it's not about baghdadi. in america particularly we're always so -- the cult of personality defines everything in our view of the world. always about osama bin laden and then when he died, al qaeda didn't go away. it's not about baghdadi. so, obviously as you point out, particularly in the west, there are cells, independent units. >> guest: limited -- >> host: limited, home-grown independent. how does this work in the sort of infrastructure of isis? if it's not about baghdadi, and if there are these autonomous units in the west, how does this operate? so when there is a planned attack, who gives the order? is it swan someone in the west? it's not baghdadi. how are thieves attacked carried out. >> guest: can we have another hour? >> host: i know. we only have a few minutes left. >> guest: in the time you are asking -- i would say there is no single variable. nothing -- no button you can press and explain these. as you said they're about 30,000 and 40,000 foreign fighters. there are about 4,000 -- between 4,000

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

it's not about baghdadi. >> guest: no. >> host: in america in particular we're always so, the cult of personality defines everything and our view of the world. it was always about osama bin laden, and then when he died, al-qaeda didn't go away. it's not about baghdadi. so obviously as you point out, particularly in the west, there are cells -- if we want to call them that -- independent units. >> guest: limited. >> host: limited, homegrown independents. how does this work in the sort of infrastructure of isis if it's not about baghdadi and if there are these autonomous units in the west, how does this operate? so when there is a planned attack, i mean, who gives the order? is it someone in the west? is it -- it's not baghdadi, is it? so how are these attacks actually carried out? >> guest: can we have another hour? >> host: i know, exactly. >> guest: i mean, really -- >> host: we only have a few minutes left. >> guest: the time has gone by. first of all, the first thing i would say really is that there is no

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

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

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

. >> rose: still there is baghdadi, the leader of i.s.i.s., i.s.i.l as the government calls it.what do we know about him there? has he been injured in an air attack? do we think he's in syria or do we think he's in iraq? do we think he has been grievously wounded and, therefore, cannot command i.s.i.l anymore? >> well, i know that there are many different reports out there, but we've seen reports in the past from other sources about what may or may not have happened to baghdadi. we do not have any independent information about whether or not he has been injured in any type of strike. what we will say is that we have made taking out the leadership of i.s.i.l which would obviously include baghdadi a priority and we have been able to take out a number of i.s.i.l leaders, a significant number of i.s.i.l leaders in months because we have been able to get better intelligence over the course of this year and a half we have been engaged in the military campaign. the fact is even though they have characteristics of insurgency, they have a core leadership that is very important to their o

so, yes, leaders do matter. >> we'll see if there's an intense effort to get baghdadi, especially in the next few months. richard engel in istanbul, thank you. >>> are we in a new normal? that may be true. how will it impact the 2016 race? just moment ago, donald trump took aim at hillary clinton on the issues of terrorism and security. >> isis was formed during her tenure. isis is now worse than ever. you see what happened yesterday. you see what's going on generally. isis is looking strong. isis is signing up people over the internet. they know how to use the internet better than we do, and we do nothing about anything. they are taking our youth. >> there you go. i'm joined by carol lee, "washington post" chief correspondent dan balls and david ignatius. david, let me start with you. because i am curious of your view on this. in this respect. look. when a populist feels insecure, they look for easy, strong, comforting words. and trump is providing that whether true or not. clinton and obama are basically saying, we've got this. it's working. it takes time. is the public going to ac

read ce: is there a clear on what baghdady's status is? to say he's int . ive and well brett mcgurk: we have no reason o believe baghdady is not alive. so alls himself the leader you would think he would come out with a statement to his so-called followers. heard from him. we presume he's still alive. closer and closer to the very core so it's really a matter of time for him. on any oft a timeline the operations for iraq and mozul. difficultbe extremely but i think we have a pretty monvidge to er localize these arab fighters to move down and isolate raqqa. audience: if i heard you correctly, you're saying there were probably more atrocities in fallujah than we know. i know we have to take the overnment of baghdad at its word that everything was doing the right thing. these sources that are giving reports about mobilization forces, how concerned are you are probably -- they are using force and that they against isiss push engage in sunnis. brett mcgurk: most atrocities being committed in fallujah are committed by isil, and isil is killing families as leave t

baghdadi has to accept your pledge. so it is not enough that you say, i'm with isis, and autot automatical automatically, you are part of the organization. so my position on this is that i'm a little bit circumspect given the fact that he was not on -- that he was on the gay apps and involved in the community, and lot going on that we need to know more whether this is general radicalization, or whether it is the kinds of the behavior that we see in psychology that's called sort of the covering behavior. when you are engaged in camouflaging your real identity. you talked about it earlier, don. and so, i think that we need more information or it could also be a combination. i asked charlie, what happens as far as isis is concerned if we find out that he was actually involved in the gay community and doing all of this, and as far as isis is concerned, the moment that he shot the first person at the club, he became a muslim again. >> interesting. we have wondered if the whole isis thing was thrown in at the end as a ruse to

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

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

that it is baghdadi doing it.y out there, it is going to cause the american people to lose heart after a while. certainly lose their energy. and as far as the enemy, i don't see anybody being recruited because we mentioned baghdadi's name. when they are recruited, they see isis gaining territory. bill: i know a lot in the investigation has to unfold. people are looking for answers. wondering where they are. in the transcript he made no issues about sexual orientation. a entire section of the country think they were targeted because they were gay. what is the answer or the truth? >> no doubt gay was a factor, again how much of a factor? certainly no evidence yet it was major factor. he spoke about isis. he spoke to al-baghdadi. he pledges his support to isis. so when you have people in the administration and the media constantly talking about this being attack on gays, yes, gays were attacked but americans were attacked. bill: my point, let us know. >> exactly. bill: tell us what is going on. >> until then they sho

when he asked his name, the gunman replied my name is i pledge allegiance to abu bakr al-baghd al-baghdadiic state. more from ed lavandera. >> reporter: more from the conversations that omar mateen had during the deadly rampage at the pulse nightclub in orlando, florida. in the 911 call, which lasted 50 seconds, the original transcript omitted any reference to isis and the leader baghdadi. many critical of the fbi for doing that. they called for the full transparency. after releasing the full transcript, the fbi included the references to isis and its leader. the phone calls included three different phone calls that mateen had with the orlando police crisis negotiators. 28 minutes of the conversations where mateen threatened a bomb in a car he would ignite if anybody would do anything quote stupid. that was a partial transcript of the conversation during the three hours in the pulse nightclub before he was gunned down after 5:00 a.m. last sunday. christine and ryan. >> ed, thank you for that. >>> the supreme court has decided not to hear a challenge to connecticut's ban on assault weapons.

i pledge allegiance to abu, bakr al baghdadi. it drew criticism. paul ryan tweeted it was propostrouse. we know the shooter was radical islamist inspired by isis. ash carter invoked the orlando tragedy talking about the ongoing coalition fight against isis. local police had to answer the question of why they waited three hours to breach the nightclub wall, whether some of the wounded could have been saved if they entered sooner. >> there was a misconception we didn't do anything for three hours. that's absolutely not true. off club within minutes, exchanged fire with the suspect, forced him to stop fire. from there, our negotiator took over and tried to negotiate to a peaceful resolution. >> reporter: the killer told police he put suicide bomb vests around several hostages, making a forced entry more risky. shan shannon? >> thank you, steve. >>> what was left out of the calls angered many conservatives who believe the move was more political than anything else. within hours of the outrage, they backtracked, releasing the full transcript. brit hume

i pledge allegiance to abu, bakr al baghdadi. it drew criticism. paul ryan tweeted it was propostrouse. we know the shooter was radical islamist inspired by isis. ash carter invoked the orlando tragedy talking about the ongoing coalition fight against isis. local police had to answer the question of why they waited three hours to breach the nightclub wall, whether some of the wounded could have been saved if they entered sooner. >> there was a misconception we didn't do anything for three hours. that's absolutely not true. our officers were within the club within minutes, exchanged fire with the suspect, forced him to stop fire. from there, our negotiator took over and tried to negotiate to a peaceful resolution. >> reporter: the killer told police he put suicide bomb vests around several hostages, making a forced entry more risky. shan shannon? >> thank you, steve. >>> what was left out of the calls angered many conservatives who believe the move was more political than anything else. within hours of the outrage, they backtracked, releasing the fu

my name is i pledge allegiance to abu bakr al baghdadi of the islamic state.ted by the fbi and the name "isis" was redacted by the fbi. we heard last week comey, the head of the fbi, had already said all of this. so why hold it back yesterday? >> there's a couple of things going on here. someone who's spent about 30 years in washington, i think you have to live in washington to understand this. because both sides are a bit unrealistic. as you're saying, before the redacted transcript was released, we knew he had pledged allegiance to isis and isis had already talked about the attack. so it wasn't like -- >> it was already out there. >> that's exactly right. i think the department of justice, and i served there, overthought this. i understand why they did this, the story'sous. you might as well release the transcript. i think what they did was, at least on the surface, was justifiable. they made a good faith effort to do something they thought would limit propaganda by isis. i thought calling this preposterous by the other side, by the speaker, was ridiculous.

. >> investigators say in that call he expressed his support for al baghdadi, and also mentioned the 2013 boston marathon bombings and the two brothers who carried out those attacks. >> 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. >> mike smith is a respected terrorism analyst who follows international jihadist groups. >> on may 21st the islamic state spokesman who oversees its terrorism operations here in the united states and all over the west, says it's crucial for this terrorist organization to go out and kill civilians, so he is impressing upon the support base that it's more important for them to go out and develop a body count so this organization can demonstrate leadership in the larger global jihad movement. >> mateen's we can wife says that her ex-husband was unstable and beat her repeatedly. she told "the washington post," at first, the marriage was normal. but then mateen became abusive and beat her for the trivial reasons like not finishing the l

the guy pledged allegiance to al baghdadi on facebook.ttack, he talked about the tsarnaev brothers and also abu salah. we don't know if there was any type of collaborative relationship with isis. the dangerous thing about this enemy, when you have isis on the march in the middle east with a robust propaganda network, you don't necessarily need an operation or a relationship because just that sight of the caliphate being expanded is enough. >> congressman, today, literally a few hours ago, president obama got angry about his critics because he would not use the word islamic terror. was it islamic terror and would expression? >> without question. this was an act in furtherance of the islamic jihad. he was a militant islamist. it's important to do that because if you'll remember at the ft. hood attack, major hasan was taking all kind of radical statements but the army didn't do anything because they didn't want to call it by its name. if you look at the muslim brotherhood, they're also part of the problem. when you say it's confined to a few

. >> one of the point, we know for a fact that baghdadi is sending young men into the refugee flow tocommit acts of terror wherever they can locate. is it true or very likely that they also know the web site to come up on secure so that they can communicate back with baghdadi? >> yes. >> so right now there was a media report that 400 young men had been sent into the refugee flow. i would assume at least some of them have or are armed with the web site to come on line once they get to a preferred destination so they can coordinate acts of terrorism. >> a web site that is encrypted, yes that's probably like lee. >> that's a bit concerning, isn't it? >> yes sir. >> what should we be doing to counter that? besides take-out isis? >> i think we need a broader national dialogue about what are we comfortable with. we have got that security and we have got to have safety and privacy. at the moment we are in a dialogue that seems to paint it as one or the other and the dialogue we have with senator cotton i don't see it that way. >> yet we know of a direct threat of an attack in europe or the u

. >> investigators say in that call he expressed his support for al baghdadi, and also mentioned the 2013 boston marathon bombings and the two brothers who carried out those attacks. >> 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. >> mike smith is a respected terrorism analyst who follows international jihadist groups. >> on may 21st the islamic state spokesman who oversees its terrorism operations here in the united states and all over the west, says it's crucial for this terrorist organization to go out and kill civilians, so he is impressing upon the support base that it's more important for them to go out and develop a body count so this organization can demonstrate leadership in the larger global jihad movement. >> mateen's we can wife says that her ex-husband was unstable and beat her repeatedly. at first, the marriage was normal. but then mateen became abusive and beat her for the trivial reasons like not finishing the laundry. as for mateen's father,

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

we know that baghdadi is giving them encrypted phones and telling them to join the refugee flow.he general ahead of nato says that using the refugee flow to dismember the eu. as long as they have geographic base. and by the way every time there someone of these attacks, either the secretary of state or the president says they are being squeezed. after san bernardino, they are being squeezed? how much more squeezing are we going to have to have. >> if raqqa is the center of this and what are we doing to cut off the head of raqqa? >> incremental. >> that's a bad description. what are we doing. >> they have incrementally been increasing our effort 50 people interest, special forces, there rachingt up the bombing. it's what we used to call during the vietnam war mission creep. and so it's going to take a long, long time. >> well, what's our strategy? is mission creep our strategy? >> there is no strategy. it's ad hoc on the fly. we have great leaders, by the way. general mcfar land over there in iraq is a great leader. we have very fine leadership. but everything comes out of the whi

developments in the investigation, and any developments in this unconfirmed rumor really that al baghdadi, the leader of isis has been killedp in an airstrike. the pentagon a few minutes ago said that they were not able to with the military intelligence to confirm that, but we will see if the president has any update on that situation. >> yeah. and it is interesting, too, john, after we heard are from the fbi drirector comey yesterdy saying in hindsight he does not believe they would have done anything differently, but yet, we know a fair amount at this point that the individual was looked at on multiple occasions by the fbi. >> that's right. everybody acknowledges it is very difficult to stop a individual motivated actor who is not communicating more broadly with the terrorist networks, but this is one way in which the news of the wife may change the frame of the analysis for the fbi, because now you have a second person with knowledge of the impending attack, and what were her contacts, and so, investigators are going to have to be following this where it leads to see what it develops a

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

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

. >> 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

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

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

in general has done a much wetter baghdadi, the we of isis. brothers, dzhokhar and tamerlin tsarnaev who carried out the attack. but this call expressing support for isis are wondering whether this was inspired or was he in touch with foreign terrorists and so far the answer to that latter question as to whether he was in touch with specific terrorists overseas is peers to be no. >> and tom, is this going to require a more international response? we're looking at this almost as domestic terrorism, inspired overseas. will it require a different response? >> it will, and i think it's going to take the breast brains and the best efforts of all of america's allies, and i'm keenly disappointed and that's putting it lightly that we don't have more action and support from arab allies like this, like a saudi arabia speaking out or qatar or the united arab emirates. we need everyone involved. those nations are as much at risk as we are, they're living in a kind of state of paranoia and terror constantly that will come home to them, too, if isis takes o

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

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

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

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

but to isis and what's happened now in redacting the isis and the references to baghdadi but the justice department is inadvertently doing is feeding some of the conspiracies out there, what the obama administration is trying to do is to cover up the role of isis and islamic, radical islam in what happened in orlando. and it is curious, ashleigh, that in this redacted version of the discussions with the gunman, there is no mention of anti-gay bias. there's no mention of his hatred of homosexuals or homosexuality at all. that's the message to be out there. >> next question, quickly, for you, if i can, polo, there was a list that was read off effectively during this news conference which is alarm figure you thi , if you think about it. 600 pieces of evidence. thousands of tips pursued but nearing the finalization of processing this crime scene. how close until it's over? >> reporter: it's a virtual mountain of evidence, ashleigh, they are processing and even today, we've seen investigators come and go. tomorrow, of course, the attorney general will be here and essentially the highest ranki

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

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

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

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. >>

. >> 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