terry anderson is free. he was the last of the american hostages held by pro-iranian terrorists in lebanon. in the beginning of the 90s terrorism was thought to be done. people likely to use terrorism to achieve political objectives were dead, in jail or part of the peace process. a syrian delegation is in washington today, ready to meet with israel to talk about middle east peace. we thought the 90s would be a time of peace. not only was the cold war over, we had won. we have before us the opportunity to forge a new world order, a world where the rule of law governs the conduct of nations. the world was changing, and it was an exciting time for those who really viewed america as the nation that would embrace globalization. but there were many people who didn t like that changing america. in maples, idaho about 40 miles from the canadian border federal marshals are surrounding a cabin, where a fugitive white supremacist named randy weaver is holed up with his family. randy weaver was a survivalist who lived out in the mountains with his family at ruby ridge, idaho. weaver was of interest to the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms because he had links to the aryan nations. and they tried to pressure him to inform on his friends in the movement, and he refused. weaver is summoned to court for a weapons charge that involves the selling of some sawed-off shotguns to law enforcement. now a force of 200 police, federal agents and the national guard have surrounded the house. this is nothing more than a show of force to scare everybody who lives up here in north idaho. we all have guns in our house s. we all have guns buried some place. northern idaho has become home for a lot of people like randy weaver who want to be away from civilization itself. he is not a terrorist. he is not endangering anybody. everybody that knows him has talked about him as a good, loving christian family man. never before has northern idaho seen this kind of firepower from the government. there is a shoot-out in which weaver s 14-year-old son sammy, a dog and a u.s. marshall all ended up dead. an fbi sharpshooter shot his wife dead while she was carrying the baby in her arms. fbi agents are trained to shoot only to protect themselves or others. the rules of engagement for ruby ridge were rewritten. decisions were made within the fbi that allowed the snipers to shoot at anyone who was armed. it was completely unjustifiable. put a bullet in my head! hey, i ll make it easy. i ll turn my become on you. not everyone who lives around here says randy weaver is in the right. but they say none of this would have happened if federal authorities had just left him alone. ruby ridge was not a story that was on the front page of national newspapers. most people didn t know about it at all, but it actually did energize the radical right. the siege ended at 12:15 when randall weaver and his three children walked off the mountain after 11 days. there is all this tremendous ferment that is arising after the end of the cold war. this mind-set that the united states government is the enemy breeds almost the decade of violence. in langley, virginia today, right outside cia headquarters, a young man with a rifle opened fire on a number of people who were in their cars. no one would ever think like a situation of a shooting of cia personnel would happen on their front doorstep. the shooter escapes. two cia employees were shot to death in virginia. a pakistani suspect is reported to be back in pakistan. they figured out his name, aamir kazi. but they don t know where to peg him. who is he working for? what organization? in the 1970s, we were dealing with terrorist groups. in this case there was no group that could be identified. this was the actions of one single individual. we did not realize that terrorism seemed to be moving in a new direction. [ sirens ] a mysterious explosion underground has spread smoke and terror throughout the gigantic world trade towers today. something terrible happened here in lower manhattan. counterterrorism sources tell cnn they now suspect the explosions caused by a car bomb. the bombing was designed to bring down the north tower and the north tower than falling into the south tower. that did not, of course, collapse the towers. but it did kill six people and injure over 1,000 more. i was very concerned. anything like that, any accident, tragedy, anything of moment you feel it very personally. i think it s most amazing is that more people weren t killed, especially having occurred at the hour it did and in the place that it did. president clinton had just come into office. i was in new york as the ambassador of the united nations. there s no way to fully explain how all of a sudden the mood changed. i ll use the full resources of the federal government, every law enforcement information resource we can put to work on this, we have. i m very concerned about it. federal officials are beginning to focus more heavily on the possibility of the explosion being the work of foreign terrorists. the 1993 world trade center bombing was a signal of how the extremist war that had been limited largely to the middle east was coming to the american shores. tonight, six days after the bombing at the world trade center, one suspect is in custody. more arrests are said to be coming. the investigators found the vin number of the ryder truck, and it turned out that one of the collaborators had returned there to ask for his $400 deposit back. authorities have told abc news that the man has links to a radical muslim group. they managed to capture most of the accomplice, but the master man, ramzi yousef, fled. ramzi yousef is smart and he is radicalized. his uncle is khalid sheikh mohammed. have i an office in that building. i will lead my people back into that office that will be our message to whoever did this. whatever you were trying to achieve, you failed. for the fbi, the lesson was that these guys, while dangerous, were not at the same level as the terrorists of the late 80s. they were wanna-be s. that of course would be a complete misunderstanding. for the first time since the bombing, tower 2 will reopen for business, two weeks ahead of schedule. and that, says new york s mayor, is a testament to a city that conquered the use of fear as a weapon. the only ones who should be fearful now, he says, are the terrorists themselves. hundreds of dollars on youmy car insurance. saved me huh. i should take a closer look at geico. 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been some kind of shootout. this religious group, the branch davidians have this compound. they have been buying parts that would convert semiautomatic weapons to fully automatic weapon, which were illegal. the atf decided it was time to go in. take the shot. get the hell out of here! four federal agents died in the sunday morning shootout there in texas. 16 others were wounded. almost 100 heavily armed cult leaders remain inside the compound. cult leader david koresh says the standoff will continue until god tells him to come out. koresh proclaimed himself to be a prophet. a series of articles about what they called the sinful messiah, who loves music and who will drink a beer with you, and who also happens to have sex with underaged girls and has a lot of weapons. it makes nobody s business whether we have a gun or not. guns are the right of americans to have. cult members continue fortifying their compound, an indication there is no plan to surrender any time soon. the showdown moves into its 18th day. this is day 20 of the standoff. this was day 32. negotiations between the cult and fbi agents have stalled. it was all waco all the time. every newscast, every newspaper, every radio newscast is filled with this showdown. david koresh becomes a household name, and many people are inspired by him. he is taking it to the u.s. government. he is not going to stand down. and people drive to waco to show their support. things had reached a point partly because of the publicity that something had to give right away. an update on the 51-day standoff. early this morning armored vehicles entered cult leader david koresh s compound and began punching large holes in the wallace. a decision was made to inject cx gas, a kind of tear gas on steroids. all america along with all of law enforcement on the scene is waiting for people to come out. suddenly, out of one of the second floor windows, flames burst forth. and as you can see, it looks like at this point the entire compound is just engulfed. i have never in my life seen anything burn that way. it just went up in this massive fireball. there are no signs at this point of any people coming out of the building. the images are horrible. you had the federal government of the united states using a tank to deal with a compound that has children. it s not what we do in the united states. and yet in many ways the clinton administration felt that koresh had left them no alternative. the offender there was david koresh. and i do not think the united states government is responsible for the fact that a bunch of fanatics decided to kill themselves. and i m sorry that they skilled their children. it was proved later that the davidians lit that building on fire themselves. but there were literally millions of americans who absolutely believed that the government had murdered those people. this whole situation started with violence. it was not justified, not provoked when the atf weren t in there. and it ended in violence that was not justified and not provoked. waco was proof positive to many people that this was an aggressive, predatory federal government and now we have to fight back, like the minutemen in 1776 to bear arms to defend their own rights. this is the michigan militia, a self-proclaimed fighting force of ordinary citizens preparing to defend themselves against the federal government. you will be receiving live fire over your heads this morning. there s also an armed militia here in indiana, and at least 20 other states. we d always had a radical right. but this the 90s it really entered the mainstream. gun shows became an extremely important venue, not just for selling guns, but they re selling real life nazi literature along with survivalist handbooks and all that kind of thing. so you re prepared for a conflict with the federal government? yes, we are prepared to defend our homes, our families, our children, our lives, our property, yes. americans are largely ignorant of what s happening in the heartland with regard to this militia movement. and there is an extremist element of this which would not have been on anybody s radar. and that s what made them so dangerous. we do have a special report from nbc news. there has been a massive explosion at a federal building in oklahoma city, oklahoma. we have no way to tell at the moment how many casualties there are. the explosion felt 35 miles away. rescue workers are desperately trying to save any remaining lives. you can see the side of the building is all down. on april 19th, when i bought to oklahoma city, the building was still on fire, and a whole lot of cars around the building that had also exploded. it was unbelievable. it is the dead and wounded children that have angered and stunned the nation. the motive behind the madness is unknown at this hour. the governor of oklahoma says two things are known for sure. those who did this knew what they were doing, and whoever did it, the governor said, is some kind of animal. i am pleased to announce one of the individuals believed to be responsible for wednesday s terrible attack in oklahoma city has been arrested. timothy mcveigh, aged 27. the shock around the country was huge. this was an act of terrorism by one of our own citizens. a second man was charged today with blowing up the federal building. terry nichols, who has been in custody since just after the bombing. timothy mcveigh and terry nichols had met in the army. mcveigh had fought in the first persian gulf war. he left the military very, very disillusioned. the one thing that sustained him was his reading about the radical far right and meeting like-minded people. timothy mcveigh s plot to blow up the federal building took shape over the course of a secret year-long odyssey. he went to the waco compound when it was under siege. on april 19th, two years to the date after the waco incident, oklahoma city was bombed. mr. president, there are tens, maybe more tens of thousands 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and admits the long investigation has been frustrating. the 90s bring on a whole new challenge for law enforcement, lone-wolves. it really was the proverbial needle in a haystack. all authorities have to go on is a composite sketch of a white male believed to be in his 40s. he wasn t the only bomber we had investigated before. but his long solitaire ree operation as a serial bomber was so unique. unabomb hotline? so far thousands of tips phoned into the san francisco unibomb task force have led nowhere. we began an entirely new look at this, an entirely new strategy. we brought in a crew of analysts from fbi headquarters. they worked 24/7, but sadly it happened again. [ siren ] a mail bomb explodes inside the california forestry association building. the killer known as the unabomber says he will stop mailing package bombs if the newspapers will publish his political theories. when we received the manifesto, we felt very strongly that we should publish this. we think someone out there will actually recognize these words. the industrial revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. so begins a surprising eight-page addition to the washington post this morning. someone does recognize these crazed writings and turns him into the authorities. the longest and most intense manhunt in history has zeroed in on a prime suspect just outside lincoln, montana. the big concern was are there booby traps? are there explosives on the property? so we had to be very careful. we were knocking on the door of the cabin. he started to close the door and say let me get my coat and come out. and as he did that, one of the agents pushed the door in. and on the morning of april 3rd, theodore kaczynski was taken out of his cabin. are you the unabomber? 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no, sir, i didn t do it. the fbi agents arrived at jewell s apartment early this morning, armed with a search warrant. agents brought in a dog and an evidence truck. in the hurly-burly of trying to understand what had happened, richard jewell became the face of the olympic park bombing until it was made clear he wasn t, but by then a lot of damage had been done. despite their interest, they had not found any physical evidence linking him to the crime scene. in their mad rush to fulfill their own personal agendas, the fbi and the media almost destroyed me and my mother. jewell was fed to the world s media wolves, and the wolves obligingly fed on him for days. it was if he was offered up to us in the hopes that the blood we draw would somehow solve the crime. if richard jewell was no longer a suspect, who planted the pipe bomb? to be continued. where are we? about to see progressive s new home quote explorer. where you can compare multiple quote options online and choose what s right for you. woah. flo and jamie here to see hqx. flo and jamie request entry. slovakia. triceratops. tapioca. racquetball. staccato. me llamo jamie. pumpernickel. pudding. employee: hey, guys! home quote explorer. it s home insurance made easy. password was hey guys. it s home insurance made easy. afi sure had a lot on my mind. my 30-year marriage. .my 3-month old business. plus.what if this happened again? 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well, sure, i think he is. i think it s part of his hide-and-seek game. and he thinks he is winning? he is winning. in the end, he got caught in a sort of pathetic little moment where he is rummaging around in a dumpster looking for something to eat, and some local rookie cop arrests him. there was kind of unbelievable quality to all of this. eric rudolph was part of this internal terrorist moment. it s like a worm that was eating away inside of us. welcome back, everybody. we want to bring you up to date on a breaking story out of suburban denver. apparently there s been a school shooting at a high school in the town of littleton. the 90s bring us the first mass school shootings. there s something especially disturbing about premeditated murder by young people. police and law enforcement are descending upon columbine high right now. they do believe at least two people are inside with multiple automatic weapons, and perhaps some pipe bombs. we ve heard unconfirmed again from police. hit local tv very quickly. i happened to see this on television and got in my car. i saw a ring of choppers like vultures circling, and i knew instantly this was so much worse than i had imagined. masked gunmen in trench coats start shooting into the school s cafeteria. kids scatter. shots ring off lockers and walls. students are hit. and they re spraying. just starts shooting. anybody that was walking, talking, it didn t matter. boom, they were shot. they didn t care. you have blood on your hands. everyone around me got shot. and i begged him for ten minutes not to shoot me. it was horrific. it was beyond unthinkable. and yet we were watching it as it happened. you can see in the upper part of your screen, a student, a badly bloodied student hanging out a window. second floor says i m bleeding to death. the emotion was incredible. it s hard for a parent to see the parents who came. they went through the school shooting classmates, shooting teachers. 13 people died and 28 were injured. the police had arrived. they didn t want to be arrested. so they took their own lives. tomorrow morning s denver post identifies the two suspects as 18-year-old eric harris and 17-year-old dylan klebold. both reportedly died of self-inflicted gunshot wounds. local authorities search the homes of the two boys and say they found the makings for pipe bombs and other explosive devices. the gruesome but all too familiar denouement begins. the search for motivation, the calls for tighter gun control, the counseling sessions at school, and the endless, endless grief. there have been school shootings before. but never one quite like this. it put the school shooting in a whole new and darker category. it also raised a flood of questions of what is happening to our youth. i believe some of these kids are drifting deeper and deeper and deeper into rock music, violence, and that subculture. the biggest question is why do they do it. they were completely different people, opposite personalities and opposite motives. dylan was suicidally depressed. he really wanted to die. eric harris was the ringleader. he wanted to show how powerful he was. on his internet page, harris wrote pipe bombs are some of the easiest and deadliest ways to kill a group of people. columbine wasn t really intended as a school shooting. it was primarily intended as a bombing. they were inspired by the oklahoma city bombing. they hope they d would kill as many as 500 people. in the end, a lot of their homemade bombs did not detonate. school bells have an ominous ring to them. it is about to happen in our schools? 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the four seasons resort is. joe, you re on lockdown there. reporter: yeah, that s right. we have been under lockdown since 10:30 p.m. local time. i was sleeping in a room on the other side of things, got a call from my producer when we started to hear about this, but a lot of people who were especially on this side of the hotel could obviously hear the gunshots. the four seasons sort of has a few floors in the upper level of this mandalay bay tower, but below is mandolay bay rooms and that way is the mandoalay bay room. the sun is coming up and creating reflection on the window, but it is in this direction where the country music festival was happening. there were 22,000 people down there. the sheriff says when the man started opening fire in that direction. it was basically the peak of this route 91 harvest music festival. jason aldean, the headliner, was performing at that time. when we looked down there before the shooting happened, it was shoulder to shoulder, it was loud, people were having a good time. people came from all over the country for the music festival. i heard from a friend from seattle here, she s doing okay, but witnessed a lot of things pretty devastating for her. so people have come from all over. there were bakersville police department, from california, about four hours from here. an off duty police officer was down there, one of the officers according to bakersville police was shot, nonlife-threatening injuries. this was a huge husbamusic fest. 22,000 people were there as this man fired from bird s eye view. this was a three-day music festival. so the fact that jason aldean was on the stage at the moment, that s when the crowd was the biggest. so the shooter who checked into the hotel september 28th, if you got inside his mind and thought about the strategy, this is when you would have maximum impact. some people actually thought when they first heard shots fired, it may have been a fireworks show, which would be common at an event like this. reporter: yeah, unfortunately, we have covered enough mass shootings these days, we hear a lot that people think it is fireworks or firecrackers, that is the initial reaction. then people started to realize this was a gunman. and imagine you re down there in this situation, in the moment, you don t know where this gunfire is coming from. which direction do you run in. plus, it s crowded to begin with, so it is hard to even move in any direction. and everyone sort of is fenced in by the barriers they have put up to keep everyone in the festival in that little one-block area. so it s definitely as crowded as it probably could have been. people have been here all weekend enjoying the concert. and that was definitely one of the big draws, stephanie. just think about this. the shooter was 32 floors above shooting down at this open area. and open area for him, but for those concert goers, they were essentially pinned in, the open field, 22,000 people standing through looking up at that stage. with really the only thing to protekct them, some vendors and port-a-potties and areas of protection under the stage. as we talked to people there, as they spent the following minutes running for cover, the only time there was a pause is when they heard the shooter reloading. i want to bring in an eyewitness to the shooting whose family friend was indeed injured. megan guinn is joining me. we are relieved to hear you are safe, but please, tell us about your friend. we don t know. we haven t heard any update. we just know that she was shot in the face. that s all we have heard. cell phone service down there is really bad. there s still people i got lucky and got out, but there s still a lot of people stuck in the hotels they escaped to. where exactly were you when all this happened? i was. on the fairgrounds, i was on the right side of the stage in the back. and, like, you heard, it sowned like it was firecrackers. all we saw was smoke. the first round went off, we thought it was firecrackers. the second round went off, everyone started running and ducking for cover. you had people that were getting trampled. i just found a bunch of people in a group and we just all got down as low as we could and luckily there were some police officers that actually laid over the women that were there to make sure they wouldn t get shot at. so hold on a second, you laid on the ground and the police officers got on top of you? we had some off duty cops that we all thought it was firecrackers, and the second two men carried a woman shot in the abdomen and chest over by us. when they knew it was gunshots, they laid over top of us every time a round was fired to make sure the women around them were safe. by your estimation, and i understand you re not a gun expert, how many rounds did it sound like were fired? there were hundreds of rounds fired. you would have about 10 to 15 shots fired. you would have about 10 seconds or so in there and then another round would get fired. you had just enough time once one stopped to try to run to the closest safe spot if you could find something else covered. what was a safe spot? where exactly did you go? we went to behind one of the vendor stands that was all metal. we stopped there. there were more people shot. everyone was huddled together over top of each other. the second that round was stopped, we booked it into a bar. and that s when you could see just how many people were shot. i helped carry a woman who was shot in the foot out to where behind the cop cars were in the middle of the street. you had people lying with gunshot wounds. your friend who was injured, did she go to the concert with you? we went with her the last two nights. my husband stayed home tonight. so i went with other friends. so i was not up where she was, where she got shot. but we were lucky enough that we were far enough back that we were able to take cover really quickly. and when you made your way out, how was it that you even stayed with your group? how did you find your way out? we actually lost two people that were in our group. my sister-in-law was with me. we made sure to hold hands and run as fast as we could to take cover and run to the closest hotel because we were afraid being in the street with the cops that we were still going to be shot at. the two people that you lost, have you spoken to them since? yes, we have talked to them and both of them are safe. when you were making your way out, in addition to the gunshots, you said it was pure panic. were there people who have been trampled? there were people who were trampled. people were falling over when running away. that s why i tried to stay on the ground. because it was pure chaos the second people started bolting. it was just like a herd of people. it was like something out of a movie. it didn t seem real. now, i want to ask you, you said you could see smoke, at any point could you look up and see that open hotel window? i did. i couldn t see the open window, but when i was finding cover to sit up, i could see the light from where the shots were being fired. what went through your head? i thought i was going to die. i called my mom and called my husband telling them i loved them. and that i didn t know if i was going to make it home. megan, we re glad to hear that you have. and our thoughts and prayers are with your friend. thank you. now i m going to turn back to nbc s steve paterson who is in las vegas and has been there reporting all night. steve, give us the update. reporter: stephanie, it appears that much of the las vegas strip in this area has reopened to foot traffic. so a lot of people that were locked out of their hotels at one point are now filtering back in, which means a lot of the folks who were at that horrific scene have sort of filtered through here. obviously, you have been talking to them all morning, but we have heard horrific stories of people who have made a way to survive. and a lot of people have done it in the worst ways possible, by laying in piles of bodies or hiding in bushes or running to hotel rooms and barging in doors, just anything so they weren t in the range of that gunfire. when that gunfire erupted, a lot of people had no idea what it was. frankly, i think a lot of people had never heard automatic gunfire in that way. so a lot of people thought it was firecrackers, a lot of people thought it was part of the show as the country music set was well underway. and then when people started realizing this was automatic gunfire spraying down from above, like you mentioned, there was a panic. a lot of people we spoke to said, there was a massive stampede. and a lot of the injuries resulting from that, resulting not from the gunfire above, but the panic below. the panic then filtered out into the greater las vegas area onto the strip where there is already so many people moving up and down, reveling and enjoying the night. suddenly, they hear reports of gunfire and the stampede of people filtering onto the strip. so police had to do something quickly, which is to lockdown the area as soon as humanly possible. they did that, basically, as soon as they started locking down this area, they started using it as a staging area. so we saw people being loaded on stretchers, we saw first responders filtering in and out. and was saw police in riot gear going to every property in the area, making sure that it was secure. and they went floor to floor to floor as joe friar is stuck up there in one of the hotel rooms. he can tell you that they personally checked each hotel room. so this was just a massive operation following the shooting. now the sun has risen onto what is really such an erie sight for the las vegas strip. most of it shut down. most of it are first responders and the noises from first responders and the blue and red lights from emergency responders. steve, on your screen is the first official confirmed photograph of the shooter, stephen paddock, a 64-year-old who lived in mesquite, nevada n a retirement community, made his way to las vegas, checking into the mandalay bay on september 28th where he stayed until last night when he opened fire on that concert where 22,000 people stood in front of the stage. at this point, 50 people are confirmed dead. over 400 in area hospitals. and mr. paddock died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. tom costello is in washington. tom, tell us more of what do we know about mr. paddock. well, here s the problem, weapon don t know a whole heck of a lot. all the evidence would suggest that he s almost a contrarian profile of a mass shooter. we have had several photos we have seen over the last few hours of mr. paddock, 64 years old. and his family is dumbfounded by the reports that he was involved in the mass shooting. he had, to our knowledge, according to police, no criminal history other than a summons that he was issued. we don t know if that was for a traffic issue or what may have been evolved in that, but that is about it. we believe that he, we have some evidence to suggest that he was a pilot or held a pilot s license and had a hunting license. nothing out of the ordinary, although accord on the police department there in las vegas, he had at least ten rifles inside that hotel room that he checked into back on thursday. and then also several handguns that he had purchased recently as well. so all of this, at least the profile of him that we have seen so far, is really kind of non-eventful or nothing that would really raise any eyebrows at face value. as for the investigation, as you would expect, the las vegas p.d. is in charge, helped by the fbi, the atf, the state authorities as well. and we know that the suspect killed himself according to the police before police actually were able to storm the room. they were on their way to the room when apparently he shot himself. but through that vantage point, look at the view he would have had from the 32nd floor out his hotel window down to the outside mass audience of people there. tom, let s help our audience, because in addition to looking at stephen paddock on the right, on the left you can see the window open. what that is is the room on the 32nd floor of the mandalay bay where the glass was broken through. and when you see something moving, that s the curtain. the curtain from that room. if you could speak to this, that vantage point, a 1700-foot range. he s 32 stories up with over ten rifles in that room. the access he had to 22,000 concert goers. reporter: yeah, the experts say he would have had, that would have been well within the range, which seems obviously at this point to spray the crowd below. and here s what was just absolutely horrific for the people on the ground. they had very few ways to escape. they were out in that open theater, open arena type of environment to watch an outside performance. the performers on the stage were able to quickly dive for cover, but if you re out there watching the performance, there wasn t any place to go. because they were kind of hemmed in by the walls and the fencing and the kiosks, if you will, that surrounded the outdoor performing area. and there are very few points of entry and exit because they wanted to limit those to ticket goers. as a result, he was able to spray deadly fire from that 32nd floor window on your left down onto that crowd of 22,000. the other stunning number, stunning, 50 people dead, 406 transported by the fire department, by the ems personnel on the ground. 406. i suspect that we have not had that kind of a mass casualty response in this country, treating that many people at once, since 9/11. certainly, it doesn t seem like it. you would have to go back and check all the numbers, but my gosh, the horror to have that many victims that you re trying to treat, if you are with the police department, with the fire department, it must have been astounding. we need to call out the law enforcement personnel on the ground by all accounts exuberated enormous bravery. as you see time and time again, the police officers ran toward the threat to try to immediately address the threat, put themselves in the line of fire. that is true heroism in this country. and by the way, not just police officers, but firefighters and paramedics, everybody on the ground. tom, we need to note as we learn from the commissioner bratton earlier, even those wearing protective gear, your average police vest would not be able to protect you from the type of bullet, from the type of firearms that were used. many of the semiautomatic weapons can shoot bullets through multiple people. so even those wearing vests. and just moments ago we spoke to an eyewitness that said between rounds, the police officers that were there had women on the ground and they were laying on top of them to protect them from the gunfire. so we cannot overstate the acts of heroism as the las vegas police department ran towards this attack. and remember, these shots were being fired from above 32 stories above. it was a very, very difficult situation to defend. 22,000 people in an open area, essentially, pinned in. reporter: can we go back two photos? i don t know if this is technically possible, but the fire department medics were wearing vests as well and helmets. now, listen, they weren t just handed out at the scene. unfortunately, in this country, mass casualty shooting situations have become so commonplace that the nation s most proactive and forward-leaning fire departments now have created their own special units. the tactical ems units they are called, almost like a medical s.w.a.t. team, quite literally these guys are trained to dawn that special right there. watch it come through here, the it says fire medic. these guys are wearing protective bullet-proof vests and helmets as part of the special tactical fire department ems teams that are ready at a moment s notice to respond. i think this is the photo right here you re talking about. reporter: that s exactly it. just 15 minutes ago, we spoke to the former sheriff from las vegas who said while on active duty, he was the one who pressed for them to have s.w.a.t. teams for las vegas police to have more training. because with 45 million tourists that come to las vegas every year, and the open air concerts, the massive venues, they are right to be a soft target for something like this. reporter: the littleton fire department in littleton, colorado, was among the first to create a so-called tems unit, tactical ems unit. after the columbine massacre in littleton, colorado, the littleton fire department created their own tactical ems unit for exactly that reason. because these incidents are becoming far too common in america. and the firefighters, the paramedics need to also have protective gear to deal and treat with people on the ground. tom, we ll share some of the numbers, you mentioned the columbine shooting, april 20th, 1999, where 13 people were killed, 24 wounded. the university of texas tower shooting, august 1, 1966, 14 people killed, 31 wounded. the mcdonald s shooting in california, july 18th, 1984, 21 killed, 19 wounded. the list goes on and on. we think last year the pulse nightclub shooting where 49 people were killed and more than 50 wounded. and now here we are in las vegas last night, at least 50 people now confirmed dead with 400 being treated in area hospitals. let s go back to steve patterson on the ground in las vegas all night. speaking to eyewitnesss who were there when the deadly shooting occurred. steve? reporter: stephanie, the sun has risen now, much of the las vegas strip is shut down, but we are seeing pedestrian foot traffic. take a look back here, the sun is glaring. i m not sure how well you can see this, but the police have shut much of this scene and condensed it into what you see now. which is is a few squad cars and police are meeting back there. if you push on even further back beyond the tropicana, you will see the scene close ore the mandalay hotel where the horrific shooting was. this is where a lot of the staging took place throughout the night. we saw the fire trucks come in, the emt workers and people being loaded on stretchers. and we saw police in full riot gear. a lot of times armed with long guns. a lot of times leaning against squad cars because they didn t know which way fire was coming. and also, they had so many reports overnight of multiple locations where gunfire had broke out. thankfully, those turned out not to be true and police were able to focus on just one scene. but as this was erupting and happening, police were so scattered because they were getting so many calls in the city of las vegas. they had to respond to so much. so the response by police and emts was incredible. and speaking to the victims, we said, they told us that the response was really swift. and they were able to, obviously, find a way out. a lot of times because of the response on the ground, stephanie. extraordinary and heroic effort by the police. in less than ten minutes at 10:30 eastern, president trump will be giving official remarks following the shooting. we did hear from the president earlier on twitter. he put out a comment, my warmest condolences and sympathies to the victims and families of the terrible las vegas shooting. god bless you. there was an official statement from the white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders, quote, the president has been briefed on the horrific tragedy in las vegas. we are monitoring the situation closely and offer full support to state and local officials. all of those affected are in our thoughts and prayers. vice president mike pence and ivanka trump put out statements as well as jason aldean, remember, he was the headliner on the stage when the deadly attack took place. he said via instagram, tonight has been beyond horrific. i still don t know what to say but wanted to let everyone know that me and my crew are safe. my thoughts and prayers go out to everyone involved tonight. it hurts my heart this would happen to anyone just coming to it to enjoy what should have been a fun night. heartbroken. last night i spoke to a man who was an eyewitness to the shooting and the father whose daughter was at the concert. take a listen to those stories. i picked up my cell phone and she was screaming and yelling, dad! dad! somebody is shooting at us and i don t know what to do. she was hysterical and i tried to calm her down. she was i could hear the gunshots in the ground. and i i knew it was happening, i knew where she was at. she was at the and i asked her where she was at in the arena, and she said she was the third or fourth row from the stage. and they were just crouched down and people were getting shot around her. she could hear the gunshots. it sounded like a machine gun, she said. and she didn t know where they were coming from. she had nowhere to take cover. so i told her, just to run as fast as she could, as quick as she could, out of the arena. get as far away from it as she could where she thought the line of fire might be. it was a stampede-style atmosphere once people realized there was gunfire and that we were going to need to get out of there quickly. once the music went down, obviously, the popping of the gunfire was, it sounded like somebody was right behind you, somebody was shooting at you. the bullets were flying all around. we took cover. when the guy would reload, it was just round after round after round that he was stopping. he would reload and we would kind of get up from our cover and start running in those moments. i misspoke earlier and spoke to the eyewitnesses in the last hour. with us now is daren porcher, a 20-year veteran of the police department retiring as a lieutenant. daren, walk us through what the police officers face today. and i want to talk about gun laws for a moment. in the state of nevada, they do not require registration of weapons. they do not prohibit the possession of assault weapons. .50-caliber rifles or large capacity ammunition magazines gichbl th. given this set of facts, how do you defend against this, an attack like this? we have to take into consideration the state of nevada is an open carry state. which means what? this means anyone can carry a weapon in that state. now, you have certain prohibitions in places like casinos, for example. the casinos prohibit the carrying of firearms on the property of the casinos. so it is one of the things whereas, i want to say the con stitch up went base of that state of nevada have voted on these gun laws. and that is something they have in place. you have to understand, there s a very different dynamic in place with the state like nevada as to poopposed to new york wit densely populated municipality. they are catering the constituency base. when i check into a hotel, the man can say, ma am, can i carry your bag? i can is a, no thanks. you have access to carrying your bag to your own hotel room. so what can the hotel do to protect people? one of the recommendations i would employ is to have a mag e magnetometer only. what does that mean? when we put our bags on the ex-ra x-ray, it will check our bags. they need something to prohibit weapons inside the hotels and hotels on the strip of las vegas boulevard. that being said, that can be a start moving forward. but what i think that the las vegas police department needs to do is connect with the dallas p.d. and we remember the shooting where the officers were killed last year. that in comparison to the james, the shooting that happened back in 1966 in the clock tower on the campus of the university of texas. those are watershed moments. we need to use those and embrace them as teachable moments for law enforcement moving forward. how to fortify these types of open, i don t want to say demonstrations, but open asemblanasem assemblances of people. we need to introduce the talking points moving forward for a better fortification of people in these types the of violence. it s a teachable moment, but given the gun laws are what they are, the police can t change that. so we ll look at the geography here, what can the police do to protect themselves going forward? you can put any type of restrictions on people entering into the concert, but look at where the concert goers were and where the hotel was? all you need to do is open a window. the windows in the mandalay bay do not open. he had to use a chair or device to smash the window. so it goes back to what i said initially. the hotel can employ a system of baggage check for weapons only. because you have to take into consideration, whenever someone goes on a vacation, especially to a place like las vegas, there s an element of secrecy what you are doing there. unless you just got married, a bachelor party, bachelorette party, etc. the hotels are a best of that information, but you have to focus on the weapons only with the magnetometers as i mentioned earlier. given to where he was shooting from, 32 floors above. reporter: the elevated area is always a hard place to defend against. places like new york and times square, when the ball drops that is exactly what i have been thinking about. this is something that the nypd is going to have some level of a conference with the police department in las vegas. and they also have to extract information from dallas, when we had the shooter that killed the officers last year. so it is just an an amaemaguati. these are more and more prevalent in our society and something we have to live with. we have to stay abreast of the nuances in the police departments. would you say this is the new normal? i wouldn t say this is the new normal, it s an aberration. but that doesn t mean we shouldn t focus on preventing these types the of haacts happening. are you surprised by the number of attacks we see? do you think commissioner bratton said, i m surprised we don t see more. and that surprised me. because when i look at the frequency, when i think back whether it is columbine in 1999 or sandy hook just a few years ago, for me, it feels like we re having these all the time. and he said, no, ma am, given how easy it is to get guns in this country, it could be significantly worse. well, i m never surprised. i think from the perspective of what are the nuances we can pursue to prevent these things from moving forward, the surprise element is something emotional, but i m thinking more as a police tactician as to how can we greater protect the citizens in the united states. how hard was it for police officers last night in vegas? it was tough. one of the things we have to take into consideration is whenever you re deploying forces in the situation like this, you have to employ what we refer to as force you need to be deploying your forces if two different places. one where the actual attacker is, where he s shooting the people on the 32nd floor, but you also want to have reserve piece. that reserve piece is for the deployment in a different location. if you listen to the 911 tape, you had numerous hotels on the strip that claimed they were victims of shots fired as well. that s due to the am live case of the shots in the area. say that again. you had numerous people in the hotels on the strip making calls to stay shots were being fired in their hotel. they re not speaking from a place of conjecture. they genuinely believe the shots are being fire in the hotel they are staying in. that is based on the amplification of the shots. the police department has to focus on the deployment of the personnel at that particular location where the shots are being fired to connect with the assailant and possible deployment if there s another subject. fortunately, we only had one. all right. we ll update everyone with what we know so far. it is 10:30 a.m. here in new york city. we are covering the deadliest shooting, mass shooting in u.s. history, where at least 50 people are confirmed dead and more than 400 hurt taken to area hospitals. the victims of the worst shooting in the united states history. it all happened when a gunman opened fire on the outdoor country music festival on the 32nd floor of the mandalay bay hotel and casino. here s a photograph of the killer. nbc news just got this confirmed by a senior law enforcement official. police say this man, 64-year-old gunman stephen paddock died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound before the s.w.a.t. team members stormed into his 32nd floor how tell room. at least 10 rifles were found there and they were actively shooting his home in mesquite, nevada n a retirement community a little more than an hour away from vegas. police now say they have located the shooter s companion, marilou danley who is outside the country. police do not believe she had involvement in this deadly attack. and any minute now, we are expected to hear from president trump who will be addressing today s shooting. we already heard from president, the vice president and the white house press secretary, sarah huckabee sanders, via twitter. but we ll hear an official statement from the president any moment now. and nbc s kristen welker is at the white house are the.presidethewhere the president is about to speak. reporter: senior staffers have been in meetings throughout the morning as they respond to the tragedy in las vegas. president trump was briefed by his chief of staff, general john kelly, among others. tom bossard, the homeland security adviser, is keeping the president up-to-date and directing the fall response. which he has said was very fast. they have been working on this throughout the night, steph. the police tweeted this morning, my warmest condolences and sympathies to the victims of the terrible las vegas shooting. god bless you. this from the first lady, my heart and prayers go out to victims, families and loved ones. sarah huckabee sanders called this a horrific tragedy and stressed they are monitoring the scene from behind the walls here at the white house. the president was going to be holding a meeting with a number of governors in an hour and a half from now. that has been canceled as he will not be participate iing, a the president continues to monitor the situation. now we have heard from president trump in the wake of tragedies in the past and the wake of charlottesville and the wake of the congressional shooting that injured steve schoalise. he was significantly wounded and just returned to capitol hill last week. and we heard a somber word from the president. we are waiting for the president to speak live here. i am told primarily the police are taking precautions all around the world. i want to read something to you, malcolm. earlier our colleague tom brokaw said this. no other western nation has the number of gun deaths that we have in america. we need to talk about it. malcolm, given your expertise and experience, your understanding of terrorism, what is happening here? well, what you are seeing is a sect of an easy access to weapons inside a nation. i mean, i m a gun owner for many years, and if you are an emotionally disturbed person never hospitalized or called psychologic psychological, you don t have to be a terrorist, you just have to been an individual. the mass shooting is anyone who has more than three victims. and this year alone, we have had 273 mass shootings in 75 days. it is a crisis to some, but to others they don t view it as a wa norm. as a gun owner yourself, talk us through the type of weapons, even though we have limited information. we know there were ten guns or rifles found in the hotel room. and we know based on the sound of the shots fired that those were either semi or fully automatic weapons used. why do people buy guns like that? i worked in the middle east in the intelligence capacity. so my weapons are what we call clone weapons. i would use those to train with those. the other people would buy helmets or the m-16 rifles. we have a constitutional right to often them. but let s talk about this shooter and what he did. within 30 minutes of the shooting, si saw a live feed an it was pretty obviously that he was using an automatic rifle. you can go to this website that will show you it is expensive to get an illegal weapon. and it takes a year to get the registration and paperwork for that. so most likely the shooter was use using was you have the ability to take human life. it is as simple as that. it is as simple as that. does it surprise you, though, i mean, given we only have a very limited amount of information about the psychological profile, given what we know, aren t you surprised? i am a little surprised that this didn t happen in las vegas before. i don t know if you recall a couple years ago, that a 10-year-old girl was at an automatic shooting range outside of las vegas and couldn t control the rise of the weapon when she fired on her parents and killed the range instructor with her. you can go to the automatic weapon places in las vegas all over the place, but that doesn t mean it s going to make you a shooter. whatever is happening inside the mind of then individual, what happened that caused him to bring all of these weapons, clearly these are arsenal-type weapons. and what that leads me to believe is that this person was e notionally disturbing, thought the weapons were needed. he fired at least 300 rounds. my first count was 90 in the first minute and a half, which is very fast. but whatever was in his head, he was going there to die and to kill. in the end, he took his own life. and that does not strike me as a way terrorists who were trained and organized do it. they die in a hail of bullets in a confrontation with law enforcement. as the information flows in on the type of weapons he had, we ll get more information on his true intent. for the city of las vegas and the police department who have to manage a city that has 45 million tourists every year, that what do they do going forward? every year in january, they sponsor the shot shell. that s the industry shell. i can tell you that people buy weapons and bring weapons to their hotel room. you cannot, they do not restrict that. you can wield gun cases right up to your room. and there s no way to stop them. you can bring an ak-rifle up to your room. it is just a question of advanced intelligence. and in this story, there s an interesting component. police were looking for an associate of the shooter who allegedly came to the checkpoint and may have given a warning or a threat. up and that is law enforcement intelligence. but the city can t do anything about an individual wanting to go into a hotel room and want to carry out a massive shooting. malcolm, from your perspective, would you go to a concert tomorrow? given all the facts, what would you do? well, i mean, you can t allow terrorists and gunmen to dictate how you live your life. you know? you have to go forward. this is a society that we have, i m in europe right now, i m here actually to investigate terrorism in them using vehicles as weapons. and there s nothing you can really do but to understand that you have a law enforcement in place. you have people, almost a million policemen in the united states dedicated to keeping you safe, the real question is, if this turns out to be an emotionally disturbed person with a psychological issue or death wish, we really need to start looking at some common sense restrictions on people who may have been giving indicators they would not be competent in lawful gun owners. malcolm, thank you so much for sharing your candid views. i want to bring in now justice correspondent in the washington bureau, pete williams. pete, what can you tell us? reporter: it is clear that the gunman was firing out of two separate windows in the mandalay bay hotel on the 32nd floor. if you look at the photographs, we have taken a long lens and zoomed in to the area of the hotel where the window was busted out, you can see that one window is broken out. and you can see the curtain blowing out the window. but the second, it is obvious that just around the corner in the tower arm, a second window is blown out as well. and the law enforcement officials say that they believe that stephen paddock was firing out of both of the windows. that he had more than one room, connecting rooms or a suite with two rooms. now, in this picture, you can see the two palm trees there on the walkway. and just above the left palm tree is a black spot, a dark spot on the hotel. that s one of the broken out windows. but there is a second one just around the corner that is also broken out. so police believe that he was firing from both of those windows, basically running from one to the other. apparently, they don t know why yet, but that he was concerned that people would figure out where the shots were coming from and return fire or perhaps he just wanted to get a different vantage point. but they believe now that he was firing out of two separate windows in this hotel. and that he had connecting rooms or a suite of rooms that allowed him to do that. the second thing we have recently learned here is that law enforcement officials have been looking into his past visits. his brother said he was a frequent visitor of las vegas, liked to gamble, liked to attend the shows at the casino miss the big hotels. and we re told now by law enforcement officials looking through his financial transactions, that he s, just within the last couple of weeks, had some big transactions, some big gambling transactions, we can t tell whether they are losses or gains or wins, but tens of thousands worth of money spent on gambling in the casinos in las vegas. what connection this has to the shooting, of course, nobody knows at this point. it dill remains a mystery and what the motive was. they are still trying to go through to figure to the when he acquired the weapons and try to figure out from talking to family members, people who knew him from the up to of mesquite, where they are beginning to search his red dense. the little community of 18,000 people 80 miles away from las vegas where he was living in aretirement community around a cluster of golf courses. so we are talking to people there and trying to figure out why he did this. his brother was in orlando and was shocked. this is like a meteor falling on this family, an asteroid. the family had no idea this could happen. they just didn t think that stephen paddock was capable of this type of thing. they didn t get a sense of this, that his life didn t seem em to be spinning out of control. they said he enjoyed going to casinos and shows, but at this point, his companion and roommate was out of the country. there s no other sign there could be someone he worked with at this point. it seems like he acted alone, is that correct? reporter: yes, that s the assessment. the two windows broken out could suggest that somebody else was shooting at the time, but the investigators believe that one person was firing out of two separate places in the hotel. he was retired, do we know what he did for a living before or the life that he lived? reporter: we think we know, but frankly there s some questions here, because it s either a coincidence or a case of mistaken identity. there s two people with his name and birth date. one of them lives in mesquite, nevada. we know that is the suspect. there was a second person with the same name and birth date who also lived in another state with the last name and town as mesquite. i can t say with confidence that we know what his work history is. i do want to point that out. because earlier in the broadcast i received messages of people on twitter demanding to see the shooter, to know more, saying why are you hiding this? it is so important, when you think about the work our colleagues like pete williams are doing to get all of this information correct. because the police, law enforcement, need to be protected and don t want missing information out there. but the 400 people currently being treated in hospitals. and, or, the 50 who have already died. n they servecy receive the information they know out there. do we know anything else about the shooter s past? i know it is a carry state. reporter: no. we don t know when he acquired the rifles. we don t know if he shot at gun ranges or what his interest in firearms, whether he had any training, there doesn t appear to be, from our initial check, that he acquired any experience with firearms in the military. there s no suggestion of that. so we re how he became comfortable shooting automatic weapons, we don t know. it is amazing, last year it was june 12th, 2016, when the pulse nights club shooting took place in orlando. 49 people died, more than 50 wounded. at the time, we said, we can never let this happen again. we said the same thing after the awful shooting that took place in newtown, connecticut. we remember it, the sandy hook shooting, where 26 people were killed, predominantly young children, kindergarteners. at that moment, we said, we can never let this happen again. and here we are, 50 people confirmed dead. yes, pete? reporter: i said a moment ago we thought he worked for a defense contractor. we now have confirmed that fact. he did work for for a short tim here s the president. pete, here s the president. thank you. my fellow americans, we are joined together today in sadness, shock and grief. last night, a gunman opened fire on a large crowd at a country music concert in las vegas, nevada. he brutally murdered more than 50 people and wounded hundreds more. it was an act of pure evil. the fbi and the department of homeland security are working closely with local authorities to assist with the investigation, and they will provide updates as to the investigation and how it develops. i want to thank the las vegas metropolitan police department and all of the first responders for their courageous efforts and for helping to save the lives of so many. the speed with which they acted is miraculous and prevented further loss of life. to have found the shooter so quickly after the first shots were fired is something for which we will always be thankful and grateful. it shows what true professionalism is all about. hundreds of our fellow citizens are now mourning the sudden loss of a loved one. a parent. a child. a brother or sister. we cannot fathom their pain. we cannot imagine their loss. to the families of the victims, we are praying for you, and we are here for you. and we ask god to help see you through this very dark period. scripture teaches us the lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. we seek comfort in those words, for we know that god lives in the hearts of those who grieve. to the wounded who are now recovering in hospitals, we are praying for your full and speedy recovery and pledge to you our support from this day forward. in memory of the fallen, i have directed that our great flag be flown at half-staff. i will be visiting las vegas on wednesday to meet with law enforcement, first responders and the families of the victims. in moments of tragedy and horror, america comes together as one. and it always has. we call upon the bonds that unite us, our faith, our family and our shared values. we call upon the bonds of citizenship, the ties of community and the comfort of our common humanity. our unity cannot be shattered by evil. our bonds cannot be broken by violence. though we feel such great anger at the senseless murder of our fellow citizens, it is our love that defines us today and always will, forever. in times such as these, i know we are searching for some kind of meaning in the chaos. some kind of light in the darkness. the answers do not come easy. but we can take solace, knowing that even the darkest space can be brightened by a single light, and even the most terrible despair can be illuminated by the single ray of hope. melania and i are praying for every american who has been hurt, wounded or lost the ones they love so dearly in this terrible, terrible attack. we pray for the entire nation to find unity and peace. and we pray for the day when evil is banished and the innocent are safe from hatred and from fear. may god bless the souls of the lives that are lost. may god give us the grace of healing, and may god provide the grieving families with strength to carry on. thank you. god bless america. thank you. president trump not taking questions. ending his remarks with god bless america. calling this act pure evil. we need to work to protect the souls of the innocent whose lives were lost. he said he will be going to las vegas on wednesday to meet with law enforcement and first responders. the white house will be flying the flag at half-staff. i want to play an interview from the today show this morning. jake oewen, a country music musician who just finished performing minutes before shots rang out. he was still on the stage. take a look. thankfully, we re doing all right. unfortuna unfortunately, there s a lot who aren t. it s been a crazy evening here in las vegas. i think we re all still trying to process. jake, you had performed earlier. you were not on the stage when this happened. where were you? no, i was on the stage. i had just walked up on the stage with a couple friends of mine. including one of them being luke combs, another artist who played earlier. we were literally standing 50 feet away from where jake was on stage. all of a sudden, you heard what sounded you know, it was the thing where you were like, is that gunfire? it got faster and faster, almost like it sounded like it was an automatic rifle. you could hear it ringing off the tops of the rafters of the stage. that s when you saw people fleeing. at that point, everyone on stage just started running everywhere possible. it was pretty chaotic, for sure. where were you able to go to seek cover? unfortunately, i ran the opposite direction from where my usual shelter would be, which is my bus. it was on the opposite side of the stage. i ran like everyone else. at one point, i was crouched down behind a cop car with about 20 other people that were just, you know, people that had come to the show. everyone is asking if everyone is okay. there was blood on people. you could see a couple folks in the streets that had it looked like they d been shot, lying there. it was chaotic. it was literally like a movie. you feel like you ve seen it before and it s not real life. jake, i know when something like that happens, i can imagine that time is just really hard to even get a grasp on. but we re interested in it because it does suound like, frm other witnesses we talked to, that this went on for some time. if you had to guess how long, from when you first heard the sounds to when the shooting finally stopped, how long do you think it took to end? without overexaggerating, i would say it had to have been close to ten minutes. because it went on for a good four or five minutes before i got back to, luckily, a bus in a crew parking lot. once i got on the bus, we were hiding in the bus because you could still hear gunfire outside. so it wasn t something that just was quick. i mean, it was chaos for seven to ten minutes. were you able to get back in touch with all of your friends and fellow performers, or is there still difficulty because everybody is scattered in so many different directions? there was that for a while. i just recently my manager just got back to where i am. a friend of mine is here with her family for her 50th birthday, like a lot of other people who come to the concerts. it s what it is about, to live this freedom thanks to the men and women that fight for it for us. we tend to we live this life of not being scared, which i think is great. but, you know, this is reality these days. this stuff is really happening. we were all scared. i do think it is important to say, too, that the las vegas police department, the responders, you could tell, i mean, they did everything they could to get out here as quickly as possible and take care of these people. i think they definitely need a shoutout, as well. you know what i heard somebody, jake, earlier talk about the staff of the concert venue, the people who were working just to, you know who normally would help guide you into a concert venue. that person said that they reacted with great calm and that they really seemed to try to do everything they could to help people get out of that area. so we thank them, as well. jake, we re happy you re okay. again, we thank you for joining us on the phone this morning. i m stephanie ruhle, live at msnbc world headquarters here in new york city with continuing coverage of the deadliest mass shooting in u.s. history. [ gunshots ] what s going on? going upstairs. hand mandalay bay, shots coming from halfway up. clip after clip, bullets flying everywhere, everybody running. it was really bad. everyone said drop, and everyone dropped. we re at the suspect s door. everyone in the hallway needs to be aware and get back. we need to see if we can get a response from the guy. see if he is here or if he moved
terry anderson is free. he was the last of the american hostages held by pro-iranian terrorists in beirut, lebanon. in the beginning of the 90s terrorism was thought to be done. people likely to use terrorism to achieve political objectives were dead, in jail or part of the peace process. a syrian delegation is in washington today, ready to meet with israel to talk about middle east peace. we thought the 90s would be a time of peace. not only was the cold war over, we had won. we have before us the opportunity to forge a new world order, a world where the rule of law governs the conduct of nations. the world was changing, and it was an exciting time for those who really viewed america as the nation that would embrace globalization. but there were many people who didn t like that changing america. in maples, idaho about 40 miles from the canadian border federal marshals are surrounding a cabin, where a fugitive white supremacist named randy weaver is holed up with his family. randy weaver was a survivalist who lived out in the mountains with his family at ruby ridge, idaho. weaver was of interest to the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms because he had links to the aryan nations. and they tried to pressure him to inform on his friends in the movement, and he refused. weaver is summoned to court for a weapons charge that involves the selling of some sawed-off shotguns to law enforcement. now a force of 200 police, federal agents and the national guard have surrounded the house. this is nothing more than a show of force to scare everybody who lives up here in north idaho. we all have guns in our houses. we all have guns buried some place. northern idaho has become home for a lot of people like randy weaver who want to be away from the problems of civilization and from civilization itself. he is not a terrorist. he is not endangering anybody. everybody that knows him has talked about him as a good, loving christian family man. never before has northern idaho witnessed this kind of fire power from the federal government. there is a shoot-out in which weaver s 14-year-old son sammy, a dog and a u.s. marshal all ended up dead. an fbi sharpshooter shot his wife dead while she was carrying the baby in her arms. fbi agents are trained to shoot only to protect themselves or others. the rules of engagement for ruby ridge were rewritten. decisions were made within the fbi that allowed the snipers to shoot at anyone who was armed. it was completely unjustifiable. put a bullet in my head! hey, i ll make it easy. ill turn my back on you. not everyone who lives around here says randy weaver is in the right. but they say none of this would have happened if federal authorities had just left him alone. ruby ridge was not a story that was on the front page of national newspapers. most people didn t know about it at all, but it actually did energize the radical right. the siege ended at 12:15 when randall weaver and his three children walked off the mountain after 11 days. there is all this tremendous ferment that is arising after the end of the cold war. this mind-set that the united states government is the enemy breeds almost the decade of violence. in langley, virginia today, right outside cia headquarters, a young man with a rifle opened fire on a number of people who were in their cars. no one would ever think that a situation like a shooting of cia personnel would happen on their front doorstep. the shooter escapes. two cia employees were shot to death in virginia. a pakistani suspect is reported to be back in pakistan. they figured out his name, aamir kazi. but they don t know where to peg him. who is he working for? what organization? in the 1970s, we were dealing with terrorist groups. in this case there was no group that could be identified. this was the actions of one single individual. we did not realize that terrorism seemed to be moving in a new direction. [ sirens ] a mysterious explosion underground has spread smoke and terror throughout the gigantic world trade towers today. at 18 minutes after noon, something terrible happened here in lower manhattan. counterterrorism sources tell cnn they now suspect the explosion was caused by a car bomb. the bombing was designed to bring down the north tower and the north tower then falling into the south tower. that did not, of course, collapse the towers. but it did kill six people and injure over 1,000 more. i was very concerned. anything like that, any accident, tragedy, anything of moment you feel it very personally. i think it s most amazing is that more people weren t killed, especially having occurred at the hour it did and in the place that it did. president clinton had just come into office. i was in new york as the ambassador of the united nations. there s no way to fully explain how all of a sudden the mood changed. i ll put the full resources of the federal government, every law enforcement information resource we can put to work on this, we have. i m very concerned about it. federal officials are beginning to focus more heavily on the possibility of the explosion being the work of foreign terrorists. the 1993 world trade center bombing was a signal of how the extremist war that had been limited largely to the middle east was coming to the american shores. tonight, six days after the bombing at the world trade center, one suspect is in custody. more arrests are said to be coming. the investigators found the vin number of the ryder truck, and it turned out that one of the collaborators had returned there to ask for his $400 deposit back. authorities have told abc news that the man has links to a radical muslim group. they managed to capture most of the accomplices but the mastermind, ramzi yousef, fled. ramzi yousef is smart and he is radicalized. his uncle is khalid sheikh mohammed. a man who had later become a leader in an organization called al-qaeda. i have 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been buying parts that would convert semiautomatic weapons to fully automatic weapon, which were illegal. the atf decided it was time to go in. take the shot. get the hell out of here! four federal agents died in the sunday morning shootout there in texas. 16 others were wounded. almost 100 heavily armed cult members remain inside this sprawling compound. cult leader david koresh says the standoff will continue until god tells him to come out. koresh proclaimed himself to be a prophet. the tribune began to publish a series of articles about what they called the sinful messiah, who loves music and who will drink a beer with you, and who also happens to have sex with underaged girls and has a lot of weapons. it makes nobody s business whether we have a gun or not. guns are the right of americans to have. cult members continue fortifying their compound, an indication there is no plan to surrender any time soon. the showdown moves into its 18th day. this is day 20 of the standoff. this was day 32. negotiations between the cult and fbi agents have stalled. it was all waco all the time. every newscast, every newspaper, every radio newscast is filled with this showdown. david koresh becomes a household name, and many people are inspired by him. he is taking it to the u.s. government. he is not going to stand down. and people drive to waco to show their support. things had reached a point partly because of the publicity that something had to give right away. an update on the 51-day standoff. early this morning armored vehicles entered cult leader david koresh s compound and began punching large holes in the walls. a decision was made to inject cx gas, a kind of tear gas on steroids. all america along with all of law enforcement on the scene is waiting for people to come out. suddenly, out of one of the second floor windows, flames burst forth. and as you can see, it looks like at this point the entire compound is just engulfed. i have never in my life seen anything burn that way. it just went up in this massive fireball. there are no signs at this point of any people coming out of the building. the images are horrible. you had the federal government of the united states using a tank to deal with a compound that has children. it s not what we do in the united states. and yet in many ways the clinton administration felt that koresh had left them no alternative. the offender there was david koresh. and i do not think the united states government is responsible for the fact that a bunch of fanatics decided to kill themselves. and i m sorry that they killed their children. it was proved later that the davidians lit that building on fire themselves. but there were literally millions of americans who absolutely believed that the government had murdered those people. this whole situation started with violence. it was not justified, not provoked when the atf went in there. and it ended in violence that was not justified and not provoked. waco was proof positive to many people that this was an aggressive, predatory federal government and now we have to fight back, like the minutemen in 1776 to bear arms to defend their own rights. this is the michigan militia, a self-proclaimed fighting force of ordinary citizens preparing to defend themselves against the federal government. you will be receiving live fire over your heads this morning. there s also an armed militia here in indiana, and at least 20 other states. we d always had a radical right. but in the 90s it really entered the mainstream. gun shows became an extremely important venue, not just for selling guns, but they re selling real life nazi literature along with survivalist handbooks and all that kind of thing. so you re prepared for a conflict with the federal government? yes, we are prepared to defend our homes, our families, our children, our lives, our property, yes. americans are largely ignorant of what s happening in the heartland with regard to this militia movement. and there is an extremist element of this which would not have been on anybody s radar. and that s what made them so dangerous. we do have a special report from nbc news. there has been a massive explosion at a federal building in oklahoma city, oklahoma. we have no way to tell at the moment how many casualties there are. the explosion felt 35 miles away. rescue workers are desperately trying to save any remaining lives. you can see the side of the building is all down. on april 19th when i got to oklahoma city, the building was still on fire, and a whole lot of cars around the building that had also exploded. it was unbelievable. amid the horror of the bombing it s the dead and wounded children that have stunned and angered the nation. the motive behind the madness is unknown at this hour. the governor of oklahoma says two things are known for sure. those who did this knew what they were doing, and whoever did it, the governor said, is some kind of animal. i am pleased to announce one of the individuals believed to be responsible for wednesday s terrible attack in oklahoma city has been arrested. timothy mcveigh, aged 27. the shock around the country was huge. this was an act of terrorism by one of our own citizens. a second man was charged today with blowing up the federal building. terry nichols, who has been in custody since just after the bombing. timothy mcveigh and terry nichols had met in the army. mcveigh had fought in the first persian gulf war. he left the military very, very disillusioned. the one thing that sustained him was his reading about the radical far right and meeting like-minded people. timothy mcveigh s plot to blow up the federal building took shape over the course of a secret year-long odyssey. he visited militia groups throughout the country. he went to the waco compound when it was under siege. on april 19th, two years to the date after the waco incident, oklahoma city was bombed. mr. president, there are tens, maybe more tens of thousands of men and women dressing up on weekends in military garb going off for training because they re upset about waco. despite what you say, we re talking about thousands and a group of people in this country who are furious at the federal government. well, they have a right to believe whatever they want. they have a right to say whatever they want. they have a right to keep and bear arms. they have a right to put on uniforms and go out on the weekends. they do not have the right to kill innocent americans. they do not have the right to violate the law. it s not like you can go to war against domestic terrorism. they re ours. this was our problem. we still don t know how much hate is growing now near other scrubbed farmhouses in other trailer parks. that is how many others there are just like him. s. master.pass? yes! masterpass! pass! pass! was it expensive? priceless. masterpass by mastercard. the modern way to pay. blue moon is brewed mwith valencia orange peel, for a taste that shines 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[ siren ] a mail bomb explodes inside the california forestry association building. the killer known as the unabomber says he will stop mailing package bombs if the newspapers will publish his political theories. when we received the manifesto, we felt very strongly that we should publish this. we think someone out there will actually recognize these words. the industrial revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. so begins a surprising eight-page addition to the washington post this morning. someone does recognize these crazed writings and turns him into the authorities. the longest and most intense manhunt in history has zeroed in on a prime suspect just outside lincoln, montana. the big concern was are there booby traps? are there explosives on the property? so we had to be very careful. we were knocking on the door of the cabin. he started to close the door and say let me get my coat and come out. and as he did that, one of the agents pushed the door in. and on the morning of april 3rd, theodore kaczynski was taken out of his cabin. are you the unabomber? fbi agents today searched the home of a 53-year-old former mathematics instructor named theodore kaczynski. the on-site investigation has yielded a cache of evidence. it was the most incredible moment. we knew this long journey of 18 years was over. mike wallace and i together on 60 minutes interviewed the family, who had turned him in. i was feeling something that i didn t really expect to feel at all, which was a deep sense of unease, fear. because of what you read? because of what i read. because it sounded like ted? because it sounded like him that i could not say to myself or to linda that this is not ted s writing. what can you do? you can t risk more lives. dave couldn t. none of us could. apparently some lives were saved. but when the fbi arrested ted kaczynski, they say they found a live bomb wrapped under his bed, ready for mailing. the only thing missing was a name and address. get your usa flags, everybody needs to have a flag. three for one! hats, t-shirts. in july, 1996 when the olympics were being hosted in atlanta, there was a tremendous concern about terrorist attacks. the security for the park was carefully coordinated. it s all taking place in the midst of security that america of an earlier generation could not have imagined. the extra police, the extra surveillance, people searching their bags, they re willing to put up with that. nobody here is complaining about that, and that s the point. there was one place officials decided people should be able to go and not have to worry about checkpoints. and that was centennial park. this morning thousands at an open air rock concert in centennial park. all of a sudden i felt a big boom, blast, heat came and it knocked me off the wall, blew my pants off. up the street! everybody needs to move up the street. authorities said the device appeared to be a pipe bomb with nails and screws designed to penetrate human flesh. more than 100 people have been injured. two are dead. before this device explodes, security guard richard jewell notices a backpack, alerts a law enforcement officer and they begin to evacuate the area. if not for his quick thinking, there probably would have been many more casualties. jewell was praised as a hero after the incident, even praised by president clinton for his swift action. the only thing i wish we could have done is got everybody out of the area. fbi has a suspect. read all about it. almost immediately richard jewell was suspected. they thought he actually set the bomb so he could be the hero. did you do it? no, sir, i didn t do it. the fbi agents arrived at jewell s apartment early this morning, armed with a search warrant. agents brought in a dog and an evidence truck. in the hurly-burly of trying to understand what had happened, richard jewell became the face of the olympic park bombing until it was made clear he wasn t, but by then a lot of damage had been done. despite their interest, they had not found any physical evidence linking him to the crime scene. in their mad rush to fulfill their own personal agendas, the fbi and the media almost destroyed me and my mother. jewell was fed to the world s media wolves, and the wolves obligingly fed on him for days. it was as if he was offered up to us in the hopes that the blood we draw would somehow help solve the crime. if richard jewell was no longer a suspect, who planted the pipe bomb? to be continued. to show drip coffee drinkers, it s time to wake up to keurig. wakey! wakey! rise and shine! oh my gosh! how are you? well watch this. i pop that in there. press brew. that s it. so rich. i love it. that s why you should be a keurig man! full-bodied. are you sure you re describing the coffee and not me? 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well, sure, i think he is. i think it s part of his hide-and-seek game. and he thinks he is winning? he is winning. in the end, he got caught in a sort of pathetic little moment where he is rummaging around in a dumpster looking for something to eat, and some local rookie cop arrests him. there was kind of unbelievable quality to all of this. eric rudolph was part of this internal terrorist moment. it s like a worm that was eating away inside of us. welcome back, everybody. we want to bring you up to date on a breaking story out of suburban denver. apparently there s been a school shooting at a high school in the town of littleton. the 90s bring us the first mass school shootings. there s something especially disturbing about premeditated murder by young people. police and law enforcement are descending upon columbine high right now. they do believe at least two people are inside with multiple automatic weapons, and perhaps some pipe bombs. we ve heard unconfirmed again from police. hit local tv very quickly. i happened to see this on television and got in my car. i saw a ring of choppers like vultures circling, and i knew instantly this was so much worse than i had imagined. masked gunmen in trench coats start shooting into the school s cafeteria. kids scatter. shots ring off lockers and walls. students are hit. and they re spraying. just starts shooting. anybody that was walking, talking, it didn t matter. boom, they were shot. they didn t care. you have blood on your hands. everyone around me got shot. and i begged him for ten minutes not to shoot me. it was horrific. it was beyond unthinkable. and yet we were watching it as it happened. you can see in the upper part of your screen, a student, a badly bloodied student hanging out a window. second floor says i m bleeding to death. the emotion was incredible. it s hard for a parent to see the parents who came. they went through the school shooting classmates, shooting teachers. 13 people died and 28 were injured. the police had arrived. they didn t want to be arrested. so they took their own lives. tomorrow morning s denver post identifies the two suspects as 18-year-old eric harris and 17-year-old dylan klebold. both reportedly died of self-inflicted gunshot wounds. local authorities search the homes of the two boys and say they found the makings for pipe bombs and other explosive devices. the gruesome but all too familiar denouement begins. the search for motivation, the calls for tighter gun control, the counseling sessions at school, and the endless, endless grief. there have been school shootings before. but never one quite like this. it put the school shooting in a whole new and darker category. it also raised a flood of questions of what is happening to our youth. i believe some of these kids are drifting deeper and deeper and deeper into rock music, violence, and that subculture. the biggest question is why do they do it. they were completely different people, opposite personalities and opposite motives. dylan was suicidally depressed. he really wanted to die. eric harris was the ringleader. he wanted to show how powerful he was. on his internet page, harris wrote pipe bombs are some of the easiest and deadliest ways to kill a group of people. columbine wasn t really intended as a school shooting. it was primarily intended as a bombing. they were inspired by the oklahoma city bombing. they hope they d would kill as many as 500 people. in the end, a lot of their homemade bombs did not detonate. school bells have an ominous ring to them. is it about to happen in our schools? 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the arrogance of the united states regime has reached the point that they occupied arabia, the holiest place of the muslims, who are more than a billion people in the world today. what are your future plans? you ll see them and hear about them in the media. god willing. on the 8th anniversary of the u.s. deployment in saudi arabia, osama bin laden s forces bombed two american embassies in grosso. the building behind the embassy crumbled into a tangled mass of steel, a passing bus, its windows blown out, people on board, blown up. almost simultaneously, 450 miles away, another deadly blast, the target, tanzania. the attacks become the hallmark of al qaeda demonstrating its power. the death toll now stands at 210, 5,000 people were injured. this attack was very sophisticated, very coordinated. this was an enemy we re not prepared for. overseas to the, the secretary of state spent time there. i went to kenya to see what had happened. we began to trace the facts to osama bin laden. we will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for. osama bin laden s group is suddenly a real player, and the clinton administration decides to do something about it. american military forces struck targets overseas in sudan and afghanistan. the unmanned tomahawk missile was aimed at sending appointed message to osama bin laden. we have quietly disrupted terrorist groups and filoilfoil their plots. but there have been times when our national security and administration have been challenged and we must take steps to protect our citizens. within minutes after the attacks in sudan, some were openly questioning the timing of it. it was where a president fakes the war to distract from news of his sexual dalliances. there were many who believed that clinton was trying to distract the americans from the shiny object, which he did with attacks, he would not authorize the attacks unless the information was absolutely perfect because he anticipated that criticism. we came within yards literally of taking out osama bin laden himself. and he got away obviously. well, you know by happenstance, luck. the war, with the united states, every second, of every day, he tells nbc news his terror network now operates in 50 countries, training camps in 20. you have an enemy that is completely emorphous, they can be in london, saudi arabia, paris. anywhere. life s as big as you make it. i tabut with my back paines, i couldn t sleep and get up in time. then i found aleve pm. aleve pm is the only one to combine a safe sleep aid plus the 12 hour pain relieving strength of aleve. i m back. aleve pm for a better am. there are people in this what is the fear of osama bin laden today? if in fact he is trying to mount another attack and all the intelligence senior analysts have said publicly before congress and on television that they believe he is, then you end up moving towards american symbols, corporate symbols, or tourism. or america stateside. by the end of the decade, the american and other foreign intelligence agencies were very much on guard. the chatter on intercepts was that the turn of a century or in this case a millennium, this would be a great opportunity to be memorable. there s not a man in custody, a man who came across the canadian border headed for seattle with a trunk load of explosives and timing devices. authorities say the suspect arrives at port angeles, washington aboard a car ferry, but he is nervous, acting suspiciously. it was a border guarded in washington state. she stopped the man who was the driver and asked if she could look into his trunk. authorities fear he was part of a plot to launch a new year s eve attack and that he was not acting alone. there may be a connection to saudi born terrorist osama bin laden. but as one u.s. official worries tonight, there s still a lot we don t know the. he was a new kind of terrorist. in the past, al qaeda operatives have been given very specific orders and direct targeting instructions. ahmed ressam is given $12,000 in seed money. he s told to raise the rest of your funds, recruit your own cell and bomb whatever you want. two quart jars of nitroglycerin and chemical jars filled with urea were found in the trunk. the ingredients were the same as the ingredients used in the bottoming of new york. in the bombing of new york. he gets stopped. even though the authorities appear to have gotten their man, the threat may not yet can be over. we ended the decade with a clear perception now that we were engaged with a terrorist organization that had declared war on us and was determined to carry out more attacks. his interest is in achieving a large body count. that is the reality of today s terrorism. fears of sabotage have also prompted tighter security at airports, border crossings, utilities and tunnels in many states. abc news released results today from a poll that asked how concerned are you about the possibility of a domestic attack. 73% said they weren t worried. the challenge is sustaining counter-terrorism as a policy priority. we shouldn t lose vigilance after january 1. we need to sustain these efforts because the terrorists often takes the path of least resistance and strikes when and where we least expect them to. the government and security people all over the country have to be lucky every day. terrorists have to be lucky only once. if you look back at the 90s in their totality, there was a lot of violence going on in the united states on american soil. seeing the 1990s and looking at major pivot points, columbine, the shooting in schools, in colorado, the bombing in oklahoma city, the davidian compound in waco were indicative of something deep within the country. something dark was moving in this society. as the year 2000 approaches, groups that track the nation s militias say hatred of the government and fear of martial law are growing. it s hard to think of any decade that comes close to the 1990s in terms of the number and the enormity of the attacks directed and designed to get back at the u.s. government. these very powerful subterranean forces were marshalling their strength to really plunge us into a new era of violence in the new little millennium. it was bad enough when all this horror happened somewhere else but now that the world has become a global village, there is not somewhere else anymore. look out america. terrorism has come home. i think we are in for a long time. you know things like this. of things like this. this is the new the war, the battles of the end of this century and the beginning of the next one. and this country, when we put our mind to it, whether it was the first world war, the second world war or the cold war. we have an enemy. and the enemy are the terrorists who do not believe in what we do, open societies and freedom. who are out to kill innocent people and we have to understand that this is a sustained effort a new breeze is blowing and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn. a column of tanks is heading towards the russian parliament. there is no place for lawless aggression in the new world order that we seek to create. unemployment will be growing again by election day. i will not sell out to anybody but to the american people. i believe with all my heart that together we can rekindle that american dream. the day of the dictator is over.
we are learning more what led up to that deadly assault. this comes against the backdrop over the controversy of a condolence call that the chief of staff tried to put to when and make last night. chief white house correspondent john roberts starts its ore from the north lawn. senator john mccain had complained loudly last week that the senate is not getting the information it deserves about military operations in niger, and he s prepared to do whatever it takes to get it. under the threat of a subpoena for information on the niger attacks, secretary of defense james mattis marched over to senator john mccain s office in an effort to open the lines of communication. we were not given a sufficient amount of information and we are clearing that out. we can do better at communication, we can always improve on to munication. that s exactly what we will do. he also met with mccain swingman, senator lindsey graham. this war is getting hot in places where it s been cool. neither senator nor secretary she had any more like what happened in the deaths of four american soldiers in niger. american sources tell fox news that the attacks against the u.s. forces team began around 11:00 in the morning africa time. the meeting had with village elders went longer than expected, which gave militants time to organize. armed french aircraft responded, did not fire. the daily briefing, white house wouldn t broach the subject of niger. the president and the nation are grateful for the four american heroes and we won t rest until we get some answers. the white house modified its criticism of democratic congas from an frederica wilson who listened in on the president s conference the widow of that year victim sergeant ladavid johnson, during her 2015 dedication speed a video of that speech shows wilson didn t talk at all about funding, though she did talk about fast tracking the naming of the building the two agents killed in a shoot-out. the president signed the bill into law these past two weeks, april 7th, 2015, with a bang, bang, bang! as general kelly pointed out, if you re able to make a sacred act all about yourself, you are an empty barrel. under heated questioning of kelly s recollection, the press secretary appeared to have warned a war reporter not to challenge kelly that s up to you. if you want to get in a debate with a four star marine general, i think that s , uh, highly inappropriate. president trump s one public appearance, with the u.n. secretary general. an interview with fox business is maria bartel, expects blowback from democratic leaders on tax reform. here s the thing. schumer i like schumer. but before he even knows the plans, he doesn t even know what the plan is and he s screaming. he did it with health care. he said, this is for the rich, it s not going to get your coverage. the president also dismissed the notion that bickering with members of his own party like senator bob corker is hindering his agenda. sometimes it helps, to be honest with you. we ll see what happens in the end. sometimes i think it helps, sometimes it gets people doing what they are supposed to be doing. and that is the way it is. on tax reform, the president today he said he does support another tax rate for the richest americans. that will increase the number of tax brackets up to five. bret, saying still current than the current eight. bret: president trump promising the biggest tax cuts in american history. the dow comes after senate passes a budget that clears the way for congressional republicans to try to muscle the tax plans past reluctant democrats. republican leadership and the administration still hopes to woo at least at least a few democrats to to a tax cut plan. mike emanuel has the latest tonight. for republican leaders on capitol hill, it is all systems go on tax reform. if this was passed to taxpayers, we wouldn t be doing this. this is about luring people s taxes in the middle class. president trump singled on twitter he s ready to go, writing, this now allows the passage for large-scale tax cuts and reform which will be the biggest in the history of our country for the senate approved the 2018 budget late last night 51-49 with kentucky senator rand paul the only republican voting against it. we have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to replace a failing tax code that holds americans back with one that actually works for them. paul tweeted this morning, i m all in for tax cuts. the biggest, boldest cuts possible and soon. it s quite likely that the senate will approve what the congress sends over to avoid a time-consuming conference, and hoping that will lead to passing tax reform by thanksgiving. this gives us a timetable to get it to the president s desk by the end of the year. we think america is falling behind, people are sick of this tax code. it s time to move. there s a sense of urgency in the senate as well with two of the 50 republicans dealing with health issues. john mccain and thad cochran. there s also the wild card of the election to fill the alabama senate seat. in a recent fox news poll, republican roy moore was tied with the democratic opponent doug jones. democrats are already attacking the tax proposal. lower the tax rate on big operations and at the top 1%, repeal the estate tax, which only goes to estates of over $5 million, and eliminates critical it ll class tax breaks like state and local deductibility. senator lindsey graham is offering a minimum wage increase, phasing it into $10.10 per hours, arguing businesses can absorb it as long as the taxes are cut. graham suggests they could win back over and some democrats if they raise the minimum wage and cut taxes, that could help make the case for looking out for the little guy. bret: u.s. bank syrian forces are claiming victory over isis terrorist in raqqa. there are concerns who comes next and what fills in the vacuum in syria. celebrations in the heart of raqqa as he was back forces recaptured the isis capital, more than three years since the terror group took over. syrian democratic forces made up of kurdish and arab militias, have taken up the main square where isis tortured, murdered, and crucified anyone who opposed them. isis covered its caliphate and plotted attacks against the west from the city. the loss is a huge blow. raqqa was the capital, the head of the snake, the capital of this evil cult, and the fall of raqqa is really significant news. of the says 80% of the city has been totally destroyed in the liver relentless four month air campaign. it may take months more to clear all the ied s from its industry. 400,000 people have fled living in camps. thousands have been killed, but it s not just the physical stars that need healing. the political and social reconstruction is as important as the physical reconstruction. you have tensions brewing between the kurds, who basically liberated the city, and the local residents. the next target for the anti anti-isis for its remnants of leadership have gone. everybody now expects that by losing its capital, isis as a territorial force is almost totally defeated. today, secretary tillerson warned by this threat was no means over, and many conditions that allowed isis to grow strong in the first place still remain. the syrian conflict, growing sectarianism, so many people are actually asking what form the terror group will take next. bret? bret: benjamin hall in london. back here at home, former attorney general laura lynch went to capitol hill, interested in what she knows about several issues, including the hillary clinton email investigation which her department ran last year. catherine herridge was there for her arrival. on capitol hill for the congressional russia investigation, former attorney general loretta lynch could not escape questions about the clinton email case. attorney general lynch, can you address any of the issues raised by directors to comey during his testimony before the senate intelligence committee? after he was fired in may by president trump, fbi director comey suspected that lynch was politicizing the email case, telling him to use language that downplayed the criminal investigation. at one point, the attorney general directed me at one point not to call it an investigation, but call it a matter, which confused and concerned me. attorney general lynch, did you seek permission from anyone in the white house. lynch also endured questions about the 2016 carmack meeting one week before hillary clinton s fbi interview. she said the incident drove the fbi s findings about the justice department input. not picking the attorney general loretta lynch, who i like very much. but her meeting with president clinton on the airplane was the capper for me. an issue that came up earlier this week. do you know if there was a phone call between the former attorney general miss lynch and the white house regarding whether or not she should take a meeting with former president clinton on the tarmac? no. the inquiry could probably be directed to the deputy of the attorney general. in a separate development, the firm behind the controversial trump dossier fusion gps went to court, seeking a preliminary injunction to block a subpoena issued by republican chairman devon unions for the bank records. earlier this week, two gps fusion employees took the fifth on capitol hill, refusing to explain the dossier sources and who paid for it. the senate intelligence committee confirms that next week s public s testimony for president trump s personal attorney michael cohen has been postponed. the asportation is it will happen in the very near future. bret? catherine, thank you. an update and what we told you last night. a federal appeals court says an illegal immigrant teenager in texas who wants an abortion must be allowed to have one. the court says the minor must be released from government custody to a sponsor. pro-life advocates argue that this could open the door for the u.s. providing abortions to minors who would seek to cross the border illegally solely for that purpose. right now, the 17-year-old girl is being housed in a federally funded shelter, which is probably skewed for minors in the u.s. illegally. the federal budget deficit rose to $666 billion in the just completed 2017 fiscal year. that s according to numbers released by the treasury department and the white house budget office today. that is in the $80 billion jump from last year s deficit. the numbers come as the trump administration plans record-setting tax cuts it hopes will boost the economy. speaking of the economy, the dow surged 166 today for a new record close. the s&p 500 was up 13. the nasdaq gained a 24. for the week, the dow was up two percentage points for the s&p 500 gained almost 1. the nasdaq picked up one-third. the construction industry already overworked is even worse shape tonight after three major hurricanes this summer. correspondent lucian kenya reports from one of the areas where the workers shortage is especially severe in littleton, colorado. we ve already got a volatile super pressurized, super stretched industry. having natural disasters added to the pressure. even before three hurricanes and the california fires, the association of general contractors projected for every five retiring skilled construction workers, only one enters the trade. i m already getting questions about how we are going to rebuild this city. as communities begin to repair or replace the hundreds of thousands of homes either lost or damaged, there is a pricing labor shortage and more workers migrate. born out of the good of their heart or because a higher pay rate, that s really going to slow things down across the nation too. in the denver area, new home construction completion is being pushed back 3-6 months. it slows the whole process down which slows all parts of the economy. four by eight. we don t have tens. the construction industry is taking it upon itself to help fund the colorado homebuilding academy, which offers a free construction skills boot camp for people who pledge to go into the trade, like hairstylist angie mckevitt. you get tools on the first day, great hands-on opportunities, and i m really excited. we are doing this not only for us, but for the whole industry. the ceo of oakwood homes patrick hamel says the surprise situation is not nearly as bad as labor, but it s looming. which is why he s stockpiling. we ve increased supply in our facilities from 35 days to approximately 125 days, just so we make sure we have the materials. even with materials, someone has to put them together. according to the bureau of labor statistics, 200,000 construction jobs are currently open across the country. bret? bret: alecia, thank you. the secretary-general of the united nations met with president trump today at the white house. i just wish you luck, because the potential that you have is really tremendous. good luck. thank you very much. i need all of the luck. you need luck and you need it now. bret: the secretary general joins us in the studio next. my exclusive interview when we come back. in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. the name to remember. bret: welcome back to special report. there are many problems, obviously, all around the world. a man who knows about the world and what the world is dealing with is the u.n. secretary-general. he joins us now. antonio guterres, thank you very much for being here. is a great pleasure to be here. bret: tell us what you think is the most pressing issue on the world stage. is that north korea? north korea is the most pressing in the sense that for the first time after the cold war, there is a nuclear threat. we forgot the nuclear threat for that case. i mean, it was very present in the cold war, the cuban missile crisis, and other moments where there was a nuclear threat. we forgot all of this. and now, for the first time, we feel there isn t nuclear threat. because of that, it is clearly the most dramatic prices we ve faced. bret: we ve seen a couple of unanimous u.n. security council resolutions that obviously are pinpointing certain elements of north korea. do you think the world is speaking in one voice with this threat, including china and russia, for example? i think the world has spoken with one voice from the point of view with the security council resolutions. but the interpretations each country gives to the same sentences is not necessarily the same. it s a very serious problem. the world must be united in making clear to north korea that denuclearization of the korean peninsula is absolutely essential and it must be achieved. bret: what is your take of the trump administration s call for reform at the u.n. and the president s words when he was up at the u.n. general assembly? the formation of the since my first day. i was in the hcr for ten years working with refugees, and i m quite proud when i arrived in the headquarters post of 14% when it left, i was at six persons. we were able to deliver much more to the people in need all over the world. i want the whole world to be able to do the same. so my main injective coming to new york was very formal of the united nations. i believe what the world needs today is a stronger my effective united nations, and a stronger, effective united states. the two being able to work together on problems like the ones we mentioned in north korea but also the situation in the mr, syria, libya, or the iranian nuclear question, for all of those questions to be able to solve. we need to be sure that we put people before bureaucracies, we put delivering before processes. there are 93 countries. there is a tendency, always, for the bureaucracy to bloat. we have to be able to make sure that we need to be centralized, to make the organization more nimble. and certainly to be able to respond to the escalations and to the concerns of the people. we cover in light of world news on special special report. we have covered the situation in the emr, or burma i have to say that i ve been going to myanmar since i was high commissioner for refugees. i ve never seen in the world communities are discriminated as the rohingya. you have the overwhelming villages burned to the ground. you have people kicked out to flee. we have a whole group now almost 600,000 people that have to move to bangladesh to protect their lives. now this is a tragedy. it s absolutely acceptable. we have asked for military operations to stop. apparently, they have stopped, but myanmar vigilantes burning villages. this is a risk that goes beyond myanmar. because this population has been dramatically discrimination discriminated. this is a muslim population. it s so easy for da esh, so easy for al qaeda to say, look, why don t you join us to revenge your community? when muslim communities, the way they are being treated in myanmar, you are creating the conditions to prosper for the prosperity of organizations, terrorist organizations, like da esh or al qaeda. for the international community as a whole, not only to protect rohingyas, but to protect itself. i have to say, the, the united nations has tremendous potential. it hasn t been used over the years nearly as it should be. bret: finally, what is your message to president trump? my main message is the following: we live in a messy world. we see a look at the location of complex more and more interrelated, more related to global security. this new form of global terrorism. terrorism is no longer something here and there. it s a network, everywhere, using the internet. with lone wolf liver list that is appeared anywhere, not even being predictable. and in this world, i believe the engagements of the united states is essential. i understand when the president says america first, when i was prime minister of portugal, i always put portugal first. but the best way to protect americans, in my opinion, is to engage in international relations very actively. not to be the policeman of the world. i think those times have gone. it s different, more actors, but we cannot afford not to have a stronger engage united states with its values of freedom, democracy, of human rights, absent in addressing, together and with other actors, the dramatic problems of our time. bret: secretary-general, we appreciate your time. thank you very much. a great pleasure to be here. bret: a chicago teacher is mindlessly gunned down in a drive by shooting. reaction and pointing anger is at city leaders. that s next from chicago. lease the 2017 nx turbo for $299 a month for 36 months. experience amazing at your lexus dealer. and her new mobile wedding business.tte at first, getting paid was tough. until she got quickbooks. now she sends invoices, sees when they ve been viewed and-ta-dah-paid twice as fast for free. visit quickbooks-dot-com. there was an old woman who lived in a shoe. she had so many 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pushed to pass a bill into cracking down on repeat gun offenders. but so far, there s been no major drop in shootings or murders. correspondent matt finn is in chicago tonight. president trump and attorney general jeff sessions have called help mayor of rahm emanuel s and administration for not stopping the chicago bloodshed. the criticism is now coming from within. the city s own inspector general blasting his fellow city leaders. a scathing op-ed plastered on the blacked out front page of the chicago sun-times . the op-ed, written by the city s own inspector general joe ferguson. he blasts mayor rahm emanuel welcome of the city council, and the chicago police department, for not putting a stop on chicago s year-long violent crime and murder epidemic, let s admit what we all know, the city does not have a copperheads of crime strategy. we desperately need one, and a leader to make it a reality. ferguson calls out the chicago police department and it superintendent eddie johnson, writing in part, epd s low clearance rate, 25% of homicides, and less than 25% of nonfatal shooting is a time initially below any respectful national standard. if he doesn t deliver or it doesn t have a good reason connected to a good plan, that they can pull his service and show the door. also writes, they need to show up because his office released an audit that cpd is burning tens and millions of dollars due to the function. he is fiery op-ed is in response to the murder of an innocent 64-year-old schoolteacher who was shot and killed while walking to dinner with her husband last week. her senseless death rocked the city. the man appointed by the mayor himself is firing back. joe ferguson, chicago s inspector general, the client our author for an on camera interview today. police superintendent eddie johnson responded to the scathing op-ed, saying in part, the inspector general s anger over a tragic loss is right, but his commentary, as a public official, is wrong and the door is open if the inspector general wants to actually learn about crime strategy. mayor rahm emanuel s office has not responded to our request for feedback on the scathing accusations. bret: matt finn in chicago. thanks. three years ago, malaysia airlines flight mh-370 disappeared with 239 people on board on a trip from kuala lumpur to beijing, china. recently, phil stone asked us on facebook, what ever happened to the plane that disappeared over australia? the disappearance of mh-370 remains one of the greatest aviation mysteries of all time. but it may not be forever. correspondent doug mckelway reports tonight on whatever happened to mh-370? since it disappeared, tantalizing evidence like this flapper rod and other confirmed pieces found on reunion island east of madagascar have revealed little. and only served to remind of the indian ocean s strong currents and inhospitable vastness. going forward, the question is really going to be who was going to continue to fund this shirt? water recovery can be extremely expensive. but i would absolutely say the private sector can bring resources and new techniques and technologies forward to. a private company is doing just that. ocean infinity, which specializes in state of the mark remotely piloted vehicles finalizing a contract and it would be paid only if it finds the wreckage. even absent a cause, this parent has led to calls for new safety changes. for most of which sending real-time data from planes in flight. technology can say where the nearest starbucks is but we ve got to staff some of that satellite based technology to aircraft. the impediments are huge. flight data recorders, which once compiled six data points, now compile hundreds. and while airliners can easily download satellite data for internet and tv, uploading data requires pinpoint accuracy from a fast-moving plane. multiply that across a sky full of planes, and it taxes band with and airline budgets. i think you start with the premise that you want this technology if you want to evolve with respect to airplanes, out of radar contact for long periods of time. that is transoceanic flights. one of the many theories of what brought the plane down is fire. in fact, the faa is urging the world s airlines to ban large laptops from checked luggage because of the potential for lithium battery fires. mh-370 was carrying 487 pounds of lithium ion batteries in its cargo hold. bret? bret: doug, thank you. if there is a story you are curious about, what ever happened to it, let me know on facebook, twitter, instagram. we will look into it. we will use your question on the show. up next, the panel on learning new facts about the niger ambush. first, let s hear from our fox affiliates. fox 25 in boston as old ironside takes another voyage, the newly refurbished uss constitution sales from charlestown navy yard in boston to fort independence on castle island. the world s or its commission warship is helping the u.s. navy celebrated its 246 birthday. fox 13 in tampa is a man who says the police say he had an arsenal in his home. and information about local schools send for a mental health evaluation. authority is a duke had an ak-47, 12 gauge shotgun, and other weapons. also had a promising, troubling note promising revenge on the world. this is alive look from san francisco on the affiliate fox 2. residents are returning to their homes in three neighborhoods hit hard by the deadly north california wildfires. it s the first time many of them have been back in two weeks. the fires began on october 8th, left 42 people dead so far. that s tonight s life look from outside the beltway on special report. we will be right back. if you have medicare parts a and b and want more coverage, guess what? you could apply for a medicare supplement insurance plan whenever you want. no enrollment window. no waiting to apply. that means now may be a great time to shop for an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare 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information with you. i feel we are not getting sufficient amount of information and we are clearing a lot of that up now. bret: calls for more information on the niger ambush. take a look on the map there. we are getting more and more details and what happened to that ambush. u.s. forces, u.s. troops involved, four americans died two weeks ago now. and putting out a statement today why the u.s. u.s. military was, provides training, security assistance to the jerry in the armed forces, including support for intelligence, and reconnaissance to see if facilitate their efforts to target valence extremist organizations. exploits porous borders, having access to weapons and freedom of movement. these terrorists pose a threat to the citizens of niger and other african nations, and u.s. personnel and u.s. interest in africa. one lawmaker says it s only going to be more expensive ther there. the next 9/11 may come from niger. it s beginning to morph as we suppress the enemy in the mid east, they are going to move. they are not going to quit. bret: let s start there. busy week on this topic. let s bring in our panel, byron york, chief political correspondent for the washington examiner. david byron, the calls continue obviously from capitol hill. there are multiple investigations ongoing. exactly. there is a couple of big issues here. one, what happened on october 4th. we are finding we really don t know very much. i think the military doesn t know exactly what happened and it s going to take some time to reconstruct that. we do have to wait a little bit for that. the other thing though is what is our mission in niger? why did we send 150 american troops over there in 2013, president obama did. why has not grown to nearly 800? what are we doing? i think that something the government could be explaining right now. and i think they should definitely do that until they find out specifically what happened. bret: i mean, there has been some expiration along the way what they were doing there. important to point out we have 180,000 u.s. military personnel and 140 different countries. here is president trump on terrorism in africa september september 20th. in the central african republic, the congo, libya, mali, somalia, and south sudan, among others, they are going through some very, very tough and very dangerous times. terrorist groups such as isis, how shall , al shabad, boko haram, also threaten african peace. the u.s. is proud to work with you to elude a terrorist havens. bret: basically we are trying to prevent terrorists from getting a foothold? that s right. but the thing we need to point out is there are isis training camps scattered throughout northern africa. and lindsey graham said today that this is spreading into africa it s already there. that s why you see these u.s. forces have to spread throughout the continent. in that statement that you read from, that is a two page long statement explaining why it is that u.s. forces are there. they make it clear in the end that they are there to assist local sources, advise them, train them. we don t have all the facts yet, but the reporting is moving faster than the facts. there is some disturbing reporting out here tonight. the los angeles times is out there saying the military requested extra, you know, more backup surveillance drones to help protect these guys when they are moving in and it was rejected locally. there is also some reporting tonight that the rescue mission was not conducted by military but by private contractors. again, this hasn t been confirmed, but this is starting to leak out in different news organizations. one other news organization is quoting as senior staff calling it a massive intelligence failure, and they are comparing it to benghazi. there is going to be a lot of work coming out in the few days. bret: special forces do a lot of stuff in the world. they are in dangerous positions, and this is a wide-open area that is a vast swath of territory. obviously, there is a lot of extenuating circumstances to benghazi that dealt with how the government dealt with things along the way. this also comes among the controversy about this condolence call and it s another day of this coverage. take a listen to the white house today. as general kelly pointed out, if you are able to make a sacred act like honoring american people all about yourself, you are an empty barrel. if you do not understand that reference, i will put it more simply. as we say in the south, all hat, no cattle. i don t appreciate somebody lying on me. if you lie on me, i m going to answer, because i m not going to let you get away with it. that s not the way i treat my boys, that s not the way i live my life. don t lie on me. i think this issue is a lot small yesterday when general kelly delivered this very, very impressive performance, educating a lot of the country about military values. now, there seems to be a fight about kelly s credibility. i m going to steal something from mollie hemingway who said, no, revisited of wills and did not brag in an unseemly fashion about funding the building. she bragged in an unseemly fashion about naming the building. i don t think this was a huge mistake on kelly s part and in no way overshadows the message and the power of his message yesterday. bret: erin? one other thing i would add here is i ve had a number of cumbersome and say we are not talking about how isis is on the run because of the liberation of raqqa. but this entire story shows they might be on the run, but they are running to other areas. and so all of these missions are really important. and they continue to be. bret: last word? i think kelly of hospice credibly take a hit today. i watched the nine minute video. the congressman never states anything about funding in the nine minute video that he referred to specifically yesterday. bret: sarah huckabee sanders says she talked that s a change of the story. bret: sure. but maybe. as far as kelly apostle risk for debility on the issue talking. you are saying that the charge. charge there is no evidence of what he s accusing her of her. she s talking about how everybody came together to move this of this fbi facility forward. she praises republicans for it. i think he misremembered it and i think the white house should ve owned up to that. his performance yesterday was admirable. but i think it muddied the waters, making that specific accusation against this congresswoman which really is an unnecessary fight for them now. bret: last word? it is an unnecessary fight. the problem is it is up to the media also to make decisions here. i heard one reporter say, who said that the developments of niger were overshadowed by this controversy, over kelly s marks question mike why were they? that s an editorial judgment. i think the issues in niger are really important. we are definitely heading to a congressional hearing about something like this and that is a bigger story. bret: i agree. next up, find a lightning run, former presidents, and winners and losers. this keeps this on the timetable to get this to the president s desk by the end of the year. we know that s an ambitious timetable. it s time to move. bret: house ways and means committee, the budget passed the senate last night, all democrats voted against it along with rand paul. 51-49. we got zero democrat votes with only rand paul. he will vote for tax cuts. voting against. this allows for the passage of loud comic large-scale tax cuts and reform which will be the biggest in the history of our country. by the way, rand paul says he does support tax cuts. back to the panel with a lightning round. i think they move the line when they get tax reform done. i had a senior white house official this week said, look, it s probably not going to happen this year. we have to say it s going to happen this year. but remember, obama did not get most of his big ticket item done until the second year either. but give us some slack. this is probably going to go into january and february. bret: which is what senator mcconnell said in the rose garden as well. they ve been moving the goalpost all year long, but i ve heard from a number of democratic members in congress who do believe they will be successful, republicans, that is, in tax reform. may be in the end of the year, but they are privately telling donors that this is probably going to happen. bret: the house will accept the senate budget and that will save some time as wealth or they can fast-track this thing if they write out details pretty soon. there are 34 working days left to the senate before christmas. so it actually could be done. a couple of things to remember. the actual bill in itself is being put together in secret by a group of republicans, obviously no democrats involved. and we don t know some of the divisions and fault lines among some of the republicans about the details of that bill. the point of that being it can take time to work out. we just have this framework. then we just don t have much time to do it. on the other hand, is it the end of the world to get this done in january and december? it s interesting that democrats are resigned to believing this is going to have and too. bret: all right. two former presidents out and about yesterday with some interesting takes. bigotry seems emboldened. our politics seems vulnerable to conspiracy theories. and outright fabrications. we see nationalism distorted into nativism. if you have to win make a campaign by dividing people, you are not going to be able to govern it. bret: the white house clear to point out that president trump s name wasn t used. it wasn t, but i was at the event with obama yesterday and he was very adept at never mentioning trump yet making his entire speech about him. it was all about the vice of politics, people are feeling down from this allusion, and railing democrats, saying, you cannot be complacent. these virginia-new jersey gubernatorial races that no one pays attention to, you ve got to come out, got to vote. obama didn t want to get into a fight with trump, didn t want to get in a twitter fight back and forth, but he s making the case out there about what he thinks about the oval office. bret: president bush as well. winners and losers? the winner first is general kelly for the extraordinary performance in the white house briefing room. i think his description of the united states government handling american casualties was worth everybody watching, a really amazing performance. the loser is roger goodell, who now says he does not want players refusing to stand for the pledge of allegiance, but he s not going to do anything about it. the runner up to kelly is the cia s dog is a black lab who decided she did not want to be a bomb sniffing dog. by the way, we love animals on winners and losers. losers, house republicans. the retirements are piling up and it likely means, it s at least a sign that the house could well eat sonic very well flip next year. my winner is journalism. my piece on opioids took out the presidents d.a. nominee. i think journalism around stomach allowed them to dig into the story months and months and months. my loser is sarah huckabee sanders asserting that it s inappropriate to debate a four-star general. i think we can respect john kelly, we can respect his service, we can salute him, but we certainly should be able to challenge him. that is hallmark of america. bret: thank you, panel. winners and losers every friday. when we come back, also every friday, this week s notable quotables. . bret: finally tonight, as promised, this week s notable quotables. that is a grave tri train. obamacare is finished. it s dead. it s gone. this is a pass-fail exercise. we have to get it done. drug companies frankly are getting away with murder. and we want to bring our prices down. he throws red meat to his right wing base. winners make policies and loser goes home. three minutes and then finish. he took more than three minutes. he did. yeah. he took about two and a half. i have certainly not spoken directly with anybody in the special counsel. this is the cabinet room. a lot of things happen here. this is the rose garden. i think even the media likes the rose garden. i once drove the oscar mayer wiener mobile, which meant that people were constantly laughing at me. it was perfect preparation for being in congress. we believe that our players should stand for the national anthem. you don t put your boots on and your gloves on and go sift through stuff. there is nothing to sift through. being an american involves the embrace of high ideals. and civic responsibility. the dog can bark at the moon all night long but it doesn t become an issue until the moon barks back. the only thing i could do to collect my thoughts was to go and walk among the finest men and women on this earth. you can always find them. because they re in arlington national cemetery. bret: one week. it felt like a month this week. i m not sure. thank you for inviting us into your home tonight. that s it for this special report. fair, balanced and unafraid. don t forget this weekend, tune in to fox news sunday. special guest host. dana perino. look at that line-up there. senate majority leader, the white house press secretary and the california attorney general. that is it for special report. the story hosted by my friend martha maccallum starts right now. thank you very much. martha: breaking tonight, the escalating debate over four soldiers who lost their lives in niger. fighting to make the world a safer place. as general kelly pointed out yesterday they do it out of duty and devotion to their country. who are the young men and women? they are the best ones the country produces. most of you as americans don t know them. many of you don t know anyone who knows any one of them. they are the best that the country produces. they volunteer to protect our country when there is nothing in our country anymore that seems to suggest selfless service to the nation is not only appropriate but
in the beginning of the 90s, terrorism was thought to be done. people who were likely to use terrorism were dead, in jail or part of a new peace process. a syrian delegation is in washington today ready to meet with israel to talk about middle east peace. we ate the the 90s would be a time of peace. not only was it it cold war over, we had won. we have the opportunity to forge a new world order, a world where the rule of law governs the conduct of nations. there were many people who didn t like that changing america. federal marshals are surrounding a cabin where a white supremacist, randy weaver was holed up with his family. he was a survivalist that lived at ruby ridge, idaho. he was of interest to the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms because he had links to the airbornian nations. they tried to pressure him to inform on his friends in the movement and he refuse said. weaver is summoned to court for a weapons charge that involves the selling of sawed off shotguns to law enforcement. a force of federal agents and the national guard have surounlded it house. this is nothing but a show of force to scare everybody up in idaho. we all have guns buried someplace. northern idaho has become home to a lot of people like randy weaver who want be away from it problems of civilization and the civilization itself. everybody has talked about imas a good loving christian family man. never before has north idaho there was a shootout in which weaver s 14-year-old son, sammy, and a dog and a u.s. marshal all ended up dead. sharp shooter shot his wife dead while she was carrying the baby in her arms. fbi agents are trained only to shoot to protect themselves and others. decisions were made within the fbi which allowed the snipers to shoot at anyone who was armed. hey, i ll make it easy. i ll turn my back on you. not every who lives around here says randy weaver is tin right but they say none of this would have happened if federal authorities had had just left imhad alone. ruby ridge was not a story on the front page of the national newspapers. but it absolutely did energize the radical right. the siege ended at 12:15 when randy weaver and his three children walked off the mountain after three days. arising precisely because of the end of the cold war and this mindset that the united states government is the enemy, breeds almost a decade of violence. indiana langly today, a young man opened fire on a number of people in their cars. nobody would think something like a shooting of cia personnel would happen on their front doorstep. the shooter escapes. two cia authorities were shot to death in virginia. a pakistani suspect is thought to be back in pakistan. they know his name but who s he working for? what organization? in the 1970s, we were dealing with terrorist groups. this is the action of one single individual. we did not realize that terrorism seems to be moving in a new direction. at 18 minutes afternoon something terrible happened in lower man halten. . they now suspect a car bomb. the bombing was designed to bring down the north tower and then falling down the south tower. it didn t collapse the towers butted it did injure a dozen people i was concerned any accident, tragedy, you feel it very personally. i think it s amazing more people weren t killed. i was in new york as ambassador of the united states. there s no way to fully explain how all the sudden the mood changed. every single resource is equipped to work on this. i m very concerned about it. federal officials are beginning to focus more heavily on the possibility of the explosion being the work of foreign terrorists. the 1993 world trade center bombing was a signal of how the extremists war was finally coming to american shores. tonight six days after the bombing at the world trade center, one suspect is in custody, more arrests are said to be kping. it turned out one of the collaborators had had had come back to ask for his deposit back. the man has link to a radical muslim group. they managed to capture most of the accomplices but the master mind left. his uncle is the man who would later become a leader in an organization called al qaeda. i have an office in that building. that will be our message to whoever did this. whatever you re trying to achieve, you will fail. for the firb it lesson was that these guys, while dangerous, were not at the same level taz te level of the terrorists of the late 80s. that would be a complete misunderstanding. the tower will reopen for business ahead off schedule. the only ones whoicide be careful now, he says are it terrorists themselves. resolution #1: binge more. join the un-carrier, and get four unlimited lines for forty bucks each. with netflix included. watch however you want. on your phone, tablet, or tv. let s rock this joint! really? 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yes, we are prepared to defend our homes, our families, our children, our lives, our property, yes. americans are largely ignorant of what s happening in the heartland with regard to this militia movement. and there is an extremist element of this which would not have been on anybody s radar. and that s what made them so dangerous. we do have a special report from nbc news. there has been a massive explosion at a federal building in oklahoma city, oklahoma. we have no way to tell at the moment how many casualties there are. the explosion felt 35 miles away. rescue workers are desperately trying to save any remaining lives. you can see the side of the building is all down. on april 19th when i got to oklahoma city, the building was still on fire, and a whole lot of cars around the building that had also exploded. it was unbelievable. amid the horror of the bombing it s the dead and wounded children that have stunned and angered the nation. the motive behind the madness is unknown at this hour. the governor of oklahoma says two things are known for sure. those who did this knew what they were doing, and whoever did it, the governor said, is some kind of animal. i am pleased to announce one of the individuals believed to be responsible for wednesday s terrible attack in oklahoma city has been arrested. timothy mcveigh, aged 27. the shock around the country was huge. this was an act of terrorism by one of our own citizens. a second man was charged today with blowing up the federal building. terry nichols, who has been in custody since just after the bombing. timothy mcveigh and terry nichols had met in the army. mcveigh had fought in the first persian gulf war. he left the military very, very disillusioned. the one thing that sustained him was his reading about the radical far right and meeting like-minded people. timothy mcveigh s plot to blow up the federal building took shape over the course of a secret year-long odyssey. he visited militia groups throughout the country. he went to the waco compound when it was under siege. on april 19th, two years to the date after the waco incident, oklahoma city was bombed. mr. president, there are tens, maybe more tens of thousands of men and women dressing up on weekends in military garb going off for training because they re upset about waco. despite what you say, we re talking about thousands and a group of people in this country who are furious at the federal government. well, they have a right to believe whatever they want. they have a right to say whatever they want. they have a right to keep and bear arms. they have a right to put on uniforms and go out on the weekends. they do not have the right to kill innocent americans. they do not have the right to violate the law. it s not like you can go to war against domestic terrorism. they re ours. this was our problem. we still don t know how much hate is growing now near other scrubbed farmhouses in other trailer parks. that is how many others there are just like him. fl[ gasps, laughs ]c, progressive gives you options based on your budget. you ever feel like. cliché foil characters scheming against a top insurer for no reason? 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so far thousands of tips phoned into the san francisco unibomb task force have led nowhere. we began an entirely new look at this, an entirely new strategy. we brought in a crew of analysts from fbi headquarters. they worked 24/7, but sadly it happened again. [ siren ] a mail bomb explodes inside the california forestry association building. the killer known as the unabomber says he will stop mailing package bombs if the newspapers will publish his political theories. when we received the manifesto, we felt very strongly that we should publish this. we think someone out there will actually recognize these words. the industrial revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. so begins a surprising eight-page addition to the washington post this morning. someone does recognize these crazed writings and turns him into the authorities. the longest and most intense manhunt in history has zeroed in on a prime suspect just outside lincoln, montana. the big concern was are there booby traps? are there explosives on the property? so we had to be very careful. we were knocking on the door of the cabin. he started to close the door and say let me get my coat and come out. and as he did that, one of the agents pushed the door in. and on the morning of april 3rd, theodore kaczynski was taken out of his cabin. are you the unabomber? fbi agents today searched the home of a 53-year-old former mathematics instructor named theodore kaczynski. the on-site investigation has yielded a cache of evidence. it was the most incredible moment. we knew this long journey of 18 years was over. mike wallace and i together on 60 minutes interviewed the family, who had turned him in. i was feeling something that i didn t really expect to feel at all, which was a deep sense of unease, fear. because of what you read? because of what i read. because it sounded like ted? because it sounded like him that i could not say to myself or to linda that this is not ted s writing. what can you do? you can t risk more lives. dave couldn t. none of us could. apparently some lives were saved. but when the fbi arrested ted kaczynski, they say they found a live bomb wrapped under his bed, ready for mailing. the only thing missing was a name and address. get your usa flags, everybody needs to have a flag. three for one! hats, t-shirts. in july, 1996 when the olympics were being hosted in atlanta, there was a tremendous concern about terrorist attacks. the security for the park was carefully coordinated. it s all taking place in the midst of security that america of an earlier generation could not have imagined. the extra police, the extra surveillance, people searching their bags, they re willing to put up with that. nobody here is complaining about that, and that s the point. there was one place officials decided people should be able to go and not have to worry about checkpoints. and that was centennial park. this morning thousands at an open air rock concert in centennial park. all of a sudden i felt a big boom, blast, heat came and it knocked me off the wall, blew my pants off. up the street! everybody needs to move up the street. authorities said the device appeared to be a pipe bomb with nails and screws designed to penetrate human flesh. more than 100 people have been injured. two are dead. before this device explodes, security guard richard jewell notices a backpack, alerts a law enforcement officer and they begin to evacuate the area. if not for his quick thinking, there probably would have been many more casualties. jewell was praised as a hero after the incident, even praised by president clinton for his swift action. the only thing i wish we could have done is got everybody out of the area. fbi has a suspect. read all about it. almost immediately richard jewell was suspected. they thought he actually set the bomb so he could be the hero. did you do it? no, sir, i didn t do it. the fbi agents arrived at jewell s apartment early this morning, armed with a search warrant. agents brought in a dog and an evidence truck. in the hurly-burly of trying to understand what had happened, richard jewell became the face of the olympic park bombing until it was made clear he wasn t, but by then a lot of damage had been done. despite their interest, they had not found any physical evidence linking him to the crime scene. in their mad rush to fulfill their own personal agendas, the fbi and the media almost destroyed me and my mother. jewell was fed to the world s media wolves, and the wolves obligingly fed on him for days. it was as if he was offered up to us in the hopes that the blood we draw would somehow help solve the crime. if richard jewell was no longer a suspect, who planted the pipe bomb? to be continued. prices of the season on the only bed that adjusts on both sides to your ideal comfort your sleep number setting. and snoring? does your bed do that? 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well, sure, i think he is. i think it s part of his hide-and-seek game. and he thinks he is winning? he is winning. in the end, he got caught in a sort of pathetic little moment where he is rummaging around in a dumpster looking for something to eat, and some local rookie cop arrests him. there was kind of unbelievable quality to all of this. eric rudolph was part of this internal terrorist moment. it s like a worm that was eating away inside of us. welcome back, everybody. we want to bring you up to date on a breaking story out of suburban denver. apparently there s been a school shooting at a high school in the town of littleton. the 90s bring us the first mass school shootings. there s something especially disturbing about premeditated murder by young people. police and law enforcement are descending upon columbine high right now. they do believe at least two people are inside with multiple automatic weapons, and perhaps some pipe bombs. we ve heard unconfirmed again from police. hit local tv very quickly. i happened to see this on television and got in my car. i saw a ring of choppers like vultures circling, and i knew instantly this was so much worse than i had imagined. masked gunmen in trench coats start shooting into the school s cafeteria. kids scatter. shots ring off lockers and walls. students are hit. and they re spraying. just starts shooting. anybody that was walking, talking, it didn t matter. boom, they were shot. they didn t care. you have blood on your hands. everyone around me got shot. and i begged him for ten minutes not to shoot me. it was horrific. it was beyond unthinkable. and yet we were watching it as it happened. you can see in the upper part of your screen, a student, a badly bloodied student hanging out a window. second floor says i m bleeding to death. the emotion was incredible. it s hard for a parent to see the parents who came. they went through the school shooting classmates, shooting teachers. 13 people died and 28 were injured. the police had arrived. they didn t want to be arrested. so they took their own lives. tomorrow morning s denver post identifies the two suspects as 18-year-old eric harris and 17-year-old dylan klebold. both reportedly died of self-inflicted gunshot wounds. local authorities search the homes of the two boys and say they found the makings for pipe bombs and other explosive devices. the gruesome but all too familiar denouement begins. the search for motivation, the calls for tighter gun control, the counseling sessions at school, and the endless, endless grief. there have been school shootings before. but never one quite like this. it put the school shooting in a whole new and darker category. it also raised a flood of questions of what is happening to our youth. i believe some of these kids are drifting deeper and deeper and deeper into rock music, violence, and that subculture. the biggest question is why do they do it. they were completely different people, opposite personalities and opposite motives. dylan was suicidally depressed. he really wanted to die. eric harris was the ringleader. he wanted to show how powerful he was. on his internet page, harris wrote pipe bombs are some of the easiest and deadliest ways to kill a group of people. columbine wasn t really intended as a school shooting. it was primarily intended as a bombing. they were inspired by the oklahoma city bombing. they hope they d would kill as many as 500 people. in the end, a lot of their homemade bombs did not detonate. school bells have an ominous ring to them. it is about to happen in our schools? what columbine did in sort of the arc of terrorism was open a terrible pandora s box. because terrorism was always used for political ends. and what eric and dylan decided was like why don t we just do this terrorist stuff for our own aggrandizement. and they did. and that created a whole new template of these spectacle murders. we re giving them the platform to do this. we provide the coverage. they do the act and then we make them the stars. resolution #1: binge more. join the un-carrier, and get four unlimited lines for only forty bucks each. plus, netflix for the whole family. on us. so, they get their shows. let s go, girl! you re gonna love this bit! and you get yours. watch however you want. on your phone, tablet, or tv. for just forty bucks per line. with no extra charges. let s rock this joint! all on america s best unlimited network, t-mobile. really? really? really? really? really? see zero in a whole new way. get zero down, zero deposit, zero first month s payment, and zero due at signing on select volkswagen models. now with the people first warranty. nice man cave! man. oh! nacho? 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the arrogance of the united states regime has reached the point that they occupied arabia, the holiest place of the muslims, who are more than a billion people in the world today. what are your future plans? you ll see them and hear about them in the media. god willing. on the 8th anniversary of the u.s. deployment in saudi arabia, osama bin laden s forces bombed two american embassies in africa. it was mid morning in nairobi when a powerful bomb exploded outside the u.s. embassy. the building behind the embassy crumbled into a tangle of concrete and steel, turning the sidewalk red with blood. a passing bus, its windows blown out. people on board incinerated. almost simultaneously, 415 miles away, another deadly blast. the target, the u.s. embassy in dar es salaam, tanzania. simultaneous attacks become the hallmark of al qaeda demonstrating its power. the death toll stands at 210. 5,000 people were injured. this attack is very sophisticated. it is very coordinated. this is an enemy that we were not prepared for. overseas tonight, secretary of state madeleine albright spent the day in east africa. i went to kenya. i also went to tanzania to see what had happened. basically, still trying to collect the facts. we began to be able to trace that to osama bin laden. we will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for. bin laden s group is suddenly a real player. and the clinton administration decides to do something about him. american military forces struck a series of targets overseas in sudan and afghanistan. the unmanned tomahawk missile was the pentagon s weapon of choice for the surprise aerial attacks, aimed at sending a pointed message to accused terrorist kingpin osama bin laden. america has battled terrorism for many years. we have quietly disrupted terrorist groups and foiled their plots. but there have been and will be times when our very national security is challenged. security is challenged. and when we must take extraordinary steps to protect the safety of our citizens. within minutes of today s attacks in afghanistan and sudan, some in washington were openly questioning the timing of it. it was the wag the dog question about the movie where a president fakes a war to distract the country from news of his sexual dalliances. there are a quite a few people who believe that clinton is trying to distract americans with a shiny object from what really matters which is his impeachment trouble for the remainder of his time in office. he wouldn t authorize attacks unless the information was absolutely perfect because he anticipated that criticism. we came within yards literally of taking out osama bin laden himself. and he got away, obviously. well, by you know, happenstance, luck. bin laden at war with the united states every second of every day. according to counter-terrorism officials who tell nbc news his terror network now operates in 50 countries, training camps in 20. we had entered a different era. you have an enemy that is completely amorphous. they can be in yemen, they can be in saudi arabia, they can be in paris and london. they can be everywhere. whoooo. going somewhere? here s some advice. tripadvisor now searches more. .than 200 booking sites - to find the hotel you want and save you up to 30%. trust this bird s words. tripadvisor. what s the fear of bin laden today? if in fact he is trying to mount another attack and all the intelligence senior analysts have said publicly before congress and on television that they believe he is, then you end up moving towards american symbols, corporate symbols, or tourism. or america stateside. by the end of the decade, the american and other foreign intelligence agencies were very much on guard. the chatter on intercepts was that the turn of a century or in this case a millennium, this would be a great opportunity to be memorable. there s not a man in custody, a man who came across the canadian border headed for seattle with a trunk load of explosives and timing devices. authorities say the suspect arrives aboard a car ferry, but he s nervous, acting suspiciously. it was a border guard in washington state. she stopped the man who was the driver and asked if she could look into his trunk. authorities fear he was part of a plot to launch a new year s eve attack and that he was not acting alone. there may be a connection to saudi born terrorist osama bin laden. but as one u.s. official worries tonight, there s still a lot we don t know. he was a new kind of terrorist. in the past, al qaeda operatives have been given very specific orders and direct targeting instructions. ahmed ressam is given $12,000 in seed money. he s told to raise the rest of your funds, recruit your own cell and bomb whatever you want. two quarter jars of nitroglycerin and chemical jars filled with urea were found in the trunk. the ingredients were the same as the ingredients used in the bombing of the world trade center in new york. his mission is to blow up one of the terminals at the los angeles airport, and he gets stopped. even though the authorities appear to have gotten their man, the threat may not yet can be over. we ended the decade with a clear perception now that we were engaged with a terrorist oganization that had declared war on us and was determined to carry out more attacks. his interest is in achieving a large body count. that is the reality of today s terrorism. fears of sabotage have also prompted tighter security at airports, border crossings, utilities and tunnels in many states. abc news released results today from a poll that asked how concerned are you about the possibility of a domestic attack. 73% said they weren t worried. the challenge is sustaining counter-terrorism as a policy priority. we shouldn t lose vigilance after january 1. we need to sustain these efforts because the terrorists often takes the path of least resistance and strikes when and where we least expect them to. the government and security people all over the country have to be lucky every day. terrorists have to be lucky only once. if you look back at the 90s in their totality, there was a lot of violence going on in the united states on american soil. seeing the 1990s and looking at major pivot points, columbine, the shooting in schools, in colorado, the bombing in oklahoma city, the davidian compound in waco were indicative of something deep within the country. something dark was moving in this society. as the year 2000 approaches, groups that track the nation s militias say hatred of the government and fear of martial law are growing. it s hard to think of any decade that comes close to the 1990s in terms of the number and the enormity of attacks directed and designed to get back at the u.s. government. these very powerful subterranean forces were marshalling their strength to really plunge us into a new era of violence in the new little millennium. it was bad enough when all this horror happened somewhere else but now that the world has become a global village, there is not somewhere else anymore. look out america. terrorism has come home. i think we are in for a long time. you know things like this. of things like this. this is the new the war, the battles of the end of this century and the beginning of the next one. and this when we put our mind to it, whether it was the first or second world war or the cold war, we have an enemy. and the enemy are the terrorists who do not believe in what we do, open societies and freedom. who are out to kill innocent people and we have to understand that this is a sustained effort. a new breeze is blowing and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn. a column of tanks is heading towards the russian parliament. there is no place for lawless aggression in the new world order we seek to create. unemployment will be growing again by-election day. i will not sellout to anybody but to the american people. i believe with all my heart together we can rekindle that american dream. the day of the dictator is over.