All americans living here and following are not, not that their lives will be protected. [cheers and applause] thank you. We are going to be topped and we are going to be smart and were going to do it right. America will be a tolerant and open society. America will also be a safe society. We will protect our borders at home. We will defeat isis overs these. We have no choice. We will ensure every parent can rates their children in peace and safety. We will make america rich again. We will make america safe again. We will make America Great again. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much, everybody. Appreciate it. [cheers and applause] sharemarket imac donald trump speakman response to the massacre in orlando speaking specifically of immigration. The live shot of the capital with the flag at half staff. Reporter with the National Public radio, npr. Ill political reporter calls for an expansion of immigration to countries with proven history of terrorism against the u. S. All of the speech later and we covered hillary clinton, too. We will show that to you later in our schedule as well. The u. S. Senate in about an hour 4 00 p. M. Eastern to finish up work on the Defense Authorization bill final passage tomorrow. They will hold a moment of silence for the victims of the orlando shooting this afternoon. The house will as well. 645 eastern over in the house than you can follow the house over and these men when they gavel in for debate this afternoon. Midday today after the meeting with his National Security advisers, the president spoke to reporters briefly about their discussions on the shooting over the weekend. The opportunity with the latest briefing from fbi director comey as well as Deputy Attorney general gave and the rest of my National Security team about the tragedy that took place in orlando. They are going to be doing a more extensive briefing around noon, a little bit afternoon over at fbi headquarters. So i will allow them to go into the details, but i was thinking it was important for you to hear directly from a peer first of all, our hearts go out to the families of those who have been killed. Our prayers go to those who have been wounded. This is a devastating attack on all americans and one not that its particularly painful for the people of orlando, but i think we all recognize this could have happened anywhere in this country and we feel enormous solidarity on behalf of the families did. The fact that it took place at a club frequented by the Lgbt Community is also relevant. We are still looking all the locations of the killer, but its a reminder that regardless of race, religion, faith or Sexual Orientation, we are all americans and we need to be looking after each other and protecting each other at all times. And the faith of this terrible act. With respect to the killer, lot of reporting has been done for its important to emphasize that we are still at the preliminary stages of the investigation. Theres a lot more that we have to learn. The one thing that we can that terrorists invest edition appears that the shooter was inspired by various extremist information that was disseminated over the internet of those materials are currently being searched and exploited so we will have a better sense of the pathway that is tailored to and making a decision to launch this attack. As strict or comey will indicate at this stage, we see no clear avidin that he was direct dead and externally. It does appear at the last minute he announced a legion to isis. But theres no evidence so far that he was directed and theres no direct evidence that he was part of a larger plot. It appears to be similar to what we saw in San Bernardino, but we dont yet know. This is part of what is important in terms of the investigation. As far as we can tell right now, this is certainly an example of a homegrown extremism that all of us have been so concerned about for a very long time. It also appears that he was able to obtain these weapons legally because he did not have a criminal record that in some ways would prohibit him from purchasing these weapons. It appears that one of those weapons is able to carry out of the store and Assault Rifle, hand and, in lock which had a lad of push the net and was apparently required to wait for three days under florida law. But it does indicate to the degree of which it was not difficult to obtain these types of weapons. Director comey will discuss the fact that there had been some investigation of him in the past , but as direct or comey will indicate, the fbi followed the procedures they are supposed to. At the end of the day, this is something that we are going to have to grapple with, making sure that even after we go after other Extremist Organizations overseas, even as they hit their leadership, even as they go after their infrastructure, and even as we take key personnel off the field, even as we disrupt external plot, one of the Biggest Challenges we are going to have is this kind of propaganda and of islam that you see generated on the internet and the capacity for that tcp into the mind of troubled individuals or weak individuals, seeing them motivated to take actions against people here in the United States and elsewhere in the world. And though, countering this extremist ideology is increasingly going to be just as important as making sure that we are disrupting more expensive plots engineered from the outside. We are also going to have to make sure we are thinking about the risks we are willing to take cell lab in how we make very powerful firearms available. This is something obviously i have talked about for a very long time. You know, my concern is that we start getting into a debate that this has happened in the past, which is an either or debate. The question is either rethink about some pain with terrorism that we ignore, the problems with easy access to firearms or all about firearms we ignore the very real role in organization like isil has been generating extremist views. Its not an either or. It is both and. We have to go after these organizations and counter extremism. But we also have to make sure that its not easy for somebody who decides they want to harm the people in this country to obtain weapons. My hope is over the next days and we that we are sober at how we approach this problem and look at the facts and our investigators, but we also do some reflection in terms of how we can best tackle what is a very big problem not just here in this country but around the world. Again, my final point is to extend our deepest sympathies to the families of those who are affected, to send our prayers to those who are surviving and are in hospitals right now, their family members hoping they get better very soon. In the meantime, you can anticipate sometime around noon that director comey and Deputy Attorney general gates will provide you with a full briefing. Thank you. [inaudible] i think we dont yet know the motivations. Here is what we do now. Organizations like isil or organizations like al qaeda or those who have converted islam and created these radical and nihilistic vicious organizations , one of the groups that they target our gay and because they believe they do not abide by their attitudes towards sexuality. These are organizations that think it is fine to take cap two women and enslave them. So there clearly are connections between the attitudes of an organization like that in their attitude towards tolerance and pluralism in the belief that all people are treated equally regardless of Sexual Orientation. Women being empowered is threatening to them. So yes, im sure we will find that there are connections regardless of the organizations of this killer, there are connections between ms. Ideology in general attitude toward gays and lesbians. Unfortunately that is something that the Lgbt Community is subject to not just by isil, but by a lot of groups that purport to speak on behalf of god around the world. [inaudible] mac april, i seem to know what im going to say. The fact that we make it is challenging for line were smacked, for example, even take at to get, that somebody who they are watching has purchased a gun. And if they do get alerted, sometimes it is hard to stop them from getting a gun is crazy. Its a problem and we have to i think do some soulsearching. But again, the danger is it into being the usual political debate and the nra, obama doesnt want to talk about terrorism. If you talk about terrorism, then people say why arent you looking at the issues of gun control. The point is if we have solved radicalize individuals in this country, then they are going to be very difficult oftentimes to find ahead of time. How easy it is for them to tape weapons is in some cases going to make a difference as to whether they are able to carry out attacks like this are not. We make it very easy for individuals who are troubled or disturbed or want to engage in violent acts to get very powerful weapons very quickly and not the problem. It is a problem for a young man to walk a church in South Carolina. Other people offer to pray with them. It is a problem when an angry young man on a College Campus decides to shoot people because he feels disrespected. It is certainly a problem when we have organizations like isil or al qaeda were actively trying to promote violent and are doing so effectively over the internet because we know at some point they are going to be at a 300 Million People, there will be some individuals who find, for whatever reason, that kind of horrible propaganda and tasting. If that happens in that persons can get a weapon, thats a problem. [inaudible conversations] president obama after a late morning meeting with his National Security team. House Speaker Paul Ryan has requested a closed briefing for members of the house. Here is because reporting on it saying they will get a briefing tuesday afternoon from fbi director james comey on the Homeland Security secretary jeh johnson and counterterrorism senator risk mass rick rasmussen. The houses in this afternoon. Both later on. The senate in 40 minutes or so. And now that, well show you todays White House Briefing almost all of which dealt with the shooting in orlando. Good afternoon, everybody. We would have started this afternoon. Obviously it has been a difficult 36 hours for our country and youve had an opportunity to hear from the president of the last 24 hours about her in, both in terms of continued to do what is necessary to get to the bottom of what happened and to make sure that our country continues to be united and that in the face of this unspeakable act of violence that we dont give into the temptation to turn on one another. Thats why youve heard from them a couple times the last 20 or hours and i suspect to have an opportunity to hear from him again tomorrow when he commences National MallSecurity Team and to get an update on our counter isil efforts. This is a previously planned meeting, but a timely one for tomorrow. This afternoon you had an opportunity to hear from director comey that the fbi with the Ongoing Investigation to the terror attack in ireland over the weekend. I will not be able to share many details. Im not going to get ahead of what the fbi is doing, but if you have questions on a range of other aspects of this situation im happy to do my best to answer them. The questions about the investigation will have to be directed to the fbi. Kevin, do you want to start . Share. The president resigned and a prospect of that benighted state and resigned to the prospect not at all. The president is quite intensely frustrated that we havent seen that congressional action that would have an impact on the ability of individuals to carry out these Mass Shootings. There is no one lot we can pass that would prevent every aspect of violent, but there are some common sense Things Congress could do that would make it harder for individuals who should not have guns from being able to get them. There were certain Things Congress could do that would make it harder for any individual to get their hands on a weapon of war. The president has been quite frustrated and in some cases even angry about congressional inaction on commonsense steps that can be taken to make our communities safer that would not undermine the basic Constitutional Rights of lawabiding americans. That has been a source of some president ial frustration. When it comes to countering violent extremism and fighting isil another extremist terrorist organizations looking to do harm to the United States, thats the president s number one priority. Protecting the country and the American People. That is planned friday afternoon at his podium, the president s special envoy to our counter isil coalition spend half an hour with maps about the important progress you all have made. That was a briefing scheduled in an ad of this terrible incident. But it is an indication of how intensely focused the president in his team by encountering isil to degrade the organization and thats something the administration is focused on even when a lot of other people arent and thats okay. Thats the responsibility of the president of the United States and some in the president and his team are considering their number one priority. Is frustrated about the prospect of doing anything about congress about doing anything, but is this really changing anything as far as the dynamics of getting some demand . That is difficult to assess. A lot of people suspect seen 21st graders getting massacred in their classroom that might have sufficient the nations conscience and the conscience of individual members in the United States congress to get them to change laws than they did. I dont know whether this profound tragedies will have more than an act undermines the members of congress. Hopefully it will. The president continues to believe the only way we will see the kind of change to our gun safety laws that we would like to see will be when individual americans make clear to their representatives in congress that this is a top priority and the president has made clear hes a single issue voter on this issue that hes not going to support money for candidates including democrat who are clear about their support for commonsense gun safety legislation. And it is not until we see the same intensity of opinion for the same intensity of expressing commonsense and safety legislation as the intensity expressed by those in the minority. I feel that way will bring about the change would like to see in congress. Does he have to go to amanda later this week . I dont have any updates on the president s travel at this point. The Campaign Event the president and secretary clinton had planned for wednesday in wisconsin has been postponed. If we have any travel to orlando to add to the schedule, we will be sure to let you know. Donald trump [inaudible] said the president has quote Something Else in mind. He said he doesnt have it. He said the president doesnt want to see whats happening. I wonder if the president [inaudible] i havent spoken to the president about these comments. I dont know whether or not hes seen them. When you are focused on some team as big as helping the country respond to the worst mass shooting, when you are focused on something as big as safeguarding the country and combating violent extremism, its important not to get distracted by things that are so small. Did you interpret those comments against the president or how do you respond to that . I took my own advice and ive been focused on not being distracted by something so small we heard from fbi director looking to see if theres something we should have done differently. The fbi interviewed via windows shooter two separate inquiries in a monetary way. In answering his own question were looking to see. So far the answer is i dont think so. I dont see anything worth doing our work at our agent should done differently. Does the president share that called him that after this horrible shooting thats been on the fbis radar, does he share that they shouldnt have done anything differently . Again, you can speak to the fbi about the comments, but obviously the president has been briefed by director comey on a couple different occasions including the fbis investigation into this terrorist. The president has been briefed that the fbi followed all the rules and procedures on the books or how an investigation like this is supposed to be conducted. Now, the obvious question that raises than the one you are raising is does that mean the rules and regulations on the books i read sufficient and i think that is what director comey is referring to when he says were going to take a close look to see if we should have done something differently. So far the honest answer is i dont think so. You have 50 people dead. This is the worst shooting in American History. Some then went wrong here and this is something that has been on the fbis radar not once, but twice, interview three different times. This is an individual at the most recent investigation according to director of the fbi had been closed two years ago. One of the particular risks associated with radicalization that it can happen in a very compress time period. That is what makes it difficult to counter talked about how this is an evolving threat has been the president top counterterrorism and writes lisa monaco is talk about that kind of risk that is posed by individuals who are radicalized online is different than what we had previously confronted yet again, as the fbi delicious based on what we know now is not part of a broader terror network, but rather essentially a lone wolf, an individual who was radicalized i am carried out a hei