reporter: well, ali, i think that s the bottom line. they just don t have a motive. they can t figure this out. they said they ve tracked down a thousand leads or so, and they can t they don t know why he did it. and at the press conference i think the officers are being sincere. remember, they re a part of this community. there was a las vegas pd officer who was killed. there are first responders who were wounded. and i don t think they re hiding anything. i sense some anguish, some frustration because i think they want to tell this community interest, although, of course, when they do tell this community why they think he did it it s not going to mack my sense any way because what s sensible about opening fire on a crowd of some 20,000 people. and, again, it s 20,000 people plus fist responders. so there are huge ripple effects out into this community. we re out here at a memorial. this is the head of the strip, the south of the strip. and we re staying away from it because there
nbc news correspondent ron allen. what s the update? reporter: that s the bottom line. they said they tracked down a thousand leads or so and they don t know why he did it. at the press conference, i think the officers are being sincere. they re a part of this community. there was a las vegas who was killed, first responders who were wounded. i don t think they re hiding anything. i sense some anguish and frustration because i think they want to tell this community something, although when they do tell this community why they think he did it, it s not going to make any sense anyway. because what s sensible about opening fire on a crowd of some 20,000 people. again, it s 20,000 people plus first responders. so there are huge ripple effects out into this community. we re out now at a memorial here at this sign, well to to las
in this country. it s completely within the purview of the states as to how they handle this information. nobody s hiding anything. it s a matter of complying with state laws. do you find that those fellow members on the advisory commission there on election integrity, are they in sync with the way you are what you re saying here, right now? i mean, is there kind of a uniform consensus of what the president is aware of and not aware of. well, that s kind of hard to say. we ve only gotten together one time. i will say that among the secretaries of state, the 48 secretaries of state in this country, there is more anatomity about protecting voter data and listening to the voters themselves who are quite concerned about slg this information examined by officials in washington. it s a good reminder and i try to tell our folks this, that elections are for voters. they re not for elections officials or for government officials. it s about making sure that we all have the right to exerci
but there is something really important that we have to observe here. that is that a couple of weeks ago president trump gave his blessing into this russia investigation. he said i have nothing to hide. i have been told i m not under investigation. and so i i welcome them to go ahead and see carry this investigation out, see whatever they fine. then for him to backtrack and call it a witch-hunt and really lash out whether or not he is hiding anything. of course it s too early in the investigation to know, it doesn t look good. it makes it seem like he s getting paranoid. you know, these very early morning tweets, you know, show that he is possibly alarmed and reacting in haste and emotionally reacting to what he is seeing. this is something that s going to be playing out for many, many months. possibly for years to come it is a long and bulky investigation. for president trump to have to kind of find his inner peace, inner accident and go with this
vivian, we ve seen bannon come in and out of favor. this now blames in, in a looking glass effect blames what the president is saying, a thread we ve had before, for the leaks. that s right. steve bannon has come in and out of favor, as you said, as have a number of other aides. it seems to be this whole palace intrigue that we ve seen play out since this administration has come to office. but there is something really important that we have to observe here. that is that a couple of weeks ago president trump gave his blessing into this russia investigation. he said i have nothing to hide. i have been told i m not under investigation. and so i i welcome them to go ahead and see carry this investigation out, see whatever they find. then for him to backtrack and call it a witch-hunt and really lash out whether or not he is hiding anything. of course it s too early in the investigation to know, it doesn t look good. it makes it seem like he s getting paranoid.