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Terrorist Attack in America Again · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: Welcome. It is the Ben Ferguson Podcast, and we've got
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Speaker 1: a lot of breaking news, a lot of information that
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Speaker 1: I want to get to you. Center Cruz and I
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Speaker 1: did a podcast together, a joint podcast with the latest
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Speaker 1: news we have, and I want to bring that to
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Speaker 1: you now. Things may change, and I want you to know,
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Speaker 1: as I'm saying this to you right now, it's ten
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Speaker 1: oh six Eastern time on New Year's Day, so some
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Speaker 1: of you may be listening to different points and looks.
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Speaker 1: Some of this info may change. Just want you to
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Speaker 1: understand that. But this is the latest that we know
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Speaker 1: from the federal response, local information from New Orleans, from
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Speaker 1: Vegas with a Tesla that blew up rented on turow.
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Speaker 1: The app there the same as the truck that was
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Speaker 1: runned by turo in New Orleans. Is there connection there?
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Speaker 1: Officials are eyeing a link in the Trump hotel blast
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Speaker 1: and the truck attack. Is what Biden has said at
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Speaker 1: his press conference. We're also going to play for you
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Speaker 1: Joe Biden's words and what he said to the nation
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Speaker 1: from Camp David as we are starting to piece more
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Speaker 1: of this together. The latest death count, though in New
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Speaker 1: Orleans is fifteen, with dozens more injured, and we will
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Speaker 1: break down that attack, who this individual is, all of
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Speaker 1: that for you right now, Senator, this has a connection
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Speaker 1: obviously to Texas. Many of us were celebrating New Year's Eve.
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Speaker 1: You were down at mar A Lago. I was with
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Speaker 1: my family at the beach, and then we see and
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Speaker 1: wake up to this news breaking. And I want to
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Speaker 1: timestamp this for people to understand when we're recording this.
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Speaker 1: We're recording this at nine thirty Eastern time on Wednesday,
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Speaker 1: so much of this may change. So I just want
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Speaker 1: you to know when we started this, but I want
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Speaker 1: to get 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 in the morning New
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Speaker 2: Year's Day, forty two year old Shamsad Din baharjab 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: the days and weeks to come. We're less than twenty
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Speaker 2: four hours out from this attack, but what we know
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Speaker 2: now is deeply, deeply disturbing. It has been reported that
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Speaker 2: this army veteran drove the pickup truck deliberately into a
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Speaker 2: crowd of revelers with the intent of killing and harming
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Speaker 2: as many people as possible. It's also been reported that
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Speaker 2: the pickup truck was flying an ISIS flag and that
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Speaker 2: Jabbar was inspired by ISIS. Simultaneously, we have a Tesla
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Speaker 2: cyber truck that exploded in front of the Trump Hotel
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Speaker 2: in Las Vegas, killing one injuring several The one who
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Speaker 2: was killed was the driver. It is not confirmed that
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Speaker 2: those two are linked, but both occurred early in the
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Speaker 2: morning on New Year's Day, and America is now dealing
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Speaker 2: with the aftermath of one or potentially two terrorist attacks,
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Speaker 2: finding 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 IEDs,
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Speaker 2: and at this point, the entire country is reeling from
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Speaker 2: 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 the 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 lists. 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
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Speaker 1: Texan as you described it, The real problem can be
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Speaker 1: that we are stretched so thin with so many possibilities
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Speaker 1: out there that this this is one of those examples
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Speaker 1: of when we've had this open door policy. Law enforcement
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Speaker 1: is doing the maybe in many cases, the best they can,
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Speaker 1: and they just don't have the time or the resources
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Speaker 1: they need 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: on it, so earlier today it was reported that the
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Speaker 2: truck used in the New Orleans attack came through the
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Speaker 2: southern border. The Daily Wire reported that early today. Fox
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Speaker 2: News 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 turou 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 we're 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 were
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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 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 with terrorist ties, including ISIS, and it's still
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Speaker 1: incredibly easy for them to enter the US. This report
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Speaker 1: came out October the twenty third, So we're talking a
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Speaker 1: couple of months ago, and you and I, and that's
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Speaker 1: when you really talked about you felt like there was
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Speaker 1: a real chance that something like this could happen because
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Speaker 1: of the of the idea that we have so many
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Speaker 1: resources spread all over the place. When you look ahead
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Speaker 1: to January twentieth, and Donald Trump coming in, does this
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Speaker 1: now clearly become a top priority on the issue of
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Speaker 1: 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 Judiciary Committee
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Speaker 2: on the horrors of mass deportations, not on the need
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Speaker 2: to secure the border, but on how terrible it was,
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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 I's 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 half
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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 listen, this is.
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Speaker 3: Not a terrorist event. What it is right now is
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Speaker 3: there improvised explosive devices that was found and we are
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Speaker 3: working on confirming if this is a viable device or not.
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Speaker 3: As Chief Kirkpatrick said, we're asking everyone to stay away
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Speaker 3: from Bourbon Street, specifically from Canal Street to Saint Anne.
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Speaker 3: That is my ask once again, stay away from Bourbon Street,
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Speaker 3: Canal Street all the way to Saint Anne until we
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Speaker 3: can figure out what is going on. Our goal is
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Speaker 3: provide you additional information at the eleven am press conference.
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Speaker 3: Thank you so much, and 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 super Dome are safe
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Speaker 4: today for the game. And yet we had this tragic
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Speaker 4: event and we're sorry again to everyone in our community.
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Speaker 2: But we do want you to.
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Speaker 4: Go about the day as we say, 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: think 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: and in such a hardcore way, so this is not
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Speaker 1: a terrorist attack, not being treated like a terisa and
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Speaker 1: people are like, what's wrong with you? And The part
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Speaker 1: that also went viral after that was a tweet that
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Speaker 1: came out from the FBI New Orleans and it was
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Speaker 1: them having holding this summer a diversity agent recruitment event
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Speaker 1: and we want to meet you. This was DEI on
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Speaker 1: full display. We went diversity, inequity inclusion. And people say
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Speaker 1: this statement and then that tweet, and they say, what
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Speaker 1: is happening 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 did.
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Speaker 2: The truck he used across the border six six weeks ago. However,
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Speaker 2: we don't know the story of how he was radicalized.
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Speaker 2: Someone who was an Army veteran who served for many years,
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Speaker 2: who became a self described proponent of isis that is
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Speaker 2: something gone profoundly wrong, and it reminds me of Nadal Hassan.
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Speaker 2: Nadal Hassan, you'll recall, who murdered fourteen innocent souls at
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Speaker 2: Fort Hood. He was active duty military and he became radicalized,
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Speaker 2: and during the Obama administration that they knew that he
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Speaker 2: was communicating with the radical Islamic cleric and War Alilaki
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Speaker 2: and asking about the permissibility of waging jahad on his
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Speaker 2: fellow soldiers. And infuriatingly enough, the Obama Pentagon they had
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Speaker 2: those communications with Anwar Alilaki, and they did nothing to
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Speaker 2: stop Nadal Hassan from from committing that mass murder. That
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Speaker 2: they sat on that information, and we don't know if
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Speaker 2: there's any of that. We have no indication that there's
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Speaker 2: any of that information now. But I will say we're
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Speaker 2: dealing with another individual who is a soldier who apparently
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Speaker 2: became radicalized, and I think there's a real need for
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Speaker 2: transparency to figure out what happened. And I want to
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Speaker 2: play my colleague John Kennedy, Senator John Kennedy, a good
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Speaker 2: friend of mine. He's down in New Orleans now. I
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Speaker 2: want to play what he had to say because I
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Speaker 2: very much agree with with what he expressed on the
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Speaker 2: 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 Whitehouse, the FBI, Justice,
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Speaker 5: Homeland Security are in charge. Now we're cooperating with them.
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Speaker 5: I want to give them a reasonable period of time.
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Speaker 5: There's a lot of information out there, some of it
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Speaker 5: is actually true. I want to give them a reasonable
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Speaker 5: period of time, but they need to saddle.
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Speaker 6: Up and ride.
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Speaker 5: We need to find out what happened here, and it's
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Speaker 5: not going to be covered up. We're going to tell
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Speaker 5: the American people exactly what happened. I'm not interested in
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Speaker 5: placing blame or saying who is right or wrong. I
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Speaker 5: just want to catch the sons of bitches who did this.
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Speaker 1: Centator. 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 there,
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Speaker 1: the centator 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 are
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Speaker 2: other conspirators, Was this a broader plot? Number three needs
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Speaker 2: to be transparency, figuring out how did this come to pass?
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Speaker 2: Why was this not prevented. Why did nobody sound the
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Speaker 2: alarm that this guy was dangerous? That with this guy
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Speaker 2: was affiliating with? Isis that this guy was looking to
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Speaker 2: commit murder? All of those are questions that come out,
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Speaker 2: and I said, number one, though, is keeping people safe.
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Speaker 2: You know, one of the frustrating things about this attack
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Speaker 2: in New Orleans is that there were steel barricades on
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Speaker 2: Bourbon Street that were installed in twenty seventeen, and they
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Speaker 2: were installed to prevent terrorist attacks in the area. And
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Speaker 2: had the barricades been up, they clearly would have minimized
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Speaker 2: the carnage this morning. Unfortunately, the barricades were down. The
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Speaker 2: police chief said the barricades were in the process of
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Speaker 2: being replaced, and I will say that is tragic. And look,
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Speaker 2: we've got we've got Bowl games. They delayed the Sugar
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Speaker 2: Bowl for a day, but we've got football games across
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Speaker 2: the country. We've got all sorts of events across the country.
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Speaker 2: We've got the inauguration on January twentieth, and one of
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Speaker 2: the very important front and center needs to be keeping
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Speaker 2: people safe and preventing another terrorist attack. Just because one
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Speaker 2: happened doesn't mean we're not at risk. Of another one happening,
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Speaker 2: and that's why we need to be vigilant. Number one
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Speaker 2: keeping people safe, but number two tracking down everyone involved
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Speaker 2: in these horrible atrocities and then having full, full transparency
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Speaker 2: and doing everything we can to remove and to apprehend
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Speaker 2: potential ISIS terrorists before 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 incompetancy. On what
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Speaker 1: we talked about just a few days ago, you look
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Speaker 1: at the Biden administration and the plea deal they gave
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Speaker 1: the mastermind of nine to eleven, Khalid Chaik Muhammad. What
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Speaker 1: message does that sin to terrorists around the world that
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Speaker 1: we will spare your life, we will not take your
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Speaker 1: life even if you're the master a mind nine eleven.
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Speaker 1: You combine these types of things, and I think there's
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Speaker 1: many Americans right now, and I say this with frustration
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Speaker 1: on behalf of many Americans that feel like they are
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Speaker 1: not being protected by this administration the way they should be,
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Speaker 1: and we're sending the wrong signals 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 barricks 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 man.
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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
22:31
Speaker 2: of the most frightening terrorism, and sadly, some of the
22:35
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 car,
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Speaker 2: drove around DC, parked and sat there with a rifle
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Speaker 2: and just shot people. And I'll tell you the the
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Speaker 2: entire city was terrified, was on edge, and there was
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Speaker 2: no no high tech involved in it. And and and
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Speaker 2: that vulnerability is very real, which is why we need
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Speaker 2: a proactive FBI. We need law enforcement that that that
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Speaker 2: is focusing on the bad guys and and and not
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Speaker 2: on every political agenda that that that that might be
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Speaker 2: 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 at seven o'clock on New Year's Day. As we
23:39
Speaker 1: were recording this about two hours after that. And this
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Speaker 1: is what Joe Biden had to say, part of it,
23:44
Speaker 1: at least about this attack. Take a list, and I
23:46
Speaker 1: want to get your reaction.
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Speaker 7: Texas. He served in the United States Army on active
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Speaker 7: duty for many years. He also served in the Army
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Speaker 7: Reserve until a few years ago. If I also reported
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Speaker 7: to me that mere hours before the attack, he posted
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Speaker 7: videos on social media indicating that is inspired by ISIS,
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Speaker 7: especially the desire to kill the desire to kill the
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Speaker 7: ISIS flag was found in his vehicle, which he rented
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Speaker 7: to conduct this attack. Possible explosives are found in the
24:19
Speaker 7: vehicle as well, and more explosive were found nearby. The
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Speaker 7: situation is very fluid, and the investigation has a preliminary stage.
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Speaker 7: And the fact is that right right now, excuse me,
24:36
Speaker 7: there you go, the law enforcement and tells the community
24:40
Speaker 7: are continuing to look for any connections, associations, are co conspirators.
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Speaker 7: We have nothing additionally report at this time. The investigation
24:50
Speaker 7: is continuing to be active and no one should jump
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Speaker 7: to conclusions. I've directed my Attorney General, the FBI director,
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Speaker 7: the Secretary of Homeland Security, head a National counter intelligence
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Speaker 7: Terrorism Center, and the intelligence community to work on this
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Speaker 7: intensively until we have a full and complete information, and
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Speaker 7: once we have that information, I will share that information
25:16
Speaker 7: as soon as we can confirm it. Additionally, we're tracking
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Speaker 7: the explosion of a cyber truck outside the Trump Hotel
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Speaker 7: in Las Vegas. Law enforcement and the intelligence community are
25:29
Speaker 7: investigating this as well, including whether there's any possible connection
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Speaker 7: with the attacking New Orleans. Thus far, there's nothing to
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Speaker 7: report on that score at this time. I directed my
25:41
Speaker 7: team to make sure every resource, every resource is made
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Speaker 7: available to federal, state, and local law enforcement to complete
25:49
Speaker 7: the investigation in New Orleans quickly, and to make sure
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Speaker 7: there's no remaining threat.
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Speaker 1: You know, there's part of me that's like, Okay, I'm
25:58
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
26:12
Speaker 1: reporting that we talked about about his cognitive decline just
26:15
Speaker 1: I think it was on the last pod. And yet
26:19
Speaker 1: this is the guy who is in charge, and you
26:21
Speaker 1: wonder why some of these things are happening. Well, he
26:23
Speaker 1: gets lost in the teleprompter and has to apologize while
26:26
Speaker 1: reading a prepared statement. And that's the type of leadership
26:30
Speaker 1: we've had.
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Speaker 2: Well listen, I am glad the President gave that press
26:35
Speaker 2: conference tonight. I'm glad he's speaking out. I think the
26:38
Speaker 2: substance of what he said is right. I wish him,
26:43
Speaker 2: I wish the Department of Justice and the FBI every
26:46
Speaker 2: success and very quickly finding anyone involved in this, apprehending them,
26:51
Speaker 2: focusing on it. There will be times. There is no
26:54
Speaker 2: doubt that the horrible policies of this administration, the open
26:58
Speaker 2: borders for four years, have contributed to making us less safe,
27:02
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
27:12
Speaker 2: the incoming administration will make this information public. It needs
27:16
Speaker 2: to be public so there can be accountability for where
27:20
Speaker 2: where the ball was dropped. Because at the end of
27:22
Speaker 2: the day, this attack was not prevented tragically, and we
27:28
Speaker 2: need to learn from that and and make sure we
27:32
Speaker 2: we stop the next attack. But what I will say
27:35
Speaker 2: tonight is that our prayers are with the families and
27:38
Speaker 2: loved ones of those who were murdered earlier. Today, our
27:42
Speaker 2: prayers are with all of the victims who were injured.
27:46
Speaker 2: We are praying for their recovery, We're praying for their safety.
27:48
Speaker 2: And I'll say to all of you, look, look, stay vigilance,
27:52
Speaker 2: stay safe, and and and tonight, you know, give your
27:56
Speaker 2: kids an extra hug and and and and remember you're
28:00
Speaker 2: your family and those you love. Because it's a dangerous
28:02
Speaker 2: world we live in right now.
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