We must destroy the myths once and for all. Shatter them. We must continue to speak out. And most importantly most important, every gay person must come out. Amy plus, we look at how authorities may have missed a red flag in the case of the orlando gunman omar mateen. His exwife says he used to beat her and hold her hostage. Yes, he was very short tempered. You would often get into fights and arguments. I guess i was the only one in his life, most of the violence was toward me at that time. Amy we will look at the link between Domestic Violence and Mass Shootings. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The fbi investigation into the orlando shooting massacre that left 49 people dead at in lgbt club has taken an unexpected twist after evidence emerged he was a regular patron of the club. On monday morning fbi director , james comey said the shooter, omar mateen, was likely radicalized online but that no evidence has emerged he received outside help in the attack. Comey said the fbi interviewed mateen in 2013 after coworkers said he made inflammatory and contradictory remarks about terrorism. We then interviewed him twice. He admitted making the statements that his coworkers reported, but explained he did it in anger because he thought his coworkers were discriminating against him and teasing him because he was muslim. After 10 months of investigation, we closed the culinary investigation. Amy during a phone call to police on sunday morning, mateen expressed support for the selfproclaimed Islamic State but james comey said at other times he expressed solidarity with groups fighting against isis, including hezbollah and the alnusra front. Witnesses trapped in the clubs bathroom said he also spoke about a need to stop the u. S. Bombing in syria. The fbi has begun investigating multiple claims that the shooter omar mateen might have been gay himself and frequented the pulse nightclub. The claims have come from numerous people including his , exwife, a former High School Classmate and several patrons of , the pulse nightclub. Meanwhile, solidarity vigils have been held across the country and around the world for the 49 victims of the attack, most of whom were young and latino. Well have more on the reports of the massacre after headlines. Presumptive republican president ial nominee donald trump has called to ban all muslims from the United States, born ine shooter was afghan of afghan karens even though mateen was born in new york and is u. S. Citizen will stop when i am elected, i will suspend immigration from areas of the world where there is a proven history of terrorism against the United States, europe, or our allies. Until we fully understand how to end these threats. We cannot continue to allow thousands upon thousands of ,eople to pour into our country many of whom have the same thought process as this savage killer. Amy donald trump has banned the Washington Post from covering its events, accusing the paper of incredibly inaccurate coverage. Washington post editor marty baron called the move nothing less than a repudiation of the role of a free and independent press. Trump has also banned buzzfeed, the Huffington Post, the daily beast, the des moines register, the union leader, univision, and fusion. In objecting to the Washington Post coverage trump had pointed , in particular to an online headline that read donald trump suggests president obama was involved with orlando shooting. The newspaper changed the headline, but said the change was made independent of trumps complaint. The current version reads donald trump seems to connect president obama to orlando shooting. The article refers to remarks trump made about obama on fox and friends on monday. He doesnt get it or he gets a better than anybody understands. Either one is unacceptable. Amy the 49 People Killed in the orlando massacre have all been identified. Among those now confirmed killed is christopher leinonen, whose mother christine gave an emotional interview to abc news sunday as she was still waiting to hear news about her son. Want to say this is a club that nobody wants to be in. Please, could we do something with the assault weapons so we can stop this club from ever getting any new members. I beg all of you, please. Amy christine leinonens son christopher was 32. On capitol hill, democratic lawmakers erupted to protest over the lack of action by Republican Leaders on gun control. Some left the chamber to protest the inaction as House Speaker paul ryan held a moment of silence to honor the orlando victims. South Carolina Congress member jim clyburn took to the floor to ask ryan when the house would consider gun control legislation. But ryan shut him down on procedural grounds. Thank you very much, mr. Speaker. I am really concerned that we just today have a moment of silence suggested a we have a moment of silence and later this week, the 17th is the german stating a parliamentary inquiry . Yes, im particularly interested about three pieces of legislation that have been filed in response not erman is the victimsmexico, of another mass shooting have been identified. Cynthia villegas and her four daughters yamilen, cynthia janeth, abby, and ida were murdered over the weekend in north roswell. Her husband juan david villegas, is charged with murder. Well have more on the connection between Mass Shootings and Domestic Violence later in the broadcast. In santa ana, california, a transgender woman has been shot and injured. Authorities said the woman stumbled to a gas station friday after being shot. Meanwhile, another lgbt victim was discovered dead in a burnedout car last sunday. The victims family identified devin diamond as a gay man and news reports referred to diamond using male pronouns but in the new orleans advocate, a friend described diamond as a woman in the midst of a gender transition. In france, isis has claimed responsibility for the fatal stabbing of a French Police commander outside paris. The attacker, identified as larossi abballa, then held the commanders partner and the couples threeyearold son hostage, eventually killing the partner, who worked as an Administrative Police official. Police stormed the house and killed the attacker. French president Francois Hollande called the killing incontestably a terrorist act. In southeastern turkey, a syrian journalist has been shot, but survived, marking the second attempt on his life in three months. An isis news agency said the militant Group Carried out the shooting against abd alqader, founder of the exiled syrian news outlet eye on the homeland. In yemen, a u. S. Drone strike has killed three people identified by yemeni officials as alleged alqaeda fighters, the victims were driving in a vehicle around the town of habban. Sundays strike came after another u. S. Drone attack killed two other people alleged to be alqaeda members in yemens Marib Province on saturday. A small rodent from australia has become the first known mammal to go extinct due to humancaused climate change. In a new report, scientists said they searched extensively for any trace of the ratlike rodent known as the bramble cay melomys, whose only known habitat was a tiny island off the coast of australia. Researchers said the root cause of extinction was sealevel rise from climate change. In another climate milestone, a study projects levels of Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere will smash the threshold of 400 parts per million this year and not fall below it again in our lifetimes. The 400 parts per million threshold has been an important marker in u. N. Climate negotiations, widely recognized as a dangerous level that could drastically worsen global warming. The Environmentalist Group 350. Org takes its name after the 350 parts per million threshold that Scientists Say is the maximum atmospheric concentration of Carbon Dioxide set for a safe planet. Microsoft has announced its buying the digital networking platform linkedin for 26. 2 billion. The deal marks the largest in microsofts history and one of the largest in the history of the tech industry. In california, a juror has written to judge aaron persky to say he is absolutely shocked and appalled by the sixmonth sentence he gave to the former stanford swimmer who raped an unconscious woman. Brock allen turner was found guilty of three felony counts of Sexual Assault after two witnesses caught him on top of the woman last year. But judge persky sentenced him to only six months in county jail, which will likely be reduced to three months under Good Behavior saying a longer , term could have a serious impact on him. In a letter published by palo alto weekly, the juror writes we were unanimous in our finding of the defendants guilt and our verdicts were marginalized based on your own personal opinion. A letter written by turners victim has gone viral, drawing praise from prominent figures including Vice President joe biden, who wrote to her in an open letter i do not know your name but i will never forget you. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The fbi investigation into the massacre thatng left 49 people dead at a gay club has tafter evidence emergee gunman was a regular patron of the pulse nightclub. On monday, the morning fbi director james comey said the shooter, omar mateen, was likely radicalized online but that no evidence has emerged he received outside help. So far we see no indication this was a plot directed from outside the United States and we see no indication he was part of any kind of network. It is also not entirely clear at this point just what terrorist group he aspired to support them although he made clear his affinity at the time of the attack for isil and generally leading up to the attacker radical islamist groups. Amy during a phone call to police on sunday morning, mateen expressed support for the selfproclaimed Islamic State but comey said at times he also , expressed solidarity to groups fighting isis including hezbollah and al nusra front. On the president ial trail, donald trump used the shooting to call for expanding his proposed ban on immigrants entering the United States while Hillary Clinton called for ramping up the air campaign against isis. However, more evidence is emerging that the gunman who attacked the gay nightclub may have had a very different motive. The fbi has begun investigating multiple claims that the shooter , omar mateen might have been , gay himself and a former patron of the pulse nightclub. The claims have come from numerous people including his exwife, a former High School Classmate and several patrons of , the pulse nightclub. One orlando Resident Named cord cedeno spoke with Msnbcs Chris Hayes about the gunman. You are saying you and friends of yours are familiar one of my friends has seen him in pulse before. That is not his first time going there. I know that for a fact. He clearly had his picture open online. He did not of them have a picture, but he would send them to guys. I know there are plenty of other guys he has probably tried to contact. A lot of them are scared to come out and tell the fbi. Two of my friends already spoke to the fbi and turn in their phones. Amy cord cedeno speaking on msnbc. Two of his friends were killed inside the gay nightclub on sunday. Orlando Authorities Say 49 people died, the vast majority were young and latino. On monday, thousands gathered in downtown orlando for a candlelight vigil to remember the victims. A nearby church bell tolled 49 times once for each victim. We begin todays show with stuart milk, the nephew of gay rights pioneer harvey milk, one of the first openly gay politicians in the United States. Harvey milk was assassinated in 1978, a year after winning election to the San Francisco board of supervisors. He was gunned down along with San Francisco mayor George Visconti by former city supervisor. Stuart milk is the cofounder and president of the Harvey Milk Foundation. We welcome you to democracy now talk about what took place in toando and how you link this the legacy of your uncle, the famed gayrights activist harvey milk. Well, amy, all of the elements that you have been talking about this morning are linked to my uncle. The elements of our visibility, the elements of violence that are perpetrated against lgbt people, the elements of the use of guns in the u. S. To assassinate and to commit violence on minority communities. And even the element that you had mentioned today, which is of no surprise to lgbt activists around the world, that this individual may himself have been dealing with his own sexuality. We have seen time and time again that those who come from cultures and come from societal nonacceptance of lgbt people that oftentimes, they react angrily and that internal torment gets expressed externally through either verbal or physical abuse. And in extreme cases, Something Like what we saw happen to a community that i happen to be very close to. The Harvey Milk Foundation plays a significant role in the orlando community. These are it is a community i just absolutely blossom in their acceptance of not just lgbt people, but of diversity in general. It is what has been known as the happy the happiest place on earth has now become very, very dark. But they will get back to where they are. Stuart, were speaking to you in florida lauderdale, florida. In a tweet that went viral after sundays attack on the lgbt nightclub in orlando, and i quoted is yesterday, but i think it is very important to continue to raise, aclu staff attorney chase street you wrote the christian right has introduced 200 antilgbt bills in the last six months and people blaming islam for this. No. Pulsenightclub your response . Religious the extremists of any religion at Shopping List of people and lgbt people are usually front and center. The Harvey Milk Foundation we do work globally and i can tell you in huge number of places in the world, we are still facing judeochristian extremists. Tomorrow i will be heading off tonight, actually, to the baltic states. The type of extremism that diminishes not just lgbt people, but the role of women, the role of other minorities and other countries, is still coming from the judeochristian religion. Of the extreme right. All of those extremists have an agenda of separation and division. And what that means for our young people and people who struggle with their sexuality is they are torn. The result we have seen here of any type of extremism is a violence. But to then turn a dark one of the darkest days that the lgbt movement has in modern history and to try to make that into a case to discriminate against another coulter, a culture that is a minority in a society, simply an acceptable. I can tell you the Lgbt Community and lgbt leadership not only in the u. S. But around the world, we are not going to allow that to happen. Amy stuart milk, tell us about your uncle. Tell us about harvey milk, the gay rights pioneer. You know, harveys dream, and it wasnt hollywood he was up against so much opposition to his message, which was that we must be visible, that must be out, that we m take our masks that we must utntic t way, the message was not just for the Lgbt Community, but anyone who is hiding what they were, what their background was, what theyre culture was. His message was, in terms of society, simply unheard of. Not only was he one of the first openly gay elected officials, but he was really the first person to publicly and consistently called for our visibility. He believed if we were not at the table, we were on the menu. He believed if we were not visible to our families, to our friends, to our neighbors, and all of the lies and innuendos would be out there. You know, in my uncles day, you know, i contain the jury, when they heard the killer the perpetrator of that horrible crime who killed out only my uncle but the mayor must ghani, when the jury heard the confession, they cried. Not in simply for my uncle or the mayor, but they cried for dan white because he was portrayed as a good Christian Catholic who was a former member of the police force and a fireman. And he represented at that time american values. I can tell you that he did not represent american values. My uncles message was our values are that diversity is our strength. Diversity is not our enemy. Acceptance of those that are different. Amy i want to turn to a part of a speech delivered by your uncle harvey milk in 1978. At the time he was an openly gay number of the San Francisco board of supervisors. We must destroy the myths once and for all. Shatter them. We must continue to speak out and most importantly most importantly, every gay person must come out. [cheers] as difficult as it is, you must tell your immediate family, you must tell your relatives, you must tell your friends if indeed they are your friends, you must tell your neighbors, you must tell the people you work with, you must tell the people at the stores you shop in [cheers] once they realize that we are indeed their children, indeed we are every