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Agree with everything harry, they have, about if there was a hate crime -- it could be a federal crime. but it looks like here, to me, is more of the murder fetish, that you discussed earlier, richard, and that would be a power motive. a power over humans, a power over society, a power to cause mass death. that is not a federal jurisdiction, this would throw it into a sick statehomicide charges, and 20 aggravated assaults. if it turned out his writings were, you know, based on religion, race, or...

Shooting that he perpetrated in these videos. and that was basically has a static. a discord form, where people hopped on, and rooted him on four things. you know, most recently, before the shooting, the last post in the politics section of that discord forum was a picture of a bucked wire, a famously bought, a politician who famously killed himself on live tv. so, its the sort of a static of mass that you saw on these forms. it was this fetishes station of mass death that you saw constantly fro...

Forms. it was this fetishization of mass death that you saw constantly from his posts and music videos. >> its tough to tell, ben, but do you get a sense of what was driving this person of interest. what was driving crimo to violence? what were the reasons why? >> well, this is very difficult to say, because you dont wanna egg it on. but there is a community of people on the internet who are obsessed with mass death. and people who fetishes mass killers, this has been happening since basically c...

That may be on the push signed? >> thats a good question. you know, he -- i dont place this in political leanings. he had a couple of times posted about donald trump. once he was outside of his motorcade, after donald trump landed for an event. and at another time, it was posted with a trump flag draped around him. he posted that on his twitter account. but i do want to say that the irony of these boards is just as important as -- so whether he believes, whether he was functionally a donald trum...

So whether he believes, whether he was functionally and donald trump fan or not, you can tell by two posts. you really cannot. but you can tell, this guy was obsessed with mass murder. whether he was pushed that way from a politician or not, im not sure. but i can tell you, it was pushed that way from a community of people on the internet, who are more effectively his hands. and telling him to accelerate it. >> one of the things that you probably heard many times from tim kavanaugh, our analyst ...

Obsessed with mask that. and people who fetishes mass killers, this has been happening since basically columbine, but has accelerated in the age of social media and the internet. and you see a lot, in places like that, extremist forums where they have developed entire personalities based around the concept of killing people. they view it as like a scoreboard, the amount of deaths you can accrue in a mass killing. they talk about that afterwards as well. some of these forums talk about, they comp...

Previous mass killers, and say, he didnt do as well as this guy, something like that. thats part of the community that he was appealing to in these spaces. and you could see a lot, not just in his music videos, but in his posts across the internet. he was in other message boards, on the internet, that were literally just host of people being beheaded, or people being killed. he was a power user on those forums. its basically a cult of death in these extremist forums. >> ben, kind of like a thick...

>> jim, harry brings up the question i was also curious about. because of, again reporting going back to ben. the way that he had glorified going, out if you, will with a big bang. in this case, he seems to have stopped short right at the intersection, not interfacing it with what appeared to be a red undercover on enforcement vehicle. but stopping right there and then was apprehended again, not injured, not killed, and as harry was saying he is still alive. but does that tell you about this par...

Well, earlier i spoke to cbs correspondent bradley blackburn from highland park in illinois. he told me more about the person that was arrested. we know this person has been called a person of interest by authorities, his name is robert crimo iii, he is 21. police are not yet saying why they believe he decided to do this, allegedly decided to do this, but they say he used a high—powered rifle, took a position on top of one of these commercial buildings along the parade route and fired on peopl...

Probably be filed today in this particular case. as shaq said, police believe this person, robert "bobby" crimo, is the shooter here. wed anticipate the information being filed at some point. he was taken into custody without incident. were not aware he needs any medical treatment for any physical injuries he may have. and so we should probably see him in court today. unclear whether or not our cameras could be in that particular courtroom. thats something well figure out down the line. thats th...