January 2, 2025 • 34 mins
Former FBI agent Nicole Parker joins Clay to talk about the New Orleans and Las Vegas terror attacks. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) joins to tell Clay the latest news on the terror attack.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back in our number three Clay Travis buck Sexton Show.
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matter where you are across the country. I know a
lot of you still traveling for Christmas and the New Year,
and I'll be with you tomorrow as well. Was expecting
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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 New Year's
Eve into New Year's morning. Fifteen people dead according to reports.
Terrorists dead as well also at Tiber cyber truck exploding
in the driveway the main lobby area valet area of
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the Trump Tower in Las Vegas. We are joined now
by Nicole Parker, who is a former FBI agent. She
is with us now and Nicole, imagine a lot of
people have seen you on Fox News in the past
several days. You've been spending a lot of time talking
about what has occurred in both New Orleans and Las Vegas.
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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 your background, introduce yourself
to the audience. Happy New Year, thanks for being with us.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
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. SOFTLOWRED is the Violent Crime Fugitive
Task Force and you know, responded to some pretty large
investigations that the FBI conducted to include you know, the
Fort Lauderdale Airport shooting, the Susterciox pipe bomb case, the
Marjorie some Douglas Parkland School shooting, and so unfortunately, tragedy
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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 terist 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 that occurred,
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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 health 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, came
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right inside, turned on the news, and I've been reporting on.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
It ever since.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
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 years in 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 2 (03:40):
No, it was not the same organization. When I originally joined,
I came in just as a patriot who loves America
and thought this would be a good way to serve
and give back. I mean, the morning of nine to eleven,
there were officers from NYPD 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 a political organization. Whether you voted for
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Obama or didn't vote for Obama, it's irrelevant 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
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didn't consider the FBI a job. I considered it a mission.
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 truckp administration.
And it was during the Trump administration that I actually
transferred over to violent crime. Actually was prior to that.
I worked under the Obama administration and Trump administration and
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working violent crimes, and I can tell you I noticed
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 assignments to Chicago at
the time. When Trump first came in. Trump's priority was
not to go after his political opponents. It was not
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to go after Hillary Clinton, who's been given a pass.
It was not to go after 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 serve 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 then 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 as 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 FBI just never got
on track.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
You know.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
We went through Jim Comey, I worked under Mueller, Comy
and Ray, and from Operation cross Fire 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. Raty has not proven to be
a leader. He has not been proven to stand up
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to Merrit Garland into a lot of this 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. My 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 had never got a clear explanation as to
what happened to my friends. But every single day I
got emails about diversity clubs and initiatives, and I thought,
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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 clearly they were going after Republicans, conservative Trump Trump
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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
kind of where I stood. It got so bad that
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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,
but you know, they needed to stay they needed to
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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.
So if you can't acknowledge that there's a problem, there's
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a very low probability that that problem will ever be fixed.
And that was why I made the decision to walk away.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
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 investigations of Trump himself has to do with
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missing actual terrorists like the man who killed fifteen people
in New Orleans.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
So you know, I always am very fair. I am
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,
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but until 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 5 (10:26):
Was Yeah, let me ask you about that.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
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. How does that happen? Like, what do you
think is going on? The difference they had a new
person speaking today compared to yesterday.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Okay, I'm just going to 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 is 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 Fox 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 compt 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
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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 how.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
Much difference do you think.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Don't trust the FBI, then that's a problem. It just
makes things worse.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
That's a that's a really important point, the lack of trust.
I know most people frankly listening to us right 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 2 (12:47):
I just at this point, honestly, I I hope and
pray that there are drastic reforms at the FDI. 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,
FBI one. I've kind of coin these phrases ATBI one.
These are the honest, hard working rank and file agents
that are trying to do the right thing for the
right ruce.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
What percentage of FBI employees do you think are in
that group that hard working trying to do the right side.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
How would you break it down? Percentage of life right.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
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.
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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. Oh wow, again, hard for me to know,
But we just need hard working, solid agents because you know, Clay,
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it's not just you know, uh, 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 standards and I've disfected them,
and they have dropped the hiring standards, and so it's
really just the people that are there. Are you qualified,
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are you working hard? Are you? Are you putting your
political and social opinions out 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
people that are incapable of doing that. And when we
are watching FBI agents in the Washington field off kneeling
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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
got promoted to very highly thought after positions. They were
offered one hundred dollars gift cards from the FBI Agents Association.
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Afterwards they decline them. But this is the kind of
stuff they reward bad behavior. It all 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 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
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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 Deuman trafficking. No one even
wants to work for me. They hear FBI, they lam
the door in your face. They used to be FBI.
Oh my gosh, like respect now not so much. And
I'm being honest with you. There are good people holding
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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 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
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end of the day, I am sworn, I take a note,
and I am I swear to protect and up pull
the Constitution and protect the American people. Frankly, they are
my boss. By victims. That should be my number one priority,
not pushing my political and social agendas on America, not
going after my political opponent. That's wrong. We need to
back at the FBI and leadership.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
Amen.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
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 2 (16:55):
By pleasure, y'all have a great day, and God bless
for sure.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
That's Nicole Parker. We'll talk about that more and a
little bit. Senator Cassidy from Louisiana. This is claim Buck.
Speaker 6 (17:06):
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Speaker 1 (17:19):
Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
Appreciate all of you hanging out with us. We come back.
We're gonna be.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Joined by Senator from the Great State of Louisiana to
Cassidy to break down the absolute latest on the terror
attack in New Orleans.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
My thanks to Nicole Parker, who you just heard.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
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 New Year's Eve celebration when Whitney Cummings
lit them up.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
Trust me, you're gonna love it. All that still to come.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Welcome in Thursday edition Clays 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 the terror
attack in New Orleans. Senator Bill Cassidy joins us. Now
he is on his way to the Sugar Bowl for
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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. What is the latest.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Right, there 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.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Right.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
If you want to go have a good time, go
to the Bourbon Street afterwards, or go to the game.
Right now, there's just no place more secure and clay
for obvious reasons. The terror is just that have to
disrupt the fabric of American life, and the American people
are not going to allow that fabergude to be disrupted.
And they're sending a message.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
No doubt.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
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 3 (19:18):
Well, I was crawling out of bed and got some
to learn on my phone about a mass casualty in
New Orleans. Uh. And so then open it up and said, whoa,
this is what is this like for real? Uh? And
so after that began making phone calls, contacting the Mayor
of New Orleans office support calling law enforcement, et cetera,
to make sure have 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 you know, 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
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opened it 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 at 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,
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they were fearful that there might be others out there.
Apparently there's no others out there. This guy was a
lone wolf.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
Are you confident in the FBI.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
I'm gonna 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 movement. It's
all the way from Houston on the Iken to New
Orleans on the IKN, 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 local law enforcement and they're putting everything they
have into it.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
New Orleans is going to be hosting the super Bowl
in addition to Marty Gras, 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 3 (21:34):
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.
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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 you go after soft targets, they're going
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to go after soft targets. So there's a kind of
an imitation. And I'm told there's an imitation Marnigrals parade
in Seattle, Washington, God bless them. That's great. Enjoy yourself, Washington,
take a little taste of Louisiana up there. But that
is a soft 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
Martigrade Tel, I'm sure there's going to be extra precautions, absolutely,
and there should be. We'll still have a great time,
but there's going to be extra precautions because, as you know,
the manigrals all over the city, and but there will
be extra precautions.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
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 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 3 (23:23):
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 Intelligence Committee side, like after the
Great Financial Crisis and Obama came in and took over
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Republican Democrats, they all collaborated and again his 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 fast.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
Decide Senator, who's going to win today, Georgia or Notre Dame.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
You know, I'm an FCC guy, so normally I wrote
Root Root for Georgia. I'm a little tired of the
dogs that gotten a little arrogant with their success. I'm
telling it before them, But i gotta admit the dogs
that had you, I've had you up to hear.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Who's gonna have a better year, Donald Trump or Brian
Kelly in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Oh my gosh, they're both gonna have good years. I
hope 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 (24:37):
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 3 (24:52):
Our audience should know that the most important thing we
gonna do, we need to support the people who are injured,
the family the most we were killed when he 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 wasn't planning
to go to the game, and I'm saying, thank God,
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I'm going to the game. We cannot let 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 freedom, then they know they've lost.
The most important thing for us right now is to
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live with bravery and freedom.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
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. Thanks Uley that 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.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
And Notre Dame in a little bit over an hour.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
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as they always do. Tate says regarding Nicole who was
with us Nicole Parker, former FBI agent at the top
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of the last hour, that's the type of truth sharing
we need. She takes risks to get it to us.
We need more people like this throughout the government, sharing
with Trump and with us so we know where we're going.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
Excellent. I agree, she's fantastic. And I will tell you
she didn't tell you.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
We were at mar A Lago at dinner about ten
days after the election or so, and I was eating
dinner with her.
Speaker 5 (28:27):
We're walking past. Trump calls her over and talks to
her for.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
A half hour about what needs to happen in the
FBI to make it the kind of FBI that we
all need and deserve in this country. So she's not
just talking to you, and she's not just talking to
the Fox News audience. I can tell you at mar
A Lago at dinner, Trump is like, hey, come over here,
I need to know what we need to do to
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fix everything at mar A Lago. Also, we're sitting there
with Cash Pttel, who is now going to be the
new head of the FBI. So Nicole isn't just yelling
out into the atmosphere and having no impact. She's got
the people who are going to be leading our country,
including Donald Trump, listening to what she says. She's one
hundred percent right. Who cares who you vote for. Your
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job should be to protect America, not to worry about
what color you are or whether or not you believe
that white supremacy is the biggest threat to the nation. Again,
we got to get back to just letting the FBI
be the FBI. And this really is the message of
Pete heggset two. Pete, what is Pete hegsays saying that's
considered to be so controversial All I I'm speaking for
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Pete now, and Pete's been on the show several times.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
I've done a lot of shows with him. I like him.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
All Pete's saying is we need badasses who are actually
able to kick ass back in charge of the military.
The job of the military is to kick ass anything
that is distracting or detracting from the job of the
military being as lethal and dynamic and kick ass as
possible is time wasted. Our enemies aren't spent time worried
(30:01):
about trans surgery. I'm sorry, they just aren't. They aren't
sitting around in China or Iran, or Hamas or Hezbola
or North Korea or Russia having debates about whether or
not soldiers should be able to get trans surgery or not.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
They're not.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
They're trying to figure out ways to beat our asses,
and anything we're not doing to try to kick their
ass instead is wasted, in my opinion. I wanted to
play a cut for you. I know it's been a
serious show. I'm sorry when you start off the New
year with a terror attack that kills fifteen innocent people.
Unfortunately that's going to be the story. But there is
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still humor out there, and I like to bring you
humor a lot of time, as you guys know, to
finish off the program, to send you off into the
day with a little bit of a smile on your face.
This was CNN's New Year's Eve special. Whitney Cummings, who
I've actually seen in person, really funny comedian. I just
saw her respond to my friend Riley Gaines. Riley shared
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this clip as well, and Whitney said, Hey, once you
got kids, you stop worrying about who might get offended
by what you say.
Speaker 5 (31:11):
It's really true.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
I think for anybody out there with kids and your
ultimate job is to be a parent, you're gonna do
whatever you can to make those kids as successful as possible.
You stop worrying as much about what other people think
about you, because you're focused on making sure those kids
have the best possible life. And I certainly feel that
way as the dad of three. I loved that response
(31:34):
that she shared because Riley said, hey, the world's changing.
Here was Whitney Cummings Live on CNN with Anderson Cooper
absolutely lacerating CNN Listen.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
Twenty twenty four election Frida our brains. The Democrats couldn't
hold a primary because they were too busy holding a
body up? Right?
Speaker 5 (31:54):
Are we still rolling on my off? Go for it?
It was amazing that.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
The pro choice party didn't give their vote. I'm when
it came to the presidential candidate, Tamal was forced on
us so hard you'd think she was patented by Pfizer Rmaderna,
which everyone said oh god, Andy just gave me a
very scary look. Goo. I love going around the country
because you see that Americans really are more reasonable than
they would be.
Speaker 5 (32:16):
Wortraying a pretty great and I'm playing.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Bigger and bigger venues now. I thought being a mom
would mean that less people will want to come see me.
I'm not playing, you know, like three thousand. Zeke Peter
asked us about the viewership of CNN these days.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
I know all that was kind of run together really quickly.
She said, she's now playing three thousand seat venues, which
is about the audience for CNN these days. She said
Kamala was thrust on us so hard you would have
thought it was a Maderna or Pfizer vaccine.
Speaker 5 (32:44):
Again, pretty good.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
And she said she wasn't allowed right after the ball dropped,
when they were all celebrating and saying it was congratulations,
you know, happy New Year, it's twenty twenty five, that
she had a joke prepared. She was going to turn
to Anderson Cooper and say, is CNN allowed to say
that it's twenty twenty five or does the White House
have to tell us it's twenty twenty three?
Speaker 5 (33:06):
And you guys claim it's whatever year they want it
to be.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
That's good stuff again, Comedy getting back to being comedy.
See it in getting ridiculed on the air, see it
in viewers out there taking that one on the chin.
Speaker 5 (33:19):
Props to Whitney Cummings. That was really well said.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
And I do think you're starting to see comedy return
to comedy. And I've been arguing for some time. My
most recent book, I said, Hey, let's just actually be
the party that likes jokes. Sometimes you might be the
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To get you ready, You guys know I love college
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Appreciate all of you hanging out with us. Buck, We'll
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lot of you still traveling for Christmas and the New Year,
and I'll be with you tomorrow as well. Was expecting
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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 New Year's
Eve into New Year's morning. Fifteen people dead according to reports.
Terrorists dead as well also at Tiber cyber truck exploding
in the driveway the main lobby area valet area of
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the Trump Tower in Las Vegas. We are joined now
by Nicole Parker, who is a former FBI agent. She
is with us now and Nicole, imagine a lot of
people have seen you on Fox News in the past
several days. You've been spending a lot of time talking
about what has occurred in both New Orleans and Las Vegas.
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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 your background, introduce yourself
to the audience. Happy New Year, thanks for being with us.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
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. SOFTLOWRED is the Violent Crime Fugitive
Task Force and you know, responded to some pretty large
investigations that the FBI conducted to include you know, the
Fort Lauderdale Airport shooting, the Susterciox pipe bomb case, the
Marjorie some Douglas Parkland School shooting, and so unfortunately, tragedy
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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 terist 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 that occurred,
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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 health 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, came
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right inside, turned on the news, and I've been reporting on.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
It ever since.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
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 years in 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 2 (03:40):
No, it was not the same organization. When I originally joined,
I came in just as a patriot who loves America
and thought this would be a good way to serve
and give back. I mean, the morning of nine to eleven,
there were officers from NYPD 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 a political organization. Whether you voted for
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Obama or didn't vote for Obama, it's irrelevant 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
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didn't consider the FBI a job. I considered it a mission.
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 truckp administration.
And it was during the Trump administration that I actually
transferred over to violent crime. Actually was prior to that.
I worked under the Obama administration and Trump administration and
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working violent crimes, and I can tell you I noticed
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 assignments to Chicago at
the time. When Trump first came in. Trump's priority was
not to go after his political opponents. It was not
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to go after Hillary Clinton, who's been given a pass.
It was not to go after 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 serve 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 then 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 as 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 FBI just never got
on track.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
You know.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
We went through Jim Comey, I worked under Mueller, Comy
and Ray, and from Operation cross Fire 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. Raty has not proven to be
a leader. He has not been proven to stand up
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to Merrit Garland into a lot of this 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. My 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 had never got a clear explanation as to
what happened to my friends. But every single day I
got emails about diversity clubs and initiatives, and I thought,
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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 clearly they were going after Republicans, conservative Trump Trump
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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
kind of where I stood. It got so bad that
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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,
but you know, they needed to stay they needed to
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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.
So if you can't acknowledge that there's a problem, there's
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a very low probability that that problem will ever be fixed.
And that was why I made the decision to walk away.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
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 investigations of Trump himself has to do with
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missing actual terrorists like the man who killed fifteen people
in New Orleans.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
So you know, I always am very fair. I am
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,
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but until 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 5 (10:26):
Was Yeah, let me ask you about that.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
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. How does that happen? Like, what do you
think is going on? The difference they had a new
person speaking today compared to yesterday.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Okay, I'm just going to 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 is 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 Fox 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 compt 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
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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 how.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
Much difference do you think.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Don't trust the FBI, then that's a problem. It just
makes things worse.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
That's a that's a really important point, the lack of trust.
I know most people frankly listening to us right 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 2 (12:47):
I just at this point, honestly, I I hope and
pray that there are drastic reforms at the FDI. 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,
FBI one. I've kind of coin these phrases ATBI one.
These are the honest, hard working rank and file agents
that are trying to do the right thing for the
right ruce.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
What percentage of FBI employees do you think are in
that group that hard working trying to do the right side.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
How would you break it down? Percentage of life right.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
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.
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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. Oh wow, again, hard for me to know,
But we just need hard working, solid agents because you know, Clay,
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it's not just you know, uh, 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 standards and I've disfected them,
and they have dropped the hiring standards, and so it's
really just the people that are there. Are you qualified,
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are you working hard? Are you? Are you putting your
political and social opinions out 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
people that are incapable of doing that. And when we
are watching FBI agents in the Washington field off kneeling
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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
got promoted to very highly thought after positions. They were
offered one hundred dollars gift cards from the FBI Agents Association.
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Afterwards they decline them. But this is the kind of
stuff they reward bad behavior. It all 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 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
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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 Deuman trafficking. No one even
wants to work for me. They hear FBI, they lam
the door in your face. They used to be FBI.
Oh my gosh, like respect now not so much. And
I'm being honest with you. There are good people holding
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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 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
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end of the day, I am sworn, I take a note,
and I am I swear to protect and up pull
the Constitution and protect the American people. Frankly, they are
my boss. By victims. That should be my number one priority,
not pushing my political and social agendas on America, not
going after my political opponent. That's wrong. We need to
back at the FBI and leadership.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
Amen.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
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 2 (16:55):
By pleasure, y'all have a great day, and God bless
for sure.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
That's Nicole Parker. We'll talk about that more and a
little bit. Senator Cassidy from Louisiana. This is claim Buck.
Speaker 6 (17:06):
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Speaker 1 (17:19):
Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
Appreciate all of you hanging out with us. We come back.
We're gonna be.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Joined by Senator from the Great State of Louisiana to
Cassidy to break down the absolute latest on the terror
attack in New Orleans.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
My thanks to Nicole Parker, who you just heard.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
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 New Year's Eve celebration when Whitney Cummings
lit them up.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
Trust me, you're gonna love it. All that still to come.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Welcome in Thursday edition Clays 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 the terror
attack in New Orleans. Senator Bill Cassidy joins us. Now
he is on his way to the Sugar Bowl for
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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. What is the latest.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Right, there 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.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Right.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
If you want to go have a good time, go
to the Bourbon Street afterwards, or go to the game.
Right now, there's just no place more secure and clay
for obvious reasons. The terror is just that have to
disrupt the fabric of American life, and the American people
are not going to allow that fabergude to be disrupted.
And they're sending a message.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
No doubt.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
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 3 (19:18):
Well, I was crawling out of bed and got some
to learn on my phone about a mass casualty in
New Orleans. Uh. And so then open it up and said, whoa,
this is what is this like for real? Uh? And
so after that began making phone calls, contacting the Mayor
of New Orleans office support calling law enforcement, et cetera,
to make sure have an early briefing. Most in fact,
(19:41):
everything that I first learned is now either in the
public sphere or it's been you know, 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
(20:03):
opened it 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 at 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,
(20:23):
they were fearful that there might be others out there.
Apparently there's no others out there. This guy was a
lone wolf.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
Are you confident in the FBI.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
I'm gonna 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,
(20:57):
so they've been able to track this guy's movement. It's
all the way from Houston on the Iken to New
Orleans on the IKN, 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 local law enforcement and they're putting everything they
have into it.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
New Orleans is going to be hosting the super Bowl
in addition to Marty Gras, 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 3 (21:34):
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.
(21:56):
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 you go after soft targets, they're going
(22:19):
to go after soft targets. So there's a kind of
an imitation. And I'm told there's an imitation Marnigrals parade
in Seattle, Washington, God bless them. That's great. Enjoy yourself, Washington,
take a little taste of Louisiana up there. But that
is a soft target and they need to be just
as aware that a terrorist will see that as a
(22:41):
soft target as we will in Louisiana. Going back to
Martigrade Tel, I'm sure there's going to be extra precautions, absolutely,
and there should be. We'll still have a great time,
but there's going to be extra precautions because, as you know,
the manigrals all over the city, and but there will
be extra precautions.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
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 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 3 (23:23):
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 Intelligence Committee side, like after the
Great Financial Crisis and Obama came in and took over
(23:43):
Republican Democrats, they all collaborated and again his 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 fast.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
Decide Senator, who's going to win today, Georgia or Notre Dame.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
You know, I'm an FCC guy, so normally I wrote
Root Root for Georgia. I'm a little tired of the
dogs that gotten a little arrogant with their success. I'm
telling it before them, But i gotta admit the dogs
that had you, I've had you up to hear.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Who's gonna have a better year, Donald Trump or Brian
Kelly in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Oh my gosh, they're both gonna have good years. I
hope 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 (24:37):
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 3 (24:52):
Our audience should know that the most important thing we
gonna do, we need to support the people who are injured,
the family the most we were killed when he 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 wasn't planning
to go to the game, and I'm saying, thank God,
(25:13):
I'm going to the game. We cannot let 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 freedom, then they know they've lost.
The most important thing for us right now is to
(25:35):
live with bravery and freedom.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
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. Thanks Uley that 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.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
And Notre Dame in a little bit over an hour.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
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 your big Notre Dame fans, and you wanted
to make sure you watch this game today as opposed
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Speaker 1 (27:21):
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Speaker 5 (27:37):
I don't know necessarily why you want to do it,
but you get video of me.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
You get video Buck, you can watch a radio show
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access to the VIP line. A lot of emails rolling in,
as they always do. Tate says regarding Nicole who was
with us Nicole Parker, former FBI agent at the top
(28:02):
of the last hour, that's the type of truth sharing
we need. She takes risks to get it to us.
We need more people like this throughout the government, sharing
with Trump and with us so we know where we're going.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
Excellent. I agree, she's fantastic. And I will tell you
she didn't tell you.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
We were at mar A Lago at dinner about ten
days after the election or so, and I was eating
dinner with her.
Speaker 5 (28:27):
We're walking past. Trump calls her over and talks to
her for.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
A half hour about what needs to happen in the
FBI to make it the kind of FBI that we
all need and deserve in this country. So she's not
just talking to you, and she's not just talking to
the Fox News audience. I can tell you at mar
A Lago at dinner, Trump is like, hey, come over here,
I need to know what we need to do to
(28:52):
fix everything at mar A Lago. Also, we're sitting there
with Cash Pttel, who is now going to be the
new head of the FBI. So Nicole isn't just yelling
out into the atmosphere and having no impact. She's got
the people who are going to be leading our country,
including Donald Trump, listening to what she says. She's one
hundred percent right. Who cares who you vote for. Your
(29:12):
job should be to protect America, not to worry about
what color you are or whether or not you believe
that white supremacy is the biggest threat to the nation. Again,
we got to get back to just letting the FBI
be the FBI. And this really is the message of
Pete heggset two. Pete, what is Pete hegsays saying that's
considered to be so controversial All I I'm speaking for
(29:34):
Pete now, and Pete's been on the show several times.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
I've done a lot of shows with him. I like him.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
All Pete's saying is we need badasses who are actually
able to kick ass back in charge of the military.
The job of the military is to kick ass anything
that is distracting or detracting from the job of the
military being as lethal and dynamic and kick ass as
possible is time wasted. Our enemies aren't spent time worried
(30:01):
about trans surgery. I'm sorry, they just aren't. They aren't
sitting around in China or Iran, or Hamas or Hezbola
or North Korea or Russia having debates about whether or
not soldiers should be able to get trans surgery or not.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
They're not.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
They're trying to figure out ways to beat our asses,
and anything we're not doing to try to kick their
ass instead is wasted, in my opinion. I wanted to
play a cut for you. I know it's been a
serious show. I'm sorry when you start off the New
year with a terror attack that kills fifteen innocent people.
Unfortunately that's going to be the story. But there is
(30:39):
still humor out there, and I like to bring you
humor a lot of time, as you guys know, to
finish off the program, to send you off into the
day with a little bit of a smile on your face.
This was CNN's New Year's Eve special. Whitney Cummings, who
I've actually seen in person, really funny comedian. I just
saw her respond to my friend Riley Gaines. Riley shared
(31:02):
this clip as well, and Whitney said, Hey, once you
got kids, you stop worrying about who might get offended
by what you say.
Speaker 5 (31:11):
It's really true.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
I think for anybody out there with kids and your
ultimate job is to be a parent, you're gonna do
whatever you can to make those kids as successful as possible.
You stop worrying as much about what other people think
about you, because you're focused on making sure those kids
have the best possible life. And I certainly feel that
way as the dad of three. I loved that response
(31:34):
that she shared because Riley said, hey, the world's changing.
Here was Whitney Cummings Live on CNN with Anderson Cooper
absolutely lacerating CNN Listen.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
Twenty twenty four election Frida our brains. The Democrats couldn't
hold a primary because they were too busy holding a
body up? Right?
Speaker 5 (31:54):
Are we still rolling on my off? Go for it?
It was amazing that.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
The pro choice party didn't give their vote. I'm when
it came to the presidential candidate, Tamal was forced on
us so hard you'd think she was patented by Pfizer Rmaderna,
which everyone said oh god, Andy just gave me a
very scary look. Goo. I love going around the country
because you see that Americans really are more reasonable than
they would be.
Speaker 5 (32:16):
Wortraying a pretty great and I'm playing.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Bigger and bigger venues now. I thought being a mom
would mean that less people will want to come see me.
I'm not playing, you know, like three thousand. Zeke Peter
asked us about the viewership of CNN these days.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
I know all that was kind of run together really quickly.
She said, she's now playing three thousand seat venues, which
is about the audience for CNN these days. She said
Kamala was thrust on us so hard you would have
thought it was a Maderna or Pfizer vaccine.
Speaker 5 (32:44):
Again, pretty good.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
And she said she wasn't allowed right after the ball dropped,
when they were all celebrating and saying it was congratulations,
you know, happy New Year, it's twenty twenty five, that
she had a joke prepared. She was going to turn
to Anderson Cooper and say, is CNN allowed to say
that it's twenty twenty five or does the White House
have to tell us it's twenty twenty three?
Speaker 5 (33:06):
And you guys claim it's whatever year they want it
to be.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
That's good stuff again, Comedy getting back to being comedy.
See it in getting ridiculed on the air, see it
in viewers out there taking that one on the chin.
Speaker 5 (33:19):
Props to Whitney Cummings. That was really well said.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
And I do think you're starting to see comedy return
to comedy. And I've been arguing for some time. My
most recent book, I said, Hey, let's just actually be
the party that likes jokes. Sometimes you might be the
butt of the joke. That's okay, it's good to laugh.
And speaking of laughing, I hope I can make you
(33:43):
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If you need a little caffeine to be getting out
of bed, I'll be back with all of you tomorrow
three hours of fun. I'm also going to be doing
(34:29):
a lot of television on Fox News next couple of days.
You may catch me there and I do an outkickshow,
which I will go live on in just a moment.
To get you ready, You guys know I love college
football and I'm looking forward to watching this Georgia Notre
Dame game that kicks in a little over an hour.
Speaker 5 (34:45):
Thank you for supporting Clay and Buck. Happy New Year.
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