Tomorrow. Again, thanks for watching us today. Im bill oreilly and always remember that the spin stops right here. Were definitely looking out for you. Breaking tonight, the feds are looking at the possibility of an accomplice now as they chase down hundreds of leads in the orlando nightclub massacre trying to determine if the man behind our nations worst terror attack since 9 11 had any help. Welcome to thethe kelly file. Im megyn kelly from orlando. A mad man bust into a well known orlando nightclub and opened fiefrmt fox news has learned that authorities are now looking for direct evidence that omar mateen may have scouted out other locations for his ram pain including an area known as Disney Springs at the walt
disney resort. A People Magazine source told us omars wife said he did scout that area. Its still unclear whether thats true. However, disney world tell ss us they have increased skurecurity. Were getting details from inside those who survived and those who know those who did not. One of those killed, 25yearold amanda alvear. It shows her having a good time and ends with her mouthing the word shooting. Weim at the club. Im at the club. Thats hard to watch. A young life cut tragically short. Another man, norman shot four times survive. He hid out in the bathroom. Watch. Reporter when you were in the stall, what were you hearing . What did you see . Inside the staal i saw everyones face genuine fear just terrified. No one was doing a lot of talking. We were trying to be quiet so he wouldnt find us. Outside you could just hear bullet after bullet after bullet after bullet just going off as it got closer and closer to our stall. Did you hear this terrorist saying anything . He never spoke when i was there. He laugh when he was shooting inside of the stall. Reporter was he laughing a lot . It was like a laugh of like satisfaction like im getting done what i came here to do. Its imprinted in my head forever. Reporter how are you feeling . Where were you shot . I was shot four times, twice on my side right here and then twice on the opposite side and im just im in pain im ready go home and relax and try to not forget but put it in the back of my head at least for a few hours. Tonight there are also questions about how authorities handled the rampage given the threehour window between the first shot and when the s. W. A. T. Team actually rammed the building. Busting out holes for the hostages to escape through. And then the terrorist escaped
through one of those very holes, guns ablazing and part of what occurred was caught on video here. Watch. We have a huge show lined up for you tonight starting with Trace Gallagher on what the terrorists family is now saying. Trace . Megyn, his father says he does not believe he was rad kazzize kazzize callized. He has been widely quoted as saying god will punish those involved in homosexuality. But a short while ago he said while god says marriage is between a man and a woman, he has nothing against homosexuals. Listen. Its a free country, freedom of choice. Anyone lives the way they like more than welcome. Who am i to approve or
disapprove. He talks about how great americans are but he speaks out against america and in favor of the taliban who he call, quote, our warrior brothers. When we questioned him about that he reversed it calls the taliban the terrorists. And we asked him if he ever talked to his son about sharia law. Watch. That means youre to promote Good Behavior serving people. Thats why im out to say to the whole people that what my son did was the wrong act. Clearly different story. And atz for the killers first wife saying she left him because he beat her repeatedly siddique
mateen said she never came to him for help. Noor zahi salman said omar had been scouting Disney Springs and now were getting our first look inside the shooters home which appears normal. Couches, tv, cartoon character, even a hello kittsy clock and a wall of family pictures. No signs of a tell tear terror and the hatred within. Megyn . Its incredible to see as he took the lives of 49 others with families of their own. Thank you. Joining us judge andrew napolitano. What do you make of it judge . The fbi put us into an am big
was situation. We know he was employed by a security contractor one of whose principle clients was the federal government of the United States and when they have that kind of relationship theyre required to perform certain background checks which at a minimum ask about contacts with the f biibi. So there was a breakdown. Stated differently, had they communicated its extremely unlikely he would have been found suitable to have the licenses necessary to carry the military hardware that he brought into the building that night. And on top of that we know the authorities have been scouring his apartment looking at his electronics. Im sure theyre looking at his devices and anything else he had and now theyre coming on the record and saying theyre
looking for other polices and saccomplices and see if there are others. Its their civic duty to see if there are confederates. Fits derived from the constitution itself i dont doubt for a moment that there are hundreds of fbi agents not far from where you are now looking for every tidbit and evidence piece of evidence they can to know about him. Quick question. He had two wives, exwife and one he married. They say he had scouted other locations including this Disney Springs. Could she be in trouble . I didnt hear that she went to authorities and told them about this prior to the event. Shes certainly a person of interest the fbi would want to talk to. If you held this back what else do you know . We need to know everything you know because were putting the pieces of the puzzle together. Judge, good to see you. Thank you. Were also getting new information about omar mateen including those who knew him personally including a high school teammate who was with him on september 11th 2001 when they were in the ninth grade. He said omar mateen celebrated and lafd on that day. He joins me now along with coworker dan gilroy. Good to have you both with me here. Thank you. Dan, i want to ask you because you worked with him relatively recently. When did you work torkt . March 2014 to march 2015 approximately. In that time frame how often was it you heard him make bigoted remarks . Any time i saw him. Half hour an hour to shift change it was only him and i. He made horrible statements every time i saw him. Did you go to the boss or how
soon . It took me about eight months before i went to the boss. Why . I wanted to make the job work, i wanted to keep the peace, i wanted to not be the troublemaker at work and after realizing this gentleman had some serious issues i went to the company. Did they fire him . No. You quit. Yes. Why . Because after four months of asking for a transfer to get away from him, they simply were dragging their feet and not complying and double talk. Why do you think that is . They actually said it was for financial reasons, they didnt want to have to train two people. So when you heard the news you were not surprised . No not at all. Robert you knew omar mateen when you were in high school ninth grandparents day togethereth grade together. You heard the remarks he made on the day of attack. Tell me what you heard. I rode the bus with him. When he got on the school bus, he would act like a plane, hold his arms out and make plane noises and when he got to his feet he would make an explosion type of sound and fall into his seat. On that day he fell into his street and made screamingtype noises and laughing about it like it was a big joke. Were there any religious reference references . On that day, not that i can remember no. Didnt mention allah or any of the terms that weve come to understand. Not to me personally no i dont believe he mentioned allah or anything of that nature. Not to me anyway. Did you believe he did you believe he might have been a kid horsing around . Did you think there was anything more to it . I thought so back then. Yeah i thought like maybe he was trying to gain friends or
trying to make himself more popular maybe because he really didnt have a lot of friends in high school as far as i knew, but my friends and i kind of didnt really take it for granted. We kind of joked around like man, this kid might grow up one day and be one of those people. Thats why i was shocked find out it was somebody i knew but at the same time i wasnt because we spoke about this in high school. Somebody else in your classroom said the same thing, said they made similar references. What happened to him . Was this reported up the line . I dont really know i nojt know what happened. Like i say, maybe he was trying to impress people make people definitely made my whole school bus mad. And ill ask you as well whether you ever heard any religious references or whether it was all bigoted remarks or sexist remarks. Our conversations werent. But hed brick a prayer mat and neil down and make gees turs and kiss and put on a hat. He did that for about ten minutes. He was a devout muslim. A devout muslim making several bigoted remarks at a time we know the police were looking into this man. Thank you very much for being here both of you. As you just heard his former classmate said Early Warning signs pointed to trouble with this man. But his faerks histher his imam and exwife say he showed no signs of radicalism. So which is it . Thank you so much for being here tonight. The father you know coming out and saying i condemn this i have no sympathy for him and trust me when i tell you this had nothing to do with religion and he was not radicalized, what do you make of it . One would think the father is afraid he might get charged himself. This is why i dont like using the term lone wolf. We know from our own empirical studies and also anecdotally, those attacks are rarely alone even if theyre not operationally directed by group, theyre not ideologically linked. Clearly his father sympathizes with jihadism or he wouldnt have praised the taliban. The fact that he comes out as a 14yearold and celebrated on
9 11 thats not something a kid does. Thats got to be learned. Of course. Theres an atmosphere. People that celebrate death over 3,000 people must find encouragement to do fwhaus its not normal behavior. Hes not getting that from his clatmates. We heard from them. Theres an atmosphere that must have moved him that found that the death of 3,000 people over 15 years ago was something to laugh about and hes continued that since. But his imam comes out and says he was very proamerican he was a cop, a security guard. He said something along the lines of we thought he was more aligned with you than with us. Your thoughts. Yeah rks megyn, look. Were constantly looking for the wrong signs of radicalization. Lets not forget the possible 9 11 hijackers were found in
bars and strip clubs. Lets not forget that the San Bernardino ataerks were also government employees. In fact with these other examples that i mentioned, the one commonality they all share is these are people who worked in inconspicuous circumstances and then turned their guns on their own colleagues and in this instance we know omar mateen freaked the pulse nightclub himself. Perhaps he had those ten decies or was scouting it out for himself. We know that these jihadists have attacked areas that theyre familiar with either where they worked or visited. Its no surprise because thats exactly what jihadists do through their selfstarter manuals. Thats exactly what they instruct their followers to do. What do you make of the
history of the wive one said she was abused badly shortly after they got married and the second telling police she knew he was scouting locations. My sympathy goes to the first wife. When youre a homophone, youre a misogynic, when youre an extremist, youre a wife beater. They take medieval attitudes to religion and with women. I extend my solidarity to her. She must have suffered. The second wife however, bears a responsibility. Whelp she found that her then husband was scouting areas for attack thats what she confessed to it was her loyal patriotic duty to report that. In fact people who dont report such things whether its of their husbands siblings or friends, they give muslims like me and everyone else bad nachlt it was her duty to report that
the minute she became aware of it. Thank you so much sir. Great to see you tonight. Thank you. Pleasure. Well also tonight, some critics are suggesting that the orlando s. W. A. T. Team waited too long to move in. Theyre coming under fire this evening for the threehour delay before they went in. Mark furman is here on that. Plus former cia director james wolfcy is here. First we have james calendar on why he thinks the feds are in over their heads here. Hes next. Dont go away. Our work is very challenging. Were looking for needles in a nationwide haystack but were also called upon to figure out which pieces of hay are nightles. Thats hard work. If we can find a way to do that better, we will. Let the real you shine through . Introducing otezla apremilast. Otezla is not an injection, or a cream. Its a pill that treats plaque psoriasis differently. Some people who took otezla saw 75 clearer skin after 4 months. And otezlas prescribing information has no requirement for routine lab monitoring. Dont take otezla if you are allergic to any of its ingredients. Otezla may increase the risk of depression. Tell your doctor if you have a history of depression or suicidal thoughts or if these feelings develop. Some people taking otezla reported weight loss. Your doctor should monitor your weight and may stop treatment. Side effects may include diarrhea nausea, upper respiratory tract infection, and headache. Tell your doctor about all the medicines you take, and if youre pregnant or planning to be. Ask your dermatologist about otezla today. Otezla. Show more of you. Real is touching a ray. Amazing is moving like one. Real is making new friends. Amazing is getting this close. Real is an animal rescue. Amazing is over twentyseven thousand of them. There is only one place where real and amazing live. Seaworld. Real. Amazing 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. Learning more how terrorist omar mateen may have slipped through the cracks of the fbis investigation. James comey taking to the microphone and how he came to their attention in 2013 what tay did about it and why they ultimately decided he was not a threat. Listen. Our investigation involved
introducing Confidential Sources to him, recording conversations with him, following him, reviewing transactional records from his communications and searching all of Government Holdings for any possible connections, any possible derogatory information. We then interviewed him twice. The killers name surfaced again in an indirect way. Our miami office was investigating the florida man who had blown himself up for the nisra front. And he knew him casually from attending the same mosque but we turned up no ties between the two of them. We will work all day and all night to understand the path from that terrible night. Were going to look hard at our own work to see if we could have done something differently. So far the honest answer is i dont think so. This is at the time hes working as a security against
according to our guest at the top of the hour. Fbi investigating him, meeting with him, doing all this stuff when at the same time hes working working as a guard. Pivot we go to our chief intelligence correspondent katherine live. It was a critical period after the fbi investigation concluded in march. The men went to the same Central Florida mosque. Asked if anyone else was radicalizing a witness identified omar mateen to the fbi and claimed he was watching videos of Anwar Al Awlaki. The cleric lived a double life and this mugshot comes from a san diego arrest for prostitution. Readingal alal al alal his sermons. This is what they were watching before they kill 14d last december. The czar major nadal ha son exchanged emails with the clerk before opening fire. Today a leading democrat said the bar was high in the orlando case. If there wasnt evidence of Material Support for terrorism, if there werent over acts and supported conspiracy if there wasnt evidence that an actual crime that was committed, they were not in a position to arrest the suspect. The new evidence that mateen was directed by a foreign terrorist group, but this in so many ways is an oldfashioned concept. You dont need a phone call or text because they give you Standing Order to act. Isis says do it wherever you are and if you do it in our name
well claim you as a soldier of the caliphate, megmegyn. Its unbelievable. Thank you. Joining me now the former assistant director in charge of the fbi and a senior counterterrorism adviser after september 11th. Here we are again and this guys watching aill awlaki videos. The fb i says theres no there there. Your thoughts on it. Ive known jim comey a long time. Hes a good man. Of course i know the fbi. I know the agents support people the analysts. Theyre all good people. They dont want anything like this to ever happen. But, megyn, theyre weighed down with this wet blanket of political correctness, number one. Their training manual has been deleted of all words that were objectionable to the people socalled educated people of the
national Security Council and the white house. They dont have the resources to keep up. Why that case was not flagged to stop him from getting weapons, why it was not flagged, why he wasnt on a no fly list i dont know the answers to that. This terrorist task force is around the United States. You know i spent 4 1 2 years with governor pataki to get every police force in new york state from a fourman force to the biggest in the state to be tied into the Task Force Even if they werent in their jurisdictions. Thats one of the questions, isnt it jim . Whether they were inform. You guys have to keep an eye on it. I dont know. I dont know if port st. Lucie
had a clue. These things should never, in my view never be closed. They should have some sort of activity. But director comey talks about hundreds of cases around the states. I can tell you, megyn. I can tell the people watching the show, i was instru mental not bragging but instrumental in setting up the surveillance both technical and physical. They cannot keep up im not going go into great detail but they cant keep up with the number of cases that des