this is the latest to join that list. absolute tragedy. nbc s emily thank you so much. keep us posted. joining me now is clint watts, he s a former fbi special agent, an msnbc national security analyst. clint, thank you. sorry that is under the circumstances. to aid in these investigation. your former special agent. walk us through what investigators are going to do in this critical first few hours on the ground. yeah, it s a combination of two things, sam. for us we ll be doing the forensics of the actual shooting, to try to understand what occurred. there, remember a lot of times when you re just trying to gather evidence immediately, knowing that this is going to go to criminal trial. not only, that there could be trying to understand who the perpetrator was. it sounds like that perpetrator may have been apprehended. was this the act of a lone individual, or more of a network? they want to make sure that one, this isn t part of a broader scheme, or multiple attacks.
we ve seen that kind of thing and other terrorist activities overtime. i think the second is that in terms of motives, is this a target that the perpetrator knew individually? that there s a person or persons they were trying to go at? or is this based on the fact of an identity that that club path, that this person went and perpetrated the attack against. i think sam, is not a surprise that there s been a lot of hate speech, and a lot of targeting of lgbtq q communities over the last months and years. every time we see more vitriolic hate, more hate speech towards the community like this, the more likely we ll see mobilization active violence like today, unfortunately. i m sure that s the direction they re trying to go. as an operational matter, will the fbi take over the investigation or will they defer to local police? and what determination will have to be made for the fbi to take over, if they decide to do it? it would have to be part of