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

jesse keenan, director of climate change and urbanism, tulane university: at the end of the day, in thisry, red states and counties have many more presidential declarations than democratic and blue states and counties. and this weaponization, this anti-california bias in your policymaking is only going to come back to hurt you when you begin to apply this to texas, to louisiana, to mississippi. laura barron-lopez: but i also spoke to former officials who worked in donald trump's first administration who said that he may simply just decide to apply conditions to blue states like california and leave red states alone. amna: well, speaking of his first administration, we should remind folks that, in that first time in office, he made similar threats, delayed aid while in office. remind us how that played out then. laura barron-lopez: in his first term, donald trump delayed billions in aid to puerto rico after hurricane maria. and his white house also obstructed an investigation, according to an internal watchdog, into why those billions were delayed. he also diverted fema money from fema to

laura: jonathan walsh is a homeland security and counterterrorism expert at tulane university.n: no longer do we have, you know, sort of these large actors like al qaida or isis. we have these individual people who identify one way or the other. and that's just something that's very challenging to adapt to. laura: there are now barriers on the sidewalk that weren't there before. is that something that you think more cities need to replicate? jonathan: having having those archer barriers is something that that lots of cities can do. it's just a matter of what can we do to make bourbon street on new year's eve more secure so that the attack doesn't occur there. and that's really the terrible thing about security planning, is that the dedicated adversary, they're going to shoot their shot. what you're trying to do as a security professional is to make sure it doesn't happen at your facility, in your street or in your city. so that's that's always the challenge. laura: city councilman jp morrell acknowledges that the new year's day attack will forever change the city's relationship

michael willis is a professor and program director at tulane university, a private research institutions, louisiana. he's been telling us about why there was confusion earlier at about whether to characterize the incident as terrorism. prof. wallace: law enforcement are trying to figure out who this person is, why he did this, what social media did he have, you know, what was the flag that was on the back, it actually is a flag. black does indicate islamic state. you have these things that could indicate something but then again could not pierce a law enforcement is very hesitant about calling something even domestic terrorism or foreign terrorism. politicians you see will use the word terrorism a little bit more freely, but law enforcement, they usually, they want to do their investigation before they make a decision like that. the fact that fbi's lead agency indicates this is a terrorist attack is because the fbi is a lead agency for investigating terror attacks, and, you know, again, what i've seen so far, and, again, preliminary reports, i would suspect this is a lone wolf style att

with cancer researchers at tulane university and at the time, several of his longtime advisors werelso traveling there with him. he has very close ties to the city of new orleans, his longtime infrastructure coordinator, mitch landrieu, was the mayor of the city. cedric richmond, also a longtime adviser to the president from new orleans, as well as his budget director. so he has very close ties, as do many white house officials, to the city of new orleans. but at this time, we know that biden has been briefed, will continue to be briefed throughout the day, and we are awaiting any news on any potential statement by the president or whether he will take questions on this. >> danny kayla tausche, thank you very much for that update. following president joe biden, i want to turn to andrew mccabe, who's been guiding us through this incident all morning. you know, andrew, one of the big questions that is still outstanding is we really did not learn anything about this suspect at the heart of this case. what do you make of that? what questions still need to be answered? >> yeah, danny, it

carter: haley has finished her graduate work at tulane university in art history. married to a fine young man who is a webmaster for a company and we just enjoyed having lunch with an admiring one of the most extraordinary little grandsons in the world who is now two and a half months old. . host: and how many grandchildren do you have? pres. carter: 10. oldest grandson by the way, is in the peace corps in south africa. in his grandmother, his great-grandmother, lillian, was in the peace corps. so we have strong ties to the peace corps. i have very good grandchildren. we have a harmonious family, 20 of us now in all, counting sons and daughters and their spouses. we go of summer every christmas holiday, two days after christmas, we go somewhere different to bring our family together so they can have a good time with each other and get to know each other better. my wife and i work a lot during the year to raise enough money to pay for that vacation. [laughs] host: thank you, mr. president. pres. carter: it's been a pleasure. ♪ >> the 39th president of the united sta

spent two years following elon musk for his best selling book, elon musk and is a professor at tulane universityng, from your understanding of him, what is it about the far right anti-immigration views that seem to attract elon musk? because germany has a law, has laws, policies of don't forget, remember fighting anti-semitism? i've been there and done stories on this. so what he's saying to them about, you know, don't pay attention to what happened is contradictory to german policy. >> i think. >> that musk, in my book. >> that. >> chapter is called the rabbit hole. you see him really. embracing a. >> somewhat conspiracist. populist, nativist, nationalist, anti-immigrant. >> philosophies. >> and i. think it builds up throughout. >> his life. >> his father. >> and his. >> grandparents on his mother's side all had those ways. and as you know, andrea, you see this all around the world at the moment. this nativist, populist, nationalistic. sometimes called right wing, although i'm not quite sure what wings it truly belongs to. and it's happening with the afd in germany. but of course, it's happenin

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biden last made a trip to new orleans in august to highlight some $22 million in funding for tulane university, where his daughter ashley graduated from. so certainly this is a city that is very near and dear to the president, and we expect it will continue to be. >> phil kayla tausche for us in wilmington. thanks so much. here with me now to share her expertise. 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 t

. >> joining us now, professor of history at tulane university, walter isaacson.ing effort in new orleans after hurricane katrina. and we've been saying all along, we can't think of a parallel, except maybe katrina. >> you know, walter, i as i've been saying on the show, i, i drove over from pensacola every day with friends from our church, and we were trying to bring relief to people in mississippi and louisiana before the government, before the government was really stepping in. and i've got to say, i, i've seen nothing, nothing like these california wildfires in my lifetime other than hurricane katrina. i'm curious your thoughts being there in new orleans, seeing what you saw, what parallels do you draw and what lessons do you what lessons can the people of los angeles take, not only from the tragedy that's still unfolding, but the recovery that has to come? >> well, first of all, joe, thank you for coming to new orleans back 20 years ago when it happened with your church, because one of the lessons you draw is that people are good. they're going to help. and c

professor of history at tulane university, walter isaacson, thank you very much for being on this morningd by then presidential candidate shirley chisholm changed politics as we know it. msnbc's juanita tolliver joins us next to explain. we'll be right back. now, the fifth daughter on the 12th night told her first father that things weren't right. >> my complexion, she says, is >> my complexion, she says, is much ever feel like a spectator in your own life with chronic migraine? 15 or more headache days a month, each lasting 4 hours or more. botox® prevents headaches in adults with chronic migraine. in a survey, 91% of users wish they'd started sooner. so why wait? talk to your doctor. botox® effects may spread hours to weeks after injection, causing serious symptoms. alert your doctor right away as trouble swallowing, speaking, breathing, eye problems, or muscle weakness can be signs of a life-threatening condition. those with these conditions before injection are at highest risk. side effects may include allergic reactions like rash, breathing problems, dizziness, neck and injection sit

of course, he's also a professor at tulane university.ella weinberg and a cnbc contributor. and walter, you have you're a great historian who has looked back at some really phenomenal figures in time. i think of ben franklin, your book on him, your book on einstein, your book on leonardo da vinci, steve jobs and now elon musk and jamie dimon was with us yesterday. he said, you know, elon is our einstein. and i think that is true. but i think part of the reason people think it, not just because of how many spectacular things elon has done, but also because you've put him in that pantheon. you only look at really interesting people. what do you think of what's happened in the last 36 hours or so between elon musk, the administration, sam altman and beyond? >> you know, if you want to understand elon musk, just look at the way he's been for the past 50 years or so. and there are two chapters in my biography of his relationship with sam altman and the forming of openai and musk's fury at sam altman. when openai no longer becomes open and it n

i want to bring in walter isaacson, a history professor at tulane university, who has written a biographyhis inauguration today but clearly drawing closer to our new president? >> you have to remember the last speech that biden gave, his farewell, which is about the tech oligarchy that might be taking over. i think trump is making it very clear that elon musk and others, but mainly musk, is going to help drive the second term, unlike the way he did it in the first term. and you know, in my book, i show what musk does when he goes into spacex, when he goes into tesla, when he takes over twitter and turns it into x and breaks everything down. so, yes, there's going to be a lot of rubble left in the wake, but this is going to be the most transformative thing happening is watching musk take on government. >> well, is that because the unique technology that we have reached now in terms of a.i. and space technology, is there something unique about this period in time that makes this more alarming or more concerning? >> well, i think if you're looking at a.i., you have a question of what the bid

walter is a tulane university professor also wrote the biography on elon musk and so good to see you. see all of this developing. what you will do in government as a whole playbook and he has been doing it for 20 years. both in terms of going too far sometimes and causing rubble in his wake up but also trying to get rid of every rule and regulation and make things happen fast. i think that is what he is planning to do in this new role as being the advisor of government efficiency. >> nora: let me ask you because elon musk has arguably become one of the most closest advisors and confidants of donald trump. he is there a lot at mar-a-lago. how did that relationship come to be? >> it came to be rather quickly in terms of it being in the past year because when i was traveling around with elon musk, he did not have a whole lot of respect for trump. he supported ron desantis. he said trump is a charlatan, a carnival barker, he reminds me of my father is what he said. and if you know from the book, it begins with this difficult relationship that he had with his father and then he's almost tr

stable condition right now. 26 injured have been sent to university medical center, which is a level 1 trauma. several others baptist and tulaneu point out you have special agent duncan hot superintendent said because of the way that this was performed that the fbi is going to be taking over does lead us to believe they are leaning towards a terrorist attack. special agent duncan immediately says this is not considered a terrorism event at this moment but then goes in saying that possible ieds. >> joey: let's talk about what they did tell us. this was not a dui. not a drunk driving veering into traffic. police superintendent was speaking she said this was intentional based on what we know. is that information they are getting from the perpetrator himself? they said it was a man. that's another detail. is this information from him about his intent and who he is? is this based on his identity? we don't know is he live or not. >> this is something i want to point out with the information they just gave us. this is a tactical maneuver called complex ambush. i want to walk you through what that means. create mass casualty and disru