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Vegas. here is the report as it broke in abc news. >> tonight abc news has learned exclusively that the hard drive is missing from the laptop computer found in stephen paddock's sniper's at the mandalay bay hotel. some authorities suspect that paddock destroyed or intentionally hid the hard drive to keep law enforcement from information. that may have told them why he killed 58 people and wounded hundreds more. he would want to erase his digital history so nobody could ever figure out how and why he did what he did. >> bill: reporting from our l.a. bureau. aaron cohen with me. good evening to ...

So we have have done quite a bit in consultation with the staffs and members of congress. >> phil mudd, how long do these investigations take, and is it fair to say it's too soon to know what happened? >> well, let's break this down into two-pieces. are there some facts that are known or mere facts that are known? obviously, yes. let's remember the other piece of this. the intelligence business of this is understanding the adversary. the adversary is a small isis group of people. and the intelligence you use could be anything from human sources to drones within the organization. it's not clear...

Doesn't understand. in the intelligence business, we use a phrase for this. it's called mirror imaging. i you threaten a foreign audience, in this case threatening the north korean leader, you make a judgment they will view that threat in the same way you would view that. you look in the mirror and say they think like we do. the problem the president is making a fundamental problem in foreign policy decision making is, he cannot understand how kim jong-un views that threat. does he view it as a threat or as an indication with, for example, military exercises or military deployments that mean t...

Shows up, which has nothing to do with what they were investigating in the first place, but if you take exactly what they have, there is a lot of ground to cover. >> my question is the time line. something you have spoken about before, the way that sort of threshold, evidentiary threshold, which is quite different, and the latter could take a lot more time in terms of working through something you you could bring before court. >> you're right. and saying this in testimony before congress, he said, i'm not in the evidence business. i'm in the intelligence business. which is absolutely correct. ...

And trump campaign, but then goes on to say anything arising out of that directly arising out of that investigation. wherever this investigation takes them, he can pretty much go there. with ken starr, and all of a sudden there's a monica lewinski shows up, which has nothing to do with what they were investigating in the first place, but if you take exactly what they have, there is a lot of ground to cover. >> my question is the time line. something you have spoken about before, the way that sort of threshold, evidentiary threshold, which is quite different, and the latter could take a lot mor...