his 911 call that says he pledges allegiance to the leader of isis, al baghdadi. that is direct evidence that he is inspired and acting because of isis. so, when did that begin? was that first or was this reaction to him seeing gay men in miami and having sort of this unusual visceral reaction that sort of makes him explode as his father described, so angry because it happened in front of his son and so forth and so on. so that's a really abnormal reaction. did that inspire him to go on the web and connect with isis and justify the hatred he had to want to go and kill? i'm so reminded of dylan roof who was a loan actor, who killed pastor pinckney at the charleston church and not directly connected to a terrorist group. not a member of the ku klux klan or christian identity but he was a hater and he reached out and read all of the website stuff that would denigrate african-american leader and he centered on that church. he drove to that church and he killed them. he was act aing alone out of hate but made the connection with the domestic terrorism side who fosters

this administration wants to pretend neither al-baghdadi or isis either exist. they want to pretend radical islam is not a problem facing the united states. the way we pretend is, we write it out of the script. deirdre: let me ask you to play devil's advocate, we heard u.s. ag loretta lynch say the reason we did the editing because we don't want the material used as part of propaganda. do you think she was right in that or do you think that is a valid point of view? >> i don't think it's a valid point of view at all. that would come out anyway as you just said. she was looking for an excuse to justify what they had done but once again i think it is clearly an attempt to alter the terrain, to make sure that the narrative fits what the white house wants, not what reality is out there the in public. deirdre: colonel, you have made a comparison to this, the fbi's involvement on this case, and with the investigation into hillary emails private server. there is a new report out that showed key security features were disabled on her private server, so basically making

and you hear him swearing allegiance to al baghdadi. we know through public source information about isis condemning homosexuality. they have been violence against those that they have discovered that are were homosexual in the middle east, throwing people off of building, shooting them in the head, stoning them. there has been numerous media reports about that in the past few months. so it does not away in a 50 people are dead regardless of what the motive is. but from a law enforcement perspective, it's important to understand because that type of intelligence can help prevent other types of attacks. senator rubio talks about the diverse america that we all live in. people come in all shapes, sizes and colors. different religions, either the. we are all americans. and we have to look at thethe. we are all americans. and we have to look at the bad activity and not the people who they are, but the actual types of activities that height indica might indicate that they would take this type of action. >> and to learn more about the true mo

al baghdadi, head of isis. so i think as of now and this is subject to change, you always as a former nypd officer you let the investigation take you, not the other way around where it goes. but my feeling from the beginning was this was kind of a loan lone wolf jihadist supporter rather than something orchestrated. but let's see what kind connections he might have had. the more this get unraveled, we might see he has section to a suicide bomber who hit syria. see how deep the connection was and reserve complete conclusions. but it looks like the exact strategy which i warned congress about on october 28 and i will tell you one thing, there is a lot of commentary about how washington doesn't work and congress doesn't work. i'm going to tell you something that homeland security committee is the best that america has to offer. both sides of the fence, republican and democrat. and they take this threat very serious seriously, as the most prominent but not the only one facing the united states and especially lone n

not only had al baghdadi in custody, he was actually allowed to teach islam to fellow inmates.s was declaring itself a caliphate, an islamic state, and across the world, young muslims heard the call. >> i'm a young brother from syria. i originally come from canada. >> all believers come who can make it come. [speaking foreign language] >> we want to get isis. >> all of it led to angry calls from the presidential campaign trail. >> how does president obama sleep at night? >> troops on the ground? >> yes. >> but go to war where? how? the obama administration has struggled to fight isis without actually going into ground combat. 3,500 troops are on the ground training iraqi forces. >> the iraqi army abandoned its position. >> the same forces who had famously run from battle when confronted by isis. >> the iraqi army outnumbered isis 20 or 30-1 in mosul, iraq's second largest city, and basically surrendered it without a fight. >> perhaps the most important question is, does it make sense to go to war again in a country that may not even be a country anymore? listen to the people wh

with al-baghdadi actually named there and with allah utterred rather than god this does not fit in with the president's paradigm, the president's paradigm is, this is a gun control issue. the president's paradigm is, take guns a. from people and this won't happen. that's crazy. a single one of those victims had had a gun might have been able to stop this guy. >> judge napolitano, thank you very much. >> you're welcome. >> he faced islamier headen during the uss cole bombing. how does the make of the u.s.' handling of the terror attacks. you have had in the chance to see the latest in the saga, their terrible handling of the release of the 9-1-1 phone call. the judge talked about the administration and its reluctance to talk about radical islam. this of course lends creed dense to the idea this was driven by radical islam and an idea to appease or help isis' fight against america. >> well, charles, what it certainly shows is when a little pressure is applied, it's amazing what sunshine can do for the administration. when it comes to transparency. so it was really good to see they're fina

the name of isis is redacted from the transcript, of course, as is the name of al baghdadi, the leader which is driving the controversy over what the justice department is trying to do. there's some political critics who think this is in line with what the administration is doing to sort of minimize the role of radical islam in some of these terrorist acts and the justice department said that's not what they try to do and they simply try not to feed the propaganda machine and the rest talks about the negotiation in which they address why it took three hours for this situation to be resolved. he talked about having a bomb in his car outside as well putting suicide vests on some of the victims, wolf. >> where does the investigation stand right now based on everything you know, especially regarding the wife? >> the wife is still very much a focus of this investigation. what she knew, how much she knew. given contradictory accounts to investigators, wolf. so we expected that investigation is going to be moving very slowly and gathering a lot of evidence and said they interviewed 500 witnes

some of the posts i pledge my alliance to isis leader abu back kerr al baghdady. may allah accept me. the real muslims never accept the filthy ways of the west. you kill innocent women and children by doing u.s. air strikes now taste the islamic state vengeance and america and russia stop bombing the islamic state. mateen also posted that there would be more islamic state attacks in the u.s. in the coming days. and per the chair of the senate homeland security committee, while survivors hid terrified in the club's bathroom, mateen also was searching these words on the web. pulse orlando. shooting. and intern attack. apparently checking to see if his massacre had made the news yet all while more shooting and killing was still to come. mateen also made 16 phone calls while inside the blood bath. to whom? well the fbi is tracking that down and at least one media reports says mateen also sent a text from the club to his wife noor salmon. what that text reveals we do not know. fbi sources and federal law enforcement sources tell us that she knew plenty about her husban

i pledge allegiance to abu bakr al-baghdadi. that was redacted once again. may god protect him in arabic. on behalf of the islamic state. the white house said it had no hand in the release. >> the decision about the release of the transcript is one that was made solely by the department of justice and fbi officials. they're doing that consistent with their assessment about the best way to advance the investigation and so, questions about the transcripts refer you to them. port according to the fbi release, mateen said he was an islamic soldier. there was a car outside of the pulse club with bombs in it and that he was wearing an explosive vest. the last two statements were false. deirdre? deirdre: peter, thank you as always. peter barnes with me there from d.c. u.s. attorney general loretta lynch on the sunday show talk circuit if you like, she defended the decision to leave out references to islam and isis from the orlandotranscripts. >> it will be primarily a partial transcript of his calls with the hostage negotiators. >> you say partial. what is being le

mate mateen, i pledge allegiance to abu bakr al-baghdadi. may god protect him on behalf of the state. all right. where are you at? in orlando. dispatcher, are where in orlando? that's where it ends. donald trump is suggesting america may need to use profiling to stop the next terror attack. watch this. >> i think profiling is something that we're going to have to start thinking about as a country and other countries do it and you look at israel and you look at others and they do it, and they do it successfully and, you know, i hate the concept of profiling. but we have to start using common sense. >> earlier today, former new york city major rudy giuliani agreed with trump's comments. let's take a look. >> of course, you profile. that's what policing's all about. here's where it's wrong. it's when you do it based on race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation. just for that reason. just because you don't like them. but if you're doing it based on hard facts that leads to protection of the public, like a group of one type. >> so you have no

i pledge my allegiance to al baghdadi. may allah accept me. he goes on to say, the real muslims will never accept the filthy ways of the west. you kill innocent women and children by doing us air strikes. now taste the islamic state. in the next few days you will see attacks from the islamic state in the usa. there were five different accounts at least associated with this gunman. so there's certainly a lot more to learn in that regard. we know that the cell phone from this gunman, which was damaged in the attack, is now being analyzed by the fbi. some data has been pulled from that to piece together a timeline on what he was doing in the hours leading up to the attack. don. >> pamela, let's talk about the wife now because the u.s. attorney could present evidence against his wife to a grand jury. bring us up to date on everything you know about her and what she has told investigators thus far. >> reporter: that's right. we know investigators are trying to build a case right now. they're considering charges against the wife for not coming to au

said that we are attacking isil on all sill lcyl, and john harwood, no fate on the isis leader al baghdadi, and once again weighing in on the gun debate, and the first time that i can recall and talked to the people who have criticized him for not using the term radical muslims. >> he is so motivated to go out to campaign for hillary clinton and defeat trump, and this is it. it is a blast from the president, and came from deep inside. he went after this notion that donald trump was repeating yesterday that the president's failure to say the words radical islam was significant in this fight, and impediment to winning the fight, and he went after that very hard and said that is a simply political talking point, and in fact, it would help isis turn radical islamists themselves turn it into a clash of zilizaticivilizations that tn is trying to defend, and he went after trump whose basic campaign appeal would undermine the american values that we are trying to defend, and that is a motivated and angry president going after donald trump, and when we hear more of that over the next few months. >>

he had pledged allegiance three weeks earlier to the leader of the islamic state, abubakar al-baghdadiand believed in the killing of nonbelievers where they lived with their families. he threatened to blow everything up of the police officers came in the house. hours before the attack, a bala abballa -- abballa apparently showed up at his local mosques to play. -- to pray. >> at sign yesterday. i said we're going to close and he left normally. >> i don't know what was going on inside his head. to me, he was a regular young man like anyone else. i have nothing else to add. >> police searched abballa's home and other locations and the tape people close to him for questioning. they say the country is facing a significant terrorist threat. >> this was indisputably an act of terror. its perpetrator, who died in a shootout with police, clearly wanted his deed to be recognized as terrorism. >> french parliamentarians held a moment of silence for the murdered couple as the country deals with yet another terrorist related attack. >> monday night, the attack came despite heightened security meas

he's as powerful as al-baghdadi, the leader of isis. he has called on isis followers worldwide to attack westerners, in particular civilians and in particular children. the idea is to bleed, the idea is to terror his. and the -- terrorize. and you might say why the far enemy? isis is losing in iraq and syria and losing bigtime even though it's not the beginning of the end, and these attacks are, i mean, think about it. i mean, powerful attacks. all of us now are talking about the orlando massacre in which, you know, 50 innocent americans were killed and another 50, almost 50 were injured. in fact, the orlando killer, he basically pledged allegiance to isis while he was doing the killing. >> host: right. >> guest: so even though we have evidence about the orlando, you know, his name is omar mateen, that he was not directly directed, according to president obama and the intelligence services, he was not directed by isis directly, he basically was homegrown radicalized. self-radicalized. accepting the ideology. and this is an important poi

when he called 911 just before he began shooting, he expressed support for al baghdadi. he was interested in islamic violence and radical jihadic violence as many as four years, which was before the rise of isis. certainly before the rise of isis propaganda. that's when the fbi said he was in essence spouting off to coworkers about violent extremism and his own interest in it. they interviewed him at the time and decided there was nothing to it but bluster. the following year they were interested in the fact that another man from the same place he was living, ft. pierce, florida, which is 120 miles from orlando, that he had connection with moner mohammad abu salah. he came back to florida after being in syria officially. the fbi says they became aware he had some contact with abu salah. after looking into it, they decided it was very minimal, very psmall. as we have reported all day long, nbc news has been told by his father that he saw this thing in florida and that may be what touched him off. one question here is how long was he planning this attack. the atf said just

while we have learned the shooter may have pledged allegiance to al baghdadi. his own father may have harbored some sympathies with the taliban, as well. fox news chief intelligence correspondent is live in our d.c. bureau with more. >> the official isis news kfs sent out a breaking news tweet the shooter was an isis fighter. the terror group did not identify omar mateen. the fbi confirmed the 29-year-old called 911 and claimed allegiance to al baghdadi. and evidence of his support for terrorism he gave a shoutout to the tsarnaev brothers that used bombs to kill and injure people at the boston marathon. >> this one has all of the hallmarks of some type of direction from a terrorist organization. the reality is that only through this investigation will we find the digital footprint that we need to make the connection to a specific isil member or to a specific cell. i'm confident that in the next 42 to 72 hours we'll discover that. >> there's new video tonight of federal agents searching the home and car mateen's father in port st. lucie, florida. earlier a law e

it was merely al-baghdadi's name and as i said translation from allah. david: god.avid: shows the degree which they're willing to go to play out this narrative that radical islam doesn't exist. >> when we first learned about the redaction, it came out of the mouth of the attorney general in an interview chris wallace did with her yesterday. that means that this decision to release and redact and to release only a written transcript, not the actual, sound, tone of his voice was made at highest levels. i suggest today, she was overruled by the white house when the uproar came about. how can you do this to us? the government can't rewrite history. they can not release or they can release but they can't the selectively release. david: it is scary, is it not, they are willing to dump on first amendment. the first amendment is the first for a reason. it the most important, to o play out their narrative that radical islam doesn't exist? >> are you surprised this government would continue its march towards tarnishing the constitution? it is hard to find a an amendment they

deliberate manner. >> when asked his name, he replies, my name is i pledge allegiance to abu bakr al baghdadi the transcript. >> part of the redacting is meant to not give credence to individuals who have done terrorist acts in the past. we're not going toropagate their rhetoric, their violent rhetoric. >> reporter: but republican leaders like house speaker paul ryan accuse the obama administration of minimizing the threat and the fbi later released an unredacted version. by 2:48, the first hostage negotiations begin. over a span of three phone calls, lasting 28 minutes, the killer calls himself an islamic soldier and demands that america stop bombing syria and iraq. he claims a vehicle outside has some bombs, telling negotiators, i'm going to ignite it if they try to do anything stupid. after questions about tactics, orlando police continue to defend their actions during the three-hour stand off. >> our officers were within the club within minutes, exchanged gunfire with the suspect, forced him to stop shooting and retreat into the bathroom. >> reporter: two hours into the standoff, police p

got a 911 connection with the police and expressed support for al baghdadi, who is the head of isis.o talked about other attacks he supported, including the boston marathon bombings and the two brothers who carried that out. >> where does the investigation go from here because there are so many angles? the fbi, federal have a lot of work here to do. >> sadly, it's a pattern that we've seen before that they're going to follow. it's pretty straightforward. they'll try to reconstruct the minutes, hours, days, weeks, and months leading up to this shooting to try to find if they can what was the precipitating event. his father said he thinks it was something that happened two months ago when the family was in miami and he saw gay people kissing. his father says that made him very angry. >> thank you so much, pete, for coming in. we appreciate your expertise here. >>> well, all of the presidential candidates weighed in on the shooting in a statement on facebook. hillary clinton called for the u.s. to redouble its efforts in defending the country from terror. she also called for guns to be

said this, i pledge allegiance to al baghdadi, could you take that two ways?ring what seems to be obvious? here is with us is former doj official, jay christian adams, jay christian, what am i missing here? it seems as though we got the motivation, what's going on? >> every american, except perhaps the ones at the justice department know the motivation for why he shot up pulse. he said it, it's clear. this added to the loretta lynch has is political correctness endangering the lives of americans. people with common sense know the motivation of omar mateen, it was radical islam, unfortunately or attorney general doesn't get it. >> so you were there when the department of justice, you left, you're a whistle blower, where this come from? afterall, this is the same loretta lynch that decided the worst attack in our history. >> the civil rights division is populated with the most radicalized lawyers, hundreds of them, who think america is the problem. radical islam isn't the problem, it's america. it's populated with people who have bought in entirely to political

but then later in the day because it hit the fan, it came out, you can' al baghdadi's name and talkingtice it says god when in fact he used allah. but because he was shifting between english and arabic they left the translation allah as god. >> it all smells bad. it smelled bad when they sent susan rice to do the fake explanation for the mission in benghazi. that smelled bad, turns out that was a whole lie, entire lie. now once again loretta lynch goes out and oh, we're going to be transparent, no problem. they're lying about that too. so again, why are they so afraid of telling the truth to the american people about what radical islam is, why are they so afraid of it? >> if anything, it just pushes the president's narrative. it's basically by them doing this and showing us the original transcript and basically it says -- it confirms what the president is doing. he doesn't want you at home to know what this guy was saying when he was in there shooting up the night club. he wants to make it about guns and not about terrorism. >> he wants to make it about guns. it was really solely an at

have reporting there was apparently a 911 call by the suspect where he pledged allegiance to omar al baghdadiking to krek on that. given the information publicly, i think we'll see the president at least in his statement reflect some of what's being said by law enforcement to reporters at this very early stage. >> where does it go from this, this investigation? when i talked to intel experts before, the main concern is to try to connect the dots, to try to see if there was another attack that's imminent or a threat that is coming. >> well, if you connect the dots, you need numbers on the dots or you just get random behavior. you've got to have something that is clearly pointed in the direction of helping us look ahead. we're fighting the last war. the military often does that in many societies, is get really ready to fight the last war. that's kind of what we're doing here. we've got to get out ahead of the terrorists. and figure out how to keep them from doing what they're doing. and not just rock back and wring our hands and maybe catch them and usually kill them after they do something. >>

pledge allegiance to and in the transcript it's omitted but we know that he pledged allegiance to al baghdadi, the head of isis. he said it again and may god protect him in arabic he said on behalf of -- and that's omitted in the transcript. so the main thing we learned here is new detail on what the police had heard from mateen and survivors of the nightclub shooting about whether or not there were explosives. he said they were in the van. as people came out, he said he was going to put explosive vests on four of the survivors and that he was wearing one himself. of course just to emphasize here, authorities have told us repeatedly that they never found any explosives, either in the van or inside the nightclub, that he was not wearing an explosive vest. this interesting detail about pulling the air conditioner unit out to get some of the people. >> we're learning that it was three hours from the time the first call came in of shots being fired until 5:02 when the the s.w.a.t. and special device team entered that nightclub breaking down the walls to rescue any survivors they could find inside

this man, we have the report that catherine discussed about pledging allegiance to al baghdadi, the head of assist. his motivation is a given. holy war against the infidel. i'm so disappointed. >> from the administration's point of view, they have always, always since the beginning been very cautious about getting to conclusions. they are always, in their words they want to be crystal clear about what it is before coming out definitively. inside the administration and in experts we talked to, they are clear where this is headed. >> this is early stage. what jumped out at me is this is what i would call a tier 1 event. when you have the fbi director personal i will debriefing the president about an event that was six or seven hours earlier, this tells you it is on top of the pile in terms of being investigated as an act of terrorism. as we understand, one that was inspired by a foreign terrorist organization. that's number one. when you look at the issue, perhaps what the president said wasn't enough for some people. to me, he went much further than he has. >> that's my point. >> in ident

is isis, decided to bring back the caliphate, declare its rule once again, and promoted abu bakr al baghdadi as the first caliph of islam in the new era. that is to say, that on june the 28th, two years ago today, isis established its caliphate by proclaiming it so and making abu bakr al baghdadi the first caliph of islam, in other words, making him the leader of the islamic state. that happened two years ago today. two yearsstate. that happened two years ago today -- two years ago tomorrow technically, but june 28th is today. be that as it may, it's been two years. and we have what appears to be a suicide attack on the istanbul airport. i always feel like it's very important to take stock of exactly what happened here. according to the authorities there has been no security breakdown. this is same thing that could happen at any building, any jcpenn jcpenney, any train station or airport up and down the world up until the point you get to security. because that security is designed to keep a bomb from getting on the plane and exploding in the air and causing widespread death and panic. that'

he was and said his location and he also pledged allegiance to isis and the isis leader abu bakr al-baghdady and that was the initial indication authorities had that, in fact, he was connected to international terrorism in one way or another. now to the extent of that and how far back this goes, that is still very much a question, but the fact that he called 911 in the midst of this and the fact that he was trying to negotiate with the police officers who arrived on the scene while he had the hostages, all of these are very unusual pieces to the puzzle and right now, don, investigators are looking at the scenario of whether this was someone who was inspired by hate, was targeting the gay community, but at the same time had some influence of international terrorism. so this is all part of the investigation at this stage. >> i wonder if he was inspired by the tsarnaev brothers, tamerlan and dzhokhar because he apparently mentioned them at some point. was that a model for the boston bombing? a model for him, possibly? >> he mentioned that during the 911 call, as well and the extent to which the

and, in fact, that name turns out to be al-baghdadi. al-baghdadi is the leader of isis.e's that. we'll be watching it. we'll get you more on this in just a minute. >>> closing bell, we're 36 minutes away. he watched it all right there last night be on the floor in oakland. the blood, the sweat, the tears, the cheers. the cleveland sports reporter who was there to watch this very moment. up next, we have that reporter and his name is joe saturdayen, coming up. boy, cleveland rocked. lebron james delivered. the cleveland curse, is it really over? we're going to talk to the man praying for decades this day would come. former cleveland mayor dennis kucinich. there he is back in 1977, no doubt crying over yet another headline saying that the cavs lost. he's joining us live on what it means for cleveland, next on "countdown." ♪ ♪ this just got interesting. why pause to take a pill? or stop to find a bathroom? cialis for daily use is approved to treat both erectile dysfunction and the urinary symptoms of bph, like needing to go frequently, day or night. tell your doctor about a

. >> reporter: mateen then said, i pledge allegiance to abu al baghdadi of the islamic state. the redacted transcript omitted any reference to isis. but critics like paul ryan said the administration was minimizing the threat. the fbi released an unredacted version calling the controversy an unnecessary distraction. >> we're not going to propagate violent rhetoric. >> reporter: with hostage negotiators, mateen identifies himself as an islamic soldier and demands america stops bombing syria and iraq. he falsely said he has explosives in a vehicle outside. by 4:21, police pull an air conditioning unit out of a dressing room window for victims to evacuate. at 4:29, witnesses say the gunman is threatening to strap vests to victims inside the club. at 5:02, the s.w.a.t. team storms the building. >> i think there's this misconception we didn't do anything for three hours. >> reporter: last night, under a poignant rainbow, an estimated 50,000 people honored the victims. brenda mccool was 49. she had beaten cancer twice. >> she was the mom everybody wanted. >> reporter: at her funeral

- they ask him again what his name is he says i pledge allegiance to this is the leader of isis al baghdadi who he praises and says he's pledging allegiance to. where are you at? he says in orlando. where in orlando? and he hangs up again. there are a couple other phone calls that follow this one with hostage negotiators in which he praises the boston bomb percent. he mentioned he's wearing a suicide vest like the ones that were used in france. he specifically says that. and he rails against u.s. policy in syria and iraq. says that the u.s. needs to stop bombing the territory of the islamic state. and what's interesting about the time line is that after the initial burst of shooting according to the orlando police, there is no shooting again until the end of the standoff. so during that time they're talking to him. this is one reason why police allowed that standoff to continue, because they felt they were -- had a better chance of protecting and saving the lives of those people that were inside the bathroom. i should note one thing here. there's been something peculiar about this. florida

my name is i pledge allegiance to abu bakr al baghdadi of the islamic state.i initially released a transcript of the call that omitted references to isis and its leader, but released the full transcript after facing backlash from many republicans. house speaker, paul ryan, said selectively editing the transcript is preposterous. the administration should release the full, unredacted transcript so the public is clear-eyed about who did this and why. the fbi had said it redacted portions so it wouldn't give mateen a platform for his propaganda. >> we're not going to propagate their violent rhetoric and we see no value in putting those individuals' names back out there. >> reporter: the fbi also revealed mateen spoke with negotiator three times for 28 minutes. during the calls, he claimed a vehicle outside the pulse nightclub contained bombs and said he was going to put four bomb-filled vests on victims still inside the club. no explosives were found. for shooting survivors, even seeing the words of this killer is excruciating. she says she could hear the killer

before and during the ag the shooting, mateen posted on facebook, alliance to isis leader abu bakr al baghdadi. then, after the shooting began, mateen paused and sources say he searched for "pulse orlando" and "shooting" perhaps to see if the massacre upon of was trending online. he also made calls to 911 and a television station on ongoing shooting. investigators are focusing on what role mateen's wife might have played in the attack. she has been cooperating, but officials believe she had some knowledge of an attack and will likely face some charges. school records show that omar mateen was a troubled child and a disciplinary problem. he was suspended for 48 total days while in high school. most were for fighting and other rule violations. in an application for a college criminal justice program, mateen wrote that he want aid career in law enforcement as far back as 2004. he wrote that in ninth grade, "i got into a fight with a fellow student in class. i was he admitted he had been arrested and the subject of a criminal investigation but did not elaborate. he also admitted to using marijuana

. >> reporter: mateen then says i pledge of allegiance abub bakr al baghdadi, omitting any reference to isis, and after critics, like paul ryan, saying they were minimizing the threat, the fbi released an unredacted version, calling it an unnecessary distraction. >> we're not going to propagate rhetoric. >> matt tehe falsely says he ha explosives in a vehicle outside by 4:21, they pull an air-conditioning unit out of a window. at 4:29, they say the gunman is threatening to strap vests to victims still inside the club. at 5:02, the s.w.a.t. team swarms the building. >> there was a misconception we didn't do anything for three hours, and i'm trying to clarify that's absolutely not true. >> yesterday, presumptive republican nominee used his signature reality phrase to one of his own, he gave corey lewandowski, the boot, saying you're fired. the inner circle admitted they learned of the change through news report. some say are exercising a crucial role in the campaign. katy tur has the details. >> reporter: after more than a year by his side, donald trump ousted corey lewandowski. ivanka

he pledged allegiance to al baghdadi, but he also talked about the tsarnaev brothers, the boston bombersst like the tsarnaev brothers, like the san bernardino shootings, are these now the heroes to these homegrown jihadists? >> well, i think so. they are heroes. but, you know, there's also, you know, individuals that are sociopaths and psychopaths, also possess a great deal of narcissism, and this could be a simple fact that he wanted to make sure he got the glory for this. and he was afraid that if he hadn't told anybody he was going to do it and if the media and the authorities were going to have to speculate of what his motive was, that maybe it was only a hate crime and not a terror act, it was only directed at the lgbt community. so to be sure, he calls the police and says, look, i want it to be clear i'm doing this for isis and not have any doubt. i mean normally in these shootings, you have people just continue to fire until they run out of ammunition or get killed. he stopped to make a phone call. so i think it was very important to him that he got credit for this attack. >> and,

. >> announced and pledged his allegiance to al baghdadi, the leader of isis. >> reporter: late today, the isis propaganda news agency claimed that mateen was "an islamic state fighter" although there was no indication the attack was planned by isis. >> this is likely to be someone that was self-radicalized on the internet and decided the target on his own. >> reporter: mateen was an american citizen, attending high school in florida, and worked as a security guard. he has a 3-year-old son with his current wife and his ex-wife says he regularly beat her. now, fbi agents are looking for clues. linzie janis is in his hometown. >> they are looking for phones, computers, anything that might provide clues. >> reporter: the fbi is also looking closely at mateen's parents, immigrants from afghanistan. this is his father in a rambling diatribe posted on youtube about the afghanistan border. >> and brian, this evening, the shooter's father is speaking out? >> yes, he says his son may have become upset when he saw two men kissing, but says he was as shocked as anyone when he learned what his so

now, this latest attack comes two years to the day that abu bakr al baghdadi declared the caliphate across europe. and with ramadan approaching there are new fears last night's massacre is one in a series of oncoming attacks. nbc's matt bradley is live in london. good morning, matt. what else can you tell us about this? >> good morning, betty. the airport is just reopening this morning to some limited service. about a third of the flights have remained canceled. last night as you see on the video, at least three attackers open fire as they entered the airport terminal. and in some of this stunning video you can see that one of the police officers shot and downed one of the attackers before he then detonated himself. so no one has claimed responsibility for this attack but speculation is already centering on some of the usual suspects, notably islamic state and of course syria shares a large border with turkey. and the group has taken responsibility for several previous attacks against the turkish state. a few notable parallels worth mentioning here with the brussels airport attack in march

he also pledged allegiance to abu bakr al-baghdadi, the leader of the islamic state. >> the killer made these murderous statements. he did so in a chilling, calm, and deliberate manner. >> the transcript released today also included details from three phone calls with the orlando police department's crisis negotiation team. in those calls, mateen threatened to put suicide vests on four victims and to blow up a vehicle filled with bombs. no explosives were ever found. >>> officials in atlantic city held a wreath ceremony today and a prayer vigil on the beach to one of the victims of the orlando nightclub shooting. the tribute began with the reading of the names of each of the 49s. they tossed a flower-colored wreath into the motion in memory of. >>> as expected, the senate of the united states failed to agree on gun control measures today, four of which came up for votes. republicans defeated bills proposed by democrats, and democrats defeated bills proposed by republicans. many americans will be left shaking their heads over the fact that eight days after the worst mass shooting in amer

reporter: when asked his name, omar mateen responds, "my name is, i pledge allegiance to abu bakr al baghdadi, of the ice lammic state." authorities initially redacting that pledge, but late today, releasing it. over the next half hour, hostage negotiators calling him on his cell phone three times. one call lasting 16 minutes. >> to hear him saying the reason he's doing is because he wants america to stop bombing his country. >> reporter: mateen threatening with bombs, saying, i'm going to ignite it if they try to do anything stupid. claiming he had a vest like the kind used in france. then, silence. he stopped answering his phone. an hour later, police pulling out an air conditioning unit, allowing eight victims to escape. and finally, busting through an exterior wall. today, authorities answering criticism they waited too long. >> i think there is this misconception that we didn't do anything for three hours. and i'm just trying to clarify that that's absolutely not true. >> and linzie janis with us live tonight from orlando. and linzie, there is also new information about the gunman's fina

. >> reporter: mateen then says i pledge of allegiance to abu bakr al baghdadi. it omitted any reference to isis but after critics like paul ryan argued the administration was minimizing the threat, the fbi released an unredacted version, calling the controversy an unnecessary distraction. >> we are not going to propagate violent rhetoric. >> reporter: three other calls, mateen identifies him as an islamic soldier and demands america stop bombing syria and iraq and has explosi a cressing room window was pulled out of a bathroom for people to evacuate. at 4:29, the following happened. at 5:02, the s.w.a.t. team stormed the building. >> i'm just trying to clarify that is absolutely not true that we didn't do anything for three hours. >>> yesterday, donald trump used his significant reality show phrase against one of his own. he gave campaign manager corey lewandowski the boot with two words -- you're fired. the dramatic shake-up took the rest of the campaign team by surprise. some of the inner circle admitted they learned of the change through news reports and came

al baeg -- baghdadi says he's the man and there's a link to the suicide bomber from the same area and >> on the left, there's this bizarre need for cultural relativity to say one culture isn't superior to another. if you are bog to besmirch them, that he pledged allegiance to religion and they are not interested in doing that. >> let's to find out who is to blame for the attack. let's see what else they said. >> republicans or islam, who would you blame more? >> i think i have to put it more on the republicans than islam. >> 100% the republicans. >> guns, republicans, islam. >> guns way more than islam. way more. >> if you are going to blame islam, you got to blame all the religions. >> buddhists? >> yes. >> really. those radical yoga people. >> i don't think homophobia and islam -- islam is like a very peaceful religion, very peaceful people. >> unbelievable. wouldn't you say that? >> i say that we make a mistake when we say these are fringe leftists who take this position because let's not forget that our attorney general loretta lynch was on cnn, fox news and nbc, what does she say

. >> investigators say in that cal.l he expressed his support for abu bakr al baghdadi, and and also mentioned the 2013 boston marathon bombings and the two brothers who carried out those attacks in boston with dzhokhar and tsarnaev. >> why call 911? >> the islamic base has advised their support base if you're going to demonstrate support -- crusader media can't confuse that as a ran come act of violence. >> in the beginning he was a normal being that cared about family, loved to joke and have fun but a few months after they were married i saw his instability. >> she watched him turn from a regular guy who wanted to be a police officer into a man who became increasingly unstable. >> and i saw that he was bipolar and he would get mad out of nowhere. that's when i started worrying about my safety and after a few months he started abusing me physically, very often. >> she says he used steroids and believes he visited gun ranges. she said he also tried to keep her away from their family until they sensed something wrong and came to visit her. >> my family literally rescued me. the night

he said pledged allegiance to abu bakr al-baghdadi.rist talk about his loyalty to isis, an intern in our fox news station in philadelphia. >> he was trying to get a message out. that is what scares me more. there was nothing any of us could say to him or nothing we could try to convince him to do because he had a plan already. that was the most scary thing. >> orlando chief of police says the 911 transcripts show just what his officers were dealing with on sunday the 129. just because it took three hours to kill the terrorists doesn't mean the team wasn't working. >> the officers were in the club within minutes exchanged gunfire on the suspect. forced him to stop shooting and retreat in the bathroom. from there we let our negotiator take over and try to negotiate this to a peaceful resolution. >> later today the attorney general loretta lynch will be here in orlando. we hope for more explanation about why these 911 transcripts were redacted and unredacted so quickly. >> that's a head scratcher. peter doocy, thank you so much. >> the ju