hit. i spent the entire 20 minutes in there. listen, i think everybody in their -- is a hero. they did what they had to do. i hear more and more stories about amazing things people did. amazing things. we did that. at that point, it seem like it was the end of it. it seemed not that it was over but that everybody was kind of out of there. the rounds were still going off. we weren't seeing any gunshots. i think our minds were so focused on getting people out or finding him that we didn't see the bodies around us. we looked at each other and we said oh, it's fake. someone's messing with us.

about ten of us said that. i stood out in the open. people that were looking to help. at that point, i looked behind me. i saw gunfire coming from the hotel. it was perfectly -- flashes. >> sean: you saw it? from that floor? >> i thought it was a completely different floor. i thought it was about 15 floors up. it could have been the reflection. >> sean: yeah, the way it set up. speak out right then and there, my mind was like, "uh oh" and boom, shot through the leg. >> sean: what is that feeling? >> i can't tell what everybody else felt. for me, i can feel it. i knew i was shot. my body took over. i hit the ground. there was just blood everywhere. for me, i didn't really feel it. adrenaline going nuts. >> sean: talk about meeting

the president. >> i'm so blessed. it did not hit an artery. the nerves, the muscles were pretty turn out. i can't lift my foot to 90 degrees. >> sean: but you did lift your foot for melania trump. what foot? [laughs] my foot wouldn't -- >> sean: i'm getting this taped. competition. [laughter] >> sean: the president walks in. what was that like? >> very surreal. very honoring. i heard he just flew in from puerto rico. literally just came from there. i don't care what anybody has to say to me. he cared. he wanted to listen to me. he wanted to shake my hand and thanked me, and it was so awesome. so sweet, melania was. it felt like they genuinely care about the people here and what happened. >> sean: i can tell the whole

country is praying for you and all these other families. there are some families that lost their loved ones. others in this hospital, this is a severe injury. there are worse injuries. >> i'm so blessed. honestly, i got off the easy the one message i could send a people, there are some people that lost loved ones. love on them. show them support. they are going need it. there's a lot of positivity going on. i hope people can focus on that. i've seen an incredible amount of love. >> sean: it is like life changing for you. >> it is. >> sean: this is a moment where you will never be the same. >> i am trying to do my best stage to give a good message. it is not about fame. i want people to know that. i happen to be in this hospital, i happened to be able to meet the president. >> sean: it's really good for america. i want to say this to you, when

you hear somebody say i got my friends to safety, let me help other people. that shows how great we are. this country is great, and people like you make it great because you put other people out of yourself. >> everybody in there was great. everyone did what they had to do. everyone responded the way they needed to respond. they should feel honored for what they did. >> sean: about an hour before jason got on stage -- big & rich, everybody had their cell phone out for "god bless america." i will show you the video if you haven't seen it. everyone's together. and then you've got a big political fight in the country. does that bother you when you see that? >> no, i'm not going to give into that. obviously, my video has gone viral. there's a lot of comments. probably 80%-90% are beautiful comments of support.

and i appreciate it so much. and then there are some horrific comments. i'm reading every single one of them and i'm not going to give into that. >> sean: i get about 60% negative. [laughter] >> i feel for you. doesn't always feel good, but you respond in love. there's nothing they can do with that. >> sean: meeting people like you, it inspires me and reminds me of some of the military guys. i'm sure in the days that you're going to be laid up here a little bit, you obviously are getting back on your feet. if not, we will call the first lady and say melania, can you come back out to vegas and help them out? >> [laughs] >> sean: they go through this every day. it makes you appreciate. >> the first thing i did was text my marine buddy. ken. he is an awesome man. the first thing i did was text him and talk to him. he's gone through this multiple times. i wanted to talk to him because there's no one in the world i respect more than our military.

i just don't. so those are our heroes, for sure. >> sean: they give us the freedom to go to these concerts. >> absolutely. i feel lucky. i feel special because of that. it is hard. those are the real heroes. >> sean: thomas is an incredible young man. when we come back, his parents, the worst thing that can happen, the call you get. when we were at the university medical center of southern nevada, we spoke to the hospital's ceo. two of the trauma doctors that saved hundreds of lives that day. also tonight, we are ongoing -- a candlelight vigil underway for a las vegas metropolitan police officer that was killed during sunday's massacre. take a look. wakey! wakey! rise and shine! oh my gosh! how are you? well watch this. i pop that in there. press brew. that's it. so rich. i love it. that's why you should be a keurig man! full-bodied. are you sure you're describing the coffee and not me?

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>> sean: welcome back to "hannity." reporting from las vegas tonight. earlier today while at the university and medical center of southern nevada, i spoke to thomas gunderson's parents. this isev your worst nightmare, that call. gary and dottie. take a look. the worst nightmare of a parent. >> absolutely. >> sean: you get the call. >> absolutely. before i got the call, i was watching fox news and that's b w i saw there was a shooting at the concert. i screamed, running for my phone. >> sean: you knew he was there? >> i knew he was there. i ran to get my phone, and there

is a text message from a stranger, saying your son wants you to know that he is okay. he's on the way to the hospital. i didn't know, what did that mean?he has he been shot? was he trampled, had he been shot? >> sean: that was the last time you are letting him go to vegas,ha right? >> [laughs] i wish. >> sean: your worst worry. >> terrifying. i watched the tv for a few minutes and they said there was a lot of fatalities by the stage. at that point, you just -- you just faint. >> sean: what was it like to meet the president and the first lady? >> it was amazing. they are genuine people that really care. a you can tell they cared. absolutely. an honor. >> hehe was comical. such a fun guy. it was amazing. >> sean: i've known him for a -- it's really him. >> he was genuine. i met his cook outside and he

said you wait and see, you will see how genuine he really is. i can'tn' tell you how it is but believe me. >> sean: a cook? all he eats is wendy's, pizza, and kentucky fried a chicken. i know, because i've been on the road with him. when your son took the step, what were you thinking? >> he said, "i will step up." he hadn't been up since. when he got up, i was surprised but the president helped him up, too. he's a big guy. >> and strong. >> sean: i know it's the worst moment. then you got to see the strength and character of the young man that you raised. you should be so proud. amazing people. when we come back, you don't want to miss this. will interview the ceo of the university medical center of southern nevada and two of the doctors that saved hundreds of lives. what they experienced that night. also, a candlelight vigil is

being held for a las vegas metropolitan police officer. he was killed during sunday's massacre. our thoughts are with him and of course his family.le

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>> sean: welcome back to "hannity" reporting live from las vegas. yesterday when we are at the university medical center of southern nevada. we spoke to the ceo and two trauma doctors that saved so many lives. take a look. you are the ceo of the hospital. >> chief executive officer here. >> sean: the only levelef one trauma center in the entire state? >> the level one trauma center. for the state in nevada. the highest level in nevada. >> sean: hi, doctor. very nice to meet you. we met in the hall. first thing you said, you got to lose weight, hannity. >> not at all. first thing.

>> sean: we watch as a nation -- we are in all of what you all were able to do to helpp save all these lives. from your perspective, you actually planned for this numerous times a year. >> we do, we drill often. we have comprehensive plans. in fact, a few months prior, we had thegi orlando regional healh team come to speak to us. to learn about the pulse nightclub shooting. it was very helpful. >> sean: you never think it's going to happen. >> we plan for the endeavor expected to happen. a lot more lives would have been lost if we did not do those drills throughout thee year. >> sean: an amazing story of saving lives. where were you at the time, doctor? >> i was on call. here. a little after 10:00 p.m., we were notified that we had a mass casualty situation coming from the vegas strip. my colleague was still early

here in the day, wrapping up her day shift. sheup was still in house. i made two phone calls to my backup surgeon that night. and our chairman who you saw with the president yesterday. we got everybody involved and implement that our mass casualty plan in place.we it was really all hands on deck. bring in all providers from the medical field coming in. very quickly we were in control of the situation. it was very busy, no doubt. we were in control from the get-go. >> sean: we were talking in the hall, doctor. you compared it to a combat zone.t- >> yes, i am in the air force. i am a colonel in charge of the smart program -- >> sean: colonel or doctor? >> doctor. cooperative program we have with umc and the school of medicine. we have medics that come over from the air force that actually work here. thatth day, i was on call. started as a backup call. i just finished up and my phone

rang, and i came back. >> sean: all hands on deck. being the level one trauma center, you get the most difficult cases. the people that were morea severely injured were all brought here. >> yes. the patients that came, these are injuries that we don't, we see frequently here but we don't see them at this volume. that evening, we had about 100 patients or so. >> 104 that night they came in. on top of our very busy trauma center that was already full that evening. the team did a great job. it really inspired on the professionalism andl skill. >> sean: i just want to go through who is here. who needs immediate care? maybe we can get them stable and that we will get back to you? you really prioritize very quickly. >> a triage process. the team did a great job. sitting up out front of the

hospital -- to move patients to the appropriate level of care, that really helped manage the situation. t the surge of patients coming into the hospital. >> sean: i thought at some point, i'm sure you are on adrenaline. all your training kicks in. then you go home. does it take you what you just went through? >> it still hasn't hit me, to be honest. i am aware of the tragedy here. for the first two nights, i really been focused on my patients. tried to provide the best possible care and stay in the moment. probably in the next couple days, i will have more time to reflect on the significance of what happened here. >> sean: from my perspective, i've now been in the hospital for a while, and have talked to a lot of people and parents and yourf patients. they are all so appreciative of you and everyone in this hospital for what you've done for them. no doubt you've saved a lot of lives that night. i speak for a lot of people in

this audience.ot thank you for the great work. amazing people. we are out of time. i promise, full investigation tomorrow. we will see you back tomorrow night. brian kilmeade is next. we will see you back here tomorrow night. i am brian kilmeade.>> welcome to "fox news tonight." incredible news and details about the las vegas shooter, stephen paddock and what he did in the days leading up to the worst mass shooting in american modern history.e e which she is responsible for. get this. he also scouted areas in boston as well as chicago before unleashing his attack in las vegas. we told you about the dry run the week before. terrifying, right? let's bring in from las vegas someone who's been covering this story from the beginning. they have sat there and gathered the information that has changed this care in my case considerably. what does that mean that he looked at boston and chicago? >> the police say this is