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Secure 42nd street to 48th street. do you go into every apartment? knock on every door? do you know how costly that is? >> yes, you don't. people used to ask me in the secret service, how do you secure the inauguration parade route? you don't. you secure it one step at a time. you have to make big things small. danny brought up a fantastic point. the idea of an attack from above. the elevated sniper position on a perch, not something that the general public had to consider before las vegas. think about the danger in this attack. everything you were told about being in an active shooting scenar...

Will of that soft target attack. and it's -- when somebody's diabolical in the way he offset himself outside the ven knew. the venue could have great security, it's like the airport krour have great security at the airport but now they're going to hit people as they queue up at the security line. now we're going to see people sniping people from hotels at a venue like this. this puts thoughts in your head about things we need to do to protect ourselves and prevent this from happening. perhaps we need a big visual barrier around the fairgrounds so nobody from hotels can shoot down on you or at ...

That soft target attack. and it's -- when somebody's diabolical in the way he offset himself outside the venue. the venue could have great security, it's like the airport, you could have great security at the airport but now they're going to hit people as they queue up at the security line. now we're going to see people sniping people from hotels at a venue like this. this puts thoughts in your head about things we need to do to protect ourselves and prevent this from happening. perhaps we need a big visual barrier around the fairgrounds so nobody from hotels can shoot down on you or at least ...

Scalise who was so injured by that rifle. he was just -- if he didn't get that immediate medical care, he probably would have been bled out there. it wasn't a wound in a fatal place on his body. but the wounds are so devastating. and i think that's what people faced in las vegas. it's a surprise ambush attack from an elevated sniper position with a machine gun. this about as bad as you can get it, short of a belt-fed machine gun with rounds that would never end. how many rounds you fire, gene, is a good question. i could only discern from the video i heard four or five magazines. and i did hea...

Places. very appropriate. the coordination that i heard over the first hour or so of this response was exceptional. clearly there were many victims and there was a lot of discussion about treating the victims but the police responded very quickly and very effectively. and considering the sniper position that this guy had, if they hadn't got to him and forced him to commit suicide it could have been a lot worse. >> bill: you have to think the firing from that direction was confusing to people on the ground and law enforcement responding as well. how do you go about locating that and getting in ...