Harbored what is being described as extreme antiamerican views. The group found other things it believes the shooter wrote online. This is also the day we learned the name and some of the details about one of the victims of the senseless violence. Ensign Joshua Kaleb Watson was just 23 years old fresh out of the Naval Academy working on his goal to become a naval aviator. His family released a heart breaking Statement Today calling him a hero, praising his courage, and expressing how proud they are of him. Also today the navy says despite the killings at the base in pensacola friday and in hawaii just two days before, there is no plan to make changes to security measures on navy bases in the United States. The secretary of defense also today saying it is too early to apply the label terrorism to this mass killing in florida. Our International Democratic editor is in saudi arabia for us. I mentioned a noted group put together a profile of this man who shot three people to death yesterday. What do they say about him . Reporter well, one of the things that we understand is from this tweet that appears perhaps to have come from him in the minutes before the attack it appears to be potentially some sort of explanation that he is leaving behind and it clearly states that he is angry with americans. He quotes from osama bin laden, quotes from another former al qaeda leader, a yemeni cleric, yemen right next to saudi arabia here, saying things like the United States or u. S. Citizens wont be safe as long as there are american troops in muslim lands. That is an old al qaeda narrative weve heard before. Now, if, and it is at this stage only if this does prove to be his then this will shed a much harsher light on this particular incident. President trump again today talking about his conversation with the saudis, Saudi King Salman saying again with the king he is promising to get to the bottom of what happened here. I spoke with the king of saudi arabia. They are devastated in saudi arabia. Were finding out what took place, whether its one person or a number of people. And the king will be involved in taking care of families and loved ones. He feels very strongly. He is very, very devastated by what happened, what took place. Likewise the crown prince. They are devastated by what took place in pensacola. I think they are going to help out the families very greatly. But right now, they send their condolences. And as you know ive sent mine. A very shocking thing. And well find out and get to the bottom of it very quickly. So the motivation behind this attack, that is the key, his family here telling us that they havent seen any kind of sort of off beat behavior by him or attitudes. They are struggling to find the motivation to this as well. Wow. Nis robertson, thank you for that reporting. Lets get down to pensacola, florida, the still very active crime scene. Brynn of course security and safety are on everyones minds after this horrific mass shooting. Now the secretary of defense is talking about where the pentagon goes from here and whether he is treating this attack as an act of terrorism. What are we hearing from mark esper . Reporter yes, ana, from the getgo this investigation, there is always, in many cases they ask that question. Is there a possibility of terrorism . And there is still no definite answer. So the defense secretary esper was sort of talking to that point but they cant put a label on this investigation or this motivation, as you heard from nic. They dont know the motivation just yet. That is really what the defense secretary was talking about. Listen to that. I cant say it is terrorism at this time. I think we need to let the investigators, the fbi do its work and tell us, get us the facts and well move on from there. Reporter that is exactly what theyre doing, ana. It is a global investigation at this point. We know from the fbi, jacksonville field office, which is the lead on this investigation, that the joint Terrorism Task force is part of this investigation as well as the criminal Investigation Program who has people on the ground here, on the naval base. Basically going through that crime scene. Its enormous, two floors of the training facility, trying to collect evidence both indoors and outdoors. Weve also learned from a source that there are other, some other Saudi Nationals that have been detained are being questioned. At some point throughout this investigation to try to get more answers as to that motivation, presumably they are going to be asked about the demeanor of this gunman. What were his movements prior to friday morning when this all took place . So motivation is going to be a big key with this investigation. Now, of course, this is happening in pensacola. People here in pensacola say that this town, this city was built around this Naval Academy and they are heartbroken as to what happened. Were still waiting to find out the names of the people that were killed in this incident. Three in total. And others injured. Were told that the fbi is really going by naval protocol, which is to wait 24 hours after the notice of next of kin. But we do know as you mentioned earlier to your viewers at least one person, his name is joshua watson, 23 years old. His family going to face calling him a hero. He came to the Naval Academy wanting to be a jet Fighter Pilot and was about to do his training. Certainly people are hearing that name and are heartbroken. I spoke to one woman not long ago who brought hers daughters out here to lay a wreath for all of those who were part of this, even first responders. She was heartbroken, grabbing her daughters a little closer now. I want to quickly mention before i go that we have two deputies, sheriffs deputies who responded to that call immediately within minutes. They were injured in this incident. One underwent surgery this morning and is expected to be okay and released at some point from the hospital. The other has been released since from the hospital and is doing okay. Okay. Brynn, thank you for that reporting. I want to bring in our cnn legal and National Security analyst and our National Security analyst. Ill start with you as an investigator. What would be happening right now especially since we dont know the motive and this involves another country . Yes, so right now you would have the normal investigative steps, maybe executing a search warrant. Interviewing people who knew this person, looking at their computer. Things theyve written. The problem is that a lot of this stuff might be located in saudi arabia and the fbi cant get a search warrant and march into saudi arabia and execute it and that is why they use, when they have these crossovers internationally what is called a legal attach in a foreign embassy. We have 63 of these around the world and agents there work with the local Law Enforcement to obtain the evidence they need. I think a big question here is how cooperative will saudi arabia be since we are incredibly reliant on them in getting a lot of the evidence that the fbi is going to need to create the full picture they would, say, if this was just an american. Right. According to the New York Times the gunman showed videos of Mass Shootings at a dinner party the night before he carried out this shooting. This is information we are just getting in. What is your reaction to that . So this is the big question just picking up on what was said. We have so many questions. It is not like someone wakes up and does this. We see in each of these cases they leave hints. What was his motivation . Had he talked to people . Did he have coconspirators . Did friends express concern . Did his teachers or anyone in the u. S. Military ever express concerns to higher ups . Did saudi arabia through their surveillance programs or when he returned home pick up on an increased radicalization and fail to tell us . Did saudi arabia not have proper vetting when he first got in several years ago . Dozens of questions that have to be answered by the fbi, investigated by the fbi, completely dependent on saudi arabia. One of my concerns, i think it is great that saudi arabia is expressing concern and apologies. Is the United States government in the form of secretary of state pompeo or President Donald Trump need to not come to conclusions yet because we simply dont know yet what the motivation is and whether there will be criminal liability for him or anyone else at this stage. So this video, Mass Shootings apparently shown at a dinner party. That seems like major information for the fbi. Absolutely. I think one of the Big Questions is going to be, you know, these people that he was watching this with, was this something coordinated or planned . As juliette said, you dont just wake up and do this. Weve had lone wolf actors. If this was done with some kind of coordinated activity that takes it into a different category. I think another question will be what kind of weapons did he use and how did he get them . Here people who are here on a nonimmigrant visa are not allowed to purchase weapons under federal law except for certain exceptions. So, you know, did he fall under these exceptions, did he have a firearm anyway, or did he get these illegally and how did it fall through the cracks if that was the case . Here is what we know about the vetting as mark esper is saying theyre taking another look at the processes specially for these foreign nationals. It already contains a number of steps though including in country screening, so prior to coming here it involves searching data bases for evidence of drug trafficking, support of terrorist activity, corruption, criminal conduct. What more could be done . I think in this instance the question we have is should there be recurring vetting . What happens is dod does the review with the partner country. The person is allowed in. Hes here for several years. A lot happens in several years. We have to be careful about motivation. Was he radicalized some way . Was this a crime of passion . We simply dont know yet though it seems were starting to see evidence this was a politically motivated activity or killing. And so thats the i think for the pentagon the question is should we do recurring vetting . Now, to make it clear here, saudi arabia has only one interest at this stage. It is to protect its military liaison program. It represents 20 of a program that brings in 5,000 foreign nationals to be trained at our military facilities. Saudi arabia has about a thousand of those slots. So saudi arabias motivation is to simply say, he was an outlier. There is no problem with the program. We want our guys, mostly guys, to be trained because we buy so many u. S. Military assets including of course airplanes. And so that is saudi arabias motivation which is very different than ours, the United States, to make sure this doesnt happen and to make sure anyone involved is criminal prosecuted and does not get to the needs of parents or the navy family or community at this stage. You can give money to people to make them feel better but that does not answer the question about whether this could have been stopped and whether people, both within the United States and saudi arabia knew that this was a person who was, you know, showing videos of dead americans the night before he did this. Heres the thing. He passed the vetting before he came to the u. S. Hes been in the u. S. For two years. We are learning there was another sort of run through the vetting process after this shooting to see, gosh, did we miss something . He passed it again. Asha, how do you make sense of that . Apparently there were, you know, antiamerican views according to this intel group site that they believe are connected to this individual. And then we hear about showing mass shooting videos at a dinner party the night before. Right. I think that i would think they would review the vetting procedures and make sure they were conducted properly and if there is something new coming up that the current procedures dont address then you need to revise those. I mean, for example the fbi after we caught Robert Hansen we started giving polygraphs every five years to fbi agents. You always have to keep evolving as you uncover new threats that he might be a oneoff but if our procedures arent enough to even catch the oneoff, then, you know, it might be worth revisiting them. They arent calling this terrorism yet. That is interesting they havent put that label even as we learn more information. I also wonder if in fact there was this viewing of the video of a mass shooting would that help them determine what the motive might be if they look at what the video contained . Weve covered Mass Shootings some that are terrorist related and others that arent. San bernadino or the Pulse Night Club in that terrorism category but then you have others like the aurora theater shooting that werent. Our laws are a little weird in this way. When you have a shooting, it needs to somehow be connected to, or motivated by, you know, a terrorist ideology or Foreign Terrorist Organization to really fall in that category. Whereas for example if it were an explosive used it wouldnt matter. That would still fall under the definition of terrorism. I think juliette would probably be able to break these down. This is what she did. But i think that because this is a shooting, that is why the motivation becomes so central in terms of how to classify this and what tools would be available to Law Enforcement. Quick, final thought, juliette . There is a political meaning to terrorism and this is why the United States is being i think cautious. Well wait for the fbi to come up with the Legal Definition which is saudi arabia is not a agnostic to sending terrorists to the United States as we know from 9 11. I think the caution youre hearing now is simply can we prove the case . Because to call him a terrorist without that evidentiary even if it seems obvious now background is a political statement and we know this is also a political case. It is interesting that the king called donald trump and not the crown prince. This is how high this has gotten in saudi arabia. They want to protect this program. They want their Service Members to be able to come here so they are going to do everything to make sure they depoliticize it especially in light of the Khashoggi Killing which they were responsible for in terms of the politics of what that has meant with our relationship with saudi arabia. All right. Thank you, ladies. 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