aaron cohen and senior fellow with the foundation for the mental democracies, richard goldberg.g on. richard, you hurt -- heard pete hegseth thing he wants fewer generals and more war fighters. how did he do today in your opinion? >> i will tell you, i'm a former senate staffer and i been through a lot of these and hegseth gave a master class today. truly showing demonstrated mastery of policy, foreign policy, national security affairs, military affairs, the building, the bureaucracy that he will be managing. he came out i think with flying colors. i believe the testimony will be studied in confirmation prep schools from both sides of the island the future. i expect he will be confirmed as the next secretary of defense. >> trace: interesting. rabbi, a big deal in the middle he's now, the associated press headline reads, hamas okays draft agreement of a cause cease-fire and to the release of some hostages, officials say. it sounds like the hostage deal is almost done. it looks like it could happen as early as tomorrow morning, maybe midday tomorrow. what's good, what's bad about

let's bring in the host of the aaron cohen show podcast, israeli special ops veteran aaron cohen, former san bernardino county sheriff's deputy megan mccarthy, along with former fbi special agent and fox news contributor nicole parker. nicole, first to you, we started out the show with the vegas cyber truck explosion near trump tower. and then we ended with garrett tenney. and we also talked to david spunt. these two incidents, your fbi background, do you believe they're connected? do you believe they're both terrorist acts? >> my gut instinct says, yes, that they are both terrorist acts. are they directly linked? i it would be too soon to tell that trace, but i i'm sorry. i look at everything and i think i'm a tesla truck in front. think about it. elon musk associated with tesla. president trump's trump tower and, you know, fireworks. explosive devices potentially found in that truck. and then both vehicles were rented out of state, brought to different states and wreaked havoc in different communities, whether it was in new orleans or whether it was in las vegas. i just don't think tha

aaron cohen and megan mccarthy rejoin us. it's a very good point.s not been secure for the better part of the four years and we don't know. we know it appears this electric truck that was rented by the suspect was in the past few weeks in mexico for some reason. we don't know why. we don't know what the link is. we're not pointing fingers, we're just saying that it's interesting that we are at this point where steve makes a very valuable point. >> where there's smoke, there's fire. and two things can be true at the same time. you can have an individual who was infiltrated while he was an american citizen, and you can have a problem at the southern border that ma maybe influencede attack. i don't think it's too soon to ask questions. they know we know by now. it's time to be transparent to the american people. they always say if you see something, say something, but how can the american public help if we don't know what to look for or you're not telling us what you know? i think it's time to open up, allow us to be a part of the investigation. i unde

ashley: aaron cohen bring ago strong message this morning. we appreciate it, aaron. thank you very much for your expertise. >> thanks issue ash. ashley: now this, fall of assad regime in syria sparking concerns about a possible isis resurgence. lauren, is anything being done to stop that from happening? lauren: w wall street journal sd the u.s. stepped up attacks in areas where the air space was previously controlled by assad's government and precision strikes and they want to hinder isis's ability to reconstitute in what has become a power vacuum. the u.s. has about 2,000 troops in syria about 2500 in iraq. do they stay there? u.s.-backed kurds are questioning their ability to continue to contain isis, especially the 45,000 syrians that the kurds are guarding in the country's jails with suspected ties to terrorism. and then seeing the new year's attack, that's a reminder that isis can inspire people even though it has been weakened and no longer rules a territory. it's still out there and the u.s. wants to prevent them from reconstituting. ashley: threat is very muc

lisping and former number of israel's special ops unit, aaron cohen, and former san bernardino county sheriff deputy megan mccarty this reads come from new orleans to nice, the police can only doo much. cities can harden their sidewalks and public squares against attack with barricades and surveillance, but these killers are nothing if not resourceful. they always come up with some new method of spilling the blood of innocents and spreading fear. in the infamous formulation, the terrorist only has to be lucky one time. but you still have to pr prep fr the stuff and make sure to the best of your ability that these areas with high traffic and high popularity are secure. >> absolutely. i think there's a lot of questions that still need answers. they say you should wait 48 hours to have the true answers, but i think the american public is on edge as they should be. it's a much larger scale of the last four years we have seen. we saw an illegal immigrant let a woman on fire on a subway train. we have seen these types of attacks across the country for years now, and the american public dese

. >> trace: aaron cohen, may be time for domestic terrorists ri event.right out of my mouth.terr this terrorist attack is and i massive wake-up call. purity of it is time to collectively relook how we doe are doing thee things. president and we have new experts and we have new staffing. what we are doing is not workinn right now and the fbi cannot get it togethet itr and all of these federal agencies, dei. independent, counterterrorism unit and start putting this threat down. this is the greatest country in d and let's get this together and reimagine what this will be. >> trace: is i: ist your sensehe trump will be given the latitude for the things you articulate?t, >> i think anything is possible and they voted fort him then congress will be tough. they will alwaysan give him resistance but a dayt the end o day when it comes to national security and even the far left has to look at this thing maybe there is aan different, better y to start looking at this thing. but is not a bad idea and let's give it a shot. >> trace: because you have, a lot of people

aaron cohen on biden reportedly discussing plans to strike iran nuclear sites if they are closer to makingves. how the suspect was able to post videos pledging allegiance to isis without being flagged. president biden saying there is no connection between the new orleans attack and the las vegas explosion. the 11:00 hour of "varney and company" is next. ( ♪ ) i got injured, um, my back got injured very bad. i was off work for about a year. did physical therapy, did... you name it i did it. i heard about relief factor from my wife. she basically made me take it. relief factor is a daily supplement, developed by doctors, to help your body fight pain naturally. it doesn't just mask pain, it helps reduce or even eliminate it. i took it every day, three times a day, for three weeks. woke up, laying in bed, roll over and look at her and i said, "the pain is gone." and she said, i'm glad it helped. i said, "no, you don't understand. it's gone." see how relief factor can help you feel better every day. call or go online to try it for yourself and get our 3-week quickstart for just $19.95. my wife

fortunately for us with great insight along with israeli special operations veteran aaron cohen and formerspector and fox news contributor paul morrow, also someone who we've been relying on a great deal here today. nicole, let me start with you. we know that there is of course movement into louisiana, into new orleans. there seems to be, as we should expect with this, a little bit of contradictory information. with now the news that the supposed associates might have just been suspicious people. are you expecting this, in fact, to have a bigger footprint than just one lone wolf, or do you think that it's reasonable to think that it was just this one guy who was activated to do this particular act? >> tammy, that's a very great and important question, and obviously root now with the reports, you know, we had an f.b.i. assistant in charge who got at an official press conference and said they don't believe this individual was individually responsible. i do believe this was very well orchestrated. however, it was carried out very well orchestrated. we are focused on what happened in new orlea

fortunately for us with great insight along with israeli special operations veteran aaron cohen and formerypd inspector and fox news contributor paul morrow, also someone who we've been relying on a great deal here today. nicole, let me start with you. we know that there is of course movement into louisiana, into new orleans. there seems to be, as we should expect with this, a little bit of contradictory information. with now the news that the supposed associates might have just been suspicious people. are you expecting this, in fact, to have a bigger footprint than just one lone wolf, or do you think that it's reasonable to think that it was just this one guy who was activated to do this particular act? >> tammy, that's a very great and important question, and obviously root now with the reports, you know, we had an f.b.i. assistant in charge who got at an official press conference and said they don't believe this individual was individually responsible. i do believe this was very well orchestrated. however, it was carried out very well orchestrated. we are focused on what happened in new