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But I intend to continue to stay actively engaged on foreign policy, on my environmental love for the Chesapeake Bay. | |
| So there's a lot of issues I intend to stay actively engaged in, but it'll be sort of under my terms rather than having to be here in Washington late at night. | ||
| What are you looking forward to? | ||
| Being with Myrna, my wife. | ||
| Oh, that's nice. | ||
| And a consistent schedule, I assume. | ||
| A more predictable schedule. | ||
| A more predictable schedule. | ||
| Senator, thank you so much for your time. | ||
| My pleasure. | ||
| Good to be with you. | ||
| And expected shortly here on C-SPAN, we'll take you live to the White House, where President Biden will talk about appointing his 235th federal judge, serving lifetime appointments. | ||
| You can also watch live coverage on the C-SPAN Now app or online at c-span.org. | ||
| Earlier today, we heard from Las Vegas officials about the cyber truck explosion outside Trump Hotel there. | ||
| The press conference runs about half an hour. | ||
| All right, good afternoon, everybody. | ||
| My name is Kevin McMahon. | ||
| I'm the sheriff of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, and we are collectively here this morning to give you an update on the cyber truck explosion at the Trump Hotel on Las Vegas Boulevard yesterday. | ||
| Our work never stopped as many of you went to sleep last night. | ||
| And I just want to give you an update on a lot of what it is that we found through the processing of the cyber truck. | ||
| This is a joint investigation involving the FBI, the ATF, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, and these folks worked through the night and found a lot of stuff that is very useful for this investigation. | ||
| As you look at this cyber truck here, we had to transport this down to our fleet services so that we could really get through this thing. | ||
| I remind you that the subject inside wasn't able to be removed for a very long period of time because he was burnt beyond recognition. | ||
| And so as we continue to move through this, I'm going to talk a little bit about his identity and what we believe, but I would like to highlight a couple of things that the teams found inside of the cyber truck that are useful to the investigation. | ||
| And that first and foremost is a military identification. | ||
| We also found a passport. | ||
| We found a Desert Eagle 50 caliber semi-automatic pistol. | ||
| And if you'll notice on a lot of these guns that we're going to talk about here, they're almost just burnt beyond recognition as well. | ||
| There's a SLR Model B30 semi-automatic firearm. | ||
| A number of fireworks that were still in the vehicle that had to be removed. | ||
| Notably, we found an iPhone and a smartwatch, and then several credit cards were also in the name of our subject. | ||
| Our subject is 37-year-old Matthew Livelsberger. | ||
| He's of Colorado Springs, Colorado, born July 22nd, 1987. | ||
| Now, as you'll see here on a picture of his driver's license, let's see, the question really still remains for me, and I know that there's a lot of you folks in the media that are identifying this person as the person in our vehicle. | ||
| As I mentioned to you already, his body is burnt beyond recognition, and I do still not have confirmation 100% that that is the individual that was inside of our vehicle. | ||
| And so, as I'm calling it now the subject or person of interest, I will not come back until I have the confirmation through DNA or medical records that this is indeed, in fact, the subject inside of the vehicle. | ||
| Now, further complicating this identification of this individual, we also discovered through the coroner's office that the individual had sustained a gunshot wound to the head prior to the detonation of the vehicle. | ||
| One of the handguns was found at his feet inside of the vehicle. | ||
| Obviously, in how we're trying to identify him, and I'm feeling comfortable to give you this information, is a tremendous amount of substantial evidence to include he rented the Touro vehicle. | ||
| There are two tattoos, one of which was on the stomach and one of which is on the arm, that we can see bits and pieces of it as in comparison to what it is that we now know he had on his body that has given us a lot of confidence that this is in fact the same person, as well as which the clearly obvious, which is the credit cards, the military identification, the passport. | ||
| And then, furthermore, as you'll see here in just a very short period of time, we tracked his movements from Colorado to Las Vegas. | ||
| And in a number of the photographs that we were able to determine, he was the individual that was driving the vehicle. | ||
| And also, I'd like to iterate this point to you. | ||
| We still have only ever seen him in this vehicle, and we're not aware of any other subjects involved in this particular case. | ||
| Now, I would like to acknowledge a couple of things because I know what's going on in the social media world, and there are a number of things in this case that are similar to the attack in New Orleans. | ||
| We do know that our subject here served in the military. | ||
| In fact, he's a current member of the military. | ||
| Both of the subjects served at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. | ||
| What we do know about that is it's a very large military base, and we have no record that they served in the same unit or even at the same years at Fort Bragg, something that continues to remain under investigation. | ||
| I also know that they both served in Afghanistan in 2009. | ||
| We don't have any evidence that they were in the same province in Afghanistan, the same location, or the same unit. | ||
| Again, something else that remains under investigation. | ||
| And we also know, of course, that they both used the rental company Touro to rent their vehicles. | ||
| As far as his military background, it's been confirmed by DOD that he was indeed in the United States Army. | ||
| He was also a Green Beret operations sergeant who spent most of his time at Fort Carson, Colorado, and in Germany. | ||
| He was on approved leave from Germany, where he was serving with the 10th Special Forces Group. | ||
| He was also previously in the National Guard and the Army Reserve. | ||
| I'd like to point out to you that through exceptional joint investigative efforts. |