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It is a more serious note. breaking news amid all the fallout over president trumps recent handling of calls to gold star families, the white house chief of staff general john kelly makes a surprise appearance in the briefing room to defend the president and to share a very personal and emotional account of losing his own son in battle. lets discuss with our experts and phil mud, a lot of us were moved by what we heard from general kelly, but were you surprised to see that appearance in the brie...

Xfinity mobile. a new kind of network designed to save you money. call, visit or go to xfinitymobile.com. "the washington post" is reporting that president trump promised the father of a fallen u.s. soldier $25,000 over the summer, and tonight, the white house is confirming that president trump sent a personal check to the family just today. lets dig deeper with our reporters and specialists, and phil mud, do you believe the president would have followed through on that offer of $25,000 if "the ...

Need his leadership. hes a senior member of the republican caucus in the senate. seen as someone who can whip votes. the president loses his leadership, itll be that much harder to pass any legislation. >> phil mud, the president also rekindling this controversy with secretary of state rex tillerson after reports that tillerson over the summer privately referred to the president as a moron. in an interview published today the president said this, i think its fake news, but if he did that, i gues...

Thanks alex. so many important questions remains. here to talk about it james, phil mud and mattery ellen. phil, weve been talking all week, youve indicated investigators are let tell -- telling us much -- asking the public for tips, do you still think theyre in a good place in this investigation? >> depends on how you define good place. look at where wed be, this is a substantial amount of time, this five days in an investigation with these am of resources. theyve interviewed most of the peop...

Disclose her location because one would not want to talk about someone whose cooperating. that to me is important. whether you have people thats -- that could cut to case to motivates. those two areas, digital communication and interviews. and it was >> the sheriff talked about kind of a secret life this person had. i dont know if thats based on particular information, to phils point that they have learned. but also that he had rented out a room, i guess it was the week before, at a prior music ...

A lot of information in in the just the timeline but the idea this guy was thinking about trying to have an escape plan. >> yeah that was the first time we heard this. its also concerning what with he had in his vehicle. he had explosives in his vehicle, it would have been set off at any given point. this plan of escape opens us up a lot wider. the explosives in the vehicle are very concerning. >> also by the way, phil mud is with us, david simon. phil its interesting seeing that timeline, you g...

Amount of time i think is remarkable. >> its dark, there are tens of thousands of people that are about. you dont get too many scenarios where you have have a sniper shooting down. >> terror watchtower. >> and that was decades. >> 66. >> but in ten minutes they figured it out. >> phil mud what stood out of this press conference? >> when you look at the characteristics -- let me point this out, going to the house, going to the hotel room, we have a lot of information about that. how they breached...

Described himself as a professional gambler. but he was also an active real estate investor. as you have heard. we know that he bought and sold some 11 properties going back to the 1980s. some of them netting him a small fortune. one example, in 2004, he sold an entire apartment complex in the town of hawthorne, california. he had his ex-wife and family members as partners with that. they sold that for $3 million. they bought it for $1 million a decade earlier, $2 million net. and so this was an...

Shots fired 10:05 local time, the first breach of his room an hour and 15 minutes later. im here with former assistant director service, and law enforcement experts is with us as well. art, in terms of what you heard, a lot of new information in that, not just the time line, but the idea perhaps this guy was thinking about trying to have an escape plan. >> yeah that was the first time we heard this. that he thought he might actually get out of there. whats also concerning is what he had in his v...

Figured it out. >> phil mud what stood out of this press conference? >> whether you look at the character risks -- going to the house, going to the hotel room, we have a lot of information about that. how they breach it had location, how many weapons and rounds were found. the two basics elements we want to understand, what kind of digital information do we have, how do we exploit it, phones and things like laptop, thats typically in the fbi inbox, zero. we got nothing on that today, as youd exp...