Welcome. It is the Ben Ferguson podcast and we've got a lot of breaking news, a lot of information that I want to get to you.

Senator Cruz and I did a podcast together, a joint podcast with the latest news we have. And I want to bring that to you now.

Things may change. And I want you to know, as I'm saying this to you right now, it's 10.06 Eastern time on New Year's Day.

So some of you may be listening to different points.

And look, some of this info may change.

Just want you to understand that.

But this is the latest that we know from the federal response, local information from New Orleans, from Vegas, with a Tesla that blew up, uh,

rented on Turrow the app there.

The same as the truck that was run in by Turro in New Orleans is their connection there.

Officials are eyeing a link in the Trump Hotel blast and the truck attack is what

Biden has said at his press conference.

We're also going to play for you, Joe Biden's words and what he said to the nation from Camp David,

as we are starting to piece more of this together.

The latest death count, though, in New Orleans is 15, with dozens more injured.

And we will break down that attack, who this this individual is all of that for you right now.

Senator, this has a connection obviously to Texas. Many of us were celebrating New Year's Eve.

You were down at Marlago. I was with my family at the beach and then we see and wake up to this

news breaking and I want to timestamp this for people to understand when we're recording see and wake up to this news breaking. And I want to

timestamp this for people to understand when we're recording this. We're recording this at

9.30 Eastern time on Wednesday. So much of this may change. So I just want you to know when

we started this. But I want to get your initial reaction to what we've witnessed.

Well, we're less than 24 hours out from the United States, once again, seeing a significant

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