you. our nation grieves with you. we're going to stand with you as you mourn and as you heal. in the weeks to come. i want to thank our brave first responders and law enforcement personnel who stopped the attacker in his tracks before he could kill or injure even more people. thank you everyone at the department of homeland security, the department of justice, including the fbi working nonstop to investigate this heinous act. the fbi is leading the investigation to determine what happened, why it happened, whether there was any continuing threat to public safety. here is what we know so far. the fbi has reported to me the killer was an american citizen. born in texas. he served in the united states army on active duty for many years. he also served in the army reserve until a few years ago.

the fbi also reported to me that mere hours before the attack he posted videos on social media indicating that he was inspired by isis, especially a desire to kill. a desire to kill. the isis flag was found in his vehicle, which he rented to conduct this attack. possible explosives were found in the vehicle as well and more explosives were found nearby. the situation is very fluid, and the investigation is at a blame stage. and the fact is that right now, excuse me, there you go. the law enforcement intelligence community are continuing to look for any connections, associations or co-conspirator. we have nothing additional to report at this time. the investigation is continuing to be active and no one should jump to conclusions.

i directed my attorney general, the fbi director, the secretary of homeland security, the head of the national counter-terrorism center, and the intelligence community to work on this intensively until we have a full and complete information. and once we have that information, i will share that information as soon as we can confirm it. additionally, we're tracking the explosion of a cyber truck outside the trump hotel in las vegas. law enforcement and the intelligence community are investigating this as well. including whether there is any possible connection to the attack in new orleans. thus far, there is nothing to report on that score at this time. i directed my team to make sure every resource made available to federal state and local law enforcement to complete the investigation in new orleans quickly and to make sure there is no remaining threat to the american people.

we will support the people of new orleans as they begin the hard work of healing. new orleans is a place unlike any other place in the world. a city full of charm and joy. some people around the world love new orleans because of its history, its culture and above all its people. so i know, while this person committed a terrible assault on a city, the spirit of our new orleans will never, never, never be defeated. it always will shine. we have seen that time and time again throughout its history. and i know we will see it again in the days and weeks ahead. may god bless the people of new orleans and may god bless our police and first responders. may god protect our troops and keep you fully and contemporaneously informed. thank you. [shouting questions] >> aishah: okay. that was president biden. we are waiting to see. did he not take any questions from the press there that's president biden delivering

remarks on tragic new year's massacre on new orleans. no connection to spirits right now. and nobody should jump to conclusions as this investigation continues. our fox local stations will be leaving us now. more fox news coverage continues right here on "the ingraham angle." >> jason: i'm jason chaffetz in for laura ingraham and this is a special edition of the ingraham angle. president biden just spoke about the horrific attacks in new orleans. for reaction though, we are going to go louisiana congressman steve scalise who is also the house majority leader. leader scalise, you just heard the president of the united states. this is your home state of louisiana. the people of louisiana have been devastated. what's the latest from your perspective? >> well, jason, there is still a lot of information we are trying to get.

but we know that there are -- what it seems like a four people at large that were part of this, putting ieds out in other parts of the french quarter down around bourbon street. i hope they are quickly apprehended. obviously there is going to be a very strong presence in the city of new orleans through tomorrow's football game. they are going to postpone the game, which i thought was a good decision to wait and assess just what really is going on. you know, you saw this attack. it doesn't appear to be one person acting alone. that's one of the things we know -- you know i think what the president said about the resilience of the people of new orleans, is accurate. you know, look. i went through katrina and we watched the people of new orleans. we're a tough people. we are going to come back through this. it's difficult. the loss of life still goes up. it's 15 now dead and still many struggling, fighting for their lives.

so, you know, my prayers go out to those who lost their lives and their families, you know, the police officers. who acted bravely to bring down the suspect. but were also shot. we are praying for their full recovery as well. so, you know, a lot of information. i just hope that the fbi and all the agents who are involved are fully candid every step of the way. did you see the fbi this morning saying it was not a terrorist attack which was premature let's use facts and be candid all the way through this and get to the bottom of it and apprehend these remaining suspects along that line, leader scalise with all due respect. governor landry, it gives me a lot of confidence, in having his response -- you know, finger on the pulse, the police chief in new orleans is another situation and then to have the fbi come out and say it's not a terrorist attack and then have to reverse that. i don't understand why the

starting point is oh, yeah we got 10 dead at least at the time that's what we thought of. the number has since refinery, why the starting point was hey, this is a terrorist attack. but, you know, i don't know how the people of louisiana reacting but from afar watching it, the police chief and the fbi are not giving a whole lot of confidence at this point. >> look, the driver had an isis flag in his truck, jason. governor landry is a strong leader. immediately offering all of his support to the mayor, mayor cantrell and all the other agencies that are now involved. of course, the fbi will run point on this as well as doj. but the other agencies not just in new orleans police department other law enforcement agencies that are helping as well i think what people want are candid answers. you don't need to sugar coat this. if there is some uncomfortable

things we find along the way, let's get that information out. you know, we have been saying for over a year now that there is likely to be a terrorist attack on our home soil with an open southern border. we don't know if that's the reason the truck came across the southern border. we have to be on higher alert and all these agencies need to be not just on high alert but candid with what they find. >> well, congressman, our hearts, thoughts and prayers go out to the people of new orleans, good people. shouldn't have to go through. this and god bless those families that lost the life. people in the hospital fighting for their lives. thank you so much for joining us. and have the best new year you possibly can despite these developments today. appreciate you joining us. >> god bless. thank you, jason. ♪ jason. >> smoke was. >> jason: for more developments we are going to this in las vegas. >> i'm going to show you that

first video. that's the cyber truck parked parked right in front of the doors. play that again? so the individual that was in that truck is obviously deceased. still in the truck as we speak here today are fire department folks, engine 12. a number of others. hear from one of the fire arrive quickly along with my officers and obviously we knew that we had a much larger event than just a vehicle fire. and so there is going to be a drone video that plays to my left again. you will sees a we -- the fire initially, they covered it with a tarp to try to get it do-to-go out. once the fire went out through the suppression efforts of the fire department, you will see some of the evidence in the back

of the vehicle. > the gasoline canisters, they are camp fuel canisters and large fire work mortars. but i also would like you to pay attention to on that video as you see that, it looks like the exterior of that truck is completely intact as it sits there. the fact that this was a cyber truck really limited the damage that occurred inside of the valet because it had most of the blast go up through the truck and out. in fact, if you look on that video, you see that the front glass doors not even broken. last they were parked directly in front of. you can see that in the video

there. i will -- i'm very well aware that there is a name already been reported out into the media. i am not going to confirm any names to you as i sit here today because i cannot do that with 100 percent certainty of who the individual is. what i can tell is you we do know the truck was rented in colorado. we were able to trace this truck through the tesla charging stations and it arrived here in las vegas this morning at about 7:30 and went up and down las vegas boulevard before immediately pulling into the trump towers. unfortunately, there were seven people reported injuries. all of them still remain as minor injuries and treated at umc. i would like to thank the resorts world because as you know we had to close down the trump and evacuate it as well as the fashion show mall. and the resorts world was very gracious in taking those hundreds of individuals in over

there, housing them and feeding them prior to us being able to completely clear the hotel, the hotel and fashion show are back open for business. the trump will remain closed as we continue this lengthy investigation as we move forward. i'm going to yield now to chief billy samuels. but i would like you to also recognize all of our exceptional elected officials that have come to support the police and the fire department and this community in remaining safe. there is no further threat to the community as i sit here today. i want to make sure our community understands we believe this to be an isolated incident and it is now over as far as the danger, so, billie? >> thank you, sheriff. i'm going to reiterate the sheriff has spoken upon. engine 12 did arrive within four

minutes of dispatch. did extinguish the fire with assistance from the sprinkler systems and along with that electric vehicle blanket. we did encounter seven victims. all stable, two of them were transported to umc who have since been released. they were transported by community ambulance. a total of 13 units from clark county fire with 26 personnel and four units and person until they las vegas fire and rescue assisted with this operation. we appreciate the support we get from the hotel partners resort world. rtc did lend us 10 busses to evacuate the people from the trump tower. community ambulance further transportation for us. las vegas fire and rescue and nevada division of emergency management and we deecht doo appreciate the supports can't do without them, last night was a huge success we are prepared for whatever comes our way. thank you for that i will turn this over to special agent in charge, jeremy schwartz.

i'm jeremy schwartz special agent in charge here at the fbi in las vegas. currently conducting investigation on vehicle explosion as the sheriff told you being conducted through jttf. joint terrorism task force. i want to make sure that the task force is comprised of law enforcement officials from the entire valley here. we aren't doing anything alone and wouldn't do anything alone without our partners in lock step. we have learned from mistakes in the past and not going to do that again. we have great relationship with our law enforcement partners and continue to do. so as of right now, our number one goal is to ensure that we have the proper identification of the subject involved in this incident. following that. our second objective is to determine whether this is an act of terrorism or not. i know everybody is interested in that word and say hey this is a terrorist attack. that's our goal and that's what we are trying to do. we have a ton of resources dedicated to this right now and again we are doing it with our

partners. we are doing it jointly and continue to do so until we figure out what is going on. think think most importantly the sheriff already mentioned we believe this is an isolated incident. we do not believe that is a bunch of folks out there supporting this or helping this and we don't believe there is any other danger to the community right now. but, again, over the next few hours and days we will continue to do our best to research as much as we can and get to the bottom of this and we won't stop until we are 100 percent certain what happened and why. >> so i just want to clarify again so that i don't get these questions. we do know who rented the truck. we are looking at that individual, but i am not prepared to release the name of any other individuals that we are looking at. at least until next of kin is notified and we have 100 percent identification. so, with that, i will take any questions you might have. >> i can't see. hi, dean.

>> do i think it's a coincidence? i don't know. what i can tell is you we are absolutely investigating any connectivity to what happened in new orleans. as well as other attacks that have been occurring around the world. we are not ruling anything out yet, dana. >> is there a possibility [inaudible] >> so the question is is there any links to isis? i will tell you that we don't have any indication of that here in las vegas. no overt isis flag as was seen in new orleans. but, again, we are investigating every aspect of this and if that comes to light, we will certainly update you. i'm sorry, sir. [[inaudible]] >> about o one hour was the amot of time between the arrival of the truck. at least our first notification of the arrival and the explosion that occurred at the tower. >> it was only there -- it was sitting in the about 15 seconds before it exploded. was that 15?

where did dory go? 15 to 20 seconds. i wanted to make sure i give you the right info. [inaudible] >> i mean it's a tesla truck. we know that elon musk is working with president-elect trump and it's the trump tower, so there is obviously things to be concerned about there. and that's something we continue to look at. [inaudible], i'm glad you asked this question do we need re-examine security procedures. we were very successful in the night before. i'm surprised this happened to be quite frank with you. and that's certainly something we are going to have to look at and target hardening what that looks like. to your question, dana, did i forget to mention that i have authorized what we call an avx roster to continue for the next two days which is my new year's eve staffing plan of over 1,000 officers both in our community, neighborhoods, as well as on the

strip and downtown. in partnership with all of the other law enforcement agencies, city of las vegas marshals. north of las vegas henderson, just to ensure that even if we had a copycat or somebody else wanted to go up and conduct an attack that we the appropriate and available resources to handle it. [inaudible] >> the question is did we find any devices used to set off the explosives and the answer is no, i don't know how they were ignited. clearly with what you see in there something set them off. i don't know what it is yet. we haven't been able to process the vehicle yet. [inaudible] >> yes. actually, i have to thank elon musk, specifically. he gave us quite a bit of additional information in regards to how the vehicle was locked after it exploded due to the force of the nature or the nature of the force from the

explosion as well as being able to capture all the video from the tesla's charging stations across the country and he sent that directly to us. so i appreciate his help on that. i will take one more question. [inaudible] >> i'm sorry. you got speak up for me. >> elon musk [inaudible] >> question is, both vehicles -- i'mening told new orleans was rented from toro and so was ours. that's another coincidence that absolutely is continuing to bear investigation that we have to continue to look into. thank you very much. and as we get additional information for all of you, i'm sorry i will give you a chance. [inaudible] question are we using license plate readers. drone through the vehicle unsafe to get there we are using that technology. thankful to have that as well as

the first indication of that vehicle arriving here in las vegas came from a license plate reader. technology has been very useful to us in resolving. this again, i will commit to come back to you all when we have confirmation of the suspect's name. who they are and what their background is. we will get that information back out to you and call another press conference. i would like to thank the mayor, the commissioners, the other law enforcement leaders and of course our attorney general for showing up and supporting us in this event. it's been a statewide effort and i appreciate it. thank you. >> jason: all right. so we just heard from the local sheriff there in las vegas. we also heard from the police chief as well as the fbi special agent in charge for nevada, jeremy schwartz who was there as well. now, let's bring in for more reaction, what we learned about the cyber truck explosion at trump's hotel in las vegas. james fitzgerald, retired fbi

supervisory special agent and steven rogers, joint terrorism task force member. thank you both for joining us. steve, let me go to you, first. i'm struck by what i heard in both new orleans there in las vegas they were slow to say they are both terrorism. don't start with the supposition that it is terrorism and then work backwards from there. i mean, you had an attack in new orleans. it was using electric vehicle. here is another electric vehicle and two -- you know, two incidents there in the morning at the trump tower. are you kidding me? why would that not be the starting point? >> you know, jason, i'm so glad you brought up that point. that new orleans situation yes a tragedy, bring up the starting point about the people that were killed and et cetera. i have got tell you, i was so happy that you said that because why have new orleans. all these politicians running to

the microphone for their 15 minutes of fame. what we saw happen in las vegas we saw law enforcement personnel from the fbi the local police, the sheriff, et cetera, at least bring credible information. there was no conflict over the fbi saying well, it's not a terrorist attack and the chief coming on and saying it is and on and on and on. i got to tell you the presser here was good. we got some accurate information. hopefully we will get more information as we move forward. but in new orleans they got to get their act together. they brought no comfort to the people. >> yeah, steve, you want to see a confident press conference that was it right there. james, let me go to you here. there in new orleans, i mean, they are worried about the idea that they are still unknown number of persons who were potentially involved and engaged in this attack in new orleans. what is the fbi doing? what are they doing for? how do they hunt these people down? what's step 1, 2, and 3 to get this situation under control there in louisiana?

riley steps 1 through 1,000 undertaking fbi and law enforcement partners in new orleans. >> first of all, do a psychological autopsy on the killer, the driver of the vehicle a physical autopsy but also go into all of thinks digital computers, phones, everything he has. anything on social media to find out who he has been in touch with. obviously look at surveillance cameras throughout the whole city. you know, 24 hours before. they will go back to eagle pass, texas. where apparently the truck originally came from. they will try to piece everything together there to look for this. what i'm very interested in several ieds found in the truck as well as in the new orleans area. bombings -- bombs have signatures to them. and i know this with the unabomber. they have very specific indicators when they build bombs. what i would want to learn from

our bomb techs, the ied specialists were the fact were these similar type bombs? were they recognized from someone overseas because there is a date base of all different kinds of ie ds internationally i want to see if devices in car and elsewhere made by the same person, amateurist, sophisticated? that will tell us a lot, too who the fbi and others are looking for new orleans and prance the rest of the country. >> jason: steve, it's my understanding federal law enforcement sent to local law enforcement advisory earlier vehicle ramming was a tactic to be looked out for. new orleans, they quickly got around the car because you had this barrier that wasn't working. and the barrier that they put this in place was obviously inadequate. i saw what i think was the video of the car going just around the police car before it poured down that street and killed all these people. obviously you can't protect

every road or you wouldn't have a road. how do you find the proper balance? what does law enforcement do now that we have had these two attacks? what are large gatherings of people supposed to do to protect themselves? >> well, we can only do the best we could, jason. you can't guarantee 100 percent that there is not going to be such an attack. but they have to do what i hope that they have been doing all along is make sure that they see what is going on with regard to chatter on the internet that they have a lot of human resources throughout listening and watching and very very important that our intelligence agencies come together and share information and do the best they could to prevent. this but we can't guarantee 100 percent that something like this is not going to happen again. >> jason: well, it's a sad day and a sad situation. unfortunately that situation in las vegas wasn't much, much worse. james and steve, thank you so much. we really do appreciate it.

for more on the latest developments on the investigation we are going to go now to fox news garrett tenney who is in new orleans. garrett? >> gregg: yeah, we know the fbi as well as local police new orleans several other areas are looking into the possibility of additional accomplices that help this suspect plan out or carry out this attack. that includes just a few hours down the road in houston. right now the fbi and local police are set up outside of the home there on the northside of houston. we have seen them take at least one person into custody and sources tell our own brooke taylor that police are now preparing to move in on that home that has some kind of connection to this terror attack. we don't know for certain if this is, in fact, the suspect's home or someone connected to him. but we are told that police are worried there could be explosive devices inside. so they have been clearing out everyone who lives in that area

before moving in and that's suspected to be in the next couple of hours. back here in new orleans. the fbi has named the suspect in attack as 42-year-old shamsud-din jabbar, u.s. citizen served 13 years in the army and army reserves. investigators don't believe he acted on his own. in part because of surveillance video that they have showing three men and one woman placing what appears to be improvised explosive devices in parts of the french quarter. we want to warn you this next video is hard to watch. it shows the moment jabbar drove a white rental truck on to bourbon street 3:00 this morning. pull in fronts of a police car off the road and drove up into the sidewalk right into a crowd of people and take off downtown road plowing through the crowds that were out celebrating the new year. this next video from about abalcony overlooking bourbon street give you a sense of horrific scene the moments after

this attack with mangelled bodies scattered across the road. the death toll right now stands at 15 people but that number could go up given that more than 30 others were injured. some of them critically. two officers were also shot when the suspect opened fire after crashing the truck. inside that truck, police found an isis flag. multiple weapons and an improvised explosive device. the associated press bulletin wired for remote detonation with a remote control in the truck as well. and last night's crowd, new year's eve is always big here in new orleans on bourbon street. but this crowd was even larger because of big college football game. the sugar bowl that was scheduled to happen tonight between notre dame and georgia that game has now been post tone ponsd until tomorrow afternoon. we are told they are bringing in extra security help secure the

city as well as the arena ahead of that game. jason? >> garrett, thank you. fox news contributor raymond arroyo was in the french quarter celebrating new orleans new year's eve with his family just hours before the attack. raymond, there is home for you. it's got to hit hard. tell us your thoughts. >> you bet. look, jason, thanks for having me. i grieve with all those who have lost loved ones. and my brothers and sisters here in new orleans. the french quarter i know for many visitors is a place of frolic. it's a place you go to drench and have a good time. for those of us who live here it's where we celebrate family occasions and where we worship. the cathedral is the center of town and something that's been lost in today's coverage, jason. those ieds that were placed by either this terrorist who drove down bourbon street or his four or five accomplices. he we don't know exactly who they are or how many or how they are related. someone apparently three men and a woman planted ieds.

they planted them between cop cars and they planted them near the cathedral. that is a classic hallmark for isis as they conduct their terrorist sprees all over the world whether germany or nigeria, blowing up churches in the philippines. everyone should take note. today was not just any day. for many catholics in new orleans a feast day. dave obligation where everybody comes together and goes mask so whoever was planning this clearly knew or had some semblance of understanding this was a holiday and catholics would be assembling, maybe, at this oldest place of worship in the city of new orleans, the cathedral. i think we need to refocus on the terror that isis and islamic radicals posed to us all over the west. throughout the west. not only in the united states. >> jason: yeah. i was actually touched by -- you know, one of the teams that's

playing tomorrow is notre dame. and to see their fans gathering in prayer was really interesting. all right. i want to get your reaction to what ann kirkpatrick the isn't of the new orleans police department said. watch this and i want to get your reaction. >> this particular terrorist drove around onto the sidewalk. we had barriers and officers there. they still got around. the wedges that you see out there as well. we knew that that had malfunction problems. so we did, indeed, have a plan but the terrorist defeated it. >> raymond: well with all due respect. >> jason: that's not extruding a lot of confidence. >> their plan sucked that's why the terrorists defeated it. i was there, we couldn't drive into the french quarter last night. by the way, i had dinner literally a block away from where this idiot drove down bourbon street. i was a block away having dinner just a few hours before with my family. thank god we left before

midnight and got out of there. the point here, the chief of police in new orleans and mayor latoya cantrell have a lot to answer for. they are talking about the security perimeter. there is something called ball ballarding. round pilings that belong traffic from come in and out of a street. now, somehow the city of new york brings dump trucks in. they block streets and protect trump tower that way. but the city of new orleans hasn't figured it out. they had one cop car and what i would call a road closed sign. just a little, you know, a sign in the street that's what blocked our turning down bourbon street. this terrorist had no civic duty. he went right around onto the sidewalk and took those people out. the city of new orleans spent in $2,017, $40 million. mitch landrieu got it to put security expansions in place because of the truck driving accident, the terror attack in

2016. because landrieu feared we would have a pedestrian terrorist accident like this and we couldn't protect our visitors. for some reason, that money vanished. we don't have proper working to protect these walkways in the city of new orleans. if you are going to close the city down. if you are going to close the street down, make sure you protect them for the people visiting from the terrorist. for whatever reason the city of new orleans did not do that they have a lot to answer for. the only hope i have to offer tonight. jason it is the feast of mary mother of god and she, too. ran from terrorists several times holding god close to her and trusting him. she survived and i think we will as well. >> jason: raymond, hearts go out to there everybody in louisiana. thanks for joining us. glad you and your family are safe. >> thank you. happy new year. >> jason: former coordinator former presidential envoy to the

global coalition to defeat isis. nathan, the potential ties to isis, your thoughts on what you see unfolding here in louisiana? >> well, jason, thanks for having me on. obviously that's the issue that everybody is focused on what links did this guy have to isis. was he a card carrying member of the group acting on instructions from core leadership or weighs inspired by the group? the latter scenario has become increasingly common over the years. isis has said look, you don't need pick up an ak-47 and come wage jihad with us here in the sands of syria. it's valuable to us for you to carry out jihad and commit acts of terrorism at home where you are. and actually since 2015, isis has been calling on its supporters to carry out attacks exactly like what we saw today. vehicle ramming attacks. we have seen it in northeast, france in 2016.

sadly this kind of attack is what isis has in mind. they specialized in it for years. unfortunately another american city has fallen victim to isis's murderous campaign. >> yeah. i thought president biden's comments -- i thought it was odd how much emphasis he gave to the united states citizen. we know there are people inspired here. we also know there are millions of people that have come across our borders. we have no idea who they are. i do know law enforcement does know some of these people have ties to in particularly major cities across this country. there doesn't seem to be any acceleration of identifying and expelling these people that's what i don't understand why there is so much emphasis as

opposed to let's identify and expel them from the united states of america. >> i think that's right. the president sounded incredibly defensive. he almost seemed relieved that the perpetrator was an american citizen. if this guy had actually illegally come to the united states across our southern border, he would have a lot to answer for. he does already have plenty to answer for because the southern border is wide open. we have seen left office. we have seen the number of known and suspected terrorists on the fbi watch list coming into the country go up dramatically. what about the people who managed to come into the country, on the terror watch list who customs officers who cbp people never actually encountered in the first place? was indeed an american citizen.

picture here over the past four years, millions of people have come into the country. we have no accountability on who they are and we have to take seriously thes risk, the threat that some of these people may be here to do us harm. >> jason: nathan, thank you. all right, we'll have more, much more on the terrorist attack in new orleans and the explosion at trump hotel in las vegas. when we get back. stay with us. ♪

♪ >> jason: we just heard from the las vegas police, the sheriff and the fbi there in nevada on the explosion at the trump hotel in las vegas. >> coincidence? i don't know. what i can tell you is we are absolutely investigating any connectivity to what happened in new orleans as well as other attackso curington around the world we are not ruling anything out yet, dana. >> jason: joining us now for more is fox news correspondent marianne raftery with the latest. marianne? >> good evening, jason. just a few hours after that deadly terrorist attack in new orleans. the tesla cyber truck exploded and caught fire outside the towers in las vegas. this just in from elon musk who posted on x we have now confirmed the explosion was caused by very large fireworks or a bomb carried in the bed of the rented cyber truck and unrelated to the vehicle itself.

all vehicle telemetry was positive at the time of the explosion. the sheriff who you just heard speaking firefighters put that fire out which revealed several canisters and large firework mortars inside. the truck exploded in front of the trump building before 9:00 this morning. injuring seven people. reportedly with minor injuries. mcmay hill saying the tesla truck seemed to take the brunt of that blast with the glass front doors of the building still intact. >> there were multiple persons with injuries located around the vehicle. in total, as of sheriff said, there were seven minor injuries, two of which were transported to umc, again, for minor injuries. there is one fatality within the cyber truck. >> law enforcement is investigating a number of leads but have not identified the person who died inside that vehicle. sources telling fox news the vehicle was last seen on surveillance camera driving past the valet section of the trump power an hour prior to the

incident. and then returning and stopping at the front doors. the vehicle was stopped for approximately 15 seconds before it exploded. president biden addressing the nation just moments ago saying that this incident is still under investigation and offering federal assistance. the investigation is still ongoing and we expect to learn more in the coming hours. jason? >> jason: thank you do appreciate it. we are also learning at this hour that 15 people are dead in the new orleans terrorist attack. let's bring in richard a former secret service agent and jonathan fahey, former deputy assistant secretary at the department of homeland security and chris swecker, former fbi assistant director. thank you so much for joining us. -- rich, let's go first. what can local and federal law enforcement do to ensure safety at these upcoming events? >> well, starters let's look at

new orleans and the leadership on display there does anybody have any confidence that the chief of police in new orleans has any idea what is going on there. you obviously did not take that threat seriously enough to provided a aquatic barricade protection. putting a police car in the middle of the street and coming on tv and saying that you're surprised that your security plan was thwarted by this terrorist. the guy is a mass murderer driving around with bombs looking to run people over you're surprised your one car in the middle of the street could drive on the sidewalk. they need to get professional people in there going to take this seriously enough to bring this n. what is going to do the job. you don't have barricades and bowl bollards. dump truck, cement mixer. how about some cement? where was all that stuff? it wasn't there. and that's what allowed this guy to do what, in fact, he did do. and that body count is just going to get higher, unfortunately, jason.

>> jason: yeah, i want to go over. i want to talk about the new orleans city council member who thinks apps were used by the suspects that may have suspected him evade the detection of the actual attack itself. watch this? >> the vehicle was rented off a vehicle rental site that wasn't a traditional one. the individual, from what we understand was airbnb. had this person went to a hertz rental car who knows if the information we have heard got a rental car. if this person had been required to stay in a hotel? would they have been discovered at the hotel? >> jason: chris, tell me about that. what's your reaction? >> yeah, i think -- a little bit bizarre-chilling. >> whether he is at airbnb or ritz carlton doesn't matter. it's staying where he is staying. what his actions are. and what he has been planning and leading up to. the app. had nothing to do with it. the only thing that's

interesting here, really, is the toro app. it. is a common denominator between the las vegas and the new orleans incident. it is sort of an easy way to rent a car, easy, cheap way to rent a car. i don't know that it's all that relevant to this investigation. what is relevant is you have got the ieds planted. you got a former military soldier involved in the primary attack. you have got ieds in the car. you have got weapons. you have got all the ingredients of a terrorist cell here. there is more the fbi has more to tell us and they are being responsible at this point and not giving us more details. but let's hope they got -- they are out there shaking the tree and getting to the bottom of the rest of this terrorist cell. >> yeah, clearly, senator kennedy foreshadowed and give us the idea that he has more information. and, look, there is still a manhunt out there.

still trying to capture and apprehend some others. jonathan, i got to tell you. i'm looking at the calendar, and i see january 20th, january 20th is the swearing in of the next president. president trump on trump 47, if you will. but it's also the same day as the national championship game college football. and if we think that law enforcement at the federal level can cover both the inauguration, the swearing in of the next president of the united states and everything in washington, d.c. and a national event such as the college football championship. are we really -- do we really think we could cover both of those events on the same day? given everything that's happening now? >> i'm quite skeptical that we can back to your earlier point. one of the important things with security in general is having deterrence. having the bad guys think they can't get away with something

because, you know, that is how secret service has been so successful over the years until recently is people think they are inpen net tribunal. what is striking about this administration that's gone away because we have an open southern border anyone could get in. 99 people on the terrorist watch list come through and be allowed in from this administration. and you saw biden's press conference earlier which really exsuited imenat this tuesday what is going on and seemed to be diverting like you mentioned with earlier guest great point in striking was the fact that he is talking about things that don't matter to distract from his own responsibilities which ultimately i think leaves us vulnerable. j. >> jason: the secret service is down 1,000 agents. they haven't exactly exuded a lot of confidence that they could get the job done either. panel, thank you. all right, after the new orleans terror attack, is the biden administration doing enough to

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[♪♪] >> jason: president-elect is set to take office in the 19 days. after a horrific attack in new orleans leaves 15 dead. so what can the incoming administration do to keep america safe? coining us now is florida congressman, who is on the homeland security committee,. i thought senator kennedy made a good point. we want a government who tells us the truth, doesn't sugar coat it, tells us where they're from, what they're trying to do, and if there are more of them. so as the congressman on homeland security committee, what can you do to make sure that does actually happen? >> well, we can bring to task the agencies responsible for

that. but i can tell you that the first day of president trump's administration he's going to secure the southern border. even though this may not have come from the southern border, we have 2 million people who we don't know who they are, where they are, or why they're here that have crossed during the biden administration. plus we have dozens of people on the terrorist watch list that cross the border that we know of. we need to secure our borders in order to protect america as best we can. and we have to support him in whatever other resources he needs from congress in order to protect the american people. >> jason: dan, you understand how the intelligence community works. they put out a lookout for ramming vehicles, and we've had some of that. we know they've put out materials that say use electric vehicles because they're very heavy and you can do more damage

from them. i don't know if we're learning any of these lessons or employing them, but what else should america be doing, and what should the public be aware of? >> i think as you pointed out this evening, look, transparency is really important when you're facing two terrorist attacks that we're still investigating. we are in incident response phase right now, conducting forensics. we're learning whether the individuals who conducted these attacks have networks behind them. whether they were radicalized domestically or with some foreign connection. there are a lot of unanswered questions, but transparency is really important. for the american people, if you see something, say something. that's the way that we've stopped a lot of criminal and terrorist attacks in this country. i can't emphasize that enough. >> jason: congressman, we have the inauguration that's happening on january 20th. we also have the national

championship game for college football going on. on january 20th. i don't know why somebody didn't look at the calendar. how can we actually secure both events? >> look, i look forward to the inauguration, and yes we need to step up our security. i know it's happening already. i got to learn from the lessons of the past, and i would hope that we can do that for the president of the united states. look, as far as the national championship game is concerned, most of the security is really done by the local agencies. and the local and state agencies provide the security for those major events with the help of the federal government with intelligence. so intelligence prevents acts of terrorism before they happen. but if someone's trying to perpetrate something, you need the physical barriers and also the presence of law enforcement

there if something does happen to mitigate it as much as possible. nothing is ever going to be 100% secure. >> jason: dan, did anything -- i mean, any time you have a terrorist attack it's horrific, it is surprising. but from an intelligence standpoint, did this really surprise you? or was it just a matter of time until something like this actually happened? >> jason, look, the incoming trump administration is going to face a wide array of wickedly complex threats to our national security that have increased over the last few years. you have iran, north korea, china, the russian war on ukraine. but the threat with the shortest fuse is terrorism. thanks to the biden administration's chaotic withdrawal from afghanistan, we don't have a capability there to find, fix, and finish terrorist threats like we once had. that's what's concerned me the

most. we've seen isis develop a capability for external operations. we saw an attack in moscow, an attack that was thwarted in austria. we have to double down on all of our intelligence collection so we can detect threats before any harm is caused to the homeland. >> jason: thank you so much for joining us. that's it for us for tonight. i appreciate laura ingraham for allowing me to sit in. jesse watters primetime is up from here. and despite all the heartache, despite all the terror, the united states of america is still the greatest country on the face of the planet. have a good weekend. >> welcome to a special edition of