1800 call fbi. let s get the very latest now. good evening to you. what s the latest? what do you know? reporter: well, you just sort of mentioned it there, don. there is that frustration that they still don t have an answer to why the so in the absence of that, investigators are trying to build a profile on this gunman. we are learning that they are looking at his foreign travel. his travel specifically on cruise lines. he took 20 cruises to europe, to the middle east. nine of them with his girlfriend. the rest appear to be by himself. we should remember, he does like to gamble. so many of these cruises do have casinos on board them. we are also learning that the gunman tried to purchase tracers at a gun show. he was up successful because the vendor had sold out. a tracer allows you to track your accuracy when you fire a
and he talked about that today. let s watch. to date we have rundown well more than a thousand leads in this investigation. while some of it has helped create a better profile into the madness of the suspect, we do not still have a clear motive or reason why. so the under shefb noted that in past cases investigators usually find out more by notes or through social media. james, what does it say that paddock didn t leave behind a reason for his actions at all or at least not investigators haven t found it yet. very odd that there wasn t a manifesto. generally in these mass casualty cases where you have a dpraifd individual that goes off, there s usually some type of grievance, toward a particular person or group and then there s a trigger. it looks like this cycle happened about a year ago last october of the now, we know that there was one note recovered from the hotel room, don. numbers. they say there were some numbers on it. that note is in the hands of fbi crip tolgsz r
she would be in denial about everything. what did you think? it s like every day, don, the case becomes more confounding and perplexing. i spoke to a couple of folks connected to the investigation. it seems like the more we learn, the less we know. this guys was an enigma. you could sense that. the relationship he had with his girlfriend. obviously if they had an intimate relationship, they would know things about each other. but i go to the cultural piece of this and whether or not she knew what was going on. this what s confounding to me is that as more of these leads come out, as the days go by, we should be getting closer to motive or closer to putting the motive together and we re not. the sheriff talked about that today. let s watch. to date, we have run down well more than a thousand leads in this investigation.
said that a secretary of state cannot be effective when word gets around that he no longer enjoys the confidence of the president. i think that s right. but i also think that he probably was a good man who took this job for patriotic reasons to help his country. but i don t see how he stays now, because i don t think he can be effective. you think he s gone? i think by christmas, yeah. it is such an honor to have you on. i m not starstruck, and i don t gush over many people, but you and dan rather and others are mentors and icons. thank you so much for what you do. we loved having you on. please come back. thank you, and keep up the good work, don. the new book is overload, finding the truth in today s deluge of news. thank you so much. when we come back, chaos in the white house. could the president s chief of staff be out the door soon?
and this has become i think it has become a national security problem. i liked your take on the whole fake news thing that you don t worry about it, because i tend to feel the same way. the president comes with term limits. journalism does not. you know, don, let me just add one other thing. you know, our role, and what separates democracy from a toe tal terryian society is in a democracy our citizens have access to independently gathered news, which they can compare to the government s version of events and then decide what to do about it. and we re not always going to be the most popular guy in the room, but that s our assignment. our assignment, and we got it from the founders, it s right there in the first amendment, our assignment is to provide that independently collected news. and when people say, you know, that we re undermining the foundations of democracy, quite