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Serval hours after the horrific mass shooting at a country music festival in Las Vegas, Nevada, law enforcement officials were still searching for what motivated the shooter who killed 59 and wounded 527 people. And despite President Trump calling the shooting “pure evil” on Monday, both ABC and CBS were upset that he had yet to label the massacre as terrorism.
“The President leading a moment of silence, ordering flags flown at half-staff, and personally calling the Las Vegas sheriff,” prefaced ABC Senior White House Correspondent Cecilia Vega during World News Tonight. “But was this terrorism? The White House won't say.”
Vega played a clip of herself asked White Press Secretary Sarah Sanders about that very point: “The White House won't say. Does the President believe what happened amounts to an act of domestic terrorism?”
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