New Info on Terrorist Attack, House Speaker Fight, Biden Awards Liz Cheney | Jan. 2, 2025

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🗓️ 2 January 2025

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On today’s Top News in 10, we cover: The FBI believes that the driver who plowed through a crowd in New Orleans on New Year’s eve acted alone. House Speaker Mike Johnson proposed changing the House rules that allow for a vote to oust the speaker. President Joe Biden awards the Presidential Citizens Medal to former GOP House Member Liz Cheney. Keep Up With The Daily Signal Sign up for our email newsletters: https://www.dailysignal.com/email Subscribe to our other shows: The Tony Kinnett Cast: https://www.dailysignal.com/the-tony-kinnett-cast Problematic Women: https://www.dailysignal.com/problematic-women The Signal Sitdown: https://www.dailysignal.com/the-signal-sitdown Follow The Daily Signal: X: https://x.com/DailySignal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedailysignal/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDailySignalNews/ Truth Social: https://truthsocial.com/@DailySignal YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/DailySignal Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/TheDailySignal Thanks for making The Daily Signal Podcast your trusted source for the day’s top news. Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and never miss an episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.3	Authorities now believe the driver in the New Orleans terrorist attack acted alone. I'm Virginia Allen, and this
0:38.8	is the Daily Signal's top news in 10 for Thursday, January 2nd.
0:50.5	The FBI believes the driver, who plowed through a crowd in New Orleans on New Year's Eve acted alone.
0:58.1	Originally, officials were reporting that the man had likely worked to plan the attack with other people.
1:03.6	One of the reasons was because an individual appeared on video surveillance placing explosives within that same area.
1:10.4	But ABC reports that after further investigation,
1:14.0	it appears that the attacker changed his clothes between when he placed those devices and then got
1:19.4	in the truck and drove down Bourbon Street, killing 14 people and injuring another 35.
1:25.7	Authorities are working to learn more about the driver. His name is
1:29.6	Shamsudee Jabbar, and he died in the attack. Jabar was a Texas-born U.S. citizen. He worked for
1:36.0	Deloitte and was a military veteran, but it appears that he was radicalized by ISIS extremism.
1:42.1	The local New Orleans station WDSU reports that Jabbar drove to New Orleans
1:48.7	on December 31st and before the attack, he was vocal about his support of ISIS in a Facebook post.
1:56.1	He wrote that he joined ISIS before the summer of 2024 and he said he had originally planned to kill his
2:02.3	family, but the FBI says that Jabbar wrote that killing his family would not focus on the war
2:08.6	between the believers and disbelievers. As this investigation is continuing to unfold, Fox News is reporting
2:16.2	that bomb-making materials were found at an Airbnb in New Orleans.
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