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you can get them out. 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 area we can't let these things happen anymore. right? you agree with me, protester? do you agree? or do you think it's easier to be weak and ineffective like we are right now. i don't think it's okay. so we have a situation and i say this, i'm going to read it. i think he finally won, by the way. crooked hillary. hillary, ladies and gentlemen. she's as crooked as they come area as crooked as they come. so you have hillary, i think bernie is now out of it, right?
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is he out? is he gone? i was criticized in the newspapers because i had a staff of 73 people at that time and i want in orlando. he has a staff of they say 873 people and she goes on and on. and the papers said she has many more people than. and i'm saying to myself, wait a minute they make be it sound bad for me. isn't it great when you win with a smaller group of people. and isn't that what we? . i have spent a fractions of what she spent winning. and like i went to, so many places. i won so many states and have such great experience including georgia. boy, did we win georgeia. we won in a land slide in georgia
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and we are going to win it big. but i went to new hampshire and something special about new hampshire. that is where we had our first victory and the people were amazing. and i went to new hampshire and i got to know the people and saw what was happening. i spent a tiny fractions of what the favored candidate was spending. i will not say who it was. i spent a little bit and i won new hampshire in a land slide and won other states in a land slide and i was spending my money. i didn't raise money. i spent my money. i didn't people giving me millions of dollars from wall street. but i won new hampshire in a land slide. and no one covers it. we are intelligent people.
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trump did it on the cheap? we need someone like that running our country. she has built a massive team and got 900 people and spending money. and trump has 73 people. but you know, we are doing very well, watch the end result. watch what the end result is. and when you look at the phony poll numbers, look at poll numbers from right after this horrendous and horrible and something we have to stop fast attack. take a look over the last couple of days. people are tired. they want to have strength and they want intelligence. they don't want to make an iran deal where we give them 150 billion and we get nothing. we get nothing. they don't want trade deals where china has a trade deficit,
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we do with china, of $505 billion a year. massive trade deficits with mexico, with japan, with vietnam, with india, with everybody, folks. with everybody. i mean, practically every country in the world when they do business with the united states, it's called let's rip them off. it is like we are all of the big, bad dummies and those days are over if i win. they are over. they are over. now, i just want, i have to talk about this for a little while because of the horrible situation that we all just saw and so, so vividly, and we have to talk about it and then we are going to get on to other things. it is so important.
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i have been talking about it for a long time. it will happen again and again and again because we are not doing what we need to do. it will happen again and again and again, and we are not doing what we are supposed to be doing. we are taking in this happeneds -- thousands of people in our country. we have no idea where they come from. we don't have any idea who the hell they are. we know they believe in certain things we don't want to believe in. i said 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 country ares, her foundation took tens
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of millions from countries that want to enslave women. enslave. 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 in to our country pretty much unvetted because every law enforcement person that i have spoken to and that you watch and you read is saying it is very hard if not impossible to check out people. there are no papers. there are no papers and yet you see the great migration and a horrible thing to watch. and i have a heart as big as anyone else. we have to build safe zones and take care of people. and build them over there and build in syria and places over there.
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[applause] [chanting usa] >> thank you. we have to build safe zones and work humanity. it is humanity. and we have so many problems here. but we build safe zones over there, and when the deal making or whatever you want to call it, get the gulf states to pay p for. it they have tremendous amounts of money and they are not doing much. and it is 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 and spend billions and billions of dollars on bringing people in.
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as to whether they assemulate or not you make the decision. assimulation is not exactly a positive factor. so, she wants to spend all of the money and her increase on bringing the people in is 550 percent more than obama. and he doesn't have a clue and doesn't know what he's doing. okay. he doesn't know what he's doing. it is very sad. it is very sad. when you look at sharia and the beliefs of sharia and it is called execution for things that you would say like standard parts of life. and we have people coming in. and do not kid yourself. that's what they believe and want and practice and we are taking these people in?
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so i will tell you, the lgbt community, the gay community, the lesbian community, they are so much in favor of what i have been saying over the last 3 or 4 days. a friend of mine called up, and he said, you know, you don't get enough credit. in palm beach you opened a club that no body would do and it is open to everybody. it is 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 no one else would do. we are getting a tremendous. thank you, thank you. we are getting tremendous amount of credit because over the last three days, people are
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realizing, over the last three days people are realizing what is going on and we have to treat people great. we have to treat everybody great. when i say make america great again, it is great for everybody. we have to say for everybody. we have to. [applause] >> thank you. and you know, we have a simple theme, it is called make america great again. a lot of people say i copied from ronald reagan. his theme was called let's make america great. that is different. we are make america great again. we have to add to. it i am adding as we go along and as we get older and wiser, make america great again and
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make america safe again and let's include everybody. we want to include everybody. [applause] >> and we have to stop on a temporary basis, at lost, we have to stop people from pouring in to 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 that come in that cherish and love us and want to do things that don't want to it destroy us. and don't want to go to a club, where you have innocent people and no guns on the other side. by the way, i will save your second amendment. i will save your second amendment.
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[applause] if some of those great people that were in that club that night had had guns strapped to their waist or ank and he will if the bullets were going in the other direction aimed at this guy who was open target practice, you would have had a situations, folks which would have been always horrible but nothing like the carnage that we all as a people suffered this weekend, nothing. [applause] and a lot of people are not realizing. this look at paris. paris has the toughest gun laws in the world. france generally speaking, the toughest in the world, and these thugs walked in and they used to
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call them press mastermineds. that's why the young kids are joining isis, they want to be a mastermined. these thugs. guys with the dirty white cap. thugs walk withed in to different places and boom, boom, boom. and no body on the other side that had guns. no one could do anything and they killed 130 people, killed viciously killed. hundreds still in the hospital. it was the most horrible injuries. and now we have to the same thing in orlando and last night, you had had a police officer and his wife killed the same way, and the killer put it on facebook p. same kind of a thing. it is happening all over. and it is getting worse and it will continue to get worse until they respect us, folks. they have to respect us, they
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have no respect for us whatsoever. we are trying to be nice. we have a president who wants to be so politically correct he doesn't want to use the term "radical islamic terrorism". he gave a long speech and at the end of it, no one knew what the hell he was talking about. he's trying to justify why he will not use radical islam because he didn't want to use the word terrorism, if you notice. why he will not use that term or doesn't use it and how it doesn't make a difference. but it does make a difference. it makes a difference and a big difference, because unless you're willing to discuss and talk about the real nature and name of the problem.
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radical islamic terrorism, you are never going to solve the problem. [applause] and then crooked hillary clinton gets up the other day, she wouldn't use the term. she wouldn't use it. and i was hitting her hard on it and finally she gets up and said, i would use it. you know, by the way, the press didn't report this. they said she used the term. many of them are fair. most of them are very dishonest. it is very hard to get the accurate word out because i made a speech in north carolina, we had had standing ovations and a packed house and i go back and they are talking about the speech had nothing to do with what i was talking about.
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they are the worst. believe me. but p 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. she didn't call it radical islamic terrorism. she said rad cam islamism. i am not saying it is wrong. see how much she will use it. she will do whatever obama wants her to do. you understand why. that is ridiculous what is going on there. it is 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. she's being 100 percent protected. and now maybe we'll be surprised and our law work the way it is
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supposed to work. you know, folks, if anything was going to happen in the crimes that was committed, i would have assumeed it would have happened already. so let's see what happens. when you get right down and you look at it, we have to be respected. we don't have to be liked so much. we have to be respected. and feared. it is not fear, we have to be respected. we are not respected by these people. they come in to the country and want to take it over. now, look at what is happening in germany. a catastrophe. friends in germ no telling me what a great place germany is to leave. they are loving the -- leaving the country now. crime is through the roof. and things are horrendous and see what is happening to women and all over germany now.
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it was a horrific mistake and a terrible mistake. now, they will say it wasn't and it is wonderful. you build, and if germany had it to do it again. i don't think she would admit it, but see how she does in the next election and assuming she will run. if germany had it to do it again. they will put billions of dollarses for safe zones in syria and anything is cheaper and better than what is going on in germany and other countries. [applause] so belgium, is a beautiful city and an amazing place and magnificent buildings. i was there many years ago and an incredible image and a number of months ago, i made the
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statement. belgium is a hellhole. and i was badly critized. they said what a terrible thing and then the massive problem in belgium. and people say trump was right. trump was right. i don't want to be right. i don't want to be right. but look at what is going on in paris, and what is going on in different places all over, different places, you know it, i know it. and they continue. and they don't want to talk about it. we don't want these problems and we have got them. look at this weekend. we don't want to have these problems. what i am saying a temporary ban in particular for certain people coming from certain horrible where you have tremendous terrorism in the borld. you know what those places are. we have to put a stop to it until such time as we can figure out what is going on.
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because right now, we don't have a clue what is going on. we don't have is a clue. we don't know each a little bit what is going on. and we have to be the smart country. we have been the dummies too long and we have to be the smart. we have to be the brilliant country. we have to show and we have to help and take care of people, but we have to be start. with the kind of money that we owe, 19 trillion and going to 20 trillion because of the omnibus budget that was passed. 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, his parents weren't and his ideas were not born here. his ideas were born from someplace else.
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[applause] and in speaking to numerous governors over the last few days, really, a great group of people, and in speaking to them, they really are besides themselves, because 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 and where they are being placed. and even from the stand point of law enforcement, that is a bad thing. they can't watch or see what is going on. and we aren't vigilant & we have to check the respectfully the mosque and other places because this is a problem that if we don't solve it, it will eat our country alive. okay? it is going to eat our country
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alive. we can be weak and ineffective like we are now. 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 the wrong path, and our country is in serious trouble, okay. all right. serious trouble. now, we have a lot of things going on in addition, in addition. and right now there is no addition because of what
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happened, but in addition, we have things going on that are terrible. we're being eaten alive on the jobs market and our jobs are taken out of our country and if you look at what happened as an example of nafta. nafta took our jobs out of our country and brought them to other places, thank you, that is a respectful person. [applause] thank you. thank you. thank you. by the way, somebody just said, and you are right. i was fully endorsed, the earliest endorsement by the national rifle association and that is the nra. and so thank you. so, when i started on june 16th,
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almost one year ago. [applause] thank you. i would say be nice to the protestor, 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? is there any better place to be? i will tell you. you know, a friend of mine said to me, look at the crowd that is up there, there are so many lights. thank you. thank you. this place is packed and a friend of mine, a very successful guy came up to me and saw the rally in dallas where we had 21000 people in the maveric
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ks arena and mobile, alabama and look at this today and a lot of people trying to get in. would anybody like to give up their seat and let people in? no. but he saw the big places and this is a successful people, and he said how the hell do you do that in front of so many people? and i told him, i said it is easy, because there is so much love in the room. in these rooms. it is incredible. >> and you know, it is really true. it is easy in a sense because there is great love and people who want to see our country do wonderful thin and want their jobs back and wages to go up. and want their wages to go up. and manufacture things again. look at the manufacturing in our
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country. when i won new york and pennsylvania and connecticut and maryland and all of these different places, and new england and massachusetts. that's because tom brady likes me. you know? and we won so many different states and i have the statititions, they love their job. it is a boring job but they love. it give me the information on new york. and i would love, new york state, 50 percent reduction in manufacturing jobs, they left. why did they leave? nafta? signed by who? bill clinton? clinton caused other presidents in the later years, jobs were sucked out of our country and they moved to mostly to mexico but other places and look at what china did in terms of the
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devalations and no one talks about it. we are being killed. >> presumptive nominee donald trump at a rally in i am sorry, atlanta, georgia. he mentioned the president and hillary clinton and she is campaigning in virginia and holding what she called a conversation on national security at the virginia air and space center in hampton, virginia. >> guns 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. thirdly, it is a parent that donald trump does not seem to grasp any of this? he is fixated on the phrase
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"radical islam" as if those are magic words that once uttered will stop terrorist from coming after us. and he wants to ban all muslims from entering our country and send immigration from large parts. his comments are more inflammatory in recent days. this approach is not 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 the majority muslim countries to help us fight terrorist. we need to build trust in muslim communities here at home to
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counter radicalization and the lone wolf phenom nan. [applause] and as it is pointed out. terrorist in orlando was not born in afghanistan. he was born in queens, new york only miles from where donald trump was born. a ban on muslim would not have stopped this attack, neither would a wall. i don't know how one builds the wall to keep the internet out. and not one of donald trump's reckless ideas would have saved a single life in orlando, it is just more evidence that he is unfit and totally unqualified to be commander in chief. >> i am aware of how much
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uncertainty our military accept as a constant part in their and yours lives. it is a sacrifice to try to keep us all safe. we have to be right 100 percent of the time. the terrorist only have to be right once. and so the burred ep on our law enforcement and our intelligence professionals and our military is enormous. you deserve a commander in chief to provide smart, steady leadership and understands that we are stronger when we stand together as americans, stand together with our allies around the world to keep us safe. we are truly stronger together and i am looking forward to hearing from our on panelist. and perhaps of how we do this.
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what are the best ways to keep faith with our military and military families and prepare our country to be protected and go after the lone wolves. it is very hard. as one of our law enforcement professionals said the other day, we are truly looking for the needle in the the global haystack and we are looking to see whether any pieces was hay can ignite at the same time. so i do not underestimate the extent of the challenge we face, but i am 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's what we will do together. thank you very much.
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>> well, again, so thank you for being here. it is an important discussion and this is something that the the governor and i work on every day. >> and hillary clinton is in hampton, virginia in the virginia air and space center. it is a conversation as it is billed on national security. you heard her remarks criticizing donald trump presumptive republican nominee and saying he is ill equipped based on the saying ofus muslims entering the country. we'll leave it for you to decide. >> we'll go live to the mayor of orange county in orlando. do we have that available now? >> let's listen in.
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>> good afternoon, i am ron harper and i am the assistant agent in charge of the fbi tampa field office with responsibilities over seaing orlando. i am joined by chief mina opd. and lee bentley and law enforcement partners in the the florida law enforcement and orange sheriff's office and atf and dea. also with us today, are florida governor rick scott and orlando mayor, buddy dyer. i would like to thank all of my partners standing here today and many others who came from all over the nation who are assisting us from investigating the terrible attack on our community. the level of partnership and cooperation is phenomenal and in the last several days, has been completely overwhelming. we continue to stand shoulder to
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shoulder and work together to investigate the horrific attack. we wanted to take time and update on what we are doing and ask for your help in certain areas of the investigation. because it is it an ongoing investigation, there is still much i cannot share with you. i would ask for your patience, and when i tell you that there are certain things i can't discuss at this time. we are covering many leads and we want to make sure we share information, and it is timely and accurate. we owe it to the victims and families and loved ones and the community to bear witness with finite accuracy. the fbi office victim assistance rapid deployment team is working with the city of orlando and state and local counterparts and
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community agencies to provide resources and support victims and next of kin and loved ones at the family assistance center. we have recently moved the family assistance center. i will share with you. camping world stadium and it is open from 10:00 a.m. and until 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, please go to fbi.goff/orlandovictims. all one word. there are media reports on members of the ethnic communities that are perceived to be in response to the shooting at the pulse. let me be beyond clear at that point. civil right violations are a priority for the fbi and we'll
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investigate reported incidents upon individuals and any protected class including race, religion and sexual orientation. and any known threats or incidents should be reported to the local fbi office or local enforcement agency. let me tell you about where we are today with the investigation. the fbi response team remains at the pulse and we continue to process the crime scene. as you might imagine, it is a methodical and time intensive work that is needs analysis and crime scene mapping and it is it imperative that we get this right. we are committed to stay here to carefully process the vast crime scene. efforts are under way to reduce our foot print in an attempt to
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have the city return to some sense of normalcy. and we are working our best to work efficiently and our goal is to maintain the integrity of the crime scene and the evidence we collect. we continue to seek and follow leads about the activities and associate ises of the shooting. omar mateen, and like the director, we will not mention his name again. we need your help to completing the picture of the shooter and why he did it. the fbi is placing seeking information poster on our website fbi.gov with photos and information about the shooter. we want to hear from any member of the public who had any connection or involvement or information about the shooter. you may, no matter how big or
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small that information would be. i asked in the beginning. investigation, we want to hear from you. and you have come through for me and i appreciate that. we received volumeses of information and leads and tips that we are following up on and continue to follow-up on. regardless of how small that information is, the fbi stands ready to receive your information. please continue to call. 1- 800- call fbi or by submitting a tip at on line tips.fbi.gov. we ask any one with 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 surance. we'll keep them confidential.
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and this conversation is on going and we'll not be able to provide additional information at this time. investigations are deliberate by their very nature because we want to tell you a thorough and accurate way and realize that will take sometime. i ask for your patience as we go about our work. we will continue to keep you informed of our progress and continue to have briefings as information dictates and we are able to share that with the entire community. once again, i thank our partner agencies and most of all, thank the orlando community. your courage, compassion, and resilience in the face of a great tragedy are an inspiration to us all. we are orlando strong. before i depart and turn it over to the chief john mina. there are two sites that i hope the public will take advantage of. first one being.
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fbi.gov/orlandovictims. that has information about the family assistance center and things that the fbi can do to help you if you are a victim or a loved one of the victim. if you have questions of the vehicles that had to be abandoned as a result of the crime scone. we have a phone number. 407- 246- help. or 407- 246- 4357. and if we are not able to release that vehicle to you at this time. we'll give you information when it would be rabble and what you can do to take possession of the vehicle. we'll turn it over to the chief john menna. >> good afternoon, many people in the public asked how the first responders and officers are doing of that night. yesterday 400 officers came to
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a stress management debriefing. and the purpose of that debriefing was the officers to talk about how they are dealing and venting to the peers and talk about the experiences to help them keep and deal with this tragic situation. so after the main group talked for a bit and received instructions by trained counsellors and they broke out to classrooms in groups of 10-15 and had sessions with trained counsellors to talk about their circumstances and their experiences and how they are 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 swat team, all of the members responded including the officers that were involved in the shooting. i can tell you, these are the courageous and heroic and toughest men i know. they have is seen murders,
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homicides and unfortunately incidents and horrific car crashes and no one can prepare you for what they encounter ared that night. they stood toe and face-to-face with a mass murderer. and i am extremely proud of them. so, after all of those stress debriefings take place, we'll offer free counseling, continuing to the officers. several agencies came forward to offer that counseling to make sure the officers are dealing with that correctly. and now i want to talk about media contacting those officers that are involved in the shooting. as per our policy and procedure, those officers involved in the shooting are relieved of duty and prohibited from talking
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about the shooting and investigation or any of the circumstances. so i cannot stress this enough, do not attempt to contact the officers. they will not talk to you. they are prohibited to talk to you by policy and by law. so please do not contact them. they will also not talk about the federal investigation. and they will not compromise this investigation, honestly i would tell you, there are some aggressive media outlets that have gone to our officer's home and called parents out of state and posted pictures and we are stressing let the officers deal with this situation that they had deal with that night and let them be with their families and let them heal. like i said they cannot talk about the investigation. we appreciate your cooperation in this matter and now i will turn it over to the u.s.
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attorney. >> good afternoon. i am lee bentley, united states attorney of the district court. the last three and half days, it is extremely difficult for me personally and for my office and the department of justice and for our law enforcement partners. like you, and the city of orlando, we are grieving for the 49 victims of this horrific attack in the pulse night club. while grieving, we are continuing to investigate the crime that occurred and all of the facts and circumstances that led up to it. today, i am not going to speculate with respect to any charges that might be brought or indeed as to whether any charges
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will be brought. it is it premature to do so. i am 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 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 that it will be a full and complete investigation and the facts will be known to the public at the appropriate time. the assistant special agent in charge, ron harper, commented about the threats that have been made to the members of the muslim community. making the threats is not only wrong, in most cases, making the
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threats is illegal. stop it. any threats like this, detracts from what we are doing in law enforcement. we want to spend 100 percent of our time investigating the crime that occurred in the pulse night club and 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 made such threats or considering to make such a threat, grieve with us. grieve with the victims of the night club shooting, with the same solemity that we are doing and which they deserve. i'd like to thank all of our federal state, and local law enforcement officers. obviously the federal bureau of investigation, a tf, homeland
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security and even epa has been involved in this investigation. our state partners have been wonderful. starting with the florida law enforcement, city of orlando police department. orange county sheriff's office and of course, the state prosecutors have been cooperating as well. state wood prosecutor and the orange county attorney jeff ashton behind me. i would like to thank my colleague in the main department of justice. i have spoken to deputy attorney general sally yates and our attorney general loretta lynch and i will speak 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 victimses in this case and
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they are devoting all of their attention to this investigation. now, i'd like to turn it over to a number of our elected officials that are going to speak. i would like to tell you a few things that a number of our elected officials on the scene, everyone of them has tried to assist in the investigation and had only one question of us. what can we do to help? they have remarks to make for the communities they serve and state they serve. please respect them by not asking them specific questions about the facts of this investigation. and now, i am going to turn it over to florida governor rick scott. thank you. >> first i want to thank the federal, state and local law enforcement. they have done an outstanding
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job. it starts with the individuals that showed up at the gay night club pulse and willing to risk their lives to save people they never met before and may never meet again. i also want to thank the entire orllano and the world, everyone has shown up to be be helpful. mayor jacobs and mayor dyer are here to see what they can do to be helpful. i have had the opportunity to talk to family members that lost loved ones and those that are struggling for their lives and going through surgery. and a lady who talked to her son and how he bled to death. i talked to a young man who had gun shot wounds and first concern was how to get back to work. and these are all people just
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like us. this was these are all people just like us. this was clearly an attack on our gay community, it was an attack on our hispanic community, it was an attack on orlando. it was a terror attack on our nation. clearly a terror attack on our way of life. our city, our state, our nation is going to come back together. i want all of you that have called to try and help our law enforcement. at the state, i've kept our agencies apprised of what we're doing and also asked them what they can be doing. the florida department of law enforcement has set aside $520,000 for the orlando police department to cover some of their expenses. florida department of law enforcement has also asked justice for $2 million, grants to help both the city and the county to cover expenses that they have.
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the state department of children and families has set aside $500,000 to cover grief counseling and other issues. i want to congratulate the mayor -- mayors for what they've done with regard to reaching out to everybody that's impacted. as i talk to family members, they are just now -- they are in their grieving process but they are 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 expect if this happened to one of your loved ones. i know everybody's very interested in what happened here. but this is somebody's son or daughter, brother, sister, grandchild, and they are grieving. they cannot imagine how this
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happened to their family. like none of us could imagine how this could happen to any of our families. so 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. they will never be the same but this state is resilient, this 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 dyer. >> thank you, governor. 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 an we are overwhelmed by the outpouring of love for our community. i'm pleased to announce that we've the one orlando fund opened for two days and we have already raised $3.6 billion and
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this total keeps rising. disney stepped up to $1 million. another 500,000 was donated. earlier today jpmorgan also donated $500,000. we would like most are people who witnessed the event to recover. local responders, city personnel and local law enforcement agencies are working in terms to get the counseling they need, but there is a wide range of services that the families of the victims and the witnesses need. so earlier today we opened the orlando family assistance center at camping world stadium. that's formerly known as the citrus bowl. so a lot of you probably know it as the citrus world.
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it is camping world stadium. we have all 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 age 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 pet foster care, airlines facilitating travel, our tax collector issue and driver's licenses and i.d.s. i want to thank the press corps 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. i do want to emphasize what the chief said and ask you to -- ask you to -- can we get a first responder?
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zbl >> if you can give him some room. >> well, if you are wondering what's going on -- we all are just a little bit -- but orlando mayor buddy dyer was in the mid of his remarks at this news conference updating the press. it appears someone fainted. let's listen back in. >> -- job well but please do respect our police officers. they can't talk to you. it is still a federal
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investigation and fle investigation still going on so please respect that. >> ladies and gentlemen, as mayor of orange county i'm call all of our 1.2 million residents to do two things. 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 is 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 and week and a half. as i've heard everybody say, we're a resilient community. and we are a resilient
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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 compassion for every person, for every person experiencing grief, for every person who may disagree with you. this is a time for us to come together. this is the time when anyone else who 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. i think it is time for us to look deep in our hearts and souls to make sure we are doing our best to be the kind of people that 50 people that have died deserve to have protecting us. god bless you and thank you. now i will turn the podium back over to mayor dyer who is going to take questions.
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>> 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. i cannot comment on the content or outcome of that investigation. so at this time i would have no further comment. >> 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 which -- what we refer to commonly as duty to notify. we have put out intelligence bulletins and made contact with those clubs to get them a heightened sense of awareness. i would ask that, based on the fact that we are going through the period of ramadan and that we have the fourth of july coming up, that everyone in the community should have just a general sense of awareness. but there is no credible or
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specific threat that indicates there is anything planned for the orlando area or nationally. [ inaudible question ] >> i can't hear you. can anybody hear what she said? [ inaudible question ] >> the question was, was there an opportunity to follow him beforehand. there are policy and legal implications with respect to counterterrorism investigations. as i mentioned earlier, at the time of this particular incident, this individual was not a subject of an active investigation which limits the things we can do. so no, there was no surveillance at that time. >> was the fbi tracking it west
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borough baptist church? >> i have no information on that. [ inaudible question ] >> the fbi is reconstructing the subject's movements, going back months, days, hours and minutes before the fatal night here at the pulse nightclub. that's something we're looking at and scrubbing thoroughly. it is nothing i can share with you at this time. >> what was the make and model of the firearm? >> all the firearms in this incident have been collected and are currently being processed back at quantico, virginia but i will not comment on the types of firearms used. >> when did the fbi become aware of -- >> 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. >> have you been able to establish when the facebook post

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