enforcement officer, they are committing genocide to my people. i just want to kill juews. his comments about jewish people and that they needed to die. he is being held without bail and scheduled to appear next in court on thursday. the u.s. attorney s office is seeking the death penalty. charles? the question is, now that the suspect has been charged, what are officials going to do to try to prevent things like this from happening. let s talk to ron hosco. we ask ourselves this question every single time. i m not sure. there are all kinds of suggestions in the area. it feels like we never act on any of them. what do you see coming out of this one? from my perspective, i hope a couple of things. i m going to rip my response out of today s headlines. we have social media sites, the new york times reporting on
accustomed to about the independence of american law enforcement, about the president not being above the law as andrew mccabe indicated in another context in that clip you just played. as neera said, he s gone after comey, gone after mueller, going after sessions and rosenstein for not protecting him from comey and mueller. and the question of this investigation is how far is president trump going to go to prevent accountability for himself? and we don t know the answer. we don t know the answer. john harwood and ron hosco, thank you. i want to bring in another guest. bob mueller had another famous independent prosecutor arguing about the merits of firing mueller. ken starr says the key to him is whether donald trump does ultimately lie about firing mueller. that would bring consequences.
for john harwood. what he is referring to is there is a debate going on tonight about a vote releasing the so-called memo that hal hs allegations about the mueller probe. chris wray was defending mccabe, now he s not. ron putting forward, i think, what would be the best positive, sort of non-corrupt reason for this all to happen, which is that while there was a twitter campaign, there also was privately something real and a real reason to move forward, which i think would be, to most people s view a good thing if that was the alternative explanation. john, your view? well, look. we have no reason to believe on the public record that anything that andrew mccabe did or his wife did, as you noted, put a thumb on the scale of this investigation. what is crystal clear is that the president is challenging all the norms that we ve become
smoke alarms and that s one of the reasons that police zoned in on the 32nd floor so quickly. they saw the firing. didn t know what floor it was. they zoned in very quickly, neil. neil: incredible. thank you, trace. so much we don t know about stephen paddock. but they re trying to find out a lot as we speak going back to his condo, going back to his past, his family members to find out what if anything could determine a motive. former fbi assistant, ron hosco and randy sutton. randy, what do you think authorities are trying to put together? i know through security cams and the like they ll trace his steps. but most notably to see if he worked with others, right? this is going to be one of the most exhaustive investigations in law enforcement history. with the scope and the depth of this crime. law enforcement will be going through every part of this
he was able to concentrate that fire into a relatively small area that was concentrated with people. when you think of soft target, this is the soft target. now, the law enforcement did an outstanding job in identifying where he was and in quickly moving in and creating the breach, which when they went to blow the door off the hinges is when the suspect took the coward s way out and killed himself rather than face these law enforcement officers, who, by the way, lost a brother today. neil: ron as well, we hear from a lot of those that are witnesses to this and endured this, friends and loved ones. it was almost as if he suckered them in. just when you think the shooting was stopped, maybe he was switching windows or aims or positions. but it would resume. they would run one way, he chased them down the other way. what are we to make of that?