joining me from washington, tim murphy. he's a former deputy director of the fbi and i'm very pleased to have him. welcome. >> thank you, charlie. >> rose: let me begin with the question, what is the portrait of omar mateen that we know so far? what is it that we see in this man in terms of influence, in terms of his own vulnerability to outside forces, ideas, ideologies? >> charlie, i think at its core you know, it's sim bol mattic of some of the other things we have even in the united states of the lone wolf os ar director comey would like to call them, lone rats. he fits that similar profile, right. he is following muslim extremism. he believes in that ideology. he's radicalized. from what we know at this point there are some indications he was radicalized through different methods over the internet. he followed different terrorist groups. although there was a variety of terrorist groups that he espoused support for, some of them really didn't make sense because they might have been, you know, terrorist groups that were

let me bring in former fbi deputy director, timur -- t tim murphy. thank you for your time. let me start with what we know today just reporting, the possibility of the man visiting this club pryor on one occasion with his wife and took him and brought him here. if you're in charge of the fbi investigation right now, what are your biggest leads? what are you pursuing? >> it won't be a linear investigation. the leads they will look at are his family connections to afghanistan, pakistan, some other groups they already acknowledged he may have been following or may have voiced his support for. you will start tracking down everybody he knows, look at his entire -- what path did he take to this radicalization. he may have cased other locations and this one he was more comfortable with. it appears he was reporting he can provide the maximum impact of his act in a crowded venue like this to extract the maximum pain to the united states and the people of florida. >> what do you make of the reporting he may have been on several apps aimed at gay men who were dating. people have read t

tim murphy is a former deputy director of the f.b.i. >> right now, they're still full steam ahead trying to figure this out, what motivated him, was there anybody else involved, who actually inspired him, and any other connection he may have. >> rose: what do we know about the frequency, the idea that you suggested that these things are happening with more frequency. we see the same patterns developing. we see the kinds of locations that are chosen-- clubs, theaters, whether it's paris or whether it's orlando, florida. >> yeah, i think, you know, what we're facing in this country, and we need to evolve quickly, and that is my concern that we're not evolving quick enough. we're not agile enough to keep up with this threat. now, with encrypted communications. now with isil or isis, there's decentralized, there's not a command and control. un, harm those in the united states where you stand. you know, take up arms and hit soft targets. i mean, that has been the instructions over using their recruiting tools, over their messaging back and forth. so that's what we're seeing a shift on. now, t

congressman tim murphy's bill on treating mental health which is when we talk about gun control, and it's not related to a jihadist terrorist attack and it's related to for example sandy hook, everyone can agree that mental health is one of the issues that our government should try to do a lot more and better policy on in order to help families dealing with this. so there is a bill moving this week, the congress is doing something. there are things that they could do to show that they are being productive and they stepped all over that. >> it's such a missed opportunity, juan. what do you have to say in defense of this lack of civility and respect of victims. >> i don't know how you get to that point, kg. the fact is the politics here is that speaker ryan will not take up anything to do with gun control. it's highly politicized. >> this is about terror. >> no, it's not. it's about gun control and so much so that the police commissioner of our great city, new york city, said basically you can't expect anything from this congress. and not -- no, no, no. you miss the point. hypocrisy la

investigations, and other factors in this that have to be dealt with, and we just passed this week, 53-0, tim murphy'sental health bill out of the commerce committee, and sod there is a lot of work to be done, but make sure that we are not infringing upon the law-abiding citizens' second amendment rights. >> and when you look at the second amendment right, and the arms to protect this country from islamic, radical islamic -- >> well, it is a good question. is going after the second amendment how you stop t terrorism? no. that is not how you stop terrorism. we have a bill voted on right now to go after homegrown jihadist, and don't take your eye off of the ball. this is a person radicalized by islamic radical terrorists and he claimed isis so we have to make sure that we are focusing on the real issue hee, terrorism, and the fact that people are becoming radicalized and committing the horrible acts of terrorism in our country, and so not only do we need a better foreign policy, and policy with respect to iraq and syria and fighting the terroristsb and preventing isis from expanding and growing, we need

tim murphy out of pennsylvania has worked tirelessly on this. the democrats need to work with us to pass that bill. we have congresswoman martha mcsally's bill that would put some mental health information into the system. this is something that needs to move forward. what we want to do is make certain that we address the root causes that some of these issues, the mental health issues, the information share, taking down the barriers that local law enforcement says they have with getting information. >> is there any reason to not address all of the issues? >> we are trying to address all the issues. they were -- the sit-in was a political stunt. they were out raising money on that. you and i have all seen the forms they were sending out to people to raise money. their time would have been better spent coming and working with us, saying the root causes of this. let's look at the mental health. let's move that forward. let's look at what is happening with terrorist cells. let's bring in local law enforcement and some of our federal law enforcement

we just passed this week 53-0 tim murphy's mental health bill out of the commerce committee.'s make sure we are not infringing upon a law-abiding citizen's second amendment rights. >> so are you looking at legislati legislation? >> would curtailing the second amendment protect this country from islamic -- radical -- >> that's a good question. so the question is, is going after the second amendment how you stop terrorism? no. that's not how you stop terrorism. we have a bill that's being voted on right now to go after homegrown jihadists. this is a person who was radicalized by islamic terrorists. he claimed it was by isis. so we need to make sure we're focusing on the real issue here, which is terrorism. the fact that people are becoming radicalized and committing these horrible acts of terrorism in our country. so not only do we need a better foreign policy, not only do we need a better policy with respect to iraq and syria and fighting terrorists and preventing isis from expanding and growing, we need to have a better job and a better handle on homegrown jihad and on combat

director tim murphy also looks at the lessons learned from orlando. >> woodruff: last night, we aired about the ar 15 rifle, the weapon used in several recent mass shootings. orlando law enforcement officials had initially said this was the same gun type used in the orlando shooting. but later it was clarified that the orlando shooter was using a sig sauer mcx. that is a rifle with several similarities to the ar 15 style. the sig sauer was originally designed for use by u.s. special operations forces. the newshour regrets the confusion. and that is the newshour for tonight. on thursday, we travel to brazil, where fears over zika are gripping the local community-- and international atheletes-- ahead of the olympics. i'm judy woodruff. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill. join us online, and again here tomorrow evening. for all of us at the pbs newshour, thank you and good night. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> you were born with two stories. one you write every day, and one you inherited that's written in your d.n.a. 23andme.com is a genetic service that provide

recess next week, members will also vote on a mental health bill sponsored by republican congressman tim murphy of pennsylvania. lighthouse coverage next tuesday when they are back from legislative work on c-span. today at 2:00 p.m. eastern we will bring you a briefing on the state department from the state department's ambassador to monitor and combat human trafficking. she will be answering questions about the department's 2016 human trafficking report released today. secretary of state john kerry released that report. here's a bit of that. kerry: when we talk about human trafficking, we are talking about slavery, modern-day slavery that still today claims more than 20 million victims on any given time. million are people just like everybody here. they have names. they have, or had families, in many cases. and they are forced to endure a living hell in modern times that no human being should ever have .o expect in some places, particularly where violent extremists are able to find a contemporary safe , the atrocities are both rampant and overt. recallsr-old survivor approaching one of her cap

has been a frequent guest on this row graham about his mental health legislation is congressman tim murphypennsylvania. he has aepublican and helping families and mental crisis act. do you support that? actt: we are supporting the and it is in process as i understand it. we may see a new draft of that in the next several days. it has been in evolution. one of the things the congressman has been willing to do which is important is to listen to input, to modify and change as he gets more information. i think that is what's going on right now. i think we will see a ill but it may be different than the original legislation that was offered. host: what is the concern with the legislation? it was brought up in the huffington post about a survivor and mental health advocate writing about the bill recently. she was concerned about the involuntary commitment aspect. guest: we are talking about a package of several different things that were in the original bill. one is something called assistant -- assisted outpatient treatment which is getting treatment in the community under the auspices the cour

herrara bounces to short still one-one tim lease can't score. daniel murphyed hits a homerun much he's hot. two-one washington. kind of sewed it up in the ninth inning. danny us pi notice is a two run homer make it four-one. inside the park opener made it five-one phillies at .500. they lose five-one to washington. eagles mini camp goes on and the manufactured story and that's what i'm going to call it is about the quarterbacks. other than the coaches and the players media has one to two hours week to look at the quarterbacks and the mares. from that, there are reports that wentz is ahead of bradford. she's guys are idiots that write this stuff on the website. idiots. totally untrue. according to people in the eagles. now, both sam bradford and carson wentz sai said today that they're getting along great with each other. concerning sam bradford and the quarterback competition bradford is far advanced among the quarterbacks. >> it's a process that i'm familiar with. it's something that i've done before. you know, i think biggest thing is, you know, reps but al

tim kaine tweeted this blurry pick from the floor. >> they have about 14 hours to go. >> reporter: chris murphy who staged a 15 hour filibuster in the senate last week encouraged these protests to continue. >> we got a vote in the senate. it lead to compromised negotiations that are happening that might get this done. >> reporter: late this afternoon, president obama took to twitter to thank congressman lewis for his leadership here. the action has all the markings of a coordinated democratic party wide effort including the #no bill, no break. reporting from the capitol, garrett haake, wusa 9. >> muriel bowser and chief lanier will call on them to get common sense gun reform. >>> individual tax credits to help people buy coverage from january aside to cover high risk patients. it did not include specifics about the size of the tax credits, the price of the plan or how many would be covered. >>> to a developing story out of arlington county. a driver shot himself after police pulled him over. >> the man died in his vehicle. it happened not far from arlington national cemetery around 3:30 this afternoon. a police officer pulled over t

tim the family's efforts top find out what happened has been ineffective. >> reporter: share remarks 19rer yield darius murphyatally shot outside his grandmothersmoh home, police killed him after suspecting he had a gun. there was an altercation betweet murphy and police.oli an officer survived. his family obtained an attorney to learn more about the confrontation but still no answers.ers. into that freedom of information act request was filed in january after years of un answered questions. >> i just want to know why it happened. what was the reason for itt happening. me and my brother been workingkg together trying to find outwaits been going on. >> he was shot 22 times.es. he also i socket got kicked out when he was underneath theerne vehicle. >> reporter: steps away where we are sitter thing in northeast, it was december 3rd, 2013. >> we're still weighing withti respect to that request. >> reporter: murphy says a report would reveal more aboutoe happened to his nephew 19 year old dairy continuous murphy, itp would include statements, forensic evidence and wits accounts. >> i conveniently talked to my atto

last week two of the democratic and senior democrat senators, senator tim jane and chris murphy proposed renewal and extension of the iran nuclear, iran sanctions act into congre congress. but what the white house, state department chordata for implementation in congress during the recent weeks was insisting that this might be -- [inaudible] this nuclear, the sanctions act only kicks in if iran gets out of the deal or violates the deal. what is the white house estimate, reluctant to endorse it, and mr. obama? >> so let me address just the number of elements in the question. number one, we were very clear in the advocacy for the implementation of the iran deal. that this is focus on the nuclear program. and i think we were very straightforward that we fully expected that iran will continue to engage in other activities that we found deeply troubling, like explosive missile program, its support for terrorism, destabilize activity in the region, human rights violations. and, frankly, the case with me this is all the more imperative to have a nuclear agreement with a country like that becaus

generally they show that patrick murphy is strongest candidate in a general election for the democrats and that this is going a democratic year but not by much. >> timt florida. we saw the recount of the 2000 election. could we see the same thing in 2016? down to florida? >> yes, very much so. since 2016 -- got to spend 37 days recounting and looking recount.ts over the florida grown in population. now 29 electoral college votes. third most popular state. democrat wins california, which is guaranteed and new york enough toa, that's put her, almost over the top. it gives you 42% of the wintoral college votes to the election. this is a state, florida is a state that the republicans can't afford to lose. ohio likes to talk about how important it is, but relative to inrida side, it pails comparison as far as size, as far as political. reflect the rest of the nation, we have a heavy population.ican growing hispanic population cuban americans which are come overing in droves from puerto rico. >> we're talking with marco caputo. theou could explain importance of the corridor between jacksonville moving toough tallahassee and on orlando and tampa. how that