Believe that this was somewhat related to radical islam. We dont know more about what exactly that is, what evidence theyve turned up, but they pretty quickly seem to have decided that this is the avenue where theyre going to pursue this investigation. We dont know i just talked to some officials who say still at this point, they dont know whether he did this in the name of isis or some other organization or whether he just had personal animus against gay people. Thats something theyre looking into, obviously, but the fact hes dead makes this a little tougher. Theyre going to have to go through his computer, look through his online postings. Theyre going to talk to his friends and family to see if hes expressed any animus or any intent. There were no threats known to this club or to any other gay clubs either in orlando or anywhere else during this weekend. But now obviously in reaction to that, theyre going to see a lot more security at these clubs. Evan perez, thanks so much. Keep calling in as you get more information. I want to bring in now congressman devin nunez of california. Thanks so much for joining us. Thanks, jake. So weve heard from the fbi special agent in charge that there are suggestions that the killer, omar mateen, subscribed to radical islam. Do you know anything more about that . What more can you tell us about this horrific incident, the worst mass shooting, the deadliest one in American History . Well, as we always have to say in these investigations, we need to let the fbi conduct thundershower investigati their investigation. Everything im seeing now points to some type of rad cam islam. This is very, very similar to the attack on the nightclub in the concert hall in paris. Thats why its critical right now at this juncture for the fbi and other Law Enforcement to quickly track down all possible leads to see if this individual is connected to any other terrorist nodes around the United States or elsewhere. You say its like the shooting at the bataclan theater in paris last november. Thats because of the proximity of people infined area of space . Thats right. I was just over there and had a tour by the local Law Enforcement. Its dark. Its loud. As i think ive seen on the news this morning from a couple of the witnesses, at first they didnt know. They just thought it was part of the music. Then its hard once youre in a nightclub or a concert or Something Like that, theres only so many exits. Its just an easy place to quickly take on soft targets in a short amount of time. Congressman, a lot of people watching right now probably want to know, is there any chatter out there, any suggestion that this is more than one attack, that there might be others planned . Youre the chairman of the House Select Committee on intelligence. What are you being told . As ive been saying for over a year now, were at the highest terrorist threat level since 9 11. Theres a reason im saying that. Its because were continuing to see growing radicalization over the internet. Were continuing to see americans and other westerners go into the middle east and fight with isis or al qaeda. So all of those lead me to make this these types of statements ive been making for many months now. Al also, if you look at were at a very high threat level in europe right now because of the european cup championships that are going on in france. As i think most people know, many of the fighters have come from france and germany and brussels, the westerners, the europeans that went in and fought for isis and came back out. Like i said, im not jumping to any conclusions. I want to make that clear. But i think we need to know that just from my experience, this looks like radical islam. And congressman, you know, one of the things that is obvious in this horrific attack is that the victims wered a an lgbt nightclub. They were all presumably gay, lesbian, transgender, bisexual. And this is gay pride week. Or gay pride month, i should say. Its also been pointed out on the show that radical islamists and again, were still waiting for final confirmation on that from Law Enforcement and from counterterrorism officials, but it does seem to be suggesting that. They have hay trtred for a lot groups, but weve seen a lot of horrific images from the middle east of radical islamists killing gays. Yeah, i think thats accurate, jake. If you look at this, clearly radical islam wants to target the Gay Community. This would be a prime location to do that. Similar to the attack in paris where they attacked an american rock band. So the islamists are not afraid to target many groups. Clearly the Gay Community is one they would like to target. Thats why when you match up this soft target in orlando with early indications that this individual had some radicalization in the past, its easy to make that connection. As you said, we need to wait. We need to let the fbi do their investigation. Congressman devin nunes, republican of california, thank you so much for calling in. Please let us know if you learn anything more you can share with us. Thank you, jake. Thank you so much. Lets bring back our panel. Its a devastating day. Its very tough to talk about this in a clinical way. It is the deadliest mass shooting in the history of this country. Worst than newtown. Worst than virginia tech. One of the things you and i were talking about during the break is the fact that the weapons that the killer had were as described by Law Enforcement a handgun and an ar15 type semiautomatic rifle. Right. 50 people dead. Another 53 injured. Tell me, does this suggest a clip that had a lot of ammunition . What does it say to you . I think we were both shocked when that number went from 20 to 50 and also the injured number went up quite a bit too. When youre talking an ar15 type weapon, youre talking a. 223caliber bullet. Its made to create a lot of tissue damage when it hits your body. In other words, it will hit you in the arm and travel up your arm bone and basically destroy all the tissue as it travels up. Unfortunately, i think that number of 50 will probably go up some. But its a devastating bullet. Its made to use in wartype situations. It was developed specifically to create tissue damage. I think probably these injuries that youre seeing at the medical hospital are very devastating. 53 individuals in area hospitals, some of them grievously wounded. We should repeat what senator marco rubio told us earlier. If you live in the Central Florida area, especially if youre opositive in terms of your blood type, if you want to donate blood, please go to the hospital. Theyre saying they need it. They need blood. Juliet, your reaction to this devastating news about this attack. Well, i think im reacting to it not as an expert but like everyone else. Its shocking as a mother. It is terrifying because this is a soft target, a fun target, a place where young people go. In that way, its very similar to paris. Very Interesting Press conference. They clearly are walking back not walking back, but they want to be more strategic in whose name theyre going to release and what we know about him. So it was good of evan to clarify some things that were said. I do hope, and i will say this because the politics are behind this in the background. I dont want to get political about this, but i do hope that the president speaks to the nation. Whatever or whoever did this, this is the largest mass casualty event in u. S. History. 50 people. It is a shocking number, whatever the motivation is. I think its important that while the grief is real, so is the fear. People are very, very nervous right now. I think this is the time when, you know, a president needs to speak. Phil, your reaction to the press conference. Look, i think one of the things we need to focus on is the comparisons to other events and the comparison in particular to bataclan. When you hear the press conference and the identification of name, my first reaction is this does not look like bataclan. This does not look like paris. When you look at paris, you have a conspiracy of people who travel. They communicate, they live in the same places. Thats a vulnerability for an intelligence professional to try to find those communications and look to those travel patterns, back to Training Facilities in syria. We do not see evidence so far of a conspiracy like that from port st. Lucie, where this individual is from, over to orlando. That is more difficult in some ways to stop because you got to figure out, how do we find people if they dont have communication patterns, if they dont have coconspirators. Dont compare this to paris yet. I dont see it, jake. Art, thats one of the things actually that Top National Security officials have been worried about. Not that theyre not worried about any terrorist attack, but the idea of a selfradicalized individual, a lone wolf who has taken on this poisonous theology and has decided to take it unto himself to commit this horrific act. Thats almost more of a threat because they cant detect it necessarily. Theres no chatter. Exactly. Its a lot tougher. And phil is right. When you look at what happened in paris, that was a lot of people involved in a conspiracy. They had a cell, an organized cell that went back to brussels. Because of that, youre able to track a lot of that information through social media, through contacts, through interviews. This sounds like a lone wolf situation at this particular time. So they are a lot tougher. As we have seen in the past here in the u. S. , theyre a lot tougher to get a handle on and to identify. And juliet, as a former assistant secretary of the department of Homeland Security, one of the things right now that the department of Homeland Security is doing, in addition to trying to make sure there are no other similar attacks planned by any similar type individuals, they want to make sure that there arent any misguided attempts at revenge targeting innocents who had no connection to this at all. Thats exactly right. There are going to be two lanes going on. Theyre coordinated. Theres the investigation, which will be led by the fbi and joint Terrorism Task forces. Rights now every single joint Terrorism Task force is activated. They are scrubbing their lists. They are figuring out who he is, a lone wolf, who hes been in contact with, his Family Memberings. Then theres the second side, which is both the department of Homeland Security and the fbi, which is we have multiple soft targets. We have baseball games today. We have lots of people getting together. Theres now an increased threat level. We know that. There will be a surging of resources to protect areas. I am sure youre going to hear from a lot of mayors today saying theyre going to deploy more resources to ensure that people are safe and also to ensure that communities that may be targeted as a response to this incident are also safe. So in some ways, i dont mean to say this like its perfect, but there is a lot of training and activity being done that has been done to assess what to do when Something Like this happens. Theres the investigation and then there is the could something more happen, we need to protect u. S. Citizens, and we need them to feel that they are safe. And phil, about two years ago we all became experts in what meta data is after Edward Snowdens revelations. Right now that meta data is likely, im guessing, being pulled for this individual, omar mateen. Theyre trying to find out who he was in contact with. Explain what that process might be like. Well, jake, just think about your every day life. When youre transferring money, paying checks via your online bank account, for example, when youre emailing, texting,face booj messages. All this is digital. It allows you to figure out a spider web. Who do you talk to . Where did you travel to . Where do you get money from . As soon as you get the identification of the name, you can go to phone companies, Internet Service providers, and without putting people on the street, say does he have an immediate circle of people he talked to. One of the most interesting questions below the radar, where did he travel to . As soon as i see a travel pattern, i say, was he trained by somebody or were there coconspirators . All that stuff allows you to draw a picture of a spider web in a way you couldnt have done 15 or 20 years ago. Art . Yeah, the interesting comment that was made earlier was that he worked for a Security Company in ft. Pierce. Obviously there was some type of backgrounds done, whether it was just a regular criminal history check and a financial check, but there are some checks that have already been done on this particular individual. Even went so far as to say that Security Company provides Security Company for the federal government also. So itll be interesting to see what records that company has on him right now. All right. Everybody stay with us. Were going to stake a quick break. When we come back, were going to have a new interview with an eyewitness to the horrific attack in orlando. The deadliest mass shooting in American History. Stay with us. man oh, looks like we missed most of the show. woman and theres no way to restart it. jon bon jovi with directv there is. You see, weve got the power to turn back time so lets restart the show that started at nine and while were at it, lets give you back your do and give her back the guy she liked before you hey, thats the power to turn back time. vo get the ultimate allincluded bundle. Call 1800directv. World saleilton is on honors members save up to 25 on brands like hampton, doubletree, hilton garden inn, and waldorf astoria so stop clicking around. Book direct at hilton. Com now thats satisfaction. Welcome back. Were following this horrific breaking news. A staggering day. Its the worst mass shooting in the history of the United States. 50 people killed. 53 injured. Some of them grievously. After an overnight terrorist attack on an lgbt nightclub. The nightclub is called pulse. Its in orlando, florida. Police shot and killed the gunman after a threehour hostage standoff. Hes been identified as omar mateen. Lets right now bring in a medical reporter from the orlando sentinel, who just left the Orlando Regional Medical Center where victims and their families were gathering. Tell us about the scene at the hospital. Well, clearly everybody is sad. Its very calm. People are quiet, supportive. Everybody is sort of keeping to themselves. Earlier today, there were a few people who were discharged with minor injuries, including one who had a very superficial gunshot wound. But they were very emotional. A lot of crying. They eventually left the scene. Now there are a lot of extended Family Members and friends who are hanging out and really desperately waiting for information to come in. Hospitals are only accepting very extreme cases of trauma. Theyre only letting in very close Family Members of shooting victims. Im being told theyre held in a room. Not much information is being given. Theyre just filling out paperwork and waiting. And one of the things weve been talking about is the weaponry used by the terrorist would cause massive wounds. In addition to the 50 killed in the worst, deadliest shooting in American History, the 53 wounded, some of them might be in touchandgo situations. Have you spoke within any medical authorities about the condition of people who have been rushed to the hospital . No, the hospital i can imagine because i did cover remotely the boston marathon. Theyre still pretty tied up to be talking to media at this point. Were expecting them to maybe later in the day or tomorrow provide more details as to how terrible the injuries are. And what else can you tell us about this horrific situation . Orlando obviously a firstclass american city, but it sounded as though the Trauma Centers were really being stretched thin. I have not gotten a sense of that as far as being stretched thin. At least they havent said anything yet. I have contacts at our other main Hospital System here. They have not indicated anything. They said if Family Members have names, they can call the hospital and check if their Family Member is at that hospital. People cannot believe it. I guess they had a sense they wanted them to stay home, and unfortunately he was among the victims. Thats awful. Thank you so much. We appreciate it. Just to reiterate, the call in the orlando area is for onegative, opositive and ab donors to donate as soon as possible. You can find a Donation Center by going to oneblood. Org or calling 18889donate. Again, thats oneblood. Org or calling 18889donate. Thats for people who are onegative, opositive, and ab blood types to help those who have been victims of this horrific shooting. Joining us now via skype is a witness to the orlando nightclub shooting. Lewis, thank you so much for joining us at this difficult time. Tell us what you saw. We were in the club. It was me and my best friend went out. Last minute we decided to go out. We were at the bar that was at the entrance to the club. It was a smaller bar next to the main dance floor. Around 1 45 we start making our way back to the main bar that we originally started at, the smaller one, and hung out there. 2 00 we started changing out, cashing out our check, signed the paper. The deejay was playing a typical set that incorporated what we thought was gunshots as part of the music. Four shots, bop, bop, bop, bop. But for some reason, it was different. No one put two and two together until the fifth and sixth. Between 10 and 20, thats when everything really started getting real. Then we all at that point did a domino effect, all to the floor, everybody, at least at that part of the club. I cant speak for the main floor or anything else. At least what