this house is packed. boy, we are packed. this is amazing. yeah, you can get them out or if he wants, he can stay. i don't care. i don't care. i don't care. so look, we have to be strong and we have to be smart. we can't let these things happen anymore. right? do you agree with me, protester? do you agree? or do you think it's easy to be weak and ineffective like we are right now? do you think that's okay? i don't think it's okay. i don't think it's okay. so we have a situation and i say this and i'm going to read it. i'm on the other side. i think she finally won, by the way, crooked hillary, ladies and gentlemen. crooked hillary, ladies and gentlemen. she's as crooked as they come, as crooked as they come.

so you have hillary. i think bernie is now out of it, right? is he finally out? is he gone? boy, so i was criticized in the newspapers because i've had a staff of 73 people at their top and i won in a landslide. she has a staff, they say, of 873 people, and she goes on and on and on. and the papers said, she has many more people than trump. she has many more -- and i'm saying to myself, they're making it sound like that's bad for me. isn't it great when you can win with a much smaller group of people? isn't that what we want? and much less expense? i've spent a fraction of what she spent winning. it's like, when i went to, i mean, so many places, every state, i won so many of the states, and i have such great experience, including georgia.

boy, did we win georgia. in a slalandslide and looks lik we'll win it big in november. that is what it looks like. but i went to new hampshire. something special about new hampshire. that was where we had our first victory, first of many. and the people were amazing. but i went to new hampshire and went in there and got to know the people and i saw what was happening and i spent a tiny fraction of what the favored candidate was spending. i won't say who the favored candidate was but just a little bit and i won new hampshire in a landslide and other states in a landslide and i spent, and by the way, i spent my own money. i was spending my money. i didn't raise money. i spent my money. i didn't have people giving me millions and millions of dollars from wall street but you know what? i won new hampshire in a landslide and i said to myself,

nobody covers it. they said, well, trump did it on the cheap. i didn't. we're intelligent people. wouldn't it be great if we had somebody like that running our country? wouldn't that be great? wouldn't that be great? so now they're saying she has built a massive team. she has almost 900 people. she's spending money. and trump has 73 people. you know, we're doing very well. watch what the end result is. watch what the end result is. look at the poll numbers right after this horrendous and horrible and something we have to stop fast attack. take a look over the last couple of days because i'll tell you, people are tired. they want to have strength. they want to have intelligence. they don't want to make an iran deal where we give them $150 billion. we get nothing.

they don't want trade deals like we do in china of $505 billion a year. where we have trade deficits, massive trade deficits with mexico, with japan, with viet m vietnam, india. practically every country in the world, when they do business with the united states, it's called let's rip them off. it's like we're the big bad dummies. those days are over if i win. those days are over, they're over. now, i have to talk about this because of the horrible situation that we all just saw and so vividly.

but we have to talk about it and then we're going to get on to other things but it's so important because i've been talking about it for a long time. and i've been saying it's going to happen. and i hate to say it again, but it's going to happen again and again and again because we're not doing what we have to be doing. it's going to happen again and again and again and we are not doing what we're supposed to be doing. we are taking in thousands of people into our country. we have no idea where they come from. we have no idea who the hell they are. we know they believe in certain things that we don't want to believe in. you know, i said the other day, and i said it very strongly. i have great respect for women. if you look at what hillary clinton has done, i have tremendous respect. if you look at what hillary clinton has done with women,

number one, from certain countries, her foundation has taken millions, tens of millions of dollars from countries that want to enslave women. enslave. want to enslave women. as far as the gay community, they kill gays. and she's taking money in. and now she wants to allow them to come into our country pretty much unvetted because every law enforcement person that i've spoken to and that you watch and that you read is saying it's very hard, if not impossible, to check out people. there's just no papers. there are no papers and yet you see this great migration which is a horrible thing to watch and by the way, i have a heart as big as anybody else. we have to build safe zones over there. and we have to take care of people. let's build safe zones but bill them over there.

build them in syria. build them in places over there. thank you. we have to build safe zones. we have to work. it's humanity. it's humanity. but we have so many problems here. but we build safe zones over there and now here's where the deal making comes in or whatever you want to call it. we have to get the gulf states to pay for it. they have tremendous amounts of money. they're not doing much. and it's their territory. and we have to get them to pay for it. we owe $19 trillion right now. we owe $19 trillion right now. we have hillary who wants to bring people in, spend billions

and billions of dollars on bringing people in, as to whether they assimilate or not, you make the decision. but assimilation has not been exactly a positive factor. so she wants to spend all of this money and her increase on bringing these people in is 550% more than obama who doesn't have a clue. he doesn't know what he's doing, okay? he doesn't know what he's doing. very sad. it's very sad. so when you look at sharia and you look at the beliefs of sharia and it's called execution for things that you would say or like standard parts of life, what they do to people and we have people coming in and do not kid yourself, that's what they

believe. that's what they want. that's what they practice. and we're taking these people in. so i will tell you, the lgbt community, the gay community, the lesbian community, they are so much in favor of what i've been saying over the last three or four days. a friend of mine called up. a friend of mine called up. he said, you don't get enough credit because in palm beach, you opened a club that nobody would do, nobody would do, and it's open to everybody. it's open to everybody. and a person, a member of the club, great guy who's gay, wrote this magnificent letter saying what donald trump did, nobody else would do. and we are getting a tremendous, thank you, thank you, we are getting a tremendous amount of credit because over the last

three days, people are realizing, over the last three days, people are realizing what's going on and we have to treat people great, but we have to treat everybody great. it's not to be -- when i say make america great again, it's great again for everybody. we have to say for everybody. we have to. thank you. and you know, we have a simple theme. it's called make america great again. people say i copied it from ronald reagan. i didn't. because his theme was different. i didn't even know this, but it's called, his was let's make america great. that's different. we are make america great again. but we're adding to it because we have to, and i'm aididding. as we get older and wiser, make

america great again, make america safe again, and let it include everybody because that's what we have to do. we want it to include everybody. okay? we want it to include everybody. and we have to stop on a temporary basis, at least, but we have to stop people from pouring into our country. we have to stop it. until we find out what the hell is going on. and we can do that. but we have to have people come in that cherish us, that love us, that want to love us, that want to do things, that don't want to destroy us, that don't want to go to a club where you have innocent people and where you had no guns on the other side. by the way, i'm going to save your second amendment.

okay? i'm going to save your second amendment. if some of those great people that were in that club that night had guns strapped to their waist or strapped to their ankle, and if the bullets were going in the other direction aimed at this guy who was just open target practice, you would have had a situation, folks, which would have been always horrible, but nothing like the carnage that we all, as a people, suffered this weekend. nothing. and a lot of people are just realizing this. you look at paris. paris has they say, the toughest gun laws in the world.

france, generally speaking, the toughest in the world. and these thugs walked in. they used to call them the press master minds. i said, you can't call them master minds. that's why the young kids are joining. they want to be a mastermind. but thugs, these thugs. the guy with the dirty white cap, the thugs walk into places. boom, boom, boom. nobody was on the other side. there was nobody could do anything. and they got to kill 130 people. kill viciously kill. hundreds still in the hospital. with the most horrible injuries. and now we have the same thing in orlando. and then last night, you had a police officer and his wife were killed the same way. and you put it over facebook. the killer put it on facebook. same kind of a thing. and it's happening all over. and it's getting worse. and it's going to continue to

get worse until they respect us, folks. they've got to respect us. they have no respect for us whatsoever. we're trying to be nice. we have a president who wants to be so politically correct that he doesn't want to use the term radical islamic terrorism. doesn't want to use it. he gives his speech yesterday. a long speech that at the end of it, nobody knew what the hell he was talking about. nobody knew. he's trying to justify why he won't use it and he said radical islam because he didn't want to use the word terrorism. you noticed. why he won't use the term or why he doesn't use it and how it doesn't make difference, but it does make a difference. it makes a difference and it makes a big difference. because unless you're willing to

discuss and talk about the real nature of the problem and the name of the problem, radical islamic terrorism, you're never going to solve the problem. and then crooked hillary clinton gets up the other day and she wouldn't use the term. she wouldn't use it. but i was hitting her hard on it. very hard. and finally, she gets up and she said, i would use it. and by the way, the press didn't report this. they said she used the term. they didn't say about trump. many of them. some are fair, but most are dishonest. it's very hard to get the word out, i'm telling you. it's very hard to get the accurate word out. because i made a speech yesterday in north carolina. we got standing ovations, a packed house.

i go back and they're talking about the speech like it had nothing to do what i was even talking about. they are the worst. believe me. but hillary clinton gets up and she sort of acted like, no problem using the term. and she said, i would use the term. but she didn't use it. but she didn't call it radical islamic terrorism. she said radical islamism. and i'm not saying that's wrong. let's see how much she uses it. she'll basically do whatever obama wants her to do. you understand why, because that whole thing is just ridiculous what is going on there. that's just ridiculous, how that can happen in our country today is absolutely one of the great insults to law enforcement. and let's see what happens, but she's being totally protected.

100% protected. maybe we'll all be surprised. and maybe our laws will work the way they're supposed to work. but you know what, folks? if something was going to happen on the crimes that have been committed, i would have assumed it would have happened already, don't you think? don't you think? so let's see what happens. but when you get right down and you look at it, we have got to be respected. we don't have to be liked so much. we have to be respected. fear, it's not fear. we have to be respected. we're not respected by these people. they come into our country, they want to take it over. look at what's happening in germany. a catastrophe. i have friends from germany that for 20 years have been telling me how great germany is. what a great place to live. some of these people are leaving country now. they're leaving. their crime rate is through the roof. things are happening that are

horrendous. and you see what's happening to women. you see what's happening all over germany now. it was a horrific mistake. it was a terrible mistake. now they'll say it wasn't. it's wonderful. you build, as i said, and if germany had to do it gagain, i don't think she would admit it and let's see how she does in the next election assuming there's an election and she's going to run, but if germany had it to do again, i'm sure they would put up billions of dollars to do as i said, safe zones in syria, make them nice, anything's cheaper and anything's better than what's going on now in germany and other countries. so belgium is a beautiful city. and an amazing place.

magnifice magnificent. i always had this incredible image. and a number of months ago. belgium is a hellhole. i was criticized badly. what a terrible thing and then the massive problem in belgium. and people said, trump was right. trump was right. i don't want to be right. i don't want to be right. i don't want to be right. but you look at what's going on in paris. you look at what's going on in different places all over. different places. you know it, i know it. they know it. they don't want to talk about it. we don't want to have these problems and we've already got them. look at this weekend. we don't want to have these problems. so what i'm saying is it's a temporary ban, in particular for certain people coming from certain horrible, where you have tremendous terrorism in the world, you know what those places are, but we have to put a

stop to it. we have to put a stop to it until such time as we can figure out what is going on because right now, we don't have a clue what's going on, folks. we don't have a clue. we don't know even a little bit what's going on. and we have to be the smart country now. we've been the dummies for too long. we have to be the smart -- we have to be the brilliant country. we have to show and help and take care of people but we have to be smart. with the kind of money that we owe, $19 trillion, going to $21 trillion very shortly because of the omnibus budget that was passed. going to $21 trillion, we can't be doing this and this isn't even the money. this is beyond the money. even if you had a small percentage of people coming in thinking like this person, who, again, was born here but, his

parents weren't and his ideas weren't born here. his ideas were born from someplace else. and in speaking to numerous governors over the last few days, really a great group of people and in speaking to them, they are beside themselves. they say people are being put in our states and they have absolutely nothing to say about it. they don't know who they are, where they are, they don't know where they're being placed and even from the standpoint of law enforcement, that's a bad thing. because they can't watch, they can't see what's going on. and we aren't vigilant and we aren't smart. and we have to go and we have to maybe check, respectfully, the mosques, and we have to check other places. because this is a problem that,

if we don't solve it, it's going to eat our country alive. okay? it's going to eat our country alive. and we can be weak and we can be ineffective like we are now, right now, everything is political correctness. if you watched obama's speech yesterday, it was really all about political correctness. there's nothing wrong with being strong. there's nothing wrong with being smart. it was all about political correctness. and we have to make sure -- thank you. we have to make sure, so important, that we now go down the right path, because we're going down a wrong path, and our country is in serious trouble. okay? all right. serious trouble. n now, we have a lot of things

going on. in addition, in addition, and right now, there is no addition because of what happened, but in addition, we have things going on that are terrible. we're being eaten alive on the jobs market. our jobs are being taken out of our country. if you look at what's happened as an example with nafta, yes, right. nafta has brought them to other places. thank you very much. thank you, very respect fful person. thank you. thank you. by the way, somebody just said, and you're right, i was fully endorsed, i think it was the earliest endorsement ever by the national rifle association. the nra.

so that was good. thank you. so when i started on june 16th, almost one year ago, thank you, i was saying, be nice to our protester. be very gentle. be very, very gentle. all right. thank you. i have to tell you, by the way, is there any better place to be than a trump rally? in all fairness, right? is there any better place to be? i'll tell you. a friend of mine said to me, look at this crowd up there, it's packed. i can hardly see them up there. there's so many lights. thank you. this place is packed. but my friend, successful guy,

came up to me and saw the rally in dallas where we had 21,000 people in the mavericks arena. he saw the rally in mobile, alabama, with 35,000 people. he sees these massive rallies and look at this today. and a lot of people outside trying to get in. would anybody like to give up their seat? let some people in? no? so, but he saw these big places and this is one of the most successful people and he came with me and he said, how do you do that in front of so many people? and i told him and i absolutely mean this, i said, it's easy because there's so much love in the room. it's true. there's so much love in these rooms. it's incredible. and it's really true. i mean, it's easy in a sense because there is great love and it's people that want to see our country do wonderful things, do great things.

they want their if jjobs back. they want wages to go up. they want to manufacture things again. you look at the manufacturing in our country, when i won new york and pennsylvania and connecticut and maryland and all these different places, especially, but when i won new england, we won tremendous. we won massachusetts. that's because tom brady likes me, but you know. >> donald trump getting into the regular part of the stump speech about speaking after the orlando terror attack. hillary clinton now speaking on national security as well. let's listen to her. >> any kind of formal contact or direction from terror groups like isis, but intend and often follow through on killing americans on their own. as president, i will make identifying and stopping lone wolves a top priority. we will assemble a team across the government.

private sector, our communities, to get on top of this challenge. i will make sure our law enforcement and intelligence professionals have all the resources they need. second, we do need to stop terrorists from getting their hands on the tools to carry out attacks so easily. especially assault weapons. military style assault weapons that have no place on our streets. surely, we can agree if the fbi is watching you for suspected terrorist links, you should not be able to buy a gun with no questions asked. [ applause ] and yes, if you are too dangerous to get on a plane, you are too dangerous to buy a gun. [ applause ] thirdly, it is apparent that donald trump does not seem to

grasp any of this. he has been fixate satd on the phrase radical islam as if those are words that once uttered will stop terrorists from coming after us and he wants to ban all muslims from entering our country and suspend immigration from large parts of the world. his comments have become even more inflammatory in recent days. this approach isn't just wrong. it is dangerous. and i want to emphasize and underline this. of course, we want to keep our country safe. of course, we want to work together in order to do that. that should go without saying. but i want to underscore, we rely on partners in majority muslim countries to help us

fight terrorists. we need to build trust in muslim communities here at home to counter radicalization and the lone wolf phenomenon. and as has been pointed out, the terrorists in orlando was not born in afghanistan, as trump claims. he was born in queens, new york, only miles away from where donald trump himself was born. a ban on muslims would not have stopped this attack. neither would a wall. i don't know how one builds a wall to keep the internet out. so not one of donald trump's reckless ideas would have saved a single life in orlando. it's just more evidence that he is temperamentally unfit and totally unqualified to be commander in chief.

i am well aware of how much uncertainty our military and defense community already accept as a constant part of their and your lives. it is a sacrifice to try to keep us all safe. we have to be right 100% of the time. the terrorist only has to be right once. so the burden on our law enforcement, our intelligence professionals, and our military is enormous. you deserve a commander in chief who will provide smart, steady leadership. someone who does understand we are stronger when we stand together, stand together as americans, stand together with our allies around the world to keep us safe. we truly are stronger together. and i'm looking forward to hearing from our panelists and

perhaps if we have time, others, about ideas, observations, questions you might have about how we do this. what are the best ways we keep faith with our military and military families and best ways to prepare our country to be protected, go after these lone wolve wolves? it's very hard. as one of our law enforcement professionals said the other day, we truly are looking for the needle in the proverbial global hay stack and we're also looking to see whether any pieces of hay can ignite at the same time. so i do not underestimate the extent of the challenge we face, but i am absolutely confident that we can keep our country safe. and i am sure if we work together and make this not a republican or democrat debate,

but an american mission that is exactly what we will do together. thank you all very much. [ applause ] >> again, thank you all for being here. >> there is hillary clinton making a different approach to national security than we just heard moments ago from donald trump. two very, very different approaches. let's assess this situation. cnn's chief political analyst gloria borger, david gregory, the host of "the david gregory show" podcast and peter bergen. our national security analyst. doesn't get more different than you heard these two presumptive presidential nominees outline their response to what happened in orlando. >> no, you know, we saw hillary clinton do as she's done before, her solutions. how she'll establish a task force but she did call trump

dangerous, which we've also heard from her before. and what we heard from trump is the democrats don't know what they're doing. their s they're sitting on their hands. no progress against isis. standing behind his ban. his regional ban, not his religious ban, but regional ban. but they have completely different ways to handle this. >> hold on, guys. for a moment. there's a police news conference that's just beginning in orlando. the latest on the investigation into the terrorist attack at that pulse nightclub. let's listen in. >> orlando mayor buddy dyer. i'd like to thank all of my partners standing here with me today and many others who come from all over the nation to assist us in investigating this terrible attack on our community. the level of cooperation and partnership we have seen has been phenomenal and the last

several days has been completely overwhelming. we continue to stand shoulder to shoulder to investigate this horrific attack. we wanted to take the time and give you an update on what we're doing, and again, ask for your help in certain areas of the investigation. because this is an ongoing investigation, there's still much i cannot share with you. so i'd ask for your patience, and when i tell you there are certain things i just cannot discuss at this time, we continue to cover many leads and want to make sure that we share information, that when we share it with you, it's not only timely but that it is accurate. we owe it to the victims and families, loved ones, and the community to bear witness with finite accuracy. the fbi's office of victim assistance in highly experienced

rapid deployment team working together with the city of orlando and many of our state and local counterparts and community agencies to provide resources and support victims, the next of kin and loved ones at the family assistance center and we have recently moved the family assistance center. so i'd like to share it with you where it's located at the world stadium open from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. wednesday through friday and 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on saturday and noon to 8:00 p.m. on sunday. and for more information regarding that, i would ask you to please visit fbi.gov/orlandovictims. all one word. there have been media reports about alleged threats or attacks on members of religious or ethnic communities that could perceived to be in response to the shooting at the pulse.

let me be beyond clear on that point. civil rights violations are a priority for the fbi. and we will investigate reported incidents against individuals based upon any class, any protected class to include race, religion, and sexual orientation. any known threats or incidents should be reported to your local fbi office or local law enforcement agencies. let me tell you a little bit about where we are today in the investigation. the team remains at the pulse and we continue to process the crime scene. as you might imagine, this is a methodical time, time sensitive work that includes trajectory analysis and crime scene mapping. it's imperative that we get this right. we are committed to staying here as long as it takes to carefully process the vast crime scene.

i will tell you that efforts are under way to reduce our footprint in an attempt to have the city return to some sense of normalcy. we're doing our best to work as efficiently and as effectively as possible but remember, our goal is to remain the integrity of the crime scene and the evidence that we collect. we continue to seek and follow all leads about the activities and associates of the shooter. omar seddique mateen, who like the director, i will not mention his name again. the complete picture of what the shooter did and why he did it. the fbi has placed a seeking information poster on our web site at fbi.com that includes photos and additional information about the shooter. we want to hear from any member of the public who has had any connection or involvement with

or any information about the shooter. no matter how big or small you think that information may be as in the plea i asked from this investigation, we want to hear from you. you have come through for me and i appreciate that. we have received volumes of information and leads and tips that we have been following up and continue to follow up on. but regardless of how small that information may be, i still want to hear about it. the fbi stands ready to receive your information. please do so by continuing to call fbi. 1-800-call-fbi or submitting us a tip online at tips.fbi.gov. again, we ask anyone who may have had contact with the shooter to report that information to the fbi. no piece of information is too small and no piece of information will not be kept

confidential. you have our assurance, we'll keep your information confidential. we need those tips to continue coming. as i said before, this investigation is ongoing. we're not able to provide additional information at this time. investigations are deliberate by their very nature and that's because we want to be able to tell you what happened in a thorough and accurate way but realize that will take some time. i ask for your patience as we go about our work. we will continue to keep you informed of our progress and we will continue to have these briefings as information dictates and we are able to share that with the entire community. once again, i'd like to thank our partner agencies that most of all, i want to thank the orlando community. your courage, compassion, and resilience in the face of a great tragedy are an inspiration to us all. orlando strong. before i depart and turn it over, i would like to remind you

of two sites that i hope the public takes advantage of. the first one being fbi.gov/orlandovictims. that has information about the family assisting center and things that the fbi and your local community can do to help you if you are a victim or a loved one of the victims. if you have any questions about any of the vehicles that had to be abandoned as a result of the crime scene, we have set up a 1-800--- sorry, a phone number at 407-206-help thlp or 206-4357. we'll provide you with information and what you need to do to take possession of that vehicle and now turn it over to police chief john mina. >> good afternoon. many of you. many people from the public have asked how our officers are doing. especially the first responders

that night. our, about yesterday, 300 or 400 officers came to a critical stress management debriefing. the purpose was for the officers to talk about how they are feeling. to vent to their peers and to talk about their experience to help them cope and deal with this tragic situation. so after the main group talked for a bit and were given some instructions by some trained counselors, they all broke out into classrooms and groups of 10 or 15 and had more sessions with trained counselors to talk about their circumstances, their experiences and how they're feeling and how to deal with the management of the stress of responding to such a tragic incident. so this morning, we did the exact same thing with our squad team. all the members who responded including the officers who were involved in the shooting and i could tell you, these were some

of the most courageous and toughest men i know. men who have seen things, murders, homicides, unfortunately, dead infants, car crash. but no one can prepare you for what the officers encountered that night. they stood toe to toe, went face to face with a mass murderer and performed heroically and courageously and i'm extremely, extremely proud of them. so after all those stress debriefings take place, we're going to offer free counselling continuing to those officers. several agencies have come forward to offer counselling to make sure our officers are dealing with that correctly. now, i want to talk about media contacting those officers who have been involved in the shooting. as per our policy and procedure,

those officers involved in the shooting are relieved of duty and are prohibited from talking about the shooting or the investigation or any of the circumstances. so i cannot stress this enough. do not attempt to contact those officers. they will not talk to you. they are prohibited from talking to you by our policies and also by law. so please do not contact them. they will also not talk about the investigation, the federal investigation, and they will not compromise this investigation and honestly, i will tell you that there have been some aggressive media outlets that have gone through our officers homes. i've called parents out of state. i've posted pictures. letting these officers deal with this situation that they have to deal with that night. let them be with their families and let them heal without bothering. like i said, they cannot talk about the investigation. so we would appreciate your

cooperation in this matter and now i'm going to turn it over to the u.s. attorney. >> good afternoon. i'm bentley, the united states attorney for the middle district of florida. the last 3.5 days have been extremely difficult for me personally, for my office, for the department of justice, and for our law enforcement officers. like you, and the city of orlando, we're grieving for the 49 victims of the horrific attack at the pulse nightclub. but while grieving, we're continuing to investigate the crime that occurred and all of the facts and circumstances that led up to that. today, i am not going to

speculate with respect to any charges that might be brought or indeed, as to whether any charges will be brought. it's premature to do so. i'm not going to speculate today as to any charges that may be brought or indeed about whether any charges will be brought in this case. it is premature to do so. it would interfere and hamper the investigation to put out premature information about where the investigation is headed. i can assure you it will be a full and complete investigation and the facts will be known to the public, made known to the public at the appropriate time. assistance special agent in charge, ron hopper, made a comment about the threats made

to the members of the muslim community. making these threats is not only wrong, in most cases, making these threats is illegal. stop it. any threats like this detract from what we're doing in law enforcement. we want to spend 100% of our time investigating the crime that occurred in the pulse nightclub in the facts leading up to it. don't distract us from what we need to be doing. and i say to anyone out there who's made such threat or considering making such a threat, grieve with us. grieve with the victims of the nightclub shooting with the same solemnity we're doing and in which it deserves. i'd like to thank all of our federal, state, and local law

enforcement officers. obviously, the federal bureau of investigation, atf, homeland security, and even dea have been involved in this investigation. our state partners have been wonderful. starting with the florida department of law enforcement. the city of orlando police department. the orange county sheriff's office. and of course, the state prosecutors are investigating as well. the statewide prosecutor as well as the orange county state attorney. i would also like to thank my colleagues at the main department of justice. i've spoken regularly to the deputy attorney general, sally yates, and to our attorney general, loretta lynch. in fact, i'll be speaking again to the attorney general shortly after this press conference. i cannot express to you how concerned the attorney general

and everyone else in the department of justice is about the victims in this case. and they are devoting all of their attentions to this investigation. now i'd like to turn it over to a number of our elected officials who are going to speak. i'd like to tell you that you've seen a number of our officials here on scene. every one of them has tried to assist in the investigation and have had only one question. what can we do to help? they obviously have some remarks to make to the communities they serve, to the state they serve. please respect them by not asking them specific questions about the facts of this investigation. and now, i'm going to turn it over to florida governor, scott. thank you.

>> individuals that showed up at the gay nightclub, pulse, and were willing to risk their lives to save people they had never met before and maybe never meet again. i also want to thank the entire orlando community and truthfully, the world. everybody has shown up to say, how can they be helpful? mayor jacobs and mayor dire have been here relentlessly to see how they can help. i had the opportunity to talk to family members that lost their loved ones. have family members that have struggled for their life. still going through surgery. i've had to cry with the lady that recounted the story of the last time she talked to her son and the story of how he bled to death. i talked to a young man that had gunshot wounds. his

us. this was clearly an attack on our gay community. it was an attack on our hispanic community, an attack on orlando. it's a terror attack on our nation. it's clearly a terror attack on our way of life. our city, our state, our nation is going to come back together. i want to thank all of you that have called and tried to help our law enforcement. at the state, i've kept our agencies apprised of all that we're doing and constantly asking what they could be doing. the florida department law enforcement has set aside $520,000 to help the orlando police department cover some of their expenses. the florida department of law enforcement has also asked justice for $2 million in grants to help both the city and the county to cover expenses that they have. the state department children

and families of suicide $500,000 to cover grief counseling and other issues. i want to congratulate the mayors for what they've done with regard to reaching out to everybody that's impacted in the new center that's open. as i've talked to family members, they're in their grieving process but they're moving on to how are they going to bury their loved ones. they're asking for privacy. they're asking for people to respect them. no different than what you would collect if this happened to one of your loved ones. i know everybody is very interested in what happened here, but this is somebody's son or daughter, brother, sister, grandchild, and they're grieving. they cannot imagine how this happened to their family.

none of us could imagine how this could have happened to any of our families. i want to thank everybody for all they're doing to help each of these families get back to work, get their lives back to as normal as possible. it will never be the same, but this state is resilient, the city is resilient, this country is resilient. we all know this is terror, we've got to destroy isis, and as a nation we'll do that. thank you. now i'll turn it over to mayor buddy dire. >> thank you. good afternoon. during the past three days, the people of orlando across the country and around the world have responded with love, compassion and unity, and we are overwhelmed by the outpouring of love for our community. i'm pleased to announce that we have had the one orlando fund opened for two days and we have already raised $3.6 billion.

that total keeps rising. disney stepped up to $1 million. the orlando magic and devoss family foundation donated $500,000. earlier today jp morgan also donated $500,000. but today we continue to help the victims and those who witnessed the event to recover. the chief talked about our efforts with our first responders and city personnel and county and local law enforcement agencies in terms of getting the counseling that they need, but there's a wide range of services that the families and the victims and the witnesses need. so earlier today we opened the orlando family assistance center at camping world stadium, and that's formerly known as the citrus bowl. so a lot of you would probably know it as the citrus bowl. but it's camping world stadium.

we have all of the necessary support services in one location. i had a chance to meet with the various providers this morning, and they are extremely excited to be able to be helpful. so many people want to reach out and be able to do something, and they are able to do something for the victims. everything from assisting with funeral services to forgpet fos care, airlines, saassisting in travel and licenses and i.d.s. i want to thank the press for the responsible reporting and coverage of this event and the coverage of the heroic acts and the stories of the people that were involved, but i do want to emphasize what the chief said and ask you to -- ask you to -- >> can we get a first responder? >> yeah. can we get a first responder? >> george?

>> if you can give him some room by backing up your cameras, we'll hold off just a minute. >> they're pausing because someone apparently fainted and they're getting a first responder to deal with that. let's get back to the mayor. >> everybody has done their job well, but please respect our police officers. they can't talk to you. there's still a federal investigation and an fdle

investigation going on, so please respect them. mayor teresa jacobs. >> thank you. ladies and gentlemen, as mayor of orange county i'm calling on all of our 1.2 million residents to do two things. and i'm calling on the citizens across the greater region of 3.3 million people to do two things. one, as assistant -- special assistant hopper has said, if you see something, say something. if you say something, he will do something. i think we have all seen by what we've learned so far, that if more people would have said something sooner, it's just possible this could have been prevented. please help us in reporting everything that you see that you think could be suspicious or related to this. next, we have a lot of funerals coming up in our community over the next week or week and a half. and as i've heard everybody say we are a resilient community, and we are a resilient

community, but our capacity to be resilient is only as great as our capacity to love, care for, and support everyone in this community. so i'm calling on every member of orange county, every citizen of this region, to exercise the utmost of passion for every person, for every person experiencing grief, for every person you may disagree with. this is a time for us to come together. this is a time when anyone else that seeks to come to our community and threaten the lives of our brothers and sisters, our neighbors, our friends, this is the time when we say enough is enough. we will not tolerate it. so i think it's time for all of us to look deep in our hearts and souls and make sure we are doing our best to be the kind of people that the 50 people that have died, that they deserve to have protecting them. god bless you and thank you. now i will turn the podium back to mayor dyer who's going to take questions.

>> agent hopper, what's the status of the wife? >> with respect to the wife, i can tell you that that is only one of many interviews that we have done and will continue to do in this investigation. we cannot comment on the content or the outcome of that investigation. so at this time i would have no further comment. >> have you spoken to other gay club owners in orlando, have you spoken to them, such as the revere club? >> the fbi considers notifying all clubs in the area, what we refer to commonly as duty to notify. and we have put out intelligence bulletins and made contact with those clubs to give them a heightened sense of awareness. i would ask that based on the fact that we're going through the period of ramadan and that we had the fourth of july coming up, that everyone in the community should have just a general sense of awareness, but there's no credible or specific

threat that indicates there's anything planned for the orlando area or nationally. i'm sorry? i can't hear you. >> when did you become aware -- >> can anybody hear what she said? [ inaudible ] >> the question was, was there an opportunity to follow him beforehand. there are policy and legal implications with respect to counter-terrorism investigations. as i mentioned earlier, at the time of this particular incident, this individual was not a subject of an active investigation which limits on those things that we can do. so, no, there was no surveillance at that time. i'm sorry? >> is the fbi tracking westboro

baptist church? >> i have no information on that at this time. >> were you able to paint a picture about the night of the shooting? >> the fbi is reconstructing the subject's movements going back months, days, hours and minutes before the fatal act here at the pulse nightclub, and that is something we are looking at and scrubbing thoroughly. it's not anything i can share with you at the time. >> what was the make and model of the firearm used? >> all the firearms in this incident have been collected and are currently being processed at quantico, virginia, but i will not comment on the types of firearms used. >> when did the fbi become aware of the april trip that he took -- >> what was the question? >> when did the fbi become aware -- >> i don't have that information. i don't have that information at this time. >> do you think he was casing other targets, and have you been able to