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BONUS: Was the shootings at Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida an act of terrorism? · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Chaos inside a naval air
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  Speaker 1: station in Pensacola. The mass shooting shocking the military base tonight,
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  Speaker 1: ABC News is confirmed the gunman was Mohammed, said Al Shamrani,
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  Speaker 1: a member of the Saudi Air Force in the US
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  Speaker 1: for flight training. The FBI investigating terrorism as a possible motive.
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  Speaker 1: A tight knit community reeling. It doesn't happen to our
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  Speaker 1: friends and neighbors who are members of the United States Navy.
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  Speaker 1: But it did, and it has the first call for
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  Speaker 1: help coming in at six fifty one am up the
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  Speaker 1: base lockdown. Police raced to the scene within five minutes.
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  Speaker 1: Authority say the shooter moved through two floors of a
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  Speaker 1: classroom building, an area of the base where weapons are
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  Speaker 1: not allowed. Have you given me an update on possible
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  Speaker 1: patient count? Over ten patients confirmed. The gunmen reportedly moved
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  Speaker 1: through the building armed with a semi automatic handgut, leaving
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  Speaker 1: a trail of carnage with officers chasing what it looked like.
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  Speaker 1: It looked like a war zone, you know, there were
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  Speaker 1: rounds everywhere. Four Sheriff's deputies coming face to face with
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  Speaker 1: the gunmen engaging in a shootout. Two officers hit, one
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  Speaker 1: shot in the arm, the other in the knee. Despite
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  Speaker 1: being shot returning fire. The accused gunmen killed. Today we're
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  Speaker 1: learning so much more about the Sauty airman who murdered
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  Speaker 1: three at a naval trading center in Pensacola, Florida, having
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  Speaker 1: filed a complaint earlier against a flight instructor who called
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  Speaker 1: him porn stash over his bushy mustache he wore, I
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  Speaker 1: mean as he grace. This is crime stories right now.
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  Speaker 1: We are combing through the clues left behind a Sawdy
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  Speaker 1: Prince Kola shooter infuriated after instructor gave him the moniker
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  Speaker 1: porn stash. The incident goes down at the Naval air
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  Speaker 1: station there in Pensacola, Florida. Joining me an all star panel.
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  Speaker 1: Ashley Wilcott judge trial lawyer at Ashley Wilcott dot com.
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  Speaker 1: James Shelnutt twenty seven years major case swat now lawyer.
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Bethany Marshall's psycho analyst out of LA. You can
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  Speaker 1: find her at doctor Bethany Marshall dot com. The medical
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  Speaker 1: Examiner for the State of Florida, Doctor Tim Gallagher, but
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  Speaker 1: straight to Amanda Hall. Joining US reporter with wi n
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  Speaker 1: K TV Fort Myers, Amanda, what happened, Nancy? The gunman
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  Speaker 1: is dead and the investigation is continuing. Just last night,
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  Speaker 1: you know, our governor was talking about this, calling it
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  Speaker 1: an act of terrorism. This happened inside of a classroom
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  Speaker 1: at a Navy base, really the home of aviation, and
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  Speaker 1: it's a very popular tourist attraction too for the state
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  Speaker 1: of Florida. That's where the museum is. This happened on
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  Speaker 1: base inside of you know, it's a tier security system
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  Speaker 1: for people to get on and off, and so for
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  Speaker 1: something like this to happen, it is really shocked the
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  Speaker 1: entire state of Florida. Take a listen to an eye witness.
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  Speaker 1: This is Jeff Burgosh, who was a contractor there listening. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it's been pretty surreal. I've worked out here as a
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  Speaker 1: contractor employee for about fifteen years for various contracts out here,
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  Speaker 1: and this morning was like no other. I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 1: your regular Friday coming on board the base at about
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  Speaker 1: ten till seven, and then suddenly everything went gridlock. All
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  Speaker 1: the traffic came to complete stop, and then Nabe Boulevard,
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  Speaker 1: which is the artery coming aboard the station, became a
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  Speaker 1: parking lot, and the traffic going the other direction suddenly
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  Speaker 1: was overwhelmed. I saw at least fifty probably more police
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  Speaker 1: vehicles analysis squat teams coming screaming down the opposite side
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  Speaker 1: of the road, And of course I was worried about
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  Speaker 1: my employees that were on the base, half of us
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  Speaker 1: were on the way to work, half of us and
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  Speaker 1: already got there. So just a lot of just a
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  Speaker 1: lot of chaos. But I can tell you I'm proud
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  Speaker 1: to report we had an overwhelming response to this. The
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  Speaker 1: community came to the to the aid of the station,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, just just just amazing the overwhelming response. But
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  Speaker 1: it's it's as you hear in the background, there's still
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  Speaker 1: speaking over the station's loudspeaker. We've seen fire ambulances go by,
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  Speaker 1: We've seen emergency vehicles, We've seen I've seen at least
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  Speaker 1: two Lifelight helicopters. So unfortunately, I know there's uh multiple shootings,
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  Speaker 1: multiple casualties, and we're just praying for all the victims.
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  Speaker 1: What a horrible scene that developed our friends at MSNBC.
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  Speaker 1: But now take a listen to reporter Boyne Alexander chilling
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  Speaker 1: new details about the man investigators believe carried it out,
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  Speaker 1: law enforcement officials tell NBC News. In the past week,
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  Speaker 1: the shooter, Mohammed said alsham Rani, a Saudi national, invited
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  Speaker 1: three other Saudis to his home for dinner, where he
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  Speaker 1: showed them videos of mass shootings. Officials say he regularly
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  Speaker 1: socialized with the three, but after a recent trip to
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  Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia, he returned more pious and was no longer
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  Speaker 1: interested in hanging out with them. Officials do not believe
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  Speaker 1: they were involved, and say alsham Rani acted alone. Those
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  Speaker 1: same officials confirm the handgun used in Friday's attack was
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  Speaker 1: legally purchased from a gun dealer in Pensacola, typically illegal
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  Speaker 1: for a non citizen, but alsham Rani exploited a loophole
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  Speaker 1: that allowed him to buy it because he has a
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  Speaker 1: hunting license. Officials are not confirming this as an act
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  Speaker 1: of terrorism, but believe a social media post declaring America's
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  Speaker 1: love for Israel and hatred for Islam was written by
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  Speaker 1: alsham Rani. We're learning more about those in the gunman's path,
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  Speaker 1: among them Ryan Blackwell, an assistant wrestling coach, and Charles Hogue,
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  Speaker 1: a police officer on base, both recovering tonight and twenty
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  Speaker 1: three year old Joshua Caleb Watson, who never made it home.
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  Speaker 1: In a touching Facebook post, his brother describes Watson's final
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  Speaker 1: moments after being shot multiple times. He made it outside
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  Speaker 1: and told the first response team where the shooter was.
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  Speaker 1: Those details were invaluable. He died a hero. Three people.
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  Speaker 1: Dad straight out to Amanda haul Wiktv. Where does the
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  Speaker 1: investigation stand right now? Nancy? That base is still a
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  Speaker 1: crime scene. The FBI is on scene. They're analyzing footage
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  Speaker 1: from both surveillance cameras around the base as well as
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  Speaker 1: cell phone footage taken by bystanders as the shooting was unfolding,
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  Speaker 1: and we know they have many interviews less to conduct.
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  Speaker 1: We know as of Saturday, at least ten Sabi Arabian
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  Speaker 1: flight students were being questioned and interviewed, and we know
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  Speaker 1: that they're looking at what was he doing in the
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  Speaker 1: days leading up to this. We know that he took
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  Speaker 1: a trip to New York. He visited the nine to
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  Speaker 1: eleven Memorial while he was there, and the night before
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  Speaker 1: the shooting, he hosted some fellow students for dinner and
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  Speaker 1: showed video of mass shooting. Oh My Stars to doctor
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  Speaker 1: Bethany Marshall, psycho analyst joining us from LA. You can
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  Speaker 1: find her at doctor Bethany Marshall dot com. What do
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  Speaker 1: you make of all of his behavior leading up to
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  Speaker 1: the shooting, I'm referring to I'm mad Muhammad al SHAMRANI. Well,
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  Speaker 1: what I make of it is that lone will terrorists
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  Speaker 1: and mass murders have quite a bit in common. Lone
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  Speaker 1: will terrorists are less likely to tell other people before
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  Speaker 1: committing the event, so bringing friends to dinner showing pictures
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  Speaker 1: of mass murders sort of breaking about this would be
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  Speaker 1: more in line with the mass murder. However, he moved
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  Speaker 1: all the way to the United States to conscript into
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  Speaker 1: the service. And we know that lone wolf terrorists actually
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  Speaker 1: use geospatial distance to gain proximity to the victims. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what you mean by that geospatial distance. Geospatial
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  Speaker 1: they tend to move from one country to the next.
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  Speaker 1: They won't commit the crime in their own country because
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  Speaker 1: they don't hate their own people, but they will move
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  Speaker 1: from one continent to another to infiltrate the people that
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  Speaker 1: they hate in order to commit the murders. What do
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  Speaker 1: we know about al Sharmani's movements leading up to the
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  Speaker 1: terror shooting. Law enforce and officials say they're continuing to
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  Speaker 1: follow leads that may help them understand exactly why the
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  Speaker 1: gunman opened fire here at the Naval air station. Authorities
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  Speaker 1: say they're taking a look at his social media footprint,
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  Speaker 1: his writings online where he expressed anti America hate, his
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  Speaker 1: phone records, but also his classmates. This morning, several classmates
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  Speaker 1: of the Naval Air Station Pencacola gunmen are now undergoing
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  Speaker 1: FBI questioning. After Friday's deadly attack, the Saudi national part
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  Speaker 1: of a training program for international military personnel here in
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  Speaker 1: the US, opened fire, killing three US Navy sailors and
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  Speaker 1: injuring eight others, including law enforcement officers. Investigators looking into
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  Speaker 1: whether the attack was motivated by terror. The FBI now
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  Speaker 1: retracing the steps of twenty one year old Mohammed al Shamrani,
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  Speaker 1: a second lieutenant in the Royal Saudi Air Force, including
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  Speaker 1: a recent trip to New York City where he visited
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  Speaker 1: several attractions that visit now believed to be tourist in nature.
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  Speaker 1: Al Shamrani killing twenty three year old and Saint Joshua
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  Speaker 1: Watson nineteen year old Airman Mohammed Samhaifam and twenty one
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  Speaker 1: year old Airman Apprentice Cameron Walters, all students at the
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  Speaker 1: Naval Aviation School's command. The shooter then exchanging gunfire with
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  Speaker 1: sheriff's deputies, who eventually killed him. Do you believe the
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  Speaker 1: threat in your community has been eliminated right now? I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not prepared to make a statement affirmatively or negatively
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  Speaker 1: on that. You know, we're in consultation with the FBI.
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  Speaker 1: But I have additional questions that I want to ask.
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  Speaker 1: You're hearing from our friends at ABC's GMA. That was
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  Speaker 1: reporter Stephanie ramos So to Amanda Hall, reporter w I
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  Speaker 1: n K TV. What do we know? We know that
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  Speaker 1: he went to New York City, went to the nine
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  Speaker 1: one one Memorial, He had a watch party just before
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  Speaker 1: the shooting. How many people came, How close to the
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  Speaker 1: shooting was the watch party and what did they watch? Amanda, Well,
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  Speaker 1: this is disturbing, Nancy. That trip to New York, although
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  Speaker 1: the report said it was tourism in nature, was two
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  Speaker 1: days before he committed this heinous act. So to see
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  Speaker 1: the nine eleven Memorial and to look at the pictures
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  Speaker 1: of those hijackers two days before. For this, you know,
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  Speaker 1: whether you can really make the connection or not, it's
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  Speaker 1: still disturbing. And then the night before he hosts three
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  Speaker 1: other Saudi flight students for dinner and shows videos of
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  Speaker 1: other mass shootings. The night before this happened in the
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  Speaker 1: morning of Friday. Friday morning, so this would have been
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  Speaker 1: Thursday night, So he hosted three other Saudy students there
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  Speaker 1: at the flight school for dinner and a mash shooting
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  Speaker 1: video fest. I understand that there are ten Saudi International
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  Speaker 1: Flight students still under FI questioning. Is that correct, Amanda?
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  Speaker 1: That is, as of Saturday, they were still being held
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  Speaker 1: for questions. What could be a possible mode of Amanda Hall?
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  Speaker 1: What if anything have we learned? Well, we've learned that
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  Speaker 1: he had writings on social media, on Twitter where he
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  Speaker 1: was quoting Osama bin Laden. There was a manifesto posted
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  Speaker 1: right before the shooting calling America a nation of evil,
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  Speaker 1: saying he hated America for crimes against Muslims and hated
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  Speaker 1: America for crimes against humanity, hated America for crimes against Muslims.
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  Speaker 1: How the hey did he even get in, Amanda? I
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  Speaker 1: don't understand it. Well, it's not unusual. There are a
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  Speaker 1: lot of foreigners who train with the US military, but
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  Speaker 1: you are led to believe that they are well vetted
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  Speaker 1: by their own countries. Of course, he had a vista,
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  Speaker 1: and that they are well vetted when they get here.
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  Speaker 1: Certainly that is something right now that our Department of
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  Speaker 1: Defense is looking at. Another question I was, how the
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  Speaker 1: hey did he get a weapon? Crime Stories with Nancy
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  Speaker 1: Grace typically to you, James Shelna, twenty seven years Atlanta
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  Speaker 1: Metro major case swat officer, now lawyer, What do you
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  Speaker 1: normally have to do to get a weapon in this country?
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  Speaker 1: You know, if you're a citizen, you know, it depends.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you can obviously good buy a weapon if
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  Speaker 1: you're of age to do it and you're not otherwise disqualified,
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  Speaker 1: it's very easy, you know. The question is how does
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  Speaker 1: a foreign national get a weapon when they're not a
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  Speaker 1: citizen and there is a freak law that allows foreign
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  Speaker 1: nationals to obtain a gun for the purposes of hunting
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  Speaker 1: while they are here in this country. The bothersome part
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  Speaker 1: of that is that not a lot of people do
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  Speaker 1: game hunting with a forty five caliber glock, which is
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  Speaker 1: what this guy bought, a forty five caliber glock. You're
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  Speaker 1: so right, that is not a hunting weapon. Take a
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  Speaker 1: listen to our friend Morgan Radford and NBC News. As
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  Speaker 1: the investigation unfolds, there are still many questions unanswered. Was
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  Speaker 1: it terrorism? Is it safe now you know? And do
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  Speaker 1: we have everybody identifying? Law Enforcement officials tell NBC News
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  Speaker 1: that the shooter, Muhammad al Shamrani, a Saudi Arabian national,
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  Speaker 1: return from a visit back home in February more pious
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  Speaker 1: than ever before, and they say last week he invited
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  Speaker 1: three Saldi friends to his home for dinner, where they
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  Speaker 1: watched videos of mass shootings. Officials do not believe the
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  Speaker 1: friends were involved and say they think al sham Rami
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  Speaker 1: acted alone. NBC News has learned that he legally purchased
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  Speaker 1: the gun used in the attack from a dealer in Pensacola.
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  Speaker 1: Non citizens normally cannot buy handguns, but al sham Rami
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  Speaker 1: exploited a loophole that lets foreigners with the hunting license
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  Speaker 1: obtain them. That hurts me so much to know our
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  Speaker 1: laws were used against us. To Ashley Wilcot, judge, trial
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  Speaker 1: lawyer anchor Court TV at Ashley Wilcot dot com Way
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  Speaker 1: in Nancy. You know, I can't even begin to say
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  Speaker 1: how much it frustrates me. And this happens with different
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  Speaker 1: laws on the books and different states, and the federal
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  Speaker 1: laws the loophole, and the reality is those who are
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  Speaker 1: drafting laws and then voting on laws have got to
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  Speaker 1: make certain and do a much better job at ensuring
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  Speaker 1: there are no loopholes to allow people like this, who
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  Speaker 1: aren't even citizens, to get the firearms to commit crimes. Well,
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  Speaker 1: apparently we have figured out something the FBI is still
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  Speaker 1: trying to figure out, and that's how he got a gun.
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  Speaker 1: Take a listen to CBS reporter David Benett this morning.
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  Speaker 1: The FBI is trying to determine how a foreign national
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  Speaker 1: obtained a handgun, which is prohibited by law, and brought
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  Speaker 1: it onto the base. According to the Middle East Media
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  Speaker 1: Research Institute, someone matching al Shamrani's identity had an extensive
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  Speaker 1: online footprint. In a Twitter post, the writer says, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: American people, I hate you because every day you supporting
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  Speaker 1: funding and committing crimes not only against Muslims but also humanity.
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  Speaker 1: As of this morning, federal officials are not saying what
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  Speaker 1: happened here was an act of terror. We are prepared
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  Speaker 1: at this hour to confirm what may have motivated the
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  Speaker 1: shooter to commit this horrific act. Today, the investigators are
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  Speaker 1: looking for any signs of radicalization going back to Alsham
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  Speaker 1: Rannie's upbringing in Saudi Arabia. King Salmon of Saudi Arabia
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  Speaker 1: called President Trump after the shooting. The King said that
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  Speaker 1: the Sony people are greatly angered by the barbaric actions
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  Speaker 1: of the shooter and that this person, in no way,
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  Speaker 1: shape or form represents the feelings of the Sony people.
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  Speaker 1: And the hall reporter wi KTV. At least one student was,
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  Speaker 1: we think anyway recording as a shooting transpired. What can
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  Speaker 1: you tell us about that, Yes, Nancy, at least one,
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  Speaker 1: possibly two students were recording when the shooting unfolded. What
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  Speaker 1: remains to be seen is whether either of these people
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  Speaker 1: were recording before it happened to indicate that they knew
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  Speaker 1: that this was going to happen, or if this is
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  Speaker 1: something that started to unfold and they did what a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people do these days, and they pulled out
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  Speaker 1: their cell phones and hit record as it was unfolding,
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  Speaker 1: and during the chaos that ensued on that navel. Well,
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  Speaker 1: Amanda Hall, that's very, very disturbing. I never thought that
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  Speaker 1: they may have been recording before the shooting broke out.
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  Speaker 1: How do you know that they're searching the video for that. Well,
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  Speaker 1: we know that that's one of the things that the
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  Speaker 1: FBI is looking at, and we know because it was
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  Speaker 1: released during press conferences over the weekend, that that's something
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  Speaker 1: that they're still looking at. All indications at this point
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  Speaker 1: today are that the recordings were that of a bystander
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  Speaker 1: who saw something happening, pulled out a cell phone and
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  Speaker 1: hit record. I'd be curious to find out, Amanda Hall,
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  Speaker 1: if one of the people that recorded the shooting were
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  Speaker 1: one of the people he had over the very night
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  Speaker 1: before the shooting. And you say the shooting is on
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  Speaker 1: a fry day and he had them over for dinner
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  Speaker 1: that Thursday night. Yes, that is that. That is one
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  Speaker 1: of the people one of the bystanders I was just
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  Speaker 1: referring to, were with the shooter the night before. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, we're shown the videos of the mass shootings
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  Speaker 1: at that dinner party. If you will, so one of
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  Speaker 1: the people recording the shooting, we're one of the same
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  Speaker 1: of the Saudi students that were at his home the
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  Speaker 1: night before. Correct, Nancy, You also have to bear in
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  Speaker 1: mind though, that these are you know, his colleagues. They
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  Speaker 1: are people who maybe should have been right in that place,
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  Speaker 1: right at the same time, inconsequentially, because they were, you know,
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  Speaker 1: taking classes together and because they were comrades. I'd also
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  Speaker 1: be curious, Amanda Hall, as to where that student that
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  Speaker 1: was recording was during the shooting. Were they hiding, Were
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  Speaker 1: they out in the open knowing they wouldn't get shot.
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  Speaker 1: That's interesting, Nancy. The best indication that we have right
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  Speaker 1: now is that one of the people who recorded was
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  Speaker 1: outside of the classroom. We don't know what kind of
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  Speaker 1: position they were in, if they were, if they were hiding,
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  Speaker 1: if they knew that there would be something going on
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  Speaker 1: inside so they were outside. That's something that the FBI
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  Speaker 1: is going to be looking at very very closely. The
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  Speaker 1: other possible video from one of the people that was
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  Speaker 1: at that mass shooting watch party the night before seems
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  Speaker 1: to have come from a vehicle that wasn't in the
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  Speaker 1: direct proximity, So that will be very interesting, and all
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  Speaker 1: things that we have to just be patient and wait for.
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  Speaker 1: As the FBI confirmed information. So, Amanda, you're telling me
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  Speaker 1: with me, Amanda Hall, investigative reporter wi KTV Fort Myers, Amanda,
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  Speaker 1: you're telling me that two of the people that were
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  Speaker 1: recording the mass shooting were, in fact two of the
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  Speaker 1: students over at Ahmed Muhammad Ashmani's home the night before.
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  Speaker 1: Two of the recorders a dinner with him the night before. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: the Defense secretary says one or two Saudi nationals were recording,
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  Speaker 1: and you believe they were the ones over at dinner. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: the Defense secretary confirmed that. He said that they were
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  Speaker 1: part of that group who not only were at that dinner,
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  Speaker 1: they're part of the group who went to New York
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  Speaker 1: a couple of days before. WHOA So they went to
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  Speaker 1: New York with him to the nine on one Memorial
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  Speaker 1: we believe, and then had the mass shooting video fest
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  Speaker 1: the night before at his home. Let me ask you this,
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  Speaker 1: Amanda Hall, wik at this juncture, is the working theory
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  Speaker 1: that Alshamranie worked alone. That's the best information that we
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  Speaker 1: have from the FBI. We know that there are more
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  Speaker 1: than a hundred FBI personnel working this between different field offices.
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  Speaker 1: But right now we're being told that there is no
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  Speaker 1: indication that he had help, and that he has not
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  Speaker 1: connected to a larger group or network. I'm sure that
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  Speaker 1: the families of Airman Mohammed Sammy hey Thom just nineteen,
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  Speaker 1: Aermon apprentice Cameron Scott Walters just twenty one, and Ensign
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  Speaker 1: Joshua Caleb Watson just twenty three are anxiously awaiting the
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  Speaker 1: truth through their grief. We wait as justice unfolds. Nancy
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  Speaker 1: Grace crime story, signing off Goodbye friend,