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logs for staff and regular visitors into and out of the west wing. president biden for his part not talking about it. deferring all questions to the secret service. listen. [shouted questions] >> gillian: mark morgan says someone could be intentionally hindering the investigation. he tells the daily mail, quote, they know who comes in and when they come in, they're checked and are video cameras everywhere? are they able to talk to the people they would need to without any roadblocks? let's bring in mark meredith joining us from the white house. tell us what you know. >> good morning ...

Newly released video shows a guard resembling abbott just 24 hours before. at the start of the tape the unidentified man is seen backing up his car to the museum side entrance. after the first guard leaves to do his security rounds, the man outside approaches the museum. the guard at the desk faces the buzzer, but the man doesn't enter. instead, he returns to his car and turns on the parking lights. after, he heads back to the museum and is once again buzzed inside. this time he does enter through the same door the thieves would enter through the very next night. the man appears to go through ...

Inside. this time, he does enter through the same door the thieves would enter through the very next night. the man appears to go through some paperwork at the guard desk, then disappears for about three minutes inside the museum. out of view of this particular security camera. it's unclear what he was doing, or why he was there in the middle of the night. investigators want to know if this video was some sort of dry run for the real thing. they say the car, seen in the video, even matches the general description of the vehicle seen parked outside of the museum the night of the theft. the fbi ...

Moment rick arrived at work. he learned his usual partner had called in sick. they couldn't find anyone else so they paired him with a daytime gallery guard. >> when i got there, my partner was there -- or, well, i into you him. i didn't know him very well. i knew him from just around in the locker room and he was -- i'm told the only person they could get. so i figured i'd take the first round. >> reporter: that first round takes longer than usual. the fire alarm goes off for no apparent reason. so does another alarm on the fourth floor. after all that, rick returns and the gallery guard take...

Hope they don't burn the place down. >> reporter: he couldn't see, couldn't hear and he had no idea what was happening upstairs. all he knew was that his museum was unguarded and about to be robbed. it all happened so fast, he never had a chance to hit the one panic button by the guard desk. he knew no one was coming to help. did thieves know that as well? it appears they did, since they were in no rush to get out. >> it is interesting. they took the guards after they handcuff and tape them and brought them to the basement. about 24 minutes elapsed before we see them again. >> reporter: motion...