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being quoted by the wall post assaying they have been on top of this and they reached out and got crowds in. they did their due diligence and quickly got on it. the hacking went on for quite sometime before it was discovered. there is going to be a lot of ways. regarding the hillary clinton's private server, there is a couple of instances where we know according to the e-mails that is were released, they were fishing episodes where people tried to get in. there is never been according to all of the information that we have so far from the state department and from the clinton camp as well as other intelligence committee, there is never been any evidence that there were actual penetration or hacking in the server. ironically, one of the defenses of the clinton folks all along had been their private server under secret service watch at home was more secured because it was connected to the former
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president server. i cannot tell you if it is correct. >> shawn henry may have more information on that. that must have been one of the excuses if you will all along during this difficult entrepreneur sepisode to say the lease. >> i recall that. shawn, do you have anything to add on that front? >> we are looking at where servers are located and clearly, they are going after organizations and we talked about the white house and the joint chiefs and the state department itself and the government networks and the dnc as an entity that's required or recognized as maintaining this type of information. i will add a point that andrea made, to be clear when i worked at the fbi, we looked at the source of information that was being targeted which was one of the many, many pieces that went
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into us doing attribution. was this a terrorist group or an organized crime group? in this particular case, what we saw was two separate intelligence group operated bide the russian government or on behalf of the russian government. we did not see anything related to organized crimes. those are the groups that would look at personally identifiable information and social security numbers and the sorts of data that you would then use to commit some type of financial fraud. i say that in terms of donor information, that's the type of information that you expect from an organized crime group operating out of the former soviet union or eastern europe. these intelligence agencies clearly are looking for policies or strategies. those sort of things related to espionage campaign, brian. >> those who are joining us seeing the graphic at the bottom of the screen, this is a story
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that's leading our reporting at this hour. first, broken by the washington post but since confirmed in all by nbc news. that is that russian hackers have infiltrated the computer system of democratic national committee and among other things, taken away opposition intel on donald trump and i would imagine all kinds of internal communications about the two other major figures this past campaign season in the democratic party and that's hillary clinton and bernie sanders. we have just into us a statement from congresswoman, debbie sholts, when we discovered the intrusion, we treated this like the serious incident it is and
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reached out to crowds strike immediately. our team moves as quickly as possible to kick out the intruder and secure our network. this gentleman you are seeing here, shawn henry is a crowd strike. the question i have been curious about for some time. as a percentage how many of your client apreaproach you before t have a problem and how many after the fact. >> there are some who did proactive work where they want to do an assessment of their network, for those that have a breach, the vast majority of them comes to us after the fact. i cannot emphasize how much, how sophisticated these advisaries are. >> that's often the case when somebody gets a knock on the
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door by the fbi or somebody else saying we have seen your data transcending the network and your network has been breached. they do with assessments and they determine their network had been breached for month os or years and had no visibility into it. their data was at risk to be looked at our infiltrated by groups. that's the case here and it is undetected for a long time >> are american companies and computer networks getting any smarter about in casing of their most valued information some where else or strengthening their defenses? >> you know, i have seen a big change in the last few years where organizations at the highest lehig highest levels are taking this much seriously. most recently boards of directors who are becoming much more understanding and aware of the sensitivity and the
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implications of the phase if they failed to protect their network of the data. there has to be changes in a way that organizations protect their network. instead of being reactive and putting up defenses and hoping that nobody climbs through the network and over the firewall if you will but to be more practice tiff a proactive and looking for a sign that an advisary that's coming to your network. there are many things you can do to better protect their network or long-term prosperity. that's starting to change. >> shawn, can you share dates with us how far back this was discovered and the kind of breath of what kind of information they might have stolen. we have been talking about the trump opposition research but it is not limited to that. >> we were originally called of the end of april, the first week
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of may right at that point just about six weeks ago, when we came in, we deployed our technology throughout the environment which provides us of great visibilities where we can see the attackers moving in the network and the commands they are running and the tools they are pull ing in the environment. in looking at that, our experts were able to determine that there is instance of last summer of undetected for a long period of time. the fbi had been in contact with the dnc and provided some information and visibility and our folks saw these russian advisaries. they have the ability to see anything transpiring that network including reading
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e-mails and chat or log messages and etcetera, brian. >> all right, thank you. >> another reference to the video box to the lower right hand corner of the screen. this is where we are going to go next unrelated to the topic we have been talking about. the president has been at the ahead of the table panelling a meeting among isis and other topics. peter alexander is next door on the white house north lawn, the scene we are looking at is treasury, next door to the white house where the meeting is taking place. peter, what preview if you have from the president here shortly. >> reporter: the president has prescheduled meetings with members of national team. here at the white house that he will not only give an update of the investigation in orlando, he will also update americans on the efforts to defeat isis over seas and i am told by these
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officials that the president will go right after this argument over radical islam. the words that donald trump says that president obama will not use and in directly, he will hit on the fallacy that he says about those who say they are tough on terror but had been on easy in terms of allowing suspected terrorists access to weapons like the ar 15, the assault weapon that was used by omar mateen in that deadly tragedy in orlando. of course, there is great frustration that they have had little ability to press forward with the presence forward to place as he describes them common sense restrictions on individual's abilities to buy guns and in this case mateen had been on a terror watch list and his name was removed. which means when he bought that ar 15, he got it the day he went into the store, they put the money out and he walked out on
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it. the president will address the muslim ban while he will not address donald trump. he will talk about this muslim ban with a clear statement about what it says about who we are as americans under scoring the belief here by this president of a ban and a proposed ban plays in the hands of america's enemies over seas and the president will reiterate what a danger he believes this type of thinking and this very approach is to americans across this country. >> peter, can you give us some notion as to who all the parties are around the table? >> reporter: i can tell thaw the vice president was be sides him and jeh johnson and and monaco is a familiar name, she's the president's top advisor and she's the one who's been briefing him at length throughout the course of several days about this situation that took place in orlando. to be clear this was a meeting
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that was prescheduled and he's been doing this routinely and today giving him circumstances and wanting to come -- an update on the state of fighting in isis and they have said, he has said specifically of the last several weeks of the u.s. remains on the offensive that they have remained significant progress and that's the thing he want to update america on. >> peter alexander is at the scene. it is an ornate background than we are used to. it is directly adjacent to the white house of the podium and flags excuse me in the news media ready awaiting the president. the breach of the democratic national committee computers by russian hackers first reported by the washington post and now confirmed by nbc news, andrea
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mitchell, who we would be watching at this hour is among our reporters and analysts re reacting to this. back to the question of donors, reestablishing your credibility with the donor basis going to be difficult, we don't mean to make this dnc specific is not just their problem, it is every organization and everbay bank a institutions that's suffering from the hack. we hired this company and it is all safe, is that going to be a long road? >> it can be, as shawn was saying what they were tracking was political intelligence and not critical and other kinds of banking information. i think that the sophistication of the dnc and its ability plus hillary clinton's operation to reach out to people. these are people who are their loyal followers and in fact what
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they are trying to do in the coming weeks is coordinated and combining with the donor base that bernie sanders accumulated of a new outreach and online outreach was stunning to them. so they are trying to expand their network to this whole new arena and i think that they will probably given their close connection to the big donors at least and the threat they all feel they face from the republican opposition right now in the face of donald trump and the personality and the ideology of donald trump. i think they'll reassure people but they have to clean this act quickly. there is a big fundraiser going on. there is a quick point of what's happening over treasury. part of this counter, a big part of it has been what the treasury does in tracking terror funding and trying to shut down their
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sources and shutting down their access to oil revenues. what they have done successfully in recent month is cracking down terror network that's feeding into e in in in into isis. >> andrea mitchell will wait along with us. we'll fit in a break as we continue to look at these two major stories. more of our reporting right after this. that's why i have the spark cash card from capital one. with it, i earn unlimited 2% ca back on that's why i have the spark cash card from capital one. all of my purchasing. and that unlimited 2% cash back from spark means thousands of dollars each year going back into my business... which adds fuel to my bottom line.
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meeting. the subject takes on a new currency and urgency for all the wrong reasons. it has dominated our news of the gunman in florida ever since. even though the motivations of the gunman, the ties suspected, terrorist ties has been a moving target for investigators and news media alike as we go back to his actions again of whatever inspiration he drew or radicalization happened to him and how much of it he saw and how much of it with others seeking to motivate him to do what he did. with that said, isis is the fight against isis is thoroughly
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tied to so many agencies being with them. the president had the entire leadership structure couof the homeland security front including the secretary of the department, including the head of the fbi, the point woman at the white house in charge as well. here they are all are accompanying the president. >> everybody is all set? i met with my national security counsel to review and intensify our campaign to destroy the terrorist group, isil. our meeting was flanned before the terrible attack in orlando, but obviously, that tragedy, that awful loss of life shaped
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much of our work today. in all of our efforts -- the loss and the grief of people in orlando, those -- the friends of ours who are lesbians and gays or bisexuals who are targeted, i want to remind them they are not alone. the american people and our allies and friends are all over the world are staying with you and thinking about you and praying for you. as director coleman has said, we currently do not have any information to indicate that a foreign terrorist group directed the attack in orlando.
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it is increasingly clear, however, the killer took in extremist information and propaganda over the internet. it appears to have been an an g angry and disturbed young man who has been radicalized. their propagandas and videos and postings are persuasive and mores -- this individual seems to abosorb some of that and the killing spree of their pledge to isil. these long actors and small cell
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of terrorists are hard to detect and prevent. across our government and at every levels at federal, state and local and military or civilia civilians, we are doing everything in our power to stop these kinds of attacks. we work to succeed 100% of the time. t our extraordinary personnel and our intelligence and military and homeland security and law enforcement have prevented many attacks and saved many lives and we can never thank them enough. we a despite the extraordinary hard work something like orlando could occur. in our meeting today, i was updated on the investigation of orlando. secretary johnson reviewed the measures that we could take on behalf of our homeland security.
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and i want to thank secretary liu and his team here at treasury for hosting us and for their tire less efforts to cut-off the money that isil relied onto fund and its network. the offset, i want to reiterate our objective of this fight. our mission is to destroy isil. since i have updated the american people campaign two months ago, we see this continuously becoming a difficult fight but we are making significant process. additional u.s. personnel including special forces in syria assisting local forces battling isil there and working more closely with iraqis forces and additional assets including attack helicopters and additional support for local forces in northern iraq. our aircraft continue to launch from the u.s. s harry truman and
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in the mediterranean and hitting isils with strikes. targets are being identified and hit quickly. so far, 13,000 air strikes. this campaign at this state is firing on. as a result, isil is under pressure than ever before. isil continue to lose key leaders. this includes the senior military of mosul. and shakirt leader of province. the top isil commander in fallujah. we have taken out top leader s d and commanders. our message is clear, if you target our allies, you will not
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be safe. isil continues to lose ground in iraq. in the past two months local forces in iraq have liberated the western town and also pushed the strategic town of heat and breaking the isil siege. iraqis forces have surrounded fallujah and moving into the city. now, preparing to tighten around isil and mosul. i am told that isil has lost its half territory that they once control in iraq and it will lose more. assistant fire special operation forces, and local forces is now pressuring the key town. which means the news tightening around isil. our coalition continues to be on
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offense and isil is on defense and it is not been a full year since isil has been able to mount a major offense on either in syria and iraq. isil continues to lose the money that it is its life blood. as a result of our strikes of supply lines and structure, we believe that we cut isil's revenue from millions of dollars and destroy ing the site where they keep their cash. thanks with great work of secretary liu and many others here and working with nations and financial institutions around the world. isil is cut-off of the international financial system and cutting off isil's money is not dramatic but it is important and we are seeing results. their reserves are down and it is resorting for more extortions
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of those trapped. some of its own leaders have been caught stealing cash and gold. once again isil's true nature has been revealed. they have not religious warriors, they are thugs and thieves. i want to mention it is critical for our friends in the senate to confirm and exhume exhume -- everyone agrees he's imminently qualified and he's been working on these kinds of issues for years. it is now been more than a year since i have nominated him. more than 120 days and he's not been given a full vote. there is no good reason for it.
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it is inexcusable. isil's ranks are shrinking as well. their moral has sink. as one defender and one defector says, isil is not bringing is laum islam to the world and people need to know that. in fact, our intelligence committee now assesses the ranks of isil fighter has been reduced to lower levels in more than two and a half years. even as we continue to destroy isil military, we are addressing larger forces that allows these terrorists gaining tractions in parts of the world. with regarding to iraq, this means helping iraqis stabilizing communities and promoting governments so isil cannot
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return. our continue support for the fragile there. the hostility has not stopped or even most of the hardship of the people and civilians. and the regime has been in this. isil a isil also continues to terrorize syrians. but, as fragile and incomplete this is, it has save lives and has allowed the delivery of saving aids of syrians who are in desperate need. we'll continue to push for a political process that can end the civil war and result in a transition away from assad. syrian and iraq, isil is losing
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ground in libya. we'll continue to assist the new libyan government as a work to secure them. lastly, here at home, if we really want to help law enforcement protect americans from home grown extremists, the kind of tragedy that is occurred at san bernardino and now occurred in orlando, there is a meaningful way to do that. we have to make it harder for people to want to kill americans to get their hands on weapons of war that let them kill dozens of innocence. it is true. we cannot prevent every tragedy.
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we know that consistent with the second amendment. there are common sense steps that could reduce gun violence and the lethality of somebody intense to do somebody harm. we should give atf the resources they need to enforce the gun laws that we already have. people with possible ties to terrorism, who are not allowed on a plane should not be allowed to buy a gun. enough talking about being tough on terrorism. actually, be tough on terrorism and stop making it easy as possible for terrorists to buy assault weapons. reinstate this weapon band and making it harder for terrorists to use these weapons to kill us. otherwise, despite extraordinary efforts across our government,
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by local law enforcement and my our military and all the sacrifices that folks make, these kinds of events are going to keep happening. the weapons are only going to get more powerful. let me make a final point, 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 the administration and me for not using the phrase "radical islam." that's the key they tell us. we cannot beat isil unless we call them "radical islam" what exactly using this label would
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accomplish and wihat will it change? will it make isil less committed to try to kill americans? would it bring more allies for military strategy than it is served by this? the answer is none of the above. calling a threat by a different name does not make it go away. this is a political distraction. before i was president, i have been cleared about how extremist group justifying terrorists. as president, i have called on our muslim friends and allies at home and around the world to work with us to reject this twisted interpretation of one of the world's great religions.
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there is not a moment where we have not able to pursue a strategy because we didn't use the label "radical islam." not once has an advisor, man, if we use that phrase, we are going to turn this whole thing around, not once. so someone seriously thinks that we don't know who we are fighting? if there is anyone out there who thinks we are confused about who our enemies are -- that would come to a surprise of the thousands of terrorists we have taken on our battlefield.
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if the implication is that those of us up here and the thousands of people around the country and around world who are working to defeat isil are taking the fight seriously? that come as a surprise who spent those last seven and a half years dismantling al-qaeda and including the men and women in uniforms that we put their lives at risk and the special forces that i ordered to get bin-laden that are now on the ground in syria. they know full well who the enemy is. so did the intelligence and law enforcement officers spent count less hours disrupting plots and protecting all americans. including politicians who tweets -- and appears on cable
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news shows, they knew who the nature of the enemy is. so there is no magic to the phrase of radical islam. it is a political talking point. it is not a strategy. and the reason i am careful about how i describe this threat has nothing to do with political correctness and everything to do with actually defeating extremism. groups like isil and al-qaida want to make this war a war between islam and america or between islam and the west. they want to claim that they are the true leaders of over billions of muslims around the
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world who reject their crazy notions. they want us to validate them by applying that they speak for those billion plus people that they speak for islam. that's their propaganda and that's how they recruit. if we fall into the trap painting all muslims as a broad brush and implying that we are at war with the entire religion then we are doing the terrorist work for them. up until this point of this argument of labels has been apart of rhetoric and sadly we have all become accustom to that kind of parti --
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>> that kind of yapping is not prevented folks across the government from doing their jobs. workers are working really hard to protect the american people. we are seeing how dangerous this kind of mind set and thinking can be. we are starting to see this kind of rhetoric and loose talk and sloppiness of who we are fighting where this can lead us. we now have proposals from the presumptive nominee, the republican nominee to bar all muslims from immigrating into america and languages of singling out immigrants and the
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community are complacent in violence. where does this stop? the orlando killer, one of the san bernardino killers, the fort hood killer -- they were all u.s. citizens. are we going to start treating all muslim americans differently? are we going to start subjecting them to special surveillance? are we going to discriminate them because of their faith? we heard these suggestions during the course of this campaign. do republican officials actually agree with this?
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that's not the america we want. it does not reflect our democratic ideals. it will not make us more safe, less safe fuelling isil notion that the west hates muslims and making muslims in this country and around the world feel like no matter what they do, they're going to be under suspicion and under attack. and it betrays the values that america stands for. we have gone through moments in our history before when we act out of fear and we came to regret it.
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we have seen our government mistreat our fellow citizens, and it is been a shameful part of our history. this is a country founded on basic freedom including freedom of religion. we don't have religious tests here. our founders, our constitution, our bill of rights, are clear about that. and if we ever abandon those values, we would not make it easier to radicalize people here and around the world but we would have betrayed the very things we are trying to protect. the pluralism and the openness and our rules of laws and our
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civil liberties, the very thing that make this is country great and then the terrorists would have won. we cannot let that happen. i will not let that happen. you know two weeks ago i was at the commencement ceremony of the air force academy, and it could not have been more inspiring to see these young people stepping up dedicating to serve and protect this country. part of what was inspiring was the incredible diversities of these cadets. we saw cadets who are applauding classmates who were openly gay. we saw cadets born here in america applauding classmates who are immigrants and love this country so much they decided to
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be apart of our arm force. we saw cadets and families of all religions applauding cadets who are proud of patriotic muslim americans and serving their country in uniform and laying their live to protect me and you. we saw male cadets applauding for female classmates who cannot serve in combat positions. that's the american military. that's america. one team. one nation. those are the values that isis is trying to destroy. we should not help them do it. our diversity and respect for one another, our drawing on the talents of everybody in this country making sure that we are
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treating everybody fairly, we are not judging people on the basis of what faith they are or what race they are or ethnicity they are or what their sexual orientation is. that's what makes this country great. that's the spirit that we see in orlando. that's the unity and resolve that will allow us to defeat isil. that's what we preserve our haves and ideas that define us as americans. that's how we are going to defend this nation and that's how we are going to defend our way of life. thank you very much.
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>> well, we have never seen that before. the remarks that morphed into defense of his position and a full on attack in to the rhetoric and words from donald trump just yesterday in his speech about radical islam terrorism and even the phrase the president took head on there is been a great premium of using that phrase, much attention given to his refusal here to reuse that phrase, its omission from his remarks. on this donald trump's 70th birthday, the president took on directly all of the points donald trump raised yesterday, what started out as a recitation of the fight against isis ended up with the argument we heard
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from presidents before and this president before some in plain english as it sure looks different from the chief seats. andrea mitchell who has covered the president and many more, how would you sum up what we just witnessed? >> this was a passionate cry from the heart about his vision of america by this president. he has never before taken on donald trump and he just eviscerated donald trump in that extraordinary speech. president obama basically saying do you think that -- using a phrase is a military strategy? do you think that we sit here saying well, maybe if we use the phrase radical islamic terrorist than we can defeat isil. when you are the commandeering chief of either party, any
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president or obama or his people would say to a critic of this nominee of what are you thinking when you talk about using a phrase itself is a strategy? he said it is cheap political rhetoric and takes apart all of those criticisms and interestingly, i thought his voice and the tear of his voice took on new urgency after reciting of what he claims to be the success of isis on the ground and he got much more engaged and passionate when he started to talk more about guns and how if you really want to do something, critics on the hill don't let somebody to get on the airplane to get a gun and pivoted to his direct response to trump without mentioning him by name. it was pretty amazing, it
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reminded me of the american president when michael j fox went in the bereariefing room a had it up to here and this was real life, it was dramatic. >> you are right. it started with the president, we heard him in several different forms recently make this complaints of this reques of a gun law, they cannot get on the commercial flight. the government highly recommends them getting on a commercial flight but they can buy the kind of weapons we have seen used in orlando most recently. the president made this case very recently on a pbs town hall meeting. he's made it repeatedly. >> and this time i think especially after house democrats last night shouting out, call
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off the bill and vote off the bill, there is a lot of frustration among who those believed some kind of revised gun law is a big problem. this is a big talking point between donald trump and hillary clinton. the president having that platform today and going after trump, this is the first time that he has really taken him on and you can see the frustration and t and the slogans that's coming from the republicans. that's not a strategy and not a military strategy and it is the kind of partisan politics that hurt our attempts that get our muslim allies. there is one point to be noted of the top salley official of the deputy crowned prince who's
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been organizing the saudi and economic and defense strategies is considered to be the real rising star in that, he's the son of the can he thinking. he's in washington, he's met with john kerry and he's not been invited to the white house. this is the time hillary clinton called him out for not doing more to cut back on these terrorist groups and the jihadist schools for decades now throughout the region. it is very interesting that there is no meeting this week scheduled between these two leaders. >> andrea, just to say, we came on the air with breaking news of the dnc, computers have been hacked by the russians and looming in the background and the breaking news we have been covering since sunday morning, the attack in orlando, florida, and now capped off by this appearance by the president started one way to andrea's point, the president stands at
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the timber of his voice the courtrooming change in his remarks and the rhetoric of donald trump. andrea, continue on with our coverage, i know you have guests lined up to talk to us. >> thanks very much, brian. joining me now is our congressman, what is the latest that we know and was this a lone wolf and isis inspired and what do we know of any communication he may have with other family members? >> reporter: well, we have a brief i will be moderating in a classified meeting in about an hour on capitol hill with members of congress with the director of fbi and secretary of homeland security and director duress to ask them of these many unanswered questions that we have regarding the suspect of
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the orlando shooting over seas travels to saudi arabia, to his connections with the first americans suicide bomber in florida who worshipped in the same mosque with the orlando shooter and went over to syria to kill. there were a lot of flags in this case, the fbi had to open an investigation on him. i think you are going to see, it will be an interesting briefing and a lot of questions for these top three national security executives in the next hour on capitol hill >> congressman, are you concern and do you think of what you now know that the fbi has dropped the ball here in having him to come off the terror list of being weapons without any flags being raised? >> reporter: that's a concern, i will hold an over site hearing next week on this issue. as you recall the boston
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bombing, it was the same thing. i think it would be too early to make that determination at this point in time. the fbi is quite a bit, a thousand investigations at all 50 states arrested all 85 isis -- it is hard to stop all of this. that's the problem after chattoo chattanooga and san bernardino and now this. i don't want this to be the ordinary practice in this country. the homeland is under threat and this is the highest threat of ours that we have seen since 9/11. >> i want to ask you how comfortable you are with the presumptive nominee, the republican party, the president really struck back at him saying that a slogan radical islamic terrorism does not make the strategy, your comments? >> well, the president as always
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this speech particularly was one of his most passionate and eloquent speeches. i will say with all due respect, we have have not had a military strategy to deal with isis and iraq for quite some time. i am glad we are finaling developing one. i just came from the region where isis exist of libya and where isis is expanding and as they have those safe havens, they can connect extra operations. i am glad we finally have a strategy that we are moving forward. i saw the f 18 and the persian gulf as they bomb in iraq in syria. i do think defining the enemy is important. to defeat the enemy, you have to define it. as in military strategy will tell you that. churchill was very clear about
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who the enemy was. with commu-- today, we have isl extre extre extreme yum. we need the diplomatic strategies in place to win >> chairman, thank you very much, thank you for being with us today. >> thanks, andrea. >> for more on orlando and the latest, with pete williams. >> we are told that omar mateen's current life told the fbi that she drove mateen at the nightclub in orlando on a prior occasion and trying to talk him out of it. several officials are familiar of what she has told the fbi y
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sayisa saying she was with him, she drove anymore to the nightclub. officials say they're not certain how much she actually knew what he was planning but it was apparently enough that she was concerned of trying to talk him out of doing anything. as a result of all this, law enforcement officials say that authorities are considering filing criminal charges against her for failing to tell them what she knew before the attack. they emphasized that no decision had been made about this. it is possible that she won't be charged but that possibility is under consideration, andrea. >> pete williams, thank you very much for the latest there. hillary clinton in pittsburgh echoing much of what the president has just said against donald trump. >> donald trump wants to be our next commandeering chief. [ crowds booing ] >> i think we all know that is a
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job that demands a calm, collected a dignified response. yesterday morning one day after the massacre, he went on tv and suggested that president obama is on the side of the terrorists. >> joining me now is congressman from california, thanks very much, i know we have little time because of the president's speech. your response to donald trump and the criticism of the administration and of not having strategies against isis. >> i think donald trump everyday demonstrating how unfit he is for every office but for the presidency. the thing he said about islam and the statement taking on the entire religion and making the
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entire religion an enemy and deeply destructive. it is vital for us to have proper relationship with the muslim allies and the fight on the ground with iraq. it is imperative that we make muslims in this country feeling welcome and feeling part of american society. th now trying to ostricize around the u.s. once again how dangerous it would be for this country to make him commandeering chief. >> the house is going to be brief by the top fbi and national security official in orlando, what is your concern about the fbi perhaps missing a beat on the chief. >> i think we have an important over sight responsibility to look at investigations and terming whether anything else
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might have been done. that's what we are doing to do. we may end up at the conclusion that director colmy had arrived that there is nothing could have been done here. it is the case where we have investigations of all 50 states there is not enough evidence of support for terrorism when people makiing statements. we don't have resources to do 24 hours surveillance for everyone of a person of concern which is why what i think the president emphasized today of looking at the things we can do and making it possible for these attacks being less lethal by making it difficult for terrorists to acquire weapons. >> there was plenty of indications among colleagues and his ex-wife that he had a serious anger and temper problem.
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he had a serious problem even before the possibility of extremism. >> we have seen this before frankly where the isis propaganda often has impact on those who are mentally unstable of serious mental health problems who were marginalized and that looks to be zesz fusuc in the case of this shooter who has a lot of issues both in terms of his family and himself. this is an element that we have seen in past tragedies of terrorist attacks as well. >> thank you very much congressman. that does it for us, craig melvin is taking up our coverage live from orlando right now.
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the main contribution of some of my friends on the other side of the isle have made against the fight of isil is to criticize me and this administration without using the word "radical is slam." muslims are our partners. it appears to be an angry and disturbed young man who became radicalized. >> i looked over and he shoots the girl next to me and i am just there laying down and i am thinking i am next, i am dead. >> just a few moments ago, president obama absolutely taking donald trump to task for what many have called anti-muslim rhetoric in the wake of terror attack here in orlando. the president's speech coming after meeting his national security council. we want to play a chunk of
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