National park service, might become a National Monument for its symbolic importance and the Lgbt Community in this countr. P its unexpected momented like this when thousands of people needed a place to go. Look at this. Thousands of people needed a place to convene together tonight, to mourn and to be angry and most importantly to be with other people who are also mourning and being angry, there was no question in the countrys largest city that people would convene at stonewall, symbolic places are important. Thousands of people there tonight to commemorate the 49 americans who were just killed at the Pulse Night Club in orlando. In orlando tonight, more thousands of people gathered. This was outside the Performing Arts Center in downtown orlando. But there were other vigils at the cathedral in orlando, at the American Muslim Community center there was a good size vigil. And honestly, vigils and commemorative events have been happening all over. In buffalo, new york, hundreds of people gathered. At niagara square, over a thousand people assembled in charleston, South Carolina today. Also earlier today, burlington, vermont where Bernie Sanders and his wife took part in a profession through the downtown streets. It was the Congressional Staff association as well as the congressional muslim Staff Association who observed a moment of silence on the steps of the u. S. Capital. Overseas in london, thousands of people lined the streets in so hoe. 49 ballooned released in the air to honor the 49 killed. In berlin they laid flowers and signed a condolence book in the u. S. Embassy. And everywhere frommisten bull istanbul, to hong kong sao pallo, all over the world. In paris, the eiffel tower was lit up in tribute nin the color of the rainbow crowd. The Stonewall Inn itself is a touch stone of gay civil rights and literally going to be a National Monument because Police Violence against lgbt people who went to that bar in 1969, that finally boiled over into a knock down, drag out violent riot in the streets as the Lgbt Community physically fought back against the attacks and abuse they had been subjected to with impunity for years. Its a place they had a riot. In 1973, there were about 65 people inside a bar called the upstairs lounge in new orleans. An arsnist sprayed lighter fluid inside that wooden building, they sprayed it all the way up the one stairway and went back down under the street and rang the buzzer for somebody to open the door. Pulled that door open and the oxygen starved fire burst through like a fireball. A fire ball burst through as if shot from a flame blower, an updraft sucked it in within seconds, the walls were aflame and 32 people died in that fire bombing at the upstairs gay bar in 1973. Some of them were never identified. Still have never been identified. Because it wasnt necessarily safe to have your real id on you if you were going to a gay bar afterall. In 1996, after he bombed the summer olympics in atlanta and got away, he started bombing both abortion clinics and also gay bars. There have been five bombs now in seven months. Suddenly the atlantic mayor was a deranged killer. We got the latest from atlanta. Once again a bomb in the night. Once again a second one discovered. It happened outside a lesbian club called the other side. They were investigating a bombing at the same club when they found the backpack. The first bomb injured five people. Dancing, about having drinks, having a ga g time and all the sudden, bam. It was nails everywhere on the dance floor and all. Nails everywhere. Nails packed into the bomb for shrapnel to do maximum damage. That was 1997 in midtown atlanta. Three years laterer, a man named Ronald Edward gay who opened fire on a gay bar in roanoke, virginia. He said he was tired of people teasing him for having the last name gay and so he attacked the gay bar. And then a man wielding a hatchet and a handgun in new bedford, massachusetts, entered the puzzles lounge around midnight. When the bartender told him it was a gay bar, he pulled out a hatchet and struck the bar tender in the head and then struck a man who tried to help the victim, then pulled the gun out of his pocket and tried to them the man who tried to help the victim and then shot another man across the bar. In new years eve 2013, eerily similar to the attack in new orleans, this time at a Gay Night Club in seattle, poured gasoline in the stair well, lit it on fire. 750 people in that club at that time. Thankfully this time, fire codes have gone some distance since then and the fire was extinguished and nobody was hurt. The Gay Community in this country is forged in fire and therefore a tough community. But what happened in orlando isnt just an attack on the Gay Community, its the worst terrorist attack since 9 11. And amid calls for solidarity and resolve j new strategies against supposed loanwolf terrorists. Today this attack also led to the current republican candidate for president suggest that the president was maybe in on this attack somehow. Donald trump repeatedly insinueating that president obama was deliberately allowing, somehow encouraging attacks like this one in the United States. Mr. Trump saying repeatedly today about president obama, quote theres something going on, theres something going on. Its also reiterating his call for a ban on muslims coming to the United States and today seemed to expand it on immigration from all countries who have a history of terrorism, which presumably everywhere since the attacks on 9 11 were planned in germany and the worst attack appears to have been planned here, right here. Mr. Trump also said today in his speech that had planned to be an antiHillary Clinton speech, he made the a different kind of antiHillary Clinton speech and one where he spoke awkwardly off a teleprompter about this attack in orlando and said the killer was quote born in afghan. A, that makes no sense. B, the killer was actually born in queens, new york, just like donald trump was. So, this attack, this latest attack, this worst attack in this country since 9 11, theres a lot still to be learned about it. Were going to talk about late developments, including some that are provocative and hard to get your head around. This has national imp ls and an attack with National Security implications, which frankly putting a terrifying new cast in the stakes for this president ial election. Right now, this is still just about the 49 americans who died. Mostly but presumably not all of them, lgbt, mostly but not all of them latino, all of them warn tonight by their country and around the world. Joining us now are tarry decarlo, the head of the lgbt center. Its a coalition of 24 national coalitions. Theyre both leading efforts in orlando. I appreciate you for having with us. As the director of the lgbt center in orlando, how are people coping . It has been a really long 24 hours. The community is hurt but we have seen our Community Come together. Lgbt and nonlgbt and create a heck of a force to rally for the families of those who passed away and still in the hospital. We have had over 2 million pledged to help families. Weve had so many corporations contact us. The community has come together. We are orlando strong and were proving that and were standing as a force. Were hurting, but were hurting together. And were standing strong. Let me ask you for your take on this, obviously, anytime this number of americans lose their lives in any circumstance, it is an issue of National Importance and it will cause a huge out pouring. Obviously weve got a very specific community, an intersection of communities affected here. So many gay men of color killed here, so many latinos. How would you describe the Community Response and how people are copincoping . The community here in orlando, the response has been overwhelming. We opened our doors and said people, we need food, water, we need stuff for our first responders, for our people at the hospitals, for our people here from around the world that are reporting on this and it has been overwhelming. The community has pulled up to our center with trucks where we couldnt handle them, we were sending it over to a bar for them to hold for us but as it was coming into the center, we would take it in the front door, clock it in, and send it to the backer to get to the blood ban and people were waiting a couple of hours to donate blood. Its just a community that is hurting but hurting together and coming together and it is quite a site to see and im so proud to be part of this orlando community. Let me put the same question to you in terms of various communities effected by this. Obviously obviously, this is ain National Incident and im thinking specifically about the Gay Community and latino Gay Community. Whats your thinking on how people are coping and whats needed next . First and foremost when we heard the news, it was clear to everyone that this was a direct attack to the Lgbt Community but then as we went to offer as a Community Leaders our help, we suddenly and it was just overwhelming to realize that in large part, there was a loss of a lot of latinos, latinos and sisters and brothers and extended family. And so we were able to then organize and work in conjunction with the center and the other organizations to really rally up our resources within the latino Nonprofit Center that addresses the needs of Different Community groups to be able to provide resources and access to information in language, predominantly, to the families. So, tarry decarlo, Lgbt Community, respectively. Thank you for the organizing and thank you for being with us tonight. Good luck to you. Thank you, rachel. We have much more ahead tonight, including a wlilive ret from richard angle. And a very dramatic confrontation in congress on this issue they talked to anybody who might have known him. The owner of the gun shop where he bought the weapons legally, he said he vaguely remembered seeing him around. But on top of all that, heres a development from today that no one quite knows what to do with. We also heard from regulars at the Pulse Night Club in orlando that they had seen the shooter in the club before, at least a dozen times. Quote sometimes he would go in the corner and sit and drink by himself and other times he would get so drunk he was loud and belligerent and someone else recognized the shooter from several gay dating apps. He was very creepy in his messages and i blocked him immediately. You recognize him from a gay dating app . I recognize him off grinder. He says a couple of his friends have already given the fbi their phones to help in the investigation. So theres that. Theres that reporting. The shooter was hanging around the edges of gay life in orlando, including the Pulse Night Club for whatever reason as a quiet or belligerent or creepy figure. An fbi source tells nbc news that theyre looking into these reports but at this point the fbi doesnt know what to make of them. Stay with us. The secretary of defense announced for the first time u. S. Apache helicopters are being involved in direct contact with isis members in iraq. Weve had members killed in the ground both in iraq and syria. Its kind of a big war. And here at Home Congress never voted on it, never really debated it and as much as we like to fight about everything in this country, our existing hot war against isis has no political profile whatsoever. We fight about everything. We dont even talk about that. Nobody really even knows thats happening here. But isis does. And when the u. S. Expanded air strikes against isis into syria in september 2014, isis went a little nuts about that. They were super angry about those air strikes. In syria targeting them to the point where their spokesman basically embarrassed him in a statement at the time. It was an isis message telling isis supporters around the world that in the name of isis people should commit terrorist attacks in their home countries. If you can kill a disbelieving american or european, especially these spiteful and filthy french or an australian or canadian or disbeliever from the disbelievers war, then kill him in any manner it may be. Then to the specifics. Smash his head with a rock or throw him down from a high place or choke him or poison him. Isis was so unnerved by the u. S. Coalition air strikes that started against them two years ago that their spokesman literally responded telling people to find a filthy frenchman and hit him in the head with a rock. It was a strange statement. But however strange it was, it also marked an important tactical change for them in that organization. In that statement, that angry weird statement saying how mad they were that all these western countries were bombing them, isis stopped calling on their western supporters to leave their homes and travel to iraq and syria to join the Islamic State and inhstead told them to stay in the west and commit attacks there. They also said and this ended up being important. Do not ask for anyones advice and do not seek anyones verdict. Meaning dont ask for our permission, consider this to be your permission slip. Go ahead. Dont tell us youre going to do it, just do it. Dont come here, dont ask us, you dont need to ask anything from us. Just kill civilians in the country even if all you have is a car or a rock, well consider that being part of our movement and helping what isis is trying to do. That was issued september 21st, 2014. Two days later in australia, which is one of the countries specifically mentioned, two days after that statement, an 18yearold kid, alleged isis sympathizer in australia, walked to a Police Officer in melbourne, and stabbed two Police Officers before he was shot dead. They have strict firearm laws, so he had a knife, he used what he had at hand. Less than a month later, canada, he didnt have a knife but he did have a car and the isis statement suggested that as an option, run him over with your car was one of the things they suggested. An isis sympathizer in canada used his car to gun down two canadian soldiers in the streets. Two days later, another alleged isis sympathizer shot and killed another canadian soldier and then stormed into the parliament. And october 23rd, 2014, this guy took a run at four new york city Police Officers near a subway platform in queens. He was armed with a hatchet. He tried to attack the officers with an ax. That was the end of october 2014. The statement came out before the end of that year. Another alleged isis sympathizer had taken 18 hostages, killed two of them before he was killed by police. Less than a week after that, another sympathizer used his car in desean france, he injured 14 people, in another part of france, another alleged isis sympathizer drove into another crowd of pedestrians. He injured 11 people there. So, there was this ridiculous isis instruction that kill people at home, using anything you can and that will somehow help our movement. Just kill people by any means, that will somehow help isis get its way in the world. It was insane, right . It was very strange. But isis supporters all over the world apparently took it to heart. And then last spring isis for the first time was able to claim credit for an attack that took place in the United States. The first isis affiliated attack in the United States was garl d garland, texas. Two attackers armed with Assault Rifles and semiautomatic weapons. And cartoons showing intentionally blas fumous depictions of the profit muhammad. They found print outs of theize flag inside the it attackers car. One of them had gone online in twitter and pledged his formal allegiance to isis. Quote minutes before Elton Simpson arrived at the cartoon event, he went on twitter one last time to link the attack to the Islamic State tweeted the brother with me and myself have given the amir of the believers quote may allah accept us as mujau huh demuj hadim. Remember, in their september statement, they say dont ask for anybodys permission. Dont ask us, just do this. Even though they dont want anybody to ask for their permission, they do want credit for anything anybody does in their name. Not ask them permission ahead of time but once theyve decided to do it, they want those attackers to make a public pledge of allegiance. They may not know these guys existed but once the attack is under way, they want a public pledge of allegiance and that becomes an isis attack even though this group in iraq and syria never had anything to do with it directly. And so you get these claims of isis allegiance. You get everything from formally produced propaganda videos in paris, and brussels this spring and you get the hurried tweets from the guy on his way to blow up the cartoon contest. And the midst of the attack with all the complexity and adrena n adrenalin, they take time out to go on facebook and say hey, this is for isis. They pledge allegiance to isis. Since 2014, theres been all of these attacks all around the world in all these countries. And since that went so well, they put out another call for more of the same. Same isis spokesman who put out that call to carry out attacks with cars and rocks and knives in 2014. He just put out another statement calling again for western