media reporter darcy and greg mccareerry a criminalologist and fbi behavioral scientist. thank you for coming on. wes i ll start with you at a brief hearing the shooter s attorney described him as a deeply disturbed emotionally broken young man who struggled with significant mental disease and trauma his whole life. what do you know about the type of childhood and life this young man had? of course. well our reporting and cnn reporting as well seems to paint a picture of a child a young man who clearly has had both mental illness and a disturbed upbringing. this was someone who was living in foster homes after the death of parents and who recently had lost those foster parents to their own death to their own deaths. we have seen now reports about his behavioral issue, potentially at school, now as cnn is reporting the questions
they read it to the say offense an isis supporter when he was making racial slurs against muslims and minorities. i want to bring you in, greg. as you know the shooter posted a youtube comment that he would like to be a professional scoot shooter. the fbi admits that it was alerted to the post but was unable to fully identify the person who posted it. how is that possible? well, it s very easy. very difficult to get the get someone like that identified. it s a name. now, we are constrained by attorney general guidelines and laws. we just can t start can t get warrants and start drilling down and pulling up all sorts of websites and social media. in other words how many people in the united states are named nikolas cruz? i don t know. plenty. we had no real identifying data. couldn t get a warrant i say we, the fbi the fbi couldn t do much other than what they
king county or genesee county or eric county. we don t know the guy. is that a real imname or assumed identity. we have to be careful we don t fall into hindsight bias where we know all this which is a well-known psychological phenomena of beginning to think once we know the outcome of an event that it s more predictable than it was before it happened. there is a lot of that going on as well. yeah, i understand what you re saying. but there is certainly a lot of evidence there. and we ll put it up before i let you guys go. this is one video showing the shooter engaged in target practice oud his barkyard. hue knew that. i m just showing it to you. so i m saying i agree with you. i m sure that is happening. but there was. yes. someone had to shoot this and had to see it must have been one of his neighbors. thank you greg, oliver, wes i appreciate your time. 17 students and teachers died