We posted a YouTube video that was on YouTube proper.

You just go visit it today of him taking off a scream mask and saying,

this is not who you thought I was, was it?

Because he was already so deeply ingrained in white supremacist culture online

that the fact that he was Latino was supposed to be a big reveal.

He was very deeply into white supremacist spaces.

He had an SS tattoo in his arm and a swastick on his chest.

This guy was not stopped from purchasing a gun.

This guy wasn't stopped from doing anything.

In fact, he found a bigger community online.

That's NBC News, senior reporter Ben Collins, describing the online presence for the man who shot and killed eight people Saturday in Allen, Texas.

We'll have more on what else we're learning about him and the victims in just a moment.

Meanwhile, in Washington, President Biden will meet with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy today to discuss the debt ceiling.

Their first sit-down on the issue since February.

We'll go through what is expected to come out of this afternoon's talks.

And also ahead, an update on Donald Trump's civil rape trial, as the case goes to the jury for deliberations later this morning.

Good morning and welcome to wait too early on this Tuesday, May 9th. I'm John Thlemere.

Thanks for starting your day with us.

We're learning this morning new information about the investigation into Saturdays

mass shooting at an outlet ball near Dallas that left eight people dead and several others

injured.

Social media postings reveal the gunmen shared extremist beliefs online with rants against

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