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"It's a very, very sad day": Trump departs for Las Vegas

5:59pm IST - 01:03

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said ''it's a very, very sad day for me personally'' as he and first lady Melania departed from the White House to travel to Las Vegas. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).

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ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION) U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said "it's a very, very sad day for me personally" as he and first lady Melania departed from the White House to travel to Las Vegas. Trump is flying to Las Vegas as the quest by police to comprehend why a retiree shot 58 people to death has turned to the gunman's girlfriend, who has flown back to the United States from the Philippines facing investigators' questions about what she knew of his motives. Stephen Paddock, who killed himself moments before police stormed the hotel suite he had transformed into a sniper's nest on Sunday night, left no clear clues as to his reasons for staging the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. But law enforcement authorities were hoping to obtain some answers from the woman identified as Paddock's live-in companion, Marilou Danley, who Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo called a "person of interest" in the investigation. Danley boarded a Philippine Airlines passenger jet in Manila, where she had traveled to before the shooting rampage, for a non-stop flight to Los Angeles International Airport, landing there as scheduled on Tuesday night. A police official in Manila, the Philippines capital, and a law enforcement official in the United States, both speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters that Danley was being met by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents in Los Angeles. The U.S. source said Danley was not under arrest but that the FBI hoped she would consent to be interviewed voluntarily. Investigators were examining a $100,000 wire transfer Paddock sent to an account in the Philippines that "appears to have been intended" for Danley, a senior U.S. homeland security official told Reuters on Tuesday. The official, who has been briefed regularly on the probe but spoke on condition of anonymity, said the working assumption of investigators was that the money was intended as a form of life insurance payment for Danley. Danley's return to the United States is the latest development in a case which has baffled investigators for its lack of any apparent motive by the killer. Trump, who strongly supported gun rights during his bid for the White House, now confronts for the first time as president the tragic aftermath of deadly firearms violence that has routinely claimed hundreds of lives in recent years. On Tuesday, he referred to Paddock as "a sick man, a demented man," and in response to renewed calls for tougher gun control measures, said, "we'll be talking about gun laws as time goes by."

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"It's a very, very sad day": Trump departs for Las Vegas

5:59pm IST - 01:03