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Mass murder sunday night there at the mandalay bay haute until las vegas. and even included some of the young women, the dispatchers, talking about having to be cool and calm under pressure when all hell is breaking loose on the ground. art roderick is with me. he's our cnn law enforcement analyst. and just to see a scene like that, trying to put myself in the shoes of the police officers and the firefighters, the heroes sitting there with the president of the united states, what did they want to hear in those sorts of situations? >> in this type of situation you want to hear support from the ...

The gun. the forensics on the gun will tell everything. there is no doubt from everyone i talked to these were automatic firing weapons. the question is how did he get them? how did i train them with no detection? anderson. >> drew, appreciate that. i want to bring in law enforcement panel. panel of experts. art roderick former assistant director of marshal service. phil mudd. and julia. art when you see that you say that's a work around. >> it's a work around. did he make some modifications. i saw the red dot sight with the bump stock that cause to do to go fully automatic. i saw the.308 rifl...

That included rifles, a handgun. there were tripods and there were scopes, multiple rifles. police believe the shooter killed himself as law enforcement broke into the room. the motive still completely unknown. joining me now is our law enforcement analyst art roderick. in denver is steve moore former fbi agent. i thank both of you. art, there's an image here when you look at the outside of the mandalay bay. when you look at the two windows, one thing we know is there were bursts of shooting and then a break, at the beginning a few seconds of shooting and then a break of up to three or four ti...

Art roderick, former assistant director of the u.s. marshall service. chief ramsy, this number of civilians, law enforcement as well, out in the open in the line of fire, and you have a gunman firing from an elevated position. for the people who are there, you don't know if you're running into a bullet or running away from a bullet. in a situation like this, it's extremely difficult for people, do i shelter where i am? do i try to run? no matter what direction you run to, you could be hit. >> right. it would be very chaotic. you wouldn't know which direction to run in. most people instinctivel...

Could have not known. erin? >> all right, thank you very much. now art roderick join us me along with former fbi special agent james gagly llano. why? >> what we found since the first mass shooting in the you asked was august 1st, 1966 at the university of texas clock tower shooting, what we found is there's a process that happens. somebody comes up with a grievance and targeted a particular group. and then there's a trigger event. we know the concert was basically announced last february. it looks like from the weapons that they found from the planning, the execution, looks like this plan was...