How can you say something like this with a straight face in front of the public? What a idiotic statemen. Somebody shoots the crap out of these guys and he says that he believes somebody wanted them dead. No sh** Sherlock!
I'd cut him some slack. He did say this to "journalists". You could keeping hitting what passes for "journalists"
nowadays over the head with reality and facts till the end of time, and it still wouldn't sink in.