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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 islamic extrooemism but
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-- we're going to get the very latest on cnn's jessica snider. so many killed, so many injured. this is the deadliest attack on american soil since 9/11. take us through what happened inside that night club. >> reporter: the pulse night club and. >> to this morning was packed. 350 people were inside. saturday night is the most popular night, it's latin night. so, a lot of people inside. 2:00 in the morning, the gunman storms in. the first person he sees and encounters is an off-duty police officer, and he starts opening fire and taking hostages. we know the attack went down in two separate locations within the club and for three agonizing
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hours, and then finally at 5:00, three hours later that police took down one of the walls with their armored vehicle. they were able to get some of the hostages out and take down, by shooting and killing the gunman p. gunman. it was a very tense stand off but finally at 5:00, they were able to take down the gunman themself. >> we have video of the moment when police were able to take down that gunman. it was shot by david ward. take a look at it it. here it is. [ horn honking] [ gun shots]
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>> stay back. >> and again, that was a moment that he was taken down, the man who shot this is about 5:08 in the morning. lot of fire power there. >> reporter: oh, yeah. it was very tense. some of the word we're getting is from people actually inside. so, a source who knows the night club's owners is actually told us several examples of what these people were going through inside the club. while this gunman were opening fire, people were fighting for their lives and hiding. one we heard a woman was in the bathroom and she actually covered herself with dead bodies to stay safe. she did survive. one of the bar tenders hid under the glass table and around 5:00 in the morning, they said anyone
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still alive, please raise your hand. people in the dressing room, they had to huddle together and hide until the police actually took out an air conditioning unit so the people could escape through the window, don. >> thank you very much for your reporting. i want to bring in cnn's chris frates. president obama once again spoke about a mass murder. >> reporter: i was in the white house briefing room when the president spoke. his remarks had this very, here we go again feel to them. and that's really no surprise. the president has addressed the nation after more than a dozen of these mass shootings. i think the number's now 14. we've heard some version of these remarks before. the president called this an act of terror and he reminded that the shooter targeted lgbt americans. >> although it's still early in the investigation, we know
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enough to say this was an act of terror and hate. and as americans we are united in grief and out rage and in resolve to defend our people but this is a sobering reminder that attacks on any american, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation is an attack on all of us. and on the fundamental values of equality and dignity that define us as a country. and no act of hate or terror will ever change who we are or the values that make us americans. >> now the president went on to say that in the face of hate, in the face of violence, americans will not give in to fear but rather stand together in unity and stand together in love, don. >> and chris, as you said the president has spoken about gun violence so many times and it's inevitable that followed by the debate in gun control, has that
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already happened? >> reporter: after the previous mass shootings, he said how frustrated and disappointed in his ability to pass what he calls commonsense gun reforms. and the president again eluded to this issue saying the ma massacre is yet another reminder of how easy it is for someone to get a gun and go shoot people in a night club or a movie theater and making reference to the many shootings we've seen during his presidency and it's likely another round of really intense gun control >> tell our viewers what they said. >> reporter: didn't take long for this to hit the campaign trail. later this week we were expecting to see president obama and hillary clinton campaign together for the first time, kind of kick off the general
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election in green bay, wisconsin but this afternoon we heard from the clinton campaign and the white house announcing that they're postponing that trip. they essentially decided against campaigning on the heels of this very, very terrible tragedy. but that didn't stop the candidates from taking to social media. woke up to hear the devastating news from florida as we wait for more information. my thoughts are with those effected by this horrific act and she signed it h, letting everything within know she wrote that tweet herself. and this afternoon we hear from donald trump. he said quote is president obama going to finally mention the words radical islamic terrorism? if he doesn't, he should immediately resign in disgrace. when obama didn't mention islamic terrorism, trump called on obama to step down and it's important that obama did call it
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an attack of terror and added that the investigation is still ongoing. officials have not yet determined the shooter's motives but said the full resources are in fact working to determine if the shooter is inspired by a terrorist group. >> we appreciate that. security being tightened all across the country in the wake of the attack. and tonight's tony award ceremony happened dedicated to the victims of orlando. bryan. good evening to you. earlier today, the tony awards announced it would be dedicated to the victims of orlando. tell us about that. >> reporter: a terrible day, don. in some ways this award ceremony a example of life going on. many people being asked and wanting to talk about the attack
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today and at the very beginning of the show at 8:00 p.m., we heard from the host as he addressed what happened this morning. heres are e's what he said. >> good evening. all around the world, people are trying to come to terms with the horrific events that took place in orlando this morning on behalf of the whole theater community and every person in this room. our hearts go out to all of those effected by this atrocity. all we can say is you are not on your own right now. your tragedy is our tragedy. theater is a place where every race, creed, sexuality and gender is equal, is embraced and is loved. hate will never win. together we have to make sure of that. tonight's show stands as a symbol and a celebration of that principal. this is the tony awards. [ applause ]
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>> reporter: james gordon setting a tone and it continued throughout the broadcast. the stars of broadway, some straight, some gay, all of them talking in different ways about the tragedy. the creator of "hamilton" saying at one point senseless acts of tragedy remind us nothing is promised, not one day. >> and i'm told all the guns are removed. they didn't use them on stage. appreciate that. we're going to be right back with much, much more. the deadly attack on the pulse night club right here in orlando, florida. poor mouth breather.
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back with our breaking news. i want you to take a look at your screen because this is the front page of tomorrow 's orlando sentinel with the message "our community will heal." tomorrow's front page of the orlando sentinel. very poignant. in orlando, a city realing after the attack inside a gay night club that killed 50 people and wounded dozens of others, there's a whole lot to deal with as far as the investigation and those injured at the hospital. i want to go to cnn's nick valencia. you're at a staging area for friends and family. give us the latest there. >> reporter: it's been an exhausting day for these friends and family of loved ones still
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unaccounted for. the numbers have not changed since this afternoon. 50 dead, 53 injured. what we don't know is the status of the 53 still hospitalized. friends and family still waiting to hear about their loved ones p.. t they told us earlier doctors came in with a run down, so to speak, of exactly the conditions of those 53 that remain hospitalizes. talking to these friends and family you get a sense, a perspective, a scope of what these high numbers mean exactly. this community shaken to its very core. there aren't very many words to describe the raw emotion that we've seen from these family members and friends that are expecting a lot of them as the hours tick by, they're expecting to hear the worst of the worst. don. >> it's so awful, nick. you're in a night club and it could happen to any aone of us.
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you and i have gone to night clubs together. this could happen anywhere. the survivors though are reeling from the attack. you spoke to one very emotionsal man earlier. >> reporter: we talk about this being the deadliest attack on u.s. soil since 9/11 but when you hear the stories of these survivors, the victims that saw what happened, it is just unimaginable. we spoke to one individual, moss, who was there in the night club when the shooting started. >> wake up and everything's going to be normal but it's not. this is what happened. there's no going back. you can't change the fact of what this guy did and it's always said god gives his
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hardest battles to his strongest people but he gave his strongest community a battle and we're standing up and we're fighting. that's all we can do. >> reporter: looking at andy's eyes, it was just heart breaking to see the pain. he's still looking for his best friend friend. he went to the night club with his friend, chris summers and still has no idea where his friend is. don. >> it's heart wrenching to listen to him. you can feel it in his voice there. thank you, nick. i appreciate that. cnn's obtained video of what a witness said is the moment the police stormed the night club. david ward took the dark video from his balcony pay attention to this. look at it. [ horn honking]
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[ gun fire] >> hold fire. stay back. >> so, david ward said that was at 5:08 in the morning, the precise moment when omar was taken down. who was this gunman? who was this killer? cnn's senior investigative correspondent. he is in fort pierce, florida tonight. what are you seeing p. wh? what can you tell us about him? >> reporter: what we're seeing is the fbi evidence team coming in tonight, hours and hours and hours of course after this
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horrific shooting and just kind of getting ready to begin the process of disecting everything they can, inside that apartment what they are looking for is to find in the trail of what seems to be a first generation american whose parents are of afghan descent, went to high school here, college here, got a job insecurity and was well known in the community. trying to find where those trigger points were that either radicalized him or something else. maybe something mentally handicapped that went wrong in his head that forced him to do this. and outside this apartment, they're beginning the task of delving into where this guy lived, what kinds of gadgets or computers he was working on and what other kind of ammunition or guns he may have had inside this apartment. the fbi's task is to piece together this guy's life.
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and like you say, there's a lot of diverging things p things. he was a great guy, a nice guy. to others he had flashes of anger. talked about muslim issues in an angry way and police are having to piece together what took place inside this guy's head and what happened leading up to this terrible event, don. >> and family members are speaking out as well. there have been questions about the alleged shooter's family, in particular his father. can you tell us about that? >> reporter: yeah, i can. his father is from afghanistan. and what brought our attention to him tonight is youtube videos and i hope we can play them for you because they are a bit strange. somewhat incoherent. this is his father speaking to the afghan people at times. he announces his candidacy for president of afghanistan and in a vaer recent, i think the last
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24-hour video, he poses as a military commander and wants to announce that he's going to arrest the five enemies of afghanistan. our translator called some of this on the youtube incoherent and nonsensical at points. it certainly looks strange. he was also involved in a television show taped out in california and broadcast specifically on afghan issues. we don't hear or see anything that says he's antiamerican. we don't hear or see anything that says he's antigay or homophobic but again, this is strange behavior from the father and we already know from the ex-wife of the son that the son may have had very strange behavior and even violent behavior during a previous marriage. >> since you mention that. his ex-wife married him for just four months.
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let's listen and then we'll discuss it. >> when he would get in his tempers, he would express hate towards things, toward everything. so, in that respect, yeah, but it it was the moment said when you would see his emotional? stability and turning totally different. my family literally rescued me. the night they were there, they had to pull me out of his arms and buy an emergency flight, made a police report and because we were at a distance, i was in new jersey and he was in florida. the diverse took a year 1/2 to finalize because we were doingd >> she hasn't seen him for seven years but he has a history of troubling behavior, troubling past, right? >> reporter: we're trying to check out many, many cases where we've been told of instances where this suspect snapped.
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i don't know how else to put it. but various instances when hoe snapped, a couple of his high school friends would say he blurted out things. he had flashes of anger and we talked to local imam says he's gone to the local mosque since 2003. recent years, very quiet, kept to himself, did his prayers and left. antisocial, perhaps. but not violent, according to the imom. but again, there's lot of different parts of this person.'s storaperson's story we have yet to confirm. and it's falling into a place where unfortunately we've seen in the past where radicalization and perhaps mental illness may be a mixture here that has turned deadly. >> great reporting as usual.
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thank you very much p. we're going to be right back with more of our breaking news in orlando. the scene of the deadliest mass shooting in american history p. g to be right back with more of our breaking news in orlando. the scene of the deadliest mass shooting in american history. it's more than a network and the cloud. it'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, you're free to focus on growing your business. centurylink. your link to what's next. don't let dust and allergies get and life's beautiful moments. with flonase allergy relief, they wont.
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breaking news tonight, the deadliest mass shooting killing 50 people at the pulse night club here in orlando.
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joining me is a man who worked there and lost friends in the attack. he's here with his partner, antonio and antonio was actually closer to the person who was killed. one friend is still in the hospital. >> i work part time there, dealing poker on the poker nights. but he was supposed to be there last night with his friends. i know when i woke up this morning to the phone calls of everybody okay. our mutual friend is dead. nothing's been confirmed on the friend as of yet. that was deceased. i do know that his friend that was shot is okay and recovering at orlando regional at this time and we have spoke via phone within it last few hours. >> reporter: and he said he didn't want to talk. but you only worked there part time, correct? >> correct. >> reporter: obviously it's
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shocking but when you got word of so many people injured and killed in this -- >> the community, i think we all feel the same. we just feel numb. we're a close community. we may not be directly close friends with any of these victims but we're all going to know the names or i've seen that person, i've talked to that person. we're doctors, teachers, brothers, sisters. this community's been devastated right now. we're strong, we're going to get through this and we're not going to let a coward break our spirit and break our heart. >> reporter: so let's honor the life of your friend and people who were injured. so, tell us first about the friend who died. >> he was more of a close friend to his. the reports that i've heard from friends inside are that he just fell to the ground and never moved. and debris was falling on top of him and the other friend kept
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calling his name and he didn't move. and they haven't released the name but no one's talked to him or heard from him. no one from orlando regional has released the name that he's treated. so, right now -- he was shot twice. both were in the leg and the hip. he was in surgery for a few hours. he got out of surgery maybe around 6:00 this evening. was recovering and resting. >> reporter: and you're hearing from other people there who you didn't necessarily know. >> i think they're pretty much the same from everybody. the initial shock was we didn't know we thought it was part of the atmosphere, that the shots
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were so timed in with the music, some of the people that worked there that i know are in critical condition right now recovering at orlando regional and i thank all the doctors. i am a paramedic and thank those first responders, those fist orlando officers that were on scene and engaged him . we don't know how much more damage he would have caused. i did see a picture of my one friend on facebook. it looks like he's going to recover right now. the other friend we're hearing rumors of how his condition is. no one's been able to confirm anything on him. >> reporter: and again he was close to the person that you can't find. he was supposed to be there last night, antonio was supposed to be there. >> and his friend was trying to get him to hangout.
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he hasn't been out with him in a while. and wanted to try to go out and have a good time. that's all this community really do does. we don't try to bother everybody. we're a good community. we're a open, welcoming, loving everybody. we don't discriminate against black, white, mexican. we accept everybody in this community and that's what i think hurts the community the most. >> what do you want to say to the haters? >> we're not going to let cowards beat us . you kill innocent people and you're a coward. that's it. >> reporter: thank you. you okay antonio? thank you for joining us. we'll be right back. (avo) after 50 years of designing cars for crash survival, subaru has developed our most revolutionary feature yet. a car that can see trouble
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50 dead, at least 53 more wounded. former fbi assistant director. cnn national security analyst. and senior editor at the daily beast. juliet, i want to start with you because you and i first met that boston bombing a few years ago. he pledged allegiance to isis and mentioned the boston
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bombing. what does that say to you? why is that significant? >> reporter: well, he wanted to identify with something greater than what in fact he was doing, which was a mass murder. so, he identifies with isis and also this historical moment that everyone remembers, this tragedy. we remember their names, to elevate what he's doing. so, he wanted to identify with something greater than he was. and that is unique. that phone call is just so unique in terms of him wanting to have this identification and look, we're talking about was this the isis motive? it's totally possible if not likely that there are multiple motives here so we shouldn't lose the lgbt story, that moeaki -- maybe related to isis. and we're not talking about it but our president certainly is, the gun issue. there's multiple motives going on here and narratives that are
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all important during this tragedy. >> michael, i wanted speak about the lgbt issue. the daily beast has a story. >> she interviewed a drag queen from orlando who knew athe shooter quite well and said this homophobia is a surprise to me. apparently they went to high school together. the guy used to order food from ruby tuesday's and was quite familiar with the bar staff, which included several known lesbians. the shooter might have attended a drag show or two according to this friend. this does raise the pausabilie abili -- possibility that perhaps he had doubts about his own sexual orientation or something bothered him about being close
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to people of that persuasion. this is speculation. but it does show you that this is not an inveterate bigot, that something happened that turned him against the lgbt community. >> i want to play this video and get the law enforcement part of this, your fbi expertise. this is someone who lives next to the clib. he shot this video from his balcony. david ward. watch this. [ horns honking] [ gun fire] >> hold fire. >> stay back.
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>> so, tom fuentes, it started close to 2:00 and then holding people hostage inside of the pulse night club and about 5:08, according to the man who shot this video, that's when this would happen. i felt they were in a position where they could go in and take this gunman down. >> having watched that video several times, i can't tell for sure what it is showing. obviously, we see shots being fired and hear shots coming back at them but i don't know the position they were in when those shots were fired. what kind of target picture they had with the subject. i would like to hear more about that from the police when they give the details later on. >> and tom bernie is a retired nypd detective. i guess they felt they were in a position to take this gunman
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down after holding hostages for several hours. >> ideally they would want to talk him out of it to try to secure the safety of the remaining people that haven't been already shot and killed. but there comes a point where they must have made a move for a reason, either they felt they were coming to a dead end, there were more victims, that he was going to shoot and potentially take the life of. so, they had to make a move at some point and they felt that was the time to do it and they did. and it seems like they -- i mean, orlando police department, kudos to them. they did a fantastic job. they clearly saved a number of lives by taking the actions that they did under an unbelievable and unpredictable situation that nobody could have presented to them. >> hey, michael wiese, i want to ask you about this message on the side associated with isis
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news agency. described the attacker as quote an islamic state fighter p. and they claim the attack was directed -- will isis claim responsibility, even if they didn't direct him to do this? >> yes. this is a global casting call to have people purp trait attacks and have them credited to the isis brand. so, it is a little unusual though, if they say we directed him when they didn't because again, part of their terror sort of propigation is to inspire people, the so-called loan wolves to carry out these attacks without any kind of coordination or planning from isis h q. it's terrifying to think there are people being radicalized by the internet. they don't need to necessarily
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coordinate or link up with guys in syria or iraq, let alone be sent back. so, i don't know why they're pushing that line if it's not true. maybe it is. we don't know. >> there in lies a problem, the internet. people can become radicalized without having to go near the people they're aspiring to be like p. >> and it's great source of information to determine what happened with him and gives people access to the outside world and makes people appreciate the other in many ways so it's just a tool, a platform. it's the content that matters and isis has been successful in the content and this is where we don't know the extent of which the relationship between the orlando shooter and isis is. i suspect it was isis motivated.
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we actually don't seem to have any evidence yet of travel that would then suggest that there was some meet up or training. but this case will unfold and we'll learn more over the next couple daydays. >> when we come back, the worst mass shooting here in orlando. and this is a live picture of the castro district in san fr k francisco where a vigil is being held. m..... hmmmmm... [ "dreams" by beck ] hmmmmm... the turbocharged dream machine. the volkswagen golf gti. named one of car and driver's 10best, 10 years in a row.
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our breaking news, the investigation into the mass shooting here in orlando. and michael wiese and also tom bernie. this horrific tragedy already getting politicized. donald trump shot off a few tweets. one reads appreciate the congrats on being right eon islamic terrorism. i don't want congrats, i want toughness and individual license. we must be smart. the president continues to call it radical islamic terrorism. >> and the president called it terrorism. there are reasons -- first of all, we don't actually know for sure yet p. we ha.
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we have evidence that suggested it is but i would like to have my president only relate the facts. you can speculate all you want on twitter. it does not make it reality. but let me just say and you are so right. we've got about 24 hours of explanation and misery until this becomes very pliticized. america's anxiousness will be up. historically that tends to beenif the republicans when people have more fear about their own homeland and children and neighborhoods. and so, by tomorrow when trump speaks at 2:30, i believe, this will be very politicized. >> so, michael, hillary clinton's campaign responded to trump's tweets "donald trump put out weak pl out political attacks, weak
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so, michael, do you see this as sort of the october surprise that we often talk about in politics? >> i have to be honest, this is the kind of thing that can get a guy like donald trump get elected president of the united states. we've seen this in europe, essentially cresting off a wave of islamic terrorist attacks and very zen foebic and isolationist policy. the policy he has muttered about includes partnering with russia and assad's regime, which today massacred scores of civilians in the province of idlib and i've seen photographs of children burnt to a crisp. by this air war. if that's donald trump's idea of fighting terrorism, that's
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exactly the kind of thing that allows this menace to proliferate. i think he's an imbecile when it comes to the middle east and other thingthings. i think he's a national security threat to this country. somebody today in the media said there's going to be a moratorium on politicizing this. this guy will be first out of the gate to turn this into a campaign issue. he still sticks to his guns that egypt air is a islamic terrorist attack attack. it looks increasingly like that was not an act of jihadism. this is a very dangerous candidate running for the highest office in the land and doing things that don't make america great but rather unsafe, less safe than we are today and we're not that safe to begin with. >> say how you really feel there, michael.
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two former high school class mates remember him saying something to the effect that osaum ma bin laden was his uncl. what do you make of it? >> i don't know, don. if that was said by him as worship, it's a very interesting comment. but something somebody in high school says trying to impress young women or get attention may or may not be how he felt at that time or how supportive he was. we don't know the evolution of his radicalization at this point. i think they'll learn more about it, especially if they can get ahold of his computer and phone information, hoping they can kbget to it. but there's lot to be learned about when he decided he was going to be a mass murderer and making comments like that in high school. maybe it was already started but we don't know that for sure. >> and tom bernie, it seems that
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9/11, the attacks really impacted him. >> 9/11 attacks were an inspiration for anyone that practices this radicalization of the islamic religion and they get their rocks off by committing acts of unbelievably mass murder against people that have nothing to do with them i feel awful for the victims and families and want to once again express my condolences p. and as an openly gay person, gay police officer in the nypd, not only did i have to worry about terrorism, with the north tower almost coming down on my head and someone who socializes in gay clubs and bars back in the day and occasionally every so often with friends of mine. it's something now i have to think about.
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people in this country that are going to be there just to simply come and attack us for doing nothing but having a nice night out. having said that with the many bias incidents i have been involved in, i can't think of one that was committed by someone who was eeth either a m radical islamist. we have to put it in perspective when people start attacking the muslim religion. my interaction has been they've been very professional, nice and practicing what they preach. this is someone from a complete left field end of that community. >> yeah, we know this is someone who's distorted islam. i have ask you, juliet, because you've been talking about isis-inspired. it should be noted this is the holy month of ramadan, what
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should we make of that? >> if he's isis inspired rather than directed, he would know if he was following stuff on social media thattize w izsis was appr and giving benefits to those who might target civilians or westerners during the holy month of ramadan. it's relevant but don't think it shows why he chose that bar or his radicalization process. >> thank you all. appreciate it. we'll be right back. it's more than a network and the cloud. it'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,
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