January 2, 2025 • 55 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome in, Happy New Year to all of you. I
hope that you and your families had a fantastic Christmas
and a splendid New Year so far. I'm back with
you guys Thursday and Friday of this week. Buck, We'll
be back with me on Monday. As we roll into
twenty twenty five, I want to thank you again for
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all of the incredible support you showed the show, You
showed proct Coffee, you showed OutKick, and you showed both
Buck and myself during the course of twenty twenty four
best year I can remember, preferred personally and professionally. I
hope you guys have gotten rested up, had an awesome
time with your friends and your family. But unfortunately, as
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we begin this first show with either Buck, Buck or
myself in twenty twenty five, we got an awful news
story that is going to be the focus of today's program,
and that is the terror attack that occurred in New
Orleans yesterday at about three point fifteen in the morning
Central time, when a isis inspired deranged lunatic drove his truck,
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mowed down a substantial number of pedestrians, and was then
finally shot and killed by police. After he got out
of the car and began to fire a weapon. Sadly,
this is all too predictable. I ended the show telling
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you guys that I had a deep fear after having
just been to Israel and seeing what fundamentalist Islamic terrorists
were willing to do to Jews. Given how wide open
this country has been in many ways, and given the
fact that the Department of Justice, Joe Biden, and the
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FBI have been telling us since January sixth that the
biggest threat to America was white supremacy, I had a
feeling that we were not focusing on the people that
would actually do damage to this country. And this is
the result, and I don't think it's going to be
the end result. They're going to be. Unfortunately. I believe
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in the days, weeks, and months ahead, many people who
become the victims of radical Muslim extremism and are killed
in this country because we haven't been doing what we
should be doing, which is focusing on the people that
are actual dangers this country. Instead, we've been going after
grandma's and grandpa's who trespassed on January sixth. We've been
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investigating school board parents who show up like me and
are upset about the decisions being made surrounding their kids' education.
We have been focused on pro life protesters who stand
outside of abortion clinics and try to encourage people not
to have abortions. That is what the Joe Biden Department
of Justice, as well as all the law fair that's
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been brought to bear against Donald Trump. They have been
focusing on things that are not actual direct the rest
of this country, and I believe, as a result, have
allowed the terror attack which just happened, and unfortunately, what
I believe will be future terror attacks to occur because
they haven't been focused on the real bad guys in
this country. And I'm going to dive all into that.
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We're going to discuss it to a great degree. Unfortunately,
I was hoping we'd have a happy Hey it's second
to January. Let's all just kind of celebrate. I'll help
you get through your hangovers.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
So I thought. When I kicked up my feet.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
I woke up yesterday morning, I was like, man, I'm
going to watch college football all day. I'm going to
watch the college football playoff, gonna finish at the Sugar
Bowl that's taking place in New Orleans, A game, by
the way, is going to kick off at for Eastern today,
at least scheduled.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
I'll let you know if anything changes with that.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
A lot of people were at that planning for the
Sugar Bowl, the Georgia Notre Dame game. Imagine a lot
of you listening to me right now, fans of Georgia
Notre Dame. Great game, by the way between Texas and
Arizona State yesterday, not so good of a game if
you're an Oregon Duck fan, as Ohio State and ran rampant.
If you're in Ohio listening to us right now, and
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I know we're number one in Columbus, Cleveland and Cincinnati
over the course of the year, so I know a
lot of you are in Ohio very excited about that.
You took it to my beloved Tennessee Volunteers, and you
took it to Oregon Ducks. So I have been out
on Bourbon Street after midnight around New Year's Eve a
bunch of different times because a lot of you know,
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I came out of the world of sports. Sugar Bowl
down in New Orleans, one of the biggest games of
the year, and they often have hosted the National Championship game.
I have been down there, had an amazing time, have
seen how packed those streets are and what a phenomenal
place New Orleans is to ring in the new year.
I'm sure many of you out there listening to me
right now have been on Bourbon Street at some point
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in time. You may or may not remember having been there,
but I know that many of you have been there.
I want to start the show today and I'm going
to keep hammering this home throughout the course of the
day because I know a lot of college kids and
high school kids are home right now, and you guys
may be riding around in your cars with Dad and mom,
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Grandma and grandpa. You may not regularly listen to Clay
and Buck.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
You should.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Hey, hope you're having a good start to your year.
But I think you guys are incredibly important. If you
are under the age of twenty five right now and
you are listening to this program, you may have some
knowledge of the college protests that broke out on campus
in the wake of the October seventh terror attack on Israel.
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This happened great schools like Columbia all the way across
the country. Great school like UCLA happened at my undergrad
alma mater, George Washington University. Happened at my law school
alma mater, Vanderbilt University. There are a lot of schools
out there that had campus protests, that had student protesters
putting out tents, sitting around and do you know what
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they were chanting? Oftentimes, globalize the Intifada from the river
to the sea. Let Palestine be free, I believe yesterday
on Sixth Avenue in New York City, some of you
may have seen this. I want to play it for you,
even in the wake of the terror attack in New Orleans.
This is what they were chanting on Sixth Avenue in
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New York City yesterday.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Listen, Okay, they're.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Chanting globalize the endi Fada. That was happening on Sixth
Avenue in New York City yesterday. They were marching, they
were protesting, celebrating in some ways the terror attack that
had just happened in New Orleans. And I want you
kids to listen to me closely. This is what globalized
the Intifada looks like. You have lost the ability your
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generation to distinguish between good and evil.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Evil is what.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Just happened in New Orleans. You and your college buddies,
you and your young friends. Because almost all these victims
are twenty five are under which is why I want
you to listen really carefully. Are standing around on Bourbon Street.
You've had an amazing night celebrating the new year. You've
been out chasing girls or boys. You probably have had
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a few too many drinks, and you are just thinking
to yourself, Man, it couldn't have been much more fun
than what we just experienced. And then this terrorist comes
speeding down Bourbon Street, wiping out every single person that
he could. That's what globalized. The dafada means. They want
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to kill you because they believe that America and our
freedoms are evil.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
You have taken up the mantle.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
This guy had the ISIS flag in the back of
his truck. You have taken up the mantle of evil
and convinced.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Yourself that it's actually good.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
This is one of the most troubling things in the
last year two years that's happened in America. We have
lost the ability to distinguish between good and evil, especially
young people. These kids on college campus is supposedly the
most educated generation ever. They're so educated they can't even
tell what good and evil is. And you guys need
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to start speaking out to your friends and your family
and those age groups, and you need to tell them, hey,
this is what we're supporting. Globalize the Intifada means bring
the evil of Muslim fundamentalism and terrorism, and we're going
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to bring it to the United States. And we're going
to rain down holy hell on America too, because they
believe that we are evil.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
This is important.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
A lot of times we talk about this on the show.
We're gonna have a lot of different battles in American politics.
What should the corporate tax rate be? Some people are
going to say it should be twenty seven percent, other
people like me are going to say it should be
fifteen percent. What should the top marginal tax rate be?
I think it should be lower. What should the capital
gains tax rate be? What should we do as it
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pertains to social Security or medicare? How should we adjust
the cost of living? All of those things are very
real political debates, But in the grand scheme of things
we're talking about on the margins disagreements that reasonable people
can have, there is no reasonable argument of than killing
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people because your religion has convinced you that it should
occur is evil, and there are millions, if not tens
of millions, of people who believe that what that man
did is actually heroic. Now, some of us lived through
nine to eleven, and we remember seeing the towers fall,
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and we remember what evil truly is. But what scares
me is if a nine to eleven terror attack happened today,
some people would say, and it wouldn't be an insubstantial
amount of Americans, that we deserved it, and that the
terrorists were right to fly those planes into those buildings
because much of the American public, especially people under the
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age of twenty five, has lost the ability to truly
distinguish between good and evil. So, all of you out
there listening to me right now, who are home on
college break home, on Christmas break home one winter break,
as you are riding around right now with your mom
or your dad, or your grandma or your grandpa, right now,
there are many people on your college campuses that supported
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this and don't have the ability to distinguish between good
and evil. That has to end. We have to have
honest conversations about this. We have to condemn this utterly
across the American body politic and across all age ranges,
because if we don't, this is going to happen more
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and more and more. And this is what globalized the
Intafada really means.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
It means you.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Are standing on the street, having celebrated all night with
your buddies on Bourbon Street, and then out of nowhere
a car comes and drives right over you or your
best friend.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Again.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Almost every single person who died was under the age
of twenty five, because you guys know, that's most of
the people that are going to be out at three
pin fifteen in the morning, still celebrating older people. Maybe
a lot of older people out there did what I did.
You're in the Central time zone and at eleven o'clock
you're like, ah, it hit midnight on the East Coast.
I think I'll go ahead and go to bed. I've
been through enough New Years. I'm not at a huge
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celebration right now. I'll tell my kids Happy New Year,
and I'll go on to bed. Most people around my
age or older not out at three fifteen in the
morning anymore. The people who were victims, I'm seeing all
these poor kids. I came to imagine what their families
are going through. Almost all of them are teenagers or
in their early twenties, the same age people that were
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on college campus is chanting globalize the Intifada. This is
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Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton show. Let me
fill you in with some of the latest. There's just
been an FBI press conference. The FBI says that they
have so far not been able to establish a connection
between the Tesla cybertruck explosion in Las Vegas and the
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New Orleans terror attack.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
I'm just telling you what they have said.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
I'll take some of your calls by the way eight
hundred and two two two eight a two and just
giving you a little bit of a roadmap of where
we're going. Nicole Parker, former FBI agent. Many of you
may have seen her on Fox News. She is set
to join us at the top of the third hour
and tell us what she has seen in the FBI,
what she thinks about this investigation. She'll be with us
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then Senator Cassidy in Louisiana. Uh is scheduled to join
us at two thirty. We also have invitations out to
the Governor of New Orleans, the governor of Louisiana, who
is in New Orleans and says that he's going to
be at the Sugar Bowl, which is kicking off in
just a few hours. They have moved the Sugar Bowl
to today and it is kicking off at three Central
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time in New Orleans, four on the East coast. Just fyi,
and we're going to have audio from this press conference
in a moment, But first I want to play you
some of what happened yesterday. This was an act of terrorism.
This is the Assistant Director Christopher Ray yesterday. Listen to
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cut one.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
First and foremost, let me be very clear about this point.
This was an act of terrorism. It was premeditated and
an evil act. This was obviously a critical incident, and
with that, lots of information and tips come pouring in
from law enforcement, first responders, and the public. We have
been aggressively running down these tips and information.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
But at this point, currently.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
And this is another position on another fact I want
to be clear on, we do not assess at this
point that anyone else involved in this attack is involved
in this attack except for shamsud Din jib are the
subject you've already.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Been briefed on.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Okay, So initially they said they thought three or four
other people were involved, and there may have been other
explosive devices. They now say they don't believe anybody else
was involved. And I'm not sure how you pronounced this
guy's name. It's not Christopher ray the FBI director who
is stepping down. It may be pronounced the same way.
It may be Raya. I'm not sure r Aia is
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what I have this gentleman's name as that is who
was just speaking. That was this morning. This was yesterday,
and this is I tweeted about this and said, this
is one of many reasons why we need Kashptel in
immediately as the head of the FBI, the person who
decided to speak yesterday. This is in the press conference
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they had yesterday morning, hours after the attack. Remember, the
guy had a friggin ISIS flag on the back of
his pickup truck. I'm not an expert on investigatory procedures,
but if you have an ISIS flag on the back
of your truck and you're mowing down people, maybe there's
a little bit of evidence that you might be involved
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in a terror attack. Remember yesterday, the FBI, in the
press conference several hours after the attack said it wasn't
a terror attack.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Listen, this is not a terrorist event.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
What it is right now is there improvised explosive devices
that was found and we are working on confirming if
this is a viable device or not.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Okay, excuse me.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
You've got potentially multiple IEDs, You've got an ISIS flag
in the back of the truck, you got a guy
mowing down people out on Bourbon Street, and the first
thing you say at your press conference is this is
not a terrorist event. Who are these people who are
working as FBI agents? This is why I want to
talk with with Nicole Parker, a former FBI agent. The
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number one thing we have to do is get back
to the meritocracy in America.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
I always say this, I don't care. The more significant your.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Job is, the less I care about anything having to
do with you other than your actual ability. If I
need a doctor, I don't care anything about the doctor
other than is the doctor a badass at what he
or she does?
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Right?
Speaker 1 (18:17):
That's all I care about. I don't care where you
went to school. I don't care what your religion is.
I don't care what kind of parent you are. I
care whether you are really good at your job. When
I get on an airplane, I don't care whether the
airplane pilot is of a different race, ethnicity, of religion
than I am. I care are they a badass if
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flying an airplane? DEI is entirely focused on things other
than your ability to do the job. Meritocracy is all
that should matter in America, and the more significant the job,
the more it matters in the grand scheme of things.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Do we have the latest update? Video yet? Audio? Yet? Greg?
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Here's cut twenty six This just happened, the absolute latest
on the New Orleans investigation.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Listen.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
There were five videos posted on Jabbar's Facebook account, which
are time stamped, beginning at one twenty nine am and
the last at three h two am. In the first video,
Jabbar 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. Additionally,
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he stated he had joined ISIS before this summer. He
also provided a will and testing.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Okay, this just again as there's more and more investigation
coming out about this guy. It seems quite clear that
he has been radicalized at some point in time, lived
in Houston, and had decided that he was going to
pledge his adherents to isis. He wanted to potentially kill
his family. I believe the reports are that he has
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a twenty year old daughter and a fifteen year old
daughter and an ex wife, and that that family had
basically the ex wife and the kids had distanced themselves
from him because this guy had kind of gone crazy
and he wanted to kill his family. Who knows what
the reason for that was, but as the FBI is
reporting now, he said in the video that he wanted
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everybody to understand that this was a war between believers
and non believers of the Muslim faith, and so that's
why he decided that he needed to kill as many
people as possible early in the morning of January first
in New Orleans. And this is a calculated attempt. I mean,
there's lots of failures here that allowed this to occur.
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For instance, there are supposed to be barriers that come
up that don't allow a car to be driven down
Bourbon Street, but they are in the process of getting
those replaced, and they weren't replaced in time for New
Year's Eve and or the Sugar Bowl, which is one
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of the biggest events that goes on in New Orleans. Obviously,
Marty Garras is also huge. I will be down in
New Orleans in about a month. I've been down a
lot for big games. Super Bowl is taking place in
New Orleans. For those of you who don't know, I'll
be down there for that event. How incompetent is it
that you can't get guards up, meaning the barriers, the barricades,
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and get it fixed and replaced in time for New
Years and the Sugar Bowl. I can't imagine that this
is some incredibly difficult construction process. And if I look,
I'm not the mayor of New Orleans, but if you
came to me and you said, hey, we have to
fix these barricades to provide more security in the Free
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Quarter on Bourbon Street, I would say, Okay, let's get
it fixed sometime during the summer so that we're ready
for the biggest events of our calendar, which are the
Sugar Bowl New Year's I'd actually want it fixed for
the Saints games that take place in the Superdome. So
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I'd like to get this fixed. Let's get it done
in the summer. May and June, not as busy in
New Orleans. Less likelihood of a tear attack could always happen,
but less likely in May or June. This guy drove
from Houston with the intent of killing as many people
on Bourbon Street on New Year's Day, New Year's Night
turning into New Year's Day as possible, looking for an
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opportunity with an ISIS flag flying in the back of
his truck. I'd also ask, are you really saying that
a guy joins ISIS in the summer and there's no
evidence that he joined ISIS between now and this terror attack?
Somehow arresting people for January sixth, still for trespassing. Nobody
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in the Houston FBI office became aware that this guy
might have been radicalized and become a member of ISIS.
He wasn't posting anything online. There was no evidence whatsoever
of his having joined a terrorist organization. How about on
Facebook he posts for hours in advance of what he's
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going to do. Nobody sees those videos up on Facebook
till after he's killed people. Did he have no friends?
No one is out there again. So much of what
occurs here is about not recognizing true evil and being
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aware of what legitimate threats in America look like. And
this guy killed fifteen people and wounded and maimed many more.
But there are a lot of this dude. There are
a lot of people who have pledged loyalty to ISIS
in this country right now, who saw what this guy
did and they want to do the same. There is
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a lot of evil in America. We have allowed our
a lot of people to walk right across our southern border.
We have no idea who is even here. There are
going to be more of this guy. What are we
doing to stop that from happening? And where are our
resources and our focus actually going. The FBI's been in
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investigating Milania Trump's underwear drawer. They've been taking photos all
over mar A Lago of Trump engaging in law fair
working with Jack Smith, I got a crazy idea, how
about we focus on actual bad guys. How about we
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focus our resources on people that are actually trying to
kill us, that have pledged allegiance to ISIS. Is this
basic common sense. All crimes are not created equal. Some
people are a lot more dangerous potentially than others. I
feel awful for the families that had to wake up
on New Year's Day and find out that they're young
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guy or girl and their family. A lot of these people,
frankly to me, are kids. You're under twenty five years old.
To me, you're still kind of a kid.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
I know.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
People immediately say, well, when you're eighteen, you're I get it,
But if you remember being nineteen or twenty, a lot
of people are still kids, right, even if you are
technically an adult. You're out celebrating New Year's Eve with
your buddies and this guy comes plowing through. There are
a lot more of him out there. What are we
doing to stop this from occurring elsewhere? And you know,
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and I know, and unfortunately this is the reality. Anytime
we have an act like this, there oftentimes are a
lot of copycats because crazy people see. The reason I
try out to use these guys' names on this program
is crazy people will see this. They are immediately attracted
to the infamy of the killers, and it produces oftentimes
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reverberations where other people engage in acts of violence as well.
A lot of times when we have a shooting incident,
there's another couple that come up very soon thereafter. What
are we doing to stop these people? I think there's
probably thousands of them. I don't think that's crazy. I'll
ask Nicole Parker in a couple of hours when she
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comes on, how many people do we think are like
this guy in America right now? I don't think it's
crazy to believe there are thousands of ISIS adherents in
the United States right now. What are those people planning?
How much more deadly could their attacks be? And why
in the world have we been focused on arresting grandmas
and grandpas who walked into January sixth going through sending
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our FBI agents to rummage through Milania Trump's underwear drawer,
arresting parents who go and speak at school board meetings,
and arresting people outside of abortion clinics when those people
are in no way actual dangers to the United States.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
It just it infuriates me.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
And right now, if you are listening to me, Congress
is getting sworn in tomorrow. Kash Pateel needs to be
in office as rapidly as possible. We got eighteen days
still of Joe Biden in office. I'm going to play
you some audio. We don't have an actual president. This
is a time of real danger. We need Trump's team
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on the FBI, on the Secretary of State, on the
Secretary of Defense. We need all of our dudes, and
right now they're dudes. We need Trump's dudes in office.
Mike Walls ready to roll. All of these guys one
hundred percent, ready to make things happen, and it needs
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to happen as quickly as we possibly can. We'll get
into that and more here in a little bit. Also,
take your calls eight hundred and two A two two
eight A two. I appreciate all of you listening here.
I was hoping, like I said that we would have
a fun first show at.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Twenty twenty five. Hey, let's just have some good.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Times and then terror attack happens, and uh, we find
out that our FBI has failed yet again. We'll talk
about that. I'll take some of your calls when we
come back. I'm Clay Travis. Thanks for hanging out with
us here on the first show twenty twenty five of
Clay and Buck.
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Buck will be back with me on Monday. He is
right now on a baby moon with his lovely wife
Carrie as they get ready for the birth of their
first child, scheduled to be in April. Looking forward to that,
looking forward to him being back with me on Monday.
Just FYI, I'll be with you for this hour and
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know a lot of you still traveling for Christmas and
the New Year, and I'll be with you tomorrow as well.
Was expecting for this to be a fun, festive post
New Year's Day show. Instead, we have spent most of
it talking about the terror attack in New Orleans on
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New Year's Eve into New Year's morning, fifteen people dead
according to reports. Terrorists dead as well, also a cyber
truck exploding in the driveway the main lobby area valet
area of the Trump Tower in Las Vegas. We are
joined now by Nicole Parker, who is a former FBI agent.
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She is with us now and Nicole Imagine A lot
of people have seen you on Fox News in the
past several days. You have been spending a lot of
time talking about what has occurred in both New Orleans
and Las Vegas. But as a preliminary this is the
first time for you coming on the show. Thank you.
You and I met at mar A Lago about a
month or so ago. But for people who don't know
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your background, introduce yourself to the audience. Happy New Year,
thanks for being with us.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
Well, first of all, thank you so much for having me.
It's my pleasure, and Happy New Year to you as well.
Fortunately we're speaking under these circumstances. But just by way
of background, Yes, I was an FBI special agent for
about thirteen years. I served in the Miami Field Office
and focused originally on white collar crime and then transferred
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over to violent crime and worked the majority of my
career on violent crime. SOFTWOWRED is a violent crime Fugitive
Task Force and you know, responded to some pretty large
investigations that the FBI conducted to include you know, the
Fort Laudernelle Airport shooting, the susterciox pipe pom case, the
Marjorie some Me Douglas Parkland school shooting, and so, unfortunately,
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tragedy is not something new to me. Prior to my
career in the FBI, I actually did work in finance
and on Wall Street, and I was a witness for
the nine to eleven terroist attacks in New York City.
I was working at Merrill Lynch at the time, and
it was because of that tragedy that I was inspired
to later go on and serve my country and join
the FBI. So here we are discussing a terrorist attack
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that occurred, unfortunately on New Year's Day. I think that
all of us were very hopeful and optimistic for twenty
twenty five, that it could be a year of peace
and prosperity and help and success. I know when I
got the phone call. It was early, you know, New
Year's morning, and Fox called and said, hey, have you
heard about this attack? And I went for my morning run,
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came right inside, turned on the news, and I've been
reporting on it ever since.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
All right, we're talking to Nicole Parker. I want to
go back to your joining the FBI in the wake
of nine to eleven. What did you see in your
thirteen year the FBI. In terms of the trajectory of
the FBI from the time you joined until the time
you left, was it the same organization.
Speaker 5 (32:10):
No, it was not the same organization. When I originally joined,
I came in just as a patriot who loves America
and thought that could be a good way to serve
and give back. I mean, the morning of nine to eleven,
there were officers from NYPV that literally saved myself and
many others and directed us away from the World Trade Center,
away from the World Financial Center, and I just remembered thinking,
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you know what, one day I want to give back,
and I thought that the FBI was a great vehicle
in order to serve my country. And when I originally
came in, I'll be honest, I wasn't sure if it
mattered what my political preferences were. And I was immediately
told no, no, it does not matter what the president is.
This is an apolitical organization. Whether you voted for Obama
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or didn't vote for Obama, it's irrelevance because that was
the administration that I started with. The FBI was back
in twenty ten. I applied in two thousand and nine,
came in in twenty ten, I was told a political
don't worry about it. I come to the organization. I'm
working white collar, and I'll be honest. I loved it.
I was very passionate about what I was doing. I
didn't consider the FBI a job. I considered it a mission,
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and I really felt that I was making an impactful
difference in this country. And then so I served under
the Obama administration. Then I went into the Trump administration.
And it was during the Trump administration that I actually
transferred over to violent crime. Actually, I was prior to that.
I worked under the Obama administration and Trump administration and
working violent crimes, and I can tell you I noticed
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a substantial difference between the administration. When Trump came in,
he said, look, we have a violent crime problem in
this country and we need help. And I initially remembered
we were asked to do temporary asigns to Chicago at
the time. When Trump first came in. Trump's priority was
not to go after his political opponents. It was not
to go after Hillary Clinton, who's been given a pass.
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It was not to go after any any of his opponents.
It was really to protect the American people. And I
thought that's just how it should be, right. So then
I served under the Trump administration when there's some awful
things to witness, some awful tragedies. But again I'm there
to serve the people, and that was our priority, was
protecting Americans, upholding the constitution. Then, you know with the
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debacles that occurred behind the scenes, Clay, it was in
twenty sixteen when things really started shifting with the Operation
Classify or Hurricane, also known as the Russia collusion hope.
But again, that was all happening in DC and in headquarters,
and that didn't involve me in Miami. Over the years,
the politicization of the FBI became so deafening that it
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was impossible to do my job at a violent crime
agent in the Miami Division because it just kept the
nonsense that was happening on the political level was inhibiting
us on the rank and file trying to do the
real work. We were completely distracted by the nonsense going
on at the Washington Field Office headquarters and their places
dealing with politics. But again I just kept trying to
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shout it out, not my problem. I'm not doing that,
I'm not involved in that. Then the Biden administration comes
in and there were some drastic changes again, and I
think from twenty sixteen on the SEI just never got
on track.
Speaker 6 (35:13):
You know.
Speaker 5 (35:14):
We went through Jim Comey, I worked under Mueller, Comy
and Ray, and from Operation Crossfire Hurricane, I just don't
believe that there was ever full accountability for those that
were involved in that, and so we were all hoping
Ray's going to come in and he's going to fix
it and we're going to get back on track. Unfortunately,
that's not what happened. Ray has not proven to be
a leader. He has not been proven to stand up
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to Merrick Garland into a lot of its political nonsense.
Aside from the politicization, I think it's also important to
note that the FBI became socially weaponized as well. It
is woke the diversity initiatives going on at the agency.
I started to wonder if I worked for a social
justice warrior club rather than a law enforcement agency. And
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that was particularly bad under the Biden administration. Closest friend
in the FBI, special Agent Laura Schusenberger, was shot and
killed in the line of duty February second of twenty
twenty one, right when Biden had just taken over, and
I never got a clear explanation as to what happened
to my friends. But every single day I got emails
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about diversity clubs and initiatives, and I thought, why are
you not telling us what happened to two agents that
were killed in the line of duty, first time adversarial
deaths in fourteen years. They were killed protecting children, But
yet I get an email every day about diversity and
it just it was absolutely astounding to me. But the
social weaponization and the political weaponization, we just saw how
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clearly they were going after Republicans, conservative Trump Trump supporters
over and over and over, yet they were turning a
blind eye to those on the opposite side of the
political spectrum. Summer of twenty twenty, FBI did virtually nothing
January sixth. They're still going full throttle on that four
years later. So if that gives you any indications, that's
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kind of where I stood. It got so bad that
I said, you know what, I'm going to cut my
losses now and I'm going to leave the FBI. And
I think I can make a stronger impact outside of
the FBI than inside the agency. And it was bad
for me. Clay because I loved being an FBI agent.
I worked tirelessly and I did work with some amazing people,
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but you know, they needed to stay they needed to
get their pensions. They kept their heads low, stay off
the radar, and I just thought, you know what, I'm
just not comfortable with what I'm seeing going on. And
what was I going to do? Call Christopher Ray and
tell them I don't agree with what's going on. We've
seen Christopher Ray testify before Congress multiple times and he
thinks everything at the agency is great. Nothing to see here.
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So if you can't acknowledge that there's a problem, there's
a very low probability that that problem will ever be fixed.
And that was why I made the decision to walk away.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
How much do you think the FBI's lack of focus
and direction and sometimes misdirection as you said, focused on
January sixth protesters outside of abortion clinics, school board meeting parents, certainly,
rummaging through the underwear drawer of Milania Trump and conducting
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investigations of Trump himself has to do with missing actual
terrorists like the man who killed fifteen people in New Orleans.
Speaker 5 (38:21):
So you know, I always am very fair I'm a
very fair and straight shooter. I have integrity, and when
I know the FBI is wrong, I will call them out.
I can tell you that terrorism counter terrorism cases are
very complex and difficult to work right, especially those that
involve ISIS, foreign terroists, organization groups. The FBI can a
lot of times have information on certain individuals, but until
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they make an action and they act out and they
commit a criminal act, they can't just go arrest people
that might be on their radar. From what I understand
based on the press conference today by the FBI, which
by the way, was substantially better than the ones yesterday,
because yesterday.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
Was Yeah, let me ask you about that.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
The agent who got up and said there's no terrorism here,
it's not a terrorism incident, despite the fact you have
an ISIS flag, they took photos of it, all of
those things.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
How does that happen?
Speaker 6 (39:09):
Like?
Speaker 2 (39:09):
What what do you think is going on?
Speaker 1 (39:11):
The difference they had a new person speaking today compared
to yesterday.
Speaker 5 (39:15):
Okay, I'm just gonna be blunt and honest. I actually
know that agent that was on yesterday. She used to
be in the Miami division. And I like to think,
you know, I like to get people the benefit of
the doubt. I'm sure she was under a lot of
pressure and a lot of stress. All I'm going to
say is that when you are put in a position
to represent the FBI, no one it's perfect, but you
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need to have your ducks in a row, and you
need to know what you're talking about. And we need
to make sure that the FBI is promoting those that
should be promoted based on merit, and if you are not,
you know, those cracks start to show in high stress
situations like that. I always like to be fair. You know,
if it was if I was walking in her shoes,
that would be very difficult. But at the same time,
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that was wrong what she did. I was out there
on sop immediately after trying to say, you know what,
this actually is terrorism, and she was refuting exactly what
you know, the locals had just said and what the
mayor had just said, and she said it with such
definitive statement, this is not terrorism. It absolutely was terrorism.
It is terrorism. And I think the FBI realized very
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quickly that was bad and that they needed to bring
someone down from headquarters, which they did, and thankfully this individual,
Christopher Ray, not to be confused with Christopher Ray came
in into this press conference and it was substantially better.
He has experience. He talked about how he responded to
I believe the Boston Marathon. That's the problem that the FBI.
Americans lack confidence in the FBI because you put someone
(40:40):
out there for a press conference and they're giving you
false information and that doesn't really you know, it's fire
a lot of trust and.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
How much difference do you think.
Speaker 5 (40:50):
Don't trust the FBI, then that's a problem. It just
makes things worse.
Speaker 1 (40:54):
That's a that's a really important point, the lack of trust.
I know most people frankly listening to us right now
now don't trust the FBI, and that is an incredible,
uh communication deficit that the FBI is going to have
to make up. And that trust deficit, how much difference
do you think the director being cash Ptel would make
based on your knowledge?
Speaker 5 (41:17):
I just at this point, honestly, I I hope and
pray that there are drastic reforms at the FBI. And
I trust President Trump. He is very wise, he knows
what he's doing. I know last time he listened to
certain individuals and put in Christopher Ray. I think this
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time around, I just want to believe it's going to
get better because frankly, it really cannot get worse. And
let me make this very clear, there are two fbis. Okay,
ATBI one, I kind of coin these phrases. At BI one,
these are the honest, hardworking rank and file agents that
are trying to do the right thing for the right.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
Ru What percentage of FBI employees do you think are
in that group that hard working trying to do the
right side.
Speaker 2 (42:01):
How would you break it down? Percentage?
Speaker 5 (42:04):
Right, people that want nothing to do with the politics,
They just want to serve the American people, Versus FBI two,
which are people that are woke, politically weaponized. Sometimes they're
in leadership roles, sometimes they're just a rank and file analyst.
It's not just people up in DC. That needs to
be made very clear as well. FBI two has infiltrated
all the field offices at various levels. So it's really
kind of more your approach FBI one versus FBI two.
(42:28):
I would say at this point, I would have said
in the past, you know, eighty twenty FBI one eighty percent,
FBI two twenty percent. I'd say, now with solid fifty fifty.
Speaker 2 (42:40):
Oh wow.
Speaker 5 (42:41):
Again hard for me to know. But we just need
hard working, solid agents because you know, Clay, it's not
just you know, what is your political Are you a
hard worker? Were you hired based on merit? Because they
have dropped the hiring standards. The FBI denies it, but
I look at the hiring standard and I've disfected them
(43:01):
and they have drop the hiring standards, and so it's
really just the people that are there. Are you qualified,
are you working hard? Are are you putting your political
and social opinions at the door when you walk in? Okay?
Because look, I don't care who you're supporting. I don't
care what your political opinion is. It shouldn't matter, Lady.
Justice should be blind. But there are a lot of
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people that are incapable of doing that. And when we
are watching FBI agents in the Washington Field office kneeling
to BLM protesters in the summer of twenty twenty in
their SBI vests on official duty, that is unacceptable. When
we are seeing patterns of this type of behavior. And
you know what, Clay, those individuals, many of them actually
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got promoted to very highly thought after positions. They were
offered one hundred dollars gift cards from the FBI Agents Association.
Afterwards they decline them. But this is the kind of
stuff they reward. Bad behavior has to change. The time
for change and FBI one. They are sick and tired
of it because you know what, when you're trying to
(44:05):
do the right thing for the right reason and no
one trusts you, that's how it became for me. I
kept having to justify who I was and say, oh, no, no, no,
I'm not like Peter Struck and leaves the page like
I have nothing to do with them. People didn't even
trust me. I'm not there trying to recruit sources to
report on Deman trafficking. No one even wants to work
for me. They hear FBI, they slam the door in
your face. There needs to be FBI. Oh my gosh,
(44:27):
Like respect now not so much. And I'm being honest
with you. There are good people holding the line at
the FBI. But we need to get the percentage back
to one hundred percent FBI one. We don't want two
fbis anymore. America deserves FBI one, one hundred percent. The
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taxpayers are the boss, and that's the problem. With the FBI.
They always think needs of the bureau. No, it's actually
needs of the American people. Because at the end of
the day, I am sworn, I take a note, and
I am I swear to and I pulled the Constitution
and protect the American people. Frankly, they are my boss.
By victims. That should be my number one priority, Not
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pushing my political and social agendas on America, not going
after my political opponents. That's wrong. We need to back
at the FBI and leadership.
Speaker 2 (45:16):
Amen.
Speaker 1 (45:17):
I know you've told President Trump all this. I think
it's going to make a huge difference. We'll talk to
you again soon. Appreciate the time, Thank you for everything
you're doing.
Speaker 5 (45:25):
By pleasure, y'all have a great day, and God.
Speaker 1 (45:27):
Bless for sure. That's Nicole Parker. We'll talk about that
more and a little bit. Senator Cassidy from Louisiana. This
is claim Buck.
Speaker 3 (45:36):
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Speaker 1 (45:49):
Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show.
Speaker 2 (45:52):
Appreciate all of you hanging out with us. We come back.
Speaker 1 (45:55):
We're going to be joined by Senator from a great
state of Louisiana to Cassidy to break down the absolute
latest on the terror attack in New Orleans. My thanks
to Nicole Parker, who you just heard. All that and
more will be headed this direction, and also i'll play
you some of the audio. We'll have a little bit
of fun to close out the program from CNN's big
(46:19):
New Year's Eve celebration when Whitney Cummings lit them up.
Trust me, you're gonna love it. All that still to come,
Oh welcome in Thursday edition Clay Travis buck Sexton Show,
First one of twenty twenty five and a little bit
less than an hour and a half. Kickoff scheduled down
in New Orleans Sugar Bowl postponed by a day after
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the terror attack in New Orleans. Senator Bill Cassidy joins us.
Now he is on his way to the Sugar Bowl
for that game between Georgia and Notre Dame. Senator, what
should people know about security measures? About the game itself?
You're going, You'll be there in the Superdome is the
latest right There.
Speaker 6 (47:02):
Is no place safer to be right now in the
United States of America than the Superdome. There's going to
be so many police, there's going to be National Guard.
It's the place has been swept once twice. Right. If
you want to go have a good time, go to
the Bourbon Street afterwards, or go to the game right now. Uh,
there's just no place more secure and clay for obvious reasons.
(47:23):
The terror is just that I have to disrupt the
fabric of American life, and the American people are not
going to allow that fabricy to be disrupted. And they're
sending the message no doubt.
Speaker 1 (47:35):
And I know it's going to be an electric scene
inside of that football stadium as the game begins. Where
were you when you heard about the terror attack? What
is the latest that our listeners should know millions of
people out there across America.
Speaker 6 (47:48):
Well, I was crawling out of bed and got some
to learn on my phone about a mass casualty in
New Orleans. And so then open it up and say, whoa,
this is what is this fight for? Real? Uh? And
so after that begin making phone calls, contacting the Mayor
of New Orleans, office support, calling law enforcement, et cetera,
to make sure at an early briefing most in fact,
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everything that I first learned is now either in the
public sphere or it's been shown to be not true.
Some of the stuff just wasn't relevant. But now we
know that the guy was acting by himself. The IED's
were placed in coolers. He is on video himself placing
the coolers. Some people have walked by and opened it
(48:33):
up and see what was in there, The FBI agent
said on the telephone call. He presumed they were looking
for alcohol. I guess he's been on Bourbon Street, New
Orleans and three in the morning before. Anyway, they opened up,
didn't see anything, kept moving, But there's video that this
guy set him by himself, and they traced it down.
I say that because the game was postponed, they were
fearful that there might be others out there. Apparently there's
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no others out there. This guy was a lone wolf.
Speaker 2 (48:59):
Are you confident in the FBI.
Speaker 6 (49:03):
I'm going to be confident when the case is wrapped up.
One thing, I know, they're pouring every single resource they
have into this from Las Vegas right now, and not
only their own resources. They're collaborating with the local law
enforcement and state law enforcement. I say that because every
parish in Louisiana has license plate readers between on the ITN,
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so they've been able to track this guy's movements all
the way from Houston on the IN to New Orleans
on the ITN, and they're collaborating with state police as well.
So I will be confident when the case is totally
wrapped up. One thing I know, they're coordinating actively with
state and local law enforcement and they're putting everything they
have into it.
Speaker 1 (49:48):
New Orleans is going to be hosting the super Bowl
in addition to Marty Garras, which is always a huge festival.
Are you confident that New Orleans will be able to
protect people who are coming into town for that event
in about a month.
Speaker 6 (50:04):
So let's talk first about the Superdome super Bowl. Keep
in mind that one of the reasons that the barricade
was a police car and not actual polls taken out
of the ground was they're upgrading the security for the
super Bowl, and so the super Bowl, the Sugar Bowl
has a great level of security, turns out not good enough.
(50:26):
The super Bowl had even more so, and that's why
they were preparing for that extra level. I can promise you,
given the events that have occurred today. It's going to
be even more so than it ordinarily would be for
the Super Bowl. And by the way, that's no matter
what city this will be in. Once terrorists get the
idea that they can go after soft targets, they're going
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to go out to soft targets. So there's a kind
of an imitation. And I'm told there's an imitation Mardi
Gras Parade in Seattle, Washington, God blessed. That's great. Enjoy yourself, Washington,
take a little take them Louisiana up there. But that
is a tough target and they need to be just
as aware that a terrorist will see that as a
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soft target as we will in Louisiana. Going back to Martigrode,
tell I'm sure there's going to be extra precautions, absolutely,
and there should be. We'll still have a great time,
but that's going to be extra precautions because, as you know,
the Madi grass all over the city. But there will
be extra precautions.
Speaker 1 (51:33):
How important tomorrow the new Congress gets sworn in. You're
a part of a fifty three vote majority in the
United States Senate for a Republican party. How important is
it to get Trump's team cash, Ptel and others into
positions to be able to defend the United States as
quickly as possible.
Speaker 6 (51:53):
We got to have the leaders of our Intelligence Committee, competent,
good leaders of the Intelligence Committee in as soon as possible.
I think it'll be a little bit like after in
this sense, on the on the Intelligence Committee side, like
after the Great Financial Crisis and Obama came in and
took over Republican Democrats, they all collaborated and getting his
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finance team on board because they recognize that given the circumstances,
that he wanted to have his team in right away.
So and he put up good people. So we need
good people in there as.
Speaker 2 (52:27):
Fast despot Senator. Who's going to win today? Georgia or
Notre Dame.
Speaker 6 (52:33):
You know, I'm an FCC guy, so normally I wrote
root for Root for Georgia. I'm a little tired of
the dogs that gotten a little arrogant with their success.
I'm probably before them, but I gotta admit the dogs
that had you. I've had you up to hear.
Speaker 1 (52:46):
Who's going to have a better year, Donald Trump or
Brian Kelly in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 6 (52:51):
Oh my gosh, they're both gonna have good years. I
how so, Brian Kelly, is I think gonna set himself
up with success. I want the president to be successful.
It's important for our country that Donald Trump is successful.
And as a Senator from Louisiana, I'm gonna do what
I can to help the guy be successful.
Speaker 1 (53:07):
We're talking to Senator Bill Cassidy. What else should people
know about what happened in New Orleans? From your perspective?
A little over an hour from the big game kicking
in the Super Bowl in the Superdome, they are the
Sugar Bowl. What else should our audience know?
Speaker 6 (53:22):
Our audience should know that the most important thing we
can to do. We need to support the people who
are injured, the family of those who are killed. We
need to honor the police and the first responders. And
then we've got to live at liberty and freedom. The
terrorists win. If we begin to live in fear, I
wouldn't plan to go to the game, and I'm saying,
by God, I'm going to the game. We cannot let
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the terrorists win because if they do, our way of
life is disrupted. They feel as if they have a
victory if we live with bravery, and then they know
they've lost. The most important thing for us right now
is to live with bravery and freedom.
Speaker 1 (54:08):
Amen, Senator, enjoy the game. Thank you for taking the time,
and good luck getting sworn in tomorrow and helping implement
the Trump agenda beginning tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (54:16):
Thanks lay that.
Speaker 1 (54:18):
Center, Bill Cassidy, great State of Louisiana. Absolute latest from
down there. In the wake of the terror attack, Sugar
Bowl scheduled to kick off between Georgia and Notre Dame
in a little bit over an hour. I would bet
there were some of you out there that decided to
get out of work a little bit early. Maybe you
called in and said, hey, I got a little bit
of a cough today because you're big Georgia fans or
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your big Notre Dame fans, and you wanted to make
sure you watch this game today as opposed to watching
it last night when it was scheduled.
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Welcome in, Happy New Year to all of you. I
hope that you and your families had a fantastic Christmas
and a splendid New Year so far. I'm back with
you guys Thursday and Friday of this week. Buck, We'll
be back with me on Monday. As we roll into
twenty twenty five, I want to thank you again for
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all of the incredible support you showed the show, You
showed proct Coffee, you showed OutKick, and you showed both
Buck and myself during the course of twenty twenty four
best year I can remember, preferred personally and professionally. I
hope you guys have gotten rested up, had an awesome
time with your friends and your family. But unfortunately, as
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we begin this first show with either Buck, Buck or
myself in twenty twenty five, we got an awful news
story that is going to be the focus of today's program,
and that is the terror attack that occurred in New
Orleans yesterday at about three point fifteen in the morning
Central time, when a isis inspired deranged lunatic drove his truck,
(01:07):
mowed down a substantial number of pedestrians, and was then
finally shot and killed by police. After he got out
of the car and began to fire a weapon. Sadly,
this is all too predictable. I ended the show telling
(01:28):
you guys that I had a deep fear after having
just been to Israel and seeing what fundamentalist Islamic terrorists
were willing to do to Jews. Given how wide open
this country has been in many ways, and given the
fact that the Department of Justice, Joe Biden, and the
(01:51):
FBI have been telling us since January sixth that the
biggest threat to America was white supremacy, I had a
feeling that we were not focusing on the people that
would actually do damage to this country. And this is
the result, and I don't think it's going to be
the end result. They're going to be. Unfortunately. I believe
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in the days, weeks, and months ahead, many people who
become the victims of radical Muslim extremism and are killed
in this country because we haven't been doing what we
should be doing, which is focusing on the people that
are actual dangers this country. Instead, we've been going after
grandma's and grandpa's who trespassed on January sixth. We've been
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investigating school board parents who show up like me and
are upset about the decisions being made surrounding their kids' education.
We have been focused on pro life protesters who stand
outside of abortion clinics and try to encourage people not
to have abortions. That is what the Joe Biden Department
of Justice, as well as all the law fair that's
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been brought to bear against Donald Trump. They have been
focusing on things that are not actual direct the rest
of this country, and I believe, as a result, have
allowed the terror attack which just happened, and unfortunately, what
I believe will be future terror attacks to occur because
they haven't been focused on the real bad guys in
this country. And I'm going to dive all into that.
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We're going to discuss it to a great degree. Unfortunately,
I was hoping we'd have a happy Hey it's second
to January. Let's all just kind of celebrate. I'll help
you get through your hangovers.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
So I thought. When I kicked up my feet.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
I woke up yesterday morning, I was like, man, I'm
going to watch college football all day. I'm going to
watch the college football playoff, gonna finish at the Sugar
Bowl that's taking place in New Orleans, A game, by
the way, is going to kick off at for Eastern today,
at least scheduled.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
I'll let you know if anything changes with that.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
A lot of people were at that planning for the
Sugar Bowl, the Georgia Notre Dame game. Imagine a lot
of you listening to me right now, fans of Georgia
Notre Dame. Great game, by the way between Texas and
Arizona State yesterday, not so good of a game if
you're an Oregon Duck fan, as Ohio State and ran rampant.
If you're in Ohio listening to us right now, and
(04:09):
I know we're number one in Columbus, Cleveland and Cincinnati
over the course of the year, so I know a
lot of you are in Ohio very excited about that.
You took it to my beloved Tennessee Volunteers, and you
took it to Oregon Ducks. So I have been out
on Bourbon Street after midnight around New Year's Eve a
bunch of different times because a lot of you know,
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I came out of the world of sports. Sugar Bowl
down in New Orleans, one of the biggest games of
the year, and they often have hosted the National Championship game.
I have been down there, had an amazing time, have
seen how packed those streets are and what a phenomenal
place New Orleans is to ring in the new year.
I'm sure many of you out there listening to me
right now have been on Bourbon Street at some point
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in time. You may or may not remember having been there,
but I know that many of you have been there.
I want to start the show today and I'm going
to keep hammering this home throughout the course of the
day because I know a lot of college kids and
high school kids are home right now, and you guys
may be riding around in your cars with Dad and mom,
(05:13):
Grandma and grandpa. You may not regularly listen to Clay
and Buck.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
You should.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Hey, hope you're having a good start to your year.
But I think you guys are incredibly important. If you
are under the age of twenty five right now and
you are listening to this program, you may have some
knowledge of the college protests that broke out on campus
in the wake of the October seventh terror attack on Israel.
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This happened great schools like Columbia all the way across
the country. Great school like UCLA happened at my undergrad
alma mater, George Washington University. Happened at my law school
alma mater, Vanderbilt University. There are a lot of schools
out there that had campus protests, that had student protesters
putting out tents, sitting around and do you know what
(06:05):
they were chanting? Oftentimes, globalize the Intifada from the river
to the sea. Let Palestine be free, I believe yesterday
on Sixth Avenue in New York City, some of you
may have seen this. I want to play it for you,
even in the wake of the terror attack in New Orleans.
This is what they were chanting on Sixth Avenue in
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New York City yesterday.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Listen, Okay, they're.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Chanting globalize the endi Fada. That was happening on Sixth
Avenue in New York City yesterday. They were marching, they
were protesting, celebrating in some ways the terror attack that
had just happened in New Orleans. And I want you
kids to listen to me closely. This is what globalized
the Intifada looks like. You have lost the ability your
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generation to distinguish between good and evil.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Evil is what.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Just happened in New Orleans. You and your college buddies,
you and your young friends. Because almost all these victims
are twenty five are under which is why I want
you to listen really carefully. Are standing around on Bourbon Street.
You've had an amazing night celebrating the new year. You've
been out chasing girls or boys. You probably have had
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a few too many drinks, and you are just thinking
to yourself, Man, it couldn't have been much more fun
than what we just experienced. And then this terrorist comes
speeding down Bourbon Street, wiping out every single person that
he could. That's what globalized. The dafada means. They want
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to kill you because they believe that America and our
freedoms are evil.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
You have taken up the mantle.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
This guy had the ISIS flag in the back of
his truck. You have taken up the mantle of evil
and convinced.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Yourself that it's actually good.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
This is one of the most troubling things in the
last year two years that's happened in America. We have
lost the ability to distinguish between good and evil, especially
young people. These kids on college campus is supposedly the
most educated generation ever. They're so educated they can't even
tell what good and evil is. And you guys need
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to start speaking out to your friends and your family
and those age groups, and you need to tell them, hey,
this is what we're supporting. Globalize the Intifada means bring
the evil of Muslim fundamentalism and terrorism, and we're going
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to bring it to the United States. And we're going
to rain down holy hell on America too, because they
believe that we are evil.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
This is important.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
A lot of times we talk about this on the show.
We're gonna have a lot of different battles in American politics.
What should the corporate tax rate be? Some people are
going to say it should be twenty seven percent, other
people like me are going to say it should be
fifteen percent. What should the top marginal tax rate be?
I think it should be lower. What should the capital
gains tax rate be? What should we do as it
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pertains to social Security or medicare? How should we adjust
the cost of living? All of those things are very
real political debates, But in the grand scheme of things
we're talking about on the margins disagreements that reasonable people
can have, there is no reasonable argument of than killing
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people because your religion has convinced you that it should
occur is evil, and there are millions, if not tens
of millions, of people who believe that what that man
did is actually heroic. Now, some of us lived through
nine to eleven, and we remember seeing the towers fall,
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and we remember what evil truly is. But what scares
me is if a nine to eleven terror attack happened today,
some people would say, and it wouldn't be an insubstantial
amount of Americans, that we deserved it, and that the
terrorists were right to fly those planes into those buildings
because much of the American public, especially people under the
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age of twenty five, has lost the ability to truly
distinguish between good and evil. So, all of you out
there listening to me right now, who are home on
college break home, on Christmas break home one winter break,
as you are riding around right now with your mom
or your dad, or your grandma or your grandpa, right now,
there are many people on your college campuses that supported
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this and don't have the ability to distinguish between good
and evil. That has to end. We have to have
honest conversations about this. We have to condemn this utterly
across the American body politic and across all age ranges,
because if we don't, this is going to happen more
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and more and more. And this is what globalized the
Intafada really means.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
It means you.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Are standing on the street, having celebrated all night with
your buddies on Bourbon Street, and then out of nowhere
a car comes and drives right over you or your
best friend.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Again.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Almost every single person who died was under the age
of twenty five, because you guys know, that's most of
the people that are going to be out at three
pin fifteen in the morning, still celebrating older people. Maybe
a lot of older people out there did what I did.
You're in the Central time zone and at eleven o'clock
you're like, ah, it hit midnight on the East Coast.
I think I'll go ahead and go to bed. I've
been through enough New Years. I'm not at a huge
(12:12):
celebration right now. I'll tell my kids Happy New Year,
and I'll go on to bed. Most people around my
age or older not out at three fifteen in the
morning anymore. The people who were victims, I'm seeing all
these poor kids. I came to imagine what their families
are going through. Almost all of them are teenagers or
in their early twenties, the same age people that were
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on college campus is chanting globalize the Intifada. This is
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Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton show. Let me
fill you in with some of the latest. There's just
been an FBI press conference. The FBI says that they
have so far not been able to establish a connection
between the Tesla cybertruck explosion in Las Vegas and the
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New Orleans terror attack.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
I'm just telling you what they have said.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
I'll take some of your calls by the way eight
hundred and two two two eight a two and just
giving you a little bit of a roadmap of where
we're going. Nicole Parker, former FBI agent. Many of you
may have seen her on Fox News. She is set
to join us at the top of the third hour
and tell us what she has seen in the FBI,
what she thinks about this investigation. She'll be with us
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then Senator Cassidy in Louisiana. Uh is scheduled to join
us at two thirty. We also have invitations out to
the Governor of New Orleans, the governor of Louisiana, who
is in New Orleans and says that he's going to
be at the Sugar Bowl, which is kicking off in
just a few hours. They have moved the Sugar Bowl
to today and it is kicking off at three Central
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time in New Orleans, four on the East coast. Just fyi,
and we're going to have audio from this press conference
in a moment, But first I want to play you
some of what happened yesterday. This was an act of terrorism.
This is the Assistant Director Christopher Ray yesterday. Listen to
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cut one.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
First and foremost, let me be very clear about this point.
This was an act of terrorism. It was premeditated and
an evil act. This was obviously a critical incident, and
with that, lots of information and tips come pouring in
from law enforcement, first responders, and the public. We have
been aggressively running down these tips and information.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
But at this point, currently.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
And this is another position on another fact I want
to be clear on, we do not assess at this
point that anyone else involved in this attack is involved
in this attack except for shamsud Din jib are the
subject you've already.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Been briefed on.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Okay, So initially they said they thought three or four
other people were involved, and there may have been other
explosive devices. They now say they don't believe anybody else
was involved. And I'm not sure how you pronounced this
guy's name. It's not Christopher ray the FBI director who
is stepping down. It may be pronounced the same way.
It may be Raya. I'm not sure r Aia is
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what I have this gentleman's name as that is who
was just speaking. That was this morning. This was yesterday,
and this is I tweeted about this and said, this
is one of many reasons why we need Kashptel in
immediately as the head of the FBI, the person who
decided to speak yesterday. This is in the press conference
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they had yesterday morning, hours after the attack. Remember, the
guy had a friggin ISIS flag on the back of
his pickup truck. I'm not an expert on investigatory procedures,
but if you have an ISIS flag on the back
of your truck and you're mowing down people, maybe there's
a little bit of evidence that you might be involved
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in a terror attack. Remember yesterday, the FBI, in the
press conference several hours after the attack said it wasn't
a terror attack.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Listen, this is not a terrorist event.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
What it is right now is there improvised explosive devices
that was found and we are working on confirming if
this is a viable device or not.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Okay, excuse me.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
You've got potentially multiple IEDs, You've got an ISIS flag
in the back of the truck, you got a guy
mowing down people out on Bourbon Street, and the first
thing you say at your press conference is this is
not a terrorist event. Who are these people who are
working as FBI agents? This is why I want to
talk with with Nicole Parker, a former FBI agent. The
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number one thing we have to do is get back
to the meritocracy in America.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
I always say this, I don't care. The more significant your.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Job is, the less I care about anything having to
do with you other than your actual ability. If I
need a doctor, I don't care anything about the doctor
other than is the doctor a badass at what he
or she does?
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Right?
Speaker 1 (18:17):
That's all I care about. I don't care where you
went to school. I don't care what your religion is.
I don't care what kind of parent you are. I
care whether you are really good at your job. When
I get on an airplane, I don't care whether the
airplane pilot is of a different race, ethnicity, of religion
than I am. I care are they a badass if
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flying an airplane? DEI is entirely focused on things other
than your ability to do the job. Meritocracy is all
that should matter in America, and the more significant the job,
the more it matters in the grand scheme of things.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Do we have the latest update? Video yet? Audio? Yet? Greg?
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Here's cut twenty six This just happened, the absolute latest
on the New Orleans investigation.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Listen.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
There were five videos posted on Jabbar's Facebook account, which
are time stamped, beginning at one twenty nine am and
the last at three h two am. In the first video,
Jabbar 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. Additionally,
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he stated he had joined ISIS before this summer. He
also provided a will and testing.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Okay, this just again as there's more and more investigation
coming out about this guy. It seems quite clear that
he has been radicalized at some point in time, lived
in Houston, and had decided that he was going to
pledge his adherents to isis. He wanted to potentially kill
his family. I believe the reports are that he has
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a twenty year old daughter and a fifteen year old
daughter and an ex wife, and that that family had
basically the ex wife and the kids had distanced themselves
from him because this guy had kind of gone crazy
and he wanted to kill his family. Who knows what
the reason for that was, but as the FBI is
reporting now, he said in the video that he wanted
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everybody to understand that this was a war between believers
and non believers of the Muslim faith, and so that's
why he decided that he needed to kill as many
people as possible early in the morning of January first
in New Orleans. And this is a calculated attempt. I mean,
there's lots of failures here that allowed this to occur.
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For instance, there are supposed to be barriers that come
up that don't allow a car to be driven down
Bourbon Street, but they are in the process of getting
those replaced, and they weren't replaced in time for New
Year's Eve and or the Sugar Bowl, which is one
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of the biggest events that goes on in New Orleans. Obviously,
Marty Garras is also huge. I will be down in
New Orleans in about a month. I've been down a
lot for big games. Super Bowl is taking place in
New Orleans. For those of you who don't know, I'll
be down there for that event. How incompetent is it
that you can't get guards up, meaning the barriers, the barricades,
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and get it fixed and replaced in time for New
Years and the Sugar Bowl. I can't imagine that this
is some incredibly difficult construction process. And if I look,
I'm not the mayor of New Orleans, but if you
came to me and you said, hey, we have to
fix these barricades to provide more security in the Free
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Quarter on Bourbon Street, I would say, Okay, let's get
it fixed sometime during the summer so that we're ready
for the biggest events of our calendar, which are the
Sugar Bowl New Year's I'd actually want it fixed for
the Saints games that take place in the Superdome. So
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I'd like to get this fixed. Let's get it done
in the summer. May and June, not as busy in
New Orleans. Less likelihood of a tear attack could always happen,
but less likely in May or June. This guy drove
from Houston with the intent of killing as many people
on Bourbon Street on New Year's Day, New Year's Night
turning into New Year's Day as possible, looking for an
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opportunity with an ISIS flag flying in the back of
his truck. I'd also ask, are you really saying that
a guy joins ISIS in the summer and there's no
evidence that he joined ISIS between now and this terror attack?
Somehow arresting people for January sixth, still for trespassing. Nobody
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in the Houston FBI office became aware that this guy
might have been radicalized and become a member of ISIS.
He wasn't posting anything online. There was no evidence whatsoever
of his having joined a terrorist organization. How about on
Facebook he posts for hours in advance of what he's
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going to do. Nobody sees those videos up on Facebook
till after he's killed people. Did he have no friends?
No one is out there again. So much of what
occurs here is about not recognizing true evil and being
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aware of what legitimate threats in America look like. And
this guy killed fifteen people and wounded and maimed many more.
But there are a lot of this dude. There are
a lot of people who have pledged loyalty to ISIS
in this country right now, who saw what this guy
did and they want to do the same. There is
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a lot of evil in America. We have allowed our
a lot of people to walk right across our southern border.
We have no idea who is even here. There are
going to be more of this guy. What are we
doing to stop that from happening? And where are our
resources and our focus actually going. The FBI's been in
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investigating Milania Trump's underwear drawer. They've been taking photos all
over mar A Lago of Trump engaging in law fair
working with Jack Smith, I got a crazy idea, how
about we focus on actual bad guys. How about we
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focus our resources on people that are actually trying to
kill us, that have pledged allegiance to ISIS. Is this
basic common sense. All crimes are not created equal. Some
people are a lot more dangerous potentially than others. I
feel awful for the families that had to wake up
on New Year's Day and find out that they're young
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guy or girl and their family. A lot of these people,
frankly to me, are kids. You're under twenty five years old.
To me, you're still kind of a kid.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
I know.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
People immediately say, well, when you're eighteen, you're I get it,
But if you remember being nineteen or twenty, a lot
of people are still kids, right, even if you are
technically an adult. You're out celebrating New Year's Eve with
your buddies and this guy comes plowing through. There are
a lot more of him out there. What are we
doing to stop this from occurring elsewhere? And you know,
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and I know, and unfortunately this is the reality. Anytime
we have an act like this, there oftentimes are a
lot of copycats because crazy people see. The reason I
try out to use these guys' names on this program
is crazy people will see this. They are immediately attracted
to the infamy of the killers, and it produces oftentimes
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reverberations where other people engage in acts of violence as well.
A lot of times when we have a shooting incident,
there's another couple that come up very soon thereafter. What
are we doing to stop these people? I think there's
probably thousands of them. I don't think that's crazy. I'll
ask Nicole Parker in a couple of hours when she
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comes on, how many people do we think are like
this guy in America right now? I don't think it's
crazy to believe there are thousands of ISIS adherents in
the United States right now. What are those people planning?
How much more deadly could their attacks be? And why
in the world have we been focused on arresting grandmas
and grandpas who walked into January sixth going through sending
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our FBI agents to rummage through Milania Trump's underwear drawer,
arresting parents who go and speak at school board meetings,
and arresting people outside of abortion clinics when those people
are in no way actual dangers to the United States.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
It just it infuriates me.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
And right now, if you are listening to me, Congress
is getting sworn in tomorrow. Kash Pateel needs to be
in office as rapidly as possible. We got eighteen days
still of Joe Biden in office. I'm going to play
you some audio. We don't have an actual president. This
is a time of real danger. We need Trump's team
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on the FBI, on the Secretary of State, on the
Secretary of Defense. We need all of our dudes, and
right now they're dudes. We need Trump's dudes in office.
Mike Walls ready to roll. All of these guys one
hundred percent, ready to make things happen, and it needs
(27:52):
to happen as quickly as we possibly can. We'll get
into that and more here in a little bit. Also,
take your calls eight hundred and two A two two
eight A two. I appreciate all of you listening here.
I was hoping, like I said that we would have
a fun first show at.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Twenty twenty five. Hey, let's just have some good.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Times and then terror attack happens, and uh, we find
out that our FBI has failed yet again. We'll talk
about that. I'll take some of your calls when we
come back. I'm Clay Travis. Thanks for hanging out with
us here on the first show twenty twenty five of
Clay and Buck.
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Buck will be back with me on Monday. He is
right now on a baby moon with his lovely wife
Carrie as they get ready for the birth of their
first child, scheduled to be in April. Looking forward to that,
looking forward to him being back with me on Monday.
Just FYI, I'll be with you for this hour and
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know a lot of you still traveling for Christmas and
the New Year, and I'll be with you tomorrow as well.
Was expecting for this to be a fun, festive post
New Year's Day show. Instead, we have spent most of
it talking about the terror attack in New Orleans on
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New Year's Eve into New Year's morning, fifteen people dead
according to reports. Terrorists dead as well, also a cyber
truck exploding in the driveway the main lobby area valet
area of the Trump Tower in Las Vegas. We are
joined now by Nicole Parker, who is a former FBI agent.
(29:46):
She is with us now and Nicole Imagine A lot
of people have seen you on Fox News in the
past several days. You have been spending a lot of
time talking about what has occurred in both New Orleans
and Las Vegas. But as a preliminary this is the
first time for you coming on the show. Thank you.
You and I met at mar A Lago about a
month or so ago. But for people who don't know
(30:09):
your background, introduce yourself to the audience. Happy New Year,
thanks for being with us.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
Well, first of all, thank you so much for having me.
It's my pleasure, and Happy New Year to you as well.
Fortunately we're speaking under these circumstances. But just by way
of background, Yes, I was an FBI special agent for
about thirteen years. I served in the Miami Field Office
and focused originally on white collar crime and then transferred
(30:36):
over to violent crime and worked the majority of my
career on violent crime. SOFTWOWRED is a violent crime Fugitive
Task Force and you know, responded to some pretty large
investigations that the FBI conducted to include you know, the
Fort Laudernelle Airport shooting, the susterciox pipe pom case, the
Marjorie some Me Douglas Parkland school shooting, and so, unfortunately,
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tragedy is not something new to me. Prior to my
career in the FBI, I actually did work in finance
and on Wall Street, and I was a witness for
the nine to eleven terroist attacks in New York City.
I was working at Merrill Lynch at the time, and
it was because of that tragedy that I was inspired
to later go on and serve my country and join
the FBI. So here we are discussing a terrorist attack
(31:22):
that occurred, unfortunately on New Year's Day. I think that
all of us were very hopeful and optimistic for twenty
twenty five, that it could be a year of peace
and prosperity and help and success. I know when I
got the phone call. It was early, you know, New
Year's morning, and Fox called and said, hey, have you
heard about this attack? And I went for my morning run,
(31:45):
came right inside, turned on the news, and I've been
reporting on it ever since.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
All right, we're talking to Nicole Parker. I want to
go back to your joining the FBI in the wake
of nine to eleven. What did you see in your
thirteen year the FBI. In terms of the trajectory of
the FBI from the time you joined until the time
you left, was it the same organization.
Speaker 5 (32:10):
No, it was not the same organization. When I originally joined,
I came in just as a patriot who loves America
and thought that could be a good way to serve
and give back. I mean, the morning of nine to eleven,
there were officers from NYPV that literally saved myself and
many others and directed us away from the World Trade Center,
away from the World Financial Center, and I just remembered thinking,
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you know what, one day I want to give back,
and I thought that the FBI was a great vehicle
in order to serve my country. And when I originally
came in, I'll be honest, I wasn't sure if it
mattered what my political preferences were. And I was immediately
told no, no, it does not matter what the president is.
This is an apolitical organization. Whether you voted for Obama
(32:53):
or didn't vote for Obama, it's irrelevance because that was
the administration that I started with. The FBI was back
in twenty ten. I applied in two thousand and nine,
came in in twenty ten, I was told a political
don't worry about it. I come to the organization. I'm
working white collar, and I'll be honest. I loved it.
I was very passionate about what I was doing. I
didn't consider the FBI a job. I considered it a mission,
(33:16):
and I really felt that I was making an impactful
difference in this country. And then so I served under
the Obama administration. Then I went into the Trump administration.
And it was during the Trump administration that I actually
transferred over to violent crime. Actually, I was prior to that.
I worked under the Obama administration and Trump administration and
working violent crimes, and I can tell you I noticed
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a substantial difference between the administration. When Trump came in,
he said, look, we have a violent crime problem in
this country and we need help. And I initially remembered
we were asked to do temporary asigns to Chicago at
the time. When Trump first came in. Trump's priority was
not to go after his political opponents. It was not
to go after Hillary Clinton, who's been given a pass.
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It was not to go after any any of his opponents.
It was really to protect the American people. And I
thought that's just how it should be, right. So then
I served under the Trump administration when there's some awful
things to witness, some awful tragedies. But again I'm there
to serve the people, and that was our priority, was
protecting Americans, upholding the constitution. Then, you know with the
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debacles that occurred behind the scenes, Clay, it was in
twenty sixteen when things really started shifting with the Operation
Classify or Hurricane, also known as the Russia collusion hope.
But again, that was all happening in DC and in headquarters,
and that didn't involve me in Miami. Over the years,
the politicization of the FBI became so deafening that it
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was impossible to do my job at a violent crime
agent in the Miami Division because it just kept the
nonsense that was happening on the political level was inhibiting
us on the rank and file trying to do the
real work. We were completely distracted by the nonsense going
on at the Washington Field Office headquarters and their places
dealing with politics. But again I just kept trying to
(35:00):
shout it out, not my problem. I'm not doing that,
I'm not involved in that. Then the Biden administration comes
in and there were some drastic changes again, and I
think from twenty sixteen on the SEI just never got
on track.
Speaker 6 (35:13):
You know.
Speaker 5 (35:14):
We went through Jim Comey, I worked under Mueller, Comy
and Ray, and from Operation Crossfire Hurricane, I just don't
believe that there was ever full accountability for those that
were involved in that, and so we were all hoping
Ray's going to come in and he's going to fix
it and we're going to get back on track. Unfortunately,
that's not what happened. Ray has not proven to be
a leader. He has not been proven to stand up
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to Merrick Garland into a lot of its political nonsense.
Aside from the politicization, I think it's also important to
note that the FBI became socially weaponized as well. It
is woke the diversity initiatives going on at the agency.
I started to wonder if I worked for a social
justice warrior club rather than a law enforcement agency. And
(35:55):
that was particularly bad under the Biden administration. Closest friend
in the FBI, special Agent Laura Schusenberger, was shot and
killed in the line of duty February second of twenty
twenty one, right when Biden had just taken over, and
I never got a clear explanation as to what happened
to my friends. But every single day I got emails
(36:15):
about diversity clubs and initiatives, and I thought, why are
you not telling us what happened to two agents that
were killed in the line of duty, first time adversarial
deaths in fourteen years. They were killed protecting children, But
yet I get an email every day about diversity and
it just it was absolutely astounding to me. But the
social weaponization and the political weaponization, we just saw how
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clearly they were going after Republicans, conservative Trump Trump supporters
over and over and over, yet they were turning a
blind eye to those on the opposite side of the
political spectrum. Summer of twenty twenty, FBI did virtually nothing
January sixth. They're still going full throttle on that four
years later. So if that gives you any indications, that's
(36:59):
kind of where I stood. It got so bad that
I said, you know what, I'm going to cut my
losses now and I'm going to leave the FBI. And
I think I can make a stronger impact outside of
the FBI than inside the agency. And it was bad
for me. Clay because I loved being an FBI agent.
I worked tirelessly and I did work with some amazing people,
(37:20):
but you know, they needed to stay they needed to
get their pensions. They kept their heads low, stay off
the radar, and I just thought, you know what, I'm
just not comfortable with what I'm seeing going on. And
what was I going to do? Call Christopher Ray and
tell them I don't agree with what's going on. We've
seen Christopher Ray testify before Congress multiple times and he
thinks everything at the agency is great. Nothing to see here.
(37:41):
So if you can't acknowledge that there's a problem, there's
a very low probability that that problem will ever be fixed.
And that was why I made the decision to walk away.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
How much do you think the FBI's lack of focus
and direction and sometimes misdirection as you said, focused on
January sixth protesters outside of abortion clinics, school board meeting parents, certainly,
rummaging through the underwear drawer of Milania Trump and conducting
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investigations of Trump himself has to do with missing actual
terrorists like the man who killed fifteen people in New Orleans.
Speaker 5 (38:21):
So you know, I always am very fair I'm a
very fair and straight shooter. I have integrity, and when
I know the FBI is wrong, I will call them out.
I can tell you that terrorism counter terrorism cases are
very complex and difficult to work right, especially those that
involve ISIS, foreign terroists, organization groups. The FBI can a
lot of times have information on certain individuals, but until
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they make an action and they act out and they
commit a criminal act, they can't just go arrest people
that might be on their radar. From what I understand
based on the press conference today by the FBI, which
by the way, was substantially better than the ones yesterday,
because yesterday.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
Was Yeah, let me ask you about that.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
The agent who got up and said there's no terrorism here,
it's not a terrorism incident, despite the fact you have
an ISIS flag, they took photos of it, all of
those things.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
How does that happen?
Speaker 6 (39:09):
Like?
Speaker 2 (39:09):
What what do you think is going on?
Speaker 1 (39:11):
The difference they had a new person speaking today compared
to yesterday.
Speaker 5 (39:15):
Okay, I'm just gonna be blunt and honest. I actually
know that agent that was on yesterday. She used to
be in the Miami division. And I like to think,
you know, I like to get people the benefit of
the doubt. I'm sure she was under a lot of
pressure and a lot of stress. All I'm going to
say is that when you are put in a position
to represent the FBI, no one it's perfect, but you
(39:36):
need to have your ducks in a row, and you
need to know what you're talking about. And we need
to make sure that the FBI is promoting those that
should be promoted based on merit, and if you are not,
you know, those cracks start to show in high stress
situations like that. I always like to be fair. You know,
if it was if I was walking in her shoes,
that would be very difficult. But at the same time,
(39:57):
that was wrong what she did. I was out there
on sop immediately after trying to say, you know what,
this actually is terrorism, and she was refuting exactly what
you know, the locals had just said and what the
mayor had just said, and she said it with such
definitive statement, this is not terrorism. It absolutely was terrorism.
It is terrorism. And I think the FBI realized very
(40:18):
quickly that was bad and that they needed to bring
someone down from headquarters, which they did, and thankfully this individual,
Christopher Ray, not to be confused with Christopher Ray came
in into this press conference and it was substantially better.
He has experience. He talked about how he responded to
I believe the Boston Marathon. That's the problem that the FBI.
Americans lack confidence in the FBI because you put someone
(40:40):
out there for a press conference and they're giving you
false information and that doesn't really you know, it's fire
a lot of trust and.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
How much difference do you think.
Speaker 5 (40:50):
Don't trust the FBI, then that's a problem. It just
makes things worse.
Speaker 1 (40:54):
That's a that's a really important point, the lack of trust.
I know most people frankly listening to us right now
now don't trust the FBI, and that is an incredible,
uh communication deficit that the FBI is going to have
to make up. And that trust deficit, how much difference
do you think the director being cash Ptel would make
based on your knowledge?
Speaker 5 (41:17):
I just at this point, honestly, I I hope and
pray that there are drastic reforms at the FBI. And
I trust President Trump. He is very wise, he knows
what he's doing. I know last time he listened to
certain individuals and put in Christopher Ray. I think this
(41:37):
time around, I just want to believe it's going to
get better because frankly, it really cannot get worse. And
let me make this very clear, there are two fbis. Okay,
ATBI one, I kind of coin these phrases. At BI one,
these are the honest, hardworking rank and file agents that
are trying to do the right thing for the right.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
Ru What percentage of FBI employees do you think are
in that group that hard working trying to do the
right side.
Speaker 2 (42:01):
How would you break it down? Percentage?
Speaker 5 (42:04):
Right, people that want nothing to do with the politics,
They just want to serve the American people, Versus FBI two,
which are people that are woke, politically weaponized. Sometimes they're
in leadership roles, sometimes they're just a rank and file analyst.
It's not just people up in DC. That needs to
be made very clear as well. FBI two has infiltrated
all the field offices at various levels. So it's really
kind of more your approach FBI one versus FBI two.
(42:28):
I would say at this point, I would have said
in the past, you know, eighty twenty FBI one eighty percent,
FBI two twenty percent. I'd say, now with solid fifty fifty.
Speaker 2 (42:40):
Oh wow.
Speaker 5 (42:41):
Again hard for me to know. But we just need
hard working, solid agents because you know, Clay, it's not
just you know, what is your political Are you a
hard worker? Were you hired based on merit? Because they
have dropped the hiring standards. The FBI denies it, but
I look at the hiring standard and I've disfected them
(43:01):
and they have drop the hiring standards, and so it's
really just the people that are there. Are you qualified,
are you working hard? Are are you putting your political
and social opinions at the door when you walk in? Okay?
Because look, I don't care who you're supporting. I don't
care what your political opinion is. It shouldn't matter, Lady.
Justice should be blind. But there are a lot of
(43:23):
people that are incapable of doing that. And when we
are watching FBI agents in the Washington Field office kneeling
to BLM protesters in the summer of twenty twenty in
their SBI vests on official duty, that is unacceptable. When
we are seeing patterns of this type of behavior. And
you know what, Clay, those individuals, many of them actually
(43:44):
got promoted to very highly thought after positions. They were
offered one hundred dollars gift cards from the FBI Agents Association.
Afterwards they decline them. But this is the kind of
stuff they reward. Bad behavior has to change. The time
for change and FBI one. They are sick and tired
of it because you know what, when you're trying to
(44:05):
do the right thing for the right reason and no
one trusts you, that's how it became for me. I
kept having to justify who I was and say, oh, no, no, no,
I'm not like Peter Struck and leaves the page like
I have nothing to do with them. People didn't even
trust me. I'm not there trying to recruit sources to
report on Deman trafficking. No one even wants to work
for me. They hear FBI, they slam the door in
your face. There needs to be FBI. Oh my gosh,
(44:27):
Like respect now not so much. And I'm being honest
with you. There are good people holding the line at
the FBI. But we need to get the percentage back
to one hundred percent FBI one. We don't want two
fbis anymore. America deserves FBI one, one hundred percent. The
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taxpayers are the boss, and that's the problem. With the FBI.
They always think needs of the bureau. No, it's actually
needs of the American people. Because at the end of
the day, I am sworn, I take a note, and
I am I swear to and I pulled the Constitution
and protect the American people. Frankly, they are my boss.
By victims. That should be my number one priority, Not
(45:07):
pushing my political and social agendas on America, not going
after my political opponents. That's wrong. We need to back
at the FBI and leadership.
Speaker 2 (45:16):
Amen.
Speaker 1 (45:17):
I know you've told President Trump all this. I think
it's going to make a huge difference. We'll talk to
you again soon. Appreciate the time, Thank you for everything
you're doing.
Speaker 5 (45:25):
By pleasure, y'all have a great day, and God.
Speaker 1 (45:27):
Bless for sure. That's Nicole Parker. We'll talk about that
more and a little bit. Senator Cassidy from Louisiana. This
is claim Buck.
Speaker 3 (45:36):
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Speaker 1 (45:49):
Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show.
Speaker 2 (45:52):
Appreciate all of you hanging out with us. We come back.
Speaker 1 (45:55):
We're going to be joined by Senator from a great
state of Louisiana to Cassidy to break down the absolute
latest on the terror attack in New Orleans. My thanks
to Nicole Parker, who you just heard. All that and
more will be headed this direction, and also i'll play
you some of the audio. We'll have a little bit
of fun to close out the program from CNN's big
(46:19):
New Year's Eve celebration when Whitney Cummings lit them up.
Trust me, you're gonna love it. All that still to come,
Oh welcome in Thursday edition Clay Travis buck Sexton Show,
First one of twenty twenty five and a little bit
less than an hour and a half. Kickoff scheduled down
in New Orleans Sugar Bowl postponed by a day after
(46:41):
the terror attack in New Orleans. Senator Bill Cassidy joins us.
Now he is on his way to the Sugar Bowl
for that game between Georgia and Notre Dame. Senator, what
should people know about security measures? About the game itself?
You're going, You'll be there in the Superdome is the
latest right There.
Speaker 6 (47:02):
Is no place safer to be right now in the
United States of America than the Superdome. There's going to
be so many police, there's going to be National Guard.
It's the place has been swept once twice. Right. If
you want to go have a good time, go to
the Bourbon Street afterwards, or go to the game right now. Uh,
there's just no place more secure and clay for obvious reasons.
(47:23):
The terror is just that I have to disrupt the
fabric of American life, and the American people are not
going to allow that fabricy to be disrupted. And they're
sending the message no doubt.
Speaker 1 (47:35):
And I know it's going to be an electric scene
inside of that football stadium as the game begins. Where
were you when you heard about the terror attack? What
is the latest that our listeners should know millions of
people out there across America.
Speaker 6 (47:48):
Well, I was crawling out of bed and got some
to learn on my phone about a mass casualty in
New Orleans. And so then open it up and say, whoa,
this is what is this fight for? Real? Uh? And
so after that begin making phone calls, contacting the Mayor
of New Orleans, office support, calling law enforcement, et cetera,
to make sure at an early briefing most in fact,
(48:11):
everything that I first learned is now either in the
public sphere or it's been shown to be not true.
Some of the stuff just wasn't relevant. But now we
know that the guy was acting by himself. The IED's
were placed in coolers. He is on video himself placing
the coolers. Some people have walked by and opened it
(48:33):
up and see what was in there, The FBI agent
said on the telephone call. He presumed they were looking
for alcohol. I guess he's been on Bourbon Street, New
Orleans and three in the morning before. Anyway, they opened up,
didn't see anything, kept moving, But there's video that this
guy set him by himself, and they traced it down.
I say that because the game was postponed, they were
fearful that there might be others out there. Apparently there's
(48:56):
no others out there. This guy was a lone wolf.
Speaker 2 (48:59):
Are you confident in the FBI.
Speaker 6 (49:03):
I'm going to be confident when the case is wrapped up.
One thing, I know, they're pouring every single resource they
have into this from Las Vegas right now, and not
only their own resources. They're collaborating with the local law
enforcement and state law enforcement. I say that because every
parish in Louisiana has license plate readers between on the ITN,
(49:27):
so they've been able to track this guy's movements all
the way from Houston on the IN to New Orleans
on the ITN, and they're collaborating with state police as well.
So I will be confident when the case is totally
wrapped up. One thing I know, they're coordinating actively with
state and local law enforcement and they're putting everything they
have into it.
Speaker 1 (49:48):
New Orleans is going to be hosting the super Bowl
in addition to Marty Garras, which is always a huge festival.
Are you confident that New Orleans will be able to
protect people who are coming into town for that event
in about a month.
Speaker 6 (50:04):
So let's talk first about the Superdome super Bowl. Keep
in mind that one of the reasons that the barricade
was a police car and not actual polls taken out
of the ground was they're upgrading the security for the
super Bowl, and so the super Bowl, the Sugar Bowl
has a great level of security, turns out not good enough.
(50:26):
The super Bowl had even more so, and that's why
they were preparing for that extra level. I can promise you,
given the events that have occurred today. It's going to
be even more so than it ordinarily would be for
the Super Bowl. And by the way, that's no matter
what city this will be in. Once terrorists get the
idea that they can go after soft targets, they're going
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to go out to soft targets. So there's a kind
of an imitation. And I'm told there's an imitation Mardi
Gras Parade in Seattle, Washington, God blessed. That's great. Enjoy yourself, Washington,
take a little take them Louisiana up there. But that
is a tough target and they need to be just
as aware that a terrorist will see that as a
(51:11):
soft target as we will in Louisiana. Going back to Martigrode,
tell I'm sure there's going to be extra precautions, absolutely,
and there should be. We'll still have a great time,
but that's going to be extra precautions because, as you know,
the Madi grass all over the city. But there will
be extra precautions.
Speaker 1 (51:33):
How important tomorrow the new Congress gets sworn in. You're
a part of a fifty three vote majority in the
United States Senate for a Republican party. How important is
it to get Trump's team cash, Ptel and others into
positions to be able to defend the United States as
quickly as possible.
Speaker 6 (51:53):
We got to have the leaders of our Intelligence Committee, competent,
good leaders of the Intelligence Committee in as soon as possible.
I think it'll be a little bit like after in
this sense, on the on the Intelligence Committee side, like
after the Great Financial Crisis and Obama came in and
took over Republican Democrats, they all collaborated and getting his
(52:15):
finance team on board because they recognize that given the circumstances,
that he wanted to have his team in right away.
So and he put up good people. So we need
good people in there as.
Speaker 2 (52:27):
Fast despot Senator. Who's going to win today? Georgia or
Notre Dame.
Speaker 6 (52:33):
You know, I'm an FCC guy, so normally I wrote
root for Root for Georgia. I'm a little tired of
the dogs that gotten a little arrogant with their success.
I'm probably before them, but I gotta admit the dogs
that had you. I've had you up to hear.
Speaker 1 (52:46):
Who's going to have a better year, Donald Trump or
Brian Kelly in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 6 (52:51):
Oh my gosh, they're both gonna have good years. I
how so, Brian Kelly, is I think gonna set himself
up with success. I want the president to be successful.
It's important for our country that Donald Trump is successful.
And as a Senator from Louisiana, I'm gonna do what
I can to help the guy be successful.
Speaker 1 (53:07):
We're talking to Senator Bill Cassidy. What else should people
know about what happened in New Orleans? From your perspective?
A little over an hour from the big game kicking
in the Super Bowl in the Superdome, they are the
Sugar Bowl. What else should our audience know?
Speaker 6 (53:22):
Our audience should know that the most important thing we
can to do. We need to support the people who
are injured, the family of those who are killed. We
need to honor the police and the first responders. And
then we've got to live at liberty and freedom. The
terrorists win. If we begin to live in fear, I
wouldn't plan to go to the game, and I'm saying,
by God, I'm going to the game. We cannot let
(53:45):
the terrorists win because if they do, our way of
life is disrupted. They feel as if they have a
victory if we live with bravery, and then they know
they've lost. The most important thing for us right now
is to live with bravery and freedom.
Speaker 1 (54:08):
Amen, Senator, enjoy the game. Thank you for taking the time,
and good luck getting sworn in tomorrow and helping implement
the Trump agenda beginning tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (54:16):
Thanks lay that.
Speaker 1 (54:18):
Center, Bill Cassidy, great State of Louisiana. Absolute latest from
down there. In the wake of the terror attack, Sugar
Bowl scheduled to kick off between Georgia and Notre Dame
in a little bit over an hour. I would bet
there were some of you out there that decided to
get out of work a little bit early. Maybe you
called in and said, hey, I got a little bit
of a cough today because you're big Georgia fans or
(54:41):
your big Notre Dame fans, and you wanted to make
sure you watch this game today as opposed to watching
it last night when it was scheduled.
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