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100,000 miles of new infrastructure to reach those who need it most. >> charter communications supports c-span as a public service, giving you a front row seat to democracy. host: good morning. it is thursday, january 2, 20 25. 15 are confirmed dead and dozens are injured in the attack early yesterday morning. the fbi has called to task, and congress as they need to confirm. we are getng your thoughts and reaction this morning. if you are in the eastern or central u.s., (202)-748-8000. mountain or pacific, (202)-748-8001.special

. new orleans residents, (202)-748-8002. you can also send us a text at (202)-748-8003. please include your name and where you are from. on facebook, facebook.com/c-span. very good thursday morning. you can go ahead and start calling in now. this is what new orleans resident are working up to. act of terrorism is the banner headline. new orleans awoke to a new year eve's nightmare with bourbon street soaked in blood after a texas man mowed down dozens of early revelers, and is really flag-waving -- and --and islamic flag-waving.

the fbi said they were searching for additional suspects in an investigation and it quickly spread. president biden yesterday to the nation after the attack. this is what he had to say. [video clip] pres. biden: good evening. i knew i could speak for all americans when i say our hearts are with the people in new orleans after the despicable attack that occurred in the early morning hours. to all the families of those who were killed, to all those injured, to all the people of new orleans who are grieving today, i would like you to know i agree with you, our nation groups with you. we will stand with you as you mourn and heal in the weeks to come. i would like to thank our first responders and law enforcement personnel. the attacker in his tracks before he could injure and kill

more people. i would like to see thank you to the department of homeland security and justice, including the fbi, working nonstop to investigate this heinous act. the fbi is leading the investigation to determine what happened, white happened, and if it is a continuing threat to public safety. here's what we know so far. the fbi reported to be the killer was an american citizen born in texas, served in the united states army on active duty for many years, and served in the army reserve until a few years ago. the fbi also reported to me that hours before the attack, he posted videos on social media, indicating that he was inspired by isis, with the desire to kill. the isis flag was found in his vehicle.

possible explosives were found in the vehicle, as well, and more explosives were found nearby. this situation is very fluid. an investigation is at its pulmonary stage, and the fact is, right now, law enforcement and intelligence community are looking for any connections or associations or co-conspiracies. we have nothing new to report at this time. investigation is continuing to be active and nobody should jump to conclusions. i directed my attorney general, the fbi director, secretary of homeland security, and national counterintelligence center and the intelligence community to work on this intensively until we have a full and complete information. once we have that information, i will share that information as soon as we can confirm it.

additionally, we are tracking the explosion of a truck outside the trump hotel in las vegas. not enforcement in the intelligence community are investigating this, as well, including whether there is any possible connection to the attack in new orleans. so far, there's something to report on at this time. i directed my team to make sure every resource, every resource is made available to federal, state and local law enforcement, to complete the investigation in orleans quickly and make sure there is no remaining threat to the american people. we will support the people in orleans. new orleans is a place unlike any other in the world, a city full of charm and joy. so many people out in the world love new orleans because of its history, its culture and its people. so i know while this person

committed a terrible assault on the city, the spirit of new orleans will never, ever be defeated. we have seen that time and time again throughout history, and i know we will see it again in the days and weeks ahead. may god bless the people in orleans and may god bless our police and first responders, and may god protect our troops. and we will keep you informed. thank you. [end video clip] host: that was president biden yesterday evening. some associated press pictures from a new orleans, a statement also yesterday from president-elect trump say not his true social account, and i said the criminals coming in are far worse than the ones in our country, that is refuted by democrats on the state news media but it turned out to be true. the crime rate in our country is at a level country has never seen before. our hearts over the innocent victims and loved ones, including the brave officers of the new orleans police department.

the trump demonstration will fully support new orleans as they investigate and recover from this active your people -- of pure evil. this was the incoming senate majority leader with this tweet yesterday, our hearts go out to everyone affected by the senses terror attack in new orleans with reports of an isis inspiration, the american people expect clear answers from the administration. it is a clear example of why the senate must get president trump's national security team in place as quickly as possible. that was senator john thune on x yesterday evening. taking your phone calls this morning, the special live for new orleans residents, (202)-748-8001. -- (202)-748-8002. otherwise, we begin in new orleans, frank, good morning.

two are for calling. caller: good morning. host: i was new orleans -- how is new orleans? caller: i actually live in baton rouge after katrina and my friends call and we talk, and they were terrorized. but i'm 80 now. at 15, 16 years old i lived in the quarter. i'm grown now, 80 years old, i'm a combat veteran. i'm hearing all the talk about protecting the citizens of new orleans.

and terrorists can be anywhere to get to you. new orleans is a good three or four mile radius and i delivered mail in new orleans for 35 years. how do you protect the city? this guy came in from texas. [indiscernible] i don't know what they're going to do. they are not doing it there, they are coming here. but you cannot protect the

people from some guy running off. there are so many other interests in that florida area, and, now, what you are going to do to combat terrorism? i don't know. right now, vietnam [indiscernible] host: that was frank, former new orleans resident. good morning. caller: if people don't notice, when that happened in new orleans, the first thing donald trump did, before he knew anything, and terrorists --

host: in what, robert? caller: the terrorists were born and raised in the united states. if c-span would like to do statistics on how many people were killed by u.s. citizens, other than people coming and trying to find a place to live, you will find it in more white males than in the united states, but how many white males shot people that they knew nothing about? that's the bad thing about her, blaming every thing on these immigrants, who are trying to come in and work, and you have white males in the united states who have committed more murders to any of the immigrants coming in. host: robert and arkansas. the individual has been identified as a u.s. citizen from texas who drove his truck into that crowd of people on bourbon street, exiting the

vehicle, firing upon local law enforcement who returned fire and was pronounced dead at the scene and two law enforcement officials injured and transferred to the hospital. it was a ford pickup truck with the isis flag on the truck, weapons and potential iud's located within the vehicle. investigation continues. that is where we are this morning in the wake of that terrorist attack, getting your phone calls, this is dan, youngstown, ohio. good morning. caller: the previous caller keeps talking about white males. this was not a white male. so, yes, americans can be radicalized, but we also note immigrants came to colorado and took over blocks full of apartment buildings. there was an immigrant in new

york who little woman on fire in the subway. it was immigrants in new york who were fighting with the police. so, of course, americans can kill people, too. it is more of these bad actors that we have brought into the country that we don't even know where they are or who they are and makes things more dangerous. obviously, we have problems with gang members who have come in from other countries. we have a problem because millions of people were brought in, but we don't know who they are, where they are, many of them are bad actors. to pretend that they are not is absolutely ridiculous. it is up to our government to make us safer, not to bring in people who would like to kill us. this is what biden has done, so this guy he was radicalized, it

was an american, but we also have the danger of millions of people in this country who do not have our best interest at heart. to ignore that until light about it is not going to help the situation. host: dan in ohio. the editorial board of the wall street journal wondering what this could mean for u.s. foreign policy, wondering what the terror attack could mean in the weeks and months to come. terror strikes in new orleans is the headline today. a lesson in this attack is it is still vital to stay on the offense against jihadist groups abroad, lest they be able to establish sanctuaries on which they can plan attacks on the west as they did 9/11. the u.s. withdrawal from an escape -- afghanistan has meant the uss lost the ability to monitor isis in that country. this is a good reason for mr.

trump to retain the u.s.-based in syria. mr. trump has said civil war is not america's concern, but it can become were new to cap skip form. it is not the message anybody wanted to hear in 2025, but it is reality that the next administration will have to deter or defeat, and that is in the wall street journal. anthony, fort lauderdale, sort of, you are next. caller: good morning. this is no surprise for me. look at all the hatred, vitriol and rhetoric spewed on most media outlet news programs every single day. i mean, i hate to say it, but you have a lot of

[indiscernible] my grandfather came in from italy, sicily, and we are white, ok, and we went through terrible prejudice by white europeans who settled in new york city 100 years ago, but you have many now , journalists, they would like to call them, they are so supportive of black american causes -- host: you think the terror attack was because of the media? caller: how supportive were they then? is it a lucrative job for them to act like to defend one group of people? let's be honest. look at the hate and the vitrio and the rhetoric that is spewed nonstop on this ry show. i'm not saying you are perpetrators, but there is a lot

of white -- i'm going to tell you something. 11 years ago -- i'm not going to see any names, but there is a white journalist who is always defending african-americans, and i'm going to tell you -- host: this is dale, orange park, florida. good morning. caller: i'm sorry, john. i punched the wrong number. i don't believe -- listening to these people, i heard that lady on the other day with jd vance saying it was only one apartment building or a couple of apartment buildings taken over by gangs. when are you going to wake up? the agreement and then you will have another million who will be dead. host: what is your reaction to what happened in new orleans yesterday? caller: that had to happen, it

is going to have a lot of times for now -- from now on, you better get used to it. you better put cement blocks on the end of each sidewalk street. host: this is ray, elizabeth city, north carolina. caller: hello. thank you for taking my call. i've been hearing a lot of callers before the attack in new orleans, eight is horrendous, but there are ways to stop the attacks by changing hearts and minds. by changing hearts and minds. what is being preached out there, a person can change from bad to good, and just focus on helping people.

focus on in the news, they need to have more reports on people's lives being changed. christian programming have that all the time, i people have changed from bad to good, and that is good. get back to helping people, regardless of skin color and regardless of where you came from, this is america and this is on principles of working together, building a better country, and we need to focus on that. host: as america focuses on that, i don't know if your adopted saying this is a reason to see by the united states

military has to have a presence in the united states military to deter and ensure that a country like that does not become a safe haven for islamic terrorism. caller: i'm a u.s. navy event, i was in the indian ocean in 1980, and i totally support u.s. bases in countries and, yes, i totally support that. we need a strong military, we need to secure our borders. that is common sense. it is plain common sense. and to protect american citizens, and have the mentality , strengthen backbone to do that. host: this is al, dayton, ohio. good morning. you are next. caller: good morning, john.

thank you for taking my call. what a sad, sad couple days we have had in america. i'm foreign-born, a veteran. and to see what is happening in this country at this stage in my life is really sad. the other thing that bothers me is when people and political offices make comments, thinking they are making a joke at a news conference, when all these people have been killed. this really upset me. i cannot believe what i was seeing and hearing. host: you are referring to senator kennedy yesterday? the reporter to his right? caller: yeah, he said it is the first time they have been on the right. who says things like this when you have 15 dead and 30, 40 injured? and he is from louisiana, is that he?

host: yes. well, they should be very proud of him. i watch this news all the time, and i'm not going to live in fear. i have a brother who with loaded shock and stinking immigrants are coming to his door. this is ridiculous. the fear mongering going on in this country has to stop. we are americans, we need to protect our country. that is all i have got to say, and i wish everybody a happy new year -- a safe new year. host: this is about one and a minutes of senator kennedy yesterday in reaction to that terrorist attack. [video clip] >> here is what i would like to ask from the federal government. catch these people. and then tell the american people the truth. i would like you to tell us if you have anything that will

interfere with the investigation. and there are things that i have been told that i'm not sharing with you because it could interfere with their investigation. but after we get to the bottom of this, i need to tell the american people the truth, and the people of new orleans the truth, and the people in america the truth. i think the mayor i'm governor are very wise for postponing this for 24 hours. there is too much stuff we don't know. but, my final point is, i will promise you this. when it is appropriate and the investigation is complete, you will find out what happened and who is responsible, or i will raise fresh hell, and i will chase those in the federal government who are responsible

for telling us what happened like they stole christmas. [end video clip] host: the ballgame he is referring to, the sugar bowl, postponed yesterday evening in new orleans. it will take place this afternoon, or schedule to do so. more is expected today. taking your phone calls and getting your reaction, 15 dead and dozens wounded in new orleans in the early hours yesterday morning. this is david, washington, good morning. you next. caller: good morning. thank you particular michael. my condolences go to the victims of these heinous attacks. i have lived in this kind of society before, and it seems like we have the same thing over and over again. host: what do you mean when you

say you have lived in this kind of society? caller: i lived in the west bank where it took about 50 minutes to get to school. it took me two hours to go through checkpoints, concrete barricades. i lived through all of that. we went to iraq and started wars with them. all they would like [indiscernible] like i said, they look for vengeance. if we don't have the solution for them to leave us alone here, they will keep on going, going and going. host: is the solution to continue presence in the middle east? go ahead. caller: yes.

the policy has had no human rights. and when you go after them like that, they will come after you, and their allies, which is us, we give them easy tools to kill innocent people, and i left that country behind, thinking everything is done and over with. but it is a nightmare and it is hard to come out of it. host: you are talking about the concrete barricades on the way to school, you think that is where the country is headed? caller: yes. yes, john. when i go out to the airport, and you have to go through hoops, you have to go three hours early, and this is so sad to see our situation like this.

for innocent people celebrate their new year's and to get run over like this, it is heartbreaking. and i left the country when i was 18 years old. and i was hoping that somehow, somewhere, we would find a solution so they can leave us alone. it is crazy. my heart goes out to the victims in louisiana, and the future victims unless we find a solution. these people live for vengeance, and i hope we find a solution soon enough. and i hope we save all our money here by putting our differences

up, and stay out of their way. these people have been fighting like this for ages. they had their own government flag and all of that. and now they would like to come back with vengeance. it is very important. let's find a solution and get this crazy madness out of our lives here. that is all i got to host: say. thank you. stephen and washington. you mentioned having defenses up. the fences here in washington, d.c., capitol hill, are ahead of the opening day of the 119th congress tomorrow at noon, the houses at the gavel and for a new congress, senate, as well. those are the security barriers that come up around, with major

events here i capitol hill, they are likely to be at, as well, january 6, accounting for the presidential election and then on election day, security expected to be very tight here in washington, d.c. upper senate park is what that is called. creating barriers, splitting it in half with security fences around capitol hill today, tomorrow and the days to come. janet, new jersey, good morning. you are next. caller: hello. i'm not good about talking, so i will keep it short. it does not make a difference who is in the white house. as long as you have sick people out there, crazy people, this is going to happen. i don't care what your trying to do. yes, you have to try to take some measure of defense, but it is just going to keep happening,

i'm afraid. i'm surprised it has not happened out in las vegas, you know, with the people out there doing their thing. i would like to go to las vegas, but i watch it on youtube and i like, all these people out there at night having a good time, it is a wonder something doesn't happen. host: we saw yesterday that cyber trip explosion outside the trump hotel, trump international hotel las vegas. caller: i did not see that. i'm not surprised. it is terrible. but these are sick people. what are you going to do? people who have nothing to live for. so, i mean, i hope we can find a solution, but it is not going to happen. i told my sister, it is going to be to the point where you cannot go anywhere where you are not

afraid. it is terrible. host: in vegas yesterday, some reporting on explosion at the trump international hotel in las vegas is being investigated as another potential active terrorism, according to law enforcement officials, and that tesla truck was running through. one person in the truck killed. the same one use to rent the pickup truck for the electric powered ford f1 50 used in the new orleans attack, those investigations are continuing today and elon musk wayne in on that tesla attack in the wake of the news reports there, offering investigative officials information about testatrix and cyber tracks.

he tweeted yesterday about that, as well. this is nehemiah, florida. you are next. caller: good morning, john drake thank you for accepting me on your show. i just wanted to say that it has gotten to a place where our world is not the same anymore. we owe china a whole bunch of money. when china gets ready to come over here, they have a bunch of mad younger men that they are going to send over here, they are going to take over our country, and this is what they will take over, it will be a melting pot. this will happen. all i know is that china is going to take us over. thank you. host: nehemiah. immigration debate coming up yesterday, even though the new

orleans attack identified u.s. citizen and every veteran who lived in texas, with the wake of donald trump's tweets about immigration that started some of that, chris murphy, the democrat from connecticut on x yesterday pushing back against donald trump, mentioning illegal immigration, chris murphy said trump intentionally lying about the attack for -- on being an immigrant. he wasn't and why does it matter? is it it matters because people use it to justify his crackdown on immigrants and attack on dissents and whether the fax line up or not, saying this is just the start, senator from connecticut responding to donald trump. this is doc next. caller: it would be good if president trump does -- when he

does take over these people -- host: door these people? caller: people coming over here killing our people. they do not see what happened in new orleans? i live 80 miles from there. host: and the point the senator was making, this was a u.s. to, not an immigrant. caller: well, was his family from the middle east? host: i don't know about his family, but the fbi said he was a u.s. citizen from houston, texas. caller: he is a -- hello? host: i'm listening. so you think the immigration debate is very much going to be part of the early days of the trump administration? caller: yes.

[indiscernible] we have got to do something. host: this is keith, maine, good morning. caller: good morning. i would like to first wish the country a hopeful and happy new year. i would like to see i'm a veteran, disabled veteran. i served in germany, and i walked along the wall before it was tore down. and i reminisce or i go back to the reason why we rule -- we were still there in the 80's, and began when hit was sold to the germans through propaganda. host: can you refer me to the new orleans attack? caller: yes or. i'm going back to the lady

caller a couple of calls ago who blamed all of this on the media. what joseph goebbels did for hitler's, our media did provide an. and the omission of truth is still a lie. and i have met people from check slovakia, they call it the czech republic now, when appointed eight take at it, czechslovakia and before biden was elected, quote, unquote, these old people who immigrated from czech republic were saying because of the news media and what they were doing to trump then, they were talking about going back to the czech republic because it is

so bad here. trump calling fake news is an understatement. host: this is the headline of the wall street journal story on the attacker this morning, army veteran, the right, shamsud-din jabbar's life to create dark turn with a messy divorce and his finances in a deep hole. in 2020 the 42-year-old hit many of the milestones of an american trajectory, literary service, including a war deployment, and roles at accenture. deloitte. in addition to his work, he tried to make the real estate business happened pretty grew up in beaumont, texas, joined the

army, serving in north carolina, moved to afghanistan, february 2009, and was promoted to staff sergeant, a profile of the named attacker. this is jim, texas. good morning. caller: yeah, john. i would just like to say that trump's first term in 2016, he beat isis down, he beat him down, he had destroyed and that when biden took over, i ran funded all these terrorists, hezbollah, and biden has allowed them. when trump comes in, he will beat isis down again and get them under control, and people

go after their oil fields i destroy them. he will do whatever he has to do, but he will take down iran, the terrorists, and obama and biden, all they do is they have been appeasing him. there like rats in a barn. host: the wall street journal's point today, mr. trump has said that syria is not the u.s.' problem, they say the united states needs to maintain peace in syria to ensure isis and other terrorist groups do not use it as a base to train and attack the u.s. caller: yeah, all i know is trump will do exactly what he did in 2016.

i don't know exactly what base and all that mess, but i will tell you this, he will take down isis. i don't care how he does it, he will do it. just like he did in 2016. he will destroy them, he will take down iran, you just watch. [indiscernible] host: this is danny, denver. good morning. you are next. caller: i'm surprised we are not blaming hillary clinton, everybody is to blame here. my call is a little different. i'm sick and tired of the hold off a press conference long enough to get the mayor, the senator or governor out of bed, get him dressed up so they can show about and make pictures, a snapshot whatever, but what i'm tired of this every time there is a tragic event like this, a school shooting, bombing,

something like this, the media, or not the media, but government officials, the parade all these people out there. i would like to see some first responders out there speak, rather than waiting for these guys to get out of bed, get dressed and coming to do a photo op, and senator kennedy is just crazy, like to start other things. the whole thing is when we would like information, they should be able to give us information. if you give us a press conference where you line up 50 people in a room, introduced everybody and then have a showboating opportunity to, there, i think that they should have their press conferences right away, get as much information as they can to the public. if not, the media needs to get the information to give it to the public. they can put out there on tv more information than what the press conference would give us.

i'm sick and tired of them waiting for officials to come for a photo op. i don't know why they carry on this way. host: larry, ohio. good morning. caller: yes, yes, john. i a disabled veteran. but with 20 on in new orleans, this guy radicalized -- for the love of the other country, there is no way, you know he should be treated as a traitor. treason. it is treason what has happened. i know he is an army veteran and everything. host: larry, he is deceased, so when you state treated, what do

you mean, in terms of how we talk about him? caller: yeah, he is a traitor. to do what he did was treasonous. and there is a lot of that around nowadays, and then carried by politicians who are traitors to our nation. including the president. host: that is larry in ohio. this is john in wisconsin. good morning. you are next. caller: good morning, john. thank you for taking my call. this is a sad day in the country, another terrorist attack, committed by a u.s. citizen. my thing with this, you know, i don't mean to sound fickle about it, i'm not at all. it just goes to show the choice of the whipping he used was

extremely heavy vehicle. i don't know if you chose this on purpose, being an electric vehicle because it can smash through things like that, but was it the person driving the vehicle who do the terrorist attack until these innocent people? or was it the vehicle itself that did it? there's something with their gun, it is an inanimate object, put in the hands of someone who is mentally unstable and for whatever reason would like to cause mass harm. they can do it. i mean, the hand driving the steering wheel was the person who did what happened. we need to do something in this country about mentally unstable

people and people having problems. and i don't know how old you are, john, i'm 61, and i did not even have a computer when i was in high school, when i graduated. but i think all this technology nowadays is ruling the brains and minds of our young people, and how old was this person? host: he was in his early 40's. caller: early 40's, yeah, he grew up in the technology age. i don't know what else i can really say. it is a shame, and i hope it doesn't happen again, but i fear it will. thank you for taking my call. i appreciated. i feel for the families. maybe they should sue because he used it as a weapon to kill people. host: john in wisconsin, the associated press and others pointing out the rise in attacks

by vehicle, the associated press with a wrap up of the recent attack on december 20, as recently as a couple of weeks ago, five people killed and more than 200 injured when a car slammed into a christmas market in eastern germany. they arrested a 50-year-old doctor from saudi arabia and november 11 of last year in china, 62-year-old driver rammed his car into people exercising address books -- sports complex in southern china, killing 35 in that country's deadliest attack in 30 years. he was upset about his divorce and he ended up pleading guilty and is sentenced to death. and june 6, 2021, four members are killed when they were hit by a pickup truck, and justin trudeau called it a terrorist attack motivated by hatred, white nationalist sentenced to

life in prison that attack, the associated press wrap up with recent attacks. this is carmen out of florida. good morning. caller: good morning. i would like to say i'm very sorry about the people who died, but i would like people to know about their, i have experienced violence my entire life, and there is no expectation of safety when you go outside of your home or even in your home, no matter what era you're going to be in the future. you cannot expect to government, the president or the police or anybody else actually to know what is going to happen ahead of time to protect you. you just have to be vigilant of your surroundings, know your neighbors, the kind and god

bless america, get these people off of our internet that are getting our people radicalized. and stop trying to say one president or the other is to blame because it has been going on since the beginning of the united states, so there is no expectation of safety, and as long as people would like to keep blaming each other, then nobody is going to come together as a community to be able to stop the hatred and the breakdown of the mental minds of people who are on the edge that for whatever reason, that makes them want to kill other americans.

host: this is dennis, iowa, good morning. caller: good morning. i have to laugh at these trump supporters. my ancestors came from czechoslovakia. and he is saying they come to attack us? what a joke. on the capitol was attacked, now, he would like to pardon those people who attacked the capital? how is that protecting us. trump is a joke. and this thing in new orleans, when trump was president, marty timmons got murdered and they looked for a republican farmer.

trump is a joke, and people who support him are idiots. host: this is the headline from the washington times, and inspiring nurse, mother, father, football starts among the victims, an 18-year-old girl dreaming of becoming a nurse, a father of two, and a football star suffered fatal injuries while the driver of that white pickup truck sped down bourbon street yesterday morning, packed with holiday revelers on the new year's, officials tonight released to names of all the 15 killed in the new orleans attack and families and friends have started sharing their stories, their new orleans coroner said in a statement that they will release the names of the dead ones autopsies are complete and they talk with the next of kin. about 30 people were injured in that attack, as well. frank, birmingham, alabama, good morning. caller: good morning, john.

thank you so much. the disparity as it links to death, i'm a frequent caller of c-span, and we broke every single record that birmingham , alabama, ever had, we had two homicides every other day, and this year, we had 158. three of those were mass's, 17 injured, four killed. ok. this happened every year since 2014. we had one little black girl, the first killing inside the school by a young black male who went to the school. they were warned that they should have protectors, that something was going to happen

because something had happened. host: bring me to how this relates to what we are talking about this morning? caller: death is death. america goes crazy when they tie the word to terrorist. we are harboring terrorists right here in america. we have devoted 12 seconds to guns in the debate, so america is going to have to get themselves together and we have incidents where people die in our own country. we have a total of magnitude of people dying, and we have had over 158, sides and we are in triple digits again since 2014.

and we could do so many things, and just to say, new orleans is the third most violent city in america. black people are dying like flies, so when you put that little word in, terrorist, we get crazy. america is going through a lot of stuff because of how hypocritical it is, so they would like to get rid of terrorists, get rid of the hypocrisy and when you say it is terrorists, but when you say frat boy, we did not say that right here in america, nothing. thank you, john. host: frank, birmingham, alabama. five minutes left in this first segment and then open for later, if you do not get in, in this hour, join us later in the program. eastern kentucky, gary. good morning. caller: good morning.

i would like to go back four years ago. we know what took place, open borders. they may keep saying there are terrorists, but the homeland security and the attorney general should have been checking at the border and stopping these terrorists. they are infiltrating all across the united states. they don't know how many terrorist organizations they are. the united states is being destroyed from within because they allowed for this to happen. host: good point that has been made a couple of times, this was a u.s. citizen. the point that janitor john dooley made, -- john soon made, it is all the more reason that the trump national security team needs to be confirmed quickly once he comes into office and

puts his administration into place. do you think that is going to happen? caller: sure it is going to happen because you have the ideology of those over in the middle east were going to come here. they're not going to be in the middle east because they are coming here. so if they can use a terrorist organization, iran is full of tens of thousands of, and i just don't know how they can stop it. i really don't. it is all going to turn loose when trump takes office, all these terrorists. we have got so many things that have happened. it is just unbelievable that mayorkas said everything is good, that it is safe, and it wasn't safe. host: jan, illinois, good

morning. caller: good morning. i would like to say, first of all, have soft to some of the news media, i follow the syrian uprising carefully, i use reuters and various news agencies, so i'm going to say hats off to them. also, this is a tragedy that happened in new orleans. as soon as they started talking about isis, the guy carrying an isis flag, and in syria, we do have bases, and they started sending jets off to attack isis strongholds that are still left in syria. if we are naive enough to think that isis has not been in the u.s., that we are naive americans. hats off to the media because they have given us every information that we can possibly get about the new orleans tragedy, and we should be thankful for that, and we should be very much aware that that is

what has happened in our country. isis is not gone, it is not gone in syria, and it is still here, undercover. that is why we need cia, counterintelligence, fbi all focused on the presence of isis, people who have either been radicalized to the internet or otherwise, but they are still here, and we need to be cognizant of that fact. that is mostly what i wanted to say today. i hope everybody has a good week. host: you mentioned the news media and then a new york post reporter apparently made it to the suspect's houston home before the fbi showed up and had tweeted about it and wrote a story about it in the new york post, senator marsha blackburn from tennessee said the fact the reporter had better until the fbi tells us all the need, the fbi has failed its core mission.

to your point about news media coverage of this in a little more than 24 hours since the incident happened. host: i have not read that, but hats off to the person who is able to get to that information. as i said, as americans, we cannot be naive about the fact that there are radical groups. we went after them in syria, it went through its revolution, when they stated that there were bases still in syria and it does not necessarily mean that isis is gone, so i just think we need to be aware of that, did the fbi do their jobs? maybe not completely. do we still have counterintelligence ? hopefully we do. those groups have to come together and make sure they are communicating and the media needs to communicate with us as

americans because we cannot be naive that there are radical groups in this country, being radicalized to the internet. host: this is a story from new york post on shamsud-din jabbar 's squalid home, sheepshead goats from his yard after his financial ruin, exclusively at his home, the new york post with that story. roy, west palm beach, good morning. caller: good morning. happy new year. if you would like to call it that. it did not start out very good here, 2025. i coined it -- i find it quite absurd. when i heard that spokesperson from the fbi saying this has nothing to do with terror, i said to myself, here we go again with the fbi. ok, that is the first thing that is going to be gutted once our great neck president -- rate

next president takes over and you are going to see a lot of things happening quick. but where this all began, and john mccain warned america mccain warned america about it in 2008, he warned about tony blinken. tony blinken and certain other individuals who i don't want to name their names, but i'm certain that tony blinken is the one that was actually in control of america right now, and he's doing it secretly behind our backs. host: why would you think tony blinken -- caller: obama. hear me out, please and then i will let you speak. host: i'm just trying to figure out where you would get the information from on that. caller: john mccain said it himself during the election when he was running against obama.

he warned america about antony blinken. tony blinken. listen to the way he talks. he is a communist, you can see it. jack smith, who has a name jack smith? even trump said it himself, i wonder what his real name is. the southern border being wide open, when biden first came in and what he did with our southern border, of course, so what, that guy was in our military that did that, that's a shame, and i'm praying for their families and i will do so for a long time, but what needs to be done is we need to slow down, get rid of our fbi at the top,

get the u.s. marshals to take over this investigation because even senator kennedy from louisiana said it himself, and you can hear it between the words that he spoke when i heard him speak, and he was talking about the fbi and about the complete investigation that is done correctly and the american people being informed correctly the way they should be. host: that is roy in florida, our last caller in this first segment of the washington journal. plenty more to talk about this morning including up next, we take a closer look into who is donating to donald trump's inaugural committee. and later it is henry olson of the public policy center. he will discuss his recent new york post op-ed piece about a political realignment in the country.

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jackson, abraham lincoln and barack obama and others. >> brian mcclanahan with his book "nine president screwed up america and quadro tried to save her" on this episode of book notes. book notes is available on the c-span now free mobile app or wherever you get your podcasts. washington journal continues. host: c-span viewers are familiar with dave leventhal, currently an independent investigative reporter. his most recent piece running in the daily beast, donald trump's second inauguration is turning into a pay to play extravaganza losing with opulence for the elite attending and funding the ones affair. probably good if you are a million or a billionaire in washington and want to influence solid trump because he is offering for his inauguration a

variety of ways to do just that. and what we are seeing on the ground is lots of corporations, lots of very wealthy and moneyed individuals are taking him up on his offer to donate $1 million, $2 million, and perhaps even more than that to get exclusive access to donald trump, his family, and also to the cabinet members and all the people who will be populating or likely will be populating donald trump's administration. so if you are somebody who is coming in for the inauguration from nebraska or idaho or florida and you're hoping to get that kind of level of access, you will sadly be disappointed because this is going to be just for the elite. host: when you donate to the inauguration, where does that money go? guest: it goes to a nonprofit committee. whether it is donald trump, barack obama, joe biden, they set up the inauguration committee with formed as a nonprofit organization and the money goes toward that and to that.

and what does that committee do? there's two things to know about inaugurations. what you see with the president puts his hand on the bible and swears the oath of office, that is actually a congressional function. there is a committee set up to take care of all the pomp and circumstance that come with the actual inauguration ceremony, the procession to the capital, the ceremonial sendoff of the former president, but all of the dinners, the breakfast, the lunches, the affairs, and this going to be a lot of than this time around, all of that is funded by corporate donations, individual donations, and that money goes against that nonprofit that is in charge of putting all of that into motion. host: how much do you expect donald trump's nonprofit that he set up is going to raise from this inauguration?

guest: $170 million was raised during his 2016 inauguration. barack obama raised roughly $53 million in 2009 and a little bit less in 2013, about $42 million. joe biden's inauguration was $62 million roughly that was raised, albeit a very strange one and the fact that it was in the depths of covid and we had just have the attack on u.s. capitol not two weeks earlier. but donald trump is definitely upping the ante and aggressively fundraising to ensure that his inauguration is going to be very, very well-funded and that it is going to be glitzy and opulent to a level that would be a can with what donald trump usually want and what people expect. host: the money raised, does it

all get spent during inauguration weekend? guest: not necessarily. one thing to know about the way that money works is that there is a lot of transparency when it comes to money going into the inauguration committee. if at&t donates $1 million to the inauguration, which we can confirm it will be donating a large amount of money, that is public record, something that will be public knowledge by april of this year because by federal rules, you have to disclosure donors if you're a committee of this sort. they've got 90 days to do that. but different from what you usually get the presidential campaign committee or political action committee, they don't actually have to account for how they spend that money. ultimately it is up to the person running the committee,

donald trump in this case, to volunteer that information if he chooses to do so. there's no expectation that he will. barack obama didn't, joe biden didn't. as a result we may not have a full sense for a full accounting of where all of that money is getting spent and where all of that money is going. and to the question if they spend it all, isn't going to dinners and falls or something else, it is going to be very difficult to suss that out in that we don't have a federal regulation that will compel the trump committee to go forth and do exactly that. host: dave leventhal with us, good time to call it on questions about inaugural money or money in politics in general. (202) 748-8000 four democrats.

(202) 748-8001 for republicans. independents, (202) 748-8002. you mentioned you fully expect at&t to give $1 million to this inauguration. how do you know that and who else do you know is going to be giving large sums of money? guest: we contacted more than 110 corporations and companies that either have a history of donating or that are very much in the news these days. crypto companies that have been very active and interested and engaging with the incoming trump administration, are you going to donate and if you are, how much are you going to give? we were able to confirm a number of companies said yes, there's been a great reporting done by axios and other news organizations and other names. we know for example that meta, the parent company of facebook will be donating.

amazon will be donating money and a variety of other corporations including a few are driving a gm or a ford car, they will be giving money to donald trump's inauguration. so when you add this all up, one million dollars here, $2 million there, you can see how it is pretty quickly going to exceed the $107 million record mark the donald trump set in 2017 and it is entirely possible that we could be looking at not only a historic dollar figure for the amount of money raised during the 2025 presidential inauguration, but we could be looking at 50% more, even 100% more than what he was raising in 2017. inflation is real and you have to take that into consideration but that is still a significant increase in what is already a very large amount from many years ago. host: the headline "why trump is going to have the swampiest

inauguration ever," the number of people who implied no comment or didn't get back to you on this question of are you donating, explain to some of those folks were and the idea to go back and check the records in april and see if they gave you know, or ended up giving money. guest: you better expect that we will be doing that. they have to weigh the risk of if i give $1 million to donald trump's presidential inauguration, or generically speaking, any inauguration, is it going to be worth my while to do that? we know from past inaugurations that it would give companies a great deal of access. this is about access, being able to get your people, your executives, the folks that you want front and center in front of the president or the vice president or the first lady or any of the cabinet members and other people in the president's

circle in the arena on the day that that president is becoming president. as it applies to donald trump, we know from history and don't have to read too far back to know that his business empire in his political ambitions, often times there's no hard line between the two of them. donald trump is very open about doing business at the same time that he will be leading the country, but he is running hotels and retail properties and golf courses and has a business that he is running. so as a result, you have donald trump very welcoming to people who are willing to do business with him and it is becoming all too clear that many corporations are all too happy to engage in that type of situation. host: not just about donald trump or a republican vs. democrat, some of the corporations give money every inauguration.

they just want their people there. guest: they do. they want to make sure they are not on the outside looking in. you have a certain amount of money you have to pay in order to be there. this is part of a broader strategy that many corporations have comes to lobbying the federal government and attempting to influence politicians, influence policy, make sure that you were on the nice list and not the naughty list, so to speak. $1 million or $2 million to inaugural committee is a very good initial handshake to work with an incoming administration. it will also be buttressed by a huge number of other efforts that corporations will put forward including hiring teams lobbyists to go and lobby congress on capitol hill, government agencies that will be part of the trend in this ration. lobbying the white house directly, and that is before we talk about campaign contributions during campaign

season but also that will range in some pre-significant dollar amounts as well. host: got plenty more questions for you, but also plenty of callers. independent, texas, good morning. caller: good morning. i just have a question about the backside of the donations for any presidential inauguration. the front side you said is transparent. the second part of it is that they don't have to report what they actually do with the money. so if president-elect trump wanted to, he could use some of that money to help some of his base as far as the needy part.

they can make sure their supporters are taking care of, setting up foundations for them or something like that. host: that is something he could do, correct? caller: yes, i'm saying that would be a good use of the money that he could use for his inauguration. guest: yes, just to reiterate, the transparency is on the money in. there is not a lot of transparency on the money out. and this was actually a big issue in 2017 during donald trump's first inauguration. there was a lawsuit that was filed by the d.c. attorney and it was alleging that donald trump misused money or misappropriated money from his inauguration for the benefit of his family, vis-a-vis the trump hotel in essence was charging inflated rates to the trump hotel and therefore his family was getting a benefit from it.

donald trump denied that this happened, he said he was innocent and they ultimately settled for $750,000 to settle the matter in the trump inaugural committee and donald trump did not have to admit any guilt even if they have to pay that penalty. host: with that a federal case? guest: that was a d.c. case and it really speaks to the issue of how many overlapping jurisdictions also have some role in the inauguration in general. have a court the federal government as for them centered in putting the inauguration on earth place, but you also have local jurisdictions, the district of columbia, washington, d.c. t >> taking you live to louisiana updating the new year's attack in new orleans. >> as you travel around the state you see flags from all state buildings alf