San Bernardino Shocker: Reporters Allowed to Search Shooters’ Home (Video)
Cable news was set ablaze on Friday when the landlord of San Bernardino shooters Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik surprised reporters by letting them into the apartment of the apparent terrorists.
“This is kind of bizarre, this whole thing,” Anderson Cooper says about reporters being invited into the unit so soon after the massacre.
On CNN, law enforcement analyst Harry Houk was shocked: “I’m having chills down my spine with what I’m seeing here. This apartment clearly is full of evidence.”
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Network reporter Stephanie Elam took Anderson Cooper through what was in the house, including prayer books and beads, photos, passports, drivers licenses, stickers, luggage and scattered paperwork.
Elam pointed to a hole in the ceiling made by police. “They smashed up into the ceiling to see what was up there,” she said.
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On MSNBC, a dumfounded Andrea Mitchell spoke with presidential candidate Lindsey Graham, who called it “beyond bizarre” that law enforcement was allowing media into the shooters’ home.
“I don’t understand why, even after the FBI search, this wasn’t shut out,” Mitchell said.
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White House press secretary Josh Earnest declined to comment at a Friday press conference regarding the appropriateness of media being allowed to enter the killers’ home.