Special Coverage: Terror In Orlando; the deadliest mass shooting in u.s. History, and the deadliest attack on U.S. Soil Since 9/11 American History; The Motive Behind That Massacre, Was It Terror Inspired By Home Homophobic Hate?; The Making Of A Mass Murderer, Predominantly Male, Young, Disaffected.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE REPORTER: The deadliest mass shooting in American history.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE SPEAKER: The deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, the deadliest attack on U.S. soil since 9/11.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE REPORTER: Police say Omar Mateen carried out the massacre using an assault rifle and a 9-mm handgun.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE SPEAKER: Once people started screaming, and shots just kept ringing out.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE REPORTER: The 29-year-old Omar Mateen opened fire inside an Orlando LGBT nightclub.</s>WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: The gunman called 911, 20 minutes into the attack to pledge his allegiance to ISIS.</s>PRES. BARACK OBAMA, (D) U.S. PRESIDENT: This was an act of terror and an act of hate.</s>RONALD HOPPER, FBI ASSISTANT SPECAL AGENT IN CHARGE: The FBI first became aware of Mateen in 2013, when he made inflammatory comments to coworkers alleging possible terrorist ties.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE SURVIVRO IN THE ORLANDO MASS SHOOTING: All I know is that when I turned around, everyone was screaming and jumping.</s>DR. DREW PINSKY, CNN HOST OF "DR. DREW" PROGRAM: Tonight we are holding a special town hall about the Orlando nightclub massacre. Our audience includes members from the LGBT community, obviously profoundly affected by this tragedy. Joining me, Mike Galanos, HLN Anchor reporting from Orlando; Jim Clemente, former FBI Profiler; Judi Ho, Clinical Psychologist and professor at Pepperdine University and Lisa Bloom, Civil Rights Attorney at the Bloom Firm and legal analyst for avvo.com. But first I have this. It is a chilling video that captures the horror that unfolds and it was supposed to be a night of celebration. A young woman, they are casually snap-chatting inside the Orlando nightclub, then shots ring out. Take a look.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE SPEAKER: I am at the club. [gunshots ]</s>PINSKY: That woman, 25-year-old Amanda Alvear, fatally wounded. I am having as much trouble getting my head around this as anyone. The one thing I have noticed, though, is I am seeing a lot of helplessness and hopelessness amongst people, both the media and out, and we must stop that. That is not OK. It is time for action. It is time for understanding. Mike Galanos, give me the latest out there.</s>MIKE GALANOS, HLN ANCHOR: Well, I will tell you, Drew, we will pick up the story from there and it cannot be understated when you talk about what is happening at 2:00 in the morning. It is a great night at Pulse, which is by the football field behind me. It is Latin night. Everyone is having a good time. People think those gunshots initially are sounds of a music beat pounding and thumping. Next thing you know and I am sure we are going to get in to more of the survivor stories. Bodies are falling around them, and they know now they are in a life and death situation. Moments later, at 2:09, Pulse, they tweeted out, "Get out and run. Get out of this building. At 2:22, you have the gunman, and think of what he is doing? He is not only continuing an attack, but he is calling 911 and pledging allegiance to an ISIS. A three-hour standoff and some survive. We are hearing survivor accounts where people are draping themselves in dead bodies to survive, entertainers are waiting things out. Police have to remove an AC unit, so they can crawl out. Finally, 5:00 A.M., and SWAT Team use an armored vehicle to blow open a hole, so 30 people can get out and escape. And, then a deadly confrontation ensues with the gunman. He is shot and killed and that is the way it ends. But now the beginning of the sorrow, and to your point, action that must happen moving forward, Drew.</s>PINSKY: Mike, thank you. I want to show you, again, that timeline of precisely what went down. At 2:02 in the morning, this guy, Mateen, enters the so-called -- enters the nightclub, begins shooting. An off-duty police officer responds and engages in the battle near the entrance. Mateen evidently retreats to a bathroom there with hostages. At 2:22, so 20 minutes after getting into the club, he calls 911, makes these allegiances and pledges to ISIS. He mentions the Boston bombers. He is there for two and a half hours. At 5:00 A.M., SWAT enters the club, rescues 30 hostages, kills Mateen. Mike, do we have any sense of what was happening between 2:22 and 5:00 A.M.? Were they communicating with him during that time?</s>GALAGOS: There are reports that there was some communication. And it is somewhat chilling that he is poised, and further speaking to that fact, poised that he can continued attacking and make a phone call. Very calm as he spoke, reportedly. So that is what authorities were up against. That is why they finally decided to act at 5:00 A.M., Drew.</s>PINSKY: Judy, does this surprise you? This is a very different description than say the Virginia tech shooter, who was agitated, a manic and out of control. This is cold, calculated. It is different. The word bipolar has been raised a couple times today. This does not sound like a manic phase, or at least not typically so.</s>JUDY HO, PH.D., CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST: This is not a typical manic phase. And, as you mentioned, he was calm, he was collected, there was precontemplation. He was calm the entire time during the time that there was police swarming the outside, and when you see that very, very low reactivity, Drew, it makes me think of something completely different. I am thinking about psychopathy.</s>PINSKY: Psychopathy with all sorts?</s>HO: Yes.</s>PINSKY: Jim, how about you at profiling standpoint?</s>JIM CLEMENTE, FORMER FBI PROFILER: Yes, exactly. That is what I was going to say. It sounds like a psychopath. A psychopath does not have the same level of emotional range that we do. And basically, when things are going crazy, they calm down. They love the excitement. They live for this thrilling excitement, and especially to exert that much power over other people and to see the suffering, this would have turned him on. It is really a shame.</s>PINSKY: I really want to throw up now. All the feelings I had Saturday night are coming back. All right. Now, we have a video shot by a man who lives next to the nightclub. It shows the moment SWAT stormed into the nightclub. Have a look.</s>PINSKY: To me that is an unenlightened -- from law enforcement`s standpoint, that sounds like a lot of gunfire.</s>CLEMENTE: Well, it does not sounds like --</s>PINSKY: How did they save the people who ran out of the hole?</s>CLEMENTE: It sounds like multiple operators who are trained not to create crossfire. I think the reason why you had that three-hour delay was because they wanted to make sure that they were safely able to make an assault and not kill innocent people and only focus on the bad guy.</s>PINSKY: How about why the bad guy chose that club. It was 120 miles from his home. I do not understand. They drove over an hour -- two hours to get there? Why that club in Orlando?</s>CLEMENTE: Well, I mean --</s>PINSKY: It is bizarre.</s>CLEMENTE: A mile away there are 17 nightclubs that were in full function that night. This was a gay club. It was by itself. It seems like it was a very goal-directed hate crime to me. Even though he maybe had some extremist Muslim leanings, I think that was the justification or the rationalization, so he could take out his hate against gays and lesbians.</s>LISA BLOOM, CIVIL RIGHTS ATTORNEY: Well, let us be clear. This was a very crowded packed nightclub, about 300 people.</s>PINSKY: You think that he picked it for that reason?</s>BLOOM: So if you want to take out the maximum number of people, you go into a place that is very dark and very loud, and you can start shooting with an automatic weapon and you can take out a lot of people.</s>PINSKY: Lisa, we live, what? 90 miles from San Diego? Can you name a club that is crowded on a Saturday night in San Diego?</s>BLOOM: No, but I can go --</s>PINSKY: No. I cannot either.</s>BLOOM: But, I could go online and in about 1 minute tell you what gay club in San Diego is crowded.</s>HO: And, Dr. Drew, he did a lot of research before. And there was actually another night club owner in the same area saying that he tried to add him as a Facebook friend. But when he looked at him and realized it was nobody that he knew, he actually deleted that Facebook.</s>PINSKY: Interesting. Now, we have an update from the Orlando Regional Medical Center, where most of the shooting victims had been taken. Six of them had been discharged, thank God. Twenty-nine remained hospitalized in good condition, 26 surgeries were performed. Five patients, however, are still in grave condition. A number of those critically ill and obviously in shock. Now, this dude made three 911 calls during the attack. He told the operator that he was doing this for the leader of ISIS. Jim, what is up? Help me. I cannot get my head around this.</s>CLEMENTE: I think this is sort of what we looked at with al-Qaeda earlier. I mean, it is basically like an organization. They will take credit for anybody who is successful at making terrorist claims.</s>PINSKY: Yes, but here is the guy -- but obviously, he may contact with them beforehand. I mean, here he is in the club shooting people, making declarations to</s>ISIS. CLEMENTE: Yes, but that may be -- that he never had any direct contact with ISIS. He could have self-radicalized. He could have wanted to be part of something whole, something bigger, something more grand than himself. Usually, these people have very poor self-images and basically they want to feel better by hurting others.</s>PINSKY: And this is the thing that I wanted to get into later is, why our young men feel so disenfranchised, are not attached to anything bigger than themselves? There is so much to be passionate about and we have young men that are floating today. Next up, I have a young man who leaves the Pulse nightclub just an hour before gunfire breaks out. Tragically, he loses two of his friends in a deadly massacre. That is next. And later, the gunman, Omar Mateen; who was this mass murderer and why did he do it?