run towards harm's way. the two police officers that were shot during the incident are in stable condition. we hope for the speedy recovery of all of those who were injured. that is a noble effort. tomorrow on "special report." the race for house speaker as we told you will take you to capitol hill. as speaker johnson fights to keep the gavel. remember, if you can't catch us live, set your dvr 6:00 p.m. eastern, 3:00 p.m. on the west coast. that's it for "special report." i'm trace gallagher in los angeles. please join me, 11:00 p.m. eastern, 8:00 here in the west. for fox news at night. we have people on the ground in houston as well as in new orleans with the very latest on what's happening in the investigations there. with that. we will see you on fox news at night eboni.

. i'm charlie hurt in for laura ingraham. yesterday's eggs motion at the trump hotel in las vegas. we will reveal that in moments first 14 confirmed dead in new orleans after a vicious terrorist attack. today the fbi made a major assessment that the suspect shamsud-din jabbar was acting alone. we also learned more about jabbar's allegiance to isis. the fbi revealed that jabbar posted numerous videos to social media expressing support for isis, moments before the attack. here with the latest is fox news correspondent mike tobin, mike? >> mike: charlie, once awarded medal for participation in the global war against terrorism, the fbi now says shamsud-din jabbar died here in new orleans, a terrorist. the fbi has just put out a new flier because they are trying to drum up information that includes surveillance photos of jabbar walking around here in this area around 1:00 in the morning. it also includes a picture of a

cooler and that is significant because the fbi says there were two coolers in which ieds, improvised explosive devices were left. they include digital tip line and want to hear if you have any information. the number of victim fatalities are holding at 14. while 37 are injured. new year's festivities in full swing, jabbar turned truck and plowed into the crowd on bourbon street. every indication he wanted to kill more people evidenced by two homemade bombs or ieds left in coolers. anne kirkpatrick he was hell-bent on creating the damage that he did. jabbar posted videos online and said he initially wanted to target his family. he was concerned that the media attention would not focus on the war between believers and disbelievers, indicates of his radicalized fate. on the back of answer the ared truck he flew the flag of isis and said that is what inspired him. >> what i can tell you right now is that he was 100 percent inspired by isis.

and so we are digging through more than social media, more interviews, working with some of our other partners to ascertain just how to ascertain a little bit more about that connection. >> jabbar served 13 years in the army. he deployed to afghanistan with the 82nd air information technology specialist. that's what he got the medal for. he had problems in civilian life. he had a couple of divorces. one got so ugly there was a restraining order preventing him from sending or threatening profane messages to his wife and from causing injury. jabbar was shot dead here on bourbon street. can you hear with all the noise in the background the bourbon street is coming back to life there are many similarities between the attack here and bourbon street and the attack or explosion in the cyber truck in vegas. including the fact that both individuals involved served in the 82nd airborne at what used to be called fort bragg. they used the same app. to rent

their vehicles. but beyond that the fbi says there really isn't any hard evidence connecting the two. charlie? >> charlie: great reporting as always, mike. couple questions. there is some speculation after the facts with the photos of the truck in new orleans that the isis flag was somehow sort of concealed. was there some reason for that or was that -- is that misreporting? >> you know, that kind of information just hasn't been released to this extent. i have seen. so after photos with that isis flag laying on the ground. so i think that will come out in subsequent days. >> charlie: and tell us what -- obviously there is still a lot going on in new orleans right now. it's a time of year a lot of people are there. do authorities feel like the city is fairly secure at the moment? >> well, there is a lot of security at either end of bourbon street can you see a lot of barriers. some that are preinstalled that

are now up. the police aren't really letting any vehicles come up bourbon street as they usually don't anyway when bourbon street gets crowded on some of the surrounding streets, there is a lot of police presence. a lot of roads blocked off at this point and a lot of caution. >> charlie: great reporting, mike, thanks. joining us now is jonathan gilliam, former fbi special agent bret sadler, senior fellow at the heritage foundation, former pentagon official and charles marino former dhs senior adviser. it's kind of amazing to watch all of this and watch the reaction from the officials after they -- the fact. it does seem like authorities were completely caught off guard here and unprepared for this. i think complacency is the word that just as shocking to watch these people walk down the same road that this happened last

night. and not even give it a -- two nights ago. not even give it a second thought. to say me, that's very alarming. but, i think you're hitting on something here is that law enforcement and city officials around the country have failed to evolve as the attackers evolve their tactics. these truck attacks have been talked about and used by isis since 2010 when they wrote an article about how efficient they are. i think -- and it's one of the easiest things to guard against. and i think what we saw in the press conference there in new orleans, is a sign of the incompetence. and i'm not trying to insult them. but from a way of they just don't progress in law enforcement and in these cities to really think outside the box and do things that maybe a way that they didn't do them before. because i will tell you this right now, charlie, we may be

talking about trucks today. but this right here, a $400 drone, this is the next flavor to come. this is being used all over ukraine in the middle east, costs about $400. they can put an explosive on that and i can guarantee you these city officials are not even considering this at this time. >> charlie: so, charles, jonathan brought up important thing that struck me as well watching the press conference where the fbi rolled out the possibility this is a terrorist attack. listen to this and i want to get your reaction. >> he posted several videos to an online platform proclaiming his support for isis. in the first video jabar explains he originally planned to harm his family and friends but was concerned the news headlines would not focus on the, quote: war between the believers and the disbelievers, end quote. >> charlie: so, of course, i was thinking about the clip from the

previous day where the fbi ruled out the possibility that it was terrorism. but, of course now they have come to realize in fact, it was terrorism. >> yeah, that should have never been said. it was a big mistake. i think you see that reflected by the fbi when they sent down the deputy assistant director from counter-terrorism to take over the briefings. because the public is not going to have confidence in that official that briefed on this. [sirens] >> to jonathan's point about the threat level in the country, city, municipalities, need to start their security planning to match the threat level and the specific threats that are out there. we know vehicles are one method of attacks that these terrorist groups that they prefer lone actors carry out mass casualty using drones are going to be the next revolution. we have already seen this starting. i think here in the united states we are behind the curve

as the fbi is somewhat transparent during a fast moving ongoing investigation, you are hearing all these briefings are coming with caveats, that, you know, at this moment, this is the information we have. we got to remember las vegas they haven't even finished the search warrants on the electronic devices of this subject. so i don't think it can be conclusively they reached a decision whether or not there's a connection between these two subjects. >> charlie: you know, brent, one of the things that makes this so hard to understand and some level more terrifying is the fact that this guy jabbar was born here. and grew up here. and then became radicalized. that to me seems like a much more difficult, nearly insurmountable problem to deal with. >> well, anyone can be radicalized, given the right circumstances and surroundings,

and this individual certainly had some troubling past few years, financial and family problems. and perhaps even got into the wrong crowd so i think there needs to be more look at the mosque that he was going to. who he was he associating with in the last year and what did his neighbors say. and so much like see something, say something, we need to be as americans better neighbors, and be on the lookout for our fellow american. >> charlie: jonathan, one of the things that the authorities today are talking about is the importance of putting up better bollards and securing the streets for the last attack as you point out that's going to be different from what the next attack is, probably. do you have any faith that they are taking any of this stuff seriously? >> when they have to start saying that they are going to do it after people die, in other words, it takes people dying in

order to do it, i have a problem with that -- those executives in that city. the reality is, you know, the nypd does this great every day they use police cars, buses, dump trucks with sand in it, whatever it takes to secure that area. it doesn't take millions of dollars, it just takes ingenuity. and you know look at this way, charlie, very level playing level that everybody can understand. i remember the game rock, paper, scissors that we play as kids. well, if you could take rock out, for instance, and you say okay, let's eliminate rock. we figured out that's one of the possibilities, let's remove it. worry about paper and scissors. mitigate those circumstances. that's the way a threat assessment works. if you can eliminate one possible attack, then you can mitigate the other ones if you can't eliminate those as well. and, in this case, there was none of it.

>> charlie: charles, this was joe biden three and a half years ago down playing isis. watch this. >> according to the intelligence community, terrorism from white supremacy is the most lethal threat to the homeland today, not isis, not al-qaeda, white supremacists. [applause] that's not me. that's the intelligence community. >> charlie: do you think that this kind of focus on white supremacy, you know, kept distracted us from finding what is betwe distracting us from fig the threat? >> not only is keeping the eye off the main thing the main thing. i have got to tell you something, he has implemented policies that have set this country back decades from the homeland security standpoint. he has undercut our overall

national security like no president in history. he has undermined law enforcement. he has undermined every first responder in this country and made their jobs 100 times harder than it needs to be. he has taken his foot off the gas against isis. and that was demonstrated on new years' day when this attack was carried out. the fbi refocused their mission after september 11th towards terrorism. and that's what they need to be focused on, eve and every day. it is unacceptable that somebody like this individual is posting these things, this rhetoric on social media and still the bureau claims they are undetected and that they had no idea that this person portrayed a threat to the country. it can't happen anymore. >> charlie: before we go, brent, what are your thoughts on biden's handling of national security? >> atrocious.

it's the simplest way to describe it. and to explain a lot of the things you are seeing. you know, life returning to normal so quick and not a visible police presence as was noted earlier. this is a lack of leadership that's really resulting in all of these atrocities and disasters. starting from afghanistan debacle, evacuation, to the porous borders and the millions of people come in that we have no idea who they are. many thousands of them, known felonies and rapists and murderers that is a complete lack of leadership feckless leadership at best. out of the biden white house. and the sooner we get to januar. i think the safer we are all be. >> hey, charlie, can i say one thing. >> very true. the entire time i was in the fbi. i never saw one white supremacy case that didn't include prison. that wasn't in the prison. not one. this is all created masquerade by the biden administration and activist to make it look like

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♪ >> las vegas police are still investigating the tesla cyber truck explosion outside of the trump hotel. for the latest we turn to fox news correspondent christina coleman. christina? >> good evening, charlie. authorities identified the suspect in this case as 37-year-old matthew lives berger of colorado springs. they say is he a highly decorated army soldier most recent lay green beret on leave from germany. they believe he was the lone driver of the tesla cyber truck you see exploding wednesday morning outside of trump las vegas. authorities believe lives berger shot himself in the head while in the vehicle before the explosion. >> i'm comfortable calling it a suicide with the bombing that occurred immediately thereafter. i'm not giving it any other labels. >> seven people suffered minor injuries, authorities say it could have been worse if the steel sided vehicle didn't

absorb a lot of the force from the explosion. investigators say they found a lot of evidence in the cyber truck including a military i.d., passport and multiple guns that were apparently damaged from the blast. burnt almost beyond recognition as well. there is slr model b-30 semi-automatic firearm, number of fireworks that were still in the vehicle that had to be removed. >> also, there are some similarities between the deadly terror attack in new orleans and cyber truck explosion. the suspects in both incidents served time in the army. both were in afghanistan in 2009. though there is no indication they interacted with each other at that time. both suspects used vehicles in these incidents that they rented through the turo app. authorities say there is no connection between the two cases, though they are still investigating. >> working hand in glove, side by side, tirelessly to determine is there any ongoing threat to

the public to identify if the subject to determine any potential connection to other events going on in the world, most notably in new orleans. >> so the investigation continues as authorities work to identify a motive for the cyber truck explorks charlie? >> christina, thanks. this whole story seems more bizarre with every detail that comes out. here to make some sense of it is our next guest jonathan fahey, former dhs official. how do you make sense of all of this? >> yeah. that's a very good lead-in because it really is hard to make sense of this. what it seems to me, at least at this point. there seems to be something that would make sense that it is somehow politically motivated because it's a trump hotel. the cyber truck may also be connected to elon musk. so you do think this was some sort of possible attack on trump, attack some sort of terrorist attack. it could have been something that he was planning on doing something, had second thoughts,

committed suicide. it's hard to tell. but it is really concerning just because the fact that donald trump is potentially the target here, this would make the third time in what, six months that donald trump or his properties or other things have been the subject of severely violent attacks. so it does raise the concern and it sort of goes back to all of the rhetoric leading up during the campaign and then some the violence ratcheting up. so many unanswered questions. this one just seems a little bit weird. a couple coincidences with new orleans but really not enough to really have any reason to think they are connected. >> charlie: yeah, i think you make a really great point there of course, the importance of the rhetoric, you know, everything does seem to be amped up at a level like we have never seen. at least i have never seen it in terms of, you know, our political discourse. but the other thing that i think is kind of interesting about both of these murderers is

that -- or the murderer and bomber here is that neither one of them are among the millions of unknown illegals that we have allowed into the country. it does make you stop and wonder my goodness, what else don't we know if these are a couple of people who are homegrown. what don't we know of all of these people that have come across the border? >> you are exactly right. it could be so much worse. what i thought was striking about both mayorkas in an interview today earlier on fox and joe biden's press conference or statement last night. they went out of their way to say american citizen. he was an american citizen in the military. almost like american citizens is a pejorative term in their view. what they're really showing their defensiveness, they know what they have been doing the last four years which is opening our border to anyone that wants to come in here. and as you know, and people that watch fox, that this administration let 99 people on

the terrorist watch list that were stopped by border patrol and still let into the country and they have never told us what happened to them. they just allude to the fact that they have dealt with it. but we don't know. but it's really the got-aways and this administration has done nothing to suggest that they are taking this issue nearly as seriously as they should be. they always say they are taking it seriously. but, meanwhile, they are going after grandmothers on january 6th and school boards and other things. if your priorities are public safety, you should focus on the most serious public safety threats. not all this other nonsense and not try to create political issues and use the doj to promote political narratives. unfortunately, they have been doing that and probably somebody in the future is going to be a victim or many people are going to be the victims of somebody they let in to advance their political agenda. >> charlie: jonathan, as you pointed out a minute ago about the political rhetoric here.

michael lives berger's family said facebook loving the country. loved trump and always very, vet pretty i can soldier. a pretty i can american. again, it just doesn't make sense. >> yeah, this one really doesn't. there could be just some -- you know, severe mental health component, other things when people come back. it's hard to figure this one out. and hopefully the next few days, once they dig deeper into the social media accounts and maybe talk to some other people, maybe they will get some answers. you really don't know. just talking back -- and not to say somebody's rhetoric caused this. but we have been heightened state of rhetoric, which bad things happen and are more likely to happen and people that might have a shorter fuse or something like that might get triggered a little bit easier. you and i know we follow this stuff that most of what the democrats say, particularly with regard to trump, we don't take remotely seriously. but people out there do,

unfortunately. >> charlie: it's enough to drive anybody insane. so maybe we should knock it off. jonathan, thank you for joining us. >> both the new orleans truck driver and the driver of the las vegas cyber truck served in the u.s. army. the las vegas driver was active duty military. and a presser today, the las vegas police discussed similarities between the two. >> there are a number of things in this case that are similar to the attack in new orleans. we do know that our subject here served in the military. both of the subjects served at fort bragg, north carolina. they both served in afghanistan in 2009. and we also know, of course, that they both used rental company turo. >> charlie: the fbi also said today there is no definitive link between the two events or the two men. joining me now is lt. colonel daniel davis u.s. retired army

men. lt., what in the world is going on in the army that would lead two members to commit such violent acts? >> well, you know, i think it's really foreign keep this in context. is it 1.8 million members of the armed force on active and reserves forces, et cetera. and these two guys are -- i mean, they are human beings. we have issues and public at large and our society and the military. but, when you look -- and there has been some studies done recently. there were lots of concerns after january 6th that was a lot of folks who were in military veterans and so they said hey maybe we need to look at a problem here. there are some studies done, csis what they found a minuscule fraction of less than 1% that had any concerns at all about radicalism, study said actually in most cases lower percentages of potential radicalism in the military as to the society at large that doesn't surprise me

most people who join the military love 6 country. they want to defend don't want to do anything against it. even if they may not agree with some points here and there i just think people need to be carriful about drawing too many conclusions because these two guys both have military background. >> charlie: sure. i think that's a great perspective to add to this and i think it's very important. but it is kind of strange it. does make you sort of wonder what are we doing about recruitment that would be my first question. are we making a mistake with recruitment. recruiting the wrong people? secondly, both of these guys earned awards. jabbar earned a medal for the global war on terrorism and then he turns around and becomes a terrorist. is the problem with recruitment? is the problem with the idea that we don't do a very good job of recognizing when you have a problem? i mean, these guys weren't short timers in the military. >> no. i think the issues is not --

jabbar was not radicalized people interview in the press today until about a year ago, which is seven or 8 years after he left service. so apparently there is no connection between what happened during the time he was in service and the one in las vegas that guy there was by all accounts, there was some kind of domestic issue that was going on. some kind of a problem he had with his wife. he drove there and. no evidence whatsoever this has any kind of terrorist kind of operations in terms of isis or anything radicalized like that. this looks like a mental health issue. the one thing that is important we have got to take care of each other. that's one thing the military tries to do really well. certainly did during my time in active duty. but, look, we are human beings and there are going to be mistakes made and sometimes people get radicalized for reasons there is nothing can you do about it. i don't think it's an issue of recruiting that we are recruiting the wrong people. we do lots of screening on that anyway. there is so tiny number of

things that have happened like this that i don't think you have a sia systemic problem. >> charlie: it is mystifying thank you for shedding light on it. thank you. congress is demanding answers about the terror attack and cyber truck explosion in las vegas. senator tom cotton reacts, next. ♪

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>> i participated in the classified level briefing earlier this afternoon by the intelligence agencies and the fbi. but we need our federal partners to do their job. there is some frustration. >> charlie: so are members of congress getting all the information they need? joining us now is arkansas republican senator tom cotton. senator, the fbi is claiming that they are being transparent,

watch this. >> we want to be transparent with the public. years of the fbi not being transparent, we're being as transparent as we possibly can unfortunately, as we are being transparent, unfortunately for that, there is some information that we have to go back and recorrect. >> charlie: so, senator, are you satisfied with what the fbi is sharing with you all? >> charlie, first off, let me express my condolences to the victims of or the families of 1 victims of this terror attack in new orleans yesterday. i can tell you congress hasn't gotten much more than what have you seen in the news. it's true that the fbi has had to take back some of its statements like yesterday, for instance, the very first thing the local agent in charge said was this is not an act of terrorism. that seems to be the fbi's instinct in most cases when something like this happens. usually most people with common sense can say gosh, that looks like terrible to me. no, we shouldn't jump to conclusions but the fbi

shouldn't jump to conclusions either especially in a way that tends to be politically correct and to protect president biden from political repercussions. in war time first reports from the front are often and usually up complete or even incorrect. that can be the case of investigations as well. it's fine for the fbi to say we're keeping all options open. we're exploring the evidence. we are taking to its logical conclusion as opposed to always jumping to the politically correct conclusion. >> charlie: i think it's a very good point. you know, i have to ask you just because of your own military service. i'm just sort of puzzled by all of this. in both the cases in new orleans and in las vegas, you have people who had extensive military service. and in the case of the guy in las vegas, he was a green beret. he was a special forces soldier. and just -- what is your reaction to that?

>> well, charlie, as your last guest, colonel dale said that case in las vegas does seem puzzling. i will take my own advice there and not jump to conclusion. i will let the facts lead us where they will in coming days. in new orleans attack this terrorist appears to be radicalized well after he left the army. it is the case sometimes bad apples slip through our system. remember nidal hasan fort hood shooter from 15 years ago. however the biden administration for four years has stuck its head in the sand to the threat of islamic terrorism. if you recall, president biden and the director of national intelligence, and the secretary of defense have all said the biggest threat we face is from racially and ethnically motivated terrorism. specifically white supremacist terror. they lost a witch-hunt in our military to try find all these apparent white supremacists in our military. and they could barely find any at all. most of what they found was criminal gang members. just another example of the miss

placed priorities of this administration. with the fbi, they have had time to chase down every grandma in a red maga hat who attended president trump's rally at the ellipse four years ago on monday or target parents who go to school boards or traditional catholics or pro-life protesters. yet, once again, we h have aterr attack happen. and the fbi charged and says nothing to see here. not a terrorist event at all. the fbi needs to do a much better job establishing the kind of culture from the top that serves thousands of brave men and women who are on the front lines of the fbi trying to keep this country safe. that's what the american people expect. that's what president trump and pam bondi and kash patel will do once they take the how many. helm.>> see if never mostly cond about white supremacy as opposed to terror attacks like this. thank you, senator, for joining

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>> new york city is on edge. yesterday, bureau hamas protests broke out in new york after the new orleans terrorist attack.

[shouting] [bleep] >> charlie: these radical protesters don't even try to hide their hate. joining me now is joe borelli, minority leader of the new york city council. joe, i have got to just ask you. i mean, it's kind of amazing toe these protests happening today. of course, i remember a year and a half ago after the october 7th attacks in israel. we saw the same sort of thing. it's kind of mind blowing to me that you have people -- a lot of these people are not even wearing masks. they are out openly, publicly protesting this stuff. >> yeah. if you would have just heard a headline that they were protests after a terrorist attack in new orleans, in a normal society you would have thought that meant protesting against terrorism. but that's not what we have here. >> charlie: exactly. >> what you just showed on the screen, these are vile people. these are openly anti-semitic

people. openly racist against white people. and they are simply the type of people that are spurring on attacks that we saw in new orleans. they don't have some nuanced definition of intifada. so when they cheer things like globalize the intifada or from the river to the sea and phrases like that, they are specifically and really, i mean, you know, it is just targeting. the same type of terrorists that perform acts like we saw in new orleans. it's disgusting. it's vile. and it has no place in a civilized society. >> you know, it's interesting. we spent so much time focusing on the failures of public officials. and we should. and the failures that allow things like these terrorist attacks to occur or the failures that allow millions of unknown illegals to come into the country but i do think it's kind of interesting that you have level of breakdown of civility among normal, regular citizens.

and then it can't be all that surprising that as a result of all of that, or at the same time, you wind up with this horrifying epidemic of crime where you have somebody burned to death on a subway: i mean, look, just talking about the protest, if people are telling you believe them. marching behind hamas flags and hezbollah flags as we saw in numerous new york city protests, you should believe that they are here just to promote violence. just to promote the sort of terrorism that we saw. but, yeah, it goes deeper than that in new york. we have a city that really is suffering from a period of decay over the last five or six years. pre-pandemic. when new york city politicians and new york state politicians pass a series of reforms that basically erased any sense of public order and public safety. the net result is that whether you are on our streets listening to hamas protesters or in the subway feeling threatened by mentally ill people or tren de

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>> let us welcome the great president joe biden. >> president joe biden: thank you thank you. i'm sure you're clapping because i finally showed up. [ laughter ] >> charlie: absentee president did finally show up to address the american people regarding the horrific attack in new orleans but not until 7:00 p.m. last night. >> president joe biden: i know i can speak for all americans when i say our hearts are with the people of new orleans after

despicable attack that occurred in the early morning hours. the investigation is continuing to be active and no one should jump to conclusions. >> charlie: while biden is urging the public not to jump to conclusions, that hasn't stopped donald trump from concluding that biden and his administration failed to protect its citizens. writing on true social joe biden is the worse president of the history of america and complete and total disaster. and writing another post doj and fbi and prosecutors not done their job spent all the waking hours unlawfully attacking their political opponent me rather than focusing on protecting americans from the outside and inside violent scum that infiltrated all aspects of our government and the nation itself. democrats should be ashamed of themselves for allowing this to happen to our country. joining me is our fox news contributor and former white

house press secretary to president george w. bush and fellow at the steam boat institute and editor and chief of the independent women's forum. ari, what did you make of that bizarre statement from the president last night? >> yeah, i mean, the man who jumped to the conclusion that the border patrol whipped migrants when they illegally entered the rio grand river said don't jump to conclusions and it should have been isis is hateful ideology imported to the united states and will do everything we can to defeat isis where it is and expel hamas and pro-hamas protests from the streets of united states of north america and protect americans from it. that's what he should have said in the attack. not worried how much time he took to say it. there is a hesitancy from the president to get out and say

things. what he said and more importantly what he did santa claus that was the problem. >> charlie: ari is right about that. not just what he said or the slowness of what he said last night, but also what we have heard from him over the past four years trying to blame, trying to speculate white supremacy is the greatest terrorist threat in america today that clearly it is not. >> the reason biden can't reach a conclusion and can't answer questions about the tragedies that are still unfolding is because he's completely checked out. the press conference was a embarrassment. i can't think of a single person who watched that and reassured we have a commander and chief who is capable and competent in the time of crisis and that's with the attacks unfolding and physical weakness and policy weakness will invite further crises in the united states. our enemies know they have a

narrow time frame before they can act before real leadership comes back to the white house. unfortunately we're seeing the consequences of that in realtime. you know, biden's parting gift to the united states seems to have been drawing a massive bullseye on the entire country as he has signaled he's incapable of standing up for our sovereignty, our safety, and our enemies know that and the american people are unfortunately discovering that the hard way. >> you know, ari, among republicans on capitol hill, you know, obviously talking about an historically slim majority as they try to come together but speaker johnson feels pretty confident that he's going to be able to get the votes needed to be speaker. watch what he told larry cudlow earlier. >> i think it's going to be okay, larry. we'll have maybe one no vote, i think. i think we get it done on the first round. certainly hopeful for that. as we noted, we have to stick together. >> charlie: do you share his confidence? >> no.

no, because we all seen this before. i hope that speaker johnson is right. the problem is whoever they elect if not speaker johnson, the last speaker is speaker next and do it to the next guy and next guy. there is no end to this. whoever has to be the adult in the room to bring the parties together and inevitable compromise. that's what happens with the small majority like republicans have. until they start acting like a unified team, republicans will always be in trouble. speaker johnson i hope he survives. if he doesn't, it's a blow to everybody who wants to get something done to support president trump. >> charlie: do you feel confident that president trump will be able to rally republicans in the house around getting something done so that republicans can start to address their agenda? >> i certainly hope so. again, republicans owe it to the american people in this case to re-elect mike johnson. it's the greatest way to ensure

that trump is able to get in on day 1 and start implementing his agenda fast. because remember, he could only have two years to implement most of his agenda especially if democrats retake congress in the midterms. so republicans need to come in and need to show a front of unity and need to get things done. >> charlie: so do you feel confident that the republicans will eventually listen to president trump who obviously endorsed johnson and actually do the right thing and put him back in the speaker's chair? >> i think they will because they know 2026 is right around the corner. and there will be primaries and republican voters are watching. >> charlie: thank you so much. that's it for us tonight. i'm charlie in for laura ingram. thank you for watching the special edition of ingram angle. [ ♪♪ ]