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Bought that home, he paid for it entirely with cash. and the agents were startled by that. and when he bought that house, he said in passing to those agents, apparently at closing, that he was a professional gambler and that he would gamble $1 million each year in las vegas. >> phil, just from an investigative standpoint, how much more do you want to know or investigators need to know about the shooters financial situation? how significant is that, could that possibly be? >> its not simply a que...

There was a suggestion in there by both the sheriff and the fbi that some of the interviews are cooperative, people are providing information. maybe including the woman who was the girlfriend of the shooter. was the girlfriend of the shooter. mentioned, shes not in custody and talked about not wanting to disclose her location because one would not want to talk about someone whos cooperating. that to me is important. if you have people, whether its a neighbor or somebody at a gun range, whether i...

If there were any modifications played to turn a semiautomatic, fully automatic with the pieces the sheriff showed me thatll have to be done by opening up the gun. but theres no doubt from everyone ive talked to that these were automatic firing weapons. the question is how did he get and train them with no detection. anderson. >> drew griffin appreciate that. ill bring if a law enforcement panel. art roderick. phil mud. joey. when you see that youll see that is just a work around? >> it is a wor...

Discuss former fbi counter intelligence phil mud. phil, ill start with you. fbi director andrew mccabe says the bureau doesnt have any thumb prints that would have a motive. are you surprised they dont have any idea why this was carried out? >> no. and im not sure thats how i would characterize it. its not ha question whether they have an idea of what happened here. its a question whether they have a level of certainty. you can almost think of this as phases of the investigation. the first phase...

Designed to help president trump. >> i dont see why they dont release the ads? what if they do, what privacy? >> thats a great question. facebook has not gotten a clear explanation, other than they said they are trying to protect user information in not releasing these publicly. but they will get a lot of pressure. already getting pressure to release the ads. and specifically mike conley does believe that those asds should be released so well see if they pressure them or do it themselves. >> tha...

Adviser julia cyan. phil mud and jonathan. phil it start with you. the biggest question we have right now is motivate. what do investigations go on? >> thats not the biggest unquestioned. inside this is still a criminal investigation and we have a lot of threads here. we have somebody with 30 plus weapons. somebody who thought about the target he checked in early. im looking at this before were talking about motivate and saying, with all that information acquired over time, all that material acq...

Leader as he was announcing breach. breach help breach. >> so calm, from a law enforcement perspective, they dont know if this was the primary tactic where there could be secondary attacks coming at ground level into that. >> again, the s.w.a.t. team going in to breach that door, true professionalism by the law enforcement agency. one of the best. >> bravo to them and the first responders and last question, phil, you hit on it a second ago and -- i get a text from my 21-year-old cousin and she i...

Except that it came all five of my phones and the house and the cells all lit up at the same time i would have thought it was one of my friends joking. i mean, when you get a phone call that says your brother, you know, just killed a bunch of people. >> all right. lets start there, i have cnn counter terrorism analyst phil mud who served in the cia and fbi and cnn law enforcement analyst jonathan walkrow, former secret service agent for president obama. so lets go off of what the brother said an...

Or ten or 20 years ahead. theyre looking at this saying not just how do we influence an election. how do we sow dissent in america that when russia interferes with ukraine america is more focused on a domestic problem than how to counter russia over the long-term. the conversation with twitter, with facebook, with alphabet the parent company for gool want has to be how did you do in the last election. how does the american government work with silicon valley to say how do we stop junk informatio...

Peaceable. the russians are trying to do the same thing. they dont want to see peaceful dissent. they dont want to see a discussion and dialogue over what are real racial tensions. they want to fan the flames. and i know were going to find russian fingerprints on both sides of this debate. and that will help them to continue to prolong these arguments that keep the united states and washingtons focus inside the u.s. and not over in europe and not around the world where it needs to be. >> phil, y...