Mr. Jolly i will tell you this is clear this is an individual who sought to be a terrorist and he achieved that. It is unfortunate. Law enforcement has done human work. Yeoman work. They were well aware of this individual. They had worked the case very hard, but obviously this is one that turned out with consequences that the nation will forever regret. Sought to anne who act to an act terror on the homeland. Reporter did they explain why . Mr. Jolly you have to ask Law Enforcement. [inaudible] the first question was about gun control and we will arrive as to what the right policies. We have lived through this for 20 years. The partisan solutions arent working. This is a week one nation mourning together and if we cant arrive at a consensus and reject this democratrepublican divide, we all lose, and we dishonor those who were lost. Shame on members of congress who use a tragedy in orlando to play politics. And thats on both sides of the aisle and shame on president ial candidates who do the same thing. So, a members of briefing that the immediately turns into questions of partisanship is unfortunate to the American People. So listen. A tribute to Law Enforcement. They were doing the best they could in this case. Someone who was intent on being a terrorist and unfortunately he achieved it. Reporter if someone is intent on being a terrorist, should they be able to purchase a firearm . Mr. Jolly nobody wants people who are on the nofly list to buy firearms. At the same time, there is people on the nofly list who have no due process. The answer doesnt just sit on one side of the aisle or the other. I have draft legislation but it says if you are denied because are on the nofly list, you have 30 days of due process to petition a court to purchase a firearm and the government has the responsibility to prove why list. E on the nofly we can get there together. Nobody on the nofly list should be able to buy a gun but you should not be on the nofly list without due process and when they fall back into their partisan trenches, we get nothing done. It is as heartbreaking to see people yelling on the house floor and president ial candidates casting credit or blame marco rubio. This is what politicians do, and it is disgusting. This is a and the american moment where we should not be republicans or democrats. We should solve this issue. The briefing is important. The partisanship is disgusting. And that is what we have to get past. Reporter did they say anything about his phone . Do they have his phone . What kind of phone it is . Mr. Jolly fortunately, it is a samsung and did not an apple. They do and ill leave it to Law Enforcement. But i do understand they have the phone. The reports are that they have access to the phone. Reporter did you learn anything new in there . Mr. Jolly and this is very important, this is very important, this is someone who had sought out the opportunity to be a terrorist and to an act terror on the homeland. And he achieved it. So, the intent was very clear here and it was one of terror. So, thank you. Reporter did they say when he was a radicalized . Mr. Jolly no. You would have to ask. His entire profile is being studied and i believe Law Enforcement can answer those questions. Reporter do they know if his wife was involved in the planning of the attack . That is an open question i would suggest you ask Law Enforcement, but barely everybody related to him is being asked questions about what they knew. Reporter do you think the fbi dropped the ball at all in betting the question . Realolly they are investigating every decision they made. This is somebody they had been following and frankly i think it speaks to the effort of Law Enforcement that they are working very hard. How do you stop everybody . We know how many they have stopped. How do you stop everybody . That is a question we wrestle with. Law enforcement is wrestling it as well. This is not the time to secondguess Law Enforcement. They will do that themselves and reevaluate best practices. Congress will provide the oversight to make sure those best practices are implemented. Thank you all very much. Reporter did you get more answers today on what happened . Mr. Grayson the information they had was interesting and we were told it was going to be a classified briefing. So i am not at liberty to share it. Reporter will there be more answers coming out . Mr. Grayson what is happening now the f. B. I. Is following up with the computer, social media and doing witness interviews and so on to try to make sure he acted alone and there are no further threats. My concerns are a little different. I am concerned that its possible to kill so many people so quickly and didnt get any further information about that. The weapon was described to us but didnt have anything like an ammunition count, the time it took to kill so many people. In my mind, the reason why this was the worst mass shooting, one person with one weapon was able to kill 50 people in a matter of minutes. Reporter there are a lot of questions about orientation [inaudible] what did you learn about that today . Mr. Grayson well, it is classified. Obviously, what is coming in now is anecdotal information and is being treated as such. There was a third discussion of what could have been done to prevent this situation from happening again and thats part of the conversation. We make the laws. So its a natural thing for us to be discussing. Reporter anything you can say about the wifes role and whether or not she tried to talk him out of the attack . Mr. Grayson we got some information. That would be classified information, so i dont feel like i can discuss that. Reporter are you concerned there are other attacks planned or could be carried out, even know he is not alive. I mean, any other people he was working with . Mr. Grayson there is no evidence of that whatsoever. Of course we have to be , vigilant, but no evidence of that. [inaudible] mr. Grayson i think thats absurd. Ill be honest with you. The reason why we suffered the worst mass shooting in history is because it was possible for one person to kill so many people so quickly. He couldnt have done it with a box cutter or a rock but an automatic weapon. Thats what made this tragedy possible. Now, by the way, technically it is a semiautomatic weapon. One that is capable of firing over 100 rounds by a person of normal skills in less than one minute. There was one victim who was shot more than a dozen times. One victim more than a dozen times. Reporter thank you. Mr. Thornberry a lot of the details of this case have been in the press. The f. B. I. Gave us additional details. It just seems to me, we can tell from the press that this case is an exact template of what isis is trying to provoke. You take in an individual who is unstable, who may be angry, have a variety of issues. Take the ideology and plug it into that and then and encourage those individuals to act. And that prevents presents a real challenge for Law Enforcement and everyone. Mr. Thornberry they have a lot more people to question. A lot of additional issues to go into. This is still very preliminary right now. [inaudible] mr. Thornberry there were some process questions. You know who gets checked, under what circumstances as people are questioned by the fbi, are they forever more on some sort of a list and so forth. All of that will be explored further, i am sure. Reporter did anyone actually say they had him on a watchlist and they were notified when he bought guns . Mr. Thornberry no. I am trying to calculate what i can say. I think it has been in the press that there have been previous investigations of this individual. And, it they did not have enough information to pursue them further. He got a gun because of mr. Thornberry there are lots of what if questions. We all have to be careful about looking back, and saying that Something Else should have happened. We need to ask those questions, see how the process can be improved if it can be and what the ramifications of that is. For example, should everyone who ever gets questioned by the fbi be on some sort of watch list . We have to ask those sorts of questions. We dont want to go that far. But we have to ask those sorts of questions. For me, you have to Pay Attention to the authorities that Law Enforcement and intelligence folks have, the resources they have. Part of the reason they close investigations is because they have to use those resources for a higher priority. And back to my bailiwick a little bit more, it is really important to tarnish isiss reputation by defeating them there and combating their ideology. So that it is harder for these people who may have grievances or anger or whatever or who are thisble to plug into ideology and think they are accomplishing something great. So all of that has got to be on our radar screen. With regard to the fbi investigation, do you feel that mr. Thornberry obviously, the fbi will go back and see if it could of been improved. Look my point is, there are a , number of people who traveled back and forth to iraq and syria. In addition to that, there are radicalizing are on the internet. So, there are only so many resources Law Enforcement has and that is a big challenge in these cases. Mr. Thornberry they are looking into everything they may have motivated this guy, about his past behavior, of course they are. Report could you comment at all . Mr. Thornberry not while i was there. [indiscernible] the new guys had a meeting yesterday, will you meet further for these bills and come up with new legislation . Mr. Thornberry well, i think it is certainly possible. The point is, the house has passed a number of things in this area. I would say that the better way rollout that House Republicans offered last week also contained some proposals in this area. Of course, as we go into more detail about this, as things are learned, there may well be additional steps and additional legislation that we take. Again, ill be parochial and say one of the best things we can do is pass the bill that provides authority for our military to defeat isis and take this image down a notch, or two, that is attracting people. Is that with a like to see congress to help . Mr. Thornberry there were just reporting on what they are in the investigation. It is still early. Is a partisan at all . Mr. Thornberry some people ask long questions. Obviously, the whole background check issue. There were questions about that issue. There will be more. I am not republicans. I am just you know. [laughter] mr. Thornberry see you all. One of the issues that was raised in the briefing is the issue whether someone who has been watch listed but is that the moved onto the watchlist off of the watchlist should also be subject to those flags. When they seek to purchase a weapon like in assault weapons such that the fbi could consider whether that warranted it a reopening of the investigation. I asked the director whether that would require legal change, whether it was a policy matter of the department. That i think is a question he answer without doing further legal research. But his essay question many members have been asking and something we will look into. There are certainly some process issues we need to consider. But nonetheless, given some of the radical statements in the the purges of that kind of a weapon, at least for many of us, would have set off an alarm bell. Reporter congressman, has the administration asked for any kind of legislative response from congress . Rep. Schiff they havent asked for legislative response. I think they want to steer clear of any legislative recommendations. Here they were mostly present to brief us me facts of the investigation. I think we learned a lot more about the hours and months leading up to the attack. We learned more about the shooters potential motivations. Although there are a lot of , Unanswered Questions about what was driving him to commit this savage act. Do think this is in a issue of terrorism or in issue of gun control . Rep. Schiff first and foremost, it is a terrorist act and an act of hate. But there is an element in any , mass shooting, whether its motivated by terrorism or someone coming into a school, to shoot a bunch of kids, where the ability to make it more difficult for a shooter to kill vast numbers of people in short order it is a step we ought to take and we should not exclude that merely because it is a terrorist case. We are spending billions, of dollars on intelligence \spending, troops into harms sending troops into harms way. We are trying to figure out how to better develop relations between the community and Law Enforcement and the Muslim Community get more information about those who are radicalized. Why would we not consider additional measures to make those attacks let lethal. I have to go vote. Thank you very much. Announcer now representative Nydia Velazquez of new york reads the names of the 49 victims killed at the orlando nightclub. Stanley, dove of the third. Stanley amodovar kevin eugene crosby. 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And former democratic resentatives in representative jackie spear will discuss security officials. Cspanso watch washington journal beginning live in some 00 a. M. This morning. Discussion. Announcer today, a House Committee meets on censuring irs commissioner john cost can in. Watch at 9 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan3. Then testifying about the Administration Efforts to establish a unity government in that country. We are with the Senate ForeignRelations Committee at 2 15 p. M. Cspan3. N cspan and this headline, citing coverage, trump provokes post revokes Washington Post credentials. Margaret sullivan is a media columnist for the Washington Post. She says, does it matter . Think. The way you she is joining us from the Washington Post newsroom. Thank you for being here. Explain your response. It is very disturbing because it seems to suggest donald trump does not have the basic respect for press rights that you would hope and expect that a leading candidate for president would have. The post editor called it nothing less they had in a repudiation of a free and independent press. I think he is right about that. You give us a sense of what was posted that displeased at donald trump and have the campaign forced tried to force the Washington Post to . Ill the headline margaret my understanding is that is not what happened. The post editors looked at it and believed it when a little too far and changed it. Marty baron said publicly it was not a reason. Ae headline change was not result of the Trump Campaign reaching out. Lets take a step back. What was a story about . Margaret donald trump gave an interview to fox news after the orlando massacre and said that president obama was not have enough and was not smart enough and that there was Something Else going on. Road about this in said that he seemed to be suggesting that donald trump seem to be suggesting that president obama was tied it to the shooting in some way. Was complicit in some way. And, his remarks didnt seem to suggest that or at least create. Ome kind of vague suspicion in, trumps reaction to that or towas to cut off revoke the posts press credentials. However, i do not think it was just about that story. He has been unhappy with the posts coverage of trump university. Of the veterans contributions, whichso other ways with the post has been pretty strong and aggressive in its coverage of donald trump and his campaign. Host in fact, calling the post in his words phony and dishonest. What exactly does press credentials mean for your reporters . Margaret that means they will not be able to attend Donald Trumps rallies as essentially. At this point, we do not know whether it goes beyond that. Doesnt mean he is not going to talk to the post at all . The National Political correspondent this morning and she said that is untested at this point. It is certainly not helpful to coverage to not be able to attend a rallies. But it is a much more serious thing if the axis is cut off altogether. Host and your essay is Available Online at washingtonpost. Com. Did you get any reaction from the Donald Trump Campaign in the last 24 hours . Margaret i did. Reached out to the communications director, hope fix. I said i would like to reach out to donald trump and ask exactly what he thinks the role of the press is in our society and get him to explain a little bit more about why he did this. She said she would get back to me, but i have not heard from her. Host has this ever happened, in your memory, with a major consumptive Party Nominee . Margaret it has not. I dont think there is any precedent for it. Host