Vegas casinos. Places tens of thousands of Dollars Worth of bets in recent weeks. But why he did this, they simply have no clue. They know he has been acquiring weapons over the past several months. He has bought at gun stores in nevada, possibly outside the state as well. That part of nevada he is from, mesquite, is right on the border. So he could go to other states to try to buy weapons and have them sent back to the gun dealers in nevada 20 do it legally. But The Big Question here is how did he acquire automatic weapons. Youve heard the sounds on the videos of these rapid shots. Machine guns are illegal in the u. S. But its possible to buy conventional semiautomatic weapons, meaning they fire every time you pull the trigger, but just one round and convert them. But that Conversion Process can make the weapons illegal. So the authorities are trying to figure out how he managed to get
his hands on these automatic weapons. He had some of those in the room. He had Sniper Rifles with sc
Today, you have one spokesperson, in fact, denying that he said it. The president himself seems to be denying it, too. So for more on that, well go to jeff bennett who is at the white house. Geoff, the president had a serious of tweets duick durbin referred to. How is that changing what you are hearing from the white house spokespeople . Reporter Last Night The White House released a Statement Seeking to clarify the president s comments. They didnt deny the remarks or the context in which the president is said to have made them. Fastforward what, 12, 16 hours, the president tweeting this, the language used by me at the daca meeting was tough, but this was not the language used. What was really tough was the outlandish proposal made, a big setback for daca. The president then followed that up an hour later, hallie, with this. Never said anything derogatory about haitians, other than haiti is a very poor and troubled country. Never said take them out. I have a wonderful relationship
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do you think he s a racist? every sign is that. he speaks like a racist. he comes up with those fears, but he s a misinformed man with power. he s a man of mass destruction. that s the reverend jesse jackson taking aim at donald trump at an mlk breakfast in chicago. the backlash is building against the president after his s-hole comment, expletive comment, to describe comments made for those from the african continent. but earlier, senator dick durbin who was in the room for the bipartisan talk, says the president is not telling the truth. i m told by a senior white house official that the president got frustrate in the oval office meeting when the discussion came up about the visa lottery
functioning like an automatic machine gun. the gunman firing bullets continuously. listen. the unmistakable sound different from anything we ve heard from all other recent mass shootings. none of them involving fully automatic guns. we are still going through the search warrant actively at this time, but it s in access of ten rifles. reporter: sources telling abc news paddock had at least 16 rifles and handguns. one of them an assault rifle, modified to fire like a machine gun. sources say some of the rifles were high powered, capable of slicing through police body armor. this is a classic wmd, this is a weapon and a man of mass destruction. reporter: we examined the first 90 seconds of the massacre, hearing nearly 200 rounds fired. hundreds more within the following minutes. paddock took brief pauses, likely to switch weapons or reload. the killer perched more than 300
through this and our city will be stronger. thank you so much. i m clark county district attorney steve wolfe, and on behalf of the clark county d.a. s office our thoughts and prayers go out to everybody associated with this event. two of my prosecutors, two of my young female prosecutors, were actually at this concert, close to the stage. and i ve spoken to both of them this morning, and they re pretty rattled. they re pretty shaken up. this was a horrific event, to say the least. this is a classic wmd. a weapon and a man of mass destruction. what i m pleased so much about is how this doesn t involve politics in the sense of republican or democrat. we are here, all of us are nevadans and i m very proud to be present with the other leaders here because we re