Transcripts For FBC The Intelligence Report With Trish Regan

FBC The Intelligence Report With Trish Regan October 13, 2017

Implications to all of this as well. We have it for you. Im trish regan. Welcome, everyone, to the intelligence report. As we await briefing from the Las Vegas Police. We have another big story today, the president announcing a short time ago he will not certify the iran nuke deal. It is up to congress to decide whether sanctions should be imposed. We said it many times on this show. You know the iran nuke deal is a bad deal. Its a deal that doesnt work. We do not want to see iran become the next north korea. So what is it that Congress Needs to do to make sure we are all secure . Well ask National Security expert dr. Walid phares. Back to our top story, the las vegas shooting. Here with me right now, former member of the Fbi Joint Terrorism Task force, steve rogers, along with criminal defense attorney david bruno. Steve, starting with you. What do you think about, through all the confusion over this timeline, are they perhaps going to square away some of that today . I believe they are. What happened, trish, the police were so eager to get information out, to be transparent, to insure they would prevent these socalled conspiracy theories but what happened here the information came out so rapidly, it was, we know that now, it wasnt that accurate. Trish rapidly i, i dont know if it came out that rapidly . Were still sitting here daying what the heck happened . What was the motive . Nobody has been able to piece that together. Youre right. The motive has got everyone scratching their heads. That is something they interest to drill down to. When i say it happened, the sheriff was on the air many every day providing updates from the public. What happened, they probably didnt corroborate what they put out. Now they find themselves boxed in. Trish i dont entirely get it because if you are a casino, and you have all those cameras everywhere, shouldnt you know a little bit about, you know, what the timing might be . How is it that it could be that the timing from the casino mandalay bay didnt add up to the timing the vegas police had . Steve . Sometimes, trish what happens is, there are some people involved in an investigation, im only surmising what could have happened here. The sheriff was in charge, who was in charge on the field . Did the information get to him in timely manner . Was all this information actually checked out before it was sent out . Seems like right now that a lot of this wasnt checked out before the sheriff put it out. Now that is not to say they didnt do a good job. They did. But when it came to disseminating information to the public, before they did that, all of this information, especially this timeline, should have been checked out, i tend to believe sometimes we go too fast, give too much out. They obviously did not want to compromise the investigation but look what happened here. Trish david, youre an attorney weve already seen some people are filing suits against mgm which owns mandalay bay. Do they have a case here . Should mgm have done more to protect them . This timing question is critical when it comes to that analysis what they should have done, whether or not they were neglectful protect the public. There is a huge difference between 40 second delay, that is what mgm is saying, they came out yesterday, saying no, the Police Timeline is wrong. It is not six minutes, at very most 40 seconds from the shooting of the Security Officer to the scooting out into the public. So when youre analyzing the delay, mgm, mandalay bay did, that is going to be critical. There are other questions what they knew, what they should have known. You have an individual bringing in large amounts of ammunition and firearms into that hotel. He had a do not disturb sign on the door for a significant period of time. And we know from hearing from other hotel owners, that is a red flag and potentially something that a hotel should look at. Trish all right. So from legal liability standpoint, by the way, i do want to point out, shares of mgm since this happened, if we can show you, they have tanked roughly 8 , eight and change. This is not good for shareholders. There are a lot of concerns what it means for future business to revenues at the hotel. Also what it means to their liabilities they might in fact incur. David, you bring up something important. The fact that he was able to get these firearms into his hotel room without anybody noticing, using freight elevator up to his room, how can that be . Those are questions that need to be answers. When lawsuits are filed there will be discovery process. Depose individuals and get all the video and records from this investigation. These questions will be answered at some point. Once a suit is filed, the litigants, the plaintiffs have very many ways to get all of this information that we are asking. Trish steve, were still asking though what the motive was. Are we going to find out ever . Do you think they will be able to actually determine what motivated this guy to do such a horrific act, actually hang on, we do have the press Conference Starting right now. Lets listen in to the Las Vegas Police department. Welcome, everybody, im obviously joe lombardo, sheriff of clark county, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police department. This press conference will be probably a little difference than you experienced earlier. This is more informational, than q a. My intent to provide clarification on outstanding issues out there in the public forum reference a timeline, fuel tanks, a couple of other items. And then i will provide the opportunity for sac rouse of the fbi to address the audience. And then well have a closing of the conference. Okay . In a couple of these items i will read from the narrative because i dont want my comments to be construed tore or changed. I so i want to insure the accuracy of that. But most of this conference will be done strictly through my narrative provided to you. Okay . First and foremost i want to give you an update on the injuries. This has been a big deal on my mind as it has been the public, and i think its important for you to be given an accurate picture what is occurring associated with the injuries of the 1 october event. So as of 8 00 this morning i was updated with the most current numbers and, let me back up just a minute. You know in early throes of this tragedy i had advised each and everyone of you that items of information were going to change. The dynamics of this investigation is farreaching, it is wide and its huge and you cant expect exact answers in the early throes. My intent in the early throes were to give you the information to provide that calmness in the community to, insure that we didnt have a Second Player or third player out hiding in the community intending to cause us harm. So, there was no integrity question associated with that, as i have experienced through the cyberspace questioning my integrity. I provided you the information as i knew it and everybody in here knew it was going to change. So we will get through that. Im not giving you 100 satisfaction associated with what im going to i give you today, because i think some of that is going to change and we will not know that until were completed with this investigation. So back to where we were. I think it is important for the community of clark county to realize we used 17 separate medical facilities to accommodate the injuries associated with this event and that speaks volumes for the medical community here in las vegas and clark county. It seems to be lost in the narrative associated with this that it was strictly a public safety, fire and police event. No, it was including the medical community. And i think it is important for me to give them their due respect. So 17 separate medical facilities. Todays numbers, 546 reported injuries. 501 of those have been discharged. In other words, they responded to a medical facility. They were treated for their wounds and subsequently left to seek healing process where wherever they chose to do so. 5 a 8 is still the the 58 is still number of individuals that have died. This is a the important piece. 45 individuals are still hospitalized. Some of those are in critical condition. So 58 may raise. By the grace of god it doesnt, and we shall continue to move forward. The medical profession will provide all the medical care necessary but sometimes it is, people meet their demise out of our control. Im hoping that number does not raise but todays number is 58. The fuel tanks, i will read this narrative, so i my words do not get changed but i want to provide you information reference the fuel tanks. It is believed that fuel tanks were fired upon with intent. Mckarens leaders have saved protocols in place which they reexamine following any safety related incident. The leaders have already contacted experts in fuel storage out of the abundance of caution. I am more than confident they will immediately implement any changes or security augmentations if they are so advised. I have been advised there is a very low probability that Aviation Fuel could be ignited by gunfire, and that the tanks are outfitted for continue all release of vapors. So that is the situation of the fuel tanks. Any future information that needs to be provided reference that will be provided by the Public Information office out of mcmckaren airport. Dates of the 25th versus the 28th. This was not breaking news, no matter who believed it to be so in this forum. We were aware of discrepancy versus the 28th versus the 25th in the early parts of this investigation. What we werent aware of, why the date of the 28th was utilized in the early portion of this. As i was provided this information as part of the person registered in the suspects room. We have come to learn the suspect did occupy the room on the 25th. And, the situation on how the room was compensated or paid for had changed. And the name as part of the registration had changed. On the 28th to include marilou danley. Of the so that was the confusion associated with that. No matter what perception is whether we were being nontransparent or attempting to be subversive is false. I was acting on information at the time i was provided it. The autopsy. Yes, there has been an autopsy performed on mr. Paddock, or the suspect. In the early evaluation there was no abnormalities observed visually. As a matter of practice in the Forensic Science his brain has been shipped to a appropriate evaluation facility in order to take a microscopic evaluation of the brain. So the initial report that there was no abnormalities was a visual inspection of his brain. So it is yet to be known whether there is any abnormalities to be presented at a later date. Now the timeline. Unfortunately a great deal of my investigators time has been preoccupied on this timeline. In the public space the word incompetence has been brought forward and i am absolutely offended with that characterization. This is a very dynamic event, very big event. Thousands of people involved. Humans involved in documentation. And every venue of information involved in this information, in this investigation. So, the information was attained via security logs. Officer campos himself, bodyworn cameras, hotel cameras, locked interrogation. My dispatch, lvmpd dispatch, hotel and private cameras and interviews. So imagine bringing all together to insure that we were drawing an accurate picture. So i will provide awe a little more information on that. I still stand by the time of 21 5 a 9, 9 59. It is important that you continue to listen to me. 9 59. It was not inaccurate when i provided it to you. The circumstances associated with it is inaccurate. I many very well aware of the mgm statement provided yesterday. I agree with their statement. I am not in conflict with their statement. I i will tell you were provided of 9 59 through entry log. That mr. Campos encountered the barricaded door adjacent to the suspects door at approximately 20 one 59 his attempt to gain entry into get to the 32nd floor, required him to as send to another level and eventually make access to the 32nd floor. He went to the doorway he was originally addressed to address the open doorway. He mitigated that situation and subsequently received fire from the suspect. When you culminate that timeline associated from the initial 21 59 to 22 05 timeline as we still stand by as the initial volley of fire, mr. Campos received his wounds in close proximity to 22 05. He attempted to relay that information via his radio, and it was confirmed because he also relayed that information via his cell phone. So the timeline associated to both of those sources have been verified. It 2 05, the number that was provided earlier, referenced the majority of fire upon our community. We still stand by the time. That was done by combination of different sources i listed for you earlier. 22 17, 12 minutes, that is when our officers first arrived on the 32nd floor. 12 minutes. Youre very well aware the suspect fired at approximately ten minutes. Upon our arrival on the 32nd floor, the firing had ceased. We do not believe we continually had an active shooter. At that point we conducted evacuations adjacent to the suspects room and you know the rest. And so there is no conspiracy between the fbi, between lvmpd and the mgm. Nobody is attempting to hide anything reference this investigation. The dynamics and size of this investigation requires us to go through voluminous amounts of information in order to draw an accurate picture. My attempt, like i saidstated earlier, is to give you information as i know it, unverified, to calm the public, not to establish a legal case. Everybody understand that . No questions, sir. Now were going to get into future of the investigation. I dont want to put a percentage of responsibility associated with this investigation because it would not make sense but im here to tell you we are standing hand in hand with the fbi and the continuance of this investigation. In the beginning throes of it and in the continuance of it. Our portion at lvmpd has become contracted. My concern was initial safety of the community. Whether we had any other bad actors out there that we had to address and i feel confident there are no other individuals intending to cause harm to our Community Associated with the 1 october event. Now it has become protracted, and that is where the fbi has their expertise. We are establishing the timeline of the suspects life, his motivation, and everybody else associated with him throughout time. It requires us to rely on the february bys resources fbis resources for that success. Nobody is act we eesing in my department to this. I am not acquiescing, and nor is the fbi coming in with a hammer in attempting to take over. This will continually be a joint operation. With that being said, i want to stiff the opportunity for aaron rouse to provide some statements. Thank thank you, sheriff. I am aaron rouse, the special agent in charge for the fbi in las vegas. As our partner from the beginning we have established a 24 hour, sevenday a week command post with agents, analysts, Task Force Officers and many support personnel. We have deployed over 200 employees from across the fbi to las vegas including many with specialized positions. Globally we have hundreds of agents covering every facet of this investigation. Nothing will be overlooked. We have made significant progress. To date, we have found no signs of ideology or affiliation to any groups. Hundreds of interviews have been conducted so far. Close to 2000 leads have been covered so far. Extensive review of Digital Media on a multitude of devices is ongoing. Over 1000 pieces of evidence have been collected and are being reviewed by the fbi laboratory. Hours and hours of video footage from hotels continues to be reviewed. Fbi victim specialists from across the country are here assisting victims and families of the victims. More than 1800 victim questionnaires have been completed. The return of personal property continues. We continue, we continue to ask you, if you have factual information in furtherance of this investigation, please call us. If you know something say something. The number is 1800call fbi. The fbi, nor our partner, we dont rush to conclusions. We ask for your patience and will not comment on specifics of this investigation while it is in process. This is in keeping with the longstanding fbi tradition. As i said from the beginning, this is our city. It is your city. Las vegas is a resilient city, a microcosm of a resilient nation. While we grieve as a community, we will use that energy to learn as much as we can about this horrible crime. So that we may prevent another one from happening. I thank thank you. Thank you, aaron. So before we close out today i want to provide you another written narrative i want to read verbatim in support, in other words, bring a better light to whats occurred in the carnage associated with our community. There are bright spots. I dont want anybody to take offense when i complete my comments, there is a thousand heroes out there and i bring it home to my department and i think it is important for you to hear it. So the first narrative, in immediate aftermath of the shooting Sergeant Garrett he have very arrived at reno in haven saw the need for medical triage area. For hours Sergeant Everett and other officers offduty paramedicses and firefighters triaged at least 50 gunshot victims. They ran out of tourniquets and began using anything they could find to stop bleeding, to include their own hovel devices they use during the normal course of their duties. These officers calmly took care of the wounded and dying as they waited for medical transport. At times placing the critical victims on the backs of trucks so to get them to the hospital quickly. Not all the victims made it out as the night wore on. Those same officers were assigned to guard the deceased victims, not allowing any of them to be left alone. So the undersheriff and myself, kevin mayhill took time out to visit some of my officers yesterday to discuss their mental state, to thank them, and check on their overall condition. These particular officers sustained some substantial wounds and some of them you have heard in the public forum already, and some you havent. But there is a couple key individuals i want you to write about. One of them is brady cook. Brady sustained four separate gunshot wounds. When i say separate, that is entries and exits. It is not actually four separate bullets. An important piece on brady is, the suspect was firing upon the crowd. As our officers started to arrive via vehicles which brady was occupying one, it is readily apparent to me that he adjusted his fire and directed it toward the police vehicles. So the response of those individuals i believe saved lives. No m

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