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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Sure New Orleans is still recovering from all this. We
are certainly, you know, with our Houston connection from this.
But at the end of the day, is this just
another terrorist attack we're going to forget about or have
we gotten the necessary wake up goal, especially at the
federal level, to be on the lookout for isis, especially
within our own borders, because I think it's pretty safe
to say they're here now. We don't know if they
(00:23):
were they were terroissd here or terrorist trainers here who
radicalized this guy din Jabbar, but it could have been.
Edzaski joins US national security experts as the wake up
alarm registered in DC.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yet ed it will with the new administration, And I
think the problem we had is an administration that's on
its way out that just denied reality and did not
recognize that the problem is much more persistent than their
(00:59):
rhetoric would allow. The world view Jimmy was that if
we're just nice to people, they'll be nice back to us,
And that's just foolhardy.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Yeah, well, it's it's at the very best, it's naive,
and at the very worst it's it's criminal in the
fact that we would take that attitude. ISIS is one
of those terrorist organizations. Obviously you can try to eradicate them,
but keeping them, keeping them out, keeping them down for
a lengthy period of time is not very easy to do,
is it.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
No, it's not an enlarge part because the appeal is
so widely broadcast through the internet. So in all likelihood,
this individual was not directed by ISIS. It's just somebody
who went online found what he was looking for. And
(01:52):
there are plenty of how to manuals that ISIS and
other terror organizations broadcast us by virtue of other attacks
that have been tried and succeeded. And it's the self
starter that seeks out the name of the organization and
(02:13):
then gets into the details of how to conduct terror attacks.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Yeah, I think this should be painfully obvious to all
of us. We have an inauguration coming up on Monday.
There have been concerns expressed about whether or not the
inauguration is going to be safe or can be kept safe.
Do you have those concerns?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Sure? I think that because the Trump administration has said
they're going to push back, you'll have these smaller players,
these lone ranger types for lone wolf types. I should say,
who are self motivated, they'll go out and do what
they can. The good news, to the extent there is
(02:54):
news that's good, is that the administration has the incoming
administration isn't playing games. Hamas struck a deal with the
Israelis that most people didn't think was going to happen
anytime soon, in large part because Donald Trump said there's
going to be hell to pay. You better believe it,
(03:15):
because he has a track record, and that record is
if you play games with us, will hit back. We're
not going to engage in this kind of long drawn out,
let's be nice to one another diplomacy. He recognizes his
weakness is provocative and he will be nothing but strong.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Although I should note that this morning we're hearing that
the Israeli government is holding off on signing this agreement
because evidently Hamas is starting to renege on some of
the things that they had agreed to. So it doesn't
sound like it's exactly in concrete just yet.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
It's a game they play for the last year. They
constantly play it because they know we place a super
high premium on getting back hostages Amas. They could care less.
They'll get their fighters. They know they'll get their fighters
back because of our zeal to get back even the
(04:16):
dead bodies of hostages. Gilt Shalit was an Israeli soldier
killed years ago, and the Israelis gave up one thousand
men who were taking captives just to get his body back.
That market, once it opens, it doesn't close.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Got you, Tarzanski, Always a pleasure, Thank you. National security
expert edgars Aski joining US at six twenty seven
Sure New Orleans is still recovering from all this. We
are certainly, you know, with our Houston connection from this.
But at the end of the day, is this just
another terrorist attack we're going to forget about or have
we gotten the necessary wake up goal, especially at the
federal level, to be on the lookout for isis, especially
within our own borders, because I think it's pretty safe
to say they're here now. We don't know if they
(00:23):
were they were terroissd here or terrorist trainers here who
radicalized this guy din Jabbar, but it could have been.
Edzaski joins US national security experts as the wake up
alarm registered in DC.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yet ed it will with the new administration, And I
think the problem we had is an administration that's on
its way out that just denied reality and did not
recognize that the problem is much more persistent than their
(00:59):
rhetoric would allow. The world view Jimmy was that if
we're just nice to people, they'll be nice back to us,
And that's just foolhardy.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Yeah, well, it's it's at the very best, it's naive,
and at the very worst it's it's criminal in the
fact that we would take that attitude. ISIS is one
of those terrorist organizations. Obviously you can try to eradicate them,
but keeping them, keeping them out, keeping them down for
a lengthy period of time is not very easy to do,
is it.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
No, it's not an enlarge part because the appeal is
so widely broadcast through the internet. So in all likelihood,
this individual was not directed by ISIS. It's just somebody
who went online found what he was looking for. And
(01:52):
there are plenty of how to manuals that ISIS and
other terror organizations broadcast us by virtue of other attacks
that have been tried and succeeded. And it's the self
starter that seeks out the name of the organization and
(02:13):
then gets into the details of how to conduct terror attacks.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Yeah, I think this should be painfully obvious to all
of us. We have an inauguration coming up on Monday.
There have been concerns expressed about whether or not the
inauguration is going to be safe or can be kept safe.
Do you have those concerns?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Sure? I think that because the Trump administration has said
they're going to push back, you'll have these smaller players,
these lone ranger types for lone wolf types. I should say,
who are self motivated, they'll go out and do what
they can. The good news, to the extent there is
(02:54):
news that's good, is that the administration has the incoming
administration isn't playing games. Hamas struck a deal with the
Israelis that most people didn't think was going to happen
anytime soon, in large part because Donald Trump said there's
going to be hell to pay. You better believe it,
(03:15):
because he has a track record, and that record is
if you play games with us, will hit back. We're
not going to engage in this kind of long drawn out,
let's be nice to one another diplomacy. He recognizes his
weakness is provocative and he will be nothing but strong.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Although I should note that this morning we're hearing that
the Israeli government is holding off on signing this agreement
because evidently Hamas is starting to renege on some of
the things that they had agreed to. So it doesn't
sound like it's exactly in concrete just yet.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
It's a game they play for the last year. They
constantly play it because they know we place a super
high premium on getting back hostages Amas. They could care less.
They'll get their fighters. They know they'll get their fighters
back because of our zeal to get back even the
(04:16):
dead bodies of hostages. Gilt Shalit was an Israeli soldier
killed years ago, and the Israelis gave up one thousand
men who were taking captives just to get his body back.
That market, once it opens, it doesn't close.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Got you, Tarzanski, Always a pleasure, Thank you. National security
expert edgars Aski joining US at six twenty seven
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