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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) pointed to the "wide open border" after a U.S. citizen allegedly carried out a truck attack, killing over a dozen people in New Orleans.

During a Thursday interview on Fox News, host Lawrence Jones asked Johnson if the FBI was previously aware of the identity of the man suspected of attacking people on Bourbon Street in New Orleans.

The Bulwark's Jill Lawrence on Thursday took President-elect Donald Trump and his allies in the Republican Party to task for their seeming obsession with gutting funding to the Internal Revenue Service.

In her column, Lawrence outlined how the added funding delivered by Democrats to the IRS over the last couple of years has actually made the agency more responsive to taxpayers than it had been in the past.

A key committee that cabinet picks in law enforcement are interviewing with will be the Senate Judiciary Committee, which will handle the questioning of Donald Trump's appointees like Kash Patel and Pam Bondi.

While Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) will remain the ranking Democrat on the committee, incoming senator Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) will be on the team, too, CBS's Scott MacFarlane reported.

The last U.S. president who served more than two terms was Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was serving his fourth term when he died in office on April 12, 1945 at the age of 63.

Post-FDR, U.S. presidents have been limited at two terms — which can be either consecutive or nonconsecutive. However, President-elect Donald Trump and ally Steve Bannon have implied that he might stay in office after January 20, 2029 and serve a third term.

David Brody, a Christian pro-MAGA TV host on Real America's Voice, called for a "blanket crackdown on mosques" by the government after two potential attacks on New Year's Day.

Following a truck attack in New Orleans and a vehicle explosion in Las Vegas, Brody spoke to Jonathan Gilliam, a right-wing former FBI agent.

President-elect Donald Trump and his incoming administration are reportedly anticipating to start launching military operations inside of Mexico in an effort to take out drug cartel leaders.

In interviews with Rolling Stone, however, many experts expressed skepticism and alarm about Trump's plans, as they believed it would do little to stop the supply of drugs pouring into the United States.

MSNBC host Jonathan Lemire and Bulwark editor Sam Stein pounced on Donald Trump on Thursday morning for jumping the gun on Wednesday and trying to pin the blame on the New Orleans attack on immigrants.

In a segment on "Morning Joe" a plainly disgusted Lemire noted that the perpetrator of the attack on New Year revelers that claimed 15 lives is a native of Texas, which didn't stop Trump from ranting on Truth Social, "When I said that the criminals coming in are far worse than the criminals we have in our country, that statement was constantly refuted by Democrats and the Fake News Media, but it turned out to be true. The crime rate in our country is at a level that nobody has ever seen before."

Noting that the president-elect never corrected his claim –– and has doubled down with more lashing out at immigrants –– Lemire prompted Stein with, "Let's talk about president-elect Trump, who trolled with outright misinformation and lies yesterday on social media yesterday, seizing upon an erroneous Fox News report the truck came across the border, suggesting it was some sort of migrant behind the wheel."

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"So talk to us about how frankly irresponsible that is, and fearmongering, but also the idea this incident, with a new focus on national security, may ease the path for his cabinet nominations to go through," he continued.

"The first reaction from president-elect Trump was to blame this on a border crossing that Turned out to be based on an erroneous report that had to do with the rental of this truck," he began. "It ended up being corrected but Trump's post did not end up being corrected and late last night he continued to hammer away at this idea things are out of control at the border and now is the time for tough policies to be implemented."

"This is what we expect from him," Stein conceded. "This is the reaction we have come to anticipate in these moments and it is what it is."

"He is not president yet but we know from the past this is how he reacts," he added.

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Applauding the FBI for quickly taking control of the investigation into the attack on New Year revelers in New Orleans that left at least 15 dead, a former U.S. attorney suggested the event should heighten Senate scrutiny of Donald Trump's pick to replace Director Christopher Wray.

In a column for MSNBC, legal expert and contributor Barbara McQuade explained the complexities for proceeding with a domestic terrorism investigation and pointed out that Trump loyalist Kash Patel is severely lacking in the type of expertise needed to proceed on a moment's notice.

President-elect Donald Trump embraced cryptocurrency during his 2024 campaign and has even made noises about creating a "Bitcoin reserve" in which the United States would hoard a stash of cryptocurrency much in the same way it keeps reserves of key resources such as gold and petroleum.

However, Forbes is reporting that China may have already beaten Trump to the punch by creating its own reserve, which Forbes describes as the president-elect's "nightmare."

A decision by Donald Trump and his inner circle to hold what they are calling a "Make America Great Again Victory Rally" in Washington, D.C., the night before his inauguration is being called into question by a former director of Department of Homeland Security.

On the same day that New Orleans suffered a mass casualty attack on New Year's Eve revelers, followed by an explosion of a Tesla Cybertruck in front of a Trump hotel in Las Vegas that is being investigated as a possible terrorist attack, Trump's people announced plans for the rally on January 19th at Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C.

Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," ex-DHS head Jeh Johnson told host Jonathan Lemire that the short notice, in light of the attacks, will present a problem for security.

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"Let's go back to the idea of this rally that Trump is holding in Washington," Lemire prompted his guest before pressing, "In light of our conversation all morning long, let's talk about security for these events."

After pointing out the inauguration is "designated a national special security event," Johnson continued, "To put in the middle of those two events a very gigantic presidential level rally presents a significant security challenge in terms of resources, manpower, so it's not as simple as just throwing a big party on short notice."

"You've got to put a lot of security in place when you have the person about to become president in this current threat environment, which we just talked about a few minutes ago," he continued. "So I hope the president-elect and his team carefully considered that before they decided to have this large rally."

"I would have thought that some of the very same people that are coming to the inauguration would go to the rally, so kind of, what's the point?" he asked.

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