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Terror Attack in New Orleans-What We Know So Far · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: Welcome. It is Verdict with Center Ted Cruz. This is
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Speaker 1: obviously one of those shows that neither of us wanted
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Speaker 1: to do, but it's an important one to get you
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Speaker 1: information about what has happened and this horrific terrorist attack
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Speaker 1: in New Orleans and also what looks to be some
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Speaker 1: sort of attack in Las Vegas outside of the Trump
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Speaker 1: Hotel there. Senator, this has a connection obviously to Texas.
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Speaker 1: Many of us were celebrating New Year's Eve. You were
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Speaker 1: down at mar A Lago. I was with my family
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Speaker 1: at the beach, and then we see and wake up
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Speaker 1: to this news breaking. And I want to timestamp this
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Speaker 1: for people to understand when we're recording this. We're recording
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Speaker 1: this at nine thirty Eastern time on Wednesday, so much
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Speaker 1: of this may change, So I just want you to
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Speaker 1: know when we started this, but I want to get
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Speaker 1: your initial reaction to what we've witnessed.
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Speaker 2: Well, we're less than twenty four hours out from the
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Speaker 2: United States once again saying a significant terrorist attack on
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Speaker 2: US soil. At three point fifteen and morning New Year's Day,
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Speaker 2: forty two year old sham sad Din Bahar Jabbar, who
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Speaker 2: is a US citizen a Texas resident, he drove a
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Speaker 2: white pickup truck into people celebrating on Bourbon Street. Jabbar
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Speaker 2: was born in Beaumont, Texas. He resides in Houston, your
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Speaker 2: hometown and my hometown, and he was an Army veteran.
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Speaker 2: As we talked today, fifteen people have been killed and
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Speaker 2: several dozen more have been injured. And I will say,
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Speaker 2: as is the nature of any fast breaking crisis and
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Speaker 2: fast breaking news story, the news that is available is
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Speaker 2: rapidly moving. It is changing. So we're going to talk
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Speaker 2: about what's happening, what we know now, but with the
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Speaker 2: caveat that, we can fully expect the information we know
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Speaker 2: on this to change and very possibly changed significantly in
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Speaker 2: days and weeks to come. We're less than twenty four
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Speaker 2: hours out from this attack, but what we know now
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Speaker 2: is deeply, deeply disturbing. It has been reported that this
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Speaker 2: Army veteran drove the pickup truck deliberately into a crowd
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Speaker 2: of revelers with the intent of killing and harming as
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Speaker 2: many people as possible. It's also been reported that the
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Speaker 2: pickup truck was flying an ISIS flag and that Jabbar
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Speaker 2: was inspired by ISIS. Simultaneously, we have a Tesla cyber
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Speaker 2: truck that exploded in front of the Trump Hotel in
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Speaker 2: Las Vegas, killing one injuring several. The one who was
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Speaker 2: killed was the driver. It is not confirmed that those
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Speaker 2: two are linked, but both occurred early in the morning
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Speaker 2: on New Year's Day, and America is now dealing with
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Speaker 2: the aftermath of one or potentially two terrorist attacks, finding
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Speaker 2: out who's responsible, finding out if additional actors were responsible.
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Speaker 2: There have been multiple reports of additional individuals potentially placing
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Speaker 2: IEDs and at this point, the entire country is reeling
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Speaker 2: from this attack.
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Speaker 1: It is really sad. And this goes back to the
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Speaker 1: bigger concern that we've worried about on this show and
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Speaker 1: talked about, and it's something that I think so many
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Speaker 1: Americans felt. You had a wide open southern border. You
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Speaker 1: had a lot of people that have been able to
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Speaker 1: come across the southern border that were caught that were
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Speaker 1: on the terrorists watch list. You have law enforcement that,
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Speaker 1: I think it's pretty fair to say, is stretched extremely
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Speaker 1: thin when you're having to deal with a wide open
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Speaker 1: southern border and what is coming across that southern border,
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Speaker 1: and this individual being an American citizen and being a Texan,
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Speaker 1: as you described, But the real problem can be that
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Speaker 1: we are stretched so thin with so many possibilities out there,
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Speaker 1: that this is one of those examples of when we've
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Speaker 1: had this open door policy. Law enforcement is doing the
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Speaker 1: maybe in many cases, the best they can, and they
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Speaker 1: just don't have the time or the resources they need
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Speaker 1: to focus in on these types of threats.
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Speaker 2: Well, that is tragically correct, and on this podcast we
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Speaker 2: have been predicting for months now that the odds of
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Speaker 2: a major terrorist attack in the United States were higher
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Speaker 2: than they have been at any time since September eleventh,
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Speaker 2: and unfortunately, this morning's tragic events confirms that now in
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Speaker 2: this instance, the facts are still coming out. What we
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Speaker 2: know about Jabbar according to the Army Liaison's Office and
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Speaker 2: what he has told what they have released. He served
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Speaker 2: in the Army from two thousand and six to twenty twenty,
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Speaker 2: including approximately nine years of active duty service. He held
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Speaker 2: specialties in HR and IT. He was born in Beaumont, Texas.
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Speaker 2: He deployed in Afghanistan from two thousand and nine to
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Speaker 2: twenty ten. He was in the Army Reserve from twenty
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Speaker 2: fifteen to twenty twenty, and he was discharged in twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty with an honorable discharge for unsatisfactory participation. That much
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Speaker 2: we know. We also know that in his truck were
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Speaker 2: found explosive devices. Explosive devices including two pipe bombs that
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Speaker 2: were concealed within coolers and wired for remote detonation. That's
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Speaker 2: according to the Louisiana State Police and the pickup truck.
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Speaker 2: The pickup truck its origin, there has been conflicting reporting
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Speaker 2: it so earlier today it was reported that the truck
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Speaker 2: used in the New Orleans attack came through the Southern border,
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Speaker 2: and The Daily Wire reported that Early today, Fox News
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Speaker 2: reported that the truck entered the US two days ago,
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Speaker 2: but they then updated their story to report that the
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Speaker 2: truck crossed the southern border on November sixteenth. So November sixteenth,
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Speaker 2: a month and a half ago, apparently the truck crossed
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Speaker 2: the southern border. It has also now been reported that
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Speaker 2: the truck in New Orleans was rented using the Touro app.
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Speaker 2: The tourou app is a peer to peer app, and
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Speaker 2: one of the strange details that has been reported is
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Speaker 2: that both the truck in New Orleans and the cyber
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Speaker 2: truck in Los Angeles, in Las Vegas rather were both
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Speaker 2: rented using the tourou app. That may simply be a coincidence,
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Speaker 2: it may be something more. But what has been reported.
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Speaker 2: The New York Times is reporting that both were rented
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Speaker 2: using Toro. Toro itself put out a statement that said
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Speaker 2: that it was quote actively partnering with law enforcement authorities
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Speaker 2: as they investigate both incidents. They also said, quote we
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Speaker 2: do not believe that either rent or involved in the
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Speaker 2: Las Vegas or New Orleans attacks had a criminal background
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Speaker 2: that would have identified them as a security threat threat.
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Speaker 2: It's not clear as we sit here today the full
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Speaker 2: details of that, but those are the breaking details as
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Speaker 2: of nine to forty one pm.
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Speaker 1: I want to go back to a headline real quick,
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Speaker 1: and then I also want to play for everybody what
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Speaker 1: Joe Biden said. But this was a headline that you
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Speaker 1: and I talked about and warned about, and it was
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Speaker 1: from the New York Posts October the twenty third of
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, and it said border agents caught three
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Speaker 1: hundred migrants heirist ties, including ISIS, and it's still incredibly
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Speaker 1: easy for them to enter the US. This report came
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Speaker 1: out October the twenty third, so we're talking a couple
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Speaker 1: of months ago, and you and I, and that's when
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Speaker 1: you really talked about you felt like there was a
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Speaker 1: real chance that something like this could happen because of
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Speaker 1: the of the of the idea that we have so
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Speaker 1: many resources fred all over the place. When you look
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Speaker 1: ahead to January twentieth and Donald Trump coming in, does
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Speaker 1: this now clearly become a top priority on the issue
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Speaker 1: of border security because it's a national security issue very much,
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Speaker 1: and getting back to doing the way that we used
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Speaker 1: to deal with whether it was domestic or homegrown or
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Speaker 1: foreign terrorism.
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Speaker 2: One of the things that is maddening is even to
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Speaker 2: this day, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and the Democrats
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Speaker 2: refused to secure the border. Just a few weeks ago,
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Speaker 2: the Democrats held a hearing in the Senate You Shary
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Speaker 2: Committee on the horrors of mass deportations, not on the
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Speaker 2: need to secure the border, but on how terrible it
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Speaker 2: was that Trump is going to enforce the law. The
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Speaker 2: border will be secured. We are three weeks away from
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Speaker 2: an administration coming in that is going to be I believe,
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Speaker 2: absolutely serious and incredibly effective securing the border. But every
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Speaker 2: day that border is open, Americans are at greater risk,
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Speaker 2: and we're at risk number one from terrorists crossing the
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Speaker 2: southern border. But number two, we're at risk from law enforcement,
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Speaker 2: the FBI, the federal government focusing on every other policy
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Speaker 2: and agenda item other than keeping the American people safe.
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Speaker 2: You know, I have to say one of the things
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Speaker 2: that was dismaying is the FBI. Right after this happened
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Speaker 2: in New Orleans, they went out and publicly said this
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Speaker 2: was not a terrorist attack. The New Orleans police disagreed
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Speaker 2: with that statement. The FBI has since gone on to
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Speaker 2: say they are investigating it as terrorism. But I got
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Speaker 2: to say, when a truck drives into a crowd waving
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Speaker 2: an ISIS flag, I don't know what the hell you
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Speaker 2: call it other than terrorism.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, And that I think is one of the things
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Speaker 1: that's so frustrating, and that moves us also to what
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Speaker 1: we witnessed today with the closed circuit TV footage of
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Speaker 1: this cyber truck that exploded in front of Trump Tower,
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Speaker 1: killing that driver. We're now being told by authorities there
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Speaker 1: that they said the driver the electric vehicle parked in
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Speaker 1: the valley area outside the hotel's lobby before it exploded
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Speaker 1: into flames. We've gotten a tweet from Elon Musk saying
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Speaker 1: that this was not in fact the batteries or a
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Speaker 1: malfunction of the car that so many immediately wanted to blame.
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Speaker 1: This was a Tesla accident that just happened to happen
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Speaker 1: on the same day as this other attack at the
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Speaker 1: Trump Hotel in Las Vegas. They've now said definitively in
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Speaker 1: law enforcement, this was not any type of battery issue
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Speaker 1: or a malfunction. This was clearly done deliberately, and thank goodness,
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Speaker 1: no one besides that driver, from what we understand, died.
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Speaker 1: There were seven that were injured there, and this is
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Speaker 1: now being treated apparently as a other terrorist activity attack
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Speaker 1: in Las Vegas as well.
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Speaker 2: Well, that's right, and the details there that there's one
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Speaker 2: fatality from the Las Vegas explosion, and that was the
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Speaker 2: driver himself. The driver in New Orleans is also dead
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Speaker 2: from a shootout with the police. As soon as it happened,
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Speaker 2: the mayor of New Orleans, LaToya Cantrell, publicly described as
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Speaker 2: a terrorist attack. The police chief stated the driver's actions
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Speaker 2: were intentional. This was not a dui situation. According to
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Speaker 2: the chief, the driver was quote hell bent on creating carnage.
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Speaker 2: And yet, as I mentioned, the FBI spokesperson countered the
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Speaker 2: Merit mayors claim moments later stating it was quote not
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Speaker 2: a terrorist event. Here, give a.
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Speaker 3: Listen, this is not a terrorist event. What it is
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Speaker 3: right now is there improve explosive devices that was found
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Speaker 3: and we are working on confirming if this is a
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Speaker 3: viable device or not. As Chief Kirkpatrick said, we're asking
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Speaker 3: everyone to stay away from Bourbon Street, specifically from Canal
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Speaker 3: Street to Saint Anne. That is my ask once again,
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Speaker 3: stay away from Bourbon Street, Canal Street all the way
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Speaker 3: to Saint Anne until we can figure out what is
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Speaker 3: going on. Our goal is provide to additional information at
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Speaker 3: the eleven am press conference. Thank you so much, and
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Speaker 3: we will be in touch.
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Speaker 4: Yes, I will say that we want our community and
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Speaker 4: our visitors to continue and join. There's so much to
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Speaker 4: enjoy about New Orleans and we are going to make
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Speaker 4: sure that our routes and the Superdome are safe today
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Speaker 4: for the game. And yet we had this tragic event
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Speaker 4: and we're sorry again to everyone in our community, but
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Speaker 4: we do want you to gout the day. As we say,
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Speaker 4: just stay away from.
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Speaker 1: Bourbon There's two parts of that center that I think
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Speaker 1: are the most frustrating for many people that are listening.
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Speaker 1: One the out of touch with reality and you want
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Speaker 1: to have faith in law enforcement, but to come out
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Speaker 1: in such a hardcore way, so this is not a
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Speaker 1: terrorist attack, not being treated like a terisa and people
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Speaker 1: are like, what's wrong with you? And the part that
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Speaker 1: also went viral after that was a tweet that came
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Speaker 1: out from the FBI New Orleans and it was them
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Speaker 1: having holding this summer a diversity agent recruitment event and
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Speaker 1: we want to meet you. This was DEI on full display.
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Speaker 1: We went diversity, inequity inclusion. And people say this statement
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Speaker 1: and then that tweet and they say, what is happening
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Speaker 1: at the FBI.
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Speaker 2: Well, the FBI has in far too many instances not
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Speaker 2: kept their eye on the ball. And that is one
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Speaker 2: of the reasons that Donald Trump is coming into office
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Speaker 2: with an agenda of fundamentally reforming the Department of Justice
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Speaker 2: and the FBI getting it back focused on its core mission,
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Speaker 2: ending the weaponization, ending the politicization, and its core mission
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Speaker 2: includes preventing acts of terrorism. Now, in this instance, the
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Speaker 2: terrorist in New Orleans was an American citizen, so he
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Speaker 2: did not cross the border illegally, although apparently has truck
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Speaker 2: did the truck he used across the border six six
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Speaker 2: weeks ago. However, we don't know the story of how
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Speaker 2: he was radicalized. Someone who was an army veteran who
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Speaker 2: served for many years, who became a self described proponent
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Speaker 2: of isis. That is something gone profoundly wrong, and it
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Speaker 2: reminds me of Nadal Hassan. Nadal Hassan, you'll recall, who
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Speaker 2: murdered fourteen innocent souls at Fort Hood. He was active
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Speaker 2: duty military and he became radicalized, and during the Obama
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Speaker 2: iministration that they knew that he was communicating with the
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Speaker 2: radical Islamic cleric and War Alilaki and asking about the
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Speaker 2: permissibility of waging jahad on his fellow soldiers, and infuriatingly enough,
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Speaker 2: the Obama Pentagon they had those communications with Anwar Alilaki,
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Speaker 2: and they did nothing to stop Nadal Hassan from from
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Speaker 2: committing that mass murder. That they sat on that information,
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Speaker 2: and we don't know if there's any of that. We
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Speaker 2: have no indication that there's any of that information now.
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Speaker 2: But I will say we're dealing with another individual who
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Speaker 2: is a soldier who apparently became radicalized, and I think
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Speaker 2: there's a real need for transparency to figure out what happened.
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Speaker 2: And I want to play my colleague John Kennedy, Senator
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Speaker 2: John Kennedy, a good friend of mine. He's down in
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Speaker 2: New Orleans now. I want to play what he had
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Speaker 2: to say because I very much agree with with with
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Speaker 2: what he brest on the ground today.
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Speaker 5: I don't want to hear from anybody in the federal
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Speaker 5: government that they don't have the resources. Now the White House,
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Speaker 5: the FBI, Justice, Homeland Security are in charge. Now, we're
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Speaker 5: cooperating with them. I want to give them a reasonable
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Speaker 5: period of time. There's a lot of information out there,
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Speaker 5: some of it is actually true. I want to give
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Speaker 5: them a reasonable period of time, but they need to
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Speaker 5: saddle up and ride. We need to find out what
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Speaker 5: happened here, and it's not going to be covered up.
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Speaker 5: We're going to tell the American people exactly what happened.
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Speaker 5: I'm not interested in placing blame or saying who is
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Speaker 5: right or wrong. I just want to catch these sons
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Speaker 5: of bitches who did this.
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Speaker 1: Centater, I think that the sentiment that many are feeling
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Speaker 1: is exactly the way it was described by your colleague
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Speaker 1: there that the Center from Louisiana.
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Speaker 2: Well Kennedy's absolutely right. And look, the priority Number one
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Speaker 2: needs to be keeping people safe. Number two needs to
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Speaker 2: be catching anyone else involved in this. Where there other conspirators?
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Speaker 2: Was this a broader plot? Number three needs to be transparency,
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Speaker 2: figuring out how did this come to pass? Why was
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Speaker 2: this not prevented? Why did nobody sound the alarm that
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Speaker 2: this guy was dangerous, That this guy was affiliating with
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Speaker 2: isis that this guy was looking to commit murder? All
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Speaker 2: of those are questions that come out. And I said,
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Speaker 2: number one, though, is keeping people safe. You know, one
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Speaker 2: of the frustrating things about this attack in New Orleans
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Speaker 2: is that there were steel barricades on Bourbon Street that
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Speaker 2: were installed in twenty seventeen, and they were installed to
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Speaker 2: prevent terrorist attacks in the area. And had the barricades
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Speaker 2: been up, they clearly would have minimized the carnage this morning. Unfortunately,
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Speaker 2: the barricades were down. The police chief said the barricades
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Speaker 2: were in the process of being replaced, and I will
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Speaker 2: say that is tragic. And look, got we've got bowl games.
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Speaker 2: They delayed the Sugar Bowl for a day, but we've
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Speaker 2: got football games across the country. We've got all sorts
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Speaker 2: of events across the country. We've got the inauguration on
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Speaker 2: January twentieth, and one of the very important front and
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Speaker 2: center needs to be keeping people safe and preventing another
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Speaker 2: terrorist attack. Just because one happened doesn't mean we're not
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Speaker 2: at risk of another one happening. And that's why we
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Speaker 2: need to be vigilant number one keeping people safe, but
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Speaker 2: number two tracking down everyone involved in these horrible atrocities
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Speaker 2: and then having full, full transparency and doing everything we
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Speaker 2: can to remove and to apprehend potential ISIS terrorists before
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Speaker 2: they take more lives.
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Speaker 1: Can we just talk for a moment about incompetency here,
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Speaker 1: because that's what everybody is thinking that I think is
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Speaker 1: listening right now the majority are I certainly am. And
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Speaker 1: when I talk about in commency, you just mentioned it.
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Speaker 1: It is New Year's Eve, Center, and this is when
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Speaker 1: I get angry. It's New Year's Eve. You have a
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Speaker 1: Sugar Bowl game that you've known about for a long
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Speaker 1: time and New Year's Eve, and you don't have the
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Speaker 1: barriers up that you know you need to keep people safe.
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Speaker 1: Because you say that you're getting them ready for the
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Speaker 1: super Bowl. Why wouldn't you have them ready for New
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Speaker 1: Year's Eve until the Super Bowl. Why is it that
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Speaker 1: it seems like every time we give government the funding
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Speaker 1: to do things like this and to protect people, there's
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Speaker 1: some excuse. And I go back to in competency on
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Speaker 1: what we talked about just a few days ago. You
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Speaker 1: look at the Biden administration and the plea deal they
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Speaker 1: gave the mastermind of nine to eleven, Khalide Chek Muhammad.
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Speaker 1: What message does that sind to tear us around the
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Speaker 1: world that we will spare your life, we will not
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Speaker 1: take your life even if you're the master a mind
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Speaker 1: nine to eleven. You combine these types of things, and
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Speaker 1: I think there's many Americans right now, and I say
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Speaker 1: this with frustration on behalf of many Americans that feel
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Speaker 1: like they are not being protected by this administration the
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Speaker 1: way they should be and were sending the wrong signals
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Speaker 1: to the terrorists.
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Speaker 2: At the same time, Well, we've had four years of
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Speaker 2: an open door, red carpet invitation for terrorists to come
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Speaker 2: across our southern border that has made us much much
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Speaker 2: less safe. We have also had law enforcement, including the FBI,
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Speaker 2: focused on political and partisan agendas instead of focusing on
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Speaker 2: the bad guys, stopping the bad guys before they commit
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Speaker 2: crimes like this. We will find out what information there
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Speaker 2: was that could have been used to prevent this attack.
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Speaker 2: We need to find that out. And even if the
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Speaker 2: Biden administration refuses to make it public and to be transparent,
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Speaker 2: I have significant confidence that the incoming Trump administration will
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Speaker 2: make that information public. And I got to say, look
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Speaker 2: for everyone who lost, for the fifteen people murdered this morning,
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Speaker 2: for the families of them, for the three dozen people
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Speaker 2: who were wounded, some very grievously wounded. I am sure
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Speaker 2: they are feeling a level of frustration and anger. They're
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Speaker 2: filling frustration with the city. Why weren't those barricades up.
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Speaker 2: The barricades should have been up. They were put in
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Speaker 2: in twenty seventeen. This risk was known New Year's Eve.
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Speaker 2: It's not like that's a surprising time for someone seeking
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Speaker 2: to do something horrible to target people. The eve of
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Speaker 2: the Sugar Bowl that was another name.
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Speaker 1: There's a great example of that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and listen, one of the real dangers of terrorism.
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Speaker 2: You can have a big elaborate plot of a dirty
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Speaker 2: bomb or attacking a nuclear reactor or something, but some
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Speaker 2: of the most frightening terrorism and Sadly, some of the
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Speaker 2: most effective terrorism is very low tech. It is driving
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Speaker 2: a truck into a crowd. It is walking into a
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Speaker 2: shopping mall wearing a suicide vest. It is you know,
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Speaker 2: I was living in DC twenty some odd years ago
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Speaker 2: when the DC sniper was there, and that was two
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Speaker 2: guys who drilled a hole in the trunk of their
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Speaker 2: car and drove around DC parked and sat there with
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Speaker 2: a rifle and just shot people. And I'll tell you,
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Speaker 2: the entire city was terrified, was on edge, and there
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Speaker 2: was no no high tech involved in it. And and
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Speaker 2: and that vulnerability is very real, which is why we
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Speaker 2: need a proactive FBI. We need law enforcement that that
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Speaker 2: that is focusing on the bad guys and and and
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Speaker 2: not on every political agenda that that that that might
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Speaker 2: be the latest fashionable priority.
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Speaker 1: I want to wrap up with letting the country hear
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Speaker 1: Joe Biden. He did address the nation from Camp David
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Speaker 1: uh seven o'clock on New Year's Day, as we were
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Speaker 1: recording this about two hours after that, and this is
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Speaker 1: what Joe Biden had to say, part of it, at
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Speaker 1: least about this attack. Take a listen, and I want
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Speaker 1: to get your reaction Texas.
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Speaker 6: He served in the United States Army an active duty
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Speaker 6: for many years. He also served in the Army Reserve
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Speaker 6: until a few years ago. The FBI also reported to
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Speaker 6: me that mere hours before the attack, he posted videos
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Speaker 6: on social media indicating that is inspired by ISIS, especially
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Speaker 6: the desire to kill desire to kill. The ISIS flag
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Speaker 6: was found in his vehicle, which he rented to conduct
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Speaker 6: this attack. Possible explosives are found in the vehicle as well,
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Speaker 6: and more explosives were found nearby. The situation is very fluid,
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Speaker 6: and the investigation has a preliminary stage, and the fact
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Speaker 6: is that right right now, excuse me, there you go.
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Speaker 6: The law enforcement intelligien community are continuing to look for
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Speaker 6: any connections, associations, are co conspirators, We have nothing, additionally,
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Speaker 6: report at this time, the investigation is continuing to be
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Speaker 6: active and no one should jump to conclusions. I've directed
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Speaker 6: my Attorney General, the FBI Director, the Secretary of Homeland Security,
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Speaker 6: head a National counter intelligence to Terrorism Center, and the
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Speaker 6: intelligence community to work on this intensively until we have
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Speaker 6: a full and complete information. And once we have that information,
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Speaker 6: I will share that information as soon as we can
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Speaker 6: confirm it. Additionally, we're tracking the explosion of the cyber
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Speaker 6: truck outside the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas. Law enforcement
24:34
Speaker 6: and the intelligence community are investigating this as well, including
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Speaker 6: whether there's any possible connection with the attacking New Orleans.
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Speaker 6: Thus far, there's nothing to report on that score at
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Speaker 6: this time. I've directed my team to make sure every resource,
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Speaker 6: every resource is made available to federal, state, and local
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Speaker 6: law enforcement to complete the investigation in New Orleans quickly,
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Speaker 6: and to make sure there is no remains thread.
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Speaker 1: You know, there's part of me that's like, Okay, I'm
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Speaker 1: glad that the president's out there saying this. There's another
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Speaker 1: part of me when he got lost and said excuse
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Speaker 1: me while reading that teleprompter, that was just a three
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Speaker 1: sixty moment of his entire time in the presidency. The
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Speaker 1: reporting that we talked about about his cognitive decline, just
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Speaker 1: I think it was on the last pod. And yet
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Speaker 1: this is the guy who is in charge, and you
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Speaker 1: wonder why some of these things are happening. Well, he
25:30
Speaker 1: gets lost in the teleprompter and has to apologize while
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Speaker 1: reading a prepared statement, and that's the type of leadership
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Speaker 1: we've had.
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Speaker 2: Well, listen, I am glad the president gave that press
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Speaker 2: conference tonight. I'm glad he's speaking out. I think the
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Speaker 2: substance of what he said is right. I wish him.
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Speaker 2: I wish the Department of Justice of the FBI every
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Speaker 2: success and very quickly finding anyone involved in this, apprehending them,
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Speaker 2: focusing on it. There will be times there is no
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Speaker 2: doubt that the horrible policies of this administration, the open
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Speaker 2: borders for four years, have contributed to making us less safe,
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Speaker 2: have contributed to increasing the likelihood of a terrorist attack.
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Speaker 2: But at this point, look whether whether Joe Biden the
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Speaker 2: Democrats intend to be transparent or not, I am confident
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Speaker 2: the incoming administration will make this information public. It needs
26:23
Speaker 2: to be public so there can be accountability for where
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Speaker 2: where the ball was dropped, because at the end of
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Speaker 2: the day, this attack was not prevented tragically, and we
26:35
Speaker 2: need to learn from that and make sure we stop
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Speaker 2: the next attack. But what I will say tonight is
26:43
Speaker 2: that our prayers are with the families and loved ones
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Speaker 2: of those who were murdered earlier. Today, our prayers are
26:50
Speaker 2: with all of the victims who were injured. We are
26:53
Speaker 2: praying for their recovery, We're praying for their safety, and
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Speaker 2: I'll say to all of you, look, look, stay vigilance,
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Speaker 2: stay safe, and and tonight you give your kids an
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Speaker 2: extra hug, and remember your family and those you love,
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Speaker 2: because it's a dangerous world we live in right now.
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Speaker 1: No doubt about it. Our thoughts and prayers are with
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Speaker 1: all those in the hospital, dozens and dozens injured in
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Speaker 1: New Orleans and at least seven injured in what happened
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Speaker 1: in Vegas. That suspect is we now know the death
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Speaker 1: toll has risen. At this moment, we're recording to fifteen people.
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Speaker 1: Pray for those families the center, and I will see
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Speaker 1: you back here as well. If there's any other significant
27:34
Speaker 1: breaking news, we will make sure that we get it
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Speaker 1: to you. But we wanted to make sure we had
27:38
Speaker 1: this conversation with you as soon as we could tonight,
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Speaker 1: and be safe everyone, and we'll see you back here
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Speaker 1: in a couple of days