Jonathan Gilliam - FBI Special Agent and Navy Seal Joins Houston's Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, So we're trying to get as much insight
into not only what happened in New Orleans, why it happens,
who's responsible for it, Are there more suspects out there?
What do some of the clues tell us about where
we should be going with this investigation. Joining us as
FBI Special Agent and Davy Seal Jonathan Gilliam, Jonathan, Welcome
to the show. Let's start with the electric vehicles. What

(00:21):
do you make because this was true not only in
New Orleans, but also the attack outside of a Trump
hotel in Las Vegas. They both had electric vehicles, and
they both came from the same car rental app.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
It's very interesting that car rental app is relatively obscure.
I mean, I don't know anybody that knows about that app.
So I think it's kind of a unique group that
knows about it and uses it because it's an app
where you can rent somebody else's vehicle basically and have
it delivered or you can go pick it up or

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pick the keys up in a lock box. So it's
very almost anonymous in a lot of ways. So that's
very interesting the fact that they were both electrical vehicles.
I mean, for people who are going to drive that distance.
The only reason why I would think, if you're going
to drive that far. In both cases, the one came
from Colorado with to Vegas and one came from Houston

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that went to New Orleans, that's a lot of work
to get an electronic vehicle that far. So perhaps they
chose those because they are heavier, and perhaps they know
that if they're ignited they will burn as well. Other
than that, I don't really know why they would choose those,
except maybe they were environmentally conscious terrorists, I don't know,

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or very interesting.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
They're very quiet too, so maybe in the case of
New Orleans, maybe if you're trying to sneak up on
a crowd of people, you don't want an engine revving, right,
do you want it to be quiet?

Speaker 2 (01:47):
It's very true, but that's actually a tactic. That's very true.
But the similarities in the vehicles is and how they
were rented is very intriguing from an investigtion.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
At a standpoint, they obviously are looking for more people
because they have at least on video, they have three
or four people who helped plant these IEDs. As far
as they know, none of them went off at least
not in New Orleans, although there was a report that
maybe that one of them might have gone off in
an Airbnb that had been rented by this guy, but
for the most part, none of them went off. I

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don't know if they were intended to, or how crudely
they were made or how well they were made, but
clearly he intended to inflict more damage than the damage
he did.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
Right And I'm hearing conflict the reports last night. I
was hearing that that those people were actually that the
three people had mentioned the one woman and two men
were actually vetted out and were there. They just were
or they were there, but they weren't part of it.
They're just walking by. I don't know if that's true
or not, but what they so they were eager to
point that out, but they didn't put out in the

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fact that the bags were still left by somebody. So
either that guy did it himself, which they did not confirm,
or there's other terrorists that are walking around New Orleans
quite potentially right now.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
I don't know if you caught the press conference the
twelfth noon or press conference yesterday that Senator John Kennedy
was at, but I found Senator Kennedy's comments very revealing
in a very dark sort of way. It's very clear
to me that he does not think the Bide administration
knows what the hell they're doing. It also is very

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clear to me that he thinks that the FBI either
did or should have known about this guy and what
he was planning to do, and that he intends to
make sure the truth comes out, because it sounds like
he doesn't think the truth is anywhere near coming out yet.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
You know, I have great respect for Senator Kennedy. He
has words like nobody else, that's for sure. I would
rather have seen him give his own press conference because
that was potentially next to the Madison, Wisconsin brief after
the school shooting several weeks ago. That was yesterday, possibly
of the worst briefings I've ever seen. You did not

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come away from it with any more information than you
went in. And they bragged about how safe New Orleans
is after a terrorist attack had just occurred, and so
that made no sense. It was a lot of political egos,
a lot of what looked to me to be DEI
hires that are in our DEI promotions and people that

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are clearly not the experts in their field. By their answers,
and then you know, even the governor was defensive because
people were pressing for answers. That's what the media does.
I thought it was horrible, and now you transposed that
with the press conference that happened in Vegas. Amazing press conference.
The right people spoke, they'd give the information they had

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and it was crystal clear. So there was two totally
different press conferences. And you can see in New Orleans
how these things are able to occur because they're incompetent
in a lot of ways.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
Well, obviously they're going to have a lot of work
to do. They've got a Super Bowl coming, They've got
the Sugar Bowl tonight, they have a Super Bowl coming,
So they've got a lot of work to do between
now and then, don't they.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
Yeah, Oh absolutely. And the JTTF, you know, the FBI
in charge means that the JTTF is in charge, which
is a conglomerate of all these different state, local, and
federal agencies, and so they can work all over the
United States collecting information and bring in manpower and resources
that wouldn't typically be available. So that is very good.

(05:35):
That is a good part of the FBI, and it's
good that they're on this all.

Speaker 1 (05:38):
Right, Jonathan, thanks for coming on. Appreciate it, SIRBI. Former
FBI Special Agent, Navy Seal Jonathan Gilliam