This is John Batchel, conversation with Andrew McCarthy, veteran prosecutor and investigator for the U.S.

Attorney's Office. He prosecuted the blind shake gang in the 1990s. His comments on what appear to be

coincidences of common purpose or common origin or common location of the New Orleans attacker and the Las Vegas attacker.

However, there are inconsistencies and puzzledments that cannot be solved easily, as Andrew

sums up.

Here's Andy McCarthy on what appear to be coincidences or coordination events, however,

is always a however in an investigation.

More of this later tonight.

They were both at Fort Bragg, although you point out that the guy in Las Vegas was a special forces guy. I think Jabar from New Orleans is an

82nd airborne guy. And as I understand the way Fort Bragg is laid out, Fort Bragg is an

enormous facility. It's probably like 251 square miles. It touches four counties. And the 80-second

airborne and special forces, as I understand, it couldn't be further apart on the physical facility.

It's not clear that the both guys were there at the same time, or even if they were there at

the same time, they'd had an

opportunity to meet each other. As you point out, the Las Vegas guy does not, so far as we know,

appear to be a jihadist. That seems to be, you know, self-evidently, a politically

motivated attack as you laid it out.

The one other commonality that's curious, they both used an app, which I had never heard of

until I read the accounts in the last 24 hours to rent the vehicles they rented.

One guy rented the Tesla cyber truck. The other guy rented a Ford 150

Lightning EV pickup truck. I don't know that the fact that they use the same app, and maybe it's

much more usual than I know, and I just, you know, it's a revelation to me.

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