professor michael wallace. well, we had that update from other officials in the last hour.d we discussed the key points from that news conference. it points from that news conference.— points from that news conference. , ., ., conference. it is informative and we have _ conference. it is informative and we have seen _ conference. it is informative and we have seen this - conference. it is informative l and we have seen this before. so the bureau is going to do their due diligence and find anybody he was connected to or speaking with, working with. a long wait ahead of them but i wasn't surprised by that information. saddened to hear it but i wasn't terribly surprised by it.- it but i wasn't terribly surprised by it. it but i wasn't terribly surrisedb it. ~ , surprised by it. when they say they don't _ surprised by it. when they say they don't believe _ surprised by it. when they say they don't believe the - surprised by it. when they say they don't believe the suspectj they don't believe the suspect was solely responsible, is that out of a abundance of caution or do you thi

michael wallace is a professor and programme director in emergency and security studies at tulane universitynstitution in new orleans, louisiana. we asked him why there is this confusion about whether to characterise the incident as terrorism. law enforcement does not like to jump to conclusions. the first reports on everything ago to probably be wrong, so they are probably trying to figure out who this person is, why he did this, what clues did he leave, what social media did he have, what was a flight it was on the back that actually is in a flag? black does indicate islamic state. you clearly have a lot of these things that could indicate something, but again could not. so law enforcement is very hesitant about calling something either domestic terrorism or foreign terrorism. politicians use he will use the word terrorism a little bit more freely. law enforcement, they usually want to get their investigation and then make a decision like that. the fact that the fbi is a lead agency again indicates that this with the public a terrorist attack to me just because the fbi is the lead agency i

. -- michael wallace.mes hamilton, a former fbi security special agent, as he discussed the key points from that news conference. james: it is informative, and we see this all the time, so the bureau will do their due diligence and find anyone he was connected to or speaking to or working with. they have a long road ahead of them, but i was not surprised by that information. saddened to hear it but not surprised. annita: when they say they don't believe the suspect is solely responsible, is that out of an abundance of caution, or do you think they will have some solid leads to suggest that? james: well, certainly they will not rule anything out, but indication will be, you know, he probably did have some type of help or assistance, we talk about ied's, a rifle, you know, that type of planning would indicate someone knew what was going on, so they are going to, you know, leave no stone unturned looking. it is going to be a long, long time for them. news may move on to something on tomorrow, but these fbi ag

the slimness of the majority, once trump is inaugurated, michael wallace, the republican from floridaecomes the national security advisor. and my guess is a least a phonic will be a very popular pick in the senate -- elise stefanik will be a very popular pick in the senate. democrats might lose and could be motivated on that and that means there is less and less margin of error for mike johnson to advocate the debt ceiling as well as everything else. host: joining us is jason dick, and we just heard from molly reynolds from the brookings institute. let's go to patrick in south carolina, independent line. caller: our standard of living, inflation, primary concerns of the americans today. we don't have three branches of government, we have four and we know who the fourth is, it is the federal reserve in jerome powell. he has taxing power and with the inflation, they lowballed the actual inflation rate into everything in government. how much we were going to get an increase in social security and until he comes to bear and get inflation in the purchasing power of the dollar at zero, this

legal analyst michael cardoza tells us wallace of the outcome. the case is going to take a toll on tells political reputation. >> bringing in a like this again, somebody so famous, you've ruined their lives basically just by bringing because even if the guest this mister not guilty, you know, everybody's going to say, well, what you get off of a technicality. >> all the defendants are due to return to federal court early february. morning, there was a school city leaders are still trying to piece together what led up to that deadly crash over the weekend in the city soma neighborhood. alvarez lezla gooden has more on what leaders are doing to try to prevent future accidents. >> he was known like and will be remembered by julia roman aco lost her youngest son on sunday and the 7 car crash has 6 and harrison street in san francisco. >> according to supervisor matt dorsey of district 6 where the crash took place. the city has already been planning to take necessary steps to reduce speeding in this area. he tells me that most areas in south of market