INTERVIEW –PETE HOEKSTRA – (hook stra) – is the Senior Fellow at the Investigative Project on Terrorism and the former Chairman of the U.S. House Intelligence Committee.
- TOPIC: LATEST NEWS ON THE ORLANDO TERRORIST:
- Orlando shooter posted messages on Facebook pledging allegiance to the leader of ISIS and vowing more attacks
- Mateen’s Saudi Background: (Washington Post) –– The FBI also learned that he had traveled to Saudi Arabia in March 2011 to make a pilgrimage and again in March 2012. Comey said the Saudis assisted the FBI investigation but didn’t turn up anything. Mateen’s name next surfaced as part of the investigation into Moner Mohammad Abusalha, believed to be the first American to launch a suicide bombing in Syria. Abusalha prayed at the same Fort Pierce, Fla., mosque that Mateen attended, friends and authorities said.
- Sources: Grand jury to investigate Orlando shooter’s widow. (CNN) Federal investigators digging for clues in the Orlando nightclub massacre are zeroing in on Noor Salman, the widow of gunman Omar Mateen.
- President Obama Set to Visit Orlando Following Mass Shooting. Following the worst mass shooting in American history and the deadliest attack in the United States since 9/11, President Obama and Vice President Biden will travel to Orlando today to meet with the families of victims and first responders in the Orlando community. Forty-nine people were murdered in Sunday’s early morning massacre and the President will offer his solace to those victims’ families. He also thinks it crucial to meet with survivors.
