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Media reporter darcy and greg mccareerry a criminalologist and fbi behavioral scientist. thank you for coming on. wes i'll start with you at a brief hearing the shooter's attorney described him as a deeply disturbed emotionally broken young man who struggled with significant mental disease and trauma his whole life. what do you know about the type of childhood and life this young man had? >> of course. well our reporting and cnn reporting as well seems to paint a picture of a child -- a young man who clearly has had both mental illness and a disturbed upbringing. this was someone who was livin...

>> they read it to the say offense an isis supporter when he was making racial slurs against muslims and minorities. >> i want to bring you in, greg. as you know the shooter posted a youtube comment that he would like to be a professional scoot shooter. the fbi admits that it was alerted to the post but was unable to fully identify the person who posted it. how is that possible? >> well, it's very easy. very difficult to get the -- get someone like that identified. it's a name. now, we are constrained by attorney general guidelines and laws. we just can't start -- can't get warrants and start ...

King county or genesee county or eric county. we don't know the guy. is that a real imname or assumed identity. we have to be careful we don't fall into hindsight bias where we know all this -- which is a well-known psychological phenomena of beginning to think once we know the outcome of an event that it's more predictable than it was before it happened. there is a lot of that going on as well. >> yeah, i understand what you're saying. but there is certainly a lot of evidence there. and we'll put it up before i let you guys go. this is one video showing the shooter engaged in target practice ...