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January 3, 2025 50 mins

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Segment A: CHRIS PIEHOTA TALKS FBI RESPONSE TO NEW ORLEANS TERROR ATTACK
Segment B: FALLOUT FROM SPEAKER VOTE
Segment C: TURNING THE GOP INTO THE WORKING CLASS PARTY
Segment D: HOW TO HELP THE VICTIMS OF TERROR
Segment E: HOW IMPORTANT WAS IT THAT MIKE JOHNSON GOT REELECTED SPEAKER ON FIRST BALLOT?

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Speaker 1 (00:20):
Good evening, America. Welcome to the Friday edition of Justin News,
No Noise. I'm your host, Amanda head Man, I co host.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Editor in chief.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
John Solomon is out on assignment this week, but he's
going to be back on Monday.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
And as always, the show tonight.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
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I'll need a little bit more coffee. And before we
get to our first guest in the evening, I want
to focus on the speaker wrote earlier today, Speaker Johnson,

(00:54):
of course getting re elected in the first ballad, but
not not with al some Republican holdouts and a drama.
So we're going to get to that in greater detail
later on in the show, but right now, let's focus
on House Minority Leader Hakim Jeffries, because he gave a
pretty revealing speech today after the vote that sums up
why Democrats lost the last selection and I don't even

(01:15):
know if he knows it.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
Take a look.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
For far too long in this country, the cost of
living has gone up, but the size of the middle
class has come down. Housing costs are too high, Grocery
costs are too high, childcare costs are too high, insurance

(01:40):
costs are too high, Utility costs are too high. America
is too expensive. They are far too many people in
this great country who for decades have been struggling to live.
Paycheck to paycheck is not acceptable in the wealthiest country

(02:03):
in the history of the world. It's time for us
to come together and finally lower the high cost of
living in the United States of America once and for all.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
Very interesting because I remember hearing from Democrats like Hakim
Jeffreys just a few months ago that the economy was
doing great under President Joe Biden and that Americans weren't
struggling to get by.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
It seems that they have really changed their tune on that.
I wonder why.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
But besides giving a rather damning indictment of the Biden administration,
he also said this about another one of this Congress's
chief policy concerns.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
We will work with anyone to secure our borders, and
we will work with anyone to fix our broken immigration
system in a comprehensive and bypartisan manner.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
That does not at all like the Democrats of the
last few years. But hopefully this speaker vote signals that
Republicans in Congress may mean more unified. Here is a
friend of this show, Congressman timber Chet, for example, explaining
why Johnson won his vote after coming into the day undecided.

Speaker 4 (03:14):
So I pray about it, I ask God what I
need to do, and I felt like it was, let's
get to where we can somebody you can work with
and that is truthful to you. And that's something that
we haven't seen a lot of up here. And frankly,
Mike is as an honorable, honest guid we just got
their conservatives. I think our mission is going to be

(03:36):
to back him up on these things, to let him
know we are in his corner, we want to stand
with and we will stand in front of him if
needed a on these issues. Because I'm thirty six trillion
in debt, it's not going to work anymore.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
Let's all hope that Congressman timber Chet is right and
that this Congress can finally tackle the debt issue and
all the issues that are hurting Americans right now?

Speaker 2 (03:57):
And how about this.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
Shortly before the start of our show tonight, Justice Wan
Marshan in New York rejected President Trump's bid to toss
out the conviction in his so called hush money case. However,
Marshan did say he won't be sentencing to president to jail,
writing quote, it seems proper at this juncture to make
known the court's inclination to not impose any sentence of incarceration,

(04:19):
a sentence authorized by the conviction, but one the people
concede they no longer view as a practicable, practicable recommendation. Now,
the sentencing has been ordered to take place on January tenth, yeah,
ten days before Trump is officially sworn in as America's
forty seventh president.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
So what do you think about that?

Speaker 1 (04:38):
My goodness, this has been political from start to finish,
and I'm pretty sure the American people are sick of it,
and that's why they voted the way they didn't have ever.
All Right, everybody joining us now to talk more about
the FBI's response to the New Year's Day terror attacks
and what they are investigating and how we should be
focusing on all of that now. Former FBI senior executive,
an author of the book wanted the FBI. I once

(05:00):
knew Chris Pihota, and he joins tonight from New Orleans.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
Chris, welcome back, a.

Speaker 5 (05:06):
Man, Good good evening, Amanda.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
Yeah, great to see.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
You, and I want to get your perspective on the
ground there in just a few moments. But for your
everyday American who is just watching what has transpired, trying
to see what facts are emerging. There was a lot
of stuff that came out initially that ended up not
being right, not the least of which was the FBI
special agent who said this definitely is not a terrorist attack,
And then of course we found out and that in
fact is not the case.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
What do you make of everything we have learned so far?

Speaker 1 (05:33):
And are you skeptical or dubious of anything that they've
put out there.

Speaker 5 (05:39):
One of the problems with managing a situation such as
New Orleans or Las Vegas is that much of the
information at the beginning of the investigation is going to
be incorrect, incomplete, fragmentary, and it's going to be emotionally charged.
The assistant Special Agent in charge in New Orleans made

(06:00):
a premature judgment call, and they should have probably waited
a few hours to decide whether or not it was
an act of terrorism. And you know, to me that
comes with training and experience. So we're going to have
to see how this investigation matures. But I think that
they have their ducks much more in a row now

(06:22):
than they did at the beginning.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
I certainly hope.

Speaker 1 (06:26):
So what are you learning there? You're there on the ground.
I don't know if you are officially coordinating with federal investigators,
but tell us what you've learned.

Speaker 5 (06:37):
Just that the city of New Orleans has responded and
they are resilient, and there is a massive visible law
enforcement presence throughout the city. They're putting out a shole
force with marked police cruisers everywhere and uniformed officers and
making sure that people feel as though they're safe and

(06:59):
that they returned to a state of normalcy.

Speaker 1 (07:03):
I want to ask you about those ballards that were
not in place on New Year's Day. It's my understanding
that they were not working properly, so either they were
either removed altogether or they were ready to be replaced
with something else.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
At any rate, this is.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
A city that knew there were going to be tens
of thousands of revelers on New Year's Eve, and then
you know, obviously leading into New Year's Day.

Speaker 2 (07:25):
The Sugar Bowl, and then the Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
I understand that they wanted to make sure these ballers
were in place for the Super Bowl, but this just
seems like really, really hard my language, rappy planning on
the part of city security officers.

Speaker 5 (07:40):
It was not great planning. They knew they had these
events coming up, and what I find is that they
tried to get out a little bit easier by using
some interim quality barricades while they repaired the hydraulic steel ballards,
and the city planners and the law enforcement folks they're
probably going to have a very i would say, intense,

(08:02):
heart to heart discussion and an after action report on
what happened and how it could have been prevented.

Speaker 2 (08:08):
So I think.

Speaker 5 (08:10):
They probably did the best they could at the time,
but as we see now, it wasn't sufficient and the
barricades they put up were easily defeated.

Speaker 1 (08:21):
Yeah, Chris, I want to ask you just an overarching question.
Obviously it can possibly apply to the New Orleans terrorists
and possibly the Vegas one as well, but this overarching
theme that we are experiencing with respect to the open
borders and Islamic terror minded people coming into our country.

Speaker 2 (08:39):
Again.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
I don't know if either one of these men were
radicalized here on American shores by people who came in
through our southern border who have Islamic backgrounds. I don't know,
But what I do know is that the border cannot
be taken out of practically any conversation when it comes
to these two men, who, at least we know from

(09:00):
New Orleans guy, there is a radical Islamic connection there.

Speaker 2 (09:04):
What do we do to fix it?

Speaker 1 (09:06):
I mean, I know that we are going to be
looking at a deportation situation where a lot of these
can be extracted. Will the ones that we're caught of
the border obviously are not here? But what can we
do to fix this problem more quickly?

Speaker 5 (09:21):
A few items? This is a layered problem set. The
atmosphere that has been created over the last several years
with the very lax to non existent border enforcement has
created a threat environment that's been allowed to form and
expand throughout our nation that our law enforcement and security
professionals are going to have to change their thought processes

(09:43):
and their approaches in how they're going to keep our
community safe. What we're looking at now is the ability
to start threat spotting again proactively and not be so
concerned and hamstrung by the we're too afraid to offend people,
and we're putting ourselves at a safety deficit because we

(10:03):
don't want to offend certain communities. And I think that
we have to return to more of a warriorship approach
that we had after nine to eleven, and to be
firm but fair and make sure that we're looking for
threats that we can predict and prevent. We've become a
little complacent, and I think we've become a victim of
our own success as well as the policies that have

(10:26):
been in place over the last several years. I'll tell
you this, We're going to see more of these type
of low tech attacks. They're going to defeat our high
tech defenses because these people they're going to bring what
we call a Fettiin or Fidelian approach to these attacks.
They're going to be willing to use small arms, improvised

(10:48):
explosive devices, and they're going to use automobiles as weapons.
Automobiles are powerful weapons. Nobody's going to notice an automobile
being in an area. They're omnipresent, and these people are
willing to fight to the death. You notice that the
person in New Orleans, as soon as they ram the
crowd and their vehicle came to a stop, they came

(11:09):
out immediately and engaged the police officers in a gunfight.
So we're going to see a change in thought process
that'll hamstring or defeat some of our current security practices.
It has to be reevaluated with our federal, state, local partners.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
Well.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
For those who are offended in or who are worried
about offending those communities, they should know that there was
a great number of Muslims in this country who voted
for Donald Trump because they wanted order security, because they
didn't want Islamic terrorism being imported into our country.

Speaker 2 (11:38):
But along that.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
Threat, I want to ask you, because you had FBI
Special Agent Alathea Duncan who came out immediately and said,
this definitely is not a terrorist attack. You had the flag,
the Islamic flag that was on the back of his
truck that they covered up with something. Was that because
of what you just said about being concerned about offending people.

Speaker 5 (11:56):
There's a hypersensitivity right now. That's been put in place
over the years where they don't want to offend any communities,
so they don't want to say that it was terrorism
when obviously even the novice security professional could have told
you more than more than.

Speaker 2 (12:12):
Likely it was terrorism.

Speaker 5 (12:13):
And I think you can investigate it as terrorism until
proven otherwise. Given the current state of the world, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
I think that there are a lot of folks who
maybe initially were not inclined to support cash Battel as
director of the FBI, but especially in light of these
two incidents, are thinking to themselves, you know, maybe we
need somebody like cash Battel in there to do, you know,
to do some cleanup work at the FBI. What are
some of the first things that cash Betel needs to

(12:42):
do as soon as he gets in there.

Speaker 5 (12:46):
He's got to re establish a culture of proactive, protective,
assertive law enforcement that is objective and apolitical. He's got
to recalibrate the organization from a leadership perspective. You can
see maybe some of our leaders require some more training
and mentoring after the New Orleans press conference issue, and

(13:10):
he's going to have to also look at our operational practices. Again,
we've been in a state of prevention for spectacular terrorist
attacks since nine to eleven, and I think we're going
to see the adversary take a different tactic. So the
FBI has to reevaluate, reassess where it stands on preventing
the threat and addressing the threat, as well as how

(13:33):
it's going to interact with the American people and our
national leadership. So the organization requires a reset and a
reforging for the new threat environment that we're facing.

Speaker 1 (13:44):
Yeah, I think that's spot on, And I mean, this
whole administration has a ton of work to do, but
I do think that Cashertail has one of the tallest
orders of any of the appointees thus far. Chris Paihota,
former FBI senior executive and the author of the book,
Everybody go check it out.

Speaker 2 (13:57):
It's called Wanted the FBI. I Want. It's going to
teach you a lot.

Speaker 1 (14:01):
About what the FBI that he knew and the FBI
that we need.

Speaker 2 (14:04):
All Right, everybody, coming up after the break.

Speaker 1 (14:05):
We're going to have more on Mike Johnson being re
elected Health Speaker. And now that it's all over, what
should be the first thing that the one hundred and
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Speaker 2 (14:15):
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