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ibgard is right for you. ibgard calms the angry gut. available at cvs, walgreens and rite aid. this is cnn breaking news. our breaking news here on cnn, the worst mass shooting in american history. this is is cnn tonight, and i'm don lemon live in orlando, florida, and we know that 50 people are dead and 53 others injured at the pulse gay nightclub, and the shooter is omar mateen of fort pierce, florida. they say that he was armed with an assault-type weapon and handgun. according to the neighbor, he worked as a security guard at
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the port st. lucie courthouse, and his wife said that he wanted to be a police officer, and she also says that he had a violent tempe temper, and her family rescue hed her from the marriage after four months, and he had been on a watch list for ties to extremism, but no charges against him on jihadi forums, but the isis sim ympathizers ar prizing the attack. nobody could have anticipated a deadly attack here in the central florida city. jessica snyder has the story of how this horror unfolded. >> reporter: numerous cop cars out here. >> reporter: the worst terrorist attack on u.s. soil since 9/11 here at the pulse, a gay nightclub in the heart of orlando. the time, closing time, and people were crowd ed in for latn
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night, the most popular night of the week, and then shots break out in the darkness, and witnesses think it is a part of the music, but a man armed with a assault weapon and glock pistol are shooting people in two areas of the club and some are escaping the chaos by running out the back, and others were urging, mommy, i love you in the club they shooting, okay. what club? pulse. >> downtown, call police, they are going to die. and calling them now. you still in there? call me. call me. call them mommy now. i'm still in the bathroom. he's coming and i'm going to die. a uniformed officer and two other officers at the time fire on the shooter identified as 29-year-old omar mateen. then the club management posts urgent message on facebook, get out of pulse and keep running.
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at 2:22, he calls 911 pledging allegiance to isis and praising the boston marathon bombers. then intense standoff follows with some 300 officers out sosi of the club. one person hiding in the bathroom covers herself with dead bodies to protect herself, and she survives. some entertainers are hiding in the dress iing room when the shooting start and they escape when police remove an air conditioning unit and they crawl aut of the window. then a s.w.a.t. team smashes down a door at the club allowing some 30 hostages to escape, and the officers confront mateen in the doorway shooting and killing him. one of the bar ternds say she hid under the glass bar and police calling out, if you are alive, raise your hand. initial estimates of 20 dead proved to be just far too low. >> and it is with great sadness that i share that we have not 20, but 50 casualties, and in addition to the shooter, there r
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are another 53 that are hospitalized. >> reporter: and the pulse nightclub owner releasing a statement tonight saying that the people who have worked there for the past 15 years have been like family to e her. she says this is a place of love and acceptance, and of course, tonight, a grim reality as this nightclub is now surrounded by police cars and coroners' vans. don? >> yeah. this is terrible. than you, jessica, and we appreciate that. i want to bring in nick valencia outside of orlando regional medical center and he has an update on what is going on there, and nick, more than 50 wounded, a wlnd can you tell us about them, and how critical are the injuries? >> well, let's start with the family member, and those who are still waiting on word who are unaccounted for. we were at the hamp inn which is the effectively staging area for friends and family awaiting word, and those who have loved ones unaccounted for have been
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moved here to the delaney school, and a short time ago we saw how emotional it is for the family members, an unidentified family walking behind those steps behind me seemingly unconsolable and we don't know what they are going through, whether they heard bad news or the fact that they have not heard any news at all that is shaking them to the core, but we were there at the hampton inn and the staging area when the doctors walked across the street to deliver the official word, and the official names of those who were killed in this attack. and it was just a short time of that that we heard the heart wrenching screams from the family members who found out that their loved ones were deceas deceased. one we spoke to was a man barone is a salano who was waiting for the news of his brother. >> and this is the thing, people misunderstood what happened inside there. and they thought that if they
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d didn't mention their family members' names they are dead already, and that is not it, because there are people at the hospital, but it is just that they don't have their names. >> so it is the lack of news that is really as haunting for some family members, and really, a chilg detail that we heard a short time ago that has a friend in the hospital, and they relayed the story to me saying that while they were working on the wounded and some of the dead were in the hospital, they could hear the phones ringing of some of those in the hospital beds knowing that family was trying to check up, and knowing that they were only going to be given bad news. don. >> and nick, the original question, how are the injuries? how critical are the people who are injured, and can you give us some conditions? >> 53 injure and some range from critical condition, and others are listed in stable condition. some family members that we spoke to saying that their family members were not on the list that was given out to those in the staging area, and so there are a number of people
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saying that their family members aret not on the lists, and hospital officials we should say have been limited in the details that they have given out, and that is part of the frustration here with the family member, and we mentioned last hour, these things have not changed and some people will have to wait until 10:00 a.m. eastern to find out the fate of the loved ones is the still optized. don? >> i can only imagine the chaos of dealing with unexpected and so much manpower needed. than you, nick valencia, appreciat appreciated. and cnn's pamela brown is here. and the gunman was american-born and what do we know about him? >> he was born in 1986, and 29 years old and born in new york, and then at some point he moved to florida. he was married to a woman for four months, and a short-lived marriage. she has spoken to the press as well as to investigators and said that he was abusive in the time, and that he had a temper and essentially the parents had to rescue her from him. then he moved here, and he was living here in florida in port
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st. lucie and remarry and has a son. at one point, he was on the fbi's radar in 2013 when the fbi opened up an investigation into him, because the co-workers at the security company that he was working for complained that he was makings inflammatory remarks that made them believe that he had ties to terrorism, and the fbi looked into it and interviewed the gunman twice, and others and did surveillance and determined that there was no wrongdoing that the fbi could not corroborate what the co-workers had been saying and substantiated and then he was interviewed in the subsequent investigation a year later, and the fbi wanted to know if he had close ties to an american suicide bomber, and ultimately the fbi decided that he did not, and essentially, the fbi moved on, and he was not considered a high priority target, and of course, don, now the question is if anything was missed along the way. he called 911 and pledged allegiance to isis and talked about the boston marathon bomber, and clearly someone who
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was influenced to some degree by international intererrorism, and then also had anti-gay views as well. >> and when i spoke to our law enforcement analyst, and the security analyst, and the police commi commissioner bill brattonb i said, if he had been investigated by the fbi 2013, 2014, and how did he buy guns loelly, pamela? >> well, with the fbi opens up the investigations and looks into what other people come to them to say is the issue, and if they don't find wrongdoing, they can't keep a case open in perpetuity and if they close the investigation, that means they didn't have an inkling that this person had any connection to the terrorism, and the fbi would not close the case unless they felt c confident that it is prudent to do, so and so if the case is closed, what is prohibiting him from buying a gun, and he had a firearms license and he was a security guard at a courthouse in port st. lucie and nothing to walking within the store of the
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last two weeks of buying the handgun and the rifle ultimate ly used here in the shooting. >> it is frightening, because you never know, and talk more about the 911 call that he made about 20 minutes into the shooting. >> into the shooting. >> and why was the boston bombers brought up? >> that is what the investigators are trying to f figure out now what his connection was to them, and obviously, the m.o. is different are, because the boston bombers used explosives, and he as you know used firearms, but he was influenced to a degree by the boston bombers and shared international terrorism, and of course, it is al qaeda connect and this is isis-related but at the end of the day, it is international terrorism, and that is what the investigators ri trying to figure out. >> and he pledged allegiance to the isis in that phone call? >> yes. >> and some of the class maim matts are speaking out? >> yes, they said that he was normal and nothing alarming and then others said, look, this is somebody that i could see why he
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would raise a red flag, and so we are getting the mixed reviews, but it is the ex-wife that the investigators are getting a glimpse into who he was and he has a current wife, and the ex-wife said she noticed a change of him in the four months and at first he seemed normal and then he started to acting like he had a mental health issue, and he was being abusive to her, and had a bad temper, and clearly, somebody who is unstable and other factors to play out to influence him to act out here. >> and she is saying that her family had to rescue her from him? >> and essentially, he told her basically that she could not have contact with her family, and according to her, and he wanted her to cut off the contact, and essentially her family had to help rescue her ak ording to what she said to the media and this is insight and this is several years ago and of course, he remarried, so a lot
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to learn. >> and pamela, this is coming out to gathering here sh, and t is gathering point for people in orlando, and they have come here to meet and they are here because they need to feel like there is some presence and they want voices heard, and people doing interviews and people coming here to say hello and happy to be here to tell the story, and they don't want us to tell the awful story, but it is an aberration, because this community and even the muslim community here are tight knit, and they work together. >> yes, tight knit, and the people are looking for the outlet, because the people were around the lines in the blood drive, and people wanting to donate the blood and share their stories and more, and to think that of in your community, the worst that the deadliest mass shoot shooting in american history, and you can't wrap your head around it, and you can feel it around us right now, don. >> and of course, sadness and grief. thank you very much, pamela brow brown, and we appreciate your reporting. we will be back with much more on the breaking news here, and the worst terror attack in this
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scene says is a moment that police stormed the pulse nightclub and dozens of gunshots that ensued and witnesses david ward lives next to the pulse nightclub and took the dark video from his balcony and look at this. [ horns honking ] [ gunshots ] and again, cnn obtained that video of what a witness says the
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police stormed the pulse nightclub and you could hear in the video dozens of gunshots ensuing and again, that is david ward who lives next door tonight club, and he took that dark video from the balcony. i want to bring in cnn's drew griffin and outside of the shooter's home in fort pierce, florida, and what you seeing there and what is going on there outside of the gunman's apartment? >> a few minutes ago at the top of the 10:00 hour, and i would say two dozen or so fbi and what looks to be an evidence are response team, and they congregated in the parking lot and met a fellow with a computer, and had a briefing and began to move back to the apartment where this suspect liv lived, don, and that makes me believe it is a long, long night of evidence gathering here and some 20 hours or so after the event unfolded. it is only beginning for them in terms of what kind of information they are going to cull out of this man's apartment.
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it looks like this team will work through the night as they arrived here a few minutes ago, d don. >> and drew, we have heard about the gunman's e behavior, and the father is also behaving strangely, and what can you tell us about that? >> this is what we can tell you that the father, of course, afghan immigrant who moved here and he attended the local mosque, but he also has been a prolific poster on youtube, and we are going to be showing you some of the youtube posts which some of the translation is somewhat incoherent, but in one he announces the candidacy for the president of afghanistan, and just within the last 24 hours or so, posted a youtube video where he appears to be posing as a military commander of afghanistan and says that he wants to arrest the five traitors of his homeland country. we don't have a precise translation on all of, th this,
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it is many in some cases according to the translator incoherent. we heard from the imam who knows the man and said that he has been an insurance broker here in florida. seems to be a nice guy, but now, we are looking at the youtube videos and other indications that maybe there is trouble here with the father as well. it is still developing at this point, don, but that is what we can tell you. >> all right. drew, thank you very much. standby. we have some breaking news here that i want to tell you about h. this is a video, and again, i want to play it again, and the guy who shot the video is david ward who is right here, and right here, and he shot the video moments ago, and that police or the moment that the police stormed thenightclub and then we will talk to david after this. look at this. [ gunshots ]
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[ shouting ] >> okay. david ward is joining us now, and this is happened when the club was closing, close to 2:00 a.m., and you captured that there was a hostage standoff for a while, and you captured the police going in and then taking him down, correct? >> yes, it is 5:08 after the detonation, shortly after the detonation, i stepped out on the balcony and heard a lot of commands from, i guess it is the swat units staginging in that area across the street from pulse which is directly below me. at that point i heard "go, go, go." and then what you heard there which is a volley for 10 or 12 seconds of hundreds of rounds.
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i think that they were reaching in where the machine rammed through the backside of the building. and then i think that is where they went in from. >> how long had you been standing out there, and were you living there or just happy to be -- >> i live there. >> did you hear the original commotion? >> i was asleep, and i heard two shots that i thought that were backfire from the car or something, and usually a lot of commotion there anyway and so i stepped outside and i saw some people, initial people fleeing out, and so i stepped further down and that is when i heard the volley of the shots coming from the inside and probably 50 or 60 round, and definitely a o automatic fire. at that point, i had my two daughters in my home with me, and so i rushed back in, and before doing that, i noticed that people were running away and running through any yard, but a number of them began to run back, because they realized that the people they had the come back with them were not with them, and so they were
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shouting their names and trying to get back in. at that the point i went to my daughters. >> did you hear any of the negotiations? >> no. >> so they were not talking to him from a bull horn? >> no, if that was happening it is further down from the parking lot or right across from the dunkin' donuts. >> could you see the chaos of the injured from your vantage point? >> yes. in the initial stages before law enfor enforcement arrived, there was one guy, shirt was off, the shoes were off and he was clutching his arm, and few minutes afterf that, before the detonation, they were actually pulling what looked like makeshift blankets or tarps and pulling them across the street into the parking lot on the other side where swat and other law enforcement had set up a triage and staging area it appeared. >> david ward shot that critical v video, and thank you for
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guest who was born and raised here in orlando >> yes. >> and what do you know about here being born and raised here. >> i was born and raised here when it was a small orange gr e grove, and it is amazing the transformation, and the diverse community and that is just accepts everybody, and it is tearing the heart of the community. >> and it is amazing story of why the owner opened up this club to honor the her brother. >> yes, and it is up to them to make their own comment, but it is common to know that her brother died, and she opened up this club in his memory about 15 years ago and wonderful people and operators. >> how are they doing? >> well, as we understand, they are heart broken and crushed and the statement should come from them, but they have been impacted profoundly, and many friend, and this is a business and they have friends and
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relations for them, and we are allowing them to come out. >> and what are you thinking about the community changing? >> well, it is everybody coming together. >> and the relationship of the muslim and the gay community, and that is why this is so shocking. >> well, it is amazing, because the muslim community is coming out the embrace their brothers and sisters and then on the other hand, you are seeing the groups getting together and supporting one another, and realizing that it is an act of a terrorist, and individual and not the community at large, and if there is any good to be found out of this horrendous nightmare that we are going through, it is the community is continuing to grow together, and be together, and this is representative of this central florida community that we are all so proud of. and i'm not a cheerleader and this is really what is happening, after the 9/11, and the muslim and the jewish and the buddhist, and the hindu community, and everybody got together, and they do business with each other this, and we socialize with each other, and, you know, a large part of
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central florida is the gay community, and so it is all coming together, and we are not going to let this stop us or divide us. there will be a few misses out there, but we won't let them stop frus are the great progress over the years. >> you were so helpful with the zimmerman trial, and so much else, and thank you so much for the kindness you have shown us. >> bless you all. >> and now, they also said that the shooter did mention the boston bomber, and i want to talk about it with retired fbi director james woolly, and also, ambassador woolsey, first, anothert terror attack on a u.s. soil, and this time, a man
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investigated by the fbi, and did he slip through the cracks or a deeper problem here that we need to deal with? >> well, it is hard to vet people successfully, and this is particularly a difficult one, because the fbi had two occasions to interview him, and they were very professional and if there had been anything there to be found in the sense of behavior that could have been legally objectionable, they would have found it. i think it is a serious problem, because, an individual like this one or small group can become a radical radicalized through various ways, social media and the rest, and undertake something of this sort that is absolutely horrific, and we are not going to succeed in dealing with isis and dealing with this kin of the terrorist attack by just oper e operating the way that we have been. is it not going to work. >> and we -- i was speaking to the police commissioner william bratton of new york city, and he said that there are a number of
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things that e need to be changed, and he believes that congress is hamstring, and people are tying their hands and congress should act on better legislation. do you agree this is >> well, essentially yes. i mean, we have a tradeoff of liberty and security, and we are lucky with the oceans around us, and the more or less friendly neighbors on the north and the south, and we have on the whole, we have had both security and the challenge to the liberty, but now we are in a situation in which lib erty really may have o see some compromises in order for us to have adequate security. and hopefully, they would not be compromises that would fundamentally damage the way we operate, but, you know, during the civil war and i'm not advocating this, but lincoln suspended habeas corpus, and we have had decisive changes in our
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security situation over the decades, over the centuries in order to have security, and we have had changes to our freedoms, and we are going to have to be careful about how we do this, but what we are doing now is not working. >> hey, jim maxwell, i have to ask you, the mind boggling question to a lot of people that i have been speaking to today, and if you are going online and looking at the social media, how did someone who was questioned by the fbi three times, and was under inis vestigation at least 2013 and 2014 and maybe not the target of the investigation or the main person, and how does that person end up being able to legally buy guns? >> well, the criteria for buying guns first of all if you are looking at the paperwork if you apply for a weapons permit, it is, you have to submit yourself to a criminal check. now, f shg, if you have no conv for felonies, that is part of the process to qualify for
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having a weapon. also, if you have no history or the documented history of mental illness, so if he is clear on those two point, and u.s. citizen, he has every right to buy a weapon, but, i'd like to talk to the bureau's posture on preliminary investigations. we can't arrest people based on rhetoric and comments, and the first amendment exists here, and if we start to change that, we are on a slippery slope. i have dealt with many of the investigations and seen them go short term because there was nothing else to hang our hat on and we can't go further, and i have seen them go further where all of the resources have been applied against individuals who are suspected of being involved in a terrorism plot. the fbi can't cover everybody 24/7, 24 hours a day, it is impossible task and the director will tell you that.
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>> that is exactly right. >> and jim maxwell, before i go, and i want to get this question in, and there is simply not enough man power, but i want to ask you about this 911 call and get your opinion on 20 minutes into this, he made a call to 911 and pledged allegiance to isis, and talk to us about that? >> well, he made it very easy and we can at least say that he was inspired by isis to carry out this heinous act. whether or not investigation down the road will show if he received guidance or funding or direction from any group overseas, that is a long term investigation, and believe me, i am sure that all of the resources of the fbi and the federal government are being applied here to ferret that information out. and right now, we can easily say that he was inspired to conduct this type of operation. but, that is the only thing that
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we can confirm. >> and thank you. thank you very much, and i appreciate you joining us, and thank you very much, and when we come back, we will have more on the massacre of the gay nightclub that leaves 50 dead. i am rich. in my gentleman's quarters, we sip champagne and peruse my art collection, which consists of renaissance classics and more avant-garde pieces. yes, i am rich. that's why i drink the champagne of beers. switch to cricket and get the cricket knows the play that'll make you celebrate. samsung galaxy amp 2 for $19.99 or the samsung galaxy amp prime for $49.99. this is how you get ahead in the game. plus, get a $50 bill credit even if you don't need a phone.
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country since 9/11 and 50 people killed here at a gay nightclub in orlando. and let's discuss with imam and also, a counter terrorist expert, and also the cair regional drirector here in orlando. and i want to talk to you, imam, first, and you are the only openly gay imam, and is this a title that you em brats, and how did it come at about? >> well, yes, i do embrace it and it was a gay activist many year years before i became muslim and through the process, i was able to see how i could meld both of them and appreciate both of them as a full human being. >> so many muslims consider homosexuality a sin, the same as
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christianity, and how do you navigate the beliefs in your religious community? >> well, mainly what people believe generally comes from the cultural manifestation of what they understand islam to be and in those particular texts that they allude to. in many ways, they fail to realize that there are multiple islams throughout the islamic history and throughout the lat latest team period, and even in the ottoman empire they have decriminalize homosexuality from a shariah law criminal place. so people don't know the history well enough to understand and to place the particular contexts, and these are texts within a particular context, and so very often they are going by what others have told them and not something that they have done scholarly research on. >> and so, mubine, you were a muslim extremist, and you hated
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gay people, and now you have changed, and tell us what took you in this culture of hatred and what changed your mind this is. >> well, you are dealing with the fascist ideology which just won't accept anything not like them, and especially other muslim, and whether they are gay or not, and you nknow, you coul be sufi, shia, whatever, but they are fashistic in the outlook and they want everybody to be like them, and nobody wants to be like them, because frank frankly, their lives are not happy lives, and that is why they take out the anger on people. for me, i remember one time when i was sitting across a young man and i was discussing with him how it is not okay to be gay, and there issing? wrong and this and that, and at the end of it, he said, you know, i'm gay, right? i could not believe myself, and i could not believe it, that i liked the guy, and he is intelligent, and he matched me
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in my debate, and this is really the solution to get to know people, and they are normal like everybody else. >> and so, let's talk about the dep deprogramming people, because you were working to deprogram people who are radicalized and the shooter's family said they never saw signs, but the authorities are looking into the possibility that he was self-radicalized and what should people be looking for and what are we missing here? >> yeah, you know, in this individual's case, he didn't show any religiosity, and a lot of times we will see that he is a criminal first, and then latches on to the ideology to sanction the violence, but at the end of the day, you know, when you are dealing with people who are just by themselves, and not telling people what they are going to do, and i mean, his co-workers reported him that he was always going off about gays, about blacks, and very racist, and beat his wife and the guy was angry all of the time, and it is difficult, because he did show the signs of when his
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co-wo co-worker was interviewed he said, i'm not surprised. so some of the signs to look for is glorifying death rhetoric, and making your own jihadi videos oposting videos, and the kind of the exclusivity of the behavior and how secretive people are and they don't want to show the videos they are looking at or that sort of stuff are some of the indicators. >> and yeah. i want to get you in here as a member of c.a.i.r. and the re regional office, and you are denounced the violence. >> absolutely. >> and his father said that he was disgusted by two men kiss. >> it is inexcusable, because you don't shatter the dreams and lives of so many innocent victims because of something that you don't the agree with. it is unacceptable, and it goes against everything that islam teaches. >> and how, and the reaction
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from the people in the community, and i was speaking with mark nejames here, and he is said that in fact, the muslim and the gay community work together, and what is the poss snblt. >> well, they are part of the movement family, and we have been roam iing the legislative halls for anti-phobic-anything. these are my friends and colleague and i was up to the 5:00 in the morning talking to them, and the first thing that my friends from the lgbtq community said that it will not be dividing us, and the hugs were tighter, and such a co camaraderie there. >> and you know, there are lgbt and muslim community, and there are gay muslim, and the two communities are combined with gay muslims, right? >> yes. >> and what do you make of this sin, and there are gay muslims and some of the people that are radicalized could have homosexual tendencies and they
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are upset by it. >> yes, and the world needs to open up their eyes that muslim or not muslim, and planned parenthood happened because of the extremist, and i was reading the comments in the local media and they were saying that this is the wrath of jesus christ before they knew it was a muslim, and so it exists in all of the religions unfortunately. >> and it is the stupidist thing that you could ever say or any. >> absolutely. >> and we will be back with more on the breaking news. don't go anywhere. (mom) we're ok. (announcer vo) it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. it's more than a nit's reliable uptime. and multi-layered security. it's how you stay connected to each other and to your customers. with centurylink you get advanced technology solutions, including an industry leading broadband network, and cloud and hosting services - all with dedicated, responsive support. with centurylink as your trusted technology partner,
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here we are back, the worst terror attack in this country. michael wiese who is a senior editor at the daily beast. i'm not sure if you guys p guys. i'm not sure if you heard the panel before and we were discussing how ideology plays into hatred. and he had to be deprogrammed about hating gay people and now he's changed. it's no different than there are a number of religions that say being gay is a sin but it doesn't force you or inspire you to go out and shoot 50 people or more. >> no. but there are examples, for instance with christian fundamentalests in this country, the west borough baptist church
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which pickets and protests the funerals of american soldiers because they consider home sexuality to be a sin and feel this is god's wrath. in raqqa, home sexuals being thrown off roof tops. this is due to isis's grim ideology. and even those who consider it punishable by death, can find no reference of men being thrown off roof tops. this has not been done before as a form of execution. and so it's absolutely embedded in jihadist ideology and the fact that this person may have had some innate homophobia prior to being radicalized -- maybe this guy had doubts about his own sexuality. this wouldn't be the first time. >> i just said that in the last segment that usually people that
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are that homophobic have tendencies themselves. >> and it wouldn't be the first time that a radical islamist or jihadist lashed out in this manner. i mean, look, we're still trying to figure out this guy was emotionally instable, a wife beater and it's the case that isis has coopted him. they have owned him as one of their fighters because this is because of their international bround brand. there have been instances of al qaeda and iraq using mentally disabled young girls, ages 12 and under strapping suicide bombom bombs on them and sending them to check points in iraq to kill civilian forces and there are emotionally unstable people going off to join all kinds of
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cult cults. dealt cults, islamic terror groups and so on. we shouldn't split hairs about the motive. this guy was really clear about what he wanted. which ideology he wanted to aspouse and which banner he proclaimed for himself. we're calling it the worst terror attack since 9/11. that carries some weight, some measure of enormity. >> and we keep talking about what motivated him but clearly he was motivated by he went to if not the biggest, biggest gay club in orlando and that was his goal to harm young people p. >> you don't know or can guess at motives until later when you find the person's social media postings or which websites they were looking at on their computers and who they were
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calling on their cell phones. when the terrorist makes the call to make sure he gets credit and you know he's doing this in support of isis, why would we doubt that? this is about as clear cut as we're ever going to have in one of these attacks. >> and tom, tom bernie, you're shaking your head in agreement? >> yeah, i can't really go against anything that's been said to this point. especially with my esteemed colleagues s colleagues. they're making very valid points. he clearly has serious issues going on. it seems very early on to know whether or not he was direct directed -- he chose this specific location. he could have chosen any number of locations. night.
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this is cnn breaking news. our breaks news, the worst mass shooting in american history. live in orlando. 50 dead, 53 injured at the gay night club. the gunman identified from fort pierce, florida. they say he was armed with an assault type weapon, another gun found in his car and he worked as a security guard at the court house. his ex-wife said he wanted to be a police officer and applied to the academy and that he had a violent temper and her family rescued her from the marriage after only four months. he was at friday prayers only four days ago. he had been rested for possible ties of
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