the punch at her face without saying a word.

"This guy just approached me and just cold blind-sided me and hit me in the side of my head for no apparent reason," said Nucian.

She says she did notice the man hovering near the turnstiles but didn't feel threatened. The science teacher from the Bronx said she was carrying so many bags, she couldn't fit through the turnstiles.

So she swiped her card and a lady opened the door. She doesn't remember bumping into the man but will never forget that punch and the blood.

"I don't know if he hit me with his hand or if he had an instrument, I don't know, I still don't know," said Nucian. She was knocked to the ground and the suspect took off.

It tookgoing to do is further this man's propaganda," she said on NBC's Meet The Press. "We're not going to hear him make his assertions of allegiance."

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On CNN's State Of The Union, Ms Lynch said the transcripts would cover only portions of the telephone exchanges with police negotiators so as "to avoid re-victimising those who went through this horror."

Mateen, a 29-year-old Muslim security guard armed with a semi-automatic rifle and a handgun, stormed into the Pulse nightclub June 12 in Orlando, Florida, raking the crowd with gunfire.

The attack then turned into a three hour hostage-taking that ended with a police SWAT team retaking the venue by force and shooting Mateen dead.

Mateen, described by his ex-wife as physically abusive and given to fits of anger, appears to have