juliette kayyem for us this morning. juliette, always grateful to have you. thanks very much for being on the show. >> thank you. >> all right. time now for sports. super bowl 59 is set. the chiefs trying for a three peat. they take on my high flying eagles. coy wire has this morning's cnn sports update. they flew high indeed. >> is it just the. >> monitor or. >> are you wearing eagles. >> green this morning. >> i you know. i yeah you. >> know what. let's call. >> it that. >> do your thing girl. >> congrats. we'll get to your eagles in a second. first, the afc championship marked the latest. >> chapter in the rivalry between the chiefs and the bills. patrick mahomes and josh allen that are. >> becoming like peyton manning and tom. >> brady. the fourth. >> time they've met in the last five playoffs. and once again, it was a heavyweight fight. mahomes, allen going toe to toe again. but some key plays in the fourth made all the difference. fourth down bills up one. and josh allen is going to do the quarterback sneak. but does he make it. that line is where he ne

for more on this, i want to bring in juliette kayyem. e's been helping us understand such that we can what has been going on this morning in new orleans. juliette, talk to me about the fbi coming in and now investigating potential ied's potential improvised explosive devices. they didn't say that they had confirmed that they'd found one, but they are looking at this as a possibility. >> yeah. so ied is a very broad term. and to the extent that what's what likely happened is in the car, there are things that could be explosive. there are lots of things in cars. it's a pickup car. we don't know what the perpetrator's employment is. and so they are going to call it an ied. now that's what we would call the federal nexus. that's why the fbi is in charge, because we don't know the intent of the driver. so that's the second question. now, is this term terror, terrorism, intentional violence? look, overall, any rational person would look at this and say, this is terror. this is terror on an american city. a few hours after the new year, ten peop

joining me right now to discuss further, cnn senior national security analyst juliette kayyem. te, great to see you. so let's talk with that about that video. what struck you about that video showing shamsud-din jabbar? yes. part of it is the pace and just he clearly knew what he was doing. >> he clearly had mapped out where he wanted things in the truck. he's spending several minutes to make his point, adding that i.s.i.s. flag, making sure it's not going to fall off. he spends about two minutes securing it. and then i'm curious about why he returns after he sets the fire. as we're reporting, it was a slow moving fire. i do agree that he was probably trying to hide evidence. whatever was in the explosive materials, but he does return. and what was it that he either was that planned or had he forgotten something? the question will always be, did he have an exit strategy for this? we don't know. you know, was he going to, you know, drive on, drive away. that rarely happens in most of these cases. people are are often killed, or at least detained. >> and then what are your thought

amna: juliette kayyem formerly of the department of homeland security now with the harvard kennedy schoolays good to speak with you. ♪ >> here are the latest headlines. late this evening, the u.s. supreme court rejected donald trump's last minute request to delay his sentencing in his criminal hush money case. it is scheduled for tomorrow in manhattan and is largely symbolic. they said sentencing will impose a relatively insubstantial burden on his responsibilities. the judge said he would spare trump from serving a time in jail. he was convicted last may on 34 felony counts of falsify business records. trump will become the first felon to occupy the white house when he is sworn into office later this month. also breaking tonight, the justice department will be allowed to release jack smith's report on trump's january 6 intervention -- k's. trump's emergency effort was denied. for order will keep a hold in place for three days. that means and sunday is the earliest that merrick garland could released a report. in venezuela, a fast-moving, and uncertain situation in venezuela. aides to opp

joining me now is cnn national security analyst juliette kayyem. juliette, good morning. look, we were saying a lot going on. congress meets tomorrow to certify the election results. president jimmy carter's national funeral service is going to take place on thursday at the washington national cathedral. and that's where all living presidents will be expected to attend. and then, of course, on january 20th, president elect trump will be inaugurated. so the security posture will be quite high over the next couple of weeks. what are you going to be watching for? >> so even before former president carter's death, the sort of january 6th to january 20th period was already essentially a sort of lockdown period for dc. president biden had already designated january 6th as what we call an nsrc national special security event. january 20th inauguration also is so essentially because of the insurrection four years ago, because of trump's involvement in that insurrection and and lack of clarity about what we could have, what we might have anticipated in january, essentially, januar

cnn senior national security analyst juliette kayyem. juliette, i want to start with where evan, the latest updates we got from evan, which were that the suspect who we have reported is deceased, was a u.s. citizen, was using a truck, an f-150 was used in the attack that had texas plates registered in texas. and we don't believe he did not own the vehicle. he had rented the vehicle through some form or fashion, and fbi officials, investigators are now looking at potential associates. what's your takeaway from kind of those updates where things stand right now? >> so the focus, if the reporting is accurate in terms of a u.s. citizen, is going to close off issues regarding border or anyone coming in to plan this event that doesn't get to the ideology. u.s. citizens can be attracted to foreign ideologies, foreign radicalization, as well as domestic. but what that does tell us is that there's a footprint here that is going to. disclose. a any potential ties, what were motivating factors? why is the fbi sort of making a judgment call that this

amna: juliette kayyem formerly of the department of homeland security now with the harvard kennedy schoolu. always good to speak with you. ♪ we start the day's other headlines with a fast-moving, and uncertain situation in venezuela. aides to opposition leader maria corina machado say she was arrested today while leaving an anti-government protest in the capital, caracas. machado had emerged from months of hiding to address supporters. it was part of a last-ditch effort to stop the swearing-in of president nicolas maduro for a third, six-year term, scheduled for tomorrow. chaotic scenes followed, with machado escorted through a crowd wearing a helmet. her aides say she was then detained, but government officials deny this. a video later emerged of her saying she's safe, though her supporters say the video was coerced. this afternoon the white house said it condemns any attempts by maduro's government to intimidate the opposition. turning now to the middle east, lebanon's parliament elected a new president today, filling a post that had been vacant for more than two years. lawmakers erupte

--laura: juliette kayyem, thank you for your time.ay's other news begin with the restoration of power in puerto rico, following an island-wide outage that struck on new year's eve. the u.s. territory's private energy provider says that as of this afternoon, 98% of its customers have their lights back on. but luma energy warns there could be temporary outages in the coming days, as it works to fully restore power across the island. the exact cause of the outage is still under investigation. but early indications point to a problem with an underground power line. at the peak of yesterday's outage, nearly 90% of luma energy customers were without power, forcing people to start the new year in darkness. in las vegas, authorities say one person is dead and seven others were injured today, when a tesla cybertruck caught fire and exploded outside the city's trump international hotel. eyewitness video captured the vehicle as it burned in the valet area of the hotel. the driver is the only known fatality. the cause of the explosion is unclear,

and just to discuss all of these threats, cnn senior national security analyst juliette kayyem is joinings now. juliette, it's nice to see you here. it just seems like right now we are in high alert. and we always, i feel like in this day and age, are on edge a little bit, but with these sorts of events leading up to two big days, january 6th, of course, the inauguration, the super bowl is going to be back in new orleans. it's a very it's people are a little bit on edge. >> yes. >> and these are high profile events that want the public to come and to engage. and so there's all sorts of things that the public can do to keep itself aware. see something, say something is is actually works. but also things like being aware of your surroundings and not being on your phone all the time, issues like that, but from the public safety perspective, it's going to be a pretty intense couple weeks. you have january 6th tomorrow. it's probably not going to be a big deal. donald trump won the election. it's also snowing in d.c., which tends to benefit people tend not to like to go out in the snow. januar

julia kayyem now joins us live from cambridge, massachusetts. juliette, nice to see you this morning. so, given what you just wrote there, how do you strike the balance between carrying on these large scale events and substantially ramping up security? >> it is a balance, first of all, the primary concern is can the city and public safety officials guarantee the safety and security of the next event, or just the city being open? we've seen over the course of the last two decades, you know, from nice to berlin to to here, lewiston in maine and new england, those cities essentially shutting down in response to terror incidents or major violent incidents. that may be helpful in some instances, but for the most part, if the city can guarantee that the next event is safe and secure, as new orleans has promised, then they then they should proceed. the default is then you're sort of waiting for things to always be safe. that's not going to happen in a city like new orleans. and so what new orleans has to assess now is what kind of changes can they make to the s

let's bring in cnn senior national security analyst juliette kayyem and former nypd lieutenant darren porcher. first to you, juliette, i just want to go back to the timeline here. you know, look, most revelers were out in this area at midnight, right? celebrating the new year. this event happened at 315 in the morning, and there were many, many casualties. ten dead, more than 30 injured. the barriers that we keep showing this because i'm just struck by this were appears to be those flimsy orange and white barriers, according to the eyewitness and according to video that we have. what do you make of all this? what are the big questions you have? >> so there's going to be yeah. so there's going to be an assessment on what the planning and preparation was and the questions that will be raised are. first you know, was the city deploying or utilizing different security measures because of upgrades or other critical infrastructure that may have made bourbon street more vulnerable? the second, and the one that is always going to be true, is at some stage, resources are deployed. and then acc

joining us now is juliette kayyem, cnn senior national security analyst, former dhs assistant assistantecretary. juliette. good morning. always wonderful to have you on the program. let's start in new orleans. what can you tell us about what law enforcement is doing now to try and move forward in this investigation? >> so they do have a lot of the pieces already. >> who he is, what his motivation may be. and of course, the materials, the extensive materials, as we're seeing now in what he envisioned might have been an even larger terror attack. i think there are two questions. the first, related to him and motivation. what is meant by these i.s.i.s. ties? this is one one going to be one of the challenges is when someone is inspired by i.s.i.s.. does it mean they were sort of passively reading about i.s.i.s.? wanted a motivation for all these other issues that are going on in their lives. you know, his divorces, his money, all the things that he mentions in these, in these videos that he essentially does right before the killings. so you're going to want to see what those ties are in ter

joining me now to discuss our cnn senior national security analyst, juliette kayyem, and former cia counterterrorism official phil mudd. thank you both for joining us. it is just day three of january. we started off the year with this horrific attack. juliette, you wrote this really great piece a while ago about lone wolves. the fbi now saying, look, he acted alone. a lone wolf, if you will. but you've talked a lot about this in the past, and you've argued there are no lone wolves. what do you mean by that? >> i think we may find that in this case, it's essentially this concept of lone wolf is some guy sitting alone in his room, and he decides all of a sudden, i'm a member of i.s.i.s. and goes out in the world and does harm. >> what we see now in this kind of terrorism and why it's so difficult to stop, is there's not that that sort of organized effort. think of al qaeda, say, pre nine over 11. you know, people meet somewhere, they plan an attack. they then deploy. this is through the use of social media, back-channel communications, or just the absorption of someone who goes online of what i.s.i.s.

. >> joining us now to discuss is juliette kayyem. she served as assistant secretary for the department of homeland security. juliette, thanks so much for being with us. if you're a career dhs employee, what are you listening for? from secretary noem today. >> well, i'm hearing. >> from a lot of them. >> there's so much confusion right now about what the department. >> can do. so the. >> irony is she's out there. >> giving a. >> pep talk. >> which a new secretary should do about how meaningful they are in. >> people's lives. when when disaster hits, what. >> they do for the safety. >> and. security of america, from cyber. >> to the border to the to the coast guard. >> but huge. >> swaths of the department. >> are not doing anything right now. so i think, you know, looking at what. >> the decision was about the omb, omb directive to just give some details to things i'm hearing from from people, what i know from the department, a big question about fema funds. and even though the president was in north carolina and california last friday

we have cnn senior national security analyst juliette kayyem with us now. how do you think noem's hearing went? juliette i mean, it was relatively mild. >> this is a i don't i think she'll get confirmed. she's a governor. she knows how to run something unlike some of the other nominees. she seems. i mean, she doesn't seem very interested in the in the major issues. it's an odd pick in the sense, like, you know, south dakota is not a border state. it doesn't have the kind of threats that national, you know, national security threats, cyber terrorism, climate and climate disasters that other states have. i think she'll get in. but i think her sort of lack of interest in the subject matter at hand and the department she's going to run is, is is actually proof of where, uh, homeland security is going to be run, which is not out of the department of homeland security, but out of the white house, as our reporting shows, that the immigration agenda has nothing to do with enforcement anymore. the numbers are down. the southern border numbers are down. trump will do

. >> juliette kayyem is a cnn senior national security analyst and former assistant secretary to the u.s. department of homeland security. and she joins us now from cambridge, massachusetts. juliette, as always, we look to you to try and parse exactly what is critical about this investigation at this hour. so how significant would it be if authorities actually confirm that the alleged attacker did not act alone? what does that mean for national security going forward? >> it's a big variable. and i think part of the confusion right now about sort of his status, and in fact, the city's status, is it safe to advance? is it safe to have, say, the sugar bowl tomorrow night is what do we mean by his associates? and i think there was honestly some confusion earlier. did it mean people who had planned with him, who had helped him put out ieds or or helped him manage, you know, manage and rent and do all the horrible things that he did? or was it people say on social media or others who may have known about the event but were not, you know, sort of, you know, aiding and abetting in the sense o

and joining us now out of cambridge, massachusetts, is juliette kayyem. she's cnn's senior national security analyst, as well as a former assistant secretary for the department of homeland security. good to see you again. thanks so much for being here with us. so listen, i want to start with the reporting we got from our reporter who is in the palisades. i spoke to her about half an hour ago. she was saying that there was a curfew in place tonight, in part to prevent looting. she talked to us about all the police patrols that were going through the area. california officials say at least 20 people have been arrested on suspicion of looting. we know richer areas are hiring, hiring, private security, but those less well-to-do areas don't don't have access to that. how how big are those concerns about looting? >> they're they're big. they're serious. and unfortunately, they're quite common. after a disaster. we we call them disaster vultures. these are people who take advantage of abandoned property, take advantage of people who are, you know, at the worst m

. >> and joining us now out of cambridge, massachusetts is juliette kayyem.'s cnn's senior national security analyst, as well as a former assistant secretary for the department of homeland security. good to see you again. thanks so much for being here with us. so listen, i want to start with the reporting we got from our reporter who was in the palisades fire spoke to her about half an hour ago. she was saying that there was a curfew in place tonight, in part to prevent looting. she talked to us about all the the police patrols that were going through the area. california officials say at least 20 people have been arrested on suspicion of looting. we know, you know, richer areas are hiring, hiring, private security. but those less well-to-do areas don't don't have access to that. how how big are those concerns about looting? >> there? they're big. they're serious. and unfortunately, they're quite common after a disaster. we we call them disaster vultures. these are people who take advantage of abandoned property, take advantage of people who are, you know, at

cnn senior national security analyst juliette kayyem also with me. ette, lots of evidence here, lots of information, but still many unanswered questions. what are some of yours? >> so three big takeaways here. >> i think one, it is important that this they're still mentioning this foreign travel egypt and canada as well as some reconnaissance or some visits to the united states to other cities. >> i think that's just relevant because the fbi still finds it relevant. so in particular, this foreign travel, we still think he organized this on his own. in fact, the pictures are pretty telling. he's by himself at this stage. i think the second issue that sort of the biggie that sort of comes out, comes out of this

cnn senior national security analyst juliette kayyem also with me. juliette, lots of evidence here, lots of information, but still many unanswered questions. what are some of yours? >> so three big takeaways here. >> i think one, it is important that this they're still mentioning this foreign travel egypt and canada as well as some reconnaissance or some visits to the united states to other cities. >> i think that's just relevant because the fbi still finds it relevant. so in particular, this foreign travel, we still think he organized this on his own. in fact, the pictures are pretty telling. he's by himself at this stage. i think the second issue that sort of the biggie that sort of comes out, comes out of this is that these materials that everyone was worried about that might have been foreign sourced. the fbi is now clarifying these are sort of typical united states explosives. there's a variant of them. he wasn't very good. fortunately a detonating things. but i think it's important that people know that we're not talking now about some foreign s

. >> juliette kayyem is a cnn senior national security analyst and former assistant secretary to the s. department of homeland security. and she joins us now from cambridge, massachusetts. juliette, as always, we look to you to try and parse exactly what is critical about this investigation at this hour. so how significant would it be if authorities actually confirm that the alleged attacker did not act alone? what does that mean for national security going forward? >> it's a big variable. and i think part of the confusion right now about sort of his status, and in fact, the city's status, is it safe to advance? is it safe to have, say, the sugar bowl tomorrow night is what do we mean by his associates? and i think there was honestly some confusion earlier. did it mean people who had planned with him, who had helped him put out ieds or or helped him manage, you know, manage and rent and do all the horrible things that he did? or was it people say on social media or others who may have known about the event but were not, you know, sort of, you know, aiding and abetting in the sense of

the final touches on actually what we're going to be looking at on monday, former dhs official juliette kayyem is here. and juliette, just from a security perspective, we're hearing tonight that law enforcement agencies are still working to to craft a new plan. they obviously spent months on the old one. what does that look like behind the scenes, and is it easier if it's inside? >> it is easier simply because what we would call the security footprint is much narrower. i mean, you really think of what it would look like outside the number of people that could attend that could have access. this is just going to be smaller, more intimate. the irony, of course, i'll let political people debate it is that the capital is much better secure because of the insurrection of four years ago. so capitol police have increased in size, increased in their capacity. here's what's not changing the threat environment does not change. so it's going to be specific. this is still what's called a national special security. national security special event. and se and it is one in which basically the secret service

joining us now, our cnn national security analyst juliette kayyem and cnn senior law enforcement analyst andrew mccabe. we've learned a lot of new information from these last two interviews. i did one with an eyewitness and one from the local, the congressman for that area who had just been briefed. i want to start with what he said. the congressman who's been briefed by dhs officials, law enforcement officials, said that this was someone who was local. so someone who lived there in the area in new orleans that he was driving a truck with texas license plates, that it appears early on that he was acting alone and that he was shot and killed by police. andrew, what do you make of these early details coming in about the suspect? >> well, really fascinating information, pam. >> both of those interviews. this gives investigators a lot of leads to follow up on knowing that this person has been living locally means we know they know his residence. they know where, which will invariably become a primary search warrant zone. right. they're probably pursuing a search warrant for that residence ri

juliette kayyem, you were watching this press conference. what did you think? >> so there's a couple big takeaways, of course, as we're discussing that they they have reason to believe that there was a coconspirator while simultaneously believing that the city could move forward and certainly have the sugar bowl tomorrow night. big questions about the safety preparedness in terms of the changing of the security measures on the street because of upgrades and what that meant, and whether the replacements were satisfactory enough. there are going to be lots of legitimate questions there not to place blame simply to protect the city. i will say, finally, you called it free wheeling. um, press conference. i don't think that reflected very well on louisiana and new orleans. i mean, sort of attacking reporters. uh, going after, you know, nebulous threats and, and the white house is just not it's what people have to remember is this is a city that's absolutely terrified about what happened. and they wanted, you know, they need and they deserve a common, unified narrati

joining us right now is cnn senior national security analyst juliette kayyem, who is also former assistant secretary at the department of homeland security. this executive order establishing this council, it says that the group is going to be composed of the secretaries of the homeland security and the defense secretary, along with private sector subject matter experts, for the order to come up with suggestions on improvements and all of the above or more. what do you see in this? >> there's good in this executive order. it preambles. >> with a lot. >> of politics that we can just ignore what's good about it is for. >> a couple. >> of decades now, republicans and democrats alike, experts have been saying there needs to be reformed to disaster management. it's not just when the fire happens, but in particular on recovery. how do we want these jurisdictions to rebuild? how do we want to work with states? so there is a lot that can be done in terms of review of a review of fema. the challenge is, is that donald trump is now sort of raised this issue. does does fema still exist? look, there's

former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe, we have former assistant secretary of homeland security juliette kayyem and former boston police commissioner ed davis with us. andy, you have president biden confirming tonight. officials are investigating whether there's a link between these two attacks. so we've talked about some of the similarities. what are the things you're looking at that could point in that direction? >> well, so far, brianna, we have two, um, not necessarily relevant similarities. >> right. we know they both went to the same rental car agency, essentially this online service that facilitates private citizens leasing their own or renting their own cars to people. they both use that same service. um, and we we know that they are both they both have military backgrounds. but again, these are things that could easily have been coincidence. that's not to say that these two events are related. um, they wouldn't be investigating that very question if they thought it was something that wasn't, wasn't possible. and if it turns out and again, this is a big if because we don't know that at

. >> let's talk about this now with cnn's senior national security analyst, juliette kayyem. she's a former assistant secretary at the department of homeland security. we're also joined by u.s. counterterrorism intelligence expert malcolm nance. he is the author of defeating i.s.i.s. who they are, how they fight, what they believe. juliette, let's zero in on the big headline here, which was uh, lone wolf, which is quite a change. we're hearing that from the fbi deputy assistant director christopher wray. they don't believe anyone else was involved in this attack. >> yeah. i mean, we have every reason to to be somewhat annoyed right now. >> and i'll tell you why. >> yesterday, i was on, uh. nothing made sense out of that press conference. whatever happened with the fbi. they got sort of strong armed by whatever this political narrative is. people want these attacks to reflect their beliefs in the way the world is, and we have to follow the facts to be able to protect the american public. and what never made sense out of yesterday, as you'll remember, is how are you having a su

and let's bring in cnn national security analyst juliette kayyem and retired fbi special agent bobby chacon. bobby, to start with you, we were just talking about this with paula, that the new orleans mayor is calling this a terrorist attack. an fbi agent told reporters that it wasn't that. there's. so there's obviously this messaging issue here. but bottom line, this is an act that caused terror in new orleans. among these revelers yes. >> and i think what paula highlights is that we don't have a comprehensive domestic terrorism law. >> and that's why the charges at the local level and as a lawyer myself, i've lectured on this. the charges themselves have to be kind of piecemealed together. and a lot of us call for a comprehensive domestic terrorism law, as we have on the international terrorism side, but we just don't have it on the domestic terrorism side. so it's really kind of a like like paula said, an esoteric legal, legal argument. but certainly the sack of the fbi could have been more clear and said, look, we don't know if this is terrorism yet. we are looking into it instead

juliette kayyem, i'll start with you. these are very disturbing recordings that john miller just reported on. how critical could they be to this overall investigation? >> well, they're going to be very critical. and i was hearing john miller's reporting seemed to now sort of close a gap that came out of that press conference, which was this idea that that the, you know, that they didn't feel like there was any ongoing threat. and yet a concern that he had accomplices. you would never go out and tell the public there's no threat. if there were a bunch of accomplices. it seems now that some some of this has to do with they're just investigating people that may have known him or whether he was pushed from, you know, being online or travel abroad, but that there's a lot of personal aspects to his motivation as well a divorce, financial troubles, anger, violence and terrorism, and embracing i.s.i.s. that combine a narrative that we saw unfold, a horror that we saw unfold. and so in terms of motive that that now is starting to

juliette kayyem cnn has learned that homeland security and the fbi warned only last month of the threat of violence from lone offenders and the potential use of a vehicle ramming device. did new orleans officials overlook a potential threat here are they those kinds of warnings are sort of typical, and they're not specific. >> they are sort of here's what the general trend is. and we certainly knew that for a couple of factors. we knew what i.s.i.s. was trying to do in terms of amplifying their relevancy as they've lost, you know, their capability to organize, to organize big events. they make themselves more relevant by even, you know, having these lone wolf actors, these individuals sort of ascribe to them. the second is the war in israel against between hamas and israel is being used by groups like i.s.i.s. to say to sort of a general, you know, we hate the west philosophy. the third, and this is where this becomes relevant for new orleans is because of germany, because of what happened in germany before christmas and other incidents. we knew that car. i think these three things, we