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Thomas Crooks shooter of former President Trump did he act alone?

Duration:: 1h 18m
Broadcast on:: 20 Jul 2024
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Thomas Crooks shooter of former President Trump, did he act alone? #thomascrooks #donaldtrump #Assassination The Investigation: F.B.I. officials told Congress that the 20-year-old gunman who tried to kill Donald Trump used his cellphone and other devices to search for images of Trump and President Biden. Security Blind Spots: Even as investigators continue to examine what happened at the Trump rally, it is already clear that there were multiple missed opportunities to stop the gunman before the situation turned deadly. The Gunman: In interviews, former classmates of the suspect described him as intelligent but solitary, someone who tried to avoid teasing by fellow students. Secret Service Director: Kimberly Cheatle returned in 2022 to lead the agency she had served for nearly 30 years. Now, the assassination attempt on Trump has thrown her tenure into uncertainty. Fears of What’s Next: Among voters, there is growing anxiety that America’s political divide is nearly beyond repair, and the shooting only made things worse. A spectator who had been standing just outside the grounds said in an interview with the BBC that a few minutes into Mr. Trump’s speech, he noticed that someone was “bear-crawling up the roof,” clearly armed with a rifle, and that he tried to notify the police. Law enforcement officials later said that the gunman had opened fire from an elevated position outside the rally’s security perimeter. After the shooting, the gunman’s body was seen on the rooftop of one of the buildings to Mr. Trump’s right. An AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle was recovered at the scene, according to law enforcement officials. “I was shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear,” Mr. Trump said in a post on Truth Social, his social media platform. “I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a whizzing sound, shots, and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin.” One spectator at the rally, Corey Comperatore, a 50-year-old firefighter, was shot and killed. Two others were critically injured. (NY Times) 💯 Join our mission to uncover the truth in crime! Support Police Off the Cuff on Patreon for exclusive content and insider access. Click now and become a part of our detective squad: https://www.patreon.com/policeoffthecuff 💬 Did you like this video? Let me know in the comments below! ✅ Subscribe to Police off the Cuff right now! Click here: https://www.youtube.com/@PoliceofftheCuff?sub_confirmation=1 Or become a YouTube Member to get access to perks here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKo80Xa1PYTc23XN_Yjp8pA/join --------------- Welcome to the Official YouTube Channel of Police off the Cuff This is where the veil of mystery on high-profile cases is lifted through the sharp insights of seasoned law enforcement professionals and where real crime meets real analysis. This is your destination for exploring the complexities of true crime stories, illuminated by the rich experience and street wisdom of those who have walked the thin blue line. At the helm is retired NYPD Sergeant Bill Cannon, a figure of authority in the crime investigation arena, with a diverse background that spans across acting, broadcasting, and academia. Bill's profound knowledge and keen analytical skills, combined with his empathetic approach, make each story not just heard but felt. Phil's extensive investigative experience, coupled with his genuine passion and characteristic Brooklyn charm, adds depth and relatability to the discussions. ➡️ Here we navigate the intricate web of the nation's most captivating crime stories, offering not just stories, but an education on the realities of criminal investigation. Their combined expertise provides a unique lens through which the stories are told, offering insights that only those with firsthand experience can provide. Join us on this journey into the heart of true crime, where every episode promises a deep dive into the minds of criminals and the tireless efforts of law enforcement to bring them to justice. --------------- 📲 Follow Police off the Cuff on social media: Instagram ▶️ https://www.instagram.com/policeoffthecuff Facebook ▶️ https://www.facebook.com/Policeoffthecuff-312794509230136/ Twitter ▶️ https://twitter.com/policeoffthecuf 🎧 Dive deep into true crime with Police Off the Cuff Podcast. Join retired NYPD expert Bill Cannon as he dissects infamous cases with insider insight: https://anchor.fm/otcpod1 ☑️ Support Police Off the Cuff and help us bring you more captivating crime stories. Every contribution makes a difference! Choose your preferred way to donate: Venmo: https://venmo.com/William-Cannon-27 PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/policeoffthecuff1gma --------------- 📚 Disclaimer: This video may contain copyrighted material the use of which has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. --------------- #PoliceOffTheCuff

(upbeat music) - Hello everyone and welcome to police off the cover of Real Crime Stories. I'm your host, retired NYPD Sergeant Bill Cannon, a 27 year veteran of the NYPD. Folks, as we follow this investigation and the occurrence that happened in the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, we are disturbed by many factors. And of course, we live in a world where we want instant gratification. We wanna know the answers instantly. And the nature of investigation is that you don't find out things instantly. It takes the investigative body investigating this case time to uncover facts, circumstances, electronic devices, computers, search warrants, where the person of interest was. They're routines, where they work, they're interactions. All of those things take lots of time. And the other things that take much more time are perhaps communications that may be encrypted via cell phone, via the computer, via social media. So the searches and getting to the bottom of this, everyone wants to know all of the time in almost every investigation we uncover is motive. And it's disturbing to many here that we cannot, or the FBI cannot so far find a motive yet. Why did this happen? Why just, is it more nefarious than it looks? It's been raised that this could be a conspiracy. Whether government officials behind this, whether a deep, the deep state behind this, many people of course would love to see Donald Trump out of this race. Would they go to that extent to hire or encourage a 20 year old potentially mentally ill on a student, former on a student to be the instrument of Donald Trump's potential death? I'm not suggesting this. I'm just saying this is what's become the narrative because one of the reasons being is that our government officials have not been transparent with this investigation. Luckily, and I say luckily, we have a free press and the free press has been doing a pretty damn good job of getting out some facts and circumstances and surely they've gotten out photos, videos from people that were attending this rally. And that is where we're getting our information right now. And many people find that daunting because we all feel as American citizens, our government owes us, owes us the truth of what happened here. What were the failures? Because the secret service is part of the government. Are they not? What were the failures that enabled a 20 year old shooter who works at a nursing home as a dietary aide? How was he able to defeat the secret service and get approximately six shots off in a rally for a presidential candidate named Donald Trump? What were his motives besides obviously shooting former president Donald Trump? He bought 50 rounds. I believe he is what we would call or refer to as an active shooter. He didn't intend to stop shooting once he succeeded in taking down Donald Trump. I believe he was gonna continue to shoot if not for the secret service snipers that did an outstanding job in taking him out. Had they not taken him out, I think we'd have saw much more carnage at this event as it is, we lost a volunteer fire chief there, lost his life, just absolutely horrific and two other individuals were seriously wounded. So what was his intentions? How did he was able to defeat one of the best security, security forces in the world that protects presidents? How was this 20 year old sort of geeky looking kid? You see the pictures of him? How was he able to defeat them and get off six shots? How was that possible? We're gonna look at this today. What was some of the warning signs that the secret service missed? What was some of the warning signs that the police missed at this location? And the horrific outcome to this because of these mistakes made, how was he able to get up on that roof? You see him perched on getting ready to shoot a full two minutes. The crowd was warning the police that there was someone up on the roof. He was confronted by a Butler Pennsylvania police officer who had to retreat when an AR-15 was stuck in his face. So all of these questions we have and we really wanna know the answers to them. So folks, hold on to your hats. Hold on to your loved ones. Hold on to your service dog, your service cat. You're about to enter true crime from a police perspective. You're about to enter the off the cuff zone. You're about to enter the police off the cuff zone. (dramatic music) (tense music) That's using common sense. - Yes sir, the other cars don't intend to crash by the fire. - We still don't know before the trailer. (dramatic music) (dramatic music) - You know, according to there's a picture of Thomas Crooks in this thumbnail. The question, did he act alone? And that hasn't been fully answered yet, hasn't. Because I'm tempted to think that he had help. And why am I saying that? Well, the planning behind this. The fact that he knew how to make IEDs improvised explosive devices, one that was found in his car, one that was found in his home, and a remote control device to set those off. Were they meant to injure law enforcement or were they meant just as a distraction so he could take more time shooting? We're learning that he did some recon of the shooting site. Both on foot, on a bicycle, and via a drone to look at the site, to study the site before he did his evil deed that he did. So my question to you is, did he act alone? And why? We're also trying to find out why. What everyone wants to know, of course, is the motive. And the fact that our Secret Service, the director, who's supposed to be interviewed in front of Congress this week coming up, has not come clean, has not told us the failures that occurred and why. And a minute by minute breakdown of what occurred. And what we know now and what we're trying to find out, we as American citizens expect that. Do they need, as in the assassination of John F. Kennedy, do they need to appoint a Warren Commission to find out if perhaps some government entities were involved in this? And I'm not saying that that happened. What I'm saying is that we need to be transparent so that conspiracy theorists don't run wild in this case. But right now, our government is not being transparent. They are not being honest about what occurred. And that's what we want to hear. The FBI is running this investigation. Famously, they don't release a lot of things about their investigation. So hopefully we will find out very soon. According to the New York Times, former honors student to the gunman who tried to kill Donald Trump. Thomas Crooks was a brainy and quiet young man who built computers and won honors at its school and pressing his teachers. Then he became a would-be assassin. For Thomas Crooks, the suburban Pittsburgh nursing home where he served meals and washed dishes for $16 an hour was another solitary corner of a nearly invisible life. He was polite but distant. A former coworker said, "8 lunch alone in the break room and rarely spoke with anyone." But as Western Pennsylvania get up last week for the boisterous spectacle of hosting in Raleigh for former President Donald J. Trump, Mr. Crooks approached his bosses with a request according to law enforcement. He wanted to take Saturday off. He told them he had something important to do. It was one of the few hints to emerge so far that the 20-year-old engineering sciences graduate was planning to become a political assassin. A week after Mr. Crooks opened fire at the rally and was killed by the Secret Service, his ideology and motives remain a vexing question for investigators and the people who crossed paths with him. In dozens of interviews, former classmates, teachers and neighbors said they still could not square their memories of Mr. Crooks, an awkward, intelligent teenager who liked to tinker with computers and spent his weekends playing video games with the image of the stringy head gunman at the rally armed with his father's AR-15 style rifle as he clambered onto a rooftop and took aim at the former president. Mr. Trump suffered an injury to his ear and three spectators were wounded, one of them fatally. That's where I'm struggling. I've looked at horrific pictures of an individual that I stood six inches away from, shaking his hand, calling on him in class, said Xavier Harmon, who saw Mr. Crooks almost daily in the computer technology class he taught at a technical school. Many of the young men who have attacked schools, movie theaters, supermarkets and churches in recent years deliberately are unintentionally hinted at their rage, violent fantasies or plans well before their attacks, a phenomenon that researchers call leakage. Investigators have uncovered what now could be seen as concerning signs. The gunman's phone showed that he had possibly read news stories about the teenage school shooter who killed four students at Oxford High School in Michigan. Mr. Crooks received multiple packages including several that were marked hazardous material over the past several months. He looked up major depressive disorder on a cell phone later found at his house. He also searched a bipartisan rasta of political figures including Mr. Trump, President Biden and Attorney General Merrick Golan. FBI officials told members of Congress, he also looked up both the dates to Mr. Trump's July 13th rally in Butler, PA, as well as the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. And in the last new detail to emerge federal law enforcement officials said on Friday that they believe Mr. Crooks flew a small drone over the rally grounds on the day of the shooting and what might have been an attempt to surveil the scene. But investigators have not found any evidence that Mr. Crooks had strong political beliefs or an ideological motivation. So concerning, right? It's sounding like, you know, a profile of an active shooter, a loner, right? Sort of geeky, bullied, that comes on later in the article by The New York Times that he was bullied. And if we remember, well, one of the most infamous active shooters was, shoe terrors was two of them, was Harris and Cleebold, Columbine in Colorado, where they were bullied and they came back to the school on to the teeth. - My dad works in B2B marketing. He came by my school for career day and said he was a big row as man. Then he told everyone how much he loved calculating his return on ad spend. My friends still laughing me to this day. - Not everyone gets B2B, but with LinkedIn, you'll be able to reach people who do. Get $100 credit on your next ad campaign. Go to linkedin.com/results to claim your credit. That's linkedin.com/results. Terms and conditions apply. LinkedIn, the place to be, to be. - To kill numerous students and teachers, also had made pipe bombs. So I think when they look into the background and they look into the mentality of Thomas Crooks, they're gonna find some of these constants that he was bullied, that he was sort of a geeky guy. But right now they're finding no ideology, no ideological reasons that he did this. Again, we go back, did he act alone? Did this 20 year old, almost young boy looking shooter, as many of them are, did he act alone? Or did he have help? And I'm not saying specifically physical help on the ground, but was he coached? Did he have someone to teach him how to thwart the secret service, how to get into this rally, how to hide a gun so that you could not be seen walking into the rally with it? Did anyone coach him doing these things? These are some of the questions I have, and these are some of the questions, hopefully, that the FBI will answer through the head of the secret service when she's grilled at Congress. My thoughts are that I think that Kimberly Cheetell, who is the head of the secret service, I'm thinking that when she does testify, next week in front of Congress, she's gonna tell us nothing. She's gonna hide behind confidentiality, she's gonna hide behind it. It's an ongoing investigation. They always hide behind that. I can't speak. There's no one to prosecute here, at least right now. The shooter, Thomas Crooks is dead, isn't he? This shooter here is dead, so there is no case against him. Put his parents, possibly, be prosecuted, his father, for allowing his son to take that AR-15. I'm not sure. It was legally purchased. I believe that Thomas Crooks is also a legal gun owner, so is there any case down the road? Anyway, this is a report by CBS News who actually uncovered some excellent photos in regards to this investigation. I wanna play this right now. - Through information and the attempt at assassination, a former president Donald Trump. We know top officials at the FBI and the Secret Service briefed members of Congress on this, a US official who was familiar with that briefing and sharing some new information about the shooter, Thomas Crooks. We're told he searched for images of President Biden and Trump. He also, they say, visited the rally site at least once before Saturday shooting. He also searched, they say, for symptoms of depressive disorders. The FBI director says 14,000 images have been reviewed, but still, they don't have a motive. CBS's Meg Oliver with new images from Butler, Pennsylvania tonight. - Tonight, new video shows former President Donald Trump arriving at Butler Memorial Hospital Saturday, just minutes after surviving an assassination attempt. US Secret Service are seeing surrounding his SUV. - There he is, there he is. - For rushing him inside the ER. Over an hour earlier, the alleged assassin, Thomas Matthew Crooks, was caught on video wandering around. A local tactical sniper also snapped this photo of him roughly 26 minutes before he climbed onto a building and attempted to kill the former president. Crooks had on him a phone in what appears to be a remote transmitter, potentially intended to set off suspicious devices he had in his car and home. According to a law enforcement bulletin obtained by CBS News, Crooks received multiple packages over the last several months, some possibly containing hazardous material. - A CBS News analysis has found the sniper team closest to the shooter would have had their line of sight likely obscured by trees, making it difficult for them to see him clearly. - The team farther away had to reset before taking the single shot that neutralized the target. A private funeral is planned on Friday for Corey Comparatory, the retired firefighter killed. Meanwhile, two others have been upgraded from critical to serious condition, including 74-year-old James Copenhagen shot twice. - He loves his country. He's somebody that you would want as your next-door neighbor. - Crystal Bar is Copenhagen's family friend. - How's he doing? - I think he's definitely on the road to recovery. People went there for an exciting day and instead lives were changed. Meg Oliver at CBS News. - So again, lots more questions, not a lot of answers. Again, is the FBI doing a thorough investigation? I'm sure they are. The FBI has all the most expensive investigative toys on this earth, checking his computer, checking his phone. Gregory Olinsky from the chat, two different muzzle sounds, two different weapons. Yes, but Gregory's, the return fire was from the snipers. So he fired six shots apparently from an AR-15 like weapon. And I believe two different sets of snipers fired back. So that could have been what you're hearing, different sounds, different muzzle flashes, different sounds, yes, absolutely. This is, we all have questions. Sean Pellegrino, I think this guy was aware he was an incel and that he didn't have much of a future as far as finding friends or a girlfriend and it set him off. You know, Sean, I think it's too early to say that. I mean, to build a psychological profile of this shooter, of Thomas Crooks, I think we'll be able to do it, but right now I think it's way too soon. Gregory Olinsky, photographer from New York Times that caught the bullet picture at his settings at 8,000 to one to catch the bullet picture. He's also the same guy from the famous Bush photo when he was told about 9/11. Yes, that photo was unbelievable. It'll probably be one of those Pulitzer prize winning photos that the New York Times took, the New York Times, excuse me, pulled us down for a second. The New York Times photographer took that picture and absolutely amazing photo. When we saw the Secret Service jump into action, during this, it simply was incredible. How fast they got down onto the president, but it seemed that it was too, it was fast, but yet he was at risk for a longer time. I think then he necessarily needed to be, not that he needed to be in danger at any point. But after the fact, we can always criticize, you know, but he was, if there was a second shooter at this event, I believe it would have been a different outcome. I think former President Donald Trump would have been killed because there was a wide open shot at him. He was on the stage for too long. It took too long for them to get him off the stage. And I don't doubt these Secret Service agents put themselves in harm's way, jumped right on top of, jumped right in front of the line of fire. Luckily, an outstanding sniper took this shooter out. And you see the shooter there laying on the roof and the angle of the roof itself protected this shooter from the snipers who didn't, one of them at least didn't have a clear line of sight to take out the shooter. So all of those things were problematic for the snipers to return fire. But as I mentioned earlier, was his intentions to keep shooting? I believe it was. Why would you buy 50 rounds, you know? 50 rounds, I think he was just gonna keep shooting until he was stopped. So what does that mean? Well, that means what we know about every active shooter, but they don't intend to come out of this alive. A huge percentage of active shooters actually kill themselves after the shooting. In this incident, I don't believe he expected. - My dad works in B2B marketing. He came by my school for career day and said he was a big row as man. Then he told everyone how much he loved calculating his return on ad spend. My friend still laughing at me to this day. Not everyone gets B2B. But with LinkedIn, you'll be able to reach people who do. Get a $100 credit on your next ad campaign. Go to linkedin.com/results to claim your credit. That's linkedin.com/results. Terms and conditions apply. LinkedIn, the place to be, to be. - To come out of this situation a lot. And, you know, in fact, he didn't. Mary-Ann Sadowski, the Secret Service failed. Yes, in many ways they did. Look, you can never say it's a success when a former president gets shot. One person in the crowd gets killed and two others are critically wounded. I don't think you can call that a success. So no doubt. And we can all critique this. We can all Monday morning quarterback. But yeah, there's a lot to be concerned about here. See money from the chat. Interesting how CNN decided to livestream Trump's rally for the first time ever and this incident happened. There we go. We can go to the conspiracy theories because a lot of people are believing that. MJ from the chat. CNN never covered Trump's rally but was there in Butler on day of attempted assassination. Well, it's a classic one. Not all of the people in blue suits were a secret service that's been reported for your information. Well, look, there's also police. There's local police in the blue suits. Did they hire out private security to enhance the security at this event? That remains to be seen. Look, all of the information that we're receiving by the media. Let me read this from the chat first. Blue Lazaro, I can't understand how he got there unaddressed by any of the protectors. Look, all of the information that we're receiving by the mainstream media, although outstanding in its nature, it's not coming from the official source, which in this instance in the investigation, the source will be the FBI. And until we receive that information, the information that we're receiving from the mainstream media is what they've uncovered. And many of the mainstream media have their own private investigators that find out things for them and report it to the reporters who, in turn, reported to us. Patty Martin from the chat, why did Director Cheetah show up at the RNC? Well, I think because that's also a big security event. The secret service is involved in that. She probably should show her face. And I think that was probably sending a message that, you know, I'm still gonna be around. I'm still the Director of the Secret Service. So I'm conjecturing, I think that's the reason. Varo Gama, major screw-ups at the Butler PA site in Washington, D.C., D.E.I. policy, Senator John Barasso, W.Y.N. Rep. Corey Mills, Florida, former Army sniper. Look, we can conjecture about those things. Those seem to be politically motivated. Legolas Fan, '69, we were told he acted alone before they accessed his phone. Yes, I think that's a little bit too quick to say that he acted alone. Folks, this is police off the cuff, real crime stories. If you like real crime, true crime from a police perspective, then you're in the right place. And if you're not subscribed, go on our YouTube. Hit that subscribe button. Give us a thumbs up. Bring that bell, share us with your friends and your family. If you want to contribute to us, we have a Patreon with four different levels. And we also have a YouTube channel membership with five different levels. And we appreciate all of our friends, our fans, our subscribers that support this channel, true crime from a police perspective. I want to play this from Fox. - So many outlets and publications doing incredible reporting on the assassination attempt, the investigation, the perceived security lapses, all of that and more here. I'm Andrew Craft, thanks for being with us. In the meantime, we do want to get into this new bombshell report right now, just moments ago coming in from the Wall Street Journal. And I'm going to read from some of the piece, and this is quite stunning. Let's take some of this video. This is what we know. According to the Wall Street Journal, they just published this piece that a gunman who tried to kill Donald Trump was able to fly a drone and get aerial footage of the Western Pennsylvania fairgrounds shortly before the former president was set to speak there. Law enforcement officials briefed on the matter set, further underscoring the stunning security lapses ahead of Trump's near assassination. This is a piece by Sadie Gurman and Aruna Viswanatha. They go on to say in their reporting that Thomas Matthew Crooks flew the drone on a programmed flight path earlier in the day on July the 13th to scour the Butler Farm Showgrounds ahead of Trump's ill-fated rally, according to the officials. The predetermined path the officials added suggests Crooks flew the drone more than once as he researched and scoped out the event site. You see images of him there. The 20-year-old would be assassin fired at least six rounds from the roof of the American Glass Research Building, roughly 400 feet away from where Trump spoke, killing one spectator, critically injuring two others, and leaving Trump with a grazed wound to the ear, a secret service sniper team shot back killing Crooks, whose motive still almost a week on remains a mystery there as well. So of course we've been showing you some of these live pictures outside of the Crooks home there in Bethel Park. Police are done searching it, but there is somewhat of a cord and still in that neighborhood. Now, the Wall Street Journal piece goes on to say, multiple investigations are underway into how a gunman was able to climb onto a rooftop with a clear line of sight to Trump and open fire with an AR-15 rifle. Police had become suspicious of Crooks more than an hour earlier when officers saw him milling about the edges of the rally with a range finder and a backpack. Now the use of the drone was just one way in which authorities have said Crooks planned his attack. Crooks, described by friends, is very smart yet withdrawn, began researching the site shortly after the Trump campaign announced the rally on July the 3rd. He registered for the event on July the 7th, according to officials, and he visited the farm's show grounds a few days later to scope it out. Now remember on July 13th, officials said he returned with a pair of homemade bombs that appeared to be designed to be sent off by remote control as they were fitted with a receiver, like the kind used to send off fireworks remotely. Investigators found the rudimentary explosives in Crooks's car parked close to the grounds, along with a ballistic carrier or vest with three 30 round magazines in it. An indication he might have wanted to cause greater carnage. So this bombshell piece coming in in the Wall Street Journal saying that that gunman, Thomas Matthew Crooks, was able to fly a drone and get aerial footage of the fairgrounds shortly before Trump started speaking there. So that is quite a significant piece of reporting in the Wall Street Journal. We wanted to bring that to you as well. I was reading from the journal piece as well, some incredible reporting into this investigation. As we go into the weekend here, we're going to be showing you the rally tomorrow in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Trump and Vance will be on the stage for the first time together as a ticket there. And you heard in Kayleigh Scholars reporting, some people went there to the Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids just to get a look at the security posture before they attend the rally tomorrow. No doubt, there is some hesitation. There is some trepidation about what that security might look like in the wake of what happened in Butler PA last Saturday. We'll see. - So lots of questions with all of that information. The Wall Street Journal, of course, is reporting that he flew a drone as a recon measure to check out the site. Does that sound like, again, yeah, he could act alone doing that, but does that sound like possibly? Someone was coaching him how to do this. The Wall Street Journal also reported that he had three 30-round magazines. That's 90 rounds. Hey, I can do math. I know I was a cop, but I can do basic math. Multiplication. So he had 90 rounds on him. Impound, impound the media. You seem to push off conspiracy theories. Did they get to you? Have you been compromised? Discreetly signal us if they were here, if they here are now watching. Impound media, I'm keeping an open mind, and I'm keeping the possibility that Thomas Crookes did have help, that he was not a lone wolf as his being immediately suggested. And what I say, because I was a 27-year-old NYPD veteran, 16 years in the Detective Bureau, is that investigation takes time. We're not gonna have the information immediately because the public and the politicians demand it. Guess what? It takes time. Information takes time to get back, all right? Can we have preliminary information and let the public know that this is preliminary and it's subject to change? That is the line that every police department should say, every law enforcement agencies should say, when they report on a situation like this, the information we are giving you is preliminary and it's subject to change. We just want you to know that. So would that satisfy most people? I think so, but we're not getting any information from the law enforcement, are we? We're getting it from the press, our free press, thank God. We're getting it from. I am not pushing conspiracy theories. I'm just laying out there the possibility that there could be one. Would anyone have thought, in the 1960s, I don't know the exact year President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, would anyone have thought that that could have been a conspiracy theory? It's widely thought of now that there was some government involved in that, wasn't there? So this is early, this is a little more than a week since this shooting. So do we have to keep an open mind about what may have happened here? You bet, you bet we do, you know? And if you don't, you know, as I said, I'm not for everybody, go on another channel that doesn't believe that this is, could potentially be a conspiracy. It possibly could, and I'm not saying it is, but I want to leave an open mind out there because there's a lot of things that bother me about this case, you know? So many mistakes, so many mistakes by law. How could a, why was the airspace not totally frozen on the day that a former president was giving a rally out in a field in Butler, Pennsylvania? Can you answer that? Can anyone answer that? Can anyone answer how Thomas Crooks was able to walk into this site with a rangefinder and then didn't have someone glued to him? All right, you want to let him come in with that rangefinder? Put someone, a cop on him, that doesn't lose sight of him, like glue is stuck to his ass the whole time, because guess what? He wouldn't have been able to act that out. Or, you know something, this guy's too suspicious. Let's get him off this site, or better yet, we can't let Trump take that stage till we figure out what the hell this guy is, what he's doing, you know? But they did, all of those mistakes, and in fact happened. So are we thinking that Secret Service did this on purpose? I'm certainly not. I'm thinking it was a huge mistakes happen though. But when our government doesn't come out and get in front of these mistakes, then we as citizens have the right to ask questions. W.L. from the chat, what 20 year old does not have social media accounts? Was everything scrubbed before his attempt to assassinate President Trump? W.L. Great question, absolutely great question. Unverified bear, the conspiracy is just about the only part of the whole thing that isn't theory. Phil Grimaldi, I don't think it's conspiracy theories. I think it's asking the proper questions and seeking answers. That's what detectives and investigators do. Phil, of course, former NYPD detective Phil Grimaldi in the chat, and we all know we've all investigated myself and Phil were 9/11 first responders, 27 and 21 year veterans of the NYPD. So we know what time it is, you know what I mean? Placer 1000, Josh Holy went to the location himself. He was authorized to be there. The FBI told him, we don't want you here, you have to leave. What's up with that crap? Well, the investigative body runs the site and they call the shots. Do we want, you know, maybe there will be a commission, an investigative commission that will follow the FBI in investigating this. But at this point, the FBI is running the show. Randy, how did they seem on the roof 20 minutes both forehand and did nothing? It's mind boggling. Randy, these are some of the things that we all are concerned with. We all want to know the answers to. And right now, we don't have the answer to it, do we? And yes, it's very disturbing. All of these things, all of these questions are disturbing to us. Nina Shandro, Phil Gomaldi, good afternoon sir. Mickey Manal, Phil Gomaldi, hey, good to see you. Detective Phil, Mickey Manal, always good to see you. Spin doctor, PBA endorsed Trump. I don't know if they did or not. I'm not a member of the PBA. Nina Marquez, they cannot investigate themselves. Well, Nina, the FBI wasn't the ones that were supposed to be protecting former President Trump and this rally, it was the Secret Service. So we can all say that, well, not all, but if you don't trust the FBI, who is the investigative body that we can trust at this point? Jits Gelly, why no bulletproof glass around the Trump? Obama always was surrounded by protective glass during his campaign and presidency. You know, Trump likes to give these rallies and he likes to be out in the open with his people, with his fans, you know, with his Katarina Trudlova, I just missed you. There we go, the same FBI who raided Mar-a-Lago. Look, there's a lot of things we can draw our attention to. We can say that it's unfair that we don't trust this, we don't trust that, but, you know, this is who's gonna be investigating this, it's gonna be the FBI. And if we don't like their conclusions, certainly there could be more investigators or an investigative body down the road that looks into this, that, you know, as I said earlier on, when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, they weren't happy with the investigation so they established a commission known as the Warren Commission and they came up with a whole different report than I believe the FBI. So, but where, if there is gonna be a commission, the commission will start their investigation where the FBI leaves off or perhaps work in conjunction with them. I know there's people that don't trust the results of this investigation, but that's gonna be what it is. Here's another report by CBS News in regards to this. - We'll gather Friday for the funeral of the firefighter who was killed during the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump last Saturday. Cory, compare a tour was laid to rest at an emotional service in Buffalo Township, Pennsylvania, where he had served as its fire chief. Law enforcement joined the funeral procession while residents waved flags in his honor. Meanwhile, fridoral authorities are still investigating the events that led up to the shooting. The Secret Service is facing significant criticism for its failure to prevent the tragedy with its director heading to Capitol Hill next week for questioning. And Anna Schechter joins us now. She's CBS News's senior coordinating producer for Crime and Public Safety. Anna Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheedall is going to be in the hot seat when she goes to Capitol Hill before the House Oversight Committee on Monday. What can we expect from this? - There is so much anger and so much rage, even that we've seen in some of these videos where particularly Republican lawmakers approached her at the RNC and filmed themselves saying, "We want accountability, we want answers. "How could you let this happen?" So I think it's going to be a very fiery hearing on Monday with really tough questions. So far, her bosses are supporting her, but this is a very, very tense time for the Secret Service. And meanwhile, everybody is looking at what went wrong and the CBS News Confirm Team has been analyzing the events that led up to Saturday's shooting. Can you break down for us? What happened here? - So we've created a graphic and the CBS News Confirm Team has done an incredible job. Mapping out the location of the shooter with respect to these two Secret Service snipers, in one case we saw that there was actually a tree that probably made it difficult for the closer sniper team to take the shot. It was actually, we believe, the other sniper team that took the shot. But we also know in this graphic, if you look to the lower right-hand side of your screen, you'll see that's where the local tactical team was stationed on the second floor. - That's outside of the perimeter, exactly. Outside the perimeter, the secured perimeter that the Secret Service had control of. We also know that Secret Service in the middle of the day around 1.30 p.m. met with the local sniper. So they knew this was the plan they were supposed to. - My dad works in B2B marketing. He came by my school for career day and said he was a big row as man. Then he told everyone how much he loved calculating his return on ad spend. My friends still laughing me to this day. - Not everyone gets B2B, but with LinkedIn, you'll be able to reach people who do. Get $100 credit on your next ad campaign. Go to linkedin.com/results to claim your credit. That's linkedin.com/results. Terms and conditions apply. LinkedIn, the place to be, to be. - It's to be on that second floor, looking out through windows, trained on the rally crowd, looking for suspicious people. And in fact, it was the sniper who noticed the suspicious person, noticed the shooter, took a photo of him. And when he pulled out a rangefinder, that's when he did radio out. There is a suspicious individual with a rangefinder. The key thing though, he didn't radio, he did not know that he had a gun. So to me, that's where this investigation is going. Where, how did he get a gun? - He was looking through a scope at that point, right? - He was looking through a scope, but they didn't see that he had a gun. So it was alarming, they were worried, they were radioing out. They actually pulled back some local police officers who were working traffic to come and help. That's when we had the two officers go, one hoisted the other up, he was hanging on by the roof, made eye contact with the shooter, the shooter trained the rifle on him. He fell back and actually got injured. And at that point, that's when the first time that there was a radio message that the shooter actually had a gun. Was the gun stored on the roof? Was it stored somewhere else in the building? These are big questions that still are unanswered in this investigation. And we appreciate you continuing to ask for those answers. - So, again, we're getting information from the press, and thank God we're getting information from the press 'cause we're not getting it from our elected officials. But does this mean that what the press is reporting us is gospel, is that the absolute truth? No, it's what others have been reporting to them. And perhaps results of interviews, perhaps maybe some Butler police officers are talking on the condition of anonymity about some of the things because their job, it seemed to be, was traffic control and things like that. And when this went down, it seemed like some from again, and this is reported by the media, some from the Secret Service were pointing fingers at them that they failed. And I don't think the police in Butler, Pennsylvania, haven't it? You know, they're gonna speak off the record. Mary Michael in the chat, I'm doing some shopping and a woman stopped so I could walk past. Would you believe she had a British flag decal on her car? I pointed to it and gave her a thumbs up. She smiled and gave me a thumbs up. What a very nice story. Violet Lotus, I do not trust you guys in the chat. Don't trust anybody, but that's good. It's probably good. Check out the audio analysis, two different guns used. Okay, you know, but how design rhythm, how do you know that the two different guns weren't the sniper's guns and the shooter's guns? How do we know that? You know, the shots were fired and allegedly Thomas Crook's fired six shots, all right? Do we know how many shots, returned shots were fired by the snipers? I don't know. I don't know if we know that yet. And that's what we need to find out from the official investigative report from our government officials. And that's what we're not getting. And that's why all of these different stories are coming up. All of these different theories is because we're not getting it from the horse's mouth. We're not getting the information from the horse's mouth. Folks, if you're not subscribed to us going on YouTube, hit that subscribe button if you like true crime from a police perspective and it's free to subscribe. Just hit the subscribe button, hit the like button, share us with your friends and your family. And if you want to contribute, we have a Patreon with four different levels and we also have a YouTube channel membership with Canon five different levels. We appreciate all our fans and our subscribers. More and more information is coming out. And this is where I think the media does do an excellent job is in their editing of a lot of the pictures, the music, figuring out a timeline that is quite accurate. And I'm going to play this. This is a pretty damn accurate timeline of what occurred. Flanked by the Secret Service and circled by police officers, law enforcement was meant to keep Donald Trump safe. But somehow 20 year old Thomas Crooks came within centimeters of assassinating him. We're going to show you, using footage from multiple angles, what was happening while Trump was speaking. And second by second, when the threat to Donald Trump's life was first identified to build a detailed picture of exactly how law enforcement reacted before and immediately after shots were fired. The shooting takes place at 6 11 33. But to understand how law enforcement repaired security for the rally, we need to go back. It's just gone five p.m. Trump was set to speak at the top of the hour, but he's running late. The crowd is gathered and eagerly awaiting the form of president's arrival. He's due to speak on this stage at the front. Around 450 feet away is the AGR International Building, a bottle manufacturing business, where Thomas Crooks will eventually take his shot. And here, behind Trump's stage, there are three bleachers filled with his fans. At around seven past five, one of those fans positioned here. Films a man who appears to have the same outfit and hair as Crooks, milling around the AGR building and looking up at the roof. We're able to sync the live stream with the footage shot from the bleachers by using this Elvis song. If I can dream, which is playing in the background and by matching what you can see on the screen. Now they're synchronized. Let's wind it back. Look again. You can see this is the exact moment Snipers climb onto the roof behind Trump's podium as a person matching the description of Crooks is walking near the building. Just after 5 30, this photo and a description. You know, I just wanted to say something that, you know, one of the big problems here is, and we sent it on a show the other night with former Yonkers police commissioner, Edmund Hartnett and Nassau County Police Commissioner, Patrick Ryder and retired and my PD detective, Phil Gromaldi, was the horrific communication between local law enforcement and the secret service. Why did local law enforcement not have a secret service radio? So they could radio in real time, right to them. There's a guy, a suspicious guy on the roof. They didn't have that ability. That's inexcusable. And to what that? Then have a secret service guy or multiple guys with the local police. Communication is the lifeblood of any police work. If you can't communicate, you see what just happened here. - Kid of Crooks is circulated by police to the tactical command center. It was taken around 10 past five at the event, though it's unclear where he was at the time. ♪ God bless the USA ♪ Back at the rally and now running more than an hour late, Trump arrives just after 6 p.m., flanked by a secret service detail. After a few minutes of greeting and outing up the audience, Trump begins to speak. - This is a big crowd. - This is a big, big, beautiful crowd. - At nine minutes past six, people listening to Trump from here outside the event start to panic. - Look, they're all pointing. - Again, using the audio from the footage, we're able to match it to the exact moment in Trump's speech. The crowd spots Crooks, who is now lying down on the roof of the building. Less than two minutes before the first shots fired, the footage shows police walking around the building, seemingly unable to see what these onlookers can. - Here he is right there. Right there, see him? He's laying down, see him? - Yeah, he's laying down. - In another video filmed at the exact same moment from the main crowd, we see that snipers have turned in the direction of the gunman Crooks, who remember he's in position on the roof here. People with sight of Crooks get increasingly worried. When they first try to alert police, there's still a minute and 27 seconds until Trump is shocked. - He's an officer and a country that should be here. Dangerous people. - Cremitor? - We are right on the roof. - He's laying down the roof, he's lying. - We are right here, right on the roof. - A minute and seven seconds before the first shots are taken, sitting behind Trump in the bleachers, this person also seems to spot something. And with just 11 seconds to go. - You know, if this is not disturbing to everyone, it's unbelievably, you know, it's just you cannot believe that an organization like the Secret Service, a professional organization has been protecting presidents for, you know, our entire lifetime longer than that, that this could happen. It just seems like, you know, amateurish, you know, and then I, it just doesn't seem like, you know, and I know the conspiracy theorists was, it wasn't an accident, it was my design, I don't buy that, but there's so many mistakes here. And again, number one on the hit parade, as far as I'm concerned, is poor communication. Andrea from the chat, Faro, I think everyone has conditioned that aware that coloring outside the lines is dealt with severely, but still should have considered such a ways to communicate. You know, I can't believe that's the number one problem here was lack of communication. And that's impound media, the kid has drones or the Secret Service can't have them and much more. Well, you know, I just, we're gonna get the whole investigation soon, not by the media, but by the way, the media's doing an unbelievable job, putting this video together, putting these pictures together. This, I'm sure the FBI will be using this because the media's doing their work for them, unbelievable. This soldier, who appears to be behind the bleachers, makes a hand signal, but it's not clear what it means. Now, there are only nine seconds before the first shot is fired. We have four different vantage points of the imminent attack. On the main camera, we see Trump speaking about immigration. From a second angle, filmed from the bleachers behind Trump, we see a Secret Service officer tell a photographer to move. From our third point of view, outside the event, near the rooftop, people start to run. And from this fourth video filmed in the crowd, we see a sniper poised for action. Then the shots are fired. Take a look at what happens. Trump ducks beneath the podium and Secret Service personnel immediately leap on top to protect him. We hear nine shots, though it's not clear which are fired by crooks and which by law enforcement. And then one more. We do know at least one of these shots killed rally attendee Corey Compator and seriously injured two others. In this video, filmed near Crooks' rooftop, we hear the fate of the gunman, just 31 seconds after the first shot. He's dead. I just seen his hair a lot, they shot on the head. Oh, ****. 13 seconds later, the Secret Service confirms Crooks has been neutralised. Good. She was down on the bed to go. They pull the bloodied former president to his feet and move him off stage, as the crowd films and chants. USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! Almost immediately after the shooting, people began examining the security decisions that ultimately allowed Thomas Crooks to open fire on Donald Trump. Director of the Secret Service, Kimberly Cheetall, has told ABC News the shooting was unacceptable. Homeland Security called it a security failure. How is it that an hour before the shooting, snipers were in position while a man who looked like Crooks scanned the building? Around 40 minutes before, police were circulating. My dad works in B2B marketing. He came by my school for career day and said he was a big row as man. Then he told everyone how much he loved calculating his return on ad spend. My friends still laughing at me to this day. Not everyone gets B2B. But with LinkedIn, you'll be able to reach people who do. Get $100 credit on your next ad campaign. Go to LinkedIn.com/results to claim your credit. That's LinkedIn.com/results. Terms and conditions apply. LinkedIn, the place to be, to be. A photo of Crooks. And minutes before, the crowd was raising the alarm that a man was on the roof overlooking the rally. He's laying down, feel? Yeah, he's laying down. Trump was still allowed on stage to speak, almost assassinated, and a man lost his life. Unbelievable, right? I mean, them knowing that Thomas Crooks was a threat. Why did they allow Donald Trump to go on the stage and start his speech? Why? Why wasn't he prevented from doing that? I would have been very concerned when a person that was stopped with a rangefinder coming in and didn't have someone assigned to either put him out of service for the entire duration of this event by locking him down somewhere. Why was he not followed? Why was there no Secret Service Agent assigned to him his every step? He was suspicious. Another thing I wanna know, and I don't know the answer to this, did the FBI know about Thomas Crooks before the day of this shooting? And you may say, oh, that's a conspiracy. No, because they get information about people like this. Certain areas, who are the threats? Who might be a threat? Thomas Crooks has a lot of, let's put it this way. He has a lot of the traits of an active shooter, a loner, a person bullied, smart kid, right? Doesn't talk to people, probably is working in a job below his capabilities that he had a two-year engineering degree, and he was working with $16 an hour in a nursing home as a dietary aid. Could that be also because of his personality, of his mentality? I don't know. Just an American from the chat, Bob, but yes, there were many 9/11 calls about a shooter on the roof. Janelle Woodward from the chat, so much info out there that it's difficult to know what is correct. Janelle Woodward, you're so correct, and that's why it's up to our government to give us the facts that we don't get them from 10 different sources because if we do, chances are that much of it will be false, and that just happens to be a fact. Shaker's sister, I could be on the FBI list. I hope not. Well, I can't read some of the alleged, I wanna ask people in the chat, and this is very simple. If you think that Thomas Crooks, the shooter, 100% acted alone, I want you to put a one in the chat. If you think the active shooter, Thomas Crooks, had help, and maybe not physical help on the day of it, but coaching and people outside, perhaps even financed him, put a two in the chat. I just wanna say it seems that our chat is sort of conflicted in regards to how they feel about this, and I'm seeing a lot of twos, I'm seeing a lot of twos that people aren't believing that he did this by himself, that he perhaps had help, and I think that you look, it's too early in the investigation to say that this person on the screen, this person on the screen did not have help that he acted totally alone. I think it's way too early to see that, because as I said to everyone early on, that investigation takes time, and there hasn't been enough time that's passed yet, for the FBI to have come up with a clear, concise conclusion to what has happened here, and when they do, hopefully our government will put it out there, you know, both people, BlackRock, yes, there's supposedly some interaction with that, but again, I want to get that from the horse's mouth. Many, I think most of the people in that little poll, Proverbs, Proverbs 31 underscore 25, she votes two, so I think that many of you guys think that Thomas Crooks had helped, he did not act alone. Tiffany Knox, how are you, hi Bill, how are you, good to see you? - You know, the New York Times put out a pretty good, I'm gonna play this, this is very short, I think it's only about a few minutes long, but I want to play this, this is pretty well done. - Come up with a roof, look. Gary is right there. - There were early warnings to police. A secret service sniper team, abruptly changing position. A sudden panic, and then multiple gunshots, fired at the former president. A bullet passing right by his head. One person was killed, two more were injured. How could such a brazen assault occur at a rally protected by the secret service, and several other law enforcement agencies? To piece together what happened, second by second, the New York Times reviewed dozens of videos and photos, and examined audio from the rally. Our analysis shows how a clear threat emerged minutes before the shooting, and how law enforcement failed to protect the former president. And those who came to see him. - I'm on a shooting at the Trump rally. - Thousands are attending a weekend rally for Donald Trump at a show ground in Butler, Pennsylvania. Behind the stage where Trump will speak, two teams of secret service snipers are posted on top of sheds. They're facing in opposite directions, covering different areas of the rally. The secret service is also protecting the area closest to the stage. For areas further away, state and local law enforcement are responsible for security. And they are using this building as a staging area. Snipers are positioned on the second floor. Videos show several police cars parked outside. An hour before the shooting, the suspect is filmed loitering in this area. A local law enforcement official told the Times that around 20 minutes before Trump began speaking, a police officer took a photo of the man who was acting suspicious. The officer circulates the photo among other officers, but loses track of the suspicious man. See, there's an example. Okay, the officer circulates the photo, but loses track. Well, how do you lose track? You're a professional officer. You're a professional secret service. You do not lose track. Failure is not an option, but here it was, and we see what happened. - At 6.05 p.m., Trump begins his speech. It will last just six minutes. Right now, the sharpshooters behind him appear relaxed and are standing upright. At 6.09 p.m., exactly two minutes before Trump is hit, rally goers start pointing at a man crawling atop this building next to the staging area. It's the building closest to the rally area. - Right there, see him? He's laying down, see him? - Yeah, he's laying down. - Grab it on us. - Grab him up here, he's laying on the roof, he's lying. - Right here, he's laying on the roof. - As the crowd yells warnings, the times identified at least one local police officer walking alongside the building. At the same moment, this scene plays out. Footage captures one of the sniper teams behind Trump turn around and face toward the building. The other sniper team can also be seen looking intently in the same direction. - All right, guys, take a look at that chart, take a look at the arrow on the bottom. - As Trump continues his speech, the man continues to crawl across the roof for over a minute. At some point, according to a local official, a police officer is hoisted up to check the roof, but drops when the gunman aims at him. - And look what happened to our country. - Seconds before he opens fire, people at the rally's perimeter see he's holding a weapon and begin to run. - He's got it, he's got it, he's got it, he's got it! - One of the snipers drops his binoculars. - You know, if that is not, that you've seen that he has a gun, someone's screaming, he has a gun, that is real disturbing, you know? And the fact that it's the people in the crowd that see it and not the police alone enforcement, and it took law enforcement longer than it should have for them to know, and that, this is extremely scary, extremely scary. - The other grabs his gun. Within seconds, three shots ring out. - Take a look at what happened. - Followed by a volley several more. Video analysis shows the first bullet hitting the bleachers to the right of the stage. - Trump is hit, secret service agent swarmed him. Seconds later, a rifle shot is heard by the building. The gunman is shot. - They can see the guy down. - So where did the bullet come from? - He's on top of the roof, don't go over there. - Audio analysis of this video by an acoustic expert at Montana State University found that the distance from the camera to the sniper who took the fatal shot was roughly 175 yards. This matches the distance from the camera to the southern sniper team, indicating one of these officers likely killed the suspected gunman. We also know from aerial imagery of the area that a tree blocked the northern sniper teams line of sight to the gunman, but the southern team had a clear view. Back at the rally, one minute after Trump is hit, the secret service, say the shooter is down. As they moved to take Trump from the stage, he orders them to stop. And mouths the word fight to his supporters. - You know, I just want to comment on that. And, you know, I think the secret service is trained that, you know, an order to stop. No, you would just shut that. We supersede all your orders, Mr. Former President, because our job is to get you off this stage of life. If there was a second shooter, Trump would have been toast. He stayed on that stage too long. He was exposed to the crowd too long. And yes, nice photo op, but that photo op could have cost him his life. - On the bleachers behind him, three people have been struck by bullets. A volunteer firefighter named Corey Comforatori was killed by a shot to the head. Two other rally goers were critically injured. A federal investigation has been opened into security failures at the rally. And there are still many unanswered questions about the gunman's motives and movements before the shooting. But our analysis raises another question. One, the secret service wouldn't comment on. Why the former president was allowed to remain on stage when the threat had emerged minutes before the attempt on his life. - That was an outstanding presentation by the New York Times that really was outstanding. And I tell you the truth, I think that probably law enforcement will use some of those images in their own investigation. A lot of questions, it opens up a Pandora's box of questions. When I said before that Trump stayed on the stage for a photo op, I was being a little bit sarcastic, but he wasn't removed quickly enough. He was exposed, if there was a second shooter, he would have gotten killed. Because they said he ordered them to stay there for a second. I mean, please, the guy was exposed to a second shooter. Luckily, there was no second shooter, and he's alive. But that's some of the vulnerabilities that we see, even as non-law enforcement people, you could see that. And it was a scary situation. This whole thing should bother everyone, whether you're a Republican, Democrat, whoever you are, this should really bother you, because it's showing the hatred that's out there. And could this be a season of really bad politics? My dad works in B2B marketing. He came by my school for career day and said he was a big row as man. Then he told everyone how much he loved calculating his return on ad spend. My friends still laughing at me to this day. Not everyone gets B2B, but with LinkedIn, you'll be able to reach people who do. Get $100 credit on your next ad campaign. Go to linkedin.com/results to claim your credit. That's linkedin.com/results. Terms and conditions apply. LinkedIn, the place to be, to be. - It's to this presidential race and this big, both people from the chat, a range finder, what is a range finder? A range finder is an object that tells you how far you are in yards from a specific location. That sometimes golfers use something like that. Obviously, a shooter. He was using that to see how far the distance was from where he was going to take this shot. Taylor, coat, loses track of him. I think 20 minutes go by, WTF. Taylor, thank you for the 199 super sticker. CMB concrete fire. Audio equals three different gun sounds, but that does, what does that prove, the shooter? And then we had two snipers that fired. Are you saying, could it be that also the snipers had different weapons, different, but are you saying there's a second shooter? Look, I can't tell that. I'm not a ballistics or an audio expert that I can say that without some experts saying, yes, that's three different sounds. That's three different guns. So, look, there is so much more to this investigation. From the chat, Trump's Jay, Trump's security detail was given the day off. His other deal region was assigned to Jill. Well, I don't know if that, in fact, is true. And that's another thing we have to find out. And we have to hear it from the horse's mouth, from our government. And so far, we haven't had that. We haven't had a press conference from the director of the Secret Service. Her name is Kimberly Cheedle, apparently supposed to speak in front of Congress next week. We will see if that, in fact, occurs. Folks, this is very interesting times. The dissection of this shooting, this investigation. You know, and we wanna pray for the people that were shot, that were just innocent bystanders, especially the fire chief, Camparator, who lost his life to this, and two other victims that are in serious condition. Ghost from the child, as a woman, I must say, we were too short and not the strongest to protect a six foot four inch man. And thus, all Secret Service should be men, just my opinion, your testosterone is best for protection. Tiny dancer, 86, she needs to resign. She's more worried about hiring DEI people and not the best people for the job. And you're referring to Kimberly Cheedle. I have a feeling that at the press conference, excuse me, at the presentation by Kimberly Cheedle in front of Congress, I don't think she's going to say much. That seems to be the MO of a lot of our appointed officials that they'll hide behind the investigation and say, I'm not allowed to release that, which is absolute nonsense at this point. Anyway, folks, look, this is very early in this investigation. I think too early to say that Thomas Crookes acted alone. I think it's too early to say that he was a lone wolf. I think there's a lot of facts and circumstances yet to come out. And we will all anxiously be awaiting the real investigation to come out. And I see many of you in the chat, don't trust the FBI. And I can understand that. But that's who is going to conduct this investigation. So Gregory Olinsky from the chat, Mayork is first pressed briefing with KJP. Yet tiny dancer from the chat, 110% agree. Alta Mason from the chat will never know what happened. Well, I see now it backtracking a lot of covering up blame throwing. Unfortunately, we're going to see a lot of that, but I'm hoping that we will at some point get the truth. Carol Grayson, thank you so much for all you do for being a moderator on this channel. History, genealogy, I trust Bill Moore than the higher ups and other channels for sure. More experience, history, genealogy, Cynthia, thank you so much for that. Sherry Wilson, no bill, I trust no government officials to tell the truth. This is where we are in 2024. Legolas fans, 69. Yup, a lot of similarities to how Steve Paddock, we have told there's no motive in his past as being kept quiet. All you people from the chat, I want to thank everyone for tuning in today. Today, you know guys, I wanted to just end Chapman. Great show, thank you and thank you for tuning in in. I wanted to come on today and just to give and present some of the new information we have and somewhat play devil's advocate here. I can't, my basic instincts tell me that Thomas Crooks had some help somewhere along the way here. It seems it was too well planned. He knew too many ways to recon. He knew too many ways to prepare. So I'm not convinced that he's a lone wolf, as was said earlier, earlier on. So we'll have to wait and see the results of this investigation. So I want to thank everyone for tuning in on this Saturday, July 20th, 2024. I'm Bill Cannon from Police Off The Cuff Real Crime Stories. Thank you so much for tuning in and God bless everyone. (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) ♪ It's too late to do ♪ ♪ It made a big difference ♪