no prepossession. again, thank you for watching us tonight. we're having a big week here, we hope you stay with us. please remember the spin stops right he breaking tonight, details on what orlando terrorist was doing as he carried out his massacre at the pulse nightclub, pledging loyalty to isis, and threatening more attacks in days to come. welcome to "the kelly file" everyone. foxnews.com publishing a frightening akt of the social media post put up by the gunman during the terrorist attack. the report detailing how mateen, with victims lying dead around him was not only posting on facebook, but also, making a series of phone calls, at least 16, making sure the world heard

his message. this report broke just moments ago and trace ghallager is going through it at the breaking news desk. >> the information is stunning. it's stuff we have not heard before. this is coming to us and talking about the three hours in between the shooting and the time the police went in and killed the actual shooter. we're talking about a bunch of facebook posts, because this guy apparently had five different facebook accounts linked to him. i want to start by giving you the first facebook post that reads, and i'm quoting i pledge my allegiance to isis leader, may allah accept me. the real muslims will never accept the filthy ways of the west. . he went on to post again, quoting in the next few days you'll see attacks if the

islamic state in the united states of america. and finally, he posts america and russia stop bombing the islamic state. we should note these are all coming from information from the senate homeland security commission with senator ron johnson, a republican, who has given this information. he says when this happened they took down his social media accounts but the homeland security commission was able to revive the accounts, which is why they have this information. you mentioned 16 phone calls that is brand new, as of an hour ago we heard there are five calls made. 3 to 911, 1 to an unknown person and another to an orlando tv station. the producer picked up the phone and the shooter said have you heard about the shootings? the producer said yes. he cut him off saying iep the shooter. it is me. i am the shooter and he went on to say this is about isis and

then, he spoke in arabic, ending by saying he pledged his allegiance to isis. now, we know there were 11 more calls made, it's unclear to whom, and the center of homeland committee did not point that out to us. we should know that the senate homeland committee as well as senator ron johnson is asking for more information about the activities of the shooter. the different facebook accounts, and we should note by saying which is going on, while hostages were in that bathroom, with the shooter, he was searching for the following terms. pulse orlando, shooting and also searching for information about the san bernardino jihadist couple that killed 13 people back in november. >> trace, thank you. and just to clarify, looking at the letter, it appears he's saying, john johnson is saying,

these posts were prior to and during the shootings so we're not sure which came which. he says the final post was this one in the next few days you'll see attacks from the islamic state in the usa. joining me now, a former islamic extremist and author of "radical". good to see you tonight. it appears the final post while he's murdering americans was in the next few days you'll see attacks from the islamic state in the u.s. what do you make of what we've just heard? >> i'd say it demonstrates clearly that mateen, no matter how long a period wants to clearly supporter of isis, clearly acting in a way that was inspire by the their jihadist ideology and saw himself as a soldier in their cause.

i'm incred ulous that my peers are saying he was a regular at the nightclubs and perhaps he drank and perhaps had homosexual ten tensies. it demonstrates a misunderstanding of the process of radicalization. we know the september 11th attackers had been to strip clubs and the same in france, the paris attackers, one, a couple owned a bar. so the posts can happen quickly if the ideological sympathies exist in the mind of the attacker. >> what would be the trigger? that is what people is been looking for. we heard, reportedly celebrated september 11th according to his high school classmates when it happened when he was a sophomore in high school. and but, then, we spoke with people who knew him as a

professional as recently as 2013 who say i never saw signs of radicalization. his ex-wife says i saw hate and beatings but never radicalization. then, he gets together with his current wife, living in jordan until 2006, whose parents came from pakistan, she's an american, who went with him to buy the guns and bullets and now, tonight we're going to get to her in a minute has vanished. so is it, do we tie it to her? how do we figure out how it started? >> unfortunately for us, living in europe, i'm in london, we have experienced this very speedy process of radicalization many times. people within weeks go from appearing normal and integrated to joining to supporting isis and travelling to fight with them. that is one thing isis has done in revolutionalizing the process

of radicalization, they've been effective in this. the social media connectivity and what it allows for connecting people and discussing ideas is partly responsible for that. and human beings are complicated and we do know that as a child he celebrated the september 11th attacks and called the taliban warriors. and we heard from a co-worker that he was working with at the security company that expressed that he felt this man should have been dismissed for extreme views so there was a process occurring. the speed of it doesn't surprise anyone who works in this field. >> right. in 2014, the fbi had contact with him because he was sympathizing with a man that went on to become a homicide bomber over syria.

and when you look back, signs are there. also breaking the wife of the orlando terrorist vanishing from the radar. the defense suggesting they may not be bringing charges against her, reports today suggest omar ms mateen is on video buying bullets with his wife. solomon returned to her home under the cover of darkness last night. and as we learn the fbi is now interviewing folks in the california neighborhood where she grew up. not only that, but reportedly telling investigators her husband assist insisted he was going out with friends, she says she knew different. >> who is in the house now? across the street now?

>> who is there? is my family. and you shouldn't be here. if you're looking for noor she's not here. >> is she in orlando. >> she's not here. >> we're also learning more about omar mateen today, folks realize he was interviewed for a documentary about the bp oil spill six years ago when he was working as a security guard. >> i'm just wondering what is going on here. >> for bp oil spill. >> is there anyway i can talk to people there? working? >> like, there are people here but they're scattered all over the place. there is no one to talk to, any supervisors. everybody just gets out to get paid. they're hoping for more oil to come out and more people to complain so they'll have a job. they want more disaster to happen. that is where their money making is. >> yes. >> lots of money? >> all about the money. exactly.

>> how about that? back now to trace with the second part of the story. trace? >> yes. the fbi says the investigation could take weeks, months and years. they're probing the role of noor, the second wife, including visiting the home where she lived in a very palestinian family. neighbors say she kept to herself. listen. >> we didn't see her go in and out once. a lot of my neighbors i see them leave, go to work. pull in, out. i didn't see her a lot. >> but she was seen in store surveillance video not yet released that showed her buying ammunition with her husband. she told investigators she knew her husband was planning a jihadist attack and despite saying she tried to stop him, she never contacted police. salman can be charged as an accomplice but the u.s. attorney says an arrest is not imminent.

>> we do not know when charges will be finalized to answer your question. we're not sure when charges are going to be brought or if charges will be brought. >> and now, of course there is breaking news we know that 16 phone calls were made during the attack on that nightclub. again, we only know who he called in four phone calls. the question is, did he contact his wife at any time during that attack? if so, why then did she not contact the authorities? and if he contacted friends, why did they also, not contact authorities? >> she could have been helpful. they would have asked her what was he doing in the apartment? have you seen bomb paraphernalia? that could have been a lead. >> joining me now, mia bloom, author of "bomb shell", women and terrorism.

and mia is a true expert. thank you mia. we talked about this after the boftan marathon bombing. and she was googling benefits to the wife of mujahideen. she was never charged and never reported anything about tamerlin tsarnaev. >> 64% of the time in a study done, a member of the family knew about the plot because the perpetrator told them about the plot. and so, it's really quite shocking that noor is either, you know a conspirator or callous or a coward, but one of

the three. either of these descriptions of her is not complimentary. because now, she wants to say, okay. i was there when he bought guns and bullets. and you know, i feared he might do something, but i didn't know about it though i've driven him to the pulse nightclub many occasions except not on the night of the occasion. it doesn't add up. >> she has been interrogated by police officers and fbi, the story keeps changing. so i don't have a great deal of confidence in her, all of a sudden, now, taking on this role of the victim. because we know he did beat and he was very cruel to his first wife. i think that she's going to play the victim card and she's going to say, well, you know, she could have done something but was afraid of him and didn't. >> you know, it's odd you see this picture of him and her with

their 3-year-old son. and you know, you can't help but think, as an american citizen, looking at that, like, how could they? how could he? how could she sit there willingly with their son with a mickey mouse shirt on and know at least, he and perhaps she did? >> it was something that i looked into because i wanted to see when we examined the study of 119 lone actor terrorists. 64% of the time a member of the family knew specific information about the plot. was it only one group? it wasn't. so we know that in the oklahoma city bombings, that terry nichols brother, james, helped him build the bombs and bought the guns. this cross cuts every group you can imagine. families don't come forward, either because they're afraid of getting the family member in trouble or don't want to get themselves in trouble, but i think we need to make a

distinction if they hear something that sounds strange in a fit of anger versus what noor did, acting as an accessory, helping him buy guns and brick and mortaring the targets. >> if that is what happened, she may never see that little boy again. and i'm sure she's not off the radar of federal law enforcement who have got to be watching her like a hawk. mia thank you for your expertise. >> thank you, megyn, great to see you again. >> some democrats are trying to rewrite the gun raws. there is a big filibuster of sorts going on now. we'll show what you they're trying to change, plus, in the middle of the terror investigation, the obama administration just quietly announced it's increasing its fast tracking, fast tracking the number of refugees coming to

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breaking tonight, as the nation reels from the worst

terrorist attack on u.s. soil since 9/11. they're ramping up their efforts to bring in refugees. the president's deputy national security adviser telling the human rights first we are speeding up the admissions process, without skipping any steps. so far, we've admitted about 3500 syrian refugees, more in the last five weeks than in the past seven months no syrian refugees in the united states have been arrested on terror related charges, many don't understand that. members of the own cabinet warned, terrorists could infiltrate the refugee ranks.

>> i don't put it past isil to infiltrate the refugee ranks. >> robert zimmerman is a dnc committee member from new york. good to see you both. >> it doesn't sound like they're increasing the number of syrian refugees. they're speeding it up, they want it done by september 30th. it wasn't going as quickly as they would like. they assure us they're not skipping any steps, despite their huge concern that these ranks might be infiltrated by terrorists. your thoughts? >> they're speeding it up, and hillary clinton does want to ramp it up. she increases the number of syrian refugees by 65%. republicans who oppose this betray our values and want to slam the door on innocent men, women and children. when her husband was president of the united states in the 1990s and tens of thousands of

haitian refugees tried to seek asylum, bill clinton slammed the door on those refugees. he intercepted them at sea, sent them to guantanamo and sent them back because some of them had the hiv virus. hillary clinton thinks we're betraying values -- >> why can't we help the syrian refugees -- this is what mark's people say -- by creating a safe zone outside of the united states. americans may be more comfortable with that solution. >> we're concerned about the safety of our country and our concern about refugees, the reality here is, when you talk about the administration ramping up its steps, let's be clear, what they're doing, is increasing on every level of our government, more staff, more oversight, more security clearances. let's put this in perspective, since 9/11 hit our country, we've taken in 784,000 refugees,

only three have been returned since 9/11. the point that counts is, the republican right wing, makes america less safe. the chairman of the homeland security committee for the republicans in the house, mike mccall said that in fact donald trump's strategy toward muslims and toward inviting muslims from coming in would be a recruiting tool for isis. we have to be on our guard. >> that's the argument, they say, when we support taking in these refugees, we undermine the terrorist arguments about the united states. and if we don't support them, they become desperate, they turn to unscrupulous people, and have you young kids who wrote to president obama saying, i was sitting in a refugee camp it got bombed, i lost both of my arms, and i want to get arms so i can write a letter of thanks to the united states. i mean, this -- when we reject the would be terrorists we reject little ahmed as well. >> robert, hold on.

here's the problem, all of us want to help these refugees. anyone who saw the lifeless picture of the toddler who was drawned trying to escape from isis wants to help them. the islamic state is taking advantage of their suffering to try to infiltrate terrorists into the united states. >> no, mark, the problem -- >> stop interrupting me. >> that's the problem, mark. >> let him finish. and then i'll get to you, robert. >> the problem is, the islamic state is trying to infiltrate them, and the obama administration has admitted they can't effectively screen them. they lost track of 10,000 people who had terrorist ties who they mistakenly gave visas. they don't know where they are. >> that's a false statement, the fbi director -- >> it's not a false statement. >> they can vet them. >> no. >> the more important point. >> no, that's not true, but let's not get off the fact. he expressed concern about

vetting them. >> he did say that the government can in fact vet the refugees and they're getting better at it. >> comb my said we can only query against that which we have collected. if someone has not made a ripple in the pond in syria, in a way that would get our interest. we can query the databases until the cows come home, because we have no record of that person, robert. that's what comey said. >> as long as we play into this fear, and the fear mongering, following donald trump's strategy, we endanger our safety, become recruiting tools for isis and the country is in fact -- >> i have to go. >> without letting them into the united states. one of the top democrats in congress came out and declared the orlando attack was not about isis or even about terror. but that it was all about gun control. i mean, not at all about terror? we'll take you live to the democrats effort to crackdown on gun laws underway at this moment. trump today added to his controversial claims about

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democrats are making a major new push for more gun control, with a lengthy filibuster of sorts in the senate. we have live pictures coming in now as you can see. in the last couple days, with south carolina's james clyburn going so ar as to say, it was not about terrorism. >> this is not about isis, it's not about any foreign terror. this is about guns in america and whether or not we're going to have some kind of moderation to this second amendment just as we have to the first amendment. >> it's not about isis. >> joining me now, katie and mark. of course it's about isis.

>> it's about war, hatred and guns. since the year 2004, more than 2000 people who were on terror watch lists -- there's legislation, if it were passed may allow us to catch this guy. >> you know the gun defenders say people end up on the terror watch list all the time. he can't deprive them of their second amendment rights. >> if you learn you're inadvertently on that list, go to a judge and get off. in order to fly to new york to do this, very to take my clothes off and give my hand sanitizer away before i'm able to board a plane. we know the fbi had two investigations open into this guy, the government can't put a pause on the sale. i don't think americans want that.

donald trump has said he doesn't want that. >> i think that this is a big opportunity for both sides of the political aisle. i think democrats would be more productive and rather than grandstand on the senate floor in a capital building that is defended with men with rr 15s, they could be cleaning up the terror watch list and terror fly list. we know the watch list is separate from the fly list, has a million american names on it, many of which have nothing to do with terror. this is not only about protecting second amendment rights, it's also about protecting due process before the fact. you get put on one of these lists, it takes an act of congress in the majority of the cases to get you off. >> it is the case. >> i understand that at some point the nra may have handed you a piece of paper and that's what you're reading from, if you're accidentally on that list, and there are not many people who are, you go to the judge, say, why are you on the list.

that does not happen often enough to allow people who we know are terror suspects to buy guns to protect your second amendment right. >> why don't we have a bill, a law that says a cop, a sheriff, a police department can say, you know what, omar mateen shouldn't get a gun. he shouldn't get a license. even though nothing came of those two fbi inquiries. we still don't feel okay about it. >> just because you're put on a terror watch list, untily their second amendment rights because they're on a list. >> if i could just finish my point 37. >> in terms of cleaning up the list, there is a lot of opportunity for both sides to actually get something done. you can't put a million people on a list and expect the government to be able to go through and be efficient. >> with any sort of a speed. >> exactly. that's what came out, he said it was a nightmare to get himself

off many go ahead, i'll give you the last word. >> i think this is actually an opportunity for both sides to get their act together. should we clean up these lists and make them narrower? of course we should. as long as i have to take my clothes off to get on a plane, when a guy is under terror investigation, let's take a moment -- >> here's what's so frustrating. the democrats are talking about the guns, what is the plan, what has president obama said he's going to do about this? what is he doing? >> there is actual legislation out there that could -- >> let me give that one to katie. what is he doing? what's being done to change the way we screen these needles in the haystack. >> not a lot. you look at the president's rhetoric and look at his foreign policy over the last 7 1/2 years of his presidency. >> nothing's changed. >> this has nothing to do with isis, there in lies the problem. this has to do with isis, the killer pledged his allegiance to isis, until we decide to take on

isis where they breed, which is not in the united states, but overseas. we will continue to have these problems. >> maybe the two candidates running for office are coming in with plans. do you get the feeling that president obama is like, it's really hard, sorry. i have to go, you guys, thanks for being here. >> what are you going to do? what's the plan? at least hillary clinton says, i'm going to have a committee, they're going to look into home grown terror. you know donald trump has all sorts of plans. are republicans responsible for orlando? is the president of the united states actually supporting the terrorists? dana perino and david french are next on how our political debate got so ugly this week, and how it's r ♪ the sun'll come out tomorrow... ♪ for people with heart failure, tomorrow is not a given. but entresto is a medicine that helps make more tomorrows possible. ♪ tomorrow, tomorrow... ♪ i love ya, tomorrow

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new developments tonight on the controversy over how donald trump has been questioning the president's terror efforts. earlier this week, trump

suggested there must be something going on to explain why the president hasn't been tougher in his view on terrorists. after getting hit for the implications behind that quote, he today tweeted media fell all over themselves, criticizing what donald trump may have insinuated about @potus. but he's right. trump links to a breitbart article in this tweet, that he feels confirms his accusations about president obama. tonight we're joined by dana perino and david french on this fight, and more. we go to trace gallagher, with what exactly was in this article tauted by donald trump. trace? >> it all began on fox and friends when donald trump called in to comment about president obama's refusal to say the words islamic terrorism. watch. >> we're led by a man that either is -- is -- is not tough, not smart or he's got something

else in mind, and the something else is mind, you know, people can't believe it. >> so you heard him say something else in mind, that led the washington post to run the headline, donald trump said president obama was involved with the orlando shooting. as 235r as trump was concerned, the damage was done. he barred the newspaper from attending future campaign events, saying they had no journalistic integrity. trump sent out a tweet saying there was proof he was right all along about president obama. a link to a breitbart article about a secret intelligence memo, that proves the obama administration supported isis. the intel report which surfaced last year is heavily redacted and only partially finished. it does say that in 2012, the west, gulf countries and turkey, supported the opposition to overthrow syrian president bashar al assad.

the opposition did later partly become isis, while there's an argument that the obama administration ignored warning signs about the rise of isis, there is zero evidence to show the administration had a direct hand in supporting or creating isis. >> it's also unclear if the president was ever briefed on the document itself. >> megan? >> trace, thank you. while those on the left say trump is poisoning the political initiative. mr. trump doesn't have the corner on extreme arguments. the new york times editorial board, which today tried to argue that the terror shooting spree can be blamed directly on the republican party. really? >> joining me now, dana perino, co-host of the five, and the white house president secretary under george w. bush, and david french national review staff writer and iraq war veteran. hate crimes don't occur in a vacuum, they occur in bigotry

where it's allowed to fester. this is the state of politics driven by politicians who see prejudice as something to exploit, not extinguish. you have the times saying that about republicans, you have trump suggesting -- you tell me, about president obama and why he's not harder on isis, and this is at best a missed opportunity, and at worst a disheartening mess. i'll give it to you first, david? >> there's a situation we have right now, when many of our leaders, our pundits, celebrities, when a terror attack happens, they're angrier at their american political opponents than they are at isis. it was remarkable to me that the new york times mentioned the governor of texas, and the governor of north carolina in connection with an isis attack, and not the leader of isis. it's remarkable. >> right, like they are anti-lgbt efforts made omar mateen want to shoot gays as opposed to his radical islamic

ideology. >> which he declared openly, pledging allegiance on multiple occasions to isis. we don't really know what motivated it, he said what motivated it. >> we do. we have the tweets and the facebook posts at the beginning of the show. i pledge my allegiance to baghdadi. america has to stop bombing the islamic state. you kill innocent women and children by doing u.s. air strikes now taste the revenge answer. there's nothing in here about transgender people in bathrooms. >> we can have a conversation, that's normal politics. when you begin to inject this element of very tree ole, that's polarizing beyond anything our political system is supposed to with stand. you look right at the top and it doesn't even feel like there's an effort to unify us right now, right? >> there's been no invitation, even the governor of florida said he never got a call from

president obama. >> i think if there's been a resounding disappointment from the political class all across the board. remember, you had during the moment of silence that speaker ryan was hosting for the house of representatives, that turns into a yelling match about gun violence. so who is the victim here? it is the victims who were killed. and their families and they've been almost wholly ignored while the politicians try to fight it out. in the meantime, every time a politician opens his mouth, especially the president, his or her, they have a choice to make. and they could try to unify or divide. and it is hard, especially if you feel like you've been called a traitor to your country. it's hard to let that go. i think there would have been a way to do that. >> who else would have come out. i would have sent vice president biden out there to be the attack dog. that would have been more unifying for president obama. i don't blame president obama for pushing back, what i do

think is when he says it doesn't matter what he calls this effort, that radical -- saying the words radical islam is not going to change anything. i can see his point. but what we don't see are more actions. >> that's the thing, that's -- >> and i don't just mean on gun violence. i mean, scaring the you know what out of isis. >> what are we doing about this. i haven't heard anything -- what is the plan. >> i think the plan is, just more of the same and more of the same is not working. let's look at actual numbers here. since the rise of isis in the late spring or summer of 2014, we've had more than three times the domestic casualties between september 12th, 2001 and 2014. more than three times. attacks are occurring about once every four to five months now. it's extraordinary, and his answer is more of the same. >> that doesn't include the innocent people that are being killed in the muslim world as well. >> great to see you both. >> don't go away, new developments with the tragic ins tired of re-dosing antacids?

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where he was last seen. >> that was the orlando sheriff this afternoon. what a week for orlando. announcing the tragic end to a difficult search after a dream vacation at disney world turned terribly, terribly horrific for one nebraska family. look at this little boy. 2-year-old son. wading in shallow water near his father. who was attacked and dragged away by an alligator. peter doocy is live on the scene tonight. peter? >> reporter: megyn, officials say that lane graves was doing what any 2-year-old would be doing here. just splashing around at the water's edge outside the grand floridian hotel where his family checked in on sunday. lane was the only one in the water when the alligator grabbed him and his dad, matt, did his best to wrestle the toddler away but it was not enough. the alligator disappeared with lane, submerged in the manmade seven seas lagoon. witnesses describe his mom,

melissa, as frantically running along the water looking for lane but the gator didn't surface and neither did her son. trappers raced to catch and kill as many gators in the area as they could. after finding five, there was no sign of lane. after an 18-hour search with sonar and helicopters and 50 members of the orange counties sheriffs depart, divers found 2-year-old about 15 feet from the last place his parents saw him. they then told family right away. >> i delivered the message along with a priest, a catholic priest, and, of course, the family was distraught but also i believe somewhat relieved that we were able to find their son with his body intact, one, and two, that he was located so they can come to grip in a statement, "we are

devastated and heartbroken by this tragic accident and are doing what we can to help the family during this difficult time. on behalf of everyone at disney, we off our deepest sympathies. authorities say disney has been cooperating. this is the first deadly encounter with an alligator here in 45 years. megyn? >> peter doocy, thank you. joining me now, wildlife expert and communications director at the zoo miami, ron, thank you so mucheing here. >> my pleasure, megyn. >> this is a tough one. they -- >> absolutely. >> people are worried now alligators could grab anyone. could grab anyone's child. i mean, is -- how atypical is this? >> it is atypical, megyn. understand that since 1948, i think there's been 140-something alligators attacks recorded in the state of florida. that really isn't a lot when you put it in perspective. having said that, there are now over a million alligators in the state of florida and you can assume that there's an alligator

in almost every fresh water pond, lake, lagoon, canal, within the state. people need to understand that. having said that, alligators do not target humans. they have a natural fear of humans. so keeping that natural fear is important. when people are feeding alligators, it's a different situation. you lose that natural fear which is why it's against the law. the situation with this child was just a perfect recipe for disaster in the sense it's a small child wading, splashing in the water at nighttime. this alligator i'm sure it was a case of mistaken identity. probably thought it was a raccoon, a possum, a duck, whatever. took that child as an instinct and brought that child down. and i think once realized that it was not a duck, was not a possum, that's why that was child was eventually probably released. unfortunately it was too late for the child. >> his remains were found in tact. they believe the child died of drowning. was there -- you know, the father fought the alligator. attempted to. to try to save his son. there was no chance. >> there really was no chance, megyn. i can tell you, i worked with alligators and crocodiles for over 30 years.

the force and power of their mouths when they close, there's no human in the world that can open the mouth of an adult alligate r that wants to keep it closed. the only thing you'd be able to do as an adult in that situation, go for soft points. take your thumbs, two ingo into alligat alligator's eyes, punch the snout, it might open its mouth on its own. that's only way you're going to get anything out of the alligator's mouth. >> would you let your child sit on that beach down there at the grand floridian? sit on the sand, not play in the water. >> probably not. not my small child. i would not do that because that's the mode of operations for alligators. they go against the shoreline, go against animals, small children, pets. anything that's right on the shoreline is in danger whenever there's an alligator in that area. >> things are going to have to change. that's clear. poor disney, too. you feel for them. you feel so much for this family. family. thank you so much

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what a few days for the country, for orlando. how are you feeling? is it affecting you in your personal life? let me know. online. facebook.com/thekellyfile. thanks for watching, everyone. i'm megyn kelly. good night. welcome to "hannity." now tonight the terrorist attack in orlando is just the latest example of mass murder committed at the hands of islamic extremists, but sadly, the left does not get it. yesterday, president obama lashed out in a petulant manner at his critics and went on a tirade about why he won't identify the enemy for what they are, radical islamic terrorists. watch this. >> for a while now, the main contribution of some of my friends on the other side of the aisle have made in the fight against isil is to criticize this administration and me