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Brown University shooter left confessional videos in storage unit, FBI says · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: Now to some breaking news. The FBI has discovered videos
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  Speaker 1: at the storage facility where the Boston University shooter took
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  Speaker 1: his own life. Police say Claudio Manuel Neivas is the
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  Speaker 1: man responsible for killing two people at Brown and an
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  Speaker 1: MIT professor. The FBI published a transcript of the videos
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  Speaker 1: Neivas left behind, which were translated from Portuguese to English.
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  Speaker 1: In one, Nivas said, quote, so what has been done? Now?
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  Speaker 1: I'm in a storage space in Salem, referencing the place
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  Speaker 1: where he took his own life. CBS News Senior Crime
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  Speaker 1: and Public Safety producer Anna Schechter joining us live now,
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  Speaker 1: So Anna, what are we learning from these transcripts?
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  Speaker 2: Juliette, This is really extraordinary to see because we know
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  Speaker 2: now that he had been planning this for weeks and months.
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  Speaker 2: It matches up his description, essentially saying that he had
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  Speaker 2: many opportunities over the last semester. I think we even
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  Speaker 2: have a quote talking about how where he talks about
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  Speaker 2: how he chickened out after having opportunities. There you see
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  Speaker 2: it on your screen. I had plenty of opportunities, especially
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  Speaker 2: this semester. I had plenty of opportunities, but I always
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  Speaker 2: chickened out, and I already explained why I did it
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  Speaker 2: this time. Now, Interestingly, the Department of Justice says that
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  Speaker 2: he actually didn't explain exactly why. They say they are
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  Speaker 2: still searching for a motive there. You see. He also
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  Speaker 2: talks about how there was reporting about something that he
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  Speaker 2: yelled right when he opened fire, and he's saying that
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  Speaker 2: I must have made an exclamation like oh no or
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  Speaker 2: something like that to express that it was empty. That
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  Speaker 2: is quote. If I said something like that, I thought
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  Speaker 2: that the people had left end quote. So he's really
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  Speaker 2: in a cold, calculating way describing this horrific attack. And
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  Speaker 2: I guess it's not surprising that somebody demonstrating some kind
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  Speaker 2: of sociopathic language carried out these attacks. But it is chilling,
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  Speaker 2: certainly to read this transcript. It's interesting that the Department
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  Speaker 2: of Justice chose to release this. They probably want to
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  Speaker 2: show that they have been making progress. They were able
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  Speaker 2: to get access to his devices. In one of the videos.
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  Speaker 2: He says that it was reported on an SD card,
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  Speaker 2: so they were able to upload those, review them, get
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  Speaker 2: them translated, and they wanted to enter it into the record.
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  Speaker 2: I think they want to demonstrate that even though the
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  Speaker 2: perpetrator is deceased, they continue to try to seek information
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  Speaker 2: and therefore justice in some way for the families of
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  Speaker 2: the two students who were killed and the other students
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  Speaker 2: who were injured. And of course the mit professor, the
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  Speaker 2: brilliant professor who was the father of young children married
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  Speaker 2: that he was assassinated at close range. That's another thing, Juliette,
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  Speaker 2: that it's interesting when he read this transcript carefully. He
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  Speaker 2: taught talk about being injured in the eye after he
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  Speaker 2: shot the professor at close range, and he's so concerned
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  Speaker 2: about his own injury, and he shows absolutely no remorse
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  Speaker 2: or concern about the lives lost and the injured people
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  Speaker 2: injured by his gunshot. It's just a truly chilling, just
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  Speaker 2: chilling evidence of that kind of narcissism and self absorption.
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  Speaker 2: And having covered a lot of cases, it is not
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  Speaker 2: uncommon for the perpetrator of these cold blooded murders to
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  Speaker 2: be so consumed thinking about themselves and not showing remorse
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  Speaker 2: for victims. But that really did stand out to me
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  Speaker 2: and reviewing these transcripts.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it certainly does no concept over what they're doing,
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  Speaker 1: just about their own physical being. So we know law
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  Speaker 1: enforcement are still investigating this case. What more, are they
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  Speaker 1: looking for at this stage.
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  Speaker 2: Well, they say they really want to find a motive.
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  Speaker 2: Here's what they've told us, and what we learn from
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  Speaker 2: our own reporting is that the MIT professor and this
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  Speaker 2: shooter had studied together in the late nineteen nineties, so
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  Speaker 2: more than twenty five years ago. They were in the
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  Speaker 2: same exact academic physics track at a university in Portugal,
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  Speaker 2: so they definitely knew of each other. But fast forward,
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  Speaker 2: we don't have a timeline of the two of them interacting.
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  Speaker 2: We don't have his Internet searches. Was he obsessed with
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  Speaker 2: this professor? Was he searching him? Reading articles? As the
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  Speaker 2: professor was gaining more and more respect and fame really
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  Speaker 2: for leading this prestigious laboratory of two hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 2: scientists at MIT and doing really important groundbreaking work. Meanwhile
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  Speaker 2: he himself was not succeeding in that field of physics.
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  Speaker 2: So they want to know more about that. And we
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  Speaker 2: haven't gotten much information about what happened between them and
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  Speaker 2: the intervening years, just in terms of did he become
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  Speaker 2: obsessive about this individual? Then let's look at Brown University.
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  Speaker 2: They in their statement this evening, they noted that they
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  Speaker 2: still don't know exactly why the students were targeted. They
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  Speaker 2: know that Brown University was targeted, but if you read
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  Speaker 2: the transcript carefully, he says he wasn't even wanting to
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  Speaker 2: open fire in that particular auditorium, so it really was
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  Speaker 2: kind of random. But what he says is that he
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  Speaker 2: clearly had cased this campus multiple times in the last year,
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  Speaker 2: and we know from our own reporting that he had
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  Speaker 2: rented a vehicle in the Boston area several times in
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  Speaker 2: the last year. So what this transcript does for me
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  Speaker 2: is kind of put the puzzle pieces together of just
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  Speaker 2: how much time he spent working on campus before carrying
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  Speaker 2: out the attack, and that raises serious security concerns to
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  Speaker 2: me when it comes to campus security.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely disturbing pieces to this puzzle and a schecter,
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  Speaker 1: thank you so much for your insight. As always,