Tucker carlson tonight. For the latest findings in that investigation we are joined by matt finn, who is in texas for us tonight. We have learned the shooter himself had three Gunshot Wounds to his body, including one to his head, which the Medical Examiner says was selfinflicted, so the shooter killed himself after his deadly rampage here at this texas church. Weve also learned that the shooter recently repurchased four guns. Authorities say all the sales were legal. If there is no information in databases that would have flagged the shooter, and that aligns with two pieces of information we learned today. If first, Academy Sporting Goods in san antonio, texas, released a statement saying it sold to guns to the shooter, one in 2015, and one in 2017, and that the shooter passed the National CriminalBackground Check and that that Sporting Good store is not cooperating with law enforcement. Also, the u. S. Air force did not submit the criminal records to the fbi, as required by pentagon law. The shooter was discharged from the air force for bad behavior,
for beating his wife and his stepson intentionally. Cracking his stepsons skull. He was courtmartialed and imprisoned. Had they turned that over to the fbi, he might not have been able to pass the Background Checks to purchase guns recently. The air force had launched a review into how the service handled the shooters criminal record. Tonight at this hour there are still 15 people in the hospital wounds related to yesterdays shooting. Five of them are minors. Some are still in critical condition. Tucker, back to you. Tucker what a gruesome and awful story. Investigators were able to find a lot about the Sutherland Spring shooter, Devin Patrick kelley, almost immediately. Why were they able to put the pieces together so fast . In las vegas, we still know so little. We turn to dan, who joins us live. First, to the texas shooting. Apparently, the air force did not come as you just heard matt finn report, enter this information about this mans Court Marshaling Conviction and the year he spent in the break into the criminal database that Gun Purchasers are run through. If they had put that information in there, would he have been prohibited from buying a gun . He would have been prohibited from buying a gun. This is why the radical left cant possibly win this gun control debate. Think about the argument they are making to us. The argument they are making is dont worry, government can protect you. I love our military, god bless every man and woman that serves, but this is clearly a bureaucratic error that cost people their lives by officials in our government as they are making the very same argument, by the way, that we need new laws despite the fact that the old laws didnt work because people in the government that are supposed to make no laws didnt cooperate with the laws we have now, and look at what we
have on our hands. He would have been stopped from buying a gun, and he wasnt, and look what happened. Tucker you see that with so many of our gun laws that are unenforced, including the city of chicago, where they are almost never prosecuted even as they complain that they are the source of the problem, which they certainly are. Why do we know so much, and thank heaven we do, about this atrocity, and still so little about the one that happened in las vegas a month ago . This tragedy here, this fits the models we have from my experience in the Secret Service of targeted violence. Youve seen indicators in the past, you and i have talked about the vacant shooting on multiple appearances here that we have said it doesnt make any sense because where all the witnesses . Where all the people coming out and saying i saw something on facebook that was strange. He said something at the local deli that was unusual, where are they . The answer is nowhere, nobody has found them yet, or they are there and we just dont know about them. But in this case, we are seeing a litany of people saying there were odd facebook posts, theres obviously a pattern of violent behavior, and as ive said repeatedly, when you look at models of targeted violence, theres always a trail, always a trail, its very rare look in the vacant shooting for theres almost nothing there and its a vacuum. Tucker so you dont think the investigation is different, but the crime is different gmac at the perpetrator different . This guy seems to fit the pattern. Targeted violence, assassinations, shootings, homicidal maniacs would decide to go in a church. We dont know the motive yet but it appears theres some connection there. It appears that his desire to take out revenge, or whatever it may have been on a Family Member or in law, he just uses violence as a way to show his power, and thats what he did he took out 20 plus innocent people in his rampage there. But that fits the models weve seen in the past. Tucker what are the lessons for the rest of us . It pains me to say this, but
churches are inherently vulnerable places. You have the right to protect yourself. There are wolves out there. Theres a big conflict of visions, if i can steal a line. If the left seems to believe that we can somehow legislate the evil out of peoples hearts, you wont. Do not be a sheep. If you are a church, if you are a synagogue, you are in a uniquely vulnerable spot. It pains me to say that, but we live in a different time. If you have an exit and an Entrance Point in the back. Therefore everybody comes out in the same spot. Where is everybodys attention in church . Ahead. Where is the shooter going to come in . Hes going to come in the back. You also have the lack of cover or concealment. Theres nowhere to hide. Why . Because people dont hide in church, they have to see Whats Going On in the altar. There is nowhere to go. It doesnt give me any joy in telling you that, but in 12 years as a Secret Service agent, if you are in a church or house of worship, you have an obligation now to realize we live in a different world. Its sad, these are black swan events, but the penalty for being involved in an event like this is death. This has happened multiple time times. You have to secure and harden up your location. Im sorry i had to say that, but it is absolutely true in the times we live in. Tucker thanks a lot for that, as always. Yes, sir. Tucker voters in virginia elect a new governor tomorrow. Its been the most widely covered political race of the earth, and by far the most bitter. Virginia is solidly blue now and Democrat Ralph Northam has long been expected to win an easy victory in the place with a republican president is even less popular than he is in the rest of the country. But that is not what has happened. If republican ed gillespie has remained surprisingly close in the polls for months. Panic to the democratic establishment and our gophers in the national media, they have done what they always do in a pinch, they make it about race. Remember what obama and his campaign told us that bill clinton was a racist during the 2008 primaries . Remember when the Hillary Clinton campaigns at the same thing about Bernie Sanders last year . When the going gets tough, democrats charge racism. So naturally ed gillespie has been transformed into a bowl, for the purposes of this election. Just yesterday the New York Times ran a strikingly dishonest beast that Accused Gillespie of running array simply dont make racially divisive campaign. According to the New York Times, his sins include attacking the street gang ms13, opposing Sanctuary Cities and criticizing the governors unilateral decision to restore Voting Rights to felons in the state. If for this, gillespie is a bigot. It would be amusing if it wasnt so poisonous. Ed gillespie isnt a racist, if anything hes too liberal for many republicans in virginia. A former corporate lobbyist from new jersey, he has Establishment Views on virtually everything. A strongly proimmigration, supports amnesty for daca beneficiaries. He has never made race an issue. Promised to crackdown on ms13 because its a deadly criminal force with thousands of members, which by the way, and not incidentally, targets almost exclusively el salvador in immigrants. They mark americas laws. He made an issue on Voting Rights because it was a naked glitter dome of political grab by the governor. Dont tell that to politico. Its reporters accused him of adopting Racially Charged Culture War Issues for daring to oppose Monument Vandalism and National Anthem protest. Think progress ran this headline. If his campaign for final push for votes plays on Hatred Of Black Nfl protesters. Standing up for the National Anthem is not nationalism. The irony was there actually was racial demagoguery in the campaign, a lot of it, but it didnt come from ed gillespie or his supporters. In the closing days, supporters
of northam ran an ad that suggested that gillespies voters wanted to murder kids. The ad actually said that. This showed a white man in a pickup truck with a gillespie sticker trying to run over a bunch of kids, including a little muslim girl as they fled for their lives. The New York Times didnt even mention that at until 14 on their hit piece yesterday. The ad got in the way of their story line apparently. Like all off year elections, tomorrows results will be scrutinized for larger lessons about american politics. If you hear people say its a referendum on trump, thats tru true. The worst and most dangerous habit, inflating racial fears to get boaters to the polls. It does not tactics to work . Lets hope not, we will find out tomorrow. Juan williams cohosts the five right here on fox and he joins us. Hey, how are you . Tucker you know it gillespie, whatever you think of his politics, hes hardly a bigot, hes a moderate guy
politically and by temperament. If i look at this with my jaw open and if they are turning ed gillespie into a bigot for attacking ms13, then the work s no meaning anymore, thats my reaction to it. I like ed gillespie a lot, i knew when he was chair of the National Committee and he was always about inclusion and outreach to minorities. He saw that as the future to the party. But i must say when i was listening to you, i was thinking to myself, i think he has found himself in a tight spot after a primary race in which he was joining against corey stewart, Donald TrumpsCampaign Manager in virginia and Stewart Ran A campaign that was all about the Confederate Statues and keeping them in place. He made a very strong populist, and at times racial, appeal. If i think it was less than two points close to ed gillespie in that primary race for the nomination and now he has done things like what you have just
laid out. At the nfl players kneeling, the Confederate Statues. And i think most of all, somehow conflating ms13 with immigration. Started those ads in the southwestern part of the state, down in roanoke and the more rural area. Tucker ms13 is a real thing, its an actual phenomenon. Its not as big a threat as you would think by seeing the commercial. Tucker you know who its a threat to, salvadoran immigrants. Thats fine, but thats not who the ads are aimed at. If the ads are stirring up white anger. Tucker you dont need to be white to be angry about the fact that our Immigration Policy has allowed a lot of people to come here illegally and join street gangs. I agree with you. Tucker by the way, their victims or immigrants, so I Dont Know Why its that racist to say that. Its true. Known, no, no. If you are right, theres a real issue, these people kill each other, so there are salvadorans
killing salvadorans, but it ties into this goes back to the trump playbook, immigration is a threat, perceived as a threat by lots of Working Class white folks. I think youve spoken to me about this, so what it does is by playing this up in an ad, it stirs that base that wasnt going to go to. Gillespie you described as a moderate republican. Tucker i disagree with that gillespies views on immigration very strongly. Okay. Tucker im way to the right of him on immigration because it actually is a threat. Its a great thing in other ways, but in some ways it is a threat and ms13 is one manifestation of that. Its real, and theres nothing racist about saying that. If we make that off limits, if we call people names for telling the truth, then we cant have an honest conversation about it. I want an honest conversation, but im telling you its not a threat to the extent that it would become the major issue in the race for governor of virginia, in less you are playing it in order to stir up and turn out your
voters, which is what ed has done. Hes following for cory stewart, donald trump playbook. Tucker fay ran an ad, his opponents, accusing him and his voters of wanting to murder children with a pickup truck. If its literally true. If thats not like my spend on it. Have you seen the spot . Of course. Of course. Tucker somehow, ed gillespie, who was a victim of that, hes a bigot for some reason, because he doesnt like ms13 . To see why this is actually insane and its Making People Vote for ed gillespie . The attacks on him are so unfair that a lot of people wouldnt vote for him are thinking this is not nutty. The political dynamic is one that steve bannon, the trump political advisor of old now said this is the playbook. This is how ed gillespie has gotten himself back in the race, by highlighting things like ms13 and immigration. Its a political play to a racial base, tucker. Tucker they accused him of wanting to murder minority children. If you dont tucker is that not racial demagoguery . Whats the definition of a . When you go into latino communities in muslim communities and see the anxiety that has been stirred by the kind of appeals that came from trump, and now cory stewart. They went not by this ad thing actually they want to murder your children. I dont know. Its a nightmare of anxiety in the ad. Tucker i get it. People should be ashamed of that, i think. I think playing racial politics is unnecessary, but i dont think you can deny that thats Whats Going On in this campaign. Tucker i think youre absolutely right, you know what i think. Thanks for joining us. My pleasure. Tucker Donna Brazile has exposed massive and real misconduct. She ran the Democratic Party. Why are the media trying to downplay her story to mack its a fascinating tale of establishment collusion, and we will tell it to you with a former Hillary Clinton advisor next. When you have a cold stuff happens. Shut down cold symptoms fast with maximum strength Alka Seltzer Plus liquid gels. Its ok that everybody ignores me when i drive. Its fine, cause i get a Safe Driving Bonus check every six months im accidentfree. And i dont share it with mom. Right, mom . Right. Safe driving bonus checks, only from allstate. Switching to allstate is worth it. But prevagen helps your brain with an ingredient originally discovered. In jellyfish. In clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve shortterm memory. Prevagen. The name to remember. Look no further than the controversy over Donna Braziles new book. She once ran the dnc, so if she says the Democratic Party worked hard to steal the election from Bernie Sanders, you can exactly dismiss her as a partisan or a kook, and thats exactly what many in establishment press have tried to do for several days. According to highly informed sources spoke to, highly informed, Top Management at cnn directed its employees to undermine braziles credibility. Anchors and producers were vocally offended by her attacks on their friends, the clintons. If youve been watching that channel, you may have noticed the anchors suggesting that Donna Brazile cannot be trusted, precisely because she took part in efforts to break the primaries for clinton. Watch. Shes the one who got access to one tonal question and sent an email, which we know from wikileaks, to somebody in the clinton campaign, to give them a town hall question, which is completely unethical. She wasnt doing that for Bernie Sanders. Do you take her at her word, given the fact that she lied about that cnn debate and giving those questions to Hillary Clinton ahead of time . Tucker its unbelievable. In retrospect, they are so obviously talking points. If glad to know that. If cnn is not alone. If the internet suffered a great piece in which he pointed out that journalists haves repeatedly spread misleading stories that lead to exonerate the behavior of Hillary Clinton and the dnc. Nbc news published a story claiming the clintondnc agreement only applied to the general election. If they simply read the