Verdict with Ted Cruz - January 02, 2025


Terror Attack in New Orleans-What We Know So Far


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Sen. Ted Cruz speaks about the New Orleans attack and the Tesla Cybertruck blast in Las Vegas, which may be linked to a terrorist attack in the early morning hours of New Year s Day in which killed at least 15 people and injured many more.

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00:00:00.000 Welcome. It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz. This is obviously one of those shows that neither of us wanted to do, but it's an important one to get you information about what has happened and this horrific terrorist attack in New Orleans and also what looks to be some sort of attack in Las Vegas outside of the Trump Hotel there.
00:00:20.660 Senator, this has a connection, obviously, to Texas. Many of us were celebrating New Year's Eve. You were down at Mar-a-Lago. I was with my family at the beach. And then we see and wake up to this news breaking. And I want to timestamp this for people to understand when we're recording this. We're recording this at 930 Eastern time on Wednesday. So much of this may change. So I just want you to know when we started this. But I want to get your initial reaction to what we've witnessed.
00:00:48.960 Well, we're less than 24 hours out from the United States once again seeing a significant terrorist attack on U.S. soil. At 3.15 in the morning, New Year's Day, 42-year-old Shamsa Din Bahar Jabbar, who is a U.S. citizen, a Texas resident, he drove a white pickup truck into people celebrating on Bourbon Street.
00:01:15.620 Jabbar was born in Beaumont, Texas. He resides in Houston, your hometown and my hometown. And he was an Army veteran. As we talk today, 15 people have been killed and several dozen more have been injured.
00:01:35.900 And I will say, as is the nature of any fast-breaking crisis and fast-breaking news story, the news that is available is rapidly moving.
00:01:46.940 It is changing. So we're going to talk about what's happening, what we know now, but with the caveat that we can fully expect the information we know on this to change and very possibly change significantly in the days and weeks to come.
00:02:01.080 We're less than 24 hours out from this attack. But what we know now is deeply, deeply disturbing.
00:02:08.560 It has been reported that this Army veteran drove the pickup truck deliberately into a crowd of revelers with the intent of killing and harming as many people as possible.
00:02:22.160 It's also been reported that the pickup truck was flying an ISIS flag and that Jabbar was inspired by ISIS.
00:02:34.820 Simultaneously, we have a Tesla Cybertruck that exploded in front of the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas, killing one, injuring several.
00:02:46.220 The one who was killed was the driver. It is not confirmed that those two are linked, but both occurred early in the morning on New Year's Day.
00:02:56.480 And America is now dealing with the aftermath of one or potentially two terrorist attacks, finding out who's responsible, finding out if additional actors were responsible.
00:03:09.260 There have been multiple reports of additional individuals potentially placing IEDs.
00:03:16.580 And at this point, the entire country is reeling from this attack.
00:03:22.140 It is really sad. And this goes back to the bigger concern that we've worried about on this show and talked about.
00:03:30.080 And it's something that I think so many Americans felt.
00:03:33.520 You had a wide open southern border. You had a lot of people that have been able to come across the southern border that were caught.
00:03:41.620 They were on the terrorist watch list. You have law enforcement that I think it's pretty fair to say is stretched extremely thin when you're having to deal with a wide open southern border and what is coming across that southern border.
00:03:52.400 And this individual being an American citizen and being a Texan, as you described it, the real problem can be that we are stretched so thin with so many possibilities out there that this is one of those examples of when we've had this open door policy, law enforcement is doing the maybe in many cases the best they can.
00:04:16.080 And they just don't have the time or the resources they need to focus in on these types of threats.
00:04:20.820 Well, that is tragically correct. And on this podcast, we have been predicting for months now that the odds of a major terrorist attack in the United States were higher than they have been at any time since September 11th.
00:04:36.860 And unfortunately, this morning's tragic events confirms that now in this instance, the facts are still coming out.
00:04:45.820 What we know about Jabbar, according to the Army Liaison's Office and what he has told what they have released, he served in the Army from 2006 to 2020, including approximately nine years of active duty service.
00:05:00.180 He held specialties in HR and IT. He was born in Beaumont, Texas. He deployed in Afghanistan from 2009 to 2010.
00:05:15.280 He was in the Army Reserve from 2015 to 2020. And he was discharged in 2020 with an honorable discharge for unsatisfactory participation.
00:05:25.820 That much we know. We also know that in his truck were found explosive devices, explosive devices, including two pipe bombs that were concealed within coolers and wired for remote detonation.
00:05:46.640 That's according to the Louisiana State Police. And the pickup truck, the pickup truck, its its origin, there has been conflicting reporting on it.
00:06:00.360 So earlier today, it was reported that the truck used in the New Orleans attack came through the southern border.
00:06:10.540 The Daily Wire reported that early today. Fox News reported that the truck entered the U.S. two days ago.
00:06:18.300 But then they then updated their story to report that the truck crossed the southern border on November 16th.
00:06:25.780 So November 16th, a month and a half ago, apparently the truck crossed the southern border.
00:06:31.980 It has also now been reported that the truck in New Orleans was rented using the Turo app.
00:06:39.840 The Turo app is a peer-to-peer app.
00:06:41.680 And one of the strange details that has been reported is that both the truck in New Orleans and the Cybertruck in Las Vegas, rather, were both rented using the Turo app.
00:06:56.560 That may simply be a coincidence. It may be something more.
00:07:01.400 But what has been reported, the New York Times is reporting that both were rented using Turo.
00:07:08.680 Turo itself put out a statement that said that it was, quote,
00:07:13.840 actively partnering with law enforcement authorities as they investigate both incidents.
00:07:18.660 They also said, quote, we do not believe that either renter involved in the Las Vegas or New Orleans attacks
00:07:24.020 had a criminal background that would have identified them as a security threat.
00:07:27.820 threat. It's not clear as we sit here today the full details of that.
00:07:34.540 But but but those are the breaking details as of 941 p.m.
00:07:40.480 I want to go back to a headline real quick, and then I also want to play for everybody what Joe Biden said.
00:07:45.960 But this was a headline that you and I talked about and warned about.
00:07:49.640 And it was from the New York Post, October the 23rd of 2024.
00:07:55.720 And it said border agents caught 300 migrants with terrorist ties, including ISIS.
00:08:02.280 And it's still incredibly easy for them to enter the U.S.
00:08:08.240 This report came out October the 23rd.
00:08:11.280 So we're talking a couple of months ago and you and I and that's when you really talked about you felt like there was a a real chance
00:08:21.200 that something like this could happen because of the of the of the idea that we have so many resources spread all over the place.
00:08:29.720 When you look ahead to January 20th and Donald Trump coming in, does this now clearly become a top priority on the issue of border security?
00:08:38.040 Because it's a national security issue very much and getting back to doing the way that we used to deal with,
00:08:44.000 whether it was domestic or homegrown or foreign terrorism.
00:08:47.860 One hundred percent.
00:08:49.200 One of the things that is maddening is even to this day, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and the Democrats refuse to secure the border.
00:08:56.460 Just a few weeks ago, the Democrats held a hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee on the horrors of mass deportations,
00:09:04.180 not on the need to secure the border, but on how terrible it was that Trump is going to enforce the law.
00:09:11.220 The border will be secured.
00:09:13.300 We are three weeks away from an administration coming in that is going to be, I believe, absolutely serious and incredibly effective securing the border.
00:09:24.080 But every day that border is open, Americans are at greater risk and we're at risk, number one, from terrorists crossing the southern border.
00:09:32.420 But number two, we're at risk from law enforcement, the FBI, the federal government focusing on every other policy and agenda item other than keeping the American people safe.
00:09:45.360 You know, I have to say one of the things that was dismaying is the FBI right after this happened in New Orleans.
00:09:52.080 They went out and publicly said this was not a terrorist attack.
00:09:55.480 The New Orleans police disagreed with that statement.
00:09:58.440 The FBI has since gone on to say they are investigating it as terrorism.
00:10:03.820 But I got to say, when a truck drives into a crowd waving an ISIS flag, I don't know what the hell you call it other than terrorism.
00:10:10.180 Yeah, and that, I think, is one of the things that's so frustrating.
00:10:14.140 And that moves us also to what we witnessed today with the closed circuit TV footage of the cyber truck that exploded in front of Trump Tower, killing that driver.
00:10:23.720 We're now being told by authorities there that they said the driver of the electric vehicle parked in the valley area outside the hotel's lobby before it exploded into flames.
00:10:34.180 The flames there, we've gotten a tweet from Elon Musk saying that this was not, in fact, the batteries or a malfunction of the car that so many immediately wanted to blame.
00:10:45.180 This was a Tesla accident that just happened to happen the same day as this other attack at the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas.
00:10:51.800 They've now said definitively in law enforcement this was not any type of battery issue or a malfunction.
00:10:57.220 This was clearly done deliberately.
00:10:59.260 And thank goodness, no one besides that driver, from what we understand, died.
00:11:04.180 There were seven that were injured there.
00:11:05.900 And this is now being treated, apparently, as a other terrorist activity attack in Las Vegas as well.
00:11:14.320 Well, that's right.
00:11:16.480 And the details there, that there's one fatality from the Las Vegas explosion, and that was the driver himself.
00:11:23.100 The driver in New Orleans is also dead from a shootout with the police.
00:11:28.080 As soon as it happened, the mayor of New Orleans, LaToya Cantrell, publicly described it as a terrorist attack.
00:11:35.320 The police chief stated the driver's actions were intentional.
00:11:38.920 This was not a DUI situation.
00:11:41.220 According to the chief, the driver was, quote, hell-bent on creating carnage.
00:11:45.880 And yet, as I mentioned, the FBI spokesperson countered the mayor's claim moments later, stating it was, quote, not a terrorist event.
00:11:54.280 Here, give a listen.
00:11:55.460 This is not a terrorist event.
00:11:57.240 What it is right now is their improvised explosive devices that was found, and we are working on confirming if it's a viable device or not.
00:12:07.200 As Chief Kirkpatrick said, we're asking everyone to stay away from Bourbon Street, specifically from Canal Street to St. Anne.
00:12:15.580 That is my ask.
00:12:16.560 Once again, stay away from Bourbon Street, Canal Street, all the way to St. Anne, until we can figure out what is going on.
00:12:25.220 Our goal is provide you additional information at the 11 a.m. press conference.
00:12:29.900 Thank you so much, and we will be in touch.
00:12:33.540 Yes.
00:12:33.980 I will say that we want our community and our visitors to continue enjoying.
00:12:39.280 There's so much to enjoy about New Orleans.
00:12:42.500 And we are going to make sure that our routes and the Superdome are safe today for the game, and yet we had this tragic event.
00:12:53.860 And we're sorry again to everyone in our community.
00:12:58.060 But we do want you to go about the day.
00:13:00.960 As we say, just stay away from Bourbon.
00:13:03.860 There's two parts of that, Senator, that I think are the most frustrating for many people that are listening.
00:13:10.540 One, the out-of-touch-with-reality, and you want to have faith in law enforcement, but to come out and in such a hardcore way say this is not a terrorist attack, not being treated like a terrorist attack, and people are like, what's wrong with you?
00:13:24.480 And the part that also went viral after that was a tweet that came out from the FBI in New Orleans, and it was them holding this summer a diversity agent recruitment event, and we want to meet you.
00:13:39.000 This was DEI on full display.
00:13:41.400 We want diversity and equity inclusion, and people say this statement and then that tweet, and they say, what is happening at the FBI?
00:13:50.620 Well, the FBI has, in far too many instances, not kept their eye on the ball, and that is one of the reasons that Donald Trump is coming into office with an agenda of fundamentally reforming the Department of Justice and the FBI, getting it back, focused on its core mission, ending the weaponization, ending the politicization, and its core mission includes preventing acts of terrorism.
00:14:16.340 Now, in this instance, the terrorist in New Orleans was an American citizen, so he did not cross the border illegally, although apparently his truck did, the truck he used crossed the border six weeks ago.
00:14:31.100 However, we don't know the story of how he was radicalized, someone who was an Army veteran who served for many years, who became a self-described proponent of ISIS.
00:14:43.180 That is something gone profoundly wrong, and it reminds me of Nadal Hassan.
00:14:50.900 Nadal Hassan, you'll recall, who murdered 14 innocent souls at Fort Hood. 1.00
00:14:55.660 He was active-duty military, and he became radicalized.
00:14:58.380 And during the Obama administration, they knew that he was communicating with the radical Islamic cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki, and asking about the permissibility of waging jihad on his fellow soldiers.
00:15:13.000 And infuriatingly enough, the Obama Pentagon, they had those communications with Anwar al-Awlaki, and they did nothing to stop Nadal Hassan from committing that mass murder.
00:15:29.480 They sat on that information, and we don't know if there's any of that.
00:15:34.620 We have no indication that there's any of that information now, but I will say we're dealing with another individual who is a soldier who apparently became radicalized,
00:15:44.620 and I think there's a real need for transparency to figure out what happened.
00:15:49.840 And I want to play my colleague John Kennedy, Senator John Kennedy, a good friend of mine.
00:15:54.700 He's down in New Orleans now.
00:15:56.240 I want to play what he had to say because I very much agree with what he expressed on the ground today.
00:16:01.620 I don't want to hear from anybody in the federal government that they don't have the resources.
00:16:06.400 Now, the White House, the FBI, Justice, Homeland Security are in charge now.
00:16:12.680 We're cooperating with them.
00:16:14.600 I want to give them a reasonable period of time.
00:16:16.740 There's a lot of information out there.
00:16:18.240 Some of it is actually true.
00:16:20.140 I want to give them a reasonable period of time, but they need to saddle up and ride.
00:16:24.980 We need to find out what happened here, and it's not going to be covered up.
00:16:29.060 We're going to tell the American people exactly what happened.
00:16:33.200 I'm not interested in placing blame or saying who was right or wrong. 0.99
00:16:38.300 I just want to catch these sons of bitches who did this. 1.00
00:16:42.700 Senator, I think that the sentiment that many are feeling is exactly the way it was described by your colleague there, 0.99
00:16:50.000 the senator from Louisiana.
00:16:51.460 Well, Kennedy's absolutely right, and look, the priority, number one, needs to be keeping people safe.
00:16:58.300 Number two, needs to be catching anyone else involved in this.
00:17:02.260 Were there other conspirators?
00:17:03.920 Was this a broader plot?
00:17:05.680 Number three needs to be transparency, figuring out how did this come to pass?
00:17:10.500 Why was this not prevented?
00:17:12.220 Why did nobody sound the alarm that this guy was dangerous,
00:17:16.060 that this guy was affiliating with ISIS,
00:17:18.660 that this guy was looking to commit murder?
00:17:20.820 All of those are questions that come out.
00:17:22.720 And I said number one, though, is keeping people safe.
00:17:25.620 You know, one of the frustrating things about this attack in New Orleans
00:17:28.640 is that there were steel barricades on Bourbon Street
00:17:32.480 that were installed in 2017,
00:17:34.920 and they were installed to prevent terrorist attacks in the area.
00:17:39.580 And had the barricades been up,
00:17:42.460 they clearly would have minimized the carnage this morning.
00:17:47.940 Unfortunately, the barricades were down.
00:17:50.580 The police chief said the barricades were in the process of being replaced,
00:17:54.880 and I will say that is tragic.
00:17:57.440 And look, we've got bowl games.
00:18:00.020 They delayed the Sugar Bowl for a day,
00:18:01.720 but we've got football games across the country.
00:18:03.600 We've got all sorts of events across the country.
00:18:06.640 We've got the inauguration on January 20th.
00:18:09.360 And one of the very important front and center
00:18:12.480 needs to be keeping people safe
00:18:14.680 and preventing another terrorist attack.
00:18:16.520 Just because one happened doesn't mean
00:18:18.680 we're not at risk of another one happening.
00:18:21.300 And that's why we need to be vigilant,
00:18:23.680 number one, keeping people safe,
00:18:25.180 but number two, tracking down
00:18:26.860 everyone involved in these horrible atrocities,
00:18:30.180 and then having full transparency
00:18:32.480 and doing everything we can
00:18:34.460 to remove and to apprehend potential ISIS terrorists
00:18:40.580 before they take more lives.
00:18:44.260 Can we just talk for a moment about incompetency here?
00:18:47.980 Because that's what everybody is thinking
00:18:49.820 that I think is listening right now.
00:18:51.020 The majority are.
00:18:51.740 I certainly am.
00:18:52.900 And when I talk about incompetency,
00:18:54.420 you just mentioned it.
00:18:55.680 It is New Year's Eve, Senator,
00:18:57.340 and this is when I get angry.
00:18:59.020 It's New Year's Eve.
00:19:00.780 You have a Sugar Bowl game
00:19:02.000 that you've known about for a long time
00:19:04.140 and New Year's Eve,
00:19:05.800 and you don't have the barriers up
00:19:08.040 that you know you need to keep people safe
00:19:10.120 because you say
00:19:11.260 that you're getting them ready
00:19:13.400 for the Super Bowl.
00:19:15.200 Why wouldn't you have them ready
00:19:16.580 for New Year's Eve
00:19:17.920 until the Super Bowl?
00:19:20.000 Why is it that it seems like
00:19:21.300 every time we give government
00:19:22.880 the funding to do things like this
00:19:25.080 and to protect people,
00:19:26.760 there's some excuse?
00:19:28.540 And I go back to incompetency.
00:19:30.180 On what we talked about
00:19:31.420 just a few days ago.
00:19:33.320 You look at the Biden administration
00:19:35.640 and the plea deal they gave
00:19:38.140 to the mastermind of 9-11,
00:19:39.620 Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
00:19:40.880 What message does that send
00:19:42.480 to terrorists around the world
00:19:44.360 that we will spare your life, 0.75
00:19:47.000 we will not take your life,
00:19:48.340 even if you're the mastermind of 9-11?
00:19:49.960 You combine these types of things,
00:19:51.860 and I think there's many Americans right now,
00:19:53.860 and I say this with frustration,
00:19:55.660 on behalf of many Americans
00:19:57.240 that feel like they are not being protected
00:20:00.920 by this administration the way they should be,
00:20:03.460 and we're sending the wrong signals
00:20:05.200 to the terrorists at the same time.
00:20:06.680 Well, we've had four years
00:20:08.860 of an open-door, red-carpet invitation
00:20:11.280 for terrorists to come across our southern border.
00:20:14.100 That has made us much, much less safe.
00:20:16.720 We have also had law enforcement,
00:20:18.700 including the FBI,
00:20:19.880 focused on political and partisan agendas
00:20:22.560 instead of focusing on the bad guys,
00:20:25.460 stopping the bad guys
00:20:26.560 before they commit crimes like this.
00:20:28.660 We will find out
00:20:30.060 what information there was
00:20:32.660 that could have been used
00:20:33.520 to prevent this attack.
00:20:34.440 We need to find that out,
00:20:36.040 and even if the Biden administration
00:20:37.580 refuses to make it public
00:20:39.200 and to be transparent,
00:20:41.140 I have significant confidence
00:20:43.200 that the incoming Trump administration
00:20:45.000 will make that information public.
00:20:47.500 And I gotta say,
00:20:48.680 look, for everyone who lost,
00:20:50.620 for the 15 people murdered this morning,
00:20:53.560 for the families of them,
00:20:55.440 for the three dozen people
00:20:57.080 who were wounded,
00:20:58.300 some very grievously wounded,
00:21:00.520 I am sure they are feeling
00:21:02.240 a level of frustration and anger
00:21:04.360 or they're feeling frustration
00:21:05.360 with the city.
00:21:06.100 Why weren't those barricades up?
00:21:07.780 The barricades should have been up.
00:21:09.380 They were put in in 2017.
00:21:11.860 This risk was known.
00:21:15.200 New Year's Eve,
00:21:16.060 it's not like that's a surprising time
00:21:18.340 for someone seeking to do something horrible
00:21:20.680 to target people.
00:21:22.400 The eve of the sugar bowl,
00:21:23.920 that was another natural...
00:21:24.900 Tom Square is a great example of that.
00:21:26.320 Yeah.
00:21:27.460 And listen,
00:21:28.500 one of the real dangers of terrorism,
00:21:30.460 you can have a big elaborate plot
00:21:32.640 of a dirty bomb
00:21:34.420 or attacking a nuclear reactor 0.54
00:21:37.280 or something,
00:21:38.120 but some of the most frightening terrorism
00:21:40.480 and, sadly,
00:21:42.060 some of the most effective terrorism
00:21:43.460 is very low-tech.
00:21:45.460 It is driving a truck into a crowd.
00:21:47.680 It is walking into a shopping mall
00:21:50.460 wearing a suicide vest.
00:21:52.640 It is...
00:21:53.520 You know,
00:21:53.700 I was living in D.C.
00:21:54.940 20-some-odd years ago
00:21:56.340 when the D.C. sniper was there,
00:21:58.400 and that was two guys
00:21:59.700 who drilled a hole
00:22:01.380 in the trunk of their car,
00:22:02.460 drove around D.C.,
00:22:03.500 parked and sat there with a rifle 0.99
00:22:04.820 and just shot people. 0.91
00:22:05.820 And I'll tell you,
00:22:06.820 the entire city was terrified,
00:22:09.300 was on edge,
00:22:11.060 and there was no high-tech involved in it,
00:22:14.320 and that vulnerability is very real,
00:22:17.140 which is why we need
00:22:18.720 a proactive FBI,
00:22:21.080 we need law enforcement
00:22:22.240 that is focusing on the bad guys
00:22:25.720 and not on every political agenda
00:22:29.000 that might be the latest fashionable priority.
00:22:33.920 I want to wrap up
00:22:35.900 with letting the country hear Joe Biden.
00:22:38.580 He did address the nation
00:22:40.040 from Camp David
00:22:41.420 7 o'clock on New Year's Day
00:22:45.100 as we are recording this
00:22:46.940 about two hours after that,
00:22:48.380 and this is what Joe Biden had to say,
00:22:50.760 part of it at least,
00:22:51.960 about this attack.
00:22:53.180 Take a listen,
00:22:53.760 and I want to get your reaction.
00:22:55.700 Texas.
00:22:56.860 He served in the United States Army
00:22:58.460 on active duty for many years.
00:23:00.960 He also served in the Army Reserve
00:23:02.540 until a few years ago.
00:23:04.800 The FBI also reported to me
00:23:06.340 that mere hours before the attack,
00:23:09.360 he posted videos on social media
00:23:11.220 indicating that he was inspired by ISIS, 0.95
00:23:15.220 expressing a desire to kill, 1.00
00:23:16.700 a desire to kill. 0.99
00:23:19.120 The ISIS flag was found in his vehicle, 0.58
00:23:22.000 which he rented to conduct this attack.
00:23:24.700 Possible explosives were found
00:23:26.120 in the vehicle as well,
00:23:27.860 and more explosives were found nearby.
00:23:30.700 The situation is very fluid,
00:23:34.000 and the investigation has a preliminary stage,
00:23:36.360 and the fact is that right now,
00:23:39.780 excuse me,
00:23:41.160 there you go,
00:23:45.120 the law enforcement and intelligence community
00:23:47.300 are continuing to look for any connections,
00:23:50.660 associations,
00:23:52.000 or co-conspirators.
00:23:53.160 We have nothing additional to report at this time.
00:23:56.920 The investigation is continuing to be active,
00:23:59.240 and no one should jump to conclusions.
00:24:02.300 I've directed my attorney general,
00:24:05.040 the FBI director,
00:24:07.020 the secretary of Homeland Security,
00:24:09.240 the head of the National Counter-Terrorism Center,
00:24:11.700 and the intelligence community
00:24:13.640 to work on this intensively
00:24:15.960 until we have a full and complete information.
00:24:19.740 And once we have that information,
00:24:21.720 I will share that information
00:24:22.900 as soon as we can confirm it.
00:24:26.440 Additionally,
00:24:27.540 we're tracking the explosion of a cyber truck
00:24:30.020 outside the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas.
00:24:33.600 Law enforcement and the intelligence community
00:24:36.140 are investigating this as well,
00:24:38.420 including whether there's any possible connection
00:24:40.980 with the attack in New Orleans.
00:24:43.540 Thus far,
00:24:44.280 there's nothing to report on that score at this time.
00:24:47.660 I directed my team
00:24:48.860 to make sure every resource,
00:24:50.840 every resource is made available
00:24:52.360 to federal, state, and local law enforcement
00:24:54.700 to complete the investigation in New Orleans quickly
00:24:57.700 and to make sure there's no remaining threat.
00:25:02.420 You know,
00:25:03.120 there's part of me that's like,
00:25:04.700 okay, I'm glad that the president's out there saying this.
00:25:07.140 There's another part of me
00:25:08.220 when he got lost and said,
00:25:10.260 excuse me,
00:25:11.160 while reading that teleprompter
00:25:12.680 that was just a 360 moment
00:25:16.820 of his entire time in the presidency.
00:25:19.060 The reporting that we talked about
00:25:20.880 about his cognitive decline,
00:25:22.540 just, I think it was on the last pod.
00:25:25.080 And yet this is the guy who is in charge
00:25:28.080 and you wonder why some of these things are happening.
00:25:30.320 Well, he gets lost in the teleprompter
00:25:32.340 and has to apologize
00:25:33.400 while reading a prepared statement.
00:25:35.260 And that's the type of leadership we've had.
00:25:37.620 Well, listen,
00:25:39.100 I am glad the president gave that press conference tonight.
00:25:43.640 I'm glad he's speaking out.
00:25:45.120 I think the substance of what he said is right.
00:25:49.120 I wish him,
00:25:50.540 I wish the Department of Justice and the FBI
00:25:53.220 every success
00:25:54.120 in very quickly finding anyone involved in this,
00:25:57.220 apprehending them, focusing on it.
00:25:59.180 There will be times,
00:26:00.600 there is no doubt,
00:26:01.920 that the horrible policies of this administration,
00:26:04.780 the open borders for four years,
00:26:06.800 have contributed to making us less safe,
00:26:08.960 have contributed to increasing
00:26:10.400 the likelihood of a terrorist attack.
00:26:13.160 But at this point,
00:26:14.820 look, whether Joe Biden and the Democrats
00:26:17.400 intend to be transparent or not,
00:26:18.940 I am confident the incoming administration
00:26:20.720 will make this information public.
00:26:23.340 It needs to be public
00:26:24.400 so there can be accountability
00:26:25.820 for where the ball was dropped.
00:26:28.880 Because at the end of the day,
00:26:30.160 this attack was not prevented, tragically.
00:26:33.600 And we need to learn from that
00:26:37.460 and make sure we stop the next attack.
00:26:41.660 But what I will say tonight
00:26:42.740 is that our prayers
00:26:44.000 are with the families and loved ones
00:26:46.460 of those who were murdered earlier today.
00:26:49.520 Our prayers are with
00:26:50.820 all of the victims who were injured.
00:26:53.240 We are praying for their recovery.
00:26:54.680 We're praying for their safety.
00:26:55.720 And I'll say to all of you,
00:26:57.360 look, look, stay vigilant, stay safe.
00:26:59.820 And tonight, you know,
00:27:01.340 give your kids an extra hug
00:27:04.920 and remember your family
00:27:07.480 and those you love
00:27:08.280 because it's a dangerous world
00:27:10.100 we live in right now.
00:27:11.820 No doubt about it.
00:27:12.900 Our thoughts and prayers
00:27:13.740 are with all those in the hospital,
00:27:15.320 dozens and dozens injured
00:27:16.720 in New Orleans
00:27:18.600 and at least seven injured
00:27:20.440 in what happened in Vegas.
00:27:22.140 That suspect is,
00:27:23.500 as we now know,
00:27:24.260 the death toll has risen.
00:27:25.440 At this moment,
00:27:26.140 we're recording to 15 people.
00:27:28.280 Pray for those families.
00:27:29.660 Senator and I will see you back here
00:27:31.060 as well.
00:27:32.440 If there's any other
00:27:33.540 significant breaking news,
00:27:34.920 we will make sure
00:27:35.820 that we get it to you.
00:27:36.760 But we wanted to make sure
00:27:37.700 we had this conversation with you
00:27:39.160 as soon as we could tonight.
00:27:41.040 And be safe, everyone.
00:27:42.680 And we'll see you back here
00:27:43.700 in a couple of days.
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