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And so that, you know, it would be even more otherwise than if general kelley leaves, there may be more of an exodus. the other reason why its worse than it might appear is you look at the caliber of some of these folks who have been hired. and partly -- especially maybe a national security policy. because there have been so many people who would sign "never trump" letters. so there were not that many people available. and even more broadly across the administration, you have people like this 24...

With. and you know what i learned? id like to hear from mr. kelley, the chief of staff. they keep telling us, the general is there. well, mr. general, speak up. speak up for the men and women of the armed forces. of different colors and different races and different nationalities who all bleed the same color. who have served under your command. and continue to serve and protect. and let me just say, joy, can you imagine any other job in which the ceo, right, could say something and isnt summaril...

Assaulting his wife and a child. cnns brian todd is in new brnfuiles, texas. >> a very dramatic scene after the gunman devin kelley shot up that church and inflicted the carnage that he did. officials say he then emerged from the church and a samaritan along with another one, but this one samaritan had an ar-style assault rifle himself and the two exchanged gun fire. the samaritan trying to stop kelly from inflicting more carnage there. they exchanged gun fire and kelley jumped in his vehicle an...

System. >> there was nothing in the database that precluded him from purchasing a firearm. he is not in any fbi database. >> kimberly: we learned that kelley escaped from a mental health facility in 2012. the massacre has stirred up another debate about gun control in america. it expanded all the way up to south korea today where the president was asked this. >> reporter: i wonder if you would consider extreme vetting for people trying to buy are gone. >> you are bringing up a situation that pro...

Ground in terms of the investigation and a lot of unanswered that questions that police have been addressing in their news conferences over the last 24 hours. >> police are looking into the connection of kelley and the church, believe his stepmother was a member of the church. theyre looking at that as pointing with the motivation as to why he went in and killed 26 people. most of the people came in families. half of that number, at least 12 to 14 of the people who were killed inside that church...

Kelley, hitting him. kelley then fled the scene, crashing his suv in a field. he was found dead inside from what authorities believe was a self-inflicted gunshot wound. kelley lived on his familys sprawling property about an hour from the crime scene. neighbors we spoke to never met him, but robert gonzalez says he heard a lot of gunfire from that property last week. >> i was hearing a lot of shooting, like a .45, an assault rifle. i never thought nothing of it, because we all shoot around here....

They were both traveling when this instance unfolded. the gun mast is identified as devin patrick kelley. record checks come that kelley was previously a member of the air force until he was discharged. nbc news is working to confirm what kind of discharge he received. that could tell us whether or not he was able to buy the gun that was used legally. the gunman walk into first baptist church and berth gan firing a semiautomatic weapon while wearing a bulletproof vest. texas governor greg abbo...

Investigators believe he may have targeted his mother-in-law by going into that church. he may have wanted to target his mother-in-law by wanting to go into that church on that day. we know from authorities the mother-in-law was not at the church at the time of the shooting. she attended the church on occasion but she was not there. investigators believe he may, may have wanted to target his mother-in-law when he went into the church that day. also, wolf, we have come here to comal county, the s...

>> reporter: tiny is the word there. talking fewer than 700 people lived in sutherland springs texas. the 26 people massacred in a church while worshipping on sunday morning, about 4% of the population. the lingering question is why. what caused devin kelley to come basically dressed for war wearing a vest opening fire into the church that is still roped off behind me as they continue investigating and take down 26 people. now we can say a man who lives next door to the church actually came out....

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