Ian Carroll Exposes the Las Vegas Shooting: The Biggest Mass Shooting Cover-Up in American History

Ian, Carol, I have wanted to meet you. I'm grateful you're here. Yeah, thank you. >> Thanks, man. >> Um, >> so I just want to understand one story. I want to know what we know about the biggest mass shooting in American history in Las Vegas, 2017. I spent a full year looking into it. Got nowhere. um other than increasingly skeptical of the story we were told, but I I really don't there's a lot I don't know. So, will you lay out what we do know? >> Yeah. Um I mean, first the most important thing to highlight is that I'd bet that a lot of people when you started that sentence don't know what the most deadly mass shooting in American history is [laughter] because I think that most Americans have forgotten about the Las Vegas shooting because it just got poofed right out of the news after like a week and they just never brought it up again basically. Um and then there was actually disinformation poured in to try to stop journalists and investigators and regular citizens from uncovering basic truths from getting basic disclosure. >> Um c can you be specific what what does that mean disinformation port of >> well I think we'll get there in the story. Um, and but before we start the story, it's important to give myself context in that I wasn't there and I wasn't researching at the time. And so the actual work of what we do know was done by a bunch of citizen journalists, a bunch of really incredible researchers at the time, which I'm going to try to kind of shout out as we go through it because I didn't do any of the original research. I came in long after the fact and did my research and found all of their work. And >> well, you have a talent for synthesizing. So I mean that's what I try to do is I'm good at I'm good at getting eyes on stories and a lot of the best researchers and journalists are just good at the information itself at the journalism and we we kind of need these different people in these different lanes to sort of help each other out and work together in order to get the story done but then also get it out to as many people as possible. And this one is so important, as I think we'll talk through here, not just in that it's the most deadly mass shooting in American history, but in that it has very direct political and geopolitical implications for what's happening today on the world stage. Um, depending what theory you subscribe to about what really happened. But um the basics of what happened is we're told that Steven Paddock, this disgruntled 60some like real estate guy, ex ex-gun guy, uh thought he was a hot shot but was failing at life and he was slipping in his mental health. He had a gambling problem and you know all these little explanations they kind of give after the fact and he wound up going to Las Vegas. Um, and there's so many places here where I'm going to have to sort of say first they told us this and then they told us this and then they told us this. >> And first they said he checked into the hotel the day before the shooting. Um, but it was later revised because it was obvious that he had checked in uh like five or 6 days before the shooting on the 25th of September. And he checks in and over a series of days he lugs up uh I think 22 bags of weapons and ammunition to his hotel room um suite 32135. He he had two suites, 32135 and 32136 that were adjoining. And he rents it alone with no one else on the room, though we later learned that that wasn't true. And uh and he stocks it with all these weapons, which were mostly all AR platforms with bump stocks. Very important that you know they were bump stocks cuz that's evil and makes no sense. Um, and then there's this country music concert on October 1st, uh, down outside of the Mandalay Bay across the street in this big parking lot with thousands of attendees. And we'll kind of circle back to this endlessly, I think, as we unpack what really happened and what people really discovered about it. But, um, there's some stuff with the security guard that gets an alert about the doors or about, you know, what's going on in the room and he winds up up there and gets shot at through the doors. And initially we were told that that happened after the shooting, then it was revised to before, then it was during the shooting. So there's some security guard stuff in the hallway. But what the public found like experienced was they're at this Jason Aldine concert. And at 10:05 in the evening, a couple of distinct pops ring out over the concert that we have on on footage. We have footage of all sorts of around this story. And you can hear the pops, individual like pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop kind of things and then about a minute later at uh 10:06 automatic gunfire just starts cracking in the night and people start to run they start to scatter. >> Uh Jason Aldine still doesn't realize what's going on because the concert is super loud and he's got his monitors going and all this stuff >> even though most of the eyewitnesses that were there >> claimed that the first shots sounded like they were coming from the stage. They sounded like they were very close is what witnesses described. They sound like they were coming at them like from right there at the stage. Um, by the second volley, which came a little less than a minute later, Jason Aldine realizes he gets pulled off stage and everyone's scattering. And then over the course of about 9 10 9 to 10 minutes, 12 vols of automatic gunfire uh ring out in the night and are captured on body cams. They're captured on cell phone videos. They're captured on, you know, various recordings and you can hear them all across the Las Vegas strip. And then the official story is that Steven Paddock barricaded in his room up on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay who he's knocked out a window so he can shoot through the window. He's actually knocked out a window in both of these suites and he's running back and forth between them and shooting his bolt-action rifle and then shooting his bump stock ARs and spraying this concert with with bullets. and he allegedly shot more than a thousand rounds from that room. Um, used multiple ARs, even though one would have done the trick. And then allegedly he just got bored or sick of it and just committed suicide with no cops at the door, with no reason to stop, with no real explanation for why he stopped. He just stopped, shot himself in the head with a revolver, and that was the end of the shooting. And no other shooting took place. No other gunmen were there. No other things happened that night at all. That's the official narrative. Just this one guy with no motive, no manifesto, no explanation of why. Just did that and then checked out. In the meantime, the concerts tripping out. There's all sorts of other things that are definitively happening all across the Las Vegas strip in the air, at the airport, at the other casinos, which we'll get to. But um the police response to the alleged lone gunman is they this security guard that had come up and had gotten shot at, he had discovered that the door to that floor from the stairwell was bolted shut. Um, and so he had gone down, gone up the es the elevator and then at that point had gotten shot at through the door. Um, we found out that there was cameras kind of set up outside the room. So someone had visibility outside the room. But so the cops get up into the stairwell right by this guy's room and they are within a minute or two of the shooting ending. They're like outside the stairwell door that's barricaded and they're just waiting there. and they wind up waiting there allegedly for SWAT teams to show up so that they can bust through that door. And then over an hour after the shooting has ended and he's allegedly shot himself, finally the SWAT has the SWAT, which we'll get to, has busted through the stairwell door and they're on the floor and then they breach his hotel room door. Um, [snorts] and we have one body cam of this that is very suspicious and he's dead there on the floor and they secure the room and it's all over. But [clears throat] immediately the public was completely not with that explanation because everyone that had been there had experienced something completely different than that and everything that was coming out from the from the LVMPD um Las Vegas Metro Police Department. They had changed their their stories had been strange during the night. uh things that had obviously happened, things that were recorded on body cams, things that had been witnessed all across the Las Vegas strip were completely absent from what they were telling people had happened. And every single person that was there had heard the gunfire that was clearly not the firing of AR platforms. It was clearly some sort of, and I'm not the weapons expert on this, but there's lots of them there. It was a country music concert, and the consensus was that it sounded like beltfed machine guns of some sort. And when you watch the video footage, which is available online, and we'll talk about some cool resources online, the video footage very clearly can be heard that this is something else. But you can also hear that there's multiple guns being fired at once. And you can hear that some of these machine guns are in different locations while they're simultaneously firing just from the way they sound. You can hear lots of different stuff going on just in those 12 vols of automatic gunfire. But just to sort of tease out the audience on how many things we're going to have to talk about to get to the bottom of this. [snorts] We have, for example, at midnight, more than like an hour and a half after this guy's allegedly shot himself in the head, we have at least nine different police body cams that are public on the internet right now that you can go watch where all nine of them at 11:59, I think it is. All of them in different locations around the strip record like seven to five volleys of automatic gunfire somewhere down by the Bellagio. And I say 7 to five because some of their body cams capture the later five and some of them capture an earlier two as well. And in between there you can hear the police dispatch saying we got reports of shots of Bellagio, shots of Bellagio. And then all throughout the night there's all sorts of body cam footage talking about we've got a suspect at Tropicana. We got a gunman at Tropicana. We've got someone at Bellagio. We got someone in the Mirage. There's basically something is happening at various times throughout the night. Generally in a northward pattern at almost every casino on the strip. Um, some of them are far more corroborated than others. Like the Bellagio, there is dozens and dozens and dozens of 911 calls. There's body cam footage with stuff like I just described. So, there's stuff happening in the casinos that clearly doesn't line up with one lone gunman in one window that's been dead for an hour, two hours by the time these reports are coming in. Then there's stuff that happens at the airport. Um, and there's lots of stuff that happens at the airport, but the simple tease of that is that we actually have the audio from the control tower, air traffic control, saying um I think it's about an hour. What would it be? It's not an hour. It's at 10:35. So Paddock allegedly kills himself somewhere around 10:16 to 10:18. At 10:35, air traffic control says we have a active shooter on the runway. >> On the runway. >> On the runway. And we have a really >> on the airport runway at the main. Yeah. Although they renamed it, but yeah. At McCarron Airport, the Harry Reed. >> Yeah. Which is right there next to the concert. It's like, you know, two blocks. >> That's an intown airport. But it's a huge airport. huge airport and at the time there is a police helicopter circling over top looking at trying to figure out what's going on at the airport cuz something big happened at the airport. But the footage that we eventually that journalists got released feels very doctorred because it it's it's pointing at one weird angle and it's spiraling around. So you only get very small glimpses of what's on the runway, but you do see several groups of people walking around on the runway and it's in infrared. And there's a couple of these groups of people that look like they're wearing black things. They have black things which in infrared is steel is, you know, no heat. So guns, body armor, those sorts of things would show up in black. So there's visual of stuff happening on the runway. There's air traffic control saying we have an active shooter on the runway. And then one minute later, someone comes onto that radio call and says, "I want you to kill the lights on this runway and that runway." >> Kill the lights. >> Yeah. Turn off the lights. And they turned off the lights at the airport for a certain amount of time. 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Um, and we're going to come back to all that because there's what we were told happened and then there's what we have evidence did happen and then there's theories of how could you possibly explain all of that in a rational way that would actually fit it all together because right now the public has this experience with Charlie Kirk's assassination unfortunately where when a crime is committed obviously the actual explanation will explain all the facts. Some of them might be in weird coincidences. Some of them might just be crazy circumstances, but the actual explanation of what really did happen really does explain every single fact about a situation, right? Like that's just the nature of reality. You know what I mean? >> When you know the real explanation, everything fits. Um, and it can be bizarre. It can be anomalous sometimes, but it has to be that that real explanation will suddenly click into place. And >> in other words, the facts have to drive the explanation rather than the explanation driving the facts. >> Bingo. And so when it comes to Vegas, there's actually after citizens, journalists, media pushed so hard, they sued, they they went through years of fighting to get the most basic stuff released like autopsies, uh, body cam footage, audios, um, basic reports about, you know, police reports and such about what had happened, things that very much should have been public and forthcoming that weren't. Um, and they had to sue the LVMPD. They had to sue the coroner personally in order to get the autopsy of Stephen Paddock released. Um, I think he eventually wound up paying like $32,000 or something like that. And so after all that stuff got released, we actually have quite a bit like a huge body of evidence. It would take the average person months to acquaint themselves with all of this stuff. Um, which is why I gave that disclaimer at the start that I wasn't there and I wasn't one of the researchers at the start and I had to try to like become acquainted with the story after the fact, which is a monumental task. Um, and so I'm leaning on the shoulders of all these people that did all this incredible work to try to uncover this and then to theorize about what really happened. >> Um, and there's still a certain amount you're never going to get back when you look backwards at these kinds of things because so much gets covered up. That's right. so much requires you to have been there or to talk to the witnesses, whatever it is. And >> surprise, a number of the witnesses that were most vocal about the fact that there was more than one shooter actually died. Strange deaths in the weeks following, like people that were taking to Twitter or uh uh Facebook and being very vocal about their testimony that no, I guarantee you it was more than one shooter. I know it was more than one shooter. multiple different people that were doing that died in things like car crashes or of like uh weird medical conditions actually. >> Yeah. So um I don't know the number of exactly how many um because those are harder to trace down and confirm, but I know for a fact like for example there was a couple that uh died in a car wreck um that had been there and had survived and that had been the I think it was the husband that had been pretty vocal online about how there was more than one shooter and they're they're both in a car wreck and they die. Um, there's another woman that uh had been extremely vocal and had one of the most sort of viral multiple shooter testimonies that um I think that she died of a health thing. One of them one of them died of like a a random like kind of robbery shooting kind of thing. And and those ones are those things are harder and harder to uh confirm because there's not as much reporting about a single random person's death. Sort of like a a nobody, so to speak. And by then the apparent coverup was in very much full swing, but it's pretty well confirmed that at least a fair at least a handful of survivors that were vocal about the story being wrong happened to die. And maybe that's just all coincidences, but um there's no coincidental explanation for the number of things that don't fit that narrative that night. And so now we've kind of covered the official narrative, lone gunman, no explanation. And that is their official explanation is that there was no why. They never figured out why. And that it ended by, you know, 1016 or 10:18 and that was it and nothing else is true. So after the fact, I'm come to this story trying to learn about it and I spend a number of days digging through various people's documentaries and various people's YouTube channels and various people's reporting about it. Uh sifting through kind of all the old material and I wind up on I I stumble across this website called vegasshootingmap.com. And I don't know who made vegshooting.com, but whoever they are, they are a hero cuz what they did is they made a website using Google's map tools to build a archived map that is actually overlaid over Google Maps that has little pins for every single piece of original documented, not literally every piece, but hundreds and hundreds of 911 calls actually sourced. click it and then you're at the 911 call listening to the audio timestamped out for when the first volley is, when the second volley is, when the third volley is, or it's a reported shooting at Tropicana and you can listen to the the audio of this 911 call and it's so it's like this invaluable resource of calls and autopsies, uh the death reports, um police body cam footage, cell phone videos. I don't know who made it. >> I mean, that is an enormous task. >> Unbelievable. 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Um, [snorts] and so for me, when I stumbled across that, that's a gold mine because any story that's been covered up, any story that you you suspect foul play in the reporting or in the me mainstream kind of narrative, the first thing you have to do is hone in on what are the documented primary source facts that we can read and understand and see and hear. And so then I just started sifting through and I started watching body cams and I started listening to 911 calls and I started re piecing it together for myself because I found there's a number of really great reporters that I'll credit throughout here like John Coen and Jason Goodman and Mindy Robinson and um and yourself. You did some on it too. Um Alex Jones did some on it. >> I got nothing but it didn't smell right. >> Well, you at least spoke up. You at least were someone that was in that mainstream media space that was not buying it because it was just it stank. And so there's all these people that have made media that synthesizes it and made media that speculates and takes it much much further, especially under the Saudi angle that we'll talk about. Um, but for me, I was like, I need to start with understanding the information and see if I can arrive at a similar factual understanding of like when I look at the original evidence without these narratives on it, do I arrive at a similar conclusion? And immediately it's it only takes you like five clicks on random pieces of evidence on that map to realize that it's clearly not a lone gunman in the Mandalay Bay because how would I have this massive cluster of 911 calls coming from the Bellagio which is like I don't know like half a mile to a mile up the strip. It's like a giant block and a half. If you've ever been to Vegas, it's Vegas is a crazy place of gigantic monolithic buildings of sin that it it stretches on and on and on. And the Bellagio is way up on the northern end of the strip and the Mandandalay Bay is the southernmost building. And most of these calls come in an hour and more after Paddock has allegedly killed himself. And we're talking like people that work there. We're talking security guards. We're talking uh victims, people alleging that they've seen the shooter, describing the shooter, and it happens in multiple waves. And then a lot of them are clustered around, for example, those nine body cams that capture audio of multiple bursts of automatic fire while we're getting 911 calls from the Bellagio saying that there's active shooters at the Bellagio while the police dispatcher is saying we've got a shooter at the Bellagio. So when you dig into this primary source evidence, you very quickly realize that this is not just Paddock. It's not a lone gunman. And so once I familiarized myself with that, then I expanded out to like, okay, so then what did the people that did all this work, what did they conclude? What was their understanding of this evidence and where did they take a possible explanation? And that's where it gets really interesting and we don't know for sure, but uh but I think there's actually a pretty a pretty solid lead. Um and whatever it is, it's still at play in the modern the modern information space. Um because anytime you have one of these shootings or you know false flag events or anything that gets covered up on this scale, right? If you buy the mainstream narrative, all bets are off. You know, there's no facts there. There's no understanding of reality there. If you buy the mainstream narrative about 911, you have no level of understanding of even how many buildings fell or why they fell. Like, let alone who could have, you know, brought these towers down the way they came down. who could have, you know, guarded these hijackers the way that they were guarded all the way there, funded it, etc. But, um, once you realize that the mainstream narrative on one of these events is for sure not the whole story, then you actually open up to a whole world of uh, almost any explanation is possible, right? It's if it's a shooting and you don't even know who perpetrated it and you don't even know how many shooters there were. You don't even really know what guns were used and there's no forthcoming information of the authorities. Well, then journalists have a monumental task ahead of them, right? To a uncover the evidence and b try to fit any possible motive and perpetrator to the crime. And I think that's the most interesting question in the Las Vegas one in my mind is who has the motive to do such a horrible thing? Right. Because um well it depends what the goal was exactly like why are we doing this? Because if it's lone gunman paddock I mean a he can't do the things that we actually have evidence happened but like even if it's just a lone gunman why are you shooting down into a crowd of people even even a crazed shooter has a motive and you can trace that through their life. >> But when you realize that well no that's not all that happened. I mean, there was spraying of bullets down into this crowd, but then there was shootings happening at all these other hotels, at least at some of them. Even if some of these reports are fake, they can't all be fake. And then there's things happening at the airport that are that are strange that there's some shooting happening at the airport. So, it's like, are we is this a gang war between like the Italian mob and the Jewish mob? Is this a is this a CIA operation that went wrong? is like a Jason Bourne movie that then they're covering up the tracks of like Jason Bourne's like killing spree is this like a MSAD like operation and any of those things would need to fit the facts right and you can kind of try to like in lie of enough facts you can always try to fit you know the right you can try to fit a perpetrator to the facts and sort of invent explanations that will work but when the crime for for me what kind of kept sticking in my mind is how heinous the crime against these festival goers was that just did not seem to match the other stuff that was happening that night that was that because we don't have random women like shot in the face in the Tropicana and in New York New York and in the Bellagio at least we don't know of that if that happened it was all covered up there was shooting reported in all those places all these other hotels all down the strip at the airport and everything. And there are victims that are dead in other places. Mostly there's like over near the airport and kind of in a few hotels kind of in the direction of the airport. Couple down by the Tropicana who are dead. >> Yeah, it's and you have to sort through it really sift through it really carefully because some of them it could have I think were were confirmed to be festival goers that were hit and injured and escaping and then died of their injuries further out. And so, uh, they can be represented as having died like, you know, over there when technically they were shot at the festival, but not all of them. Um, and even at the festival, um, there's most of the deaths happen right in the middle of the festival grounds, but there's a a cluster of, uh, about six bodies that died at the far norththeastern side of the festival grounds. So, the opposite side of the Mandalay Bay where the shooter allegedly was. And they were across a barrier. They were on the other side of a barrier that obscured line of sight. So they were not visible to the Mandalay Bay and there's a cluster of four of them along a fence line there and then two in a parking lot like right next door that died right there that very much look like they were shot right there. Not that they escaped. >> And that would that be for a He was shooting 223 primarily but also 308. >> Yeah, they had multiple calibers in the room. >> Would that be out of range for the gun? >> Hey, I'm not the gun guy, but it certainly is there's there's no world where that's the shots that were taken. Some of the some of the rifles he allegedly shot with didn't even have scopes on them. He had he had rifles that did have scopes, but he also had rifles that didn't have scopes, and he had rifles that had bump stocks, and he had some rifles that didn't have bump stocks. And they alleged, the official story is that he switched back and forth between different rifles. And some of them he reloaded, and some of them he didn't. And some of them had scopes and some of them didn't. And he fired some of the ones that didn't have scopes at this massive range down into this crowd. Um, and we have a video from a police body cam right after the shooting, walking through this crowd with all this tragedy around them. and he's talking to someone, whether it's a medic or I'm not sure exactly who he's talking to, but they're commenting back and forth in a conversation about how many direct like center head shot there are, how many people like seem to have been executed. And the people in the crowd, almost all of them believe that there were shooters on the ground, that there were shooters coming into the into the event venue from the entrances and shooting into the crowd from the ground. And then journalists picked up on this and started researching it. And I believe John Coen did a lot of work on getting the autopsy data actually released and then analyzing and realizing that a bunch of these people were shot at parallel to ground trajectories, meaning that the shooter would have to be on the ground. Cuz if you're up in a hotel balcon, like in a hotel window at 32nd floor, the bullets will hit the ground. They'll be coming down. And there are a lot of people that were shot at that angle, and we'll talk about helicopters in a second, >> but there are a number of people that were shot parallel to the ground. And it's like, were they all bullets that ricocheted off the ground? and then like you know then went off and hit someone at a near parallel to ground angle. I doubt it. Then there was autopsies found where people were shot directly down from above like straight down through them. Um and so as researchers started to pull on these various threats >> like through the top of the head >> like through the like from the air above them and it didn't take like it didn't take until those autopsies came out. It was the very first day that people were already alleging that they believed there was helicopters shooting at them. And there's helicopters in the videos. You can see the helicopters in the videos. And the witnesses talk about helicopters having been there in the air. And a lot of them say that they suspect that the helicopters were shooting, that they felt like the helicopters were shooting at them. But then when you read the official story, the police reports, no mention of helicopters at all. None of that at all. It's just the lone gunman. And then when you look at the flight radar data from that night, there are a lot of suspicious helicopters that take off and land from and at the two helicopter operators in the airport there. Um, Sundance and uh, uh, I'm blanking on the one that Maverick. Sundance and Maverick. But there's also helicopters. John Cullen. Do you know who John Cullen is? >> John Cullen. >> Yeah. We're going to we're going to reference John Cullen's work a lot tonight cuz he's this like like deeply autistic type of researcher that just has a YouTube channel that very few people have ever heard of, but he he's the sheriff with like the glasses and and he's like a very funny guy, but he just like went after this story for years and years. And he's he's the type of detail oriented person that just that that would get the baseline. Like I'll watch every Sunday's flight patterns for 6 weeks so I can get the baseline [laughter] and then I'll track every single flight that went out this night so that I can understand what's in the air and then I'll look at every single footage and orient it on the map and get the get the lay with the time and then I'll know that like I know if I'm seeing a flight that's on the flight patterns or if it's this thing in the air that we're seeing in this footage is not documented. and and he went through all this work extensively to very thoroughly prove that there are many birds in the air that night that are not on the flight radar at all and they seem to have flashing coming from them. Um they they very much seem to be involved in what's going on. And so there's a lot of videos that are on that map I was referring to that as you watch, some of them are body cam and some of them are cell phone videos. And you can see these helicopters flying around behind the Mandalay Bay and back around and around behind the Mandandalay Bay and back around and you can see little flashes coming peppering kind of the night sky from in between the two hotels that are there clearly out in the sky um as though there was gunfire coming from an airborne craft of some sort. And so that got a lot of people thinking of who would that be and how would that happen and how would you get helicopters into one of the most busy metropolitan airspaces in the world that's like this is an extremely surveiled place. Um I mean not to mention the surveillance that we should have of all these shooters and all these hotels right well some Americans have become cut off from [music] the things that once kept us grounded our land. The skills that tied our families to nature. Told you he's getting his next. >> And to remind us, we made a new six-part series, American Game, Tales from the Wild. 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So we have So here's the thing, >> which you know more about than me. MGM owns like, you know, 80% of the strip or whatever. I'm exaggerating, I think, but it's MGM owns a huge number of these casinos that are not named MGM. And there is footage of this occurring in one instance, but there's testimony of it happening left and right of a hotel employee that was working that night that was told that was basically forced to sign an NDA that says you're not allowed to talk about what happened last night. Nothing happened last night. Your lips are sealed. And it very much was a blanket gag order on all employees of these hotels. None of the hotels gave out any footage. They all just locked everything down. Um, and they even fought the police on the story to make the story become something that would not make them look bad. And an example of that is this security guy that I was saying got shot at that we're going to come back to. >> Yes. >> I remember this. >> Yeah. Uh, Jesus Campos. Jose Campos. >> Yes. Jose Campos. >> Jose Campos. So he the first version of his story was that he came up the door was bolted he went down he came up the elevator and then it was after the shooting had ended he gets shot at through this door um and then escapes then that didn't really like square for whatever reason and the police change the story to like oh no actually that was 3 minutes before the shooting started that he got shot at through the door so that must have been why Steven Paddock went crazy all at once is because he realized he was running out time and so they're like that's cool. That's our narrative that's going to work. >> But then MGM was like well f you because that makes us look like idiots, >> right? >> Because then what are we talk what are we doing here? Like then we would have had advanced notice if our security guy got shot at 3 minutes before the shooting started. We didn't have any response. So like that's not going to work. And so MGM actually got mad at the police and the police changed their story again to be no actually Jesus uh Jose Campos got shot at about 40 seconds after the shooting started. during the shooting volleys is when they that's the third and final version of the official story of Jose Campos and Jose Campos put out a statement that was something like I do not contest that statement. That was like his official statement very much canned and then just like poof he was gone obviously. >> Wait, didn't he wind up in Mexico? >> Yeah, there was a thing where he was going to test his car to Mexico. >> Yeah. I think it was that he was going to do a bunch of news stories and he was kind of like lined up for a bunch of news hits and then he just like >> actually he went to Mexico. Who knows? But then he got brought back and did Ellen is what it was, right? >> Yes. >> And he got brought back to do Ellen. Ellen was sponsored by the casinos because you had all the slot machines. >> The ultimate deep stater. >> So he did one Ellen interview where Ellen fed him all of his lines and then he disappeared >> and that became the narrative for him. >> Has he ever emerged to tell a story? >> Not that I know of. Um, and to be fair, I haven't done enough digging into his story yet. There's I mean, to be fair, I still I feel like I could spend another year digging into this, and I still would only be approaching the kind of expertise that some of these other guys have about it because they did devote years and years and years to this. Um, and there's just so much to learn and to look at because it's such a crazy event with so many pieces of evidence. and and Campos is this one really interesting one that exposes a lot of elements of what was going on here in that you had the hotel the hotel's interests in their reputation, their money, whatever was going on. You have the way that hotel employees were a part of this thing but then had to, you know, represent after the thing. You have the police narrative involved in his story. And you have a really important detail just in that like a let's think it through. If the sounds that we all hear in those videos, this like is happening inside of that hotel room and you can hear it all across the Las Vegas strip. It's like these are deafening sounds. Obviously, >> if Jose is in the hallway right outside of that door, you damn well better believe he remembers. If that was happening when he got shot at, >> someone's opens up with automatic weapons. It it resonates. >> Yeah. It's not like Campos doesn't remember. >> Thought there were fireworks. It's not like he changed his story cuz he didn't know if there was this cacophony of automatic gunfire happening across the door. Obviously, that is a shifting narrative to meet various needs of whatever the narrative builders need. Um, but the the the nature of him getting shot through that door is interesting once you start to put away the mainstream narrative and just look at all the information as it is and try to figure out what the hell was this and what went on here. and and we'll have to kind of rewind at the beginning to unpack that because there's a lot of facts that we haven't even talked about yet that become very important. But trying to figure out what happened with him and why he got shot through the door at that moment and maybe even when he did get shot through the door, that's interesting because it involves the fact that there was cameras rigged up outside the door facing into the hallway to surveil the hallway for whatever to protect whatever was happening inside the room. They weren't recording video, but they were live. You know what I mean? So, so whoever was watching their feeds could see the other side could see the hallway. And so, as a security guard approaches this door whenever he approached it, um, I mean, based upon the fact that the first testimony was that it was not when gunfire was happening actively, I would assume that he approached the door when there was no automatic gunfire happening actively. Um, but I don't know. But whoever's in the room doing whatever they're doing, and it was guaranteed it was definitely more than one person, and we can talk about the door locks in a minute. they see a security guard on these cameras and their response is to shoot a round of fire through the doorway at him to get him to go away um or to kill him, you know, whatever. >> And that's really weird. That's really interesting because obviously it implies that whatever's happening in the room, you need him to not come in. You need him to not knock obvious. So obviously there's something happening in the room that needs to be finished before the heat comes. But like we have pretty strong evidence at this point that Paddock was dead by then. Paddock was not a part of this. And whatever was happening in the room, it's like what was happening in the room? What were you doing that needed to be finished before the heat came to that room? Because they had taken the time to put this tiny little L bracket, this little metal L bracket on the stairwell door so people couldn't come up the stairs onto the floor right next to their room. But it was like a little Home Depot thing. It was not the kind of thing you need the SWAT team to bust down. Um, and they'd rigged up these cameras. And so then it's like like, okay, your your brain, if you don't take the narrative, the mainstream narrative at all, it's like what what is this? Is this like a heist? Is this like a casino heist or something? Um, which is not what I think it was. But it's just if you start to ask like what could that be that's happening in that room? Is this like Oceans 11 and they need to like protect part of their heist or something until they get away with the jewels? It's like maybe that starts to explain a piece of this. But that's what I mean by like when you look at the original evidence and you try to square it with like an explanation that fits it all, it starts to get pretty fascinating and pretty weird. And in order to do that, we have to rewind past Campos back to the start because we know for a fact that Paddock wasn't alone in that room. And we know for almost complete certain fact that he was dead before any of this even happened, >> any of the shooting happened. >> Yeah. Before any of the shooting happened. And just to kind of wet our whistle on that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, we don't know it for fact fact, but the actual official photo of of um Paddock dead in the room like overhead looking down at him with the blood stain, there's very clearly two blood stains. It's very clearly a dry blood stain that's been like dried into the carpet that is one color and then a fresh like glistening red blood stain that is much smaller and fresher and redder over top of it. And there's blood on his chest in that photo for some reason. Although if you commit suicide, shoot yourself in the head, there's no reason why you would have a giant singular blood stain on your chest. >> No. >> Um >> and and so really quickly, while we're in this room here at that moment, let's unpack some of the other things that very much just debunk this regular narrative that are hard evidence that you can view for yourself. The SWAT team that they were waiting for to breach his room, they never came. Um although Las Vegas has one of the largest SWAT teams in America, one of the largest SWAT teams in the world, they never came. The actual team that breached his room, we have one body cam that shows it and they put out a report saying who was in the the breaching party, it was one SWAT officer, I think it was two K-9 officers whose dogs they left back in the cars and then a bunch of other police officers that just kind of like hodgepodgeed in there. And that becomes very important later when you start to ask where the were the SWAT officers? What were the SWAT doing? because they were doing something but they didn't they they the story is that they're waiting for the SWAT team and the mainstream media at first tried to run with like this crazy like CNN actually has a clip that I can give to you where the next day or two days later CNN is like tells a fantasy about how the SWAT team busted down the door and Paddock tried to fight his way through them and they had a gun battle and Paddock shot one of the SWAT guys in the leg and he got out into the hall before they neutralized him. Yeah, they just like literally made up fantasy on CNN live and we I have the recording. I'll give it to you. And and obviously that none of that happened at all. And we know now from eventual release of files, documents, and you know, a body cam that it was only one SWAT guy and all these other police officers. And so we have this body cam from officer Bitskco that they had to fight to get released. And we only have one because they told everyone to turn their body cams off. And that happened multiple times throughout the night. And I've got the clips and I can share them with you. Um, and they are on that map that I was telling people about. so other people can go and find them for the for themselves too where like a bunch of officers are like around about to do something and there's a couple instances throughout the night where this happens where then they kind of are like all right body cam's off body cam's off body cam's off and they're all going around and turning off their body cams and for whatever reason I'm not sure if we ever found out why it's possible we did Bitco didn't turn his off so officer Bitco's body cam he's one of the canine officers that does exist and we do have body cam footage of the breach and they breached the door and one of them accidentally They shoot three rounds like just like they just tripping out. Um [snorts] even though the official story is like Paddock wasn't alive. He was already dead on the ground. He had been dead there for an hour. Um there was no reason to shoot his rifle, but they were just hyped up I guess. So they breach the door. Three rounds go off really fast, which is kind of a nothing. And then they enter the room. And when they enter the room, they're looking for the window where this guy's shot out of. And you can watch it on the body cam. And they go to the windows and they pull the curtains back and they're like, "Nope, I have no broken window. No, it's not broken. No, no window." And they pull the other curtains back and they're looking and they all are like, "There's no broken window. There's no no window." And they're standing right. So we have crime scene photos showing the floor with the hammer that he allegedly used to break this window open cuz Las Vegas has like crazy glass that you can't just break. So he allegedly brought this special hammer that'll break that glass. And we have a photo of that hammer with broken glass all over the floor with just shell casings. Shell casings. Shell casings. Just all because there's a thousand shell casings in this room at this point. Plus 4,000 unspent rounds that he just got bored and didn't want to shoot and just checked out. So in the photo, we see the the ground next to the curtain of the window with the hammer with all this broken glass and all these shell casings. But in the body cam footage of them going into his room when that photo should already it should already be exactly like the photo shows us. They can't find the window and they're not stepping on any broken glass or any shell casings at all. They're looking for it. They can't find it. And there's like six officers looking for this window. >> How long did it take for that body cam footage to come out after the shooting? >> You know, I don't know exactly, but I believe it was months and months and months. It might have been a year or more. >> I think that's right. >> Yeah. Right. Because it was never supposed to come out. It was never even supposed to exist. All coverage, as you said at the very outset, all coverage of the shooting had just died and was never spoken. >> Yeah, it lasted like four or five days and there's you can see graphs, people have kind of charted the number of stories about it and it's just like everyone's talking about it for two days and then just gone, completely gone. And then YouTube started putting started banning accounts for talking about it. Uh, >> come on. >> All the different social media agencies started banning accounts for it. Yeah. And I have screenshots of >> on what grounds >> of things that are because um well the grounds was spreading dangerous conspiracy theories and misinformation. Um but there had happened to have been a active shooter drill that was done in the area like the week before or something like that. The day before I think it was the day before. And so they've been recruiting crisis actors for this active shooter drill that was being run in the area, which you know, if you learn enough about these kinds of events, you realize that drills are a huge red flag. But I believe what did what was done is that then they accused these conspiracy theorists of basically doing the Sandy Hook thing and they they strawmaned the the journalism that was happening to say you're claiming that no one died and that's so evil because you're saying that they're all crisis actors and so we're going to ban you. And that's not what anyone was saying. No one was saying that no one died. No one was saying that it was all crisis actors, but they sort of finagled the one thing into the other thing into the other thing to say, well, there was an active shooter drill, so it was all legit, and you're all saying it was fake, which they weren't. And so, you're banned. And so, a bunch of channels got taken down, a bunch of journalists got got uh banned off of platforms. Um, and they did their best to shut it all down, but people didn't stop. People just kept digging and digging. >> That is crazy. >> Yeah. So, they they breach, they can't find the window. About a minute later, they breach the other room. And this is another impossibility with the official story. Paddock rents these two suites. One is like the master suite on the because the those towers, they're kind of like these threepronged towers and you can rent this suite that's at the end of the tower where you have like the the 180 degree windows of the whole of the tower and he rents the one facing out towards this um event. >> But he also rented well it's not exactly facing towards it's like next to. Then he also entered the room right next door and he had they're adjoining and so there's a door that connects the two. And the official story is that the windows in both rooms were broken out and that he was shooting through the one room with his bolt-action rifle to try to blow up the fuel tanks over at the airport and he failed to do so. But he he was in the other room shooting his bolt-action rifle. Then he was running back to the other room with his ARs and rapid fire bump stocking with his bump stock that never jammed. >> [snorts] >> Um, that's the official story. But then the police get in there and the side room is bolted from the other side and he's the only one that's there. There's no one else in the rooms apparently. And the way they say that is because his room was bolted from the inside. The side room but but the side room was also bolted and they had to breach it with explosive breaching charges. And it's on you can see it on camera. And so so he was magic is what you're saying. >> He was magic, right? Because you can't bolt your side room from the other side while you're in a mass shooting spree and then wind up in your room and shoot yourself in the head. >> You can't do it. And so there's all these little things that >> physics intervenes. >> Exactly. That physics and and just reality intervenes once the evidence started to come out. And they've never really acknowledged any of that. That's all just kind of acknowledged it. No. >> I mean, how could you? There's no acknowledging to be done. >> Yeah. And by the way, by then, Lombardo was busy being chief of police in Lahina, if I'm not mistaken. >> You're not mistaken. >> Right. >> Yeah. >> So, he was at his next important job. >> Where is he now? >> I don't know. That's a good question. Someone should track him down and maybe move far away from him. But so that that's the room and just the room, just the footage of that, just that is enough to say it's all it's all horseshit and you have to go back to square one and start over with what actually did happen. And no one who put out that story, no official in charge, either Clark County Sheriff's, LVMPD, FBI, no one has ever explained how Steven Paddock could have locked himself out, >> not to my knowledge, >> of his adjoining sweep. >> Yep. But they also they also don't explain how the locks appear to have been tampered with. There's a whole bunch of weird lock. So someone I forget his name. I have them sourced in my in my notes. Um he got the door logs from the hotel. I I don't know if he had a source at the hotel or something, but he got the official because the Las Vegas's surveills everything. And they have logs of the do of the locks of every single room of when it's when it's closed, when it's open, whether it was open from the inside or the outside, the deadbolt status. And they have the time recorded and everything. And there's there's a shot heard by a witness earlier in the day at like 3:00 in the afternoon, 3:30 in the afternoon, which is kind of maybe related, but it's sort of a different story. But then throughout the day there in the afternoon, the deadbolts start doing really weird things where it's like open, close, open, close, open, close. And then at one point it um what does it do? The door is opened from the inside, logged, and then the next log is deadbolt unlocked. Meaning that after some weird deadbolt stuff has been happening, then at a certain point it displays something that's physically impossible, which is that the door was opened before it was unlocked and then it was unlocked, which would imply based upon this is what other researchers, you know, kind of gathered at the time, and I would agree based on what I've seen of the evidence that they pulled out is that that means that you have just hacked the key card system so that you can maybe remotely be unlocking and locking these doors or you have some sort of altered access to these rooms. And that would start to explain how the locks could be locked from the inside with no one in there, right? Because if you throw away the garbage Steven Paddock story, you still have to explain how you wound up with two suites with a dead man inside with the bolts locked from the inside and no broken windows >> on either side. Yeah. On either side. Well, actually, that's that's a I believe we aren't entirely clear because we have some helicopter footage, we have some body cam footage, and we have this narrative. I believe that the window in the other suite was broken out. Um, and I think that we have that on the helicopter footage and I think you can kind of see it. Like it's a little hard to make it out and like some of the photos taken from the ground that night, but there are some HD photos where you can kind of make out that it looks like there is kind of a broken window in the other room, but it's Paddock's room where the majority of the gunfire allegedly came from. That's where you see this police entrance where they can't find the window that's broken out and all that. So, so I guess the picture that emerges is one in which the facts not only don't support the narrative, the story, but they're like completely at odds. It's not a close call. It's not like, oh, did I see someone in the grassy null? I'm not sure. Let's look at the >> It's not like Butler where you have to get, you know, 10 miles of the reporting to be like, wait, what is with these cell phones? >> This is just transparently fraudulent. >> Yeah. Like right in the in the original video evidence, you can see the helicopters in the original footage that people put out from their cell phones. You can hear in the original evidence that was all over the internet that night. You can just hear the gunfire and know that it's not ARS with bump stocks. It's just not right. And then you can obviously hear all the testimony from all the people of all of these other things that happened that night that are complete lies. They're all made up. It's all just It's just people hearing echoes >> two hours later. >> Why wouldn't So this is why I went out to Las Vegas twice in 2017, but then just got caught up in life. >> There's always more stories. >> Yeah. Or short attention span. It's I'm not making excuses, but um but I didn't realize that the corpus of counter evidence was was so enormous. It certainly merits an FBI investigation. >> It certainly does. But here's the thing is I think they know everything that happened. >> What? But was there ever an official FBI investigation? >> Um, well, yeah. Uh, it depends on how you define it. The FBI was involved in the original investigation and I believe that the FBI did rule on, you know, a certain element of this and then the LVMPD put out their own report as well and they put out a behavioral analysis of Paddock uh like a year later or something like that. Um, >> and I remember his well two things but there but the FBI signed off on the totally absurd official conclusion. Yeah, they did. Okay. >> I believe so. And B, his brother, I remember, got busted for kitty porn. >> Yeah. I don't actually know much about that. >> I don't either, but I just having lived in DC my whole life, I associate >> it was it was a while after the fact, right? >> Yeah. And it's like a joke in Washington. The kitty porn I mean, kitty porn is disgusting and I couldn't be more opposed to it. I hate pornography in general, but kitty porn specifically has a reputation in DC, not among ignorant people, but among people who pay attention as like the hallmark of a of a manufactured story, like, "Oh, he got arrested for kitty porn. He can't talk or whatever." And as soon as I heard that, I was like, >> George Zinn at >> very much like George assassination. So >> people were laughing about that. Oh, I know. Oh, of course the guy's busted for kitty porn. Of course, >> shut him up. get him away from the >> I'm not Look, I have no specific evidence >> about George Zinn or about Steven Paddock's brother, but that is a very well-known It's a joke. It's a cliche. >> Yep. And especially when it's just so coincidental that it's like, yeah, there are sickos out there, but is it just is is it always that the, you know, brother or associated, the witness, are they always the ones? Are they the >> They're always into kitty porn. Um, and you can't can't talk to them. But it so you kind of bring us back to an interesting place here where once you throw the narrative out, you're like, "All right, where do you even start with this?" And for me, where you start is Steven Paddock is like, "Who is this guy? Who is he really?" And uh I need to do even more in this. There's when back when I got into this story, there was just a million directions and I didn't go far enough down him. And I was doing that again more recently a little bit. Um because who is Steven Paddock, right? Why the did he would he even have been there? Because it's it is factual that he did have all these guns in the room. It is factual that he did rent the room and he was there and and there's, you know, the the picture emerges a little more when you look into his backstory. Um, which is the basics is that he was 60ish years old at this point. And back in like the ' 80s into like the late '8s, he had worked at a defense contractor that was a predecessor to I believe it was Loheed Martin. Um, and I it's not like he was like, you know, some commando shooting guns as far as I'm aware. I think he was, you know, in some sort of office element of this defense contractor. Um, and then he I I don't I forget if he hopped directly into uh real estate. I think he had one sort of like intermediary where he was doing uh not sales but he was still kind of like adjacent to the defense industry kind of end of the 80s and then he got into real estate. Um and then allegedly he developed a gambling problem and so he had you know a net worth of several million dollars allegedly but then he allegedly gambled it down over time. Uh there's a lot of dispute over whether he was making lots of money gambling or not >> but um >> I remember that. >> Yeah. Right. But but that little detail about him having worked in the defense industry in the past and then going into like the the nondescript real estate is like that's not suspicious on its face. You know, lots of people change careers over time. But it is a little interesting that a guy that used to work and I I don't have any proof of what I'm about to say. This is just kind of conjecture based upon that. But it's interesting that a guy that used to work in the defense contracting industries back in kind of his prime years, like you know, in his 30s sort of. Um, then he goes into sort of a nondescript industry where your income can be fluid and things, you know, you can kind of be traveling, you can be in property, all these things. And then he winds up with what what looks like an awful lot like a kind of deep state sort of an arms deal sort of thing. An arms deal that's involved in this absolute mass shooting. Um that that does give me pause and question of like was he a private citizen that was stock because we'll get into the evidence that he thought he was doing an arms sale in a little bit. But I believe that he thought he was going to sell those guns and I think that's why he had them all there. Um and that comes down to the three women that were on the room with him. But the moment that you realize that you're being lied to about him being the shooter, you need an explanation for why the hell is he there with all these guns because, you know, like I don't I've been to Vegas and I didn't bring, you know, a whole arsenal of weapons with me and a whole arsenal of loaded magazines as well, >> right? I mean, you don't bring, you know, six rifles to go deer hunting or any any How many rifles did he have? >> Uh, I believe it was 25 rif Well, it was what was it? It was 25 weapons in the room, I believe, was the final count. Might have been 24 in the room. Um, and he had one revolver and one boltaction rifle, and then all the rest were AR platforms. Um, and then he also had a whole bunch of weapons at his other two houses as well. He had like 25 other guns at his other houses. Uh, and he just bought a bunch for this. >> And he was knowledgeable about guns. I remember that. >> Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. >> So, who were the three women and why do we think he was planning to sell them? >> Well, at first they didn't exist. Um, but then investigative journalists dug and dug and dug and they found out that there were three other women on the hotel reservation of