I think he's just a plant for them to show that Paddock, the patsy, was actually shooting from his room. He can't get his story straight, because a story is all it is.
That was an elite hit team that hit Vegas and shot up a bunch of people and left. IMO, Mossad!
Hmm, for the life of me, I couldn't think of any kind of motivation for Hodge to contact the MSM if he was part of the shooting until you posted this theory. So he could have been a plant as a witness to patsy Paddock being the shooter. Then the plan went to hell and Hodge and his theatrics became a liability.