Transcripts For FBC Countdown To The Closing Bell With Liz C

FBC Countdown To The Closing Bell With Liz Claman January 8, 2016

Reporter, quote, her son suffered head injuries after playing football through his school years, that he was hearing voices and was a devout muslim. Chilling moments show the gunman as he carried out the pointblank execution attempt on officer Jesse Hartnett. The suspect fired 13 times into the officers patrol car. Hartnett was shot three times and unbelievable, folks, able to exit the vehicle, return, pursue and hit archer three times. Archer has confessed his allegiance to the islamic state. Here is the mug shot we have for him. Thats the guy who pledged his love and support for allah and isis. Officials are details what he told them in a press conference earlier today. Listen. Hes confessed to committing this cowardly act in the name of islam. According to him, he believes that the Police Defend laws that are contrary to the teachings of the koran. Liz investigators are searching any ties to terror and have not classified the shooting as a terrorist attack yet. Though as you heard, mr. Archer whose photograph, that was not the mug shot. The photograph shows he was a man who felt strongly toward isis and allah and as he approached that officer, he was wearing muslim garb. The shooting in philadelphia weighing on the markets slightly here, we should have been much higher, considering we saw a build of 292,000 jobs for the month of december. That was way better than expected but raises questions about issues, whether its the psychology of investors or the psychology of social media who stocks have been watched throughout the year and social media radicalizing american born isis sympathizeers. Was the suspect recruited by isis online radicalized . Did the internet play a role. White House Holding a meeting with the suspect and brainstorm with the world together. Senior obama officials meeting in san jose have been met with major tech executives from industry heavyweights such as apple, microsoft, twitter and facebook. Fighting terror online is a battle that never sleeps. Take a look at the hundreds of videos that popped up when we searched how to make a bomb. Explain the whole thing. Whether its a pipe bomb or basic bomb. And take a look how easy it is to watch one of the videos that popped up when we googled how to make a suicide vest. They show it. They have videos how to put the vests together, and we know that the San Bernardino shooters had gone online and possibly learned to make a suicide vest from things like this that are today unbelievabley out on the web. Twitter says were trying, looks like whackamole trying to take down isis events as quickly as they plot up. Look at this as you know, two radicalized french muslims murdered 11 at the satirical magazine and killed a French Police officer execution style as he fled. As the white house grapples with the internets role, the question right now in fighting isis recruitment efforts online is do we have to sacrifice freedom of speech to fight isis online . Lieutenant colonel and former congressman allen west says no, we can do both, zuhdi jasser is also here, the president for Islamic Forum for democracy. Zuhdi, what does this Police Attack in philadelphia look like to you . He was wearing muslim garb and has told Police Allegedly he supports allah and the fight for isis . Liz, clearly, were going to find some of the same pattern we think is isolated. I pray that im not going to hear the term lone wolf from experts because these are not lone wolf. Part of the same islamopatriotic movement, those who believe theyre in a war against the west and the state mentality. Its a virus of ideology spreading around the planet and same thing we saw in the attack in the Ottawa Parliament against the soldier there, the attack that beheaded lee rigby in london, the attack in chattanooga where abdullah ziz wanted to establish islam. Its the same pothology, we need to wake up to counterpolitical islam, the ideology that demonize the west and wants to establish not only isis but any islamic state. And until our social media folks, white house, government, Homeland Security start focusing on the ideology which is what i hope theyre doing in Silicon Valley, its going to continue to be a whackamole program. Liz excellent points, and Lieutenant Colonel, this suspect, archer had no contact with anybody from isis, he could still go online and that is what the meeting with the white house and the Silicon Valley executives is about today. And Everybody Knows this country is based on freedom of speech. Can we have both . Can we have freedom of speech but also shut down this hate that is actually, giving people a primer on exactly how to make suicide vests and to shoot Police Officers . Well, liz, its a pleasure to be with you and also with dr. Zuhdi jasser, and as dr. Jasser said it takes the will of our leadership to identify this ideological activity. Im hoping that what is going on in Silicon Valley is not just a photo on. Carly fiorina has been talking about working with them. Think about what has happened this week. You have seen this video of an isis university for bomb making. We found out today that in a police raid in belgium they had a bombmaking factory there. On the anniversary of charlo hebdo, you had the attack of a paris police station. Two people arrested in sacramento and houston on charges of supporting islamic terrorism. You know what just happened today in philadelphia, last night, actually. But what is the response of president . He is releasing people from Guantanamo Bay and his answer to the terrorist attack in San Bernardino was gun control. So you have a total disconnect. Liz and, you know, we can show the video again because it is out there of showing zuhdi exactly how to make a bomb, and, you know, you look at what happened in San Bernardino, they basically had a pipe bomb factory in their garage, and you can look on the web and see this, and this goes back to everything from the columbine shootings where there was a lot online, too. It is a very, very tenuous line and very, very scary tightrope to walk, Lieutenant Colonel mentioned seditious, maybe we need to be deciding, i dont know who the decider becomes, youve been at the force of this. What do we do . I think we need to be careful on one thing which is i completely agree with the colonel that speech that advocates violence, imminent acts of violence as the Supreme Court ruled in bradbury v. Ohio. If theyre preaching violence, needs to shut down bomb making, et cetera. Thats not free speech. If theyre speeching things that sound seditious and antisemitic, we can monitor with the freedom as we do the nazi and communist parties and others, parties that pushed these ideas underground might give a shortterm solution, longterm as tajikistan has shown it causes them to fuel. Hate speech with radical islam such more difficult to monitor when you push them underground. You have to navigate, yeah. Liz thats a great point. People are arrested here if they spray paint a swastika on a synagogue or do something thats hate, and those are hate crimes. So if we have violence that is inspired by these kinds of videos, i certainly think that matters. Congressman, Lieutenant Colonel, you wear both hats. I have to ask you, our markets have gyrated and this matters to voters and citizens here. When a news headline like this hits, compiling that with whats going on in china and the market frazzle action there, does that weigh on investor or a citizens mind to say i just want to almost, i want to almost shut down at this moment, or even people who hire and companies that grow . You are absolutely right. Consider what happened in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of 9 11, and there can be no doubt that Economic Security is related to national security. And if people feel safe and secure, they are going out and investing money, getting to work and doing things, spending money. There is incredible anxiety in the United States of america of people wondering can i go out to the mall . Can i be safe . When you hear the focus or the agenda of the white house and the president of the United States of america is not about identifying this enemy ideologically and coming up with the policies and the solutions which keep the American People safe, and provide them a real sense of security, then you see these reactions in the market as well. Liz mark is stronger than all of this, i have believe to. I just came from the Consumer Electronics show in las vegas where people are creating all kinds of technology and moving forward with great innovative ideas. We have to believe in that american entrepreneurial spirit. Colonel allen west, zuhdi jasser. You may want to listen whats going on right now. Breaking news, peter barnes is at the white house, he has now, i guess breaking news of whats coming out of the Silicon Valley meeting. Reporter thats right, liz, not 100 sure this is officially related to this meeting in Silicon Valley. But the white house just announcing that it is establishing a Government Task force called the countering Violent Extremism Task force with the department of Homeland Security, the department of justice and assistance from the state department to bring in our International Partners also trying to fight terrorism. And this is, according to officials, going to be kind of a centralized operation to help fight to help with antiterrorism communications. You know, with the propaganda from the good guys, if you will, who want to fight terrorism, and so the Administration Setting this up today, announcing it, timed to this meeting in Silicon Valley, liz . Liz you know what . I think Lieutenant Colonel west and zuhdi are with us. What do you think about this, zuhdi . You know liz, amazing to me, were talking about cve, countering violent extremism. What is that . Should be countering violent islamism. As long as they are politically correct and want to lump in all extremists, weve made no progress. I dont care what the details are, until the Administration Calls it violent, the whackamole will continue. Liz Lieutenant Colonel, what do you think . Look, the government is making an effort certainly here, lets not say they are completely intransigent. Well, again, having been in washington, d. C. , this is the facade of doing something, but actually doing nothing. The creation of another Government Task force. Liz okay, what should we be doing . Forget the task force, i agree with you. Too many studies, too many task forces, silos, doubling up and repeating things. Its stupid. What should we be doing . First of all, you have seen the Hacker Group Anonymous do an Incredible Group against isis on the internet and hack into the systems. Team up with anonymous and see how we can better exploit that. But again, we need to shut down the inspire magazine. We need do as zuhdi jasser said, stop with the counterviolent extremism. Christian extremism, rightwing extremism, thats a big net they are throwing out there. Focus on the ideological enemy, its not just isis, its the groups. Liz gentlemen, thank you so much. I must go, were taking a leg down in the markets here. Dow jones industrials down 74 points and yesterday was the biggest one day drop in four years. Confusion still raining. The Chinese Market tumult did calm the shanghai markets up 2 , china has to figure out how to deal with heavy handed direct intervention. They did eliminate Circuit Breakers which caused much of the problem over 72 hours. We have energy as our top sector decliner, oil hitting 11 year lows. Can the Federal Reserve still cut four times as we saw that the minutes most recently released said they might that. That would be tough when we have manufacturing its contracting right now. That, plus this. And you could argue this is good news. The mexican drug kingpin known as el chapo and six months ago made a daring prison escape through a milelong tunnel has been informed Freedom Party is over. Joaquin guzman was arrested after being on the run according to mexican president enrique pena nieto. With us geraldo rivera. What have you learned since you left gretchen and trishs show . We have a clear picture how it went down. Dramatic, three days or so ago, they got a tip from someone in sinaloa about the nondescript white house and the coming and going of armored cars, armored thugs. The mexican best Law Enforcement agency ironically part of the military, the marines, part of the department of the navy in mexico as it is here in the United States. Marines, this elite force surrounded, demand theyd come in. The people inside come out. There was an intense fire fight. Five of the bad guys, el chapos bodyguards were slain. Six people including the kingpin drug fugitive escaped. But this man has enormous resources. He will escape again if hes not extradited to the United States. Wanted in seven different district jurisdictions here in the United States. He must be extradited and as soon as possible. Liz look, i was looking at drug addiction across the United States. There have been more heroin overdoses, they jumped exponentially. You can say definitively that this guy is very much part of the reason that so much heroin has come across the border . Unequivocally, the number one drug kingpin, particularly in chicago. All the dope on the streets of chicago came from el chapos network. It is no doubt, liz. This is guy is not just all talk, hes a billionaire, forbes listed him as one of the richest men on earth before his first recapture. Now hes rerecaptured. He cannot go a mexican prison, though. He has the resources to buy off and intimidate anyone in the correctional. Liz when you chop off the head of the snake, the body moves, say he is extradited to the United States, will the rest of the body continue to move . Is it a hydra where the arms continue to sprout. His secondincommand, im not sure whether he was captured or killed in this incident. This is definitely hit the el chapo network right where they live. Now will someone else come up to take over . You know, demand creates supply unfortunately. I think that as long as the United States is consuming all these drugs, it will come from someplace. If you stop it coming over the southern border, it will probably come back from the southeast asia, the golden crescent and so forth. Ive chased this drug thing all over the world. The trillion dollar drug war all over the planet, and it is a whackamole, when one is knocked down, another pops up. But this is a severe blow, weve got to do what we can do. Deal with demand in the states. When one person a day is dying in new hampshire, for goodness sake. Heroin has replaced drug abuse in deaths. States like louisiana you see the unbelievable growth and its absolutely devastating, but when youre looking at what happened, props to the Mexican Government because the threat against police. The murders of local mayors, and area governors, its been horrifying where these drug dealers have gone after the people and through fear have been able to tamp down efforts to get them. I have no disagreement to everything that you just said. However, i must also suggest that the Mexican Government has been so riddled with corruption that the cash available has bought and paid for highranking Administration Officials all the way to the top. Liz how do you fight, that geraldo . You fight it when you allow el chapo to escape two times. Then you, in the eyes of the bad guys and your own people, are incompetent and corrupt. You start there, do what you say youre going do. Now you have the man. The United States wants him desperately. Dont send him to mexico. Bravo mexico. Viva, mexico. Pena nieto, i know how humiliated you were. Dont stand on national pride. This is not about mexican sovereignty. This is pragmatic Law Enforcement. You have a guy who has connections in mexico and has proven his ability to pay off everybody. Put him six floors underground in a colorado supermax. You were in the tunnel climbing through. How professional was it . It is staggering, the infrastructure, the resources spent to liz describe what youre doing here. Going down into coming back up right now. That modest hole belies major, Major Construction effort where they went three stories down, and its half as wide as the studio where they had a generator down there. Liz youre kidding . A string of lights. It is a line tunnel, it is an improved tunnel with lighting, ventilation, with the light rail system where they used these rail cars to excavate the dirt. They purchased the property to dig the first hole. They went down three stories, went a

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