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Reporter exactly. And the president likes to be his own chief of staff and Communications Director and press secretary. Its a maddening job for whoever goes into any of these positions but mulvaney is seen as somebody who keeps the trains running on time. That might be what the president needs. Yes. Thank you to all of you for joining us. Anderson starts now. Good evening, thanks for joining us. The Breaking News tonight in america is once again heart breaking. At least five people dead. Multipl...

Was used together intelligence near the white house over the past two years. the way the stingray device works is by mimicking a real cell tower. it tricks phones into relying identification and location information. the trump administration reportedly has not taken any action in response to finding the alleged devices, as the israeli government is denying the allegations. israels foreign affairs minister pointed out that israel and the united states actually share intelligence and work together...

Expertise", tom nichols. whatever there. a lot is going on. i think the president is watching. but thats -- >> yeah, willie, the most loyal viewer who told the staff that he still watches today and has watched for a decade now. but obviously watching, and didnt appreciate us spending so much time on his weak poll numbers. and now is tweeting that he actually is very popular among republicans. >> yeah. we were looking into that associated press poll in our last hour that shows him at 36% approval...

You just try to get yourself out of it, and then once i started hearing that he was kind of making his way up the hall, or up the alley way or whatever you want to call it that runs through the pit of desks in our office, just trying to stay quiet, hoping that the glow of my computer screen didnt point out the fact that i was hiding under my desk, hoping that the various buzzings on my phone wouldnt put out my position to him and ultimately try to get -- him try to find out where he was. you kno...

Their desks, but it was clear that he went after some people that were. >> and phil, i mean, i know youre a crime reporter. i mean, you covered this kind of stuff professionally. obviously its a completely different thing when its you underneath the desk. can you just describe what was going through your mind? >> i mean, ill tell you when it first started to happen, i mean, you just immediately go into panic mode. you dont know why theyre there, who theyre going after, if its random, if its not ...

Was perhaps targeted. even if the shooter knew any of the victims or editors at the paper. the two people who lived through this who ill talk to, reporters, distinctly describe the path the gunman took through the news room and where people were and who it was that he seemed to, in their opinion, be looking for. but, again, we dont know yet motive. some threats were made over social media. at this point what do investigators -- what do they do to try to determine motive? obviously theres the int...

Targeted against the paper in general? do you know at this stage? >> yeah. i understand. thats a great question. to my knowledge, i dont have specifics of any individual or reporter that he targeted. it is my understanding that he had some type of conflict with the paper in general. so we dont have any information at this point that he was targeting one individual reporter or anything like that. it just seems like he was upset with the paper as a whole. >> i know this was asked at the press conf...

Again, our breaking news, police say at least five people are dead and two wounded at the shooting of a maryland newspaper. other stories happening today. president trump proved again today that the russia investigation is far from his mind. in a tweet he wrote russia continues to say they had nothing to do with meddling in our election. theres the dnc server? why didnt they exam it? why isnt hillary/russia being looked at. the russia investigation was backdroped to an often contentious here on ...

To get inside the building. to what extent he knew about the building, were not sure. we do know at this point this appears to be a targeted event. its pretty clear from the evidence thats left behind, and with the damage that was done, that he had -- he went into that building to kill people. theres no doubt in our mind with that. he went in there with a purpose. luckily he was engaged very, very quickly by our officers. i believe we were there within a minute and quickly engaged the individual...

Anything after that until he was apprehended. >> and phil, you said the initial shot, that you saw the shattering. how quickly after that were there further shots? >> i mean, it seemed pretty instantaneous. it was -- you know, he was going down our news room, starting from the front and -- yeah, just continually shooting people. at one point im pretty sure i heard him reload while i was still under my desk where he was only a few feet away from him, and it was not a long event. i mean, it certai...