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Purpose. Democrats that are running to we also know police said that began about five hours ago when the suspect was taken into replace President Trump coming in the next election. A gunman opens fire inside a custody without incident. We have heard from walmart and then a shopping no Law Enforcement officials fired their weapons. Center, killing multiple people. So that is the very latest from el paso. He was scheduled to hold Campaign Events this evening. Im jon scott, this is the fox police i...

Where a lot of these mass shooters decide to do this kind of thing, early 20s, sometimes late teens. >> yes, thats right. i think right now we have no information about motive. several of your experts have warned us about speculating too much. but, you know gets me in the heart, and i wonder is there a terrorism connection? we remember the pulse nightclub or the boston bombings or even fort hood, and we wonder about that possible terrorist connection. and, you know, one thing i want to say here ...

Clearly officials at the moment are leaning away from the terrorism connection. what they say they have is a man in custody who was originally from afghanistan, but an australian citizen. a man with mental health issues. a man with drug use issues. reportedly missed a medical appointment earlier in the day. something triggered his decision to drive into the middle of a crowd of holiday shoppers in the middle of rush hour. an attack while it may not have been terrorism, was certainly terrifying. ...

Laughlin. sir, i want to start with you. what is your sense of how federal authorities will approach this, and you notice you worked on the intelligence side. what will they do to look for a terrorism connection or anything overseas in this regard? im sure thee checking to make sure. >> of course, the first question, and it may have been settled already, who has jurisdiction here. the president, as you heard offered federal assistance to local authority. at some point we will get our hands on ev...

What i would say about the champs elysees, its much more than just a target that represents france. this is a economic target because those that visit the champs elysees in large part are people that are tourists, visiting the country and it has a big economic impact. as you know, reporting on this issue now for well over a decade, if it did turn out to have some kind of terrorism link, this is the kinds of economic target that they would want to select. finally, based on what were hearing from ...

International. then theyll do what they normally do, examine all the social media postings, anything off his computer, conduct searches at his residences, contact friends, colleagues, co-workers, anybody they can find that would know something about him that may have heard him say what he was going to do and why he was going to do it. >> phil, according to evans reporting, this shooter claimed to have been hearing voices in his head, telling him to join isis, showed up in an fbi office. when inv...

Not sure exactly how far. >> i might add what we touched on, there are investigators on the ground no doubt trying to determine the cause of the fire to make sure there is no terrorism connection. and if not, they have to let the people know there is not and vice versa and let people know we have a problem here. >> it is an excellent point. last thing you need in fact we can only assume people are trapped inside. the last thing you need is panic. they are already afraid and nervous and anxious b...

Now the fbi agent on the scene, just telling us they had gone to pakistan. >> they look at foreign travel and foreign communication. theyve been to both saudi arabia and pakistan. neither of those countries -- travel to neither of those countries by itself establishes a terrorism connection. its something they look into because they know the history of both those countries. they havent established that yet. but theyre exploring it. to have those contacts overseas by itself, loads of us have cont...

These tragedies that they place. >> one of the things that is to ban together in a sense of urgency to recognize that that impact people absent from streets, the parents afraid to send their kids to school. people are frayed to go to shops and bars and restaurants, that that requires a unity of action. i would say following the french press reports tonight, it seems to be you know i know you cant confirm this until you go through end sources but it seems to be they have a couple terror suspects ...

Involved with some sort of drug smuggling or human trafficking? >> stolen passports are involved in a lot of other things than terrorism and generally speaking, elicit migration, drug smuggling, narcotics. this is much, much more likely to be the case here than any sort of terrorism connection, and in the absence of any other information, we should be careful in suggesting theres any terrorist connection here. >> evan kohlmann, jim tillman, thank you both, we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> than...