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ashley: it is 11:00 a.m. on the east coast on this thursday, january 26789 i'm ashley webster in today for stuart varney. the country dealing with the fallout of two attacks on new year's day. the first in new orleans. a 42-year-old army veteran shamsud-din vab bar drove a rental truck into a crowd of people in new orleanss and then began opening pyre into a crowd and filled 15 people and left dozens injured and he was killed by police in a shootout and had an isis flag in the back of his truck. two other explosive ieds were also found and disarmed in the french quarter. the fb icon firming they believe jabbar abilitied alone. there's no other suspects at this time and the fbi will be

hold ago news conference in a few moment and we'll bring that to you live. in las vegas, a tesla cybertruck was filled with explosives and the driver is believerred to be matthew livelsberger and is an active duty service member and rented the truck in colorado and park it had in front of the trump tower in vegas and then exploded. the driver was killed in the explosion and seven others were also injured. law enforcement is investigating as a potential terrorist action. right now the fbi is currently investigating a residential home in colorado springs regarding that las vegas explosion. as we await the fbi press conference, let's bring in former joint terrorism task force member steve rogers. steve, thank you for being here today. in your mind, what is the current threat level from isis and other terror groups at home and around the world as donald trump prepares to take office?

>> i believe the threat level has been pretty high. look it, the united states of america has not truly done much to make the terrorist pay for any act against the united states government, against our military overseas. we know that our troops were hurt in syria, nothing was done. we know iran is causing trouble all over the mideast, nothing is being done. the terrorist organizations, all of them by the way have been conditioned to believe that they could do whatever they want to do to the americans because there'll be no response. it is pretty high, and now that we have the super bowl coming and these venues with thousands upon thousands of people, the security threat is probably going to have to be met with a very high degree of security. ashley: well, this man, this suspect apparently supported isis based on, you know, a flag that was found. how do we root out home-grown lone wolf terrorists? it's not easy, is it? >> it's not easy but on a national level is put an end to the focus on dei and all of

these feel good programs that our law enforcement officers are being mandated to train on, and we got to get back to the job to protect the american people. where are our human underground resources? they're down. where's the electronic surveillance? gone. we have the most sophisticated i didnequipment on the planet to t enough intelligence and information to prevent these and we're more interested in putting our men and women in law enforcement in classrooms that learn about things that do nothing to help our national security. ashley: what's frighten about it is the power of isis and other terror groups for that matter to be able to radicalize someone like this who served in the military, did a tour in afghanistan to the point where he decided to launch this absolutely despicable act. >> well, think about this, where's the counter to that? where's the information that we can at least feed our young people, college students, other

people being radicalized about how great america is and how bad and evil they are? there's no counter balance to this. they can do whatever they want. they come on the internet, on tv, radio, all their propaganda goes out and there's no counter balance from the american government. these big internet companies that allow these individuals to post videos like this guy did like this terrorist in new orleans did and didn't take it down, didn't tell anybody, didn't signal this guy was a potential terrorist or me nassau county. those are things we need to do and we have to countedder balance their prop began -- counter balance their propaganda. ashley: do you think the explosion in las vegas has signs of a terrorist attack? >> i do and believe both were connected. the fbi may think differently, but my experience tells me there's a strong possibility, and i can't confirm it. i want to make that clear. there's enough dot ifs you will that are being -- dots, if you will, being connected here. same day, tesla, elon musk,

trump tower. same day: new orleans, trying to send a signal to the american people. ashley: yeah. you know, steve, i said this to our last guest, paul morrow, we live in a free society and it's so admired and with it comes the risk that people can walk among us and carry out these horrible acts. >> they could, but here's the catch to that. we also have to understand that when we say -- see something, say something. this terrorist in new orleans had a video. how many people, how many thousands of people could have saw that and brushed it off? did anybody think about calling the police? where is our electronic surveillance of these things? where's the responsibility of the companies allowing these to be posted? if we see something, we need to say something. we all have to play a huge role now in doing what? not only preventing crime in our cities but our national security. ashley: it's a good place to leave it on that message. steve rogers, steve, thank you

so much. >> well, thank you. ashley: our pleasure. take a look at these markets. it is of course the first trading day of the new year, and we are moving higher as you take a look at a picture from new orleanss and we're waiting for the fbi to hold their latest news conference coming up in about nine minutes from now and we will go live. in the meantime, we're very lucky to have charles payne with us now. charles, great to see you. happy new year to you, my friend. charles: happy new year. ashley: okay, we look at the markets, we're starting off strong after a bit of a selloff at the end of last year. can we keep the momentum going in the new year? charles: we might be lucky to keep the momentum going today; right. it's one of those sessions, ashley, you know, you wake up, see the futures look higher but there's not any real news per se. i'm somewhat concerned about the way we limped out of last year all though historically we've had the years early december and made big highs and come off the way we did with so many days, not just the market, but the

breath, the tone of the markets and so many more new lows versus new highs and it's ironically enough the following years have seen rebounds and i'm really optimistic about 2025 but right now is sort of a show me sort of a market. give me an example. at one point this morning, tesla was up maybe $10 before the open. then delivery numbers came out and tesla shares came down and the momentum is still to the upside particularly with the megacap names but it's a show me market and any missed cues will be heavily punished. ashley: what are some of the risks out there, charles? a lot of people have come on the show saying i'm not so convinced that inflation couldn't raise its ugly head again. what are your -- especially with perhaps trump initiatives and tariffs, there's those that say wait a minute, they'll raise prices and what do you think are the biggest risks? >> early in the week, the dallas fed came out with their survey,

and i thought the most interesting thing about it was prices, they saw prices going up and first time in the last four or five years they actually see prices moving higher. charles: i think inflation will continue to be an issue. i don't know that it's going to accelerate, but the notion that it's just all over and done w i think the fed has blown it to be quite frank with you from a communications point of view and also just so-called being data dependent. data that's always revised and wrong. the inflation will be out there. i think the most important thing is to build on this animal spirits, the momentum that we have, the excitement and optimism out there, we're set up and poised to build on that and all about execution right now. ashley: indeed. we'll have to leave it there but, charles payne, you're looking sharp today. charles: thank you, you too. ashley: oh, you're very kind. charles, thank you and of course we'll be watching you on making money. that's what it's all about at 2:00 p.m. eastern right here on fox business. my good friend charles payne.

just to bring you up to speed, we are waiting for an update from governor landry in new orleanss and the fbi. let's bring in david spunt joining me now. david, what do we know about the suspect so far and what details are being dug up? reporter: the fbi and law enforcement expected to announce momentarily on camera in new orleans and believe after extensive interviews yesterday, they believe this suspect likely acted alone. they want to hear from people, if people have any information regarding interactions with jabbar, the 42-year-old who was involved in this horrific tragedy yesterday, but they do now believe that signs are pointing to he acted alone. we'll hear from them momentarily. hundreds of miles away from new orleans here in washington, the work continues for the fbi, department of homeland security, to if eight hours yuri colins out more about this -- figure

out more alaska this suspect and update president biden is his team in the loop as much as possible. fbi was quick to come out yesterday on paper and use the word terrorism and we know this 42-year-old suspected terrorist made his allegiance to isis known hours before the shooting. watch this. >> fbi reported to me that mere hours before the attack, he posted videos on social media indicating that it was inspired by isis, especially the desire to kill, desire to kill. the isis flag was found in his vehicle, which he rented to conduct this attack. reporter: this suspect was born in the united states, he served as army veteran. the fbi, lead agency in the probe, going through his social media and other accounts. it's a fluid investigation and things have been changing and they will continue. yesterday multiple law enforcement sources said they originally saw three men and a woman near the scene on surveillance video and looked to investigators originally like they may have been touching

possible explosive devices. after interviewing them, it appears they were bystanders but in the height of chaos, they wanted to make sure so they're keeping them close just in case something changes. as for any explosive device, authorities rendered them safe but there is and will continue to be a heightened law enforcement presence on the grounds in new orleans in the days, weeks and months ahead as we wait for that news conference to begin any moment in new orleans. back to you. ashley: david, thank you very much for that update. david pointed out we're awaiting the fbi news conference from new orleans on the terror attack. we'll have more varney right after this. advil liqui-gels are faster and stronger than tylenol rapid release gels. ♪ also from advil, advil targeted relief, the only topical with 4 powerful pain fighting ingredients that start working on contact and lasts up to 8 hours.

ashley: we're waiting for the latest update from the fb and i recollects you're looking at a room where that press conference will be held and we'll take that to you live when that givensment fbi speaking alaska what they've discovered and the latest information and congressman darryl issa, republican from california joining me now. congressman, we may have to cut away in the middle of this however, let me say this, the fbi said this was not a terrorist attack initially. how did they get that so wrong? >> well, they get it wrong unfortunately particularly with a lone wolf and hadn't heard chatter or seen things that would make them believe that.

let's be candid, this is one of the hardest types of terrorist attacks just as oklahoma city bombing was very difficult to see. a domestic soldier, patriot who goes bad is going to be one of the hardest to find and this is no exception. ashley: are you concerned this could signal a wave of further attacks? >> i'm concerned there's always a possibility of copy cats and i'm concerned that perhaps we're not looking enough at social media proactively, and this is quite frankly where ai should be able to without getting in the way of people's first amendment rights, should be able to detect the fact that people, even if it's an hour or two hours before an attack, seem to want to declare their alleges or do something to make -- allegiance or do something to make history and we've got to be able to answer that kind of threat in minutes, not in hours or days.

ashley: do you think the attack in las vegas is connected at all? >> it does seem to be. i mean, you know, this is not calling uber. this is a more i isotear ick uf rental car and it's a coincidence that needs to be looked at very carefully and domestic terrorism is hard and it's the reason homeland security was created and they need to do a better job and start using ai more effectively. ashley: on top of that, kongman, think we've become a little complaisant with regard to the threat of terror? >> there's no question. eternal vigilance is going to be important, and it's one of the reasons that using predictive software models that don't get

tired, they don't stop looking at images, they don't look and say we've seen this before. they constantly update and look and get smarter and that's what we need to have. the technology is available. we need to implement it in a smart way. ashley: another example too, and i know this truck has been spotted crossing the boarder and may not have been with the current suspect. and we haven't confirmed any connection with the border, but having an open border can lead to situations like this that allows terrorists to come in and disappear into the country. >> absolutely. we have could wantless number of people in the country and don't know where they are. in addition to the rare, desantis ick home grown, we have people that very much might be planning something today and certainly have a history of terrorism. ashley: think the new trump admin vagues is coming --

administration is coming in at the right time to reinforce the strength needed to stand up to the terrorists? >> candidly, i think we're coming in four years too late. this wouldn't have happened and things like this would have been prevented if four years ago we continued on a trajectory of closing the border, modernizing our legal immigration process and doing so in a way that president trump was doing and wants to do it again but now has 10 million+ people that have to be sifted through in addition to closing the border. ashley: congressman darryl issa, thank you for talking with us. as you can see on the screen, fbi officials new orleans about to give an update on the terror attack in new orleans as we wait for the officials to come in and again, news just a short while ago that the fbi believes there were no accomplices or other suspects to be tracked down. it's been somewhat fluid as

you'd imagine in a somewhat complicated investigation and concerns that others were involved and perhaps planting those explosive devices around new orleans. there were a couple of ieds we understand that were safely taken care of. again, now we're hearing word that perhaps there was just this one individual who acted as a loan wolf by himself and still waiting for update on the exploding psychoer truck in las vegas. was that connected to the new orleans attack and what do we know about that? we do know that a home in colorado springs was being looked at by the fbi this morning as part of the investigation as part of las vegas explosion. again, a picture of the room in new orleans where we're awaiting the fbi officials to come in. fbi of course leading this investigation but using many other agencies to help them do

this. we know there was a home that we believe belonged to the suspect north of houston, texas, has been thoroughly searched. we don't know what, if anything, was discovered in that search but maybe something we'll hear in an update here but again, the fbi from the very beginning has been taking the lead here. first it was unsure as we discussed with congressman darryl issa, was this terrorist attack and look, we love the freedom in this country but with it come as price. >> absolutely. the fact is you can't tell the difference between 10 million people who have come over the border that we don't know who they are and 10 million people who might act as lone wolfs. we have to be prepared to sift

through information and use it intelligently and be proactive but the threat is higher because of the open border than it ever has been before and the new secretary of homeland security has a much larger job than he would have had four years ago. ashley: i've been told -- i've listened to many experts since the horrible attack and the term soft target has been used more than once, kongman, of the united states currently a soft target. would you agree with that? >> absolutely. a free society is a soft target. going to a place like syria and everything is looked at or russia or quite frankly even great britain where they have a massive amount of millions of cameras and look at people and evaluate them every minute. no question. we're the freest country and potentially most vulnerable. ashley: with that in mind and as you said it's very difficult to

prevent the lone wolf type of attacks, what can you do? >> well, ai gives us the ability to go through massive amounts of data without being unfair to people but look for these patterns and find a great many and will we find them all? no. would we have found this one with his own declaration? very possibly. explosives are a controlled product. the alcohol, tock bay koenen -- tobacco and fire instead of trying to stop law-abiding people buying guns legally looking for people who are sourcing explosives or components for explosives and that's key. we need to get in the new administration a real emphasis of exactly that. ashley: congressman, we have to cut you off. let's go to the fbi news conference and listen in. >> reminding the citizens of louisiana as you travel around

this state you see flags of all state buildings at half mass in honor of those lives that were lost in this horrific act of violence. i also think it's important to remember that what happened yesterday was a kin to those who are old enough to remember jigsaw puzzles and you'd take a thousand piec piece jigsaw pi ad will empty the box and sift through the pieces and you want to start, if you're real good, you start at the corners. try to put the corners together. and from yesterday to today, over a thousand law enforcement agents and officers, men and women, pouring over countless

amounts of data, of videos, of surveillances, interviews tracking down every possible lead that came to us, whether it was the new orleans police department, louisiana state fbir federal agencies. al declared -- i issued an emergency declaration. that declaration was meant to streamline resources and communications between state, local, and federal partners. we're seeing the results of it. also would like to remind everyone that what's going on in this city and this state is twofold. we've got an active criminal investigation going on while

we're also continuing to secure the city in preparation for 3:00 kickoff time for the sugar bowl. with that, i would also remind those who are in the city that as far as state resources are concerned, we have louisiana state police, the louisiana national guard, which is part of that emergency declaration that allowed us to put an entire mp company on the ground. those become force multipliers is what we call that in law enforcement and in the military. that helps to add to the resources that we have. wildlife and fisheries, department of corrections, dsf, dhs, our veteran's affairs, probation and parole, all state agencies. any state agency who has a post-certified officers are here in this city to help secure this

city. so with that i would like to turn it over to christopher rand, who's the deputy assistant director of the fbi's counter terrorism division. chris. >> thank you, governor landry. good morning. i am fbi deputy assistant director christopher reya. i'm from the counter terrorism division at headquarters and i'm also joined by assistant special agent in charger thethia -- alethia duncan from the new york office. i'm here to discuss investigation in new orleanss and other investigatessive activities outside of the state. first and moat importantly we want to send outrebounded deepest con doll -- our deepest condolences for the victims of

the horrific attack and loved ones. 14 innocent victims killed in this senseless attack and at least 35 are injured. we cannot ease the grief people in this community and across the nation are feeling at this time, but rest assured we stand with you and in support of you. all the resources, and i'm going to go into that a little bit later. all the resources of the fbi are being focused on tracking down every piece of evidence, every lead, every interview, every potential lead we've got. i won't be able to answer all your questions today, my goal is to be as forthcoming as possible with you on what we've uncovered so far. first and foremost, let me be very clear about this point, this was an act of terrorism. it was premeditated and an evil act. this was obviously a critical incident and with that lots of information and tips come

pouring in from law enforcement, first responders, and the public. we have been aggressively running down these tips and information. as you all know, that takes time and we will continue to do so until every lead has been followed through on. this investigation is only a little more than 24 hours old so i ask you to keep in mind that as i go through some of the specifics later. but at this point, currently and this is another position -- another fact i want to be clear on, we do not assess at this point that anyone else involved in this attack is involved in this attack except for shamsud-din shabbar, the subject you've been briefed on. a bit about what the fbi is doing. we're surging people and assets to the area from across the region and across the nation. special agents in multiple fields offices across the

country have been deployed and are assisting with potential aspects of this investigation in following up on every lead. additional steams of special -- teams of special agents is, professional staff and victim specialists continue to arrive to provide more investigative power and assistance to the victims and their families. we've also forward deployed a number of critical incident response group assets, including members of our hostage rescue team, special agent bomb technicians, and crisis management coordinators. in addition, we have deployed more evidence-response technicians to continue to process the various scenes we have. so far we've received just over 400 tips from the public and that information is being followed up on both -- on both here in new orleanss and across the country. some of the tips are here in new orleanss and there are other tips in other states across the

country we're following up on. the fbi team and our law enforcement partners here are also reviewing hundreds of hours of surveillance and other video from both the french quarter and other locations. for a time line, at this point, investigators believe jabbar picked up the rented f-150 in houston, texas, on december 30th. he then drove from houston to new orleans on the evening of the 31st, and he posted several videos to an online platform proclaiming his support for isis. there were five videos posted on jabbar's facebook account, which are time stamped beginning at 1:29 a.m. and last at 3:02 a.m.. in the first video, jabbar explains he original planned to harm his family and friends, but was concerned the news headlines would not focus on the "war

between the believers and the disbelievers". additionally, he stated he had joined isis before this summer. he also provided a will and testament. fbi and atf -- we have a couple different scenes at the loc location. as you -- we have released the scene at bourbon street. that scene has been released. we also have a scene off of mandaville address where we're currently searching that scene. fbi and atf agents have secured that house and that location is being searched for potential evidence. on new year's morning, jabbar open fire after ramming through a blocked off area of bourbon street, used his truck as a weapon to run over the victims,

teams of specially trained victim specialists again are on the ground here in new orleans assisting survivors of the attack and loved ones of the deceased. we do not believe the public is in any danger around any of these locations. three phones linked to jabbar have been recovered and digital media exploitation is a priority to see what is on the devices and determine if there are any other potential leads. additionally, we have recovered two laptops, and are currently reviewing them for any potential leads. those laptops were recovered at the mandaville address. evidence technicians will also be going over the f-150 truck jabbar was driving. as you know, we recovered an isis flag from the back of the vehicle. jabbar declared his support for the terrorist group on social

media, as i stated before, as he made his way to new orleans. fbi bomb technicians also recovered two ieds in coolers. one from the cross section of bourbon and orleans street and the second at an intersection approximately two blocks away. there were multiple reports of other devices. those reports turned out to be misinformation or not actual functioning devices. those are the only two devices that we've been able to recover, that were functional. both devices were rendered safe on scene. we did obtain surveillance footage showing jabbar placing the devices where they were found. two other as i said before, two other items of interest were determined not to be ieds. a little bit about jabbar.

jabar -- jabbar was born in the united states and whether you know him personally, worked with him, served with him in the military or saw him in new orleans or texas, we need to talk to you. you may not think you have relevant information, but what you know could tie in to one of our investigation's leads. specifically, we want to talk to anyone who was in the french quarter on new year's eve or early on new year's day. that includes people spotted near one of the two ieds on bourbon street, the ied was inside a cooler and many people stopped and looked at the cooler and then continued on their way. let's be clear, again, we do not believe at this point these people are involved in this incident in any way. we want to speak to them and we want to know what they saw and

when. i went down to the crime scene last night, it is very hard to put into words what it looked like and how difficult it was to see. anyone with information can call us at 1800-call-fbi or send digital times to fbi.gov/bourbonstreetattack. early this morning evidence response teams finished their work at the crime scene. bourbon street has been turned over to the city of new orleans. as you know, there's also an fbi investigation in las vegas. we are following up on all potential leads and not ruling anything out. however, at this point, there is no definitive link between the attack here in new orleans and the one in las vegas. again, i'll preface as i close with everything that i started with in the beginning, which was this is very early in an

investigation like this. again, our thoughts and prayers are with the victims of this tragedy, and everyone impacted across the country. they remain at the heart of our investigation. i also, all though i've only been on the ground here a short time, i also want to express the sincere appreciation for our partners here, which include the u.s. attorney's office, hsi, atf, the new orleans pd, louisiana state police, governor's office, and countless others. at this point, i'll turn it over to special agent in charge of atf here, josh jackson. >> hey, good afternoon. as stated, my name is joshua jackson, i am the special agent in charge for atf new orleans field division. afp's primary mission is re-venting, reducing and solving

violent crime throughout the united states and abroad. solving part is the focus of this investigation. atf resources that have been brought to bear to the city and to focus with our federal, state, and local partner haves been our national response team. we spoke about the scene that's still being processed now. the snags snagsal response -- national response team is a team of certified fire fighters and explosive specialists, fire engineers, electrical engineers and these folks will give us additional investigative leads to help the investigateive team identify what happened at the location in mandaville and how that fire started and move the investigation forward from there. additional resources that atf brought to bear in the city with the special response team and capable of handling any sort of enforcement operation and this team deployed onset and ready for the sugar bowl today. this team was made available to the louisiana state police and

also new orleans police department to assist with any efforts they may have during this period. additional resources as the governor eluded to and executive powers and had emergency declared to where we're able, atf was able to tap in to assist emergency support function 13 resources. this allowed us to bring additional explosive detection canines to safely sweep the city and safely sweep the super bowl in preparation for the game today. these resources will still be in the city as we lead up to -- up to the super bowl and through mardi gras. these type of atf resources will be here. the last resource atf brought to bear and probably the most important one, it's our victim witness coordinators and these folks come in and provide resources to the victims and their family members that have suffered greatly during the tragedy and the entire city hurts but the victims and the fafamily members are in need of

resources and care long after this investigation wraps up. this time next year hard for family and friends that suffered during this event so our victim witness coordinators are working with fbi, the city of new orleans coordinators to provide resources to these folks here. and as we move forward, atf will be committed. we will work wit here to make sure the city is safe and prepared moving into the super bowl. our mayor of this great city new orleans, may dam mayor. >> thank you so much. good morning once again. i just want to just echo my thank yous to the unified command of our law enforcement partners and at every single level: federal, state and government. thank you for your partnership.

thank you. i also want to thank the residents and the visitors of the city of new orleans for your patience, for your support, and most of all your prayers. our hearts and prayers continue to go out to the victim's families, and the city of new orleans, we're resilient. i stated on yesterday, my focus in terms of the priority has been on our victims. as you've heard and, yes, the fbi was able to clear bourbon street and what that meant also for me and this city was that we were able to remove our victims, identify them, and notify their families. they mattered, the families matter, and matter to the city of new orleans.

in addition to that, i want to thank again our federal partners in washington listening to my plea, personally, for the additional resources to allow for the scene to be cleared and again, attending to our victims. i walked by each one and i did the sign of cross in my own way because reverence again is important. so while we have been able to have bourbon street returned back to the city of new orleans and the due diligence has been done, that then allowed me to give the go ahead to begin the cleaning of bourbon street. that started happening in the morning about 2:00 a.m.. it was completed before 8:00 a.m. this morning. but that's really set the tone, i would say, and with the

confidence that i have in the law enforcement partners and resources that have been activated, how we have made sure that safety continues to be our top priority. how our assets have been deployed strategically and safely for the residents and the safety of the city. because of that, the confidence is there to reopen bourbon street to the public prior to game time today. the first order will be to allow for vendors to come in and service the businesses. that's important in order for us to stand up activation as you know, governor. so with that, i want to reassure the public that the city of new orleans is not only ready for game day today, but we're ready

to continue to host large scale events in our city because we are built to host at every single turn. i want to, again, thank all of those who responded to the fbi's call for information and tips. as you heard, that has been useful. continue to do that. the investigation is still active and absolutely under the fbi's leadership. we will continue to operate and cooperate as we always have. i want to also thank all of our partners for the added resources for victim and crises management. we know that that's, again, important. working with our partner, the greater new orleans foundation, we have set up a fund for our victim's families for not only today but into the future as you heard, this will be a long process for our people.

with that, the city of new orleanss and with all of my confidence, we are ready, and we could not get here again without the unified presence, support, and cooperation. we are stronger together, and i want to say again, thank you so much. thank you, governor. once again, the governor would like me to reiterate that bourbon street will be prepared for full activation before game time today. we know 3:00 p.m., so we're working towards 2:30 p.m. but prior to game time, the kickoff bourbon street will be restored. we're hard at work now and our teams are now and of course working with our business community to serve our public and serve our residents and our visitors alike.

>> in closing i want to rest people assured, right now in the city of new orleans, there's an unprecedented amount of law enforcement resources that are being utilized to close out and hunt down and finalize this investigation. i want to thank the fb and i recollects all of our federal partners for the -- fbi and all of our federal partners and amount of resources that poured into the city. this type of event can happen in any statement that's the tragedy of it. i think it's important for people to understand that to protect our citizens in america from evil, you have to crush it. you can't go out and placate it. you can't go out there and say oh, i'm going to put this in at in place and hope evil doesn't show up on your doorstep because it will. you have to crush it, and that's what we're going to do here. we're going to put it all behind

us. we're going to a continue to keep the victims that are in the hospital either fighting for their lives and trying to recover in our thoughts and players. but you know, this morning, i don't want to stay on one news source and i turned on "fox & friends," and there was a young man who was actually on bourbon street during this horrific act of terrorism. they closed out by asking him what now? i think he summed it up. he said, look, we can't live in fare because fear will paralyze us. he said we come down to the city to enjoy ourselves and to entertain ourselves and to be with our friends and with our families because that's who we are. louisiana invented hospitality.

the people of this city care for each other. believe you me, we care about each one of the lives lost in the city that day. we will never forget them. but it would be a tragedy if we let their losses besnuffed out because of fear. this city will be back and open to family and friends and loved ones who want some time to relax from the pressures of life. so today, we're going to have us a sugar bowel. we're -- sugar bowl. we're going to enjoy ourselves and we're going to keep those, again, who have lost loved ones in mind, and we're going to get on with our business of this city and this great country. with that, i'll take any questions. >> governor, for you and assistant director. the message has really changed since yesterday. yesterday the fbi said that

people should be vigilant and not be out alone, that he likely had help and now you're coming out the very next days and saying he was a lone wolf, everything is safe. the game moves on, everybody have a good time. how can you be so sure just 12 hours later? >> we'll bring him up. but what i want, i want to remind everyone, i was a deputy sheriff. i worked in the jail, on the street, i worked on the intern state. i served n warrants more than i can tell you. look, in today's world, i get it, information, we get information like that. everybody lives in a 15 second tiktok video. we think that life operates like it does on our phones, and it just doesn't. information changes and in fact, that's why we ask the media for patience. we get information and no one dumps a thousand piece jigsaw puzzle and puts it together in

five seconds. okay. and i would tell you that i would ratter and irishuate that the fact of what -- i appreciate the fact of what we did is we're underpromising and overdelivering today and that's important. i want to remind something -- over the last decade, law enforcement has taken it on the chin unfairly. there are great men and women serving in the fbi, in atf, in louisiana state police, in new orleans pd. our sheriffs have been unbelievable in this. i tell you, they want to protect you all. we have to trust them. sometimes the information we put out, we end up finding out that is may be incorrect but guess what, what we're doing here is something i think is important. it's called transparency. something may change again. what i do know though, right now, this is one of the safest

places on earth. that doesn't mean that nothing can happen. >> thank you, governor. and to echo the governor, i think the governor put it eloquently as can be said. in a lot of these instances i had the opportunity to deploy the bos bomb and inaccurate ratterring that comes up and the governor said we want to be transparent with the public and years of the fbi not being transparent and we're being as transparent as we can and unfortunately as we're being transparent, there's information we have to go back and re-correct. in this particular incident, you heard the resources we brought that the other state and locals have brought, we've had 24 hours now to go through media, go through phones, to interview people, to analyze the videos and analyze other data bases, and after all of that there's been hundreds and hundreds of leads done just in 24 hours. we're confident that at this point, that there's no

accomplices. and i'll give you an idea of how that information sometimes a lot of early reports there were extra people setting the coolers down; right. turns out those were patrons on the street looking inside the coolers. we didn't know that at first and we had had track all that down and put it to rest. that's one example of pieces was information but other information that after we got our feet under us and on the ground, we put together a much more accurate picture of the subject and his intentions. 14 and the shooter himself would be 15 total to include the shooter. >> were the ieds pipe bombs and have you discovered remote detonator anywhere? said he planted -- surveillance footage of the suspect planting the ieds.

what time were they planted? >> roughly a couple hours -- don't have the exact times but a couple hours prior to the attack. probably after midnight. i want to say 1 or 2 in the morning -- >> left the area and came back? >> correct. that's our assumption. we have to lot to work through and getting more surveillance video and everything else, but that's the assumption. >> would there have been canines out? would there have been bomb sweeps? >> let me just say this and either joe or bob will correct me. look, a bomb dog doesn't operate like a drug dog. bourbon street there's a lot of sense and males and sniffing out a bomb. what we've been doing and what they have been doing is certainly a complete sweep of the quarter because of the

limited amount of traffic that's been out there. i think this may help. it would be my hope that as some additional time goes through, maybe closer to beginning of next week and if we got to the extent of buttoned up if we could, i would work with the fbi and the city and maybe come up with a time line to be able to get you that information and walk everyone through day one and i think it's extremely premature and you're really putting us on speculative grounds to ask some of those questions because again, it's only been 24 hours. can you imagine how far we've come in 24 hours. wwhoa whoa whoa. one at a time. >> what's being done to make

bourbon street safer tonight than new year's eve? are temporary blockades being brought in and why weren't they used on new year's eve? >> what i'm going to say, every time some bad guy does something like this, there's an after action review because again, nothing is 100%. we have reinforced the area, we have and ployed additional types of assets. i personally don't like to give specifics because i don't like to tell enemy what we have. we're in better shape than we were before. >> [inaudible] some neighbors said they saw smoke early in the

morning at mandville scene and was there a fire or something burning? >> i'm with atf and there was no evidence that the souct was wearing -- s subject was wearina suicide vest. i'll turn the mandaville over to atf. >> the fire started after jabbar was already deceased and a lot of different ways that could happen and different kind of devices and you could have a long cord that extended that time and could have pressure cookers that were put on top of the stove and filled with gasoline and then it went off. there's a lot of different ways to do it, but that's why our atf national response team is here to answer the questions and get the investigative lead back to our team. more to come on that, we're still processing that scene and out there right now.

>> being radicalized and any international travel involved and what led to him being radicalized? >> a lot of questions we're still asking ourselves. we know he specifically picked out bourbon street and not sure why. one can assume lots of people, new year's eve with the, you know, a target for an attack. that's the stuff in the coming days as far as that path to radicalization that we're really going to be digging into and making a priority of so what i can tell you right now is that he was 100% inspired by isis so we're digging, we're digging through more of the social media, more interviews, working with some of our other partners to ascertain just how -- to ascertain a little bit more about that. >> we'll do one more.

>> in order to reassure people, would you be able explain the analysis and evidence that has led to this c conclusion and understands that he was a lone olekowski and have there's no -- wolf and there's no further danger? >> sure, multiple and hundreds of interviews that we've conducted so far and social media and social media review we've done of his accounts and the five devices we have, three cell phones and two laptops, been able to initially tree ash or go through a -- triage and go through that and through interviews and phone records and devices and anything in our system that he was aided in this attack by anybody. again, i have to caveat like the governor said, this is 24 hours into it. and that could change, but right

now we've got a much better picture and much more confidence on what we're dealing with than we were just 24 hours ago. >> thank y'all so very much. again, we're going to try and get y'all as much information as possible so any additional information will be put out through press ashley: there you have it. the latest update from the fbi, congressman darrell issa, thank you for sticking with us. what did you take away from the latest update? >> what i think is most important for americans, don't let a lone actor or several change what americans do.

louisiana is going back to living their lives, enjoying the sugar bowl and this will happen again. it will not change america. that has been true since 9/11 and that is what the governor said well. ashley: have we learned valuable lessons? >> we learned her we had several hours of a facebook posting the vote was squandered, somebody declaring that they were isis radicalized and we didn't act. we need to act in minutes, not days. ashley: congressman darrell issa, thank you for sticking with us throughout the show. our time is up. that is it for "varney and company". fox business live starts now with edward lawrence, take away