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The Lead with Jake Tapper

Searching for Answers About the Manhattan Mass Murders

The Lead with Jake Tapper

CNN

News

41.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

The investigation into the deadly New York City office building. With new details about the gunman's weapon, his suicide note, and how surviving employees hid from the killer. An audacious demand from Ghislaine Maxwell, the woman serving 20 years in prison for grooming young teen girls for Jeffrey Epstein and friends.  Texas residents get a say in Republican efforts to redraw the maps. One Democratic congresswoman who could very well lose her seat if her GOP colleagues get their way, weighs in. Plus, Dr. Sanjay Gupta and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Searching for answers about the Manhattan mass murders.

0:03.0

The lead starts right now.

0:05.0

The investigation into that deadly New York City office building rampage is now shifting to Las Vegas as police begin to trace the killer's final steps.

0:15.0

Today, new details about the gunman's weapon, his suicide note, and how surviving employees hid from the killer.

0:22.6

Plus, an audacious demand from Galane Maxwell, the woman serving 20 years in prison

0:29.3

for grooming young teen girls for Jeffrey Epstein and French.

0:34.3

Galeen Maxwell offering to give her testimony to Congress, but only under certain conditions

0:39.4

she has demands Ms. Maxwell, how House Republican Chairman is responding to her demands. That's ahead.

0:45.5

And don't miss with Texas, one person said. As residents get a say in Republican efforts to

0:51.4

redraw the maps, hear from a Democratic congresswoman who could very well lose her seat if her GOP colleagues get their way.

1:03.5

Welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper.

1:05.1

We're going to start with the National League today.

1:06.5

Brand new details about that gunman's rampage in an office building in Midtown Manhattan yesterday afternoon,

1:11.9

where he murdered four innocent people and left one in critical condition before taking his own life.

1:16.8

Today, New York police are dispatching teams to Las Vegas, where the killer's from, and drove across country just days before the murders.

1:24.2

We're now seeing images of how employees inside 345 Park Avenue, their office

1:29.3

doors barricaded with couches once they learned an active shooter was inside. This all unfolded

1:34.6

yesterday evening just as the work day ended. Police say the gunman walked into the lobby of this skyscraper,

1:42.2

brandishing his weapon, and just opened fire. He shot an off-duty

1:45.7

police officer who was working security. He shot a woman as he entered. Then he went to the

1:49.7

elevator where he shot a security officer and another man. The gunman then let a woman coming

1:55.2

down the elevator escape the scene on Hunt before taking that elevator up to the 33rd floor,

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