The gunman behind the deadliest mass shooting in US history may have plotted to kill others with a car bomb
Chicago police told Fox News that it believes Patek booked two rooms at this hotel overlooking the Lollapalooza Music Festival this summer
another reported location
Boston for members of both parties are looking to take action on pump stocks and on devices that make semiautomatic weapons more deadly
That's what we want to prevent for someone to be able to fire four hundred five hundred eight hundred
rounds per minute the NRA they came out and said those products should be subject to
regulation the other side and so
outright trying to politicize this tragedy that we did feel the need to speak out to this whole pump stock issue a
Heartwarming moment between President Trump and a shooting victim. That is now going viral
President United States comes in this room filled no matter who the president's you stand up
And you should have shown the respect that they deserve
It is 6 o'clock here in New York City
It is 3 o'clock in Las Vegas
And we start with the Fox News Alert
The FBI tracking down and combing through a car belonging to the Las Vegas gunman days after he killed
58 people in cold blood
The SUV could contain critical information about his motive Wow Julie Amelia's been working the story non-stop. She is still in Las Vegas
She's live right now. Hey Gillian
Good morning, guys
You know there are still so many questions that remain at this point of course the biggest one is why did Steven paddock do this?
We don't know the answer to that just yet
We are getting more reports right now including that his hotel room at the Mandalay Bay was possibly comped we're also hearing reports that
He was seen in the days leading up to the shooting with another woman
Who is she we still don't know that at this point?
But here's what we do know no information has come out in the last few days
Including that the fact that he booked a hotel room in Chicago
At Chicago's Blackstone Hotel now this hotel overlooks the Lollapalooza festival a huge music festival in
Chicago tens of thousands of people from all around the world
Travel for this Music Festival now. We also know that he never showed up for that reservation
We have learned and we learned this yesterday that he was researching hotels near Fenway in Boston at this point
We don't believe he actually booked hotel rooms there with that information again still coming out at this hour
We also know that he booked another hotel rooms at another hotel here in Las Vegas
When the life is beautiful music festival was going on so look there's a lot of questions revolving around those scenarios like
Was this his main target here in Las Vegas was he targeting other music festivals
And he wasn't able to get the the shooting done that he wanted to do so listen this information is still coming out a lot
of questions there
New information that we have about his vehicles police were able to find his Hyundai Tucson
That's the vehicle they were looking for in the hours after the shooting happened
We are told that they found that vehicle at a home he owns in Reno now
We're also told that police have new information regarding the car that was found at the Mandalay Bay inside that vehicle were told
1,600 rounds of ammunition we're told ammonium nitrate 50 pounds of tannerite as well
So was he planning to use that car as an explosive again
More questions that we still don't know the answers to but I want to let you hear from one expert about what he thinks
We've got explosives in the car he's got a
ammunition in the car so what are you trying to make it be a
improvised vehicle
explosive device if he is where to escape did he get in there and wanted to drive it and penetrate into either a building or
another crowd set that off and and was it it was this a suicide pact and
At the end of the game and in a blaze of glory
Suicide by cop is that what he wanted to do. There's so many inconsistencies that continue to emerge now
This as there was a memorial service that was held last night an emotional night for Charleston Hart field the off-duty
Las Vegas police officer who was killed in the shooting he leaves behind a son and a daughter
really emotional for those who worked with him those who knew him, but guys the
Thing right here this morning is I think a lot of people are starting to get a little bit frustrated the fact that this is
Taking so long to find out why but as you see as the days unfold there are still so many more questions
That pop up so police have a lot of evidence a lot of things that they still have to get done in this investigation
Julian I think it's worth noteworthy to see they did not have any that review those revealing press conferences yesterday
I think they're gonna start really slowing down on this because I don't think they like the way it went the day before what do
You think I?
Agree with you. I was surprised that we didn't have that much information that came out yesterday
I was waiting all day yesterday to see if there was going to be a press conference
And when we didn't get any new information. I thought okay, what's what's going on here
Why is this taking so long and that's what many people are wondering?
But you have to give them the time to get done the investigation
So that they get this right?
And we get the right information out to the public because that's what it's the most important right now absolutely Jillian
Thank you very much. We want to know why?
Apparently the police did reveal that they have seized six media devices you know phones
iPads whatever
and that is how they have figured out that he did the web browsing and looked at Chicago and looked at Boston and elsewhere as
Well, and I'm sure they know more by the way than they're telling absolute public the thing that is so weird though
Is there is absolutely nothing from what we know on?
Social media his inner circle family members are just as shocked as everyone else is about this and back to what Jillian was saying
It's the families that just want these answers
But I think we've got to take a step
Let the officials do their job and help us all better understand what he did freak out some of his neighbors
Who are starting to talk and say yeah? He never said a word to us. He always had a
Nasty look on his face
He worked out and that was it so he started to get the profile of somebody who was looking to hide something well
It's interesting because we don't know anything about him really except the basic biographical stuff
Except in the last four days before he started doing the shooting and then he knew there was Kent there were cameras throughout the casino
He you know he knew that they would track down things that he gambled all day all weekend certainly
Yeah
But back in Washington had spent a lot of talk about gun control and yesterday
Something happened where they've been talking about bumped stocks something that the shooter used
I think he had a dozen of them on his guns. It's a an attachment device that turns a
Semi-automatic weapon into an automatic weapon lets you shoot
Faster and a lot more at a time you have Democrats and Republicans and now the administration saying they're willing to at least look
Into this debate to see if we even need this the NRA got involved as well
Sure, here is the president being asked about that. What does he say listen up?
Now keep in mind these bumps talks, which were devised and started to be sold
I think in 2010 they were okayed by the Obama administration the idea was to make it easier for
Disabled people to be able to shoot. Well of course the number one supporter of hunting and gun rights the NRA
They have actually come out and what they're now saying is essentially tighter regulation
But not a ban and some people said oh, they're calling for a ban the NRI
Can you believe it Wayne LaPierre was on with Hannity last night and clarified the NRA on these particular devices?
The other side on the other hand has been
So outright trying to politicize this tragedy that we did feel the need to speak out today on this whole bump stock issue
What the NRA has said is we ought to take a look at that see if it's in compliance with federal law?
It's worthy of additional regulation
That being said we didn't say ban
We didn't say confiscate
San Bernardino where California has every gun law you can imagine on the books that wouldn't have happened in
Paris where they have complete gun bans that wouldn't have happened Brussels all over the world where the people are
Disarmed these monsters these bad guys go about their business. They could care less
What laws are on the books in the heart of the American public all over this country they see these monsters
And they don't want to be alone out there they want to be able to protect themselves
Yeah, I mean you know if you have Auto money, and you're concerned about your safety
You've got big armed guards around you
And uh you know retired Navy SEALs guarding you but for everybody else they want to have that option
but in terms of these devices
It's remarkable that you do have republicans and democrats saying let's examine this guys like paul ryan who hunt for allah
You know the hunt for a hobby say yeah, I didn't know anything about it. That's very honest very candid nobody know
I was reading up about it yesterday because this was the first I'd heard about it. Yeah keep in mind
Not a gun guy it is against the law to have an automatic weapon a fully automatic weapon
Essentially what this does turns it into that it does and so there should be
According to the NRA and so many other people there should be tighter regulation
We're going to talk to NR a spokeswoman
Dana Lesh
about just this in the 8 o'clock hour right here on Fox & Friends when you were walking around the halls up until about a
Year ago, you would see Bret Stevens law he came on the radio show all this building in this building
He works worked for The Wall Street Journal now
He's working for the New York Times as their conservative columnist, and I was stunned to see what he wrote about
yesterday regarding the Second Amendment
Keep in mind conservative columnist right here's what he said
He said repealing the amendment may seem like political mission impossible today, but in the era of same-sex marriage
It's worth recalling that most great causes begin as improbable ones gun ownership should never be outlawed
Just as it is an outlawed in Britain or Australia, but it doesn't need a blanket constitutional protection either
Yeah, so he's calling for a repeal of the Second Amendment
What do you think about that let us know friends at foxnews.com?
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meanwhile the president United States was dining with military and their spouses last night in the State Dining Room and
The the people in the press room were just sitting around
because they didn't know that they would be called in and because the president said hey come on in and take a picture we just
Had dinner and they didn't know it was gonna happen and then the president
And this is a little cagey on his point on his part. What was he talking about when he said this?
This is so classic Trump first of all strumpet right the middle of the media sitting in that room, and he's always just
Want you here and he's he's in his comfort zone around these military officials in these generals
And who knows they talked about everything from North Korea to Iran to Isis you name it
But but leaving them with that saying it is the calm before the storm now
They're wondering
What is he referring to could that be North Korea could it be this Iran deal that I think that's up
October 15th could it be something they're dealing with with Isis we don't know or North Korea. I mean that hasn't gone away
Just because hasn't been in the headlines because of gay that's because of the national disasters in the and the vicious shooting in Las Vegas
I also think it's important to bring up that you know he's constantly every day
He gets briefed about different challenges for America
And he is definitely being or definitely on the front foot now around the world
Or and sadly a lot of times the results in the casualties
And we'll talk about this in about 15 minutes that we had four we had three Green Berets killed the other day
So we're constantly in battle constantly going after
Terrorists but for him to throw that out. I'm watching every channel this morning as I walked in there. They're all speculating on what?
Here's what I would say you look at that group of generals that he's surrounded by whenever
He is people criticize his foreign policy or how he thinks the president
You've got to look at the people that he has put in these positions
General John Kelly chief of staff to James Madison to Rex Tillerson
I mean these are the best in the business people that have been HR McMaster who have been on the front lines who?
Understands the real friendly face, but here's the thing before dinner
He called the press in and he said, okay, we're gonna talk about North Korea and Iran
Then the press went back into the press room that he calls mouth
Hey take a picture and then it's like it's the calm before the storm. What are you talking about?
You'll find out also he said that there's been tremendous pressure progress made with Isis
I guess the media is going to be finding out about that over the next short period of time so Isis, North Korea and Iran
Pull them out of a major city in Iraq meanwhile 12 minutes after the hour. Yeah coming up
I talked to my dad a new ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman
Let's start with the question you get all the time
Why do you want to do this?
Is his answer plus the topic that got both my dad and me pretty emotional that is?
Awesome and Democrats and their allies in the media claim
They have the solutions to stop mass shootings like the one we just saw in Vegas
But do they we break down their ideas and see if they would actually have worked here
The Las Vegas Massacre is renewing the gun control debate in this country yesterday
We held a live Town Hall here in our studio, and no one had any solutions to stop this kind of violence
Can I see the hands does anybody know of one gun law they could write that would have prevented what happened on Sunday night?
Okay, we're gonna enter right there then and we did so does anyone have any solutions here to discuss is the author of the forthcoming
Book first freedom a ride through America's enduring history with the gun from the revolution to today David
Horse Annie he's also a senior editor at the Federalist David good morning to you. Good morning
Okay, it is puzzling
We had all these experts in yesterday nobody had a good idea however the New York Times was helping people out
They had a headline yesterday
preventing mass shooting like the Vegas Strip attack and Nicholas Kristof
Wrote this when Australia suffered a mass shooting in 1996 the country united behind tougher laws on firearms
The result is that the gun homicide rate was almost halved America's gun homicide rate is now 20 times
Australia's how many times over the last couple of days have you heard about Australia?
And what do you have to say about what they're doing down there?
Well first of all you know you hear it all the time
But it's it's not a feasible solution because it's essentially confiscation, and we have a Second Amendment here
And there's no way around that for people who'd like to get around it
But secondly what they never mentioned is that during the same time from the mid 90s until
Maybe a year or two ago. There was a huge drop in crime here as well except. We had a spike in gun ownership, so
Obviously, there's no correlation or at least it doesn't seem to be any correlation between ownership
And between guns as far as the as far as the murder rate. We do have a higher murder rate
We had one before and I think there are a lot of other societal reasons for that well
I tell you what David in the Kristof article there were a number of
suggestions one of them was
Universal background checks, what do you think about those well a lot of people?
I noticed don't think we have any background checks who don't know about guns most the vast majority of people who buy guns have
Have go through a background check
so
But moreover of all these mass shootings almost every person has passed a background check probably in this case as well
And when they don't they simply just break the law
Like Adam Lanza who just stole stole stole the gun so I'm not sure that that's good
I mean you might think that's a good idea
But it's not going to stop Matt or prevent mass shootings right what about limiting the number of guns a person could
Buy in a year or over their lifetime or whatever
Most of these attacks are pretty meticulously planned so people can I mean?
I don't know what arbitrary number
Folks think is going to help with that and it's like
It's sort of like limiting the size of your soda as if you can't go and wait and just get another one
You know people happen more over there. There are tons of guns out there already
I'm not sure that does anything it real quickly David. What about bump stocks?
Well obviously I think people are circumventing the law quite often with bump stocks
I'm not sure that banning them is going to really make as much of a difference as people think because there are ways around
That that aren't bump stocks you know
For gun owners. It's already interesting stuff David Hertz, and we thank you very much for joining us today from our nation's capital
Thanks for having me
Thank you, sir
All right coming up on this Friday Abbie sits down with the new
I need a glass of water with the new ambassador to Russia her dad Jon Huntsman in an exclusive interview
Coming up all right
Let's start with the question you get all the time
Why do you want to do this?
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