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Bakari asked an important question here. i think it s broader than that. you said it s not just for african-americans and for you and mayor gillum to comment on. it s for all americans. the president says things about african-americans or says things about these cities. what does one do with it? i tell you, first of all, i think the point that this is his city as well, he is the president of all of these united states, dur my campaign for governor in florida, the president tweeted out i was the mayor of the most dangerous city in america. in spite of the fact i was mayor of a city that is almost 70% white. i just happened to be a black mayor of that city. but i also was experiencing a 20-year low violent crime in my city. hit nothing to do with the facts. ....
For something this small, remarkable. and clearly saved the bigger tragedy. and james, we don t know much about the weapon, we re told it s an assault style rifle. we heard the shots in rapid fire. but that could be any kind of semiautomatic weapon at this point, kr equity? absolutely, john. and just to unpack this for the viewer. let s define was an all the weapon is. typically a rifle with a collapsible stock, pistol grip, shrouded barrel, flash suppresser on it, and detachable magazines. that s what witnesses have said. we often know because we discuss these in the wake of so many of these tragedies as you pointed out that early reports are often inaccurate. but right now witnesses that have spoken to this have suggested that was it. california has sot extremely strict gun laws, but it doesn t prevent somebody from purchasing a weapon whether they purchased it legally and then perpetrating ....
Any type of material support or act as a lookout for the actual shooter who police were able to neutralize last night. and kind of speaking again to phil s point here, the criticality in trying to determine motive here is to prevent or try to get out in front of the next one. the fbi is hyperfocused right now on the domestic terrorism threat. they look at it from four components. could this possibly have been racially motivated. was this an anti-government or anti-authority second of violent extremism. was this an anti-abortion portion of that? any of those four things and obviously every one does not exactly fit neatly into those. but trying to determine what possibly could have caused this person to do this. last year 2018, 27 mass shootings, 85 people killed across 16 states. the year before that, even worse. we have the las vegas shooting. and just to make my point, we still have not determined the ....
Assisted the gunman. we have some witnesses reporting there may have been a second suspect, but we don t know if that suspect was engaged in any shooting or whether they may have been in some sort of a support role. reporter: survivors of the attack are grateful they made it out alive. we were lucky we didn t scream or anything. we were that close. he would have shot us. reporter: now, witnesses describe the shooter somebody being in his mid to late 20s, maybe even his early 30s. they say he was wearing shorts and a protective vest. as you heard there, authorities believe that there may be a second suspect or accomplice involved. they re not entirely confident of that but at this point they are treating it as if there s a second suspect involved. okay. that s obviously good to know. dan, thank you very much. joining us on the phone now is vivienne zhang. she was at the festival and witnessed the shooting. can you tell us where we were ....
Motive. so a lot of police work ahead of us, john. look. we re nearly at the two-year anniversary of the las vegas shooting. when someone said that to me this morning, it made me think every week is the anniversary of some kind of mass shooting in this country it seems at this point. phil, there was security there. this kill her a cut a fence to get in. and the law enforcement response, they shot this guy dead within a minute. so there were measures in place here. there were. but i think we re going to have to step back and the question through the day is the security at the festival. as you said, the response was rapid, but there are going to be questions across this country an how you secure festivals like this. it s not doable in a perfect way. it s about the size of this in my town, there is no way across america in 50 state ifs you want perfect security that you can have it. i m surprised they had the security and response they did ....